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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 6748581" data-attributes="member: 25818">Originally posted by Hellcow:I think I'll be able to post the piece on my  website, but I'd still like to hear back from a few people.I think Ellorin is refering to page 6, which shows a battle between Katashka and Dularanahk. It's from "Eternal Evil": A hidden alliance of rakshasa and other ﬁends, the Lords of Dust have manipulated the world since the dawn of time. The rakshasa wove themselves into the tapestry of human civilization in its earliest days. When the explorer Lhazaar gathered her expedition for Khorvaire, there was a rakshasa adviser at her side.The reference to the Lord of Dust traveling with Lhazaar isn't due to the presence of an Overlord in any particular location, but rather the fact that the Lords of Dust have been present and influenced many critical points of history. There were Lords of Dust hidden among the Dhakaani during the Daelkyr War. A Lord of Dust marched with Karrn the Conqueror. And so on. It's about the Prophecy. The Prophecy shows them the path the future must take in order to release an Overlord; the Prakhutu and their pawns work to bring about those events. This ties to the idea that the plans of the Lords of Dust can take thousands of years to bring about. Say, for example, that the Mourning was actually a side effect of the release of a rajah. Due to the Prophecy, the Prakhutu of this Overlord has known that his rajah would be released when a Khorvairian Kingdom of men ended a thousand years of peace by splitting into five nations and warring for a century... and only then when a vampire king clashed with a holy child, when the lifeless were given life (warforged), and so on, and so on. This meant that they knew that there had to BE a human kingdom on Khorvaire; that it had to have five easy pieces; that it had to last a thousand years; that there had to be a vampire king and a theocracy led by a little girl; and so on. So that rakshasa with Lhazaar was simply advancing the first step of a plot they new would take thousands of years to come to fruition. If you wanted to get truly conspiratorial about it, you could say that Bel Shalor intentionally held back, allowing himself to be defeated by Tira, because this led directly to the creation of the modern Church of the Silver Flame, which led to the theocracy in Thrane, which led to Jaela becoming Keeper, and so on. For Bel Shalor to make such a sacrifice, there'd have to be a truly impressive end goal - perhaps the ultimate destruction of the Silver Flame and release of ALL the Overlords - but it's the way they work. They are immortal, and their plans stretch out over millennia. Entire civilizations are pawns to them. This is the whole trick of the Lords of Dust. If they're so powerful, why don't they just conquer the world? Because they have no interest in ruling the world. As far as they are concerned, they already rule the world. What they want is to release the Overlords - and that's something that can only be done by guiding history down a specific path. Actually openly conquering the world would guide it down a different path... and ruling a bunch of short-lived monkeys just isn't that exciting for them. (Of course, if that's the story you want, you could decide that Rak Tulkhesh will be released when his servants DO physically conquer the world. But as it stands, the idea of the LoD is that they are the ultimate manipulators - and that they have been pulling strings long before humans came to Khorvaire, or before human civilization even existed.) </blockquote>

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