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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 81529" data-attributes="member: 2020">Vecna appears in the Shade Hall, sweeps Ahlissa off her feet, and cradles her in his arms, holding her off the ground.  This is a different Vecna than has been seen.  This is not the ancient old corpse with one eye.  This is a youthful Vecna in the peak of health, tall and strong, with piercing gray eyes and long golden hair.    He has great muscles; his arms and legs budge with them, while his skin is the pale color of the classic suel and seems to radiate a white sheen.  He stands as a pillar of strength, an icon of power, his golden hair blowing in a breeze generated by his own might.  A great lust radiates from Vecna, an utter and dark lust, and there is darkest triumph to be seen in him.  He stands above all the other Shadowlords, and speaks in a proud, stern voice:  Time is a secret that is ours to hold, and for the foe to learn.  The world changes, and the time of Shade and Suel will soon be at hand.  Melkor smiles upon you, and his dark hand confounds your foes, and leaves them blind.  Vecna smiles upon you, for he has brought forth his Legions and his power, and these ward you from all harm.  You must have faith in Lord Melkor.  You must have faith in Lord Vecna!  With that, Acererak opens a magical portal to his pocket demiplane.  He steps through, Ahlissa with him, and the portal slams shut.  (It is not possible for Ahlissa to escape the demiplane, nor is it possible for anyone to enter it, unless they have 10th level magic.)  Then Vecna has his pleasure with Ahlissa, making her his forever, marking her as his, making her kneel and give utter and abject obeisience to him, and then after all is said and done he marries her by the ancient Suel custom.  She now wears the tiara of Queen of the Shade, and the chains of Vecna are upon her body also.  - - -  Northern Aerdi's rebellion collapses.  It is discovered that the officials of the Great Kingdom of Aerdi did not revolt after all;  they are all found dead, murdered, and their souls stolen (not killed.)  Those who were thought to be the officials and leaders of the Great Kingdom of Northern Aerdi were, in fact, doppleganger imposters.  They, upon interrogation, state (they are truthful, when one considers what kind of interrogation is being down to them!) that the Scarlet Brotherhood is trying to overthrow the Dark Union by this tactic.  The leaders and officials of the Dark Union will all be replaced by dopplegangers, and these will serve the will of the Scarlet Brotherhood.  They reveal the methods by which they murdered the officials, and the tools used;  all are standard Scarlet Brotherhood tactics and standard Scarlet Brotherhood issue.  When the disbelieving officials probe even deeper, they see that the dopplegangers have been mentally fixed:  their memories have been magically altered and carefully set, and nothing has been overlooked in this process clear back to their birth.  The Kevellond League finds out the same thing, discovering a number of dopplegangers in their alliance, and upon questioning they give the same answers, and upon deep examination the same thing is found.  Stonehold falls to Rary and his attacking Yugoloths.  They put up quite a battle, and there are numerous casualties on both sides.  When Rary is victorious and the leaders of Stonehold are dragged forth, they are revealed as dopplegangers, just like the ones above.  Interrogation reveals the same thing as the above.  The real leaders of Stonefist are found murdered and their souls missing;  stolen.  When the Father of Obedience uses the Rod, he finds a traitor.  Said traitor takes out a rare and terrible weapon, known as a Morganti Blade, and stabs himself, killing both body and soul, before he can be stopped.  However, the Father of Obedience and his minions are able to finally determine who is causing this, for there are telltale signs on the body, and magic is able to reveal much.  The man was a member of an organization called the Black Brotherhood.  It's members are within the ranks of the Scarlet Brotherhood.  And it is to the Scarlet Brotherhood what the Scarlet Brotherhood is to the rest of the world, in terms of secrecy and difficulty of locating and stopping.</blockquote>

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