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Post by ElfChild on Sept 25, 2012 22:20:45 GMT -8
Better known as everything west of Seyenon is nasty, has Morganti, and wants you dead.
So. Sharing two, er, special experiences my character Shimmer has had and their implications.
1. Wandering around mountains north of Oldmin looking for dragons, which was admittedly pretty stupid. Creepy hobbit kid shows up and starts hunting me in my dreams and then in the physical world. (Better details to be chronicled later.) Normally she would just be your average creepy little kid with morganti, right? Not so. See 2.
2. Admittedly equally stupid attempt to take on the demon of Nari forest in a kind of mind dream place. So we're fighting this hobbit pixie demon (hobbit with mutations all over and lots of black lines) with its own morganti and a couple gods and a bajillion dead people, and then three other creepy people show up as well as a magic hope lady who saves us all. The people are a person who feels like a snake (carries a long serated Morganti sword), one who feels like a fox (wears a mask), and that same creepy hobbit girl (wears silver half plate, has morganti shortsword).
Now go read the world history if Kim would be so kind as to provide a link. There's a group called the Dark Council who were super evil and were presumed dead.
Well, this would be four members of it. And we hafta kill them. I don't know how to do this by myself. Help!
Edit. None of this is common knowledge outside the party.
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Post by Celebfealor on Sept 25, 2012 22:32:49 GMT -8
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Post by ElfChild on Sept 25, 2012 22:37:46 GMT -8
Prophecy, guys.
Summer climbs its height The shadows darken Cycles begin again That which was though fallen Stirs from its hidden embers Serpents and foxes hunt the same With no lion to steal the prey Their cunning ways put together the pieces Resurrecting a severed past That a king would drink to He sends his... (?) (His council/counsel?)... all eyes To their own deathly creatures They will wither the day away Waiting hungrily for the fall The puppets may work their destruction well But beware the puppeteer.
Relevant Passages: "what is thought to be a depiction of the [dark] Council itself; seven creatures - a lion, a serpent, a hawk, a fox, a hyena, a pixie, and a falcon - are seated in a circle. Thirdly, there seems to be something of a fixation on spirits; whether they are ghosts, or haunts, or other spectral-types of undead, it is unknown. It is also notable that, during this age, there can be found absolutely no traces of celestial influence upon any landmarks or artifacts - and, in fact, there is a distinct and rather disturbing lack of any influence at all. It is sometimes thought that perhaps the Dark Council were in some way able to resist or negate the power of the gods to influence mortal beings"
And then, "It is known that at least one member of the Dark Council committed suicide upon being backed into a corner - for stonework from the fifth age shows a fox leaping off a cliff; that another was killed by his or her fellow Council members, as a serpent bites a falcon; and that the rest were destroyed by heros of the time."
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Post by ElfChild on Oct 27, 2012 17:24:45 GMT -8
Research regarding the Dark Council has been done using the powers of a lvl 19 historian. Here's what we (me and said historian) turned up.
- They were all known to be extremely proficient mages, with knowledge of a variety of types between them. The most commonly occuring ones seemed to be wild magic and necromancy.
- I couldn't find anything about the hobbit child. There was only one hobbit known to be on the Council, and he was male.
- They exhibited some "strange abilities", though the nature of those abilities is mostly lost.
- The council seemed to be led by the Lion figure, with the Serpent being second in command. They ruled for 700 years, and either it was the same people living for that whole time, or it was closely-controlled copies passed down through generations.
Races and Genders Lion: Human Male Serpent: Elf Female Hawk: Human Female Fox: Elf Female Pixie: Hobbit Male Hyena: Dwarf Male Falcon: Human Male
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Post by ElfChild on Oct 27, 2012 17:48:21 GMT -8
The Dark Council
Lion: Human Male Deceased, used to be leader of the Dark Council Serpent: Elf Female - Confirmed alive, referred to in the prophecy. Hawk: Human Female - Unknown Fox: Elf Female - Confirmed alive, wears a mask. Referred to in prophecy. Pixie: Hobbit Male - Confirmed alive, causing whatever Nari Forest is going through. Karen said something weird, that his mind was blank or he was in a trance or something? Hyena: Dwarf Male - Unknown
Falcon: Human Male Deceased
Hobbit girl - I'm not sure what her connection to the whole thing is. She reminds me of a wolf though. Further information pending. Bow boy - Seems to be following Fox around. I know almost nothing about him.
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Post by ElfChild on Nov 24, 2012 20:57:55 GMT -8
Apparently there's a human or an elf with a bow too... He's not in the records, so I'm pretty sure he's new. He doesn't wield morganti, but he's still a nasty bastard.
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Post by gamemasterchris on Nov 24, 2012 23:59:43 GMT -8
Are they replacing the missing people with new recruits? Or are they being reborn? If they are Litches etc they may house their soul elsewhere and the body may be moot. Just some things to help with your paranoia...
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Post by ElfChild on Nov 25, 2012 0:24:19 GMT -8
I'm not sure. Hobbit girl feels a bit like the animal Hyena, so its plausible they could be just using new host bodies for incredibly old spirits. There have been theories that that's how the same members ruled so long in the first place.
It's also possible that they could be recruiting replacements though, especially since previously their bodies retained their appearance whether they did some weird thing or not.
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Post by ZackAttack on Nov 25, 2012 18:14:02 GMT -8
Correction: The human/elf with bow did have morganti. It was pretty obvious that his fancy bladed bow was morganti. The arrows did not seem to be however.
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Post by ElfChild on Nov 25, 2012 21:39:11 GMT -8
HEY. New information, see this story by some Kivira lady off in Oldmin. And then think about the Nari Forest. And the fact that when we last saw Pixie, he was a torso and a leg. "Their cunning ways put together the pieces" Huh.
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Post by ElfChild on Feb 16, 2013 18:25:08 GMT -8
Niall had this funny prophecy thing earlier, and this is the gist of it.
They seek the stars Underneath the stars, the tree Underneath the tree, the roots Underneat the roots, the wells Underneath the wells, the world Clever ones they are to poison the wells that feed the roots Once the stars fall, the takers have taken all
Doesn't that sound friendly.
Also there are some people who are trying to make some big moves in terms of dealing with this, only somebody who controls a lot of undead is trying to make them stop and people who we suspect are Fox and Hobbit are sabotaging them in the higher realms. (Don't make me explain that comment, just think about the other stuff written here and assume it's a thing.) PROTECT THE WITCHES.
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Post by ElfChild on Mar 25, 2013 17:04:43 GMT -8
UPDATE.
Moves have been made, witches are back home safe mostly. Something about chopping Pixie's leg into many pieces with morganti. I don't know. Mission success?
Information from Nyiss has come in that hobbit girl is dead. How this happened, Shimmer (that's me) doesn't know, but she trusts Nyiss. Hobbit girl is being crossed off the list.
Further information pending.
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Post by Scott on Mar 25, 2013 17:43:45 GMT -8
would it be possible to use a similar spell that was used on the leg to summon other members of the council (or other parts of pixie)?
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Post by ElfChild on Mar 25, 2013 18:02:36 GMT -8
Possible, maybe. Foolish, almost certainly. If that was only his leg, what would happen if we encountered the entire him? What if we encountered the entire anyone else in the council? We need to do more prep work for that to be able to happen. At least, that is my opinion.
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Post by ElfChild on Apr 9, 2013 18:54:18 GMT -8
OKAY, GUYS.
So it's probably been stated someplace that whenever Shimmer des research she ends up in mortal peril, and so of course when she goes to a place bordering mortal peril and does research THERE she gets chased by the Fox and has to run away from some morganti snake thing in the middle of the night down a steep mountainside.
That said, she did get useful info. Namely, Hobbit girl had a buddy. He's a human child and his distinguishing thing is a bow. I haven't met him in person unlike Hobbit and Fox, but it seems that Fox was training the two of them or something. So.
Also I have reason to believe that the Council either a) doesn't have Pixie's torso, or b) doesn't have as much of him as we think. Because I also found hints of Fox talking to just his head. And. Well. Why would she do that if she could put more of him together?
Also there's a deer girl. Another hobbit child, only she saved me from wolf girl once. I've seen hints of her fighting Fox and her buddies, which leads me to believe she's a similar type of thing but on the other side. I don't know how that works. I don't really feel the need to find her and ask her. But if somebody'd like to historian the group that defeated the Dark Council the first time around... Actually. Know what. I'll do that.
Kim, 35 gp toward historian, what do we find?
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