Voadam
Legend
kirinke said:Marisa closes her eyes, briefly as she remembers a bit from her lessons. "The citadel is said to arise from one of the demonic planes once a century. As it is a thing associated with hell, it is attracted to spots of great negative energy."
She opened her eyes with a wry smile. "And like many things of great magic, it is not far. Perhaps 20 miles to the north at the most."
"And what do mean? Birds associated with the marks on our hands?" she asked curiously as she finished loading up her mule, making sure the packs are well balanced and that Spice is comfortable. Though using her wild empathy, she gets the standard grumpy feeling of wanting to sleep in from the rather lazy thing. She chuckles and feeds him a bit of dried apple and as she moves towards her warhorse, she also 'treats' Sugar.
"The bird association is from research Orillian and Julian conducted. At one point years ago, Orillian sketched the patterns of our seven marks and later discovered this pattern corresponded to a map with seven citadels in seven regions. The wizard who sketched the map was attacked by a flock of black birds and appeared in the lands he later mapped and spent years working to return to this world. When he succeeded he regretted his actions as this world was so much less alive than the other, and I forget Orillian did he commit suicide? In any case, Julian also knew of one paladin who was attacked by a flock of ravens and disappeared never to be heard from again. So the map of this otherworld that dark birds drag some off to corresponded to our marks at one point in our lives."
"I am an intiated member of the Enlightened Order and sworn to war on supernatural Evil. Do you recall specifically whether this place is associated with Demons of the Abyss or the diabolic forces of hell? Many demons are vulnerable to cold iron while many devils of Hell are vulnerable to silver weapons. Negative energy would indicate undead, and there are a number demon lords associated with the undead and a number of fiends of both types who have powers related to the Evil Dead. This citadel bears investigating, as does this black stain."