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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3805082" data-attributes="member: 3448">The Council proceeded to the Lady Mayor’s townhouse to meet with the Chief Engineer of the Seachen.  After some careful consideration, they decided that Dame Brionna would be the best person to actually conduct the meeting, with Alistair and Kit safely hidden behind a wall and observing through a mindlink.  Dame Brionna greeted the Chief Engineer and looked with curiosity at the careful drafting sketches that she was preparing.  “Those look like Canberry City, but not quite…”The Seachen noble nodded.  “While this city has walls, they are haphazardly designed and of considerable age.  I was passing my time drawing up some potential designs to fortify them further.”“Canberry City has not been attacked directly in twelve-hundred years.  That is why some of the City has grown outside of the old walls.”“Ah.  We must always fear attack.”“From whom?”“The First, of course.   But also… you never know, you never know.”“The First, your ladyship?”“The legends say that the First were in the land before us, but they are still sometimes seen.  They are horrid mixes of human and serpent, from the reports.  It is said that at least two villages have become infected, filled with mixed blood.  Those villages were burned, with all within them.  But we must always be ready to repulse further attacks.”“I see,” said Dame Brionna, deciding not to comment further.  “We wanted to ask you a few questions about your faith and the Dead Gods of the Seachen.  Are there three of them?”“There are many more than three.”“Has any been described as the Goddess of the Pale Bone?”“Ah, that is what you were wondering about.  That worship has been forbidden by the Matriarch.  There are still hidden cults, throughout the land.  It permeates the nobility, but it is forbidden.”“Is the same true of the One Other and the One Beside?”“They are… male.  The nobility would not, could not, follow a male.”“I was uncertain-- we know little of them.”“We know too much.  There was a great shrine to her in our territory.  The First may have worshipped her, for it shares features with others of their structures.  There is also a city of the One Other, but it is taboo to enter there.  We had heard rumors that the cult rises again.  The Matriarch has also heard these rumors.  Chaos is growing rapidly upon this world; it must be stopped.  Knights were sent south, southeast, and southwest, to support those of good will and their male chattel, to investigate two places where the rising is rumored and to bring back news of conditions among the refugees.  The Matriarch thought we had been insular too long; I agreed and spoke out, and others did as well.”</blockquote>

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