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==Within the Cadaverous Eye== | ==Within the Cadaverous Eye== | ||
While within this artifact of massive necromantic power these are the things that Kyuad learned... <br> '''''BILL''': feel free to ask any questions you have regarding Kyuad's knowledge base from being joined with (or in) the Eye. I'll answer the questions as best I can. Some may be purposely confusing or incomplete. First I'll try and note all the things we talked about to collect your info gained...'' | While within this artifact of massive necromantic power these are the things that Kyuad learned... <br> '''''BILL''': feel free to ask any questions you have regarding Kyuad's knowledge base from being joined with (or in) the Eye. I'll answer the questions as best I can. Some may be purposely confusing or incomplete. First I'll try and note all the things we talked about to collect your info gained...'' | ||
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* '''<font color="990066">Bill's Question:</font>''' What is the Demonbane again? | * '''<font color="990066">Bill's Question:</font>''' What is the Demonbane again? | ||
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− | :: If you don't know the reference, Kyuad won't know the solution until you learn in-game somehow | + | :: If you don't know the reference, Kyuad won't know the solution until you learn in-game somehow.</font> |
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===Near Perfect Undeath=== | ===Near Perfect Undeath=== | ||
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* "Our masters" refers to what? | * "Our masters" refers to what? | ||
: <font color=red>ANSWER: "our masters" = those that control/made "you". "You" being the Cadaverous Eye.</font> | : <font color=red>ANSWER: "our masters" = those that control/made "you". "You" being the Cadaverous Eye.</font> | ||
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* ''"Yet her black blood moves as with the tethered dead, the fuels of unlife."'' - Here "as with" seems to imply that if the tethered dead stopped moving, so would her blood. Her blood moves as if her blood were with the Fell (or undead)? The sentence structure also implies that the tethered dead are the fuels of unlife. Can this sentence be clarified please? It's unclear if this is just nonsense or if it is supposed to be saying something, but I can't see any sense to be made out of this. | * ''"Yet her black blood moves as with the tethered dead, the fuels of unlife."'' - Here "as with" seems to imply that if the tethered dead stopped moving, so would her blood. Her blood moves as if her blood were with the Fell (or undead)? The sentence structure also implies that the tethered dead are the fuels of unlife. Can this sentence be clarified please? It's unclear if this is just nonsense or if it is supposed to be saying something, but I can't see any sense to be made out of this. | ||
: <font color=red>ANSWER: What you "implied" is very much in the direction of what was intended. I won't offer more meaning though. That's part of the mystery. Don't overanalyze the sentence structure though - I'm a GM not a writer. </font> | : <font color=red>ANSWER: What you "implied" is very much in the direction of what was intended. I won't offer more meaning though. That's part of the mystery. Don't overanalyze the sentence structure though - I'm a GM not a writer. </font> | ||
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* Is "the Wrath" (Zardrix) the same as "The Thing on Wings"? | * Is "the Wrath" (Zardrix) the same as "The Thing on Wings"? | ||
: <font color=red>ANSWER: Yes. I like using other references to characters like that.</font> | : <font color=red>ANSWER: Yes. I like using other references to characters like that.</font> | ||
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* ''"two and ten times the worth of replenishment of feast and dream is call for the Wrath to maintain the Thing on Wings... "'' Another sentence that doesn't make sense. It in other words: "12 times" what the value is for a "replenishment of feast and dream" is currently required (from "is call", a present-tense form) so that the Wrath (Zardrix) can maintain herself. I don't think this is right, because it doesn't make sense given the context. | * ''"two and ten times the worth of replenishment of feast and dream is call for the Wrath to maintain the Thing on Wings... "'' Another sentence that doesn't make sense. It in other words: "12 times" what the value is for a "replenishment of feast and dream" is currently required (from "is call", a present-tense form) so that the Wrath (Zardrix) can maintain herself. I don't think this is right, because it doesn't make sense given the context. | ||
: <font color=red>ANSWER: 'called'... Try to read what I meant. Not the grammar mistakes. Otherwise your thought is correct. ie. She FEEDS and SLEEPS alot to sustain that body.</font> | : <font color=red>ANSWER: 'called'... Try to read what I meant. Not the grammar mistakes. Otherwise your thought is correct. ie. She FEEDS and SLEEPS alot to sustain that body.</font> | ||
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* Is a maudrial tree the thing you detailed to us before, when we were at Hamlet? Same thing as that tree? | * Is a maudrial tree the thing you detailed to us before, when we were at Hamlet? Same thing as that tree? | ||
: <font color=red>ANSWER: Yes. But in this case "maudrial tree" is really only a descriptive reference for how big her neck alone is... Think of it as the size of a Redwood! Walden's home was built into a maudrial tree. This is a tree of Eredane, from the books...</font> | : <font color=red>ANSWER: Yes. But in this case "maudrial tree" is really only a descriptive reference for how big her neck alone is... Think of it as the size of a Redwood! Walden's home was built into a maudrial tree. This is a tree of Eredane, from the books...</font> | ||
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* ''"But the masters may now fear even themselves knowing that ..."'' The masters fear themselves knowing? Or the masters themselves fear that...? | * ''"But the masters may now fear even themselves knowing that ..."'' The masters fear themselves knowing? Or the masters themselves fear that...? | ||
: <font color=red>ANSWER: The masters fear what they know that may become of this mess... They're afraid of the situation that could happen</font> | : <font color=red>ANSWER: The masters fear what they know that may become of this mess... They're afraid of the situation that could happen</font> | ||
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* The masters of the Wrath, from the rest of this information, are understood by Kyuad to be the Order of Shadow, yes? | * The masters of the Wrath, from the rest of this information, are understood by Kyuad to be the Order of Shadow, yes? | ||
: <font color=red>ANSWER: Yes.</font> | : <font color=red>ANSWER: Yes.</font> | ||
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* ''"... the cutting of the pump from her breast is long lost by the powers of those of Black Blood, this Claws of Zardrix is lost to mankind."'' The cutting is lost? Or the pump (heart) is lost? | * ''"... the cutting of the pump from her breast is long lost by the powers of those of Black Blood, this Claws of Zardrix is lost to mankind."'' The cutting is lost? Or the pump (heart) is lost? | ||
: <font color=red>ANSWER: The pump is lost. How to do it is lost. The "Black Blood" have/had the power find/do it. But they lost it.</font> | : <font color=red>ANSWER: The pump is lost. How to do it is lost. The "Black Blood" have/had the power find/do it. But they lost it.</font> | ||
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** Who are "those of Black Blood"? Is that implied to be those who are undead, or those whose blood is figurtively black due to serving the Shadow? | ** Who are "those of Black Blood"? Is that implied to be those who are undead, or those whose blood is figurtively black due to serving the Shadow? | ||
: <font color=red>ANSWER: No it is not implied that they are undead, they they might be now. That is unknown to you. Figurtively black - Yes. But it is also a name of a people... Who? If you don't know, Kyaud won't know until you learn in game. That's part of the mystery. </font> | : <font color=red>ANSWER: No it is not implied that they are undead, they they might be now. That is unknown to you. Figurtively black - Yes. But it is also a name of a people... Who? If you don't know, Kyaud won't know until you learn in game. That's part of the mystery. </font> | ||
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** The sentence implies that the cutting is the "Claws of Zardrix," but a cutting is an event, not a thing. I don't understand how an event that is known could be "lost." | ** The sentence implies that the cutting is the "Claws of Zardrix," but a cutting is an event, not a thing. I don't understand how an event that is known could be "lost." | ||
: <font color=red>ANSWER: This misunderstanding is because you don't know what the "Claws of Zardrix" references exactly.</font> | : <font color=red>ANSWER: This misunderstanding is because you don't know what the "Claws of Zardrix" references exactly.</font> | ||
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'''<font color="990066">Bill's Question:</font>''' When did Machiavelli live in Eredane? ;) | '''<font color="990066">Bill's Question:</font>''' When did Machiavelli live in Eredane? ;) | ||
: <font color=red>ANSWER: He was a mean elf. No, seriously - this is just a perfect word to describe a paragraph of info. Assume it's a descriptor, not a reference to a name.</font> | : <font color=red>ANSWER: He was a mean elf. No, seriously - this is just a perfect word to describe a paragraph of info. Assume it's a descriptor, not a reference to a name.</font> | ||
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'''<font color="990066">Bill's Question:</font>''' What are Razors? | '''<font color="990066">Bill's Question:</font>''' What are Razors? | ||
− | : <font color=red>ANSWER: '' '''ROLL:''' Kyuad (Lorebook + | + | : <font color=red>ANSWER: '' '''ROLL:''' Kyuad (Lorebook +13) ROLLED: 4+13 = 17 '' <br> ''With this roll - |
− | :: Wouldn't you like to know! | + | :: Wouldn't you like to know! Again, something you'll have to learn of in-character. Good catch though!</font> |
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'''<font color="990066">Bill's Question:</font>''' It sounds like '''the First of the True''' are a mysterious people that no one knows anything about now, is that right? But the '''Rest of the True''' were all humans?<br>Also, is his name really "burial"? Or is it pronounced (beh-ree-ALL)?<br>Where is Beirial now? | '''<font color="990066">Bill's Question:</font>''' It sounds like '''the First of the True''' are a mysterious people that no one knows anything about now, is that right? But the '''Rest of the True''' were all humans?<br>Also, is his name really "burial"? Or is it pronounced (beh-ree-ALL)?<br>Where is Beirial now? | ||
− | : <font color=red>ANSWER: "Beirial" is a proper name of someone from history. '' '''ROLL:''' Kyuad (Lorebook + | + | : <font color=red>ANSWER: "Beirial" is a proper name of someone from history. '' '''ROLL:''' Kyuad (Lorebook +13) ROLLED: 9+13 = 22 '' <br> ''With this roll - |
:: Known as "Beirial the Seeker", he was one of the first of the Order of Truth. He helped to spread his version of faith among the holy men of Bandilrin, ultimately creating the Order of Shadow. So he was the "FIRST of the True" as in first member of the Order of Truth to come under the Shadow. As for pronunciation... I don't know. I just typed it. heheh</font> | :: Known as "Beirial the Seeker", he was one of the first of the Order of Truth. He helped to spread his version of faith among the holy men of Bandilrin, ultimately creating the Order of Shadow. So he was the "FIRST of the True" as in first member of the Order of Truth to come under the Shadow. As for pronunciation... I don't know. I just typed it. heheh</font> | ||
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'''<font color="990066">Bill's Question:</font>''' Who is Vard?<br>Is Beirial undead or immortal?<br>Jahzir's master is the Keepers at large, is it not? Or does "master" being singular suggest someone else? | '''<font color="990066">Bill's Question:</font>''' Who is Vard?<br>Is Beirial undead or immortal?<br>Jahzir's master is the Keepers at large, is it not? Or does "master" being singular suggest someone else? | ||
− | : <font color=red>ANSWER: If you don't know, Kyuad doesn't know. Again - part of the mystery to discover.. | + | : <font color=red>ANSWER: If you don't know, Kyuad doesn't know. Again - part of the mystery to discover...</font> |
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: <font color=red>ANSWER: <br> '' '''ROLL:''' Kyuad (Lorebook +13) ROLLED: 18+13 = 31 '' <br> ''With this roll - | : <font color=red>ANSWER: <br> '' '''ROLL:''' Kyuad (Lorebook +13) ROLLED: 18+13 = 31 '' <br> ''With this roll - | ||
:: The origins of the Aradar myth are lost in the fog of folklore. Ever-changing songs adapted by the performers in every region alter the language and, so, distort the lineage of the myth until, thousands of years later, fact and fancy have become legend. Though there may be no truth to the legend of Aradar, some common beliefs held by the world’s remaining scholars give it tantalizing verisimilitude. Most songs of Aradar suppose that it is the source or inspiration for all arcane power on Aryth—the site where an elf of noble and pure elthedar blood is said to have found the spark of arcane magic. In modern poems, this elf is called Engalad or, archaically, Engal Ladai. In Erenland, especially in villages with little or no elven contact even before Izrador’s victory, some tales replace Engalad with Aradil, the Witch Queen, despite the obvious historical impossibility. | :: The origins of the Aradar myth are lost in the fog of folklore. Ever-changing songs adapted by the performers in every region alter the language and, so, distort the lineage of the myth until, thousands of years later, fact and fancy have become legend. Though there may be no truth to the legend of Aradar, some common beliefs held by the world’s remaining scholars give it tantalizing verisimilitude. Most songs of Aradar suppose that it is the source or inspiration for all arcane power on Aryth—the site where an elf of noble and pure elthedar blood is said to have found the spark of arcane magic. In modern poems, this elf is called Engalad or, archaically, Engal Ladai. In Erenland, especially in villages with little or no elven contact even before Izrador’s victory, some tales replace Engalad with Aradil, the Witch Queen, despite the obvious historical impossibility. | ||
− | + | However, the name Aradar does share a root with the name Aradil; it’s an ancient male form of the name. Fragments of dwarven and gnomish poetry suggest it was also called elenhath miradil, roughly meaning “wellspring of insight.” Elven myths of old called it simply “Wellspring.” Some believe that Aradar and, by extension, all arcane power—is a gift from the Lost Gods, a bit of their power left to light the mortal world. “One day,” an elf ballad claims, “the gift shall cast a light bright enough to pierce the veil of Shadow and be seen in the heavens.” | |
:: Already something of a bedtime story by the time the Shadow in the North returned for battle, Aradar was receiving little scholarly attention from the archivists and scribners of the world. When the sacking of academies began across Erenland, few records of Aradar were carried out by fleeing librarians and scholars. The people needed information vital to the success of the war against Izrador, and Aradar was little more than a folktale all but forgotten. It’s generally known that the Scholar’s Tower in Highwall and the great old Library of Moria contains whole books on the subject of Aradar, but those are surely gone. In Cale there was once an inn that sported a mural of the story. There is now little way of knowing what is myth and what is true—if anything—in the legends of Aradar. | :: Already something of a bedtime story by the time the Shadow in the North returned for battle, Aradar was receiving little scholarly attention from the archivists and scribners of the world. When the sacking of academies began across Erenland, few records of Aradar were carried out by fleeing librarians and scholars. The people needed information vital to the success of the war against Izrador, and Aradar was little more than a folktale all but forgotten. It’s generally known that the Scholar’s Tower in Highwall and the great old Library of Moria contains whole books on the subject of Aradar, but those are surely gone. In Cale there was once an inn that sported a mural of the story. There is now little way of knowing what is myth and what is true—if anything—in the legends of Aradar. | ||
:: The Legend of Aradar illustrates one of the few unexpected advantages of the desperate effort to safeguard the scraps of knowledge that come trickling into the Scribe Archives in Caradul. Bits of the legend that have never before been cataloged together are now being seen with new eyes. Whereas individual stories about Wellspring seem to vary rather substantially, certain commonalities between the tales became apparent in comparison. | :: The Legend of Aradar illustrates one of the few unexpected advantages of the desperate effort to safeguard the scraps of knowledge that come trickling into the Scribe Archives in Caradul. Bits of the legend that have never before been cataloged together are now being seen with new eyes. Whereas individual stories about Wellspring seem to vary rather substantially, certain commonalities between the tales became apparent in comparison. | ||
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'''<font color="990066">Bill's Question:</font>''' Who is the Order of Truth again? Who are the Abandoned? Are both of these the White Mother? | '''<font color="990066">Bill's Question:</font>''' Who is the Order of Truth again? Who are the Abandoned? Are both of these the White Mother? | ||
− | : <font color=red>ANSWER: <br> '' '''ROLL:''' Kyuad (Lorebook + | + | : <font color=red>ANSWER: <br> '' '''ROLL:''' Kyuad (Lorebook +13) ROLLED: 13+13 = 26 '' <br> ''With this roll - alot of this info was likely gathered when you were in the Hamlet... |
− | :: The White Mothers are an Orc tribe. | + | :: The White Mothers are an Orc tribe. As for the details... that you don't know exactly. |
:: However you know a good deal on the Order of Truth. | :: However you know a good deal on the Order of Truth. | ||
:: In the winter of 3893, an old seer came to the court of the Witch Queen, bearing word that he promised was of dire importance, and Aradil agreed to a private audience. Though it is not known what passed between them, or what proof he offered for his claims, the Queen emerged from the meeting in a black and terrible fury. She ordered reports from the northern patrol captains and sent them soldiers to double their numbers. She ordered the old man, a monk from a long forgotten religious order, to send for his brothers and bring them to Caradul where they were installed as secret advisors to the throne. Though the group called itself the Order of Truth, beyond the walls of the elven court, these blind prophets of lost gods became known as the Abandoned. | :: In the winter of 3893, an old seer came to the court of the Witch Queen, bearing word that he promised was of dire importance, and Aradil agreed to a private audience. Though it is not known what passed between them, or what proof he offered for his claims, the Queen emerged from the meeting in a black and terrible fury. She ordered reports from the northern patrol captains and sent them soldiers to double their numbers. She ordered the old man, a monk from a long forgotten religious order, to send for his brothers and bring them to Caradul where they were installed as secret advisors to the throne. Though the group called itself the Order of Truth, beyond the walls of the elven court, these blind prophets of lost gods became known as the Abandoned. | ||
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:: Aradil brought the Order of Truth to Caradul in the middle of the First Age as secret advisors on the ways of Izrador. Since the end of the Second Age, interest in the Lost Gods has spread among the elves and a following has grown around the Abandoned. Aradil has done nothing to dissuade this and in fact believes the renewed faith will rebuild the order’s dwindling membership and may even be a spiritual ward of sorts against Izrador. | :: Aradil brought the Order of Truth to Caradul in the middle of the First Age as secret advisors on the ways of Izrador. Since the end of the Second Age, interest in the Lost Gods has spread among the elves and a following has grown around the Abandoned. Aradil has done nothing to dissuade this and in fact believes the renewed faith will rebuild the order’s dwindling membership and may even be a spiritual ward of sorts against Izrador. | ||
:: Almost 800 years ago, the order commissioned the growth of a small temple for the Lost Gods in a quiet grove just north of Caradul. The temple has since been enlarged and the surrounding trees now contain a small community of religious scholars, apprentice monks, and faithful pilgrims from across Erethor.</font> | :: Almost 800 years ago, the order commissioned the growth of a small temple for the Lost Gods in a quiet grove just north of Caradul. The temple has since been enlarged and the surrounding trees now contain a small community of religious scholars, apprentice monks, and faithful pilgrims from across Erethor.</font> | ||
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