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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9596365" data-attributes="member: 42856">Emeritus recounts to us that the Lord created the world without separating the living and the dead, and realizing it wasn't appropriate, he sent one of his archangels, Abdiel, to cut the world in two halves, one of the living, and another to serve as the realm of the dead. He created to swords to symbolise the cut between them, one he set in the realm of the dead, another in realm of the living.The sword of Death was happily standing in its proper place, but was taken out by a hero who wanted to use its incredibly dangerous power against evil, but fail to resist the lure of evil himself, and the sword of death is supposed now to reside in Marazid somewhere, under the name of the Demon's Claw (the title of the book, whoah). The Bloodsword, the one residing with the living, was set in the northen wasteland of Krarth, when one day a demon called Yaunt the Seven-Eyed smashing it in pieces and it is presumed lost ever since.We ask if we can kill the True Magi with it, and he answers positively, since it's the implement of natural order and the Magi escaped destruction with their capital by some kind of apotheosis that made them immortal, it is certainly apt to do what we expect. He also mentions that we shoud recieve help along the way as righteouness should prevail in our quest to recover this powerul implement of Good.He can't help us with the location of the blade, but he suggests we meet Prince Sussurien of Opalar. The Prince of Not-Persia, then.He's exiled and lives currently near Crescentium (yay!), on a personal quest to recover the Sword of Death (boo!) so he is probably well-informed on the legend surrounding the artefact we seek.Then, Emeritus offers us to have the slave do some shopping for us, if we want. There doesn't seem any drawback, so we oblige. Also, we'll buy fur gloves.If we don't have gold, Emeritus gifts us gold. But the book is smart: it defines destitute as having less than an average of 3 gp among the characters. He must have seen through our trick to pool our gold with Trixie so the other character can truthfully claim to have no money (and if we need to lie, then Trixie is the best to do that convincingly anyway...)The list is quite worrying, since we're offered the opportunity to buy replacement armour, replacement weapons... There must be opportunty for item damage further down the line. But we might need to save money and I decide to only buy ration for a week, for a total of 8 gp.We then depart on our quest, say goodbyes, praise his slavegirl for her attentive service and he mentions that he despises slavery and she's is neither a slave nor a servant but his wife.Oops.One of the nice item we missed in an earlier book by not looting Augustus de Vantery's tower is a loaf of neverending bread, that can replace a meal... forever. We could have stopped adventuring an open a bread shop, or stop famine, or drown the world under stale bread....Since the books assume we're jerks, I'll quote the ending of the section when we leave Emeritus house, who, let's remind ourselves, is a friend to a character and who helped us freely and more evidently than anyone so far... "You are a little shocked. Respectable Coradians should not mingle intimately with the natives. Nonethless you manage to keep your sentiments to yourselves."Was the alternative to chastize the friend who gave us a room and helped us about his choice of wife? Wow... And we "manage" not to say anything. It required, obviously, all our collective inner strength not to lash at him? Anyway, we're on our way to the other side of town, where Sussurien is living (section 186)</blockquote>

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