It Belongs to a Museum
- Thread starter Boney
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No one says we can't attach Unca Bones School of (Forbidden) Lore to the museum, that way we get the best assistants and since he's just so open with who he teaches we might even get mages from more reputable corners of the world showing up. You could imagine some adventurous Death or Light Mage learning that there is a genuine Nehekaran priest giving lessons on more than just necromancy and seeing what knowledge they can bring back to the Colleges. I don't think Luthor would give a damn who we teach as long as he gets his stuff and answers.
- Location
- Romania
[X] Survivor of Bhagar
If I'm reading it correctly, the History Maker was the firstborn son of Rakaph III and thus became a Lich Priest and was unable to inherit when his father died. His probably step mother was briefly regent for his younger probably half-brother until she was pressured into stepping aside for Khetep the evil vizier who immediately poisoned the kid and usurped the throne. Khetep's firstborn son was Nagash.
History Maker's entire motivation is to fuck with the legacy of Khetep by making sure as many people as possible know how awful his son Nagash was, to avenge his father and younger brother. The backstory does make clear that he never openly moved against Nagash, he even seemed to be some kind of friendly with him at least on the surface, but he seems to be doing that more out of a "the worse this guy is, the better the previous dynasty looks in comparison, so sure I'll help him burn down that orphanage and then make sure everyone knows how much he enjoyed it" type idea.
Is it possible to call this the only case when cooperation with Nagash was mutually beneficial and in which both sides were satisfied with each other?
[X] History-Maker of Nagash
I want preservation!!!! And also reminding people Nagash sucks big time is always a plus!!!
Bhagar I don't think I mind winning because I like the story and character. I just don't know how I feel for my museum quest and would like the more scholarly types and the knowledge doesn't really interest me as much as some others besides animal handling
[X] Imprudent Tutor
Tragic Old man! Tragic Old Man!!! Like we may have done soooome evil things but like We just want to see our precious niece. I think this is my go to vote right now, Doting Uncle but Tragic Old Man who loves sharing knowledge!!! It's perfect!!!! I want to steal and Engine of the God so we can show our Niece our museum proudly.
We also gives reason to piss of Nagash too as I doubt we like him.
I want preservation!!!! And also reminding people Nagash sucks big time is always a plus!!!
Bhagar I don't think I mind winning because I like the story and character. I just don't know how I feel for my museum quest and would like the more scholarly types and the knowledge doesn't really interest me as much as some others besides animal handling
[X] Imprudent Tutor
Tragic Old man! Tragic Old Man!!! Like we may have done soooome evil things but like We just want to see our precious niece. I think this is my go to vote right now, Doting Uncle but Tragic Old Man who loves sharing knowledge!!! It's perfect!!!! I want to steal and Engine of the God so we can show our Niece our museum proudly.
We also gives reason to piss of Nagash too as I doubt we like him.
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- Location
- La Ballena City Raft
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] The Last Firstborn
If Unca Bones still likes Neferata he has every reason to hate Nagash, who would use her as a puppet, as he would for all other vampires.
[X] Legionary of Setep
[X] The Last Firstborn
I feel like this is a reference to some obscure bit of lore and not knowing what it is irks me. Anyone know anything or am I looking too far into things.
[X] The Last Firstborn
I feel like this is a reference to some obscure bit of lore and not knowing what it is irks me. Anyone know anything or am I looking too far into things.
"Are the cute kids fighting among themselves again? Well, the main thing is to remember that we are one family!"
I mean, judging by the level of denial that Grandpa Lich feels about the actions of other students, it won't be difficult for him to justify such a small thing as manipulation.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Nagash is significantly older than the Imprudent Tutor and kind of a dick to everyone, Neferata included. I highly doubt he'd have anything positive to say or feel about Nagash.
Tylos which became Skavenblight. The bell killed most people and turned the survivors into rat-men.
Nope, Nagash would be older than him, he'd be the creep trying to use his magical power to turn Neferata and her little brother Ushoran into puppets.
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The origin of the Skaven is in the city of Tylos, where they built a giant tower which was to be topped with a great bell. When it came time to actually place the bell, they couldn't get it up there, and there was much lamentation until a Mysterious Hooded Figure arrived and offered to install the bell if they'd let him engrave it with devotions to his Mysterious Foreign God. They agreed, but when they rang the completed bell, on the thirteenth toll, the skies darkened, warpstone rained down over the region, and Skaven appeared to eat everyone.
It seems that if Tylos had gone with this guy's suggestion for a shiny capstone instead of a bell, things probably would have gone much better.
Edit - And ninja'd, but I'll leave this here anyway.
"He invented a lot of good spells that kids all over the world still love"
[x] Student of Immortality
[x] Imprudent Tutor
[x] Hunter of the Cult of Blood
[] The Last Firstborn
[x] History-Maker of Nagash
This is really, really hard. Also curse the fact that war statuary never seems to coalign with god-poking or immortality-improving.
But I never said I wanted to play nice and be a proper hero though. Student of Immortality has that nice selfish thought of keeping his final form to himself and flexing on Settra with it, which I like. Imprudent tutor is a walking disaster, but also probably the one most likely to set up a construct fighting ring so that people can see how they move and clash and welp the Destroyer is on the loose now with Harkon in hot pursuit. The Hunter of the Cult of Blood seeks to throw down with the divine, which means he is much more likely to threaten Stromfels with rock-stuffing.
The Last Firstborn is too noble, I came to the VC to be dubious.
I'm voting for the History-Maker as well because my God the amount of spite in this man could power a Karak.
[x] Imprudent Tutor
[x] Hunter of the Cult of Blood
[] The Last Firstborn
[x] History-Maker of Nagash
This is really, really hard. Also curse the fact that war statuary never seems to coalign with god-poking or immortality-improving.
But I never said I wanted to play nice and be a proper hero though. Student of Immortality has that nice selfish thought of keeping his final form to himself and flexing on Settra with it, which I like. Imprudent tutor is a walking disaster, but also probably the one most likely to set up a construct fighting ring so that people can see how they move and clash and welp the Destroyer is on the loose now with Harkon in hot pursuit. The Hunter of the Cult of Blood seeks to throw down with the divine, which means he is much more likely to threaten Stromfels with rock-stuffing.
The Last Firstborn is too noble, I came to the VC to be dubious.
I'm voting for the History-Maker as well because my God the amount of spite in this man could power a Karak.
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[X] Student of Immortality
[X] Hunter of the Cult of Blood
[X] The Last Firstborn
I wonder. Maybe the reason Khalida is so lifeless and inactive is... because the Gods are lifeless? Boney has frequently said "Put an asterisk by the sentence of 'the Gods of Nehekhara are dead' and 'you know what else is dead in Nehekhara? the people'".
Maybe killing Nehekharans gods made them more... automatic? Less animated or willful? Perhaps they now only respond in more limited ways, or they are more bound to the land and their temples, unable to venture past it, or only respond to the worship or beliefs or thoughts of the Undead Nehekharans. Or something.
And maybe Khalida is an unfortunate glitch, what happens when you combine an Undead Nehekharan with the Undead Nehekhara Gods.
Or maybe it's was just an unfortunate interaction with the Elixir of Life combined with the pouring in of deific energies; maybe it's ultimately Neferata's fault that she's like that. Some form of even-more-static deific avatar? From the combination of materialistic physical immortality, with the pouring-in of aetheric divine energies, somehow resulting in an unfortunate combination?
Or maybe something odder is going on; maybe Khalida is more active in the aethyr, in the dreamworld, than she is in real life? Maybe her brother-in-law just isn't able to see that dreaming or aethyric part of her-- well, in part anyway; he has Windsight, and he's a Liche Priest... but maybe he doesn't know enough to understand what he's looking at, or isn't able to look in the right places? His perspective and knowledge of magic or the aethyr might be limited or lacking. Hence his interest in all the many and varied different magics and the secrets of the gods!
[X] Hunter of the Cult of Blood
[X] The Last Firstborn
Hmm...
Hmm.
I wonder. Maybe the reason Khalida is so lifeless and inactive is... because the Gods are lifeless? Boney has frequently said "Put an asterisk by the sentence of 'the Gods of Nehekhara are dead' and 'you know what else is dead in Nehekhara? the people'".
Maybe killing Nehekharans gods made them more... automatic? Less animated or willful? Perhaps they now only respond in more limited ways, or they are more bound to the land and their temples, unable to venture past it, or only respond to the worship or beliefs or thoughts of the Undead Nehekharans. Or something.
And maybe Khalida is an unfortunate glitch, what happens when you combine an Undead Nehekharan with the Undead Nehekhara Gods.
Or maybe it's was just an unfortunate interaction with the Elixir of Life combined with the pouring in of deific energies; maybe it's ultimately Neferata's fault that she's like that. Some form of even-more-static deific avatar? From the combination of materialistic physical immortality, with the pouring-in of aetheric divine energies, somehow resulting in an unfortunate combination?
Or maybe something odder is going on; maybe Khalida is more active in the aethyr, in the dreamworld, than she is in real life? Maybe her brother-in-law just isn't able to see that dreaming or aethyric part of her-- well, in part anyway; he has Windsight, and he's a Liche Priest... but maybe he doesn't know enough to understand what he's looking at, or isn't able to look in the right places? His perspective and knowledge of magic or the aethyr might be limited or lacking. Hence his interest in all the many and varied different magics and the secrets of the gods!
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We really need to convince her to get a restraining order on him when we actually get to her
Also I love how every option is basically Fuck Nagash big time and Fuck Settra for being useless
OK fair, he did advance the frontier of magical knowledge, but given who we work for and absent any other inclination to like Nagash that just all the more reason to shank him and steal his library.
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"Necromancy may kill a lot of people but it also keeps a lot of people alive so its impossible to say if its bad or not"