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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3691353" data-attributes="member: 3448">Dame Brionna thanked her sister and moved on to a more delicate task:  discussing the Old Ones with her parents.  Dame Brionna’s father was out of the townhouse when she arrived, but her mother quickly met with her.“Ah, Brionna!  We’re so proud of all that you have accomplished.  Captain of the Archducal Guard!  I am sorry that I ever doubted your decision to join that knightly order.”“Thank you, Mother.  I have been fortunate in my ability to serve Lord Glor’diadel well.”“And to have made close ties to the greatest people in this land.  To think-- a confidant of the Archduke himself.”Dame Brionna cleared her throat.  “It is because of my position in the court that I have come here today.  I remembered something from long ago that we thought might be relevant to some recent developments.  We dismissed one of our maids, many years ago.  I think it had something to do with the Old Ones.  Can you tell me anything about it?”“Now, Brionna, that’s not the sort of matter that is wise to spend much time dwelling on.  She was a follower of the Old Gods.  When we discovered this, we sent her forth from our service immediately.  What more could you need to know?”“What can you tell me about the Old Gods?  We worry that their followers pose a threat to the Archduchy.”Dame Brionna’s mother sighed.  “I would not have wished to speak of it, but I suppose you are old enough now…  In their time, it is said that there were four that preceded the Great Lady of Chaos.  In those early days, when all rose out of the sea of being, there were four beings who arose, or who some say came from elsewhere in the first days.  Those four dominated creation for a long time.  Eventually one of them subsumed another, and gained a great hunger for her brothers and sisters.  Other gods arose, and war broke out among the planes.  The other gods prevailed, which drove the Old Gods out of time, but never out of their hunger.  In the faith of Berta, there was a remembrance of them, for we were closest to where they came from.  Three remained, and there was a continuation of the cults.”</blockquote>

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