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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hirou" data-source="post: 7795222" data-attributes="member: 6776023">SPOILERS GALOREAmong many story points of Zeitgeist campaign, there was a single one that never sat with me right - Stanfield's transformation to invulnerable rakshasa in the finale of the Adventure 9. It's coming out of nowhere, except for a single legend in Player's Guide (once again referred to in Adventure 8) and very vague vision from Nevard Sekhim in adventure 2.[SPOILER="The Arsenal of Dhebisu."]Eladrin tell a tale of a god who turned against their pantheon and was transformed into a tiger that walked like a man: a rakshasa. As a god, no weapon in the world could harm him, and he ravaged the lands of Elfaivar, drowning villages and tearing entire cities free from the earth with a swipe of his clawed hands.A warrior named Dhebisu, infamous for her incongruous brilliance as a poet and lewd sense of humor, was called upon to defeat the rakshasa. She befriended the cats of the jungle to learn of the monster’s weakness, and consulted with sages to learn when the next meteor shower would occur. That night she sang a mocking tune to lure out the rakshasa.The beast attacked her, but she pulled a falling star from the sky and wove it into her hair. Thenceforth any weapon she touched became infused with the powers of the heavens. They battled through the night, until finally, the rakshasa tried to slay her with a poisoned arrow. But Dhebisu snatched the bolt and plunged it into the fiend’s loins, destroying it so that it could never reincarnate.From Adventure 8:Hewanharimau was a Seedism deity who embodied the importance of animals, but who was cast out of the pantheon for afflicting elves with a curse that turned them intohalf-beasts. His punishment was being turned into a tiger that walked as a man: a rakshasa.[/SPOILER][SPOILER="Vision of Heward"]“A man carrying a bronze staff with three keyholes was assailed by swords and arrows and fire, but nothing killed him. He began to take off his robes, revealing tiger fur beneath them, while stars fell from the sky all around him. Then the sky was dark, and when the sun should have risen, instead a pale glowing cloud floated in the dark.[/SPOILER]Devas-in-ZG are immortal beings infused with divine power of the fallen Srasama, so I guess that betrayal of Risur ("turning against the pantheon") can transform Stanfield into a walking beast, however, it's unclear why it happens only when world ends (and it's really debatable whether he was acting "for the greater good" or just from selfish interests). I believe that "a bronze staff with three keyholes" refers to an earlier draft of the campaign plot, which was abandoned in development. I can guess that modern weretigers can serve as an example to how evil origins can lead to a path to harmony in desperate times (tigerdrins are not infertile), but they seem to have no connection whatsoever, thematic or narrative, to Stanfield. DId any of you modify this scene in any way or introduce earlier leads?</blockquote>

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