Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- giraine:summary-356 [2024/11/08 21:41] – tim45tenwa
+++ giraine:summary-356 [2024/11/08 21:52] (current) – tim45tenwa
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-<- giraine:summary-355|Monastery-Othona-Marsh ^ giraine:summaries-2024|Summaries 2024 ^ giraine:summary-357| ->
+<- giraine:summary-355|Monastery-Othona-Marsh ^ giraine:summaries-2024|Summaries 2024 ^ giraine:summary-357|Assault on the Beacon of Malkion ->
 ====== Summary 356: The Marsh-Wights (2024-06-21) ======
 ----
@@ Line 36: / Line 36: @@
 But, under some duress now, Wilmot offers to open the Temple’s records and see if he can answer any of your pressing questions with them. Fraud offers to help and Wilmot somewhat begrudgingly agrees. They set to the task. Most documents are waterlogged or irrelevant, but working together the two quickly hone in on two informative documents; in Seshnegi rather than Safelstran (but most other documents are Safelstran). Meanwhile the others are active elsewhere (see below). The documents are:
----[dated about 120 years ago] “The village of Othona was awakened by a runner from the next town. Invaders were coming. The peasants raised what improvised weapons they could and went to face their foes. Heavy mists clung to the ground in the bleak night. The people huddled in fear, passing the Beacon of Malkion temple. Their torchlight illuminated a horrific sight by the shore. Two boats of invaders lay scattered on land and in their boats. All drowned, but not in the water. The peasants fled, and wizards were called to cleanse the place.”  [suggesting that there is some power in this region that can protect the people using deadly water magics, like that in the cursed stone you have; maybe even magics of the Green Serpent? Elfchild?]
+  - [dated about 120 years ago] “The village of Othona was awakened by a runner from the next town. Invaders were coming. The peasants raised what improvised weapons they could and went to face their foes. Heavy mists clung to the ground in the bleak night. The people huddled in fear, passing the Beacon of Malkion temple. Their torchlight illuminated a horrific sight by the shore. Two boats of invaders lay scattered on land and in their boats. All drowned, but not in the water. The peasants fled, and wizards were called to cleanse the place.”  [suggesting that there is some power in this region that can protect the people using deadly water magics, like that in the cursed stone you have; maybe even magics of the Green Serpent? Elfchild?]
+  - [writing is Second Age Seshnegi] ”He did arrive, at the behest of the King, at Othona and landed upon the quay by the ruinous temple. He did declare that a temple should be built there. He did explain that he had seen a beacon of Malkion in the marsh, which filled him with rapturous inspiration, and this was Makan’s work. That night did marsh-demons emerge where he slept, and cavorted around the ruins. He and his soldiers did rise and descend upon those demons and dispatch them. That such foul worship could not be performed again, he did order that, with much haste, the old temple must be pulled down and the new temple be made from those stones, to show Malkion’s triumph over the Devil, and this was done.”
----[writing is Second Age Seshnegi] ”He did arrive, at the behest of the King, at Othona and landed upon the quay by the ruinous temple. He did declare that a temple should be built there. He did explain that he had seen a beacon of Malkion in the marsh, which filled him with rapturous inspiration, and this was Makan’s work. That night did marsh-demons emerge where he slept, and cavorted around the ruins. He and his soldiers did rise and descend upon those demons and dispatch them. That such foul worship could not be performed again, he did order that, with much haste, the old temple must be pulled down and the new temple be made from those stones, to show Malkion’s triumph over the Devil, and this was done.”
+In the meantime, the others’ investigations find things that soon match up with what Fraud and Wilmot learn. Bog goes out to the ruins and recognises that they are First Age ruins, some of whose stones have been used in the building of the Temple (Shrett and Boamund inside the Temple have seen such evidence). The ruin is an Enerali structure, Bog observes. The Enerali were predecessors of the Galanini; horse-riders and among the first to build things in what became Ralios. Indeed, they built some structures at Hrelar Amali. ([[https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/home/gloranthan-documents/greg-sez/safelster-in-the-first-age/|safelster in the first age]])  for some deeper diving.
-In the meantime, the others’ investigations find things that soon match up with what Fraud and Wilmot learn. Bog goes out to the ruins and recognises that they are First Age ruins, some of whose stones have been used in the building of the Temple (Shrett and Boamund inside the Temple have seen such evidence). The ruin is an Enerali structure, Bog observes. The Enerali were predecessors of the Galanini; horse-riders and among the first to build things in what became Ralios. Indeed, they built some structures at Hrelar Amali. https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/home/gloranthan-documents/greg-sez/safelster-in-the-first-age/ for some deeper diving.
 The ruins have some walls remaining, at best reaching to 6 to 9m long and 1m high, surrounded and partly engulfed by the marsh. In one area, the stone work has been cleared of surrounding vegetation and muck, and some excavations have been made. The stones there show inscriptions in Boatspeech, and some crude depictions: A great serpent wrestling with many misshapen humanoid figures, in a swampy setting by a river. Some of the figures seem to have turned away from the battle in more humanlike forms. Bog gets Fraud to copy down what is written there, although none of you can read Boatspeech.

RPG Campaigns

User Tools

Site Tools

Differences

Page Tools