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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SanjMerchant" data-source="post: 6910479" data-attributes="member: 6860001">You win major props for taking time out of your vacation to fix stuff like this.My fanon is that, as a Cavalier, she's best at mounted combat and leading groups:  the former is useless on a boat and the latter is only useful if the boat is boarded and is something the captain of the Coaltongue can handle.  (I think, I can't remember the character's name, which makes looking up stats harder.)  If a simple shakedown cruise somehow gets so dire that neither the ship's weaponry nor the ship's crew can handle it, then King Aodhan is far safer with a Wizard who can teleport him out of dodge than a knight who can just... command the ship to sink faster?I'd headcanon that she is in Flint on the day of the Coaltongue's launch, but that, due to the nature of the event, she and Harkover switch roles for the day (ie he protects the King's person, she attends to doing things on his behalf, when normally it's the reverse).Heck, next time you run Zeitgeist, throw her into the entourage that arrives at the boat, even if she doesn't board.Now that I've thought about it, I actually think the exact metaphysics aren't necessarily that relevant.  I mean, there's some subtle implication that the Axis Seal was going to be undone once whatever on Reida designates the present progressed to the gap.  It may not be the totally and obviously scripted fate of the Watchmaker proposal, but under Reida the world might not have had perfect free will either.  Was Nicky acting of his own free will, or had he fallen into a groove on Reida and was no being pushed along by the needle (yes, Reida's a vinyl record in this analogy for some reason)?  Is it even possible to know?  If the party does rebind the world to Reida, is there going to be a Zeitgeist II campaign some ten thousand years in the future?  Will a major catastrophy nearly wipe out a civilization in 9,500 years?Nicky missed out on a few bits of fine print (lingering Gidim presence or Ratios, that some things would be immune to the Regulus/Patricalus/Jiquus combo), and he had spent nearly 500 years studying the subject.I dunno, when you put the potential to turn the world into a Dia de los Muertos-themed musical into the players' hands, it's kinda hard to find the right balance between over- and under-explaining, I guess.</blockquote>

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