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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3791667" data-attributes="member: 3448">The Eldar entered the Council chambers.  “You wished to see me?”“Yes, thank you for coming,” said Kit.  “We have some historical questions that we hoped you could answer.  Do you remember anything about the Order of the Ram?”“Yes, that.”“What are they?”“Were they,” corrected Lord Silverleaves.“No, are they.”“Oh, they’re back?” The Eldar seemed interested and perhaps even dismayed, but in the detached way of the elves.  “Some being from the lower planes formed that order many years ago.  I’m not sure what exactly, a demon lord or a powerful daemon or something-- more likely a demon than a daemon, I think.  It offered a great deal of power to its followers, who were humans of course.  He gave them tainted abilities, but his claw marks weren’t visible-- he was careful to make sure they never knew what he was.  The members of the Order had great fertility, resistance to disease and damage, and power in combat, but they burned up-- he gave them twenty years and then consumed their life force.  It was part of some grand plot, about eight-hundred years ago.”  “Do you know of any tie to the Abomination of Shur?” asked Alistair.“Hmm.  I am not certain.  There was some sort of alliance between a number of cthons of animals, especially of vermin, and the Abomination of Shur.  If the Order was tied to a cthon of rams or something similar, it could have been part of that alliance.  In time, the alliance fell apart.  Demonic plots tend to be more frightening than actually dangerous-- their last major accomplishment was the formation of the Shadowlands.  Their disorder is their undoing.  Since then, they have not succeeded at any major goals.  You could count the seizure of Caldefor, I suppose, but that looks more like one of the periodic border fluctuations.”“Do you know if any descendants of the original Order exist?”“It is not something I have watched closely; demon lords are pathetic beings and not worthy of much attention.  Nonetheless, some families of that blood certainly exist.  It runs strong and the members of the Order were most fecund.”“We know that the Order has reformed in Debonai, and that Duke Edelford is among its leaders,” said Kit.  “It may exist elsewhere as well, but we can only confirm its presence in Debonai.”“Perhaps I should look into it.  My people and Debonai have been allies for a long time; the first time around, we planned on intervening in the next seventy or eighty years, but then they all died.  Edelford’s whole lineage was engendered by a frail and elderly man who was about to die without issue.  In all likelihood, everyone in his line is descended from the Order’s power.”“How much longer will he last?”“If he entered before his first child, he could not have more than a few more months.”“Could we speed up the process?  He is leading an army that we think is aligned with our enemies.”“There is no way to speed it up.  The process is inexorable;  it could be slowed somewhat by destroying the demon lord that granted the power, but there is no way to accelerate the pact.”</blockquote>

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