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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Canaan" data-source="post: 3103446" data-attributes="member: 40239">This is trolling, but its in my own storyhour thread and therefore acceptable <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I've noticed that we are getting about 50-60 views between updates, which is many more than we used to get.  I assume that means we have more interest of late in the trials and tribulations of these poor, poor PCs.So I would like to know whether there is anything you feel is missing from this storyhour, anything you have questions about (other than unrevealed plot issues, of course), or anything you would like to see posted.  I would be happy to oblige.  I think someone asked about Talon's order, the Celind.  I have a write up of the Celind Order, if there is any interest in reading it.The PCs, at this point in the story, are level 6-7.  This is a story hour about a current campaign.  But the story is tracking well behind the campaign.  In the campaign, the PCs are currently 19th level, after about a year and a half.Some people have commented on the similarities to Sep's Tales of Wyre Campaign.  I did incorporate some concepts of his, but I tweaked many of them.  Some of you might recognize other similarities.  For example, Orolde, Balian's gnomish servant.  The name and personality are the same as that character in Sep's game.  But gnomes in this campaign are very earthy and not a PC race, harder and sullen.The religion of the dominant god is mostly the same as that in Sep's tale.  The concept of the Green is the same, to the extent it has been developed thus far.  But the conflict between the Green and Canaan is much more pronounced in Turgos.  It is not quite like the times of Justinian -- I think that's the right Roman Emperer -- where Justinian converted to Christianity and ordered all pagans to convert or die.  But it's getting close.Unlike in Sep's story, where Eadric inadvertently creates a schism, Evora has set out to create a new religion merging the two existing belief systems, while leaving the two Powers relatively in tact.  Of course, this has it's own consequences as will be discovered later in the story.Evora is on the path of the Mystic Theurge (no levels in an arcanist class, yet).  This class is called the Theurgic Mystic in Turgos.  Theurgic Mystics are heretics unless officially sanctioned by the Church.  Evora is not officially sanctioned, instead seeking the fast and easy route to power.  This, of course, has branded him a heretic.  Evora's pangs of conscience arise from the conflict between adherence to Canaanism as taught by the Curia and his own internal beliefs and faith in Canaan.  Another conflict is in his desire to get the word out to all of the people about the new faith, without exposing them to persecution.The Paladin in this story, Lilian Evenshire, has her own issues, mostly stemming from her faith and devotion to Canaan (she is a Paladin, moving into Favored Soul and Angelic Knight--I think) and her secular duty.  This has not come into play yet.  We are just getting into that part of the story.  Another turns out to be very personal, involving her parents, which has been hinted at in the story hour.Talon's issues revolve around his order and its antithesis, the Mordind.  In the next few posts we should meet a Mordind.  There's a real mind-wrecker later in the story for our poor Talon....but we'll get there in good time.  Let's just say that in the current place in the campaign (not the story hour), Talon has lost all of his monk abilities....Gabriel's issues are self-evident as they have been developed in the story hour.  But hope springs eternal.Hu Li's tragic flaws are also pretty self-evident.  Surprisingly, this former PC has some staying power.Since Shallahai's player frequents this thread, I'll let him explain Shallahai's issues and conflicts.  If any of my other players are on this thread, feel free to expound on any of this.Well, that's enough for now.</blockquote>

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