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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 7525628" data-attributes="member: 92305">Red Sonja and SorceryJust a few random notes....The Children of the Night spell, from the core rulebook, was taken from a Howard story, Hour of the Dragon.  In the comic, Red Sonja/Claw:  The Devil's Hands, there is a similar version of the spell where a real raven, not a conjured one, spies from the air then flies to the sorcerer.  There, the sorcerer kills the bird, squeezing its body so that the blood forms a pool on the floor.  In reflection of the blood, the sorcerer sees what the bird saw.In the movie, Red Sonja from 1985, there is a version of a crystal ball/silvery mirror, used by the sorcerer Ikol, who serves Queen Gedren.<img src="http://www.badmovies.org/movies/redsonja/redsonja6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Also in that movie is an animated aquatic dragon-serpent made of iron, obviously powered by sorcery.There is also a Mighty Artifact, central to the film's plot, called the "talisman".  It looks like a rock, about the size of a large watermelon, with glowing green parts of it.  The rock is encased in a non-symmetrical metal web.Remember all of the green stone that Howard wrote about in his Conan stories.<img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zm-2hX05Nfg/TU8I4PEz1qI/AAAAAAAAAyM/pPWheJsPkL8/s1600/red%2Bsonja%2B04.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The talisman can be used to control the weather.  In the film, it is used to destroy an entire town.  We see it cause lightning and wind.  It is said that it can cause earthquakes and such.Only women can touch the talisman.  Any man who touches it is absorbed (maybe the stone benefits from power points as in a ritual sacrifice?).There is a cult that has been created to watch over and protect the talisman.  This cult is divided into two halves--a female/priestess half that directly watches over the talisman in the temple.  The other half is all male--a warrior/priest half that operates as the temple's defenders.The two halves are kept in separate temples, far apart.  The women are trained as warrior monks, too.  The male warriors are akin to an army that can be summoned when the heavy infantry is needed.Each half of the cult is watched over by a head Priest and Priestess.The talisman must be kept in darkness.  When it is exposed to light, it becomes more powerful.  If it is exposed to too much light, it will destroy the world.The Priestesses keep the talisman in a dark, deep pit in the center of their temple.<img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZEuVcVu_hL4/V4ev2kZ4AsI/AAAAAAAALDI/lSM0PTH6wWcobYL5--7CHwp3xOjsc1ouQCKgB/s1600/red%2Bsonja03.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b300/spacemonkey_fg/More%20Random%20Pics/Red10.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Although it is not specifically stated, the movie seems to be set among the city-states of Hyrkania.</blockquote>

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