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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3122501" data-attributes="member: 3448">“Yes… but the question is what the Horned Rat would seek to gain.  Another major victory by the molydeus could make it a demon count.  The Abomination seeks to become a demon lord, or more.  But what does the Horned Rat seek to gain?”  Francois fiddled with the compass while he thought.“We understand that he came to these planes from a far distant world,” said Dame Brionna.“Yes, he’s not naturally here, not in the way that Borsh’tro or most of the other demonlords have a relation to Aphonion.  The Horned Rat is already a demon lord, by virtue of his power and his status in his own realms, but he has no plane here.”“Could he seek a plane of his own?” suggested Alistair.“Perhaps.  But how could this plan get him one?  Unless he sought to take the Prime as his own, but surely he would realize that that plan could not succeed.”“What about the Shadowlands?  Could he seek to create a new Shadowlands in the south of Drucien?”The scholar priest blinked rapidly, and then nodded.  “Perhaps.  That would fit his goals and might be within their power if they succeed.  A new Shadowlands, without any Hastur Shadowline to hold back its spread…  If he drew enough power to himself, he might be able to create his own.  From the myths I have heard, that was the Horned Rat’s arrangement in his homeworld.”“How did he come to Aphonion?” asked Dame Brionna, horrified by the concept of the South Kingdoms being plunged into Shadow.  “Can we send him back?”The priest looked at her.  “Do you understand the concept of theological avatars?  He is from a different prime, from beyond the outer planes we know as heaven and hell.  He came in a mistake, caught up in a storm of sorcery, but he cannot return, either of his own freewill or through an external act.  But to stay with no place he can call his home... a terrible fate for a powerful demon lord or godling.”  He paused.  “I fear that this sounds only too plausible.  In order for the Skaven, the molydeus, and the Abomination of Shur to work together, they must have struck a deal where all three get what they want.  As I said, it is easy to see what the Abomination and the molydeus seek.  But the possibility of turning the south of Drucien into a giant, ever-growing Shadowlands...  That might indeed draw the support of the Horned Rat for this plan.”End of Session 10</blockquote>

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