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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hirou" data-source="post: 6452416" data-attributes="member: 6776023">Another piece of food for thought (as above, this is "point-of-view" information, which may or may not be close to truth):2000 years ago Kelland basically banished fey lords to the Dreaming and, in typical fey way, they will never forgot this. Unseen Court is both a closest friend and an eternal enemy to Risur, graciously accepting tribute and bestowing boons but always looking for an opportunity to invoke Kelland's Rites and take what they consider their own by force. But for the past several centuries Risuri kings had a hidden ally which helps striking a delicate balance with Court. The secretive organization which declares a noble and just goal of protecting the weak, declining to be restricted by common law, which has tight connections with Fey Realm, which mildly opposes technological breakthroughs and loathes Danor and Crissilyir - Vekeshi mystics. By fey logic, i.e. occasional murdering of Crissilyir cleric by the hand of the goddess counts as a gift to Court as long as it's done by citizen of Risur and withing Risur borders. This way most of Vekeshi operations can be presented as favors from Risur to the Unseen lords, and, together with the innate fragmentation and debates within the Court, this is enough to prevent the possible war (which would be disastrous to humans as fey army can appear almost anywhere; this would truly be a war without front). Because of this Vekeshi mystics are secretly supported by government, and RHC agents almost never exert themselves hunting the elusive white-masked killers. Some even could say that mystics occupy high-ranked positions within RHC itself and other places of power (although king himself is surely too closely watched to be an initiate).On the other hand, should the way of peace fail (which is likely due to impeding treaty with Danor), monarchs of Risur have long been searching for the way to fully extort fey from Risur, this plane or another, by total extermination, if so needed. The main "weapons of mass destruction" of the Court are, of course, fey titans, which, if fully awoken, could annihilate armies in an instant. What could possibly oppose, say, a hundred-feet kraken, able to crush whole ships in his grasp?.. Why, a 300-feet golem would be very useful in this case. And while engineers under Cauldron Hill think that the golem is intended for war with Danor, Leone Quital knows that it is a result of international effort to kill 5 colossi too dangerous to be left in this world. The project was likely started by Aodan's predecessor or some king even before that, and is still secretly overseen by Katrin Romana, his descendant. The current king may actually be left in dark, as his involvement, if discovered, would undoubtely lead to an immediate declaration of war from the Unseen Court.All of the above stemmed from a single line in Campaign guide, which states that Leone Quital doesn't know the true goals of Obscurati. Only after adventure 5 he will likely be contacted by Nicodemus and fully enlisted, so before that he's able to whole-heartedly convince the party that this whole time they were in fact ruining top secret military project, just as McBannin told them.</blockquote>

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