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Troubleshooting slow narrative? (ToA, spoilers)
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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7487345" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>Yeah, there’s a prophecy in Mezro (taken from <em>Ruins of Mezro</em>:</p><p></p><p>When the Soulmonger grinds, </p><p>and exiled Nsi wraps himself in serpents, </p><p>Death’s curse will grip the world, </p><p>From beneath the forbidden city.</p><p></p><p>The party’s guides suggested “Forbidden City” was mythical Omu, but the guides don’t know where it is.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Understandable, it’s not handled in an integrated way in ToA.</p><p></p><p>[SBLOCK=my approach] I’ve added a bit of lore in my game wherein the atropal has an identity as an exiled prophet of Mezro named Kyuss who was seeking out the Ring (being one of a few evil beings who could command it utterly). Acererak isnt raising the atropal Kyuss to be a new god; instead Acererak is soul draining the atropal in order to turn himself into Au death itself, effectively making all undead his phylactery! So I’m tying together the whole myth of Dendar the Night Serpent eating the sun with a supernatural wintery apocalypse & the “age of worms.” Artus Cimber is slowly succumbing to the ring’s evil, and it’s trying to drive him to put the ring in this ancient ziggurat of Kyuss in order to prematurely awaken Kyuss from being soul-drained by Acererak.[/SBLOCK]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 7487345, member: 20323"] Yeah, there’s a prophecy in Mezro (taken from [i]Ruins of Mezro[/i]: When the Soulmonger grinds, and exiled Nsi wraps himself in serpents, Death’s curse will grip the world, From beneath the forbidden city. The party’s guides suggested “Forbidden City” was mythical Omu, but the guides don’t know where it is. Understandable, it’s not handled in an integrated way in ToA. [SBLOCK=my approach] I’ve added a bit of lore in my game wherein the atropal has an identity as an exiled prophet of Mezro named Kyuss who was seeking out the Ring (being one of a few evil beings who could command it utterly). Acererak isnt raising the atropal Kyuss to be a new god; instead Acererak is soul draining the atropal in order to turn himself into Au death itself, effectively making all undead his phylactery! So I’m tying together the whole myth of Dendar the Night Serpent eating the sun with a supernatural wintery apocalypse & the “age of worms.” Artus Cimber is slowly succumbing to the ring’s evil, and it’s trying to drive him to put the ring in this ancient ziggurat of Kyuss in order to prematurely awaken Kyuss from being soul-drained by Acererak.[/SBLOCK] [/QUOTE]
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