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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Omegaxicor" data-source="post: 6082527" data-attributes="member: 95351">hahaha great minds think alike, I was thinking of a waking dream, a true vision, but I was asking what sort of images because if you show the players just death, darkness, ghosts and then glowing eyes in the dark, that doesn't quite explain the situation.I was thinking a single image with lots of metaphor (which I can explain if they roll high enough Knowledge(Religion) or "explain" if they don't or someone else can decipher it for them, in case they get the wrong idea) but all I can thinking of is:"A Paladin of Heironeous defending a group of Faceless innocents from an encroaching darkness, in the Darkness can be heard the sounds of battle and the cries of pain and death, the Paladin casts Detect Evil and the "ping" of auras shows numerous overlapping and competing auras of varying strengths numbering in the thousands. 'The player is over come by a feeling of helplessness'. The Paladin summons the power within and his sword glows with Holy energy but then it fades and the sword turns to dust as the Darkness consumes everything".Now explaining that the innocents are faceless because they aren't just a village it is everything, Orcs, Goblins, Elves, Dwarves, Dragons, Humans, Halflings, Ogres, etc and the Battle sounds are due to rival and competing enemies (arguing over who is going to kill you first <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /> ) or that the failing of the Paladins power is due to either the Gods being too weak to help or the Paladin being too corrupted (it is the former but the latter might be an option given they party don't know yet what is going on) will all be difficult, so I was looking for better ideas??EDIT: @<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=6669384" target="_blank">Greenfield</a> I didn't mention that the gods in my world aren't figures, what does Allah/Jehovah look like? so that doesn't quite work, but that is the sort of thing I was looking for and is a lot easier to explain than my idea...The Gods are simply a voice or glowing energy rather than a particular form (they can assume any form if they are "Gods")And The God he serves is a modified Heironeous who believes in Mercy and Defending the Weak more</blockquote>

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