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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 5423180" data-attributes="member: 99">So last night my wife and I were batting around some more ideas and I think we hit upon something really cool.The basic notion is that there was this inventor/architect/artist who lived a couple hundred years ago who was instrumental in building some of the cathedrals of the Church and personally made many of the stained glass windows that are part of their beauty.  I liked the idea that this genius hid some kind of message or clues into his designs that the PC's might discover.What I came up with was that the light shines through some of the windows such that the images from more than one window overlap once in a while and present the possibility of somebody noticing the message hidden in the combined image.  Course the trick is that you can't really do this with a single light source, so I figured I'd better add a second sun to my world.So now I've got this binary star system and my genius inventor who was hiding this message in his art.  Then I added another idea to the mix:  Once in a very long while the suns and one of the inner planets line up such that my world experiences a total eclipse (this would be made exceedingly rare by virtue of having a pair of suns rather than just one).  Such an eclipse might be the catalyzing event that results in the Darkness emerging once more to sweep across the land.So back to my inventor dude:  His study of astronomy resulted in him building this amazing orrery so that he could make sure to show off his stained glass art.  By running the orrery backwards he discovered that the total eclipse coincided with the last time the Darkness swept over the world and he could then predict when it would happen again.  For some reason (I'm leaning toward him wanting to avoid being branded a heretic) he kept quiet about this but hid clues in his art, hoping that somebody in a later age would figure it all out.Another idea loosely associated with this (and I'm not married to this yet) is the concept that the Darkness has heralded the end of various "ages" that the world has been through.  So perhaps the first was the Age of Dragons, which ended with the tide of Darkness destroying their dominion and bringing about the rise of the "Elder Races" (Elves & Dwarves).  Then the Age of the the Elders was ended with another tide of Darkness that was beaten back by the Prophets of Men.  Now the Darkness is threatening to wipe out the Age of Men and bring about something new.I dunno.  Lots of good stuff I can play with here.  I'm still mulling things over but I really dig the sort of Divinci Code concept in general.</blockquote>

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