Maidhc O Casain
Na Bith Mo Riocht Tá!
Working to figure out exactly what Cyr will be able to determine. I'll get an IC post up soon . . .
Domhani Bairdéir [OOC]
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Maidhc O Casain
Na Bith Mo Riocht Tá!
That is a question I have meant to ask as well. Domhani Ambrethel no longer really fits this thread, as Ambrethel is the name of the HERO published world that I initially used for this game. I've moved into my own world made from whole cloth, so I'd like to get away from some of the old names I used . . .
Maidhc O Casain
Na Bith Mo Riocht Tá!
I keep thinking I'm about to get too 'heavy handed' with my hints, thus robbing you guys of the satisfaction and enjoyment of figuring it all out. But possibly I'm being entirely too vague - whether due to the elapsed real time between in-game events or due to my knowledge of the big picture making things more obvious to me than to the players (or maybe a combination of these and other factors).
Regardless, here's a little tidbit that some of you should remember - Deasaigh (already suspected by y'all in the killing of your guard contact) always kept his face covered with a long crimson scarf. And one of your early foes (two of them, if you count both times you ran across it) was a shadow demon. So there's one half of the 'opposing forces' from the vision. I'll leave you to conjecture about the relationship between the two for now, but . . .
There will be more information forthcoming, but I'm gonna try to let things unfold in-game first. I will go ahead and tell you that my goal is for all (OK, most) of the major events in the game to tie into a comprehensive story-arc, so it's a good bet that anything major seeming that happens will relate somehow. (On the other hand there is a lot going on, and it's very possible that my poor mortal brain will lose track of some of it - and I've never been a good note maker . . .)
Regardless, here's a little tidbit that some of you should remember - Deasaigh (already suspected by y'all in the killing of your guard contact) always kept his face covered with a long crimson scarf. And one of your early foes (two of them, if you count both times you ran across it) was a shadow demon. So there's one half of the 'opposing forces' from the vision. I'll leave you to conjecture about the relationship between the two for now, but . . .
There will be more information forthcoming, but I'm gonna try to let things unfold in-game first. I will go ahead and tell you that my goal is for all (OK, most) of the major events in the game to tie into a comprehensive story-arc, so it's a good bet that anything major seeming that happens will relate somehow. (On the other hand there is a lot going on, and it's very possible that my poor mortal brain will lose track of some of it - and I've never been a good note maker . . .)
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Maidhc O Casain
Na Bith Mo Riocht Tá!
Possibly, but if he is it's a recent development as he was very much present and fighting for the party in the two encounters they had with the demon.
Maidhc O Casain
Na Bith Mo Riocht Tá!
Not only possible, but pretty much a certainty. In the Queen's Bounty adventure he and Béar were subjected to a mental assault by what they thought was an old god. Béar survived intact, Deasaigh was corrupted to the service of this thing. He shot Béar in the stomach, almost killing him, and used Béar's blood on an altar to gain entrance to the chambers housing the being. The Críu had to choose between saving their mate or chasing after Deasaigh - so Deasaigh got away clean.
They later gained information from the Queen that indicated Deasaigh was actually bonded against his will by one of the BreithRí - the ancient race that created both the Daoine deBith and the Laoch. It's the Laoch blood that allows this bonding - both a blessing and a curse, as it turns out. It allowed the Críu to bond with the Queen, but also allowed the enemy to force Deasaigh to bond.
Cyr's vision seems to indicate that the shadow demon encountered by the Críu at the Wickshine's Last Inn and at the mansion hidden in the jungle is in fact the 'old god' encountered in the copper mines, though how that could be true is anyone's guess right now since the 'god' was thoroughly imprisoned and supposedly asleep before Deasaigh let him out.
Feel free to have Cairn put this together IC - as I said, after two years living cheek by jowl with the rest of the Críu and the intensity of Bairdéir training you guys probably have very few secrets left . . .
They later gained information from the Queen that indicated Deasaigh was actually bonded against his will by one of the BreithRí - the ancient race that created both the Daoine deBith and the Laoch. It's the Laoch blood that allows this bonding - both a blessing and a curse, as it turns out. It allowed the Críu to bond with the Queen, but also allowed the enemy to force Deasaigh to bond.
Cyr's vision seems to indicate that the shadow demon encountered by the Críu at the Wickshine's Last Inn and at the mansion hidden in the jungle is in fact the 'old god' encountered in the copper mines, though how that could be true is anyone's guess right now since the 'god' was thoroughly imprisoned and supposedly asleep before Deasaigh let him out.
Feel free to have Cairn put this together IC - as I said, after two years living cheek by jowl with the rest of the Críu and the intensity of Bairdéir training you guys probably have very few secrets left . . .
