There's a new dream tonight. You wonder if it's an apology. There are no bones in your throat or smoke up your nose – no, nothing but a pleasant warmth. You feel half-asleep, dreaming within dreaming; in some far off, soft, comfortable place – like half a child again. And then a kind voice speaks, and you know it's some vision of the past, for that's your governess, Aoife, long and bitterly dead. But it's nothing from your memory the story she spins.
well that nice of morr to give us a pleaseant dream after all that very not nice stuff that went down last turn for our poor dude morr a chill god
"Once upon a time, there was a garden. It was a pretty thing – with roses as rubies and lilies white as snow. Its oaks were tall as towers, and all times of the year you could find the most ripe and wonderful fruit – cherries and apples and berries of all kinds. The source of this glory was a miraculous font – clear and sweet, from which all these wonderful things came. And in this lovely place lived all the animals – clever Master Cat and proud Father Elk, knowing Queen Owl and gentle Lady Dove, wise Elder Crow, and brave Mistress Eagle. And in happiness and bliss did they spend their days.
pre chaos invaded the world it looks like and we got randland tall, Verena, shallya and crow...crow is very inttresnting here cause it expliicty not the same as raven which is the holy bird of morr and it associated with ill omen death ect or one of the chaos god it not one of the chaos gods pretty clear just from wise alone but it called wise eldar crow...can't really find any gods associated with crows either beyond one that don't fit like chaos very weird here...then myradima for the eagle
Does xenophen know of any gods associated with crows?
But all good things must end, as Elder Crow was fond of saying. A Great Beast, jealous and greedy, had heard of the garden and coveted it for himself. Burning and eating all he came upon; he carved a path of ruin. The animals, panicked, scattered to the eight corners of the world. Master Cat in the burning desert, Father Elk in the deep woods, Queen Owl in the open sky, and Elder Crow in the grey deeps. Only the sisters – Dove and Eagle - stayed. And while the Lady went to try to speak reason to the Beast, Eagle knew what must be done. She dove down, deep, deep into the depths and saw the source of all things – and tore off her feathers to stopper it.
chaos invading the world randland fleeing to the desert tall to the forest ect ect this all lines up pretty well with otl but then we have elder crow. Here it says they flee to the grey deeps? I have absouelty no idea what that could be but grey deeps suggest that it fled down into the ground...the eldar crow may be a oc god here that in timelone got killed by the horned rat. Also poor shallya trying to stop chaos madnesss.
this is another very intresnting part the the eagle went down deep into the depths and saw the source of all things? Now this gets me thinking and then covered it up! Whatever is coming out of this source of all things was fueling the garden making it all beaitful and such now that it closed that why it gets beaitufl. I think there 2 things this could be reffering to the hole that the skavor are messing around with it does go super deep into the ground into...something powerful? But more likely is the giant font of magic myramdia suppsodely made for the city of tylos which would line up later on in the narration now my first thought that this was a waystone iof some kind but...I dunno this seems all too much for a waystone and into the depths of all thing. Think this is something else associated down there deep magic or something but this adds some very intruiging stuff here
So, when the Great Beast came, having struck down Dove (yet she lived – but that is another tale) – the garden was all a-wilted. The roses and lilies had lost their petals, the oaks their leaves. He raged and at having been outwitted; but schemed to take his pleasure back. If he squatted in the garden, no one else would have its beauty, and for he, a hateful thing, denying others happiness was nearly better than having it himself. Little did he know, Mistress Eagle lived – hiding in the dried spring.
man chaos is a huge asshole and myradmia lived hurrah!
Many years passed, and Eagle almost gave up hope. But one day, a man came to the garden. He had heard tales from it from the other animals, who sung so sweetly of their lost home. But when he arrived, all he saw was a slumbering monster with four heads in a nest of dead plants and corrupted earth. This, he could not stand. He had sworn to his lost love he'd get her a flower from this wondrous garden. So, he drew his sword, and let out a battle-cry. A hundred days and nights did he do battle with the Great Beast. Against its fury, its misery, its pride, its lies, he cut and cut and cut right through, until he stuck its blade right through its heart.
slumbering monster with four heads this is chaos this is clear as it gets but now we get more to stuff we know we know the founder of tylos had to fight some great evil( a dragon iirc) to defeat it and be able to found the city itself. so this lines up with that also don't think the sword is a mistake being mentioned here or them being stabbed in the heart.
After, in the shattered garden, he searched desperately for a rose – and who to meet him but Eagle. Behind her gushed the spring anew, for she, hearing evil's death throes, hurried to restore it, to wash all taint from the world. And it did –again the fruit ripened, and the flowers bloomed. The water too, in its miracles, healed Eagle's wings. She left the garden for the man to guard – for what a hero he had been. Then she left to fly the breadth of the world.
rose...now this is very intresnting it not a black rose so we know it not related to morr. Also spring the giant font of magic that lets loose magic that suppsodley a gift from myradia is also called spring so def direct connection there the son of skavor might also be connected to this too but it def spring connection. rose though I am still stuck on for what it represents.
Many years passed again, until Mistress Eagle returned home, but when she did, she saw no garden any longer. No longer grew pretty roses or strong oaks – just thorns and brambles, in compacted clumps, each dripping with terrible poisons. Scrambling through this horrid thicket were rats - hundreds and thousands. They scrabbled and bit each other to climb the mass, rushing over the impaled and seizing corpses of their brethren. At the very top of this awful Tower, drinking the chaos like the Maelstrom, was the man, but hardly him. His skin had grown scaly, his teeth sharp. Eyes grew where none ought to be, and where they should be were but great spikes of black horn. In his hands – which were all that remained human, was a single rose – red and beautiful. And to that the rats rushed – but went one came close, he merely picked it up, and swallowed it whole. A new beast the man had become, and the garden worse than ruined – desecrated to its very soul.
oh wow I wonder what this could represent surely it does not represent the fall of tylos at all lol. Anyway yah we know this represent the story roughflky up till now too so this unless some very extradionry events happens is pretty much gurannted to happen here. This represent what happening in tylos everyone deserpate to climb the ladder of the city trying to leave slums behind or climb up even higher. Also the cut throat poltics of this to. Yah the princeps, the bad guy it a princeps soul eater sword man who was suppsodely good now doing bad stuff, and a tower that help brings about the end. The garden become desolate pretty grim situation here
"I am the Knight of the Roost! Thank you, milord, but your assistance is unnecessary! With I and Morr, we are protected from all comers!" He's kneeling now and is simultaneously - incredibly - saluting. Ambrose is smirking at you, very clearly trying to hold in a laugh. His smile is very pleasant, which only annoys you further. You try to salvage the situation.
god I pelops is the fucking best love his full on sincierty in this situation, best protector of the roost there is also don't think Ambrose and everyone else is gonna get along well lol
Pelops turns on a dime and looks at you with unabashed betrayal. You kneel and stage-whisper to him "Only as a favour to the Princeps. Gods forbid what colonials know about the Twin Cities".
You see Ambrose redden pleasingly, and Pelops, recovering, offers you a little grin.
"Onward, then?" you say, and your week begins.
lol like how we were able to get in a little verbal jab in here and clearly Ambrose wants to be seen as a regular twin ciites
FOLLOWER GAINED: Ambrose, Prefect-Spy
Ambrose's Bonus: Ambrose can be assigned one extra action a turn (beyond Xenophon's five), either ordinary or risky. He is sworn to perform what you ask of him, though you can be sure a report of everything he does is going directly back to the Tower.
oh neat despite being a spy he seem pretty useful just gotta assign him to action we are fine with the prefect finding out
ELVEN PERFIDY – In another blatant provocation from Ulthuan, the Prince of Tor Alessi has signed a treaty of alliance with the eight chiefs of Borlii, the very barbarians suspected of giving support to the infamous bandit "Mother Epona" …
ahh and the fall of the twin citie sstart with it out territories starting to be chipped away from the twin cities
GREAT DISPUTATION ANNOUCED - To fill the vacancy in the position of Grand Consecrator, it is hereby announced that the two applicants Angelus Spania and Floridus Aulus Lar Scipio Ennius will proceed with a debate before a jury of their peers. The motion is: "This House Should be Atheist" …
hmmmmmm elimating the gods from any form of power or control in the magic instuions meant to keep chaos and other manvolent threats out....bet the princeps loving this
FREE FOOD – Do you need to eat? Do you want to make your city better? Do you want to show the Senate what for?! Come to an Open Banquet! As much food as you can stuff yourself (on behalf of our Moulder supporters) for the low, low cost of nothing at all! With entertainment too – here some of the best and brightest candidates for Senate speak! Come to any of the following addresses…
okay here me out yes it moulder but free food is free food and we aren't swell with cash
MYSTERY MURDER - The Lord Donus Melodus died under mysterious circumstances this past evening. Officials have yet to release a cause of death, yet witnesses report a "mouse beastman" having burst out of the door of Melodus' manor around the purported time of his death. Reports of self-defence organizations – so-called "Ratcatchers" – have formed up in the Casbah, patrolling the neighborhood for any interlopers…
a mouse beastmen jollly I wonder what that could be? no it could not be a beastmen that be immposible/s but yah that a skaven or a proto one if i have ever seen one though these ratcatchers not sure if they are good or bad will but want to get into contact with them either way
DESERT FATHER – Have your hearts filled with elegance and fortitude. Come to the Sanctuary in Little Nehekara and supplicate yourself to the Great God Khsar: the biting wind, the terrible heat, the parching thirst. See his power manifest in the creation of a Ushabti…
oh wow Ushabti are massive guradnian constructs that guard impormant sites within nehakrakn, it not super relevant to us go but it neat
A PRINCELY VISIT – Hail! Snarratum Stonehammer, Prince of Karak Ungor comes to the Twin Cities, marking the first visit from the so-called "nobility" of our cousins to visit us in thirty years. His purpose is yet unknown…
huh....now this is intresnting indeed now there a couple thing this could be involded with. The sons of skavor and there ritual/whatever the priest was invesigsatign honestly think this is unlikely they send a priest of gazul and such. more likely I think this is about twin cities infrigning on there human client terriotry and conquering them for themselves.
How many turns do we have before we have to go back to the princeps with a report
