Editing The Prax Adventure (section)

==Plans==

''Develop the Arms of Pavis''

Arms of Pavis are magical tower-forts built during the Second Age to defend the city, but they failed during the troll invasion. There are others scattered around the city, some probably ruined, but others waiting to be rebuilt. We have now secured two, but one especially needs rebuilding. One of the useful 'bridges', culturally, is that Pavis was a sort of sorcerer and the city relied on sorcerous defenses during the Second Age, so Pavis cultists aren't as bothered by wizards as others might be. 


''Temples/Shrines''

In our enthusiasm, we initially thought of rebuilding temples (inlcluding on Temple Hill). But a neat post from RS clarified things for me (Sam): 

I've been reading through a few sources on shrines and temples, vis a vis numbers of initiates.
Spirit cults basically need 10 initiates to open a shrine. This is from an article in the Cult Compendium.
Gods need a little more. A shrine can be from 0-125 initiates, a small temple 75+initiates.
This is the level we are looking at for our small settlement. Assuming our settlers will sit in the 75-100 range, they can support a few shrines and maybe a small temple.
Avara needs a shrine, so I suggest one attached to any Pavis shrine, for mutual worship. Marius has a ready made one, but will need to find initiates to keep it active. Boltar will need a lot more bullies before we can open a storm bull temple, but an Earth Temple might just be doable, with a shrine to his wife. In fact, we should just do an earth temple with shrines to Pavis, Avena, Ernalda and Boltars wife.

''So I think our aim should be an earth temple with shrines.''

...plus this from rstites...

Again, I don't want to get too caught up in numbers on these. You have enough to support a shrine to Storm Bull with Boltar and his followers. They'll probably never be able to support a temple, but will travel to the Block for important dates. 

Likewise, Marius will need some followers as a Rune Lord to support a shrine to Humakt. It'll only take a few initiates and a larger number of lay members to support a shrine. There's a temple in New Pavis.

The others mentioned will get enough worship for a shrine, including Pavis. You'll need a lot of population growth and work to support another temple, even a small one, to Pavis. The Real Pavis temple will be central for them, but you can certainly have a shrine here.

Recall that shrines only have access to a single divine spell for learning/renewing. However, they work as good focii to cast Sanctify for a Priest to relearn known magic. You'll have to travel to a temple to learn new divine magic: requires a minor heroquest each time that will take a day(s) each.





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Restoring a piece of the ancient city was sort of a milestone event for Jarol. His motivations stem from A) trying to avoid the feeling of powerlessness and loss he experienced during Starbrow's Rebellion and the first few months of our time in Prax, and B) emulating Sartarite heroes like Saronil, Jarolor, Dorasar and Sartar, who were all magical builders with dwarf connections that helped bring peace and safety to the people. He's added Lord Pavis to that list after moving to Pavis-Outside-the-Walls.

His political motivations concern the trolls. His feeling is that the trolls have lived within the walls for centuries, and that they aren't conquerors, they're immigrants. He wants to make peace with them and integrate them into city life and the Pavis cult, the same way the Sartarite settlers were integrated. It's a big project.

One of the useful 'bridges', culturally, is that Pavis was a sort of sorcerer and the city relied on sorcerous defenses during the Second Age, so Pavis cultists aren't as bothered by wizards as others might be. I think we had suggested that, since Boltar was going to be a priest, he should set up a temple in the Rubble to fight the broos, Ogre Island and the Devil's Playground. I think any physical location you pick for it will be fine.

Having Boltar along to talk peace in the interests of fighting a bigger foe makes sense and would be welcome. Troll negotiations are a project for me, but I don't want exclusive rights or anything, anybody who wants to should do so as well.