Age of Ice and Blood: A Pathfinder System Heroic Fantasy Quest
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I doubt that one if they do lay on hands in a spectacular fashion that it was a lot of yellow light than Inge's blue light especially if they can do resurrection.
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- Germany
I don't see what you mean?
Why the hell is yellow light likely to recieve a different reception than blue light?
It's "holy" light?
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- Germany
Yes, Ikomi's holy light.
I mean, neither light would be holy to our God, so what's the difference?
Just because we are kinda culturally conditioned to see a warm, yellow light as more closely connected to "good" divine casting does not mean Roland shares that idea.
The difference would be if he finds clerics dressed similar to him doing so called miracles that do work to have a better psychological impact on him than pagan priests.
If there's more cosmic irony to be had he'll meet expies of people he'll learn about in his education.
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- Germany
Why do you think we would find people who look like him, or like medival priests here?
We've mostly established that bronze is the apex of technology here, so even the potential paladin would be likely wearing that.
I mean, let's take a look at where the whole setting plays so far, which is the mediterran area, with no confirmation that civilisation yet reaches north of the alps.
Why would Roland see any clerics with mediterran looks, bronze armor and prayers to some unknown-to-him god on their lips as more of a revalation than he saw Inge?
He does not have any pop-cultural fixation that yellow light is divine and blue light is arcane, he will not suddenly hear people chant in Latin.
If he does find an English or north-french cleric it will likely be a mammoth-riding nomad rather than a normannic knight.
All potential priests and paladins and even angels he could meet in this world are equally foreign and pagan to him.
I'm assuming he could find a land that is like home but isn't because he's still travelling on islands instead of the mainland.
More's the pity if that's not the case.
Keep in mind that this is the bronze age in an alternative timeline. While there are likely to be many cases of 'convergent evolution' of economic and political systems, all the more so because Roland will be looking for them you are unlikely to find Normandy 2.0.
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What a shame. It would absolutely be thematic if he comes back to another crusade as his final adventure.
I mean the concept of holy war is hardly unique, but finding something he would see as a crusade is unlikely, there is more to faith, any faith that the aesthetics.
It sounds cool. He gets out of one only to be dragged into another where there's actually demons and angels walking about where he's forced to take a side or become another part of collateral casualties.
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- Germany
This is a relativly low-magic world though.
I rather doubt there will be straight fiend-on-celestial warfare here. That would break the E6 system.
More's the pity.
Arc 2 Post 36: Of Fate and Fortune
Of Fate and Fortune
The Twenty Sixth of Elnu-hamba [Elnu Descendent] Year 1348 A. L. (After Landfall)
Tentatively you push your thoughts outward and thus do you reply: //I am a knight of Normandy,// Your home might be forever sundered from you, kith and kin lost, but you are yet a Norman and a knight with spurs rightly earned. //No spirit I good or ill but living man of lands far off caught as if in a dream//
The lady seems shocked. eyes widening and drawing back, but only for a moment before returning to her interrogation. //How come thee by the power to reach his place upon the Currents Sublime?//
//No power have I called, nor is this a journey I have asked for, but drawn instead against myself south from the Circle of Stones ten leagues outside of Apuku upon...// You cannot see the harm of honesty and the urgency in her tone moves you, even if she still has not given her name to confirm or deny your suspicion.
//You do not speak as one of the men of the Sunset Islands, your mind sings a song uncommon,// she interjects before you can finish. //Perhaps it is a sign, perhaps I find myself by fickle chance deceived, but I do not have long to speak, the moon is setting and the current turns, soon you shall be borne south again and I fear that no other news shall I be able to carry to that place until the stars are right again and I do not have the time to wait for the march of seasons. I can but hope it was well meaning spirit that sent you hither...//
So saying she turns from you and from the window and looks into the flames of the brazier behind her, tossing some powder into it she speaks words you cannot here, for you have no ears of flesh in this place. Yet you can see the figure in the flickering flames all too clearly, it is the man you have killed, the sorcerer.
//Seek out this man who is kunwe of the Oromo, he shall doubtless seek ship from Apuku and rumor and news shall speak of his face and the gold he carries if nothing else. Say to him that you have news of Aphiwe by sight of waning Crescent Stars and that he must be ware of the manner he returns to the City. The Seawatch has been turned in the service of our enemy and is not to be trusted. Tell him to come instead to the Stranger's Harbor in humble guise. I shall set a watch for him there. Say these words to him and you will be rewarded in god this day and the favor and gratitude of House Feku onto the end of your days stranger.//
These words she speaks with hurried breath, in haste that is kin to desperation and for all she seeks to keep it from you. The man you had klled had been meant to be here, returning perhaps to the stones to give his report, yet he is not here and so Aphiwe has been forced to put her trust in a stranger's lust for gold and honors, not knowing that you are the very one who had lain her agent in the far lands of far lands of the Anwa.
You wonder if you aught to tell the truth, if it should do any good to return to the north with curses ringing in your ears, Perhaps she shall put another plan in motion, though you rather fear from her tone that this was her final gambit against the the one the fey had called shadow-binder. And then there is a part of you that wishes to sail south at once and with the tide, some lingering spark of the fire that once burned in the eye of a boy in now lost Normandy when he listened to tales of great knights. There are worse causes to hang your banner upon...
What do you reply?
[] Tell the truth about the fate of the southerners
[] Lie and say you will carry the message
[] Write in
OOC: There is no vote to decide to go south here because that will be one of the directions on the end of arc vote along with two others, this is just the vote for what you reply to Aphiwe before the current carries your soul back north. Not yet edited.
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- Germany
I call this a strong case of "not my problem".
We have dealings here, we have made some contact with an important person (the former regent and still primary advisor to the king, who is also a relativly powerful mage) and I think we can milk this area for more loot and XP yet.
We have dealings here, we have made some contact with an important person (the former regent and still primary advisor to the king, who is also a relativly powerful mage) and I think we can milk this area for more loot and XP yet.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
The winning vote was to introduce ourselves by title and nation of origin, not our actual name.
Snowfire
Polyglot of Chimera
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- Wordcats
Expecting Divination paranoia from someone who has known about magic for all of a few weeks at most is a little much, dude.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Just saying, is all. The option I voted for was even more vague in the information we shared, but the one which won was the middle ground between full disclosure and paranoia.