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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3453966" data-attributes="member: 3448">It's a good question, Baron; I think we didn't ask.  I'm curious, too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As an aside, I've started another storyhour, about a different party on Aphonion.  So far, there has been no significant overlap in plot or similar matters; the second party is on Zest'qua, a different continent from where Canberry is.  But I thought people might be interested to know about it.  That storyhour will update every Saturday.  <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=3453950" target="_blank">The Journals of Konrad Jagger, Licensed Diabolist</a>And now, back to our story.-----Dame Brionna continued, “How would you like to die?” “By garrote.” <<We’re not going to kill this one for the time being.  We have his parole-- I’m not sure we need to kill him.>> <<All right,>> responded Kit.  <<I’ll pass that on to Dame Brionna on the other mindlink.>> “After I have been slain, my body should be consumed by the cats.  I studied them, and my fighting style is called the ‘Tiger.’” Dame Brionna made a note of this request and then scrutinized the Harlequin carefully.  “Do you know anything about the Abomination of Shur?” “It was one of the reasons I volunteered for this mission.  I expected to be able to work side by side with the rakasta, although that hope was not fulfilled.” <<Well, he just made his death more probable,>> thought Alistair. “What can you tell us about the Abomination?” “The Abomination was once a Rakshasa.  He slew many of his fellow Rakshasa, and absorbed their power.  He could have become a Cthon, the Cthon of cats, but he declined.  If he entered that state, he could never shift, never advance further-- he would be a Cthon forever.  So he deliberately aborted his progression and undertook a war instead.  He lost, and was disembodied, his followers scattered, and his city and nation of Shur were forgotten.”  The Harlequin paused.  “From the perspective of your people, that would all be in ancient times.  Some time ago, the Abomination rose again, at first only a shadow in the South, but then he gained the help of one of the rakasta races that waited for him for hundreds of years.  His big break was forging alliances with the demons, and he thought that he could become a demonlord.  He only has followers of a few rakasta races.” “Which rakasta races follow him?” “Lynx men are most common-- straightforward warriors, with shamans, and a few witchdoctors.  The lynx men depend on the charge in combat the most of any rakasta.  He is also served by some smattering of cave rakasta, which you might think of as rather slow ogres.   The jakar are the others that often found service to him.  They were and are weakest of the bloodlines, but they have great muscles, and beautifully spotted coats, like leopards.  They were artifact builders.  It was the jakar that built the city, most of which still stands, and they provided most of his clerics when he began the path to godhood.  You have not seen the people who serve this ally of Quinliart?” “Would the jakar have designed the ritual that he seeks to enact?” asked Kit, passing on a question from Alistair. “Oh, no… the rituals predate all of them.  They are trapped within the rituals.  They can only determine the arcane feeds, and even those within narrow parameters.  How can you withstand him when you do not know such simple things?” “But you knew of the alliance to the Abomination when you accepted the contract?” “The alliance to him was advertised.  The alliance to the other was hinted at.  The alliance to the third was never mentioned.”</blockquote>

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