Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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Seeing is believing. Most powerful PCs would take it on faith, through sheer ego if nothing else. But everyone else?
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Seeing is believing. Most powerful PCs would take it on faith, through sheer ego if nothing else. But everyone else?
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Everyone else hardly matters when it comes to the task of permakilling mythic archmages.
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@DragonParadox, will there be more Asurendras to fight in the future? I read the entry for Asuras and they're basically lite Agents of the Void since they want to destroy the universe.
Wouldn't that knowledge check return something like "kill the concept of the imperium, and everyone who is part of it" since Viserys gets immortality from being bound to it? Unless it was just agelessness, but even then I wouldn't be surprised if a connection like that would make it much harder to keep Viserys dead without breaking it on both ends first.
Managing to kill a Red Dragon Sorcerer who has pulled enough shit to get a chair at the cosmic poker table in a little over a thousand years is one thing. Making it through what he does to you once he comes back is a whole separate problem. That triggers the kind of revenge that you can't mention around polite company in the Abyss.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
Just agelessness, it would take an Epic Ritual to pull anything close to that off, and it would have Capital C Consequences attached to it.
Edit: The whole "rise from the grave" thing though was spoken in all seriousness. No way he doesn't have contingencies.
Posibily, though they are somewhat different from agents of the void in ASWAH's cosmology. They want top warp the world to their vision, craving divinity that is just out of reach.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
Isn't it ironic for them to crave divinity to shape the world when it is the world that shapes the divine?
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Killing him is relativly easy, for 10 Mythic Ranks it just takes a killing blow with a major artifact.
Someone with the means to kill Viserys at all, can also dig up an artifact.
Making it stick is harder, my prefered method would be to get his soul in the direct care of a major diety (or in a case like Yss in the belly of one), that would invalidate all regular means of Ressurection, even divine intervention.
Then the ball is back with the companions, who have to take down a god in his own domain to Rez Viserys, which is a difficult problem regardless of level and available ressources.
Otherwise I have few ideas, because there seems to be nothing in D&D that can truly destroy a soul beyond all ability to raise it.
Even the Oblivion couldn't do it.
Another option might be to cast his soul out into the Far Realm, where he is not only hard to get back from, but also likely to go permanently insane, or adjust to his new surroundings, which is basically the same from a mortal perspective.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
I like that divergence quite a bit more than their original background.
That's also something we can possibly work with, depending on just how warped particular Asuras' visions of the world turn out to be.
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Very neat.
Fingers crosses for plenty more in that case. Asuras and Rakshasas both make for fascinating enemies.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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Just a strong friendship. Viserys barely sees meat people or spirits even as sexual objects anymore. Mostly because Am Dragon that he does at all.
Also, will keep the same, because glamours are a thing which can be used as fashion statements and she's the Steel Fury.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Wings are just another medium in which one might express themselves, after all.
Perhaps she's feeling like it's a purple day? Or it's Spring and she really wants to match the hue of the newly bloomed sunflowers.
Seriously, imagine if wings were a thing among humanity. There would be specialty boutiques for wing accessories, wing salons, etc.
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"Customize your wings at your local Flesh Forge today!"
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Okay, I'm sorry but this is wildly incoherent with literally all D&D worldbuilding ever.
Dragons fuck EVERYTHING. Check out the Monster Manuals! Dragon Ells, Dragon Turtles, Half-Dragon Ogres... And then you get the Pathfinder stuff, where a Dragon can fuck a pile of ropes and create a viable creature.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
And don't forget the Dragonleaf Tree.
Druids didn't make those...
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- Mexico
*Looks at Feeder*
Grandma.. what. The. Fuck.
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We have very strong precedent in the quest that Viserys isn't completely ruled by Red Dragon instincts. He could fuck everything, but he won't because of his loyalty to Lya.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
I did say Am Dragon, didn't I?
One Woman Harem is Harem enough, regardless.
Edit: Seriously, Lya can create and modify bodies that can look like ANYTHING she wants.
And if he wanted to fuck someone for their mind alone, she can accommodate THAT too by compartmentalizing aspects of her personality.
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That seems a bit primitive of them, and becoming stuck is the first step towards obsolescence, why even have Dorne in the Empire if you are not going to learn from them?I did say Am Dragon, didn't I?
One Woman Harem is Harem enough, regardless.
Edit: Seriously, Lya can create and modify bodies that can look like ANYTHING she wants.
And if he wanted to fuck someone for their mind alone, she can accommodate THAT too by compartmentalizing aspects of her personality.
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An extremely good work-relationship with a by then major god of death an rebirth would be one of them.
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Part MMML: By Veiled Paths
By Veiled Paths
Twenty-Fifth Day of the Tenth Month 293 AC
You reach out along spell-forged links until you feel the familiar quicksilver light of Lya's mind. "The Archfiend is dead..." Very, very dead, you think in satisfaction, looking over the bloody floor. "Where do you need us?" Valyrian Steel and the bound Asura within slips into the folds of your cloak to join the corpse of its master.
"Zherys found where some of the stronger magics on the ship are, that should draw the mage out of hiding, though he might not do so face to face," she replies, going on to explain how the mage had worked his spells through one of his burning skulls, trying to enthrall Yrten after cutting through his protections with a spell.
"Lady Melisandre witnessed the ritual or something like it once before, and she says the skulls would have to be prepared well in advance and they are not something a wise mage leaves unguarded for obvious reasons, so he would only have five more now," she concludes. From the undertone of the thought you suspect Lya has wanted to question the priestess about her past and lore for a long time, though perhaps not knowing how to begin. Hopefully having fought side by side will bridge that gap.
"Where are you heading, then?" you ask as the others prepare to move on through the belly of the ship. Ser Richard wipes Oathkeeper's blade off with one of the torn silk cushions while Siduri eyes an ornate necklace wrought of gold and black pearls wistfully. Good to see she had taken the rule about looting to heart, but you make a note to see she gets it anyway once the spoils are divided.
Lya's reply comes in the form of a rough plan of the ship. Your friends are towards the front of the mid-deck after having just cleared the mess hall quite far from the aft castle where you are now. Zherys' divinations show strong arcane signatures at the other end of this deck, but there is also something down in the bilges where no Efreeti would think to dwell no matter how paranoid.
After considering the matter a long moment you decide against retreading Lya's passage, through a window and down to the mid-deck. Instead you and your company fly back into sight of the main battle, glad to see things mostly going to plan keeping the efreeti ships from leveraging the full weight of their weapons against the shaitan boarding ships. Thankfully you do not need a ship to cut your way in. Narrowly dodging a bolt of deadly green spellfire you circle the ship to roughly where Lya had said the cabin of interest is, and then you cut your way into the hull.
What you find within is not a cabin appointed to the mage's needs, indeed if there is a cabin at all you do not see it. Formless grey mist billows out into the scorching air of Valyria, carrying with it a faint acrid scent with an undertone of sweetness like a field of lilies sent alight.
"An area of warped space, like a pseudo-demiplane, maybe?" Dany offers. "Depending on how he set the limits of the spell breaking the ship could have caused it to rupture."
"It could just be a trap," Siduri cautions. "The strategy we are employing would not precisely be novel." She motioned to three of the Shaitan ships converging on the fourth ship in the Efreeti line like sharks on wounded prey.
What do you do?
[] Fly into the mist, hands linked to keep from getting lost
[] Try to part the mist to find what is behind it
[] Go back inside the ship and meet up with Lya and the others
[] Write in
OOC: I was tempted to have a break point deciding the route, but then we would have had a 300 odd words update, you guys can still go back through the ship now, only you have the option of a direct approach, too.
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