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I'm just going to state my doubt about the chances of us ever managing to catch someone who, per torroar, is sneakier then any Imperial that has ever lived so long as he doesn't want to be found:
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I'm just going to state my doubt about the chances of us ever managing to catch someone who, per torroar, is sneakier then any Imperial that has ever lived so long as he doesn't want to be found:
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Why are you assuming that a man called Thunderfoot by Elves would track down an Elf quietly?
Frederick's burgeoning friendship with Hultressa might be the best part of this arc and in this chapter led to this very sad, but moving moment:
Frederick realizes that Hultressa has been cornered so much that she's decided to leave everyone to rescue her daughter, but instead of openly raging about this, he just nods to her, because he completely understands her reasoning as a parent.
All while he's the only person Hultressa is looking towards (i.e. she's probably feeling seriously guilty).
However, even in that despairing moment, Hultressa still exerted enough effort to get them out of the Tor(with many Asur slaves), which allowed everyone except Frederick to escape.
And then, during the escape, there is this moment, in which Frederick openly calls her a friend, which is just so moving…
Frederick realizes that Hultressa has been cornered so much that she's decided to leave everyone to rescue her daughter, but instead of openly raging about this, he just nods to her, because he completely understands her reasoning as a parent.
All while he's the only person Hultressa is looking towards (i.e. she's probably feeling seriously guilty).
However, even in that despairing moment, Hultressa still exerted enough effort to get them out of the Tor(with many Asur slaves), which allowed everyone except Frederick to escape.
And then, during the escape, there is this moment, in which Frederick openly calls her a friend, which is just so moving…
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There a reason people call the shadow warriors high elves Druchii
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Alith Anar is the stealthiest individual in the setting, only really rivaled by oxyotl and sniktch.
And maybe the changeling, but he cheats. If he doesn't want to be found he won't. Pretty sure the man can outright hide from Gods.
Only way we are meeting him is if we somehow end up in naggarythe and, donnu, do something more worthy of attention than what we did so far.
Imperious
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Plus what would we actually tell him? If we tell him how much his actions hurt Hultressa then most likely he'd just preen over how awesome he was when he did that, since the guy's a sadist. If we try to fight him it seems more likely then not that he'd kick our ass.
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I mean, eh.
I think you are overestimating how much he gets his jollies of bullying hultressa. In his opinion her dying quickly would be optimal and since she did good and helped asur, she might be redeemed after death.
Which again, by alith anar standards, that is basically glowing praise
Imperious
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Doesn't Alith Anar saying her soul will be headed to the Cytharai means that he's saying that Hultressa is going straight to hell together with all the other Druchii?
As is I think him wanting for her to die quickly has more to do with his preference that her continued life will be a short as possible then anything else.
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not sure if i read that correctly and the elf afterlives ain't my lore strong suit, but torroar wrote that he thinks she might be able to hold to her soul down there thanks to her good deads and through death escape being a druchi.
Which, imo, reads as he conceding her having a super tiny chance of redeeming herself
You know, after she stopped breathing
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Unless the Phoenix King himself order it Fred is never meeting the Shadow King, at beat he might send one of his minions to meet with him.
Okay, I'm back. I had my panic over the situation earlier but that's done and we got this.
The Ark is a mess, the druchii are at each others throats, we have a handmaiden of the everqueen to inspire people to fight, and our biggest enemy is currently doing fuck all useful.
As long as we can meet back up with Hultressa and resist the urge to stab her we got this
The Ark is a mess, the druchii are at each others throats, we have a handmaiden of the everqueen to inspire people to fight, and our biggest enemy is currently doing fuck all useful.
As long as we can meet back up with Hultressa and resist the urge to stab her we got this
Mmm, not really? It's more of a 'hey, while you are burning in one of many hells, because you are assuredly going there, you'll have a little nugget of 'I wasn't all bad' to hold to yourself as you remain in one of said hell for all eternity suffering. And it would be more efficient if you went ahead, killed yourself, and went to hell. But hey, it won't be 100% bad, just 99.999999% bad. So please. Go to hell immediately, and bring your daughter with you when you go'.
Alith Anar is basically right. The amount of damage Druchii and their deities have done to Elven society is equivalent to what the Chaos Gods have done to Humans. Natasha killed three of our children because they were "blessed" by the Chaos Gods killing Gwendolyn is the right thing to do.
Yeah, I gotta say I'm not Alith Anar's biggest fan
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The Druuchi have arguably fucked over the world at large just as much as Chaos given they're the reason Nagash was able to learn Necromancy, as well as the constant raids and scheming for the last several thousand year.
To be fair, the little daemonhosts were literally inside of Natasha's womb trying to kill her from the inside as well as Logan, she sort of had to immediately deal with that while being burst open at the abdomen like a popped meat balloon while her husband was off fighting elsewhere. They were lost the moment their souls got fully 100% eaten, and Logan was still partially tainted by Slaanesh which required scouring by the Flame of Ulric to cleanse.
Gwendolyn is thoroughly blessed/cursed by Khaine, but contrary to them, she still has the capacity to try and fight it off, her soul hasn't been devoured, and she is actively hoping and working towards getting to a point where the red fist of the Bloody Handed One is no longer squeezing tight around her soul. There's a reason that other Gods were brought up as 'options', almost. The Coven under Screamtaker wanted Hekarti to replace Khaine, the Cult of Pleasure wants Slaanesh to replace it, and so on and so forth. Different circumstances.
She is a born Druchii either way though, and so she gets the thumbs down from Alith Anar.
Gwendolyn is thoroughly blessed/cursed by Khaine, but contrary to them, she still has the capacity to try and fight it off, her soul hasn't been devoured, and she is actively hoping and working towards getting to a point where the red fist of the Bloody Handed One is no longer squeezing tight around her soul. There's a reason that other Gods were brought up as 'options', almost. The Coven under Screamtaker wanted Hekarti to replace Khaine, the Cult of Pleasure wants Slaanesh to replace it, and so on and so forth. Different circumstances.
She is a born Druchii either way though, and so she gets the thumbs down from Alith Anar.
Imperious
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Don't forget, in a sense Chaos is also the Druchii's fault due to the damage they did to the Waystone network during the Sundering allowing Chaos to get a foothold in the world again.
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Got it.
Hey, is alistair the white lion a thing in quest? His goodness would be a nice contrast to alith anars cynicismn.
I know, he is purely a game character, but considering the use of game characters for the start of this quest and the fact that the reason he was made as a make a wish request being really wholesome [given, well, the circumstances]
Imperious
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Alistair the White Lion is basically a renamed Korhill. Not sure if Korhill is already in charge of the White Lions by now.
Korhil Lionmane does run the White Lions, yes, as his predecessor Korhein Ironglaive got killed during the GWAC, so it's Korhil time at the moment, yes. He is the highest ranked White Lion around.
Prince Alastar the White Lion of Chrace also exists, yes, but he's not the head of the Phoenix King's honor guard. He is a Prince of Chrace, though, so he's got stuff to do with that.
Prince Alastar the White Lion of Chrace also exists, yes, but he's not the head of the Phoenix King's honor guard. He is a Prince of Chrace, though, so he's got stuff to do with that.
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Alith Anar is someone who honestly pretty awful but his victims are all Druuchi so you don't really give a shit.
That part came a such a surprise to me. Arranging for Gwendolyn to be conceived on death night in such a holy place, just so that they could replace it with Hekarti's influence later on:
Wouldn't Khaine have attempted to retaliate for such an insult, though? Did Screamtaker and Voidreaper think that Hekarti would reward them so much for this as for it to be worth doing?
Also, why did they choose Hultressa for this?
Well, the immediate answer is - the Cytharai are cruel assholes, ever hungry for their influence and power to rise higher even if (sometimes especially) at the expense of their peers. It's pretty MO for the Druchii now as well.
To produce is one thing.
But to take? To claim? That shows that not only could you do something, but you are stronger, better, mightier, more powerful, and in doing so you actively take something away from another, weakening them.
And sure, Khaine would be pissed, but as an Ark of Ghrond, Hekarti has/had a lot of oomph going for Her. It's only right that her Cult would do some shenanigans from time to time.
And they chose Hultressa precisely because she was so isolated politically and socially most of the time, rather than targeting one of their own Coven. It wouldn't have the same metaphysical oomph for one of them to go into things expecting things to go a certain way. You can't cuckold Khaine so easily, he'd might well pluck the truth of what you're trying to do out of your head at his doorstep during Death Night. So instead, they set up Hultressa to do it. They knew that, inevitably, she would seek out Hekarti in favor of Khaine. Almost any of the Cytharai over Khaine, but Hekarti would have been most palatable to her.
Given enough time, she would be ground down, break, and then Hekarti gets a big win and gets to thumb her nose at Khaine while gaining a very powerful new asset.
To produce is one thing.
But to take? To claim? That shows that not only could you do something, but you are stronger, better, mightier, more powerful, and in doing so you actively take something away from another, weakening them.
And sure, Khaine would be pissed, but as an Ark of Ghrond, Hekarti has/had a lot of oomph going for Her. It's only right that her Cult would do some shenanigans from time to time.
And they chose Hultressa precisely because she was so isolated politically and socially most of the time, rather than targeting one of their own Coven. It wouldn't have the same metaphysical oomph for one of them to go into things expecting things to go a certain way. You can't cuckold Khaine so easily, he'd might well pluck the truth of what you're trying to do out of your head at his doorstep during Death Night. So instead, they set up Hultressa to do it. They knew that, inevitably, she would seek out Hekarti in favor of Khaine. Almost any of the Cytharai over Khaine, but Hekarti would have been most palatable to her.
Given enough time, she would be ground down, break, and then Hekarti gets a big win and gets to thumb her nose at Khaine while gaining a very powerful new asset.