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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1429416" data-attributes="member: 3146">Why not all of the above?B-a: Iuz has sundered because one of his enemies cast some kind of a shattersoul epic spell on him. Maybe this foe died due to the backlash but had the foresight to create a clone. (Or maybe not--some foes could probably figure a way to absorb the backlash or use magic items to fuel the spell or something that would A. succeed and B. not kill them. However, cranking up the backlash to absorb all of the DC modifiers to make sure that the spell works on a deity and relying upon a clone to "survive" is probably the simplest way). What he does next will depend upon why he did it.Perhaps he shattered Iuz so he could take his place. He figured, let the boneheart fight over the pieces of the Iuzian pie until they're sufficiently weakened then move in.Perhaps he shattered Iuz because he has plans on ascending to deity and needs Iuz's divine essense to do it. Maybe he's sending his own minions to collect the pieces of Iuz. Or maybe his plan is more subtle. Perhaps, he has mixed his own mind with the essence of Iuz so that when Iuz is glued back together, it's really him. Or maybe, like evil villains often do, he can forsee everything that is going to happen and he knows that, when Iuz reforms, the liberators will just kill him. . . and that's his plan. He's sown enough chaos for the liberators to win and, when that happens, Iuz's essence will be sucked back into him, making him a god. (Or a bigger one than he is already if you decide Vecna is the one behind it--IIRC, he doesn't like Iuz much).Anyway, such a villain might present a future foe for the campaign's continuation once the liberators kill the s--- out of Iuz.But as for B-b, of course the Iuzian's plan to put Iuz back together through some horrid and vile ritual that involves sacrificing or perverting the celestial emotes.That way, A-a and A-b are the same thing. Rescuing the emotes is preventing Iuz from being put back together and vise versa.</blockquote>

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