John Dallman
Hero
The political situation is rather complicated. We're in the word of Artemisia, where the human areas worship the Greek gods. Our priestess of Artemis seems to have been picked by her goddess to change the political situation.
The human-populated areas are a small fraction of the continent, all at one end. The neighbouring areas are populated by minotaurs and drow, who want to conquer the humans. The human country bordering the minotaurs is a small empire, with two smaller human countries beyond that.
The empress, advised by the Temple of Zeus, wants to conquer the other human countries before the minotaurs invade, to unite humans against the threat. That seems like a waste of limited military strength to us. An alliance would be a better idea. We are engaged in talking to temples and trying to enlist the sacred creatures of the various gods, to build coherent opposition to the Zeus plan.
At the end of the previous session, the sacred eagles of Zeus attacked the PCs. Four of them died in the first round, due to our specialist missile magician, who was expecting them to be tougher. The other two fled. In this session, we discussed the matter a bit and then used Raise Dead spells to bring the four dead eagles back. This was fairly convincing evidence that we were not planning to attack them. That was what they'd been told to expect by the priest of Zeus who'd sent them.
While writing this, I've become suspicious that someone in the hierarchy of Zeus is an agent of the minotaurs or the drow.
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