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[Fletch]

So I'm reading through some Year Four mods and I noticed mention of a big storm striking Coryan "a year ago" and another comment about the Emperor declaring the worship of Nier to be legal again in the Empire. I also saw something about the ilHuan invasion of Enpebyn.

My Arcanis library is pretty sparse still, can anybody tell me what these were about? Were they all from convention interactives or something?

[GTseng3]

The Storm was an event triggered by the actions of seven PCs in a special event. I believe the original announcement of it is on Onara Online ( www.onaraonline.org ) in the fiction category.

The inclusion of Nier occurred during "The Convocation of the Divine," which was the first Living Arcanis LARP. My understanding is that it was not planned, but rather occurred due to some PC legwork.

The ilHuan invasion of Enpebyn occurred during a Battle Interactive.

[EricGorman]

[Fletch]

Outstanding. Thanks, guys. I hadn't seen the fiction section of Onara Online before and I'm already seeing how it gives some nice "news bites" leading up to grand events which I can pepper into the campaign. The summary of events for the interactive is especially appreciated 'cause that will allow me to tell them what happened without having to resort to "huge battle but, umm...don't have the module."

One of the current mods has a description of the Battle of Semar, so I'm good there. Did anything interesting happen at the Emperor's wedding?

[EricGorman]

Many interesting things prior to and during the Emperor's Wedding qualify as interesting.

The Emperor's wedding was supposed to be held in Grand Coryan but a fire started in the shrine of Neir and burned out and through the Illiirite chapel. The Emperor claimed it was arson ... but no suspets have ever been publically turned up and all attempts to put the fires out apparently failed. Some people have (quietly) taken that as a portent. Read into that what you will...you can bet the Rebel and loyalist press treat that event quite differently. In Salantis, at the summer vaction residence, the sea unexpected rose in a storm. Some people said there was a newly discovered portal of Anshar underwater that was responsible. Nothing was publically proven. Again what people believe has a lot to do with what side they have taken in the Civil War.

Hmmmm...what else? Calcestus got custody of the child/heir born of Aconia val'Dellenov.
Unproven rumors suggested that the official bard at the wedding was really an Ymandrake agent conducting business with Cal.
Pollux Pulcher val'Assante renouced his name and lineage to make himself eligible to lead the Pleblian Assembly and married into the Gracchi family ... See the module One Night in Coryan to see how that turned out.
A secret agent of Ssethregore failed in a bid to pacify the rebellion in Abessios with foreign troops.
Duke Adolphus (now missing/dead) managed to make an @ss out of himself in front of the king and the emperor.
The fate of the Legion of the Watchful Hunter was uncovered (we now know they were turned into Il'Huan by the order of either the Emperor or someone from the highest levels of the Emperor's court).

I think thats it.

-Eric Gorman
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~Eisener val'Holryn. Holy Champion of Nier and haunted veteran of the crusade
~Formerly Sir Jaeger val'Holryn, gave his soul to help free King Noen from the LLT Banner

[GTseng3]

Just a point of order here - Former Duke Adolphous, in many of our opinions, managed to make an ass out of King Osric in front of the Emperor, and not himself.

He managed to restore Morotavia to Milandir by word of the Emperor (though it was under occupation by rebel forces, and thus would remain occupied until his successor, Duke Gustav, drove them out,) and in addition managed to gain a large amount of grain, which he gave to the people of Morotavia, many of whom were starving under the oppressive taxes that had to be levied in order to complete King Osric's demands that Morotavia foot the bill of outfitting Menesis val'Tensen's legions.

This last thing he announced rather publicly. Perhaps others saw it in a different light, but everyone that I talked to saw it as a major embarrassment to Osric, not Adolphous, as the King was more or less called out for supporting a leader of the rebellion, resulting in taxes being levied that were starving his people (some have suggested that Adolphous pay for Menesis's outfitting out of his own personal pocket. But the expense for military outfitting is very difficult for one man, even a nobleman, and if Osric did not expect that expense to be passed on as taxes to the people then he truly is naive. I doubt the situation would have been much different if the expense had been levied against Tralia or Sylvania instead).

Grutan joined Adolphous's retinue with the intention of keeping an eye on him, watching for treachery and evil, which he half-suspected the Duke of. Instead, Adolphous's single-minded dedication to the people of Morotavia (also Grutan's native people) impressed Grutan quite a bit. Which is one reason why Grutan (and Jeffrey, for that matter,) consider Adolphous's madness to be a horrible tragedy, with Adolphous as a victim of political forces rather than a villain.

I suppose that's all in your perspective.

Jeffrey Witthauer

[Fletch]

But there was a wedding, right?

Did I miss any revelations about who this mysterious queen is and where she came from?

[MaioJKM]

Jeffrey, has it ever been said what Adolphous did with the arms and armor of Menensis's legion when he took it in the first place? it seems to me that Adophous could have either sold it and pocketed the money (but to whom?) or had it destroyed (not likely considering its worth) or actually gave it back and took the new tax money and put that in his pocket(maybe). Either way blaming the king for what Adophous did on his own seems a bit naive to ma as well. I think that although Adolphous ended up pretty crazy (for good reasons maybe) he was a pretty shrewd player with schemes of becoming King (maybe) and using the situation to get the people of Moritavia going against the King seems like a move he would make. He always seemed like any means to justify and end kinda guy.

James

[EricGorman]

[EricGorman]

[GTseng3]

[Lukas]

Don't forget all the people that retook the oath for the Armillus.

[GTseng3]

[Vashti]

"when he left Menesis had a new legion, the Pride of Chendo, gifted to him by Osric."

Osric gave him the Standard -- the legion itself was filled out by volunteers drawn to it (and Menisis).

[Auroris]