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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nephtys" data-source="post: 3374495" data-attributes="member: 31780">ooc: Not quite collapse, just some instability. A thousand years of national and religious identity can not be undone that easily. They are after all Lawful.The loss of arcane magic proved to be a severe blow against the Empire, disrupting communications and causing the arcane cast to grow all but extinct, and yet it was not so devastating as some would have believed. For the Changelord had little power over Thef'chu Nefut's own magic and her clergy grew stronger than ever when it did no longer have to contend with the wielders of the arcane. Even though casting divine spells did grow more difficult the essential services could still be provided. The temples still upheld their communications, and they still knew the Will of the Goddess. And though usurpers no longer had to worry about their doom arriving by teleportation windwalking could still bring swift punishment to those who believed themselves immune to the consequences of treason. Just in case, she appears in the dreams of all of her people, an experience that leave them shaken and awed:"Know, my children, that this is a time of punishment and testing. Be faithful, and you will know paradise. Betray Me and the Divine Empire, and you will suffer eternally. Uphold my law, and be content in your mortal existence."She also visits her faithful clerics, wizards and sorcerers within their dreams and whispers secrets to them. The wizards who survive her teachings can change their arcane class levels to Cleric and the Clerics gradually have their spell-lists expanded.ooc: The disruption of magic effectively ends arcane casting in the Empire, but most of that damage is undone by Thef'chu Nefut granting the more important arcane spells as divine spells to her clerics. There is some internal disruption, but it doesn't even approach civil war, and disloyal elements are purged (along with some unfortunate innocents). In the end the Empire is more united than ever before.[sblock=Voidrazor]ooc: You suggest an alliance, knowing that most of my people live on the surface, and though I could protect them their food supply would be destroyed. That would cause more disruption than the loss of arcane magic ever could. Is that your intention? She turns, unsurprised, and speaks without passion."I have not sought to harm you since I have percieved no need to harm you. Indeed, I have believed that the ends we seek are not ultimately conflicting. Your recent actions are changing that. Life is but a facet of Death, and my People must spawn before they die. Without food, with the very night lethal to them, they will die before their time. That will deprive me of far more souls than you or any deity could offer me. And you suggest an alliance, while your actions speak of War? You would fight me, while Others are attacking your interests?" She smiles trough the veil. "No.""Instead let us bring back the purity of the night. Remove the moon, with my assistance, and we can discuss the terms of our alliance."[/sblock] Thef'chu Nefut attempts to send the moon out of orbit and into the sun. If she fails in that she does what she can to shield the earth from its harmful rays.</blockquote>

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