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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mal Malenkirk" data-source="post: 4999963" data-attributes="member: 834">[sblock=OOC]Sure, you can use the same skill twice.<a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2323686/" target="_blank">Religion (1d20+12=18)</a>2 success, 0 failure[/sblock]The Usurper is clearly an ancient entity, probaby a god, who tried to overthrow the pantheon and rule over the universe.  He was defeated and exiled beyond light and memory but has always had a mad cult of dedicated followers trying to free him.There is a reference to 'The Dark General', the right hand man of 'The Usurper'.  He was a powerful archangel cast down with his master.  You have reasons to believe that Rinch might be a spark of the soul this General.  He must have found a foothole in this world, there must be some physical manifestation of his soul somewhere near Daunton, akin to a lich phylactery.  Death does not weaken him; he is tied to this city by this shard of his soul and each time he crosses the veil between worlds he becomes stronger.It is probable that this 'Heart of Darkness' was also a link to the eternal soul of either the General or the Usurper, to continue this process of bringing them into the world.The problem is that you have no clue where the initial shard of the General's soul is hidden and scouring the city is not practical.  But you are zoning in on a ritual that has the potential to disrupt the reincarnation ritual.  It wouldn't kill Rinch for good but if performed after a 'death', it could fray the link between rinch and that particular shard, shutting him out from Daunton for a while.  Months, maybe years.</blockquote>

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