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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 1070222" data-attributes="member: 3087">I remember that adventure (in Dungeon) interesting. Don't remember the details but sounds fun.In terms of why's:Have to admit, I wouldn't have the golem leave Mithril without changing it somehow myself. In the books it's an extension of Corean, and was instrumental in the defeat of his father. There's never evidence been eveidence it can be controled or manipulated by anyone.Given that Corean periodically manifests around Scarn and is at least as active as any other god in standard SL cannon the slapdown would probably be sudden and harsh.(Obviously someone can probably think of a different interpretation).So I think you have a few choices unless you want to change the Mithril Golem's history.1. Corean wants the golem to leave. Some possible reasons    a. He feels that the city needs to stop depending upon the golem for support and stand on it's own two feet (so to speak).    b. he wants to demonstrate his irritation with the current rulers of the city    c. the golem is needed elsewhere. It could be Nightfall's Kadum Awakes thing,  a bid to block Nathalos from acheiving the gate at Burok Torn, or something else entirely.    d. The golem is more intimately connected with Corean than people have realized, and contains a spark of his divinity. He never intended for it to remain on the material plane. However He didn't want to pull it off the material until he was sure it wouldn't be needed, and that his father was really out of the picture. So he just left it someplace with good access to Kadum. Now time has passed and he's confident that the golem will not be needed so he's pulling it off the plane.    e. The same as d (above) but some of the gods have said that the golem is a violation of the spirit of the pact that they will not manifest in the material plane. Rather than have discord (or because they are right) Corean -must- remove the Golem from the plane.    f. The golem is inhabited by a good spirit. The spirit is tired, it's sick of watching over the city, it's petitioned Corean for release. Or, alternatively, it's gotten sick (because of the corruption it sees below it) and has wandered off. Corean doesn't want to intervent because he beleives the golem has the right to make its own moral decisions. He may even be teaching the golem some sort of lesson about morality.2. Someone -has- gained control of the golem over Corean's will. Unless the gods are weaker or less active in your world than in canon the number of people with this power are extremely limited.    a. A titan did it.    b. A slarecian did it.That's about it. Someone with access to a powerful psionic item (tainted by the Slarecians) is probably the best choice. Gods apparently can't apprehend psionic powers, or detect their use, so it's possible that Corean is unaware of why the golem is moving. That might discourage him from just manifesting his avatar and reclaiming control of the golem.In terms of what happensThe golem performs two key roles: I demonstrates to people within the city the celestial mandate of their Paladinic rulers (to borrow from chinese history); and it scares away titanspawn which would otherwise completely overun the city.ExodusThe government can't defend itself without the golem, given that the rulers are Lawful Good types, and neither terribly manipulative nor political it seems likely they won't be able to reasure at least part of the city. So you have a mass exodus to places like Hedrad, Vesh and the Bridged city by land and anywhere you can get to by boat that isn't being attacked by Calastians (so not Durrover basically).AttacksTitanspawn probably go nuts. Expect an  increase in attacks from the Blood sea, as well as Titan spawn working their way in through the port side and the sewers. Titan spawn probably mass along the boarder and act to cut off trade.If the Penumbral Lords are prepared they probably act to incourage titanspawn attacks. I expect that they start laying growdwork immeadiately but don't act openly (except for an assassination or two). They use concerns about the security outside the city to weaken security and reclaim the sewers, wait until the city is fully destabilized before acting to secure their position, either just reclaiming the sewers or (more likely, who wants a sewer system anyway?) just taking over the whole damn place.Religious issuesWhile Mithril isn't Hedrad this is still going to be a tremendous shock. Especially if Corean doesn't explain what's going on or communicate with his folowers this will be a tremendous blow to people's faith in him, not only in Mithril but across Ghelspad.Crazy Doomsday CultsEverybody loves psychotic cultists. The cult of the golem probably fragments, some people follow the golem, some people leave and some people claim that the golem is ascending and push that the cult come out into the open....Kadum worshipers probably start insisting that now that Corean's abandoned people they'd better "find Kadum" before his monsters find them.Can't think of much else right now.</blockquote>

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