Re: Inside the church of Chauntea...
HeavyG said:
"Well, we do things differently in these parts. Call that 'civilization'. Who is this Uthgar anyway ? I never heard of such a god."
"Wha - you never heard of Uthgar, the legendary hero of the Northern tribes who ascended to godhood based on heart, strength, and sheer indominatable will?
His might fills the great spirit of the Thunderbeast my tribe holds holy.
I guess if you haven't been to the North, you might not hear him too much.
But you see the stars that make up the Gorgon every night, don't you?
That is His doing!"
If the priest looks confused, Ubaar says,
"You do know of The North, don't you?
There's lots of land North of the Sword Coast and west of the (unnamed Desert to be filled in later), dont'cha know?
Yeaap! A whole big world out there, and Ubaar's seeing lots of it!
And we of the Thunderbeast tribe know of 'civil'-ization.
We are leaders of the North!
We make pacts with people, come to defend others and they us.
Life works up in tha "savage North" without the need for so many 'laws' and 'regula-shunns'.
In fact, I can commune with Uthgar all the time... everywhere Ubaar travels, Uthgar is with me.
He's in HERE *striking breast*
He doesn't need Ubaar to be in a tem-ple to hear him.
When I'm in battle.. THAT'S when he hears Ubaar - when His Strength is needed to protect tribe, or others of favor.
The purpose of helping, nurturing others, harvesting nature without abusing it. This community would be much worse off if it weren't for the wisdom and power of the Earth Goddess.
And that is the way I fight to protect my 'tribe'."
"Ya, Ubaar agrees about nature - too many people see it as something to overcome, instead of learning to be one with it. To work WITH it, instead of tryin' to figger out how they can exploit it.
And Ubaar didn't have luxury of protecting his tribe by praying in big building and talking - Ubaar had to preach the faith by stopping beasts and bad people from killing innocent tribes-people!
Ubaar had to live what he tells others - to look within for help:
each of us has the spirit of the Thunderbeast within him, waiting to be used to protect innocents and stop evil as best we can.
"Yes, yes. I heard about the strangers going to the old monastery ruins. No doubt adventurers, in search of gold and glory." From his expression, it's clear he doesn't approve.
"Those ruins contain evil, dangerous things. But they have never bothered the town before. If this town gets attacked because of you, I'll..." He looks pretty worked up. He quickly calms down, though.
"Well, we went down in Dungeon because we strong together.
And big powerful Archibaldy need big Opal from inside Dungeon.
It sounds like people have been getting attacked in your village beFORE we got here, Kendrick. You heard about the farmer that got his barn burnt up?
And have you talked with Misstress Hard-walk?
So if you'd like to come with us when we go back to rid the evil down there, you might be protecting your flock a bit better than keeping your head in the ground stuck all away in this walled temple.
"This is foul ichor indeed. Those 'devils' sure had some pretty powerful venom. Such poison could have easily paralyzed you completely had it hit a main artery. You were pretty lucky, young man. Even as it stands, it would have paralyzed a lesser man. You're very tough."
"Ya, they pretty tough, but Ubaar wasn't about to let some dumb flying poison-tailed freak take ME out of service!
Thanks for the stuff - i doubt if i can wait that long to rest, though - Ubaar'll have to suck it up and fight thru the pain.
Been there, done that!"
Ubaar looks confused and asks the priest of Chauntea : "By the way, Kend - what's an artery?
And what's a LUNG?"
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Whew! aaaaaaaaaaand, I'm spent
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