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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6210868" data-attributes="member: 6696971">As you and Theren look up at the grand, spiraling ascent up the Kingsmount, pondering your meeting with the chamberlain, a call is heard from the nearest barracks.  A gravely wounded soldier emerges, one of the many unrecognizable war-torn faces.  Ignoring his own his pain, he beseeches you to sanctify the men in the triage center who are inevitably on their way to the afterlife and to bless the men gathering for a push for the now enemy-occupied granaries.  Curiously, he calls you by name.EDIT 1:Applicable and passes the Hard DC.  Though his face has changed and hardened from war, this is the young scribe from your days at the Iron Tower.  He never thought he would see you again but when he heard that you were in the city, he knew he must find you.  If you will take him, he pledges his allegiance to you as the Knight Commander in absentia.  He is not terribly good with a sword, but he can write proficiently in multiple languages, he knows all of the customs/history of the Order, and he has steel-trap of a memory <this would be a level 9 item @4200 GP.  Property:  + 2 item bonus to knowledge checks.  Daily:  Immediate Reaction:  You or an ally can reroll a History or Religion check.>Before the prior Knight Commander's death, the boy (sheepishly in the telling) took his dictations and placed them in a lockbox.  The box was buried at the base of the hangman's tree on the great bluff overlooking the tower.  If you return to the tower, you will want those writings.  They will help you face the evil inside.These men are far too near death for unguents and salves but the comfort of your Divine and mundane blessings ease their suffering and in a short time their passing is complete and without fear or pain.  The head nurse thanks you with choked back tears (for viewers, her testimony may have aided later in the Action Scene, but failure at the Medium DC does not warrant it).Diplomacy is good here.  You and Theron's efforts in the Rearguard are well known.  Instilled confidence from a warrior who visibly slew dozens of orcs and a giant is more potent to these hardened men than the words of scripture.  The roars post-speech (supplemented by the placebo of the Benediction's effects) can be heard well outside the walls, deep into the enemy ranks.You're inspired by them as much as they are moved by your words.  If you wish, you can spend 200 GP item budget for a consumable use of Echoes of Bravery as a scene element in the Action Scene to come.  If "shame and/or honor" can be leveraged, you gain a + 2 (untyped) bonus to your check.At your leisure.EDIT 2:Very well!  He says the words and pledges himself to your service.Negative.  Sorry, my above response was sufficiently vague so as to be confusing.  Heal check application and failure generates the fiction as no men being identifiable as having non-mortal wounds (Schrodinger's mortality!).  Even the miracle of a LoH wouldn't restore their health so no LoH deployment.  I assumed with that particular use of the heal skill you would be aiding the overburdened nurses in identifying the men beyond saving, thus allowing for the administration of mundane means to ease their passing <eg nerve-dulling teas or topicals> while you say final rites (success at the easy DC is enough for that) to send them to Kord or whomever (if they are conscious and able to make a formal request).Certainly.</blockquote>

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