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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 2349210" data-attributes="member: 99">Who is Capito?  I can't seem to recall...oh yeah, that guy! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Capito and the Paladins of St. Cuthbert knew of the party's plan and made no objections to it.  But Capito was listening to a higher power and his own conscience about when was the moment for him to strike.  In the end he understood that he had the only weapon that could destroy Bale's weapon of utter destruction (the Mace Capito was given as the Right Hand of St. Cuthbert was also a Rod of Cancellation).  But the only way he had of delivering it was to charge out ahead of the others.The Paladins also understood that the man they followed had an important role to play in this affair.  They joined in the charge to try and assure that none of Bale's minions could stop Capito from getting to his target.  They knew that doing so likely meant their own deaths but that was considered a trivial matter.I think that at first the PC's thought that Capito was being a showboating glory-hog or possibly even defecting to the other side when he charged out ahead.  Because of the prophecy they'd been told, they had braced themselves for him to turn to the "dark side" the whole time.  It wasn't until the explosion that left Bale with the shattered haft of his mace that they understood Capito's Sacrifice.  And there was a round of almost reverent "Ah ha!"'s since they now understood why only one of the Hands of St. Cuthbert would see the shores of Celestia.  At least that is my impression of what they knew and when they knew it.  The players themselves might have a different recollection.As to whether this was the plan all along, I'll just say that being a GM or a god has its advantages.  Perhaps St. Cuthbert knew all along that nobody stood even a chance against Bale so long as he wielded a Sphere of Annihilation on a Stick.  Perhaps knowing that, he sought to put a weapon that could counter Bale's in the hands of a follower.  Perhaps he chose someone whose dedication to the Order had forced him to make tough decisions his whole life and who had purged any sense of fear or doubt from his psyche, making him a rather arrogant jerk.Or maybe they just got lucky and the right person was in the right place at the right time.  Who's to say?But the real question is "How would things have played out if Marcus had opted to take up the Mace rather than the Shield when the Shining Lady offered him the choice?  Would he have been destroyed?  And did Capito get a choice too or did he have to take whatever Marcus left behind?"OK that's three questions  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> . <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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