by Omri Azar
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| (The above imagery has appeared on a seal that was broken, flashes of vision, and on the bodies of seven individuals killed outside of Coventry. What does it mean?) |
Here are things as I’ve experienced them, near as I can recollect, and let’s hope your experiences match up with mine. I can’t claim that this is a writing of things I know. Nor is it fully exhaustive and comprehensive. It’s speculation. TLDR; Things are weird and it feels like reality is falling apart.
The first I heard of Squire Liselle Silvermaple and Sir Aelias Softshadow, I was handed a bounty for their renderings to the tune of 100 rowan, signed BC.
I immediately figured out who these people were and where they were at, then found Liselle and let her know there was a bounty on her head. At the time she and Fern Eberhardt, Squire to Count Ser Kovaks Darkvale, were preparing for a presentation about the threat Eagle’s Rook is facing. BC has continued to threaten these two and at one point Liselle and BC parlayed, as allegedly BC will not harm those that break bread with him. Do not take this to mean you are safe.
An extraplanar being, Margaret August, Servant of Aurora and Squire to Sir Laika Knight of the Crown, claims to have witnessed up to that point several incidents of duplicate people, odd objects, and things that were not quite as they seemed.
There are a myriad of odd and strange rumors, not all we could possibly follow up on in these last few months. Death Knights and stolen identities and odd traveling figures galore.
How this would relate to a bounty placed by BC is not now even entirely known.
BC (Blood Cult, Bone Cult, Birth Control <-fan favorite) stands for Blue Coyote, at least that's the leader's name. Allegedly. An enigmatic figure in a blue hood, cape, and blue cloth mask There was a some sort of skull mask on their face, likely feline or canine. Wields a staff of bone that might inflict Bone Blight on his victims. An effect of Bone Blight is potentially maybe reality magic? You are undone and made to be yourself again, but with a small familial connection to BC. Signs and symptoms include a stabbing/puncture hole, goo around said hole, and sudden fond feelings towards BC. According to Margaret a Protect the Soul delayed the last of these symptoms if not completely stopped. Don’t get stabbed with the goo, you will be paralyzed. Immunity/Purity to poison may help. Treat Bone Blight as a zombie bite and don’t keep it secret. Bone Blight can be undone by a master reality mage, especially a dream demon, or BC himself. BC was targeting Liselle and Aelias because it was seen by Sharti that they would bring about his downfall. Now he is targeting everyone involved as any two may play a part in the ritual that will doom him. I do not know what this ritual is.
At one point a group of us attempted to investigate reports of BC guild activity outside of Folkstone, only to have potentially have been drugged. It feels between the drugs and the reality mayhem we cannot trust our senses.
There are cracks in the wall, according to Sharti. Lights shine through. Something cannot come through. Not yet. Does reality need to break more to make this being be able to come through? Does BC serve this being? He said the light made things for him possible, is it related to the cracks?
BC saved Shoshanna. Yes that Shoshanna, whose arm bones were made into swords of light. We do not know why yet. Maybe as a favor? She is now alive but is she also dead. She and Sir Chan go drinking in Ivory sometimes.
Squire Tony was given a ‘thirsty’ dodecahedron by Aaron Matthewson, a half angel wanderer. Son of Matthew of the Silver Legion. Aaron carries a spear staff with four angel sigils, of Order of Michael, Order of Gabriel, Order of Raphael, Order of Uriel. These dodecahedrons might be a key. The importance of these dodecahedrons are still unknown. Each dodecahedron is the collaboration of two gods, with there being seven dodecahedrons total. We do not know which 14 gods total made one except Garm, Aurora, and Dionin.
Now we talk about the gods, and their part in this. What is their part in this? A statue of Justari was seen to have black veins around its base, divinations thrown at it negatively affecting the caster. Sir Chan tried to help, and in return his connection to the Just god severed. I sold the information Justari might be dead to fae trader Lavendar, so apologies to them for now sharing with all of you. He is not dead, maybe, just affected. When the Hammer of Justice returns, the wounds of betrayal may heal.
Asmodeus. Not a god. Or is he? At Black and White in the year 1022 ‘he’ showed up. Apparently claiming to be god of balance after Garm died saving Dalinnda. According to Margaret. Rumor has it there’s an Asmodeus that acts a little odd, enough to have rumors around it. Amodeus cannot lie, this is very likely another duplicate. Sharti said something about Margaret beefing with Asmodeus. And there’s two death knights traveling, one in red and one in blue, looking for something. What are they looking for?
There is allegedly a civil war brewing in the Dreaming. Since The Champion’s death a decade and odd years ago there’s been an absence of the head honcho dream demon. Many names thrown around for replacements, including Risk Taker, Death Dealer, Gloom Father, the Dream Demon, etc. Risk Taker claims to be able to do something about Soul Taker, and the fact that Soul Taker took over King Alexander Cecil at some point during a ritual to destroy pieces of Rexan. Unrelated or not? The Champion has been seanced. He has laid claim to an Intervention and we do not know what will happen when the time for the Intervention comes.
Meerkat Meerkat Meerkat. But which one? A mage with reality magic under his belt showed up again after years of absence. Except there was were maybe two. Allegedly had a conversation with himself. He's since gone around giving reality magic to others, dodging the question of 'which Meerkat is he?' claiming reality is subjective, is he him in any reality he's in, if the reality he's in is his, if the ones he's spent the most time in even the one he started out in. I will spare you the rest. Is he part of the problem, part of the solution, a neutral force? He claims to be trying to help, that these newly made Reality Mage novices will help against a threat.
There is a well of reality magic in Coventry called the Well of Reality Magic. Reality magic was sealed away. Except others can still use the power. For now. The guilds are trying to undo the sealing of reality magic. Another seal entirely was broken underneath Coventry. You recall that image up above? That is what was on the broken seal. Guarded by a draconic being, a reality mage, a dream demon, all now dead by varying means. Four chains. There was a butterfly, wyld, always changing and defying identification. A piece of sand heated to the point it changed form. A chip of bone from BC's bone staff, chained? There was a dodecahedron, with a skull face that tried to grab my soul. It was like that of a troubled king. We’ve since come to realize these were clues pointing towards this being a dodecahedron made by Dionin. Alexander Cecil and his sword Soul Taker, with their mutual connection to the god Dionin. Who was the other collaborative god, we could not say. The Reality Mage Guilds in Coventry have since sealed the broken keystone that let entry into this strange cavern, and they’re building something in Coventry, perhaps to unseal the well.
Reality magic may be useful in the fight against dream demons. Let’s hope the guilds can unseal the well to let its power flow once more.
Among the odd circumstances we’ve faced was a traveling merchant going by Robin the Merchant. In exchange for items, which at first we, perhaps falsely, thought were missing artifacts from Ivory but were actually transient in nature and were decided by the buyer and their worth, we exchanged monetary value and more abstract concepts. I sold ten minutes of my voice and 50 gold. Margaret sold a song. J’ortsa sold a story. Sir Pawldo sold some blood and his protection to poison. His business was called “Chameleon gift hoard.” It’s in the Space in Between.
What is the Spaces in Between? Information varies and is sparse. There’s some writings on it. http://library.cityofivory.org/2673/Treatise-on-Their-Nature So what shall we do from here?
If you take this too seriously you will go insane. If you don't take it seriously enough you will be rendered. Take the horrors with a grain of salt and don't let your mind melt.
“Don't look for the "quick" solution. Don't presume you know everything that is going on. Expect any victory to come at a sacrifice or cost.” - Sir Aelias Softshadow
If you know anything about any of this, maybe, potentially, anything at all, send me a letter, a hawk, something. [kyrabarry@gmail.com. GoldKarmaDragon#0484 on Discord]