Discussion for a Kingdom of ashes OOC II

[Xath]

The only things going in are Syvatagor and prisoners. Nothing else has gone in or out since. So we could be a miniture Syvatagor, or prisoners. As prisoners though we can't carry an arsonal of weapons, and if we put them in the bag of holding we better have that really secure and hidden away! And I don't think they are stupid enough to believe syvatagor would just shrink himself.
Though just cause we have not seen anything else go in does not mean nothing else is allowed in...

Ah, but the great thing about Alter Self is that anything that doesn't fit with the disguise is absorbed into your form. So a bag of holding with all of the weapons...

 

[The_Universe]

The only things going in are Syvatagor and prisoners. Nothing else has gone in or out since. So we could be a miniture Syvatagor, or prisoners. As prisoners though we can't carry an arsonal of weapons, and if we put them in the bag of holding we better have that really secure and hidden away! And I don't think they are stupid enough to believe syvatagor would just shrink himself.
Though just cause we have not seen anything else go in does not mean nothing else is allowed in...

Very true!

Also, the City of Sacrifice is Thanesport. That's where the Apecto died to send the Bluestar to the north when he was eternally locked there.

 

[Laurel]

Jaine's Family ???

I know I am off, but so far as I can piece the family together...... brain no work, but not getting how Archonus is in the Araesi house of nobles? But I do now get the silver mask for family Destro to show treachery years and years ago... or maybe Arhconus just liked the mask for his birthmark....​

 

[Archon]

Diffusion

Archon can hand out all his sneakery boosting stuff to those less sneaky. that way we're all "pretty good at sneaking instead of a couple of us rocking at it while Arfin clanks down the hall.
mik aka "Monkey Junkey"

 

[The_Universe]

above-posted family tree!

This is a little off, but a good effort!

For one, Archon doesn't have any direct relation to the the house of Araesi. His family is Areandor. While technically Andere and Karis Araesi have some relation, they are not precisely sisters. Karis was born of the union between a human man, and an elven woman who, through a magical ceremony I don't want to go into, was also a dryad. her fey blood is what made her "Oberon's daughter" even though in reality she was Corran Araesi's daughter. Corran Araesi went on to become the Baron Destro, Lord of Caer Cruarch...but his real name was Araesi.

Andere, on the other hand, was LITERALLY Oberon's daughter, and was in fact a hamadryad (celtic myth--long explanation--don't ask). She was also approximately 3000 years older than Karis...

It's all very hard to explain...if you want clarification, don't be afraid to ask.

Also, the silver mask thing is a symbol of the Talon Justices, as well as of the house of Destro. Corran Araesi kept the secret society known as the "Talons" alive throughout his lifetime...that organization eventually became the Talons as you know them today.

 

[Archon]

the whole shabang

for posterity, our little "Arky" likes to go by "Archon" but his full name/title looks something like this....
Talon Justice Archonus of House Arendorr, Firstborn of Aramus and Jessara
unless the universe thinks differently that is.
mik aka "Fornicate and Flee"

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

The More You Know...

Okay... well, I was writting all of this out in story form... but, I've stopped because you probably don't care about all of the Justice's backstory stuff... at least, not right now..

And so, I bring to you...

THE THINGS I LEARNED FROM PRESTON...

-Interesting tid-bit... Fairweather is the name give to bastard children born at sea.

-He, Fr. Dorn, and a woman were exiled on the Isle of Mouring for poking too deep into the church.

-The things they had been digging for in the church, they found on the Isle.

-The Isle of Mourning was rich with information, prophecy, and evil... heores past spent many years on the Isle--all the time looking to the evil of the North... never thinking to look to the West.

Preston said: "propecy upon prophecy, written on the walls of tombs, hidden in books... Some were written by the tombs builders...others, scrawled in the strange hand of the Guardians. I am sure that some are true prophecy...even now, we see much of the events predicted there coming true in one form, or another. But many--and there is no way to tell how many--are little more than the ravings of madmen.
There are predictions of a fall of Kings, but what form it would take was hardly specific... A fall of Kings...and the freedom of the Bluestar...
and so all of this time, we have had our attentions turned to the North
when darkness truly gathered in the west...
Our forefathers were not stupid...someone foresaw what would happen, here...and they tried to prepare... they thought they could destroy all but 2 of the blades....the blade in the North, and the Liegeblade...but as long as 2 survived, the magic could not die. Something was seeking them, even as we sought our past all those years ago...something, and I know not what."

-Two of the liege blades are currently on the Isle of Mourning... or at least, we can assume they are. Protected by "The Guardians"

Preston said: I know where 2 of them [the blades] lie... atop the tombs of the heroes of the last age...in great mausoleums twisted by their strange guardians upon the Isle...whatever remains of the dark past on that isle has used itself to twist the magics and the minds of the tombkeepers... The Guardians are not just protectors of the blades (although one is not a blade, exactly...but rather a bow), but also the tombs themselves...and the island. I think that they may once have been priests, and builders...but whatever Shadow remained on that island after Mordred was killed has been enough to twist their minds and bodies over the past millenium."

-Little is known about the prediction about the freedom of the Bluestar... the only thing that was known for sure was that "victory lay in the hands of a hidden queen, and the blood of heroes of ages past."

-After finally fleeing the Isle, Preston wandered around... searching for Justice's mother... searching for Justice... the granddaughter he never got to meet... and, as he wandered, he stumbled across a 14 year old Jaine. It was just during the sucession of Taine... she was being chased--Filmore was trying to protect her, in WAY over his head.

Preston said: "Tain is too smart to allow his men to be so easily marked. I have no doubt that they were his, or at least his mother's....maybe even men under control of the old King's Huntsman--Nightgrove....Whoever they were, they didn't have much of a chance to talk."

-So, Jaine, Preston, and Filmore ran, hid... and they did it well. And they've made it this far...


Now, it's up to us to fulfill the prohecies...

 

[The_Universe]

for posterity, our little "Arky" likes to go by "Archon" but his full name/title looks something like this....
Talon Justice Archonus of House Arendorr, Firstborn of Aramus and Jessara
unless the universe thinks differently that is.
mik aka "Fornicate and Flee"

For the purposes of poetic flow, I'd probably make the order "Archonus of House Arendorr, Talon Justice, Firstborn of Aramus and Jessara." If he ever became the head of House Arendorr (if his parents die, or something), he would be, "Archonus, Viscount Arendorr, Talon Justice, Firstborn of Aramus and Jessara" (his family is titled, but not prominent landowners, like the Duke).

 

[Laurel]

Oberon's bow?... maybe?... who knows?...

Preston said: I know where 2 of them [the blades] lie... atop the tombs of the heroes of the last age...in great mausoleums twisted by their strange guardians upon the Isle...whatever remains of the dark past on that isle has used itself to twist the magics and the minds of the tombkeepers... The Guardians are not just protectors of the blades (although one is not a blade, exactly...but rather a bow), but also the tombs themselves...and the island. I think that they may once have been priests, and builders...but whatever Shadow remained on that island after Mordred was killed has been enough to twist their minds and bodies over the past millenium."

The blade that is actually a bow is the one Farathier knew about through the book he took at the monastary. The one Barbara Striesand witch woman and nightgrove were trying to look for. -oh so long ago-

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

The blade that is actually a bow is the one Farathier knew about through the book he took at the monastary. The one Barbara Striesand witch woman and nightgrove were trying to look for. -oh so long ago-

Witch woman and Nightgrove were at the Monastery together...

Witch woman and John Darkson were together when we lost Link's swords.

When were they looking for the bow? At the Monastery? or after that?