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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 2033665" data-attributes="member: 149">The "castles" started out as amulets, which would eventually "hatch" into a proto-fortress (killing the wearer naturally). The amulets were intially described as "keys" to enter the castle and trade with the inhabitants. The utlimate goal was to get the castle to be large enough that the creatures of the castles could then free the Dominator (The REALLY BBEG of the first 3 Black Company books).An interesting idea from a David Brin Story called "Thor vs Captain America", was that the Nazi death camps weren't simply killing people for the sake of wiping out "inferior" races, but were actually a massive scale blood ritual intended to make the norse gods real. You could have the cube be able to accomplish similar things, at a similar price. To really play with their heads, what if one/some of the Good Gods, owed their existance to one of these genocidal slaughters or the "only" way to stop the BBEG was yet another genocide to create a Good God.</blockquote>