D&D Armageddon - Blood Wars End, Sigil Falls to Seige

[RobNJ]

Well maybe they just decided the old adage, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

I heard this old adage put in a very cool new light on Traffic: The Series (on USA, not the original original British one):

Me against my brother.
My brother and I against my cousin.
My cousin and I against the world.

 

[Nightfall]

That works too.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Brought up in my mind by the mentions of Strahd and Soth - where's Ravenloft fit in all this? And how will Azalin take advantage of this situation?

 

[Nightfall]

Azlin just wants out. I'm sure Ravenloft won't be touched since Fiends get trapped in there. And who really wants to be around vampiric kender?

 

[megamania]

I and another DM ran a joint-campaign on this line. The supreme ultimate this is the beginning of everything god of evil awoke after the god of good slammed him unconscience and in a coma state in a plane outside of time and space. He awoke and, as a god to anything evil (rank 40+) he had everything from Orcs to Pit Fiends line up and start a war.

My friend would run the demon war sections and I ran the side adventures to give him a break. At that time, I avoided ANYTHING with the word demon or devil in it since there were so many negative feelings about it by the general community.

Essencially, we were the lowest level of pawns for the ultimate battle between good and evil. Good story...too bad he moved away and it fell apart.

In my STRIKEFORCE: MORITURI Storyhour I was going to visit a plane where this happened and the war is over, evil won, but the blood wars restarted allowing the forces of neutrality to try to aid good to balance everything again.


PLEASE- Someone do this as a Storyhour. I'm a sucker for total annihilation of entire worlds and universes.

 

[Calico_Jack73]

I'm not sure all of those folk would team together right away. The Drow might very well fall in with the fiendish forces due to their ties with Lloth, as might the chromatics with their ties to Tiamat.

Gith and Illithid might call a momentary armistice but maybe not. Maybe one of the PC's jobs will be to broker a piece between these two ancient enemies. A diplomatic mission to the Liche Queen to beg her to call of her hoardes would be nifty. But what about the Liche Queen's tie to Red Dragons? Would they ask her to go with Tiamat and the Fiendish forces? Interesting and complicated planar political stuff. Neat.
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Hmmm... would even the evil gods side with the Fiends? I think not. For the gods, their very survival and power comes from the prayers of their faithful. From what I've read in the Manual of the Planes and in the BOVD souls that demons and devils get their hands on go to the ArchDevils and Demon Princes. As such, those souls do NOT go to their gods. If the fiends launch a war on the prime and all of the evil gods followers are getting killed then the gods begin to lose status. Isn't that the same reason the the gods in Scarred Lands fought the Titans? Even the evil gods fought the Titans in that setting.

As far as the Gith/Illithid alliance goes I'd say that as long as the Lich Queen is around that it wouldn't happen. Of course you could launch a great adventure around destroying her and putting a more tolerant ruler of the Githyanki on the throne. The Githyanki would for the first time be allowed to worship a god rather than the Lich queen. All that additional power coming from new worshipers could give the gods a fighting chance against the fiends. That could be the turning point of the whole war.

 

[Calico_Jack73]

Brought up in my mind by the mentions of Strahd and Soth - where's Ravenloft fit in all this? And how will Azalin take advantage of this situation?

Soth got out. Read the book "Specter of the Black Rose" (Or was it white? Been a while since I read it). Soth became so despondent that the powers of Ravenloft felt that he was ignoring his curse. He just ceased caring about anything. They ejected him because living in Krynn and seeing what came about from his weakness was a greater curse than anything the powers could come up with.

 

[Calico_Jack73]

Brought up in my mind by the mentions of Strahd and Soth - where's Ravenloft fit in all this? And how will Azalin take advantage of this situation?

Is Azalin even around? I thought he died and Death took his place. This is all based on 2E Ravenloft so I'm not current on 3E events in that setting.

 

[Valiantheart]

This campaign does indeed sound good.

I like what the other guy suggested about having Asmodeus finally triumph uniting all the demons, devils and daemons under his banner. Asmodeus was supposed to be one of the prime evils if not THE prime evil in the cosmos before his fall.

 

[Calico_Jack73]

This campaign does indeed sound good.

I like what the other guy suggested about having Asmodeus finally triumph uniting all the demons, devils and daemons under his banner. Asmodeus was supposed to be one of the prime evils if not THE prime evil in the cosmos before his fall.

Thank you! I'll take that as a compliment.