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Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)
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<blockquote data-quote="CPaladin" data-source="post: 8477301" data-attributes="member: 7030144"><p>Session 78 (March 17, 2016)</p><p></p><p>Tar-Skard 18</p><p>Dame Brionna meets with Father Waters after morning services.</p><p></p><p>“I… I… I fear, Father Waters, that I am guilty of the sin of pride. There have been a number of occasions recently where I have been faced with a combat that I knew was beyond my fighting ability and prowess, but that I charged into anyway because I believed that Glor’diadel would protect me and guide my lance, and Glor’diadel has each time, and that has led me into overconfidence and pride and a feeling that I am more special than I know myself to be, and I come to you to confess this and ask for penance, as I am but the lowliest of His servants.”</p><p></p><p>“We are all servants of the divine, but we must all struggle with our pride, and with our lust, and not always the pride or the lust we fear. A penance—this is not the time for a simple devotion to saints or a sweeping of chapels. You have known great loss. You have known the loss of your childhood’s faith. You must balance your success against those losses, and you must remember that you can only succeed through humbleness before Glor’diadel. Therefore, as penance, I assign you, to spend one day in each of the coming four weeks, in the poorest sections of this city, and that you shall there oversee services for the poorest, who have lost all pride.”</p><p></p><p>Dame Brionna goes off and prays quietly.</p><p>* * *</p><p></p><p>Kit reaches out to her agent, late of the City of Life.</p><p>“Are you alright?”</p><p></p><p>“In body, yes. I have taken sanctuary in a hidden hideout a day and a half from the main city. I am not certain I can reach the border.”</p><p></p><p>“An embassy arrived from the Ecumenical Council—not all were of the Light, but some were. They hung them all as heretics, and purged them. I believe they have sealed the Dome. The Dome has not been sealed since the dragonfire 300 years ago.</p><p></p><p>“A fair number of knights were ejected before the Dome was, as my sources say, sealed. A fair number of nobles were purged. The city itself, if it has sealed the Dome, is nearly impregnable. One of the rumors that I have heard, which I cannot prove but tend to believe, is that the clergy have taken some members of the royal family captive as hostages, and that they have killed the companion of the primarch’s brother. The primarch’s brother is weak, and will not last long. If they have seized the primarch’s brother, then they must have seized the primarch as well. Unless the primarch’s younger sister is able to take some power, that probably means that the chief clerics are in power. She was in Khamista, studying in a seminary for women; I think that her return may have triggered this. She always had her brother’s ear. She may have been in the city, or may have been among the last to leave. She had many who were loyal to her.</p><p></p><p>"We have always been paranoid—since we found the spring, and since the elves departed. There are many refuges, but many are lost, as they were built by individual nobles. They don’t seem to be coming out of the Dome—the commons are in an uproar."</p><p></p><p>"What can you do inside the Dome?"</p><p></p><p>"The Dome contains the spring, the palace, the cathedral—the inner city. It is close to impenetrable—it might be broken by the most powerful of the elves, or by a large cohort of human wizards working together. Rumors say that there are catacombs beneath the city, but I never found them. Unless they connect to the Underdark…"</p><p>[cont'd]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CPaladin, post: 8477301, member: 7030144"] Session 78 (March 17, 2016) Tar-Skard 18 Dame Brionna meets with Father Waters after morning services. “I… I… I fear, Father Waters, that I am guilty of the sin of pride. There have been a number of occasions recently where I have been faced with a combat that I knew was beyond my fighting ability and prowess, but that I charged into anyway because I believed that Glor’diadel would protect me and guide my lance, and Glor’diadel has each time, and that has led me into overconfidence and pride and a feeling that I am more special than I know myself to be, and I come to you to confess this and ask for penance, as I am but the lowliest of His servants.” “We are all servants of the divine, but we must all struggle with our pride, and with our lust, and not always the pride or the lust we fear. A penance—this is not the time for a simple devotion to saints or a sweeping of chapels. You have known great loss. You have known the loss of your childhood’s faith. You must balance your success against those losses, and you must remember that you can only succeed through humbleness before Glor’diadel. Therefore, as penance, I assign you, to spend one day in each of the coming four weeks, in the poorest sections of this city, and that you shall there oversee services for the poorest, who have lost all pride.” Dame Brionna goes off and prays quietly. * * * Kit reaches out to her agent, late of the City of Life. “Are you alright?” “In body, yes. I have taken sanctuary in a hidden hideout a day and a half from the main city. I am not certain I can reach the border.” “An embassy arrived from the Ecumenical Council—not all were of the Light, but some were. They hung them all as heretics, and purged them. I believe they have sealed the Dome. The Dome has not been sealed since the dragonfire 300 years ago. “A fair number of knights were ejected before the Dome was, as my sources say, sealed. A fair number of nobles were purged. The city itself, if it has sealed the Dome, is nearly impregnable. One of the rumors that I have heard, which I cannot prove but tend to believe, is that the clergy have taken some members of the royal family captive as hostages, and that they have killed the companion of the primarch’s brother. The primarch’s brother is weak, and will not last long. If they have seized the primarch’s brother, then they must have seized the primarch as well. Unless the primarch’s younger sister is able to take some power, that probably means that the chief clerics are in power. She was in Khamista, studying in a seminary for women; I think that her return may have triggered this. She always had her brother’s ear. She may have been in the city, or may have been among the last to leave. She had many who were loyal to her. "We have always been paranoid—since we found the spring, and since the elves departed. There are many refuges, but many are lost, as they were built by individual nobles. They don’t seem to be coming out of the Dome—the commons are in an uproar." "What can you do inside the Dome?" "The Dome contains the spring, the palace, the cathedral—the inner city. It is close to impenetrable—it might be broken by the most powerful of the elves, or by a large cohort of human wizards working together. Rumors say that there are catacombs beneath the city, but I never found them. Unless they connect to the Underdark…" [cont'd] [/QUOTE]
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