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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: 8416845" data-attributes="member: 7030144"><p>[Session 66, cont'd]</p><p>Dame Brionna detects evil, and gets inconsistent results—sometimes detecting evil, sometimes not.</p><p></p><p>Dame Constance says, "If you need to summon the Librarian, let me know. He owes me a favor." Asked which Librarian, she says, "I was thinking of the Librarian of Dis."</p><p></p><p>Alistair meets with a sidhe from the Tor.</p><p></p><p>The sidhe wants to see the bodies himself. Alistair warns him that it’s in a less congenial location and then leads him to the laboratory.</p><p></p><p>The sidhe examines the body. “Your Grace. This is not an unseelie fae, originally. Unimaginably long ago, this was a seelie knight. Oh my—look at the energy infusions.”</p><p></p><p>He speculates that this may have been sent by the Archangel, not by the Order of the Ram. When the artifact was sealed away, legend said that both dark and light elves, and dark and light fae were part of the guard. His guess is that that was one of the light fae.</p><p></p><p>"It’s very difficult to predict, but my guess would be that they are all mad, but not all turned to this. By our nature, we are not easy to regiment, and to all be mad like this creature would be regimentation. All will be mad, but some will be responsive. This one you could never have reasoned with. Assume his master is ten times worse, because no fae ever willingly became this. And no Archangel would ever deliberately do something like this to a creature that did not wish it.</p><p></p><p>"Perhaps you should not open that casket… It is back to a semblance of life.</p><p></p><p>"The head is of a lesser creature—at one time a wood elf. There were 50 light and 50 dark that entered those chambers. All of the creatures that you have seen so far were once of light.</p><p></p><p>"If you are willing, my nephew will accompany your expedition."</p><p></p><p>They also talk about the sluagh. If it were an unseelie, they may have pointed out that they and they alone might be able to end everything.</p><p></p><p>The seelie promise to track down the sluagh.</p><p></p><p>The psion was a sidhe lady, the wife of the knight. There is nothing intelligent left there, but she cannot pass to the west until destroyed. They were battered by waves of evil and good, from balrog and archangel, until nothing but madness remained.</p><p></p><p>"The dark ones are probably even worse than these."</p><p></p><p>Alistair asks, "Might they be more influenced by the balrog’s goals, perhaps to take and wield the treasures instead of to guard them?"</p><p></p><p>"They might—that seems reasonable. Be extraordinarily careful in selecting only the most stable possible people."</p><p></p><p>The Council then plans for Alistair to make the rounds of the city to reassure the people (with Caitlyn, and watched over by a raft of Kit’s people and Dame Brionna’s people to keep him safe).</p><p></p><p>[End session 66]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CPaladin, post: 8416845, member: 7030144"] [Session 66, cont'd] Dame Brionna detects evil, and gets inconsistent results—sometimes detecting evil, sometimes not. Dame Constance says, "If you need to summon the Librarian, let me know. He owes me a favor." Asked which Librarian, she says, "I was thinking of the Librarian of Dis." Alistair meets with a sidhe from the Tor. The sidhe wants to see the bodies himself. Alistair warns him that it’s in a less congenial location and then leads him to the laboratory. The sidhe examines the body. “Your Grace. This is not an unseelie fae, originally. Unimaginably long ago, this was a seelie knight. Oh my—look at the energy infusions.” He speculates that this may have been sent by the Archangel, not by the Order of the Ram. When the artifact was sealed away, legend said that both dark and light elves, and dark and light fae were part of the guard. His guess is that that was one of the light fae. "It’s very difficult to predict, but my guess would be that they are all mad, but not all turned to this. By our nature, we are not easy to regiment, and to all be mad like this creature would be regimentation. All will be mad, but some will be responsive. This one you could never have reasoned with. Assume his master is ten times worse, because no fae ever willingly became this. And no Archangel would ever deliberately do something like this to a creature that did not wish it. "Perhaps you should not open that casket… It is back to a semblance of life. "The head is of a lesser creature—at one time a wood elf. There were 50 light and 50 dark that entered those chambers. All of the creatures that you have seen so far were once of light. "If you are willing, my nephew will accompany your expedition." They also talk about the sluagh. If it were an unseelie, they may have pointed out that they and they alone might be able to end everything. The seelie promise to track down the sluagh. The psion was a sidhe lady, the wife of the knight. There is nothing intelligent left there, but she cannot pass to the west until destroyed. They were battered by waves of evil and good, from balrog and archangel, until nothing but madness remained. "The dark ones are probably even worse than these." Alistair asks, "Might they be more influenced by the balrog’s goals, perhaps to take and wield the treasures instead of to guard them?" "They might—that seems reasonable. Be extraordinarily careful in selecting only the most stable possible people." The Council then plans for Alistair to make the rounds of the city to reassure the people (with Caitlyn, and watched over by a raft of Kit’s people and Dame Brionna’s people to keep him safe). [End session 66] [/QUOTE]
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