A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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egoo
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TLDR; A fuckload.
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I'd be curious to what people actually think a crafting hammer artifact would actually do mechanically. If its just save on cost/crafting time, I'm not sold on that being worth several thousand hd worth of sacrifices
I actually think Anu's lore should be unrecoverable from the corpse. The charnel god had forgotten it, so that lore shouldn't be there.
I agree with Artemis, this is neat, but not in any way urgent.
egoo
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DP already ruled some of it is recoverable, so we'll pull however much we can, unless DP decides to retcon now.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh I think there should be useful lore there, especially for our god making project, I just don't think there should be any crafting lore there.
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Considering this would be an artifact reforged by a god of creation from the last remnants of another god of creation, I don't think it'd be as simple as it just saving on cost/crafting time. We should have some idea of what options we have when we talk to Zathir either way.
If it's unrecoverable that's fine. But if any of it is recoverable, the Storm God doesn't have the right synergy to get the lore we want. He only has a Sky Domain overlap, and the lore we're after is covered under the Creation Domain. It makes far more sense to recruit Zathir to get that lore for us since he actually has the correct Creation Domain overlap.
Also, the Storm God is dead while Zathir is not. There's going to be a sharp difference to what both of them could achieve.
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I can't speak for DP about what this effectivly means for our projects, but i do know the dead god's build, and while Anu-Simung had the Artifice Domain, the Charnel God was limited to 2 domains and dropped it like a hot potato in his quest for killing Dothraki.
The closest thing he had left was the Metal Domain.
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Let's see what options we have once Zathir takes a look at the hammer and the body, then.
Goldfish
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Law and Knowledge.
egoo
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[] Call on Zathir, and show Anu-SImung's corpse and Hammer. Ask whether hammer could be restored to the power of creation, assuming using the body as a sacrifice pool of energy for that.
-[] If the answer is negative, inquire about recovering the lore of creation and crafting once known by Anu, again using the body.
--[] If Zathir cannot guarantee better chance of recovering lore than other Gods, sacrifice the body to the Storm God in his holy Sept.
---[] Have Ceria, Waymar and Stannis present.
Sounds agreeable, y'all mofos?
-[] If the answer is negative, inquire about recovering the lore of creation and crafting once known by Anu, again using the body.
--[] If Zathir cannot guarantee better chance of recovering lore than other Gods, sacrifice the body to the Storm God in his holy Sept.
---[] Have Ceria, Waymar and Stannis present.
Sounds agreeable, y'all mofos?
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Part MMMDCXXVI: Of Curious Crowns
Of Curious Crowns
Twenty Sixth Day of the Second Month 294 AC
The choice is little choice at all in the end. You have made a sacrifice of blood and magic, but never have you made a sacrifice of that which you truly consider a treasure; the unique, the fascinating, and the truly irreplaceable. Grim as the gateway anchored to the bone in Lya's hand might be it certainly is that as much as any work of gold and gems.
"It's no crown, but it is more than worthy to rest in a vault than most such things," you say in idle jest. At the word crown Lya's expression sours and it takes you only a moment to guess why. "They fey crown was less than cooperative?"
"That's one way of putting it," she scoffs. "Come on, I'll show you when we put this away..."
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Though you do not yet have the use of vaults delved beneath the palace to be there are lesser chambers delved below the godswood that guards the Scholarum plinth. Here amid the still slender roots of the weirwood tree nothing can move without the Old Gods knowledge, and even where it not so Lya had added her own protections when she had the time to guard those treasures which for one reason or another could not be brought into the Shadow Tower. You are content that the ruby encrusted bone and the gate it anchored would rest here in safety under the watchful gazes of the Heralds. Still, you wonder what could have caused the fey crown to be taken here and not in the Tower's Shadow for study, until you see it.
The vault, which must have once been bare rune-carved stone like the others you have seen down here, was now filled with life, curtains of emerald vines hang from the ceiling and flowers bright as stars shine upon a carpet of moss. It feels almost like... "Is this the Feywild?" you ask perturbed.
"No, but not for lack of trying on the part of this," Lya motions to the crown rooted upon a pedestal of stone. "It did not take me long to realize that like a flower closed for the night it would be impossible to look inside until it opened at least a little. At first there did not seem to be a mind to it, just life, so I cautiously let it extend its influence a little for me to study. There is a dimensional anchor on the whole vault of course, but I laid down wards even against the gaze of gods. Fey wards yet, but of another kindred that the Court of Stars would have no knowledge of."
"I take it things did not go well?" you prompt, glancing at the crown with arcane senses, though you perceive nothing but a haze of twisting colors and dizzying glamours. Hardly surprising that it's not so easy, Lya has been working on this all month.
"At first it worked very well. I know the crown grants one power over the land in ways no mortal magic could, dominion over the flow of the rivers and the march of the clouds, even the raising and wearing away of mountains, yet at the cost of binding the bearer's life to that same land. As it sickened so would he. It also grants one the sort of utter authority within a domain as to be almost divine, or perhaps akin to the least of divinities," Lya explains.
"Which domains?" you ask, keeping an even more wary eye upon the rooted circlet of vines.
"Balance and Strength," she replies. "The latter affinity comes with the power to change one's size from a grain of sand to the greatest of giants, both useful for a king whether he take fearsome mien in battle or sneak about unnoticed to listen to the intrigues of his court. The trouble came when I discovered the latter ability. No sooner did I figure it out that the crown seemed to vanish altogether, that they fey had recovered it somehow or perhaps some other enemy had stolen it right from under my nose."
"But they hadn't," you can imagine why she had not shared that bit of news in the middle of the Sarnori campaign.
"No, the crown had just shrunk down to something too small for the eye to see, but if I had thought it gone and eventually we cleared out the vaults here..."
"It would just be sitting here, waiting for some fey agent to recover it," you finish. "So then there is a mind within trying to escape?" the words are hardly a question.
"I think so. I think it welcomes my studies because I'm reminding it of its own powers. I'm not sure if it is worth studying further or if we should put it away until we have the palace vaults ready."
The Crown of Flowers First Stage Complete 36/18
What do you suggest?
[] Keep studying the crown and its link to the Court of Stars (Locks in a study action for next month)
[] Return to the depths of your cloak
[] Write in
What next?
[] Do a minor action
-[] Write in
[] Receive a report
-[] Write in
[] Write in
OOC: Just do be clear the divine salient ability the crown grants is Alter Size, I could not figure out how to link that part of the page.
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Crake
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STOW THE MOTHERFUCKER! *breaks the glass*
[X] Return it to the the depths of your cloak inside of the God Box.
-[X] You will only examine it again once you have devised containment procedures on the level a God would at least struggle against, and loudly, for a short time.
[X] Return it to the the depths of your cloak inside of the God Box.
-[X] You will only examine it again once you have devised containment procedures on the level a God would at least struggle against, and loudly, for a short time.
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Well damn, that sort of strength is unreal. Total dominion over your realm to the point of commanding rivers and mountains?
The whole tying your health to your realm thing makes that less than ideal, of course.
egoo
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@Crake, you have the right of it methinks.
[X] Return it to the the depths of your cloak inside of the God Box.
-[X] You will only examine it again once you have devised containment procedures on the level a God would at least struggle against, and loudly, for a short time
[X] Do a minor action
-[X] Call on Zathir, and show Anu-SImung's corpse and Hammer. Ask whether hammer could be restored to the power of creation, assuming using the body as asacrifice pool of energy for that.
--[X] If the answer is negative, inquire about recovering the lore of creation and crafting once known by Anu, again using the body.
---[X] If Zathir cannot guarantee better chance of recovering lore than other Gods, sacrifice the body to the Storm God in his holy Sept.
----[X] Have Ceria, Waymar and Stannis present.
[X] Return it to the the depths of your cloak inside of the God Box.
-[X] You will only examine it again once you have devised containment procedures on the level a God would at least struggle against, and loudly, for a short time
[X] Do a minor action
-[X] Call on Zathir, and show Anu-SImung's corpse and Hammer. Ask whether hammer could be restored to the power of creation, assuming using the body as a
--[X] If the answer is negative, inquire about recovering the lore of creation and crafting once known by Anu, again using the body.
---[X] If Zathir cannot guarantee better chance of recovering lore than other Gods, sacrifice the body to the Storm God in his holy Sept.
----[X] Have Ceria, Waymar and Stannis present.
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[X] egoo
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this is me just theorycrafting but if the Crown binds you to the land it is logical it should also unbind.
maybe we can cut off the Court of Stars connection to the reach?
maybe we can cut off the Court of Stars connection to the reach?
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It grants total control of your realm. Yes. I very much want to eat that energy field.
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Yes. The Court of Stars needs to go, and the Crown of Flowers is the perfect tool to do it.
@egoo, for the hammer and the lore, the god corpse is more of a template than anything else. The power would be purely from Zathir through our favor with him, along with whatever favor we've gotten for building him a Grand Temple in Sorcerer's Deep.
Seconded. I want this power. I really want this power.
egoo
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I would appreciate you phrasing the thing then, I am kinda only getting access to internet on-and-off right now.
I'll edit it in when able.
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Here's an edited version of the chapter, DP.