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VerBeeker wrote:
First mention of Iomedae in 2E, woo!
Thinking of how to integrate these ancestries in Pathfinder, some work as being just visitors but some being enclaves drawn from other lore could be interesting.
Woo indeed!
And I freaking DIG the expansion of the Knights of Golarion's ideals and mentality beyond just being "paladins IN SPAAAAAAACE!"
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I have the nuts and bolts for my Silvermist Scion (Aiuvarin Ranger, Free Archetyping into Cleric) set up. Will start writing up his background tomorrow!
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PossibleCabbage wrote:
Pharasma respects atheists. Per the PF1 Planar Adventures book, she will allow anybody who rejects the legitimacy of her judgement the opportunity to just wait out eternity in a quiet spot in the boneyard.
You could also just choose to be judged and become part of the foundation of some plane or another. She will respect your choice either way.
That is a strange definition of respect. If she genuinely respects these souls, then she should allow them to return home.
Huh? "Brought back to life by Pharasma" is so top-of-the-list of things Rahadoum isn't on board with that it has two books about it.
Re: Duskwalkers
Pharasma does resurrect people. Just very occasionally.
Yeah, and the resurrected Rahadoumi's reaction is, at least in the one textual example we have, genuine horror and disgust.
Death's Heretic SPOILERS!:
Salim Ghadafar "prayed" to Pharasma when his wife was dead by mentally asking if someone...anyone could help them. Pharasma was listening and resurrected his wife, and both husband and wife were shocked and ashamed at the compromise of their beliefs. They divorced, Salim fled Rahadoum and attempted suicide only to find he was now immortal. Ceyanan the Psychopomp Usher showed up and informed Salim he was now bound to Pharasma's service in exchange for the miracle she gave him, and he's been her cantankerous divine gumshoe ever since.
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I don't think we'll ever get it at this point but I would love, LOVE, to see a way to stand tower shields up so you can take cover behind them without holding them while you reload your crossbow in true Genoese fashion. I don't when care if it'd be unoptimal! I just wanna play something like this and look like the cool historical character for once!
(Only thing wr have now is the shielded tripod from Guns & Gears, which only works with things that have the Kickback trait, which crossbows naturally don't have!)
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vyshan wrote:
Why would Cheliax lead by Abrogail II want to stop serving Hell. Abrogail has the unique ability to create and enforce infernal contracts, something that among mortals only she has.
Remember that Cheliax (or at least its upper class) has deluded itself into thinking they're the more advantaged party in the contract. "Cheliax does not serve Hell, Hell serves Cheliax." In the quite likely event that House Thrune is forced into the position of either losing power over Cheliax or facing the consequences of breaking the Pact with Asmodeus, they'd most likely opt for the latter, hoping they can leave the lower classes holding the bag while they try to save their own skins (and souls) or...if Abrogail II is as psychopathic as she seems to be (remember, this is a woman who needs a NESSARI reminding her to rein in her worst impulses, who personally, GLEEFULLY beheaded every Iomedaean priest in Egorian with Iomedae's own sword and never bothered to clean the blood off of it out of spite!) She JUST MIGHT go mad enough to decide "Nah, I'd win."
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I think given what's been described in War of Immortals, I strongly suspect Szuriel will be involved, even if her presence on that book's cover kind of overstated her personal role in both conflicts.
Spoiler:
Apparently one of her agents, on the way to becoming an Apocalypse Rider in their own right, is causing trouble along the border disguised as a Hellknight of the Godclaw. Their aim is to lure Cheliax and Andoran into a war that will force House Thrune to default on their contract with Asmodeus, spurring him to send Hell's armies to invade Golarion directly in order to collect.
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James Jacobs wrote:
Archpaladin Zousha wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
It was pretty tricky navigating the implications of Second Darkness in Spore War, but I feel happy with how we did it... even if it doesn't push the lore revision forward at all on "what about the drow" side of things. But yes, some of Second Darkness' plot points will not only be acknowledged in Spore War, but will be significant callbacks.
Now I'm even MORE excited!
To manage expectations, though... none of those callbacks touch on the drow.
Oh, no worries, I didn't expect them to. I was more wondering just what events actually DID occur (that we see the results of anyway) that might could be interpreted as Second Darkness' results if you tilt your head at a certain angle and narrow your eyes a bit.
It's the least popular AP for many reasons, and I acknowledge the majority of those reasons are legit, but I'd feel more than a little sad if it was just completely became non-canon. You and the other folks at Paizo still worked hard on it and learned from it. I still have a soft spot for Riddleport and the Gold Goblin to this day, even if they only really feature in the first adventure. And more to the point, I found the political nuances between the Winter Council's initial conservative stance and the Lantern Bearers' choice to change and become better intriguing, so if there's a way to let that dynamic remain even if the drow aren't there for them to argue about, I'd be happy.
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James Jacobs wrote:
It was pretty tricky navigating the implications of Second Darkness in Spore War, but I feel happy with how we did it... even if it doesn't push the lore revision forward at all on "what about the drow" side of things. But yes, some of Second Darkness' plot points will not only be acknowledged in Spore War, but will be significant callbacks.
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I find it interesting that Pathfinder's essentially following its predecessor's path of not making giants themselves a playable ancestry (Starfinder 1e being a unique exception), but a giant-lite one with weird skin: goliaths have their lithoderms (bony lumps on the skin that when combined with their gray and black skin tones gave them a literally craggy appearance, something that was disappointingly neglected as the editions rolled on to make them more conventionally attractive <_<) and now jotunborn will have their "weavings" with silk literally embroidered into their skin.
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I'm now finding that I'm most curious about Kyonin in the upcoming book, largely because I want to see how Paizo will discuss the recent history of the nation and whether the Winter Council and Lantern Bearers will be discussed and what exactly their roles in Kyonin history will be redefined into, considering the raison d'être of both organizations has been retconned out of the setting.
Second Darkness SPOILERS!:
The Winter Council was a conspiracy in Kyonin's royal court dedicated to keeping the existence of the drow in the Darklands a secret from the rest of Golarion, because they believed if "The Dark Fate" (an evil elf committing a significant enough act of wickedness or betrayal could spontaneously transform into a drow) became public knowledge, the other ancestries would become suspicious of elves as a whole, inviting war and strife to Kyonin it didn't need with Treerazer squatting in their southern forests.
The Lantern Bearers were originally the Winter Council's military arm, before the events of Second Darkness revealed the rot in the Council's heart (the AP's villain was one of them and became a drow herself after her obsession with genociding the drow led her down the path of evil and Abraxas worship, which made her snap even harder and decide to reverse uno her plans onto the elves out of spite). Afterwards, the Lantern Bearers did some soul searching and when one of their leaders, a ranger with a unicorn animal companion, was slain and reincarnated as a drow, but her unicorn friend didn't abandon her, this was proof the drow as a people were not inherently evil and gave the Lantern Bearers a new sense of purpose. They became an organization dedicated to reintegrating rebel drow into elf society and protecting the free peoples of the Darklands from the depredations of their cruel rulers.
Obviously, a lot changed from Second Darkness to today, the first being the elimination of The Dark Fate as a concept, which had been rightly compared to the "Curse of Ham" rationalization of racism, and the general shift away from the drow having a monolithic culture of evil in Zirnakaynin, but now with the reveal that Zirnakaynin is in fact empty and Koriah Azmeren didn't defy the Winter Council's censorship to reveal the drow's existence to the world, but instead made them up to hide the extent of sekmin control over the Darklands, it's all up in the air.
I'm just really curious if Paizo will acknowledge Second Darkness' events in any capacity, or if it'll all be ignored and thus Paizo's general policy of having the events of each adventure path have taken place to impact the setting's history will be over.
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TheTownsend wrote:
The convergence of a tribal diaspora, relearning their ancient faith in conjured beasts.
Wanderers of other realms astride a colossal beast of impenetrable wisdom and resource.
Theater Kids.
"I dunno man, I think we're in a little in over our heads here."
"Nonsense, we are the lorebearers of the greatest empire to ever--"
"That is a mile-long elephant! From another dimension! That kid just summoned a rabbit-snake, and everybody worshiped it! We write poetry!"
"And we're among the best damn spies in the Inner Sea region. Which is one of the reasons we're here in the first place."
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CorvusMask wrote:
Thing about Ragathiel is that he actually wasn't THAT extreme. Vildeis is much more extreme, but I don't mean that he isn't that bad because Vildeis exist.
Like Ragathiel is all about avenging victims and all that jazz, but his faith did acknowledge possibility of good coming from evil origins. Its more of players who keep interpreting him differently.
And a great deal of that DID come from a poorly-worded obedience getting memed into "LOL, Ragathiel worshippers r serial killerz!" here on the boards. <_<
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Let's not forget Zon-Kuthon contributed as much to that as Shelyn did. She'd spent millenia believing there is still good in him, despite everything he's done, and in that moment...she was proven right.
It calls to mind that scene in Return of the Jedi:
Star Wars wrote:
"Now...go, my son...leave me."
"No, you're coming with me! I won't leave you here, I've got to save you!"
"You already have, Luke...you were right...you were right about me...tell your sister...you were right..."
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I know the deadline for submissions is tonight, but I'm stranded away from my computer due to a winter storm.
Could I possibly ask for an extension, please, at least to tomorrow night, so I don't spend all night trying to hammer out this character profile on my phone? :(
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Oh hey, I think I've played with Xevras in a previous Starfinder game that didn't last! Cool!
I've got the broad strokes of a concept, but I'm struggling on the details: She'd a human Sensate with the Kalistocrat Childhood background, rebelling hard against Kalistocrat strictures by dressing in black, wearing fingerless gloves and partying hard, now in need of a stable paycheck after their money's run out, but what class to play? Evolutionist? Witchwarper? Technomancer? Mystic?
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Patrickthekid wrote:
For Brevoy, I know it's a risk of making it a Game of Thrones clone, but I feel like making it one of the few places in Golarion where Apsu and Dahak have a significant worship base would help make it distinct from other areas.
I mean, it's a little late to keep Brevoy from being a Game of Thrones clone. It's been one pretty much from the word "go!" That said, I agree that it'd be interesting if Dahak and Apsu at least had some influence on the region, like maybe Apsu's blessing being treated as a divine right of kings for the Surtovas to claim (whether they actually have such a blessing not rally mattering so much as the appearance of it) or Dahak's cultists seeing a parallel to the inevitable conflict between their god and his father in the burgeoning civil war, making them eager to stoke the flames of conflict!
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I dunno about "joke." For their immediate neighbors, both on land and across Lake Encarthan, Razmirans are notorious as bringers of trouble and dangerous meddlers, ever since the days of Crypt of the Everflame.
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keftiu wrote:
DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:
I'd be interested in another Political AP with players positioned as a minor noble house in somewhere like Taldor or Brevoy, trying to survive and thrive during a time of political tension and upheaval.
I really hope we can finally be a part of the big national divorce in Brevoy someday.
Me too! It's been one of my favorite regions in the setting since the beginning and I'm eager for the YEARS of tantalizing hints and plot hooks to finally resolve with the dragons coming home to roost!
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pH unbalanced wrote:
I kind of despise Necromancers, but that's a me problem. I'm happy for the people who wanted this.
I'm wondering if Runesmith will look anything like the Runescarred Archetype -- that one's based on Thassilonian magic, though, and as a very early archetype is rather underwhelming.
My big hope for another Impossible Lands book is a Remastered Fleshwarp ancestry.
Given in the stream they mentioned "dwarven runes" and "dragon runes" I suspect Thassilonian ones will be on the menu too. It sounds like the average Runesmith's philosophy is going to be "no one culture has a monopoly on runes," as opposed to the way we kind of consider "runes" as an exclusively Scandinavian cultural thing...
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I too have been in a Hell's Rebels game about 7 years ago that died before it really got going, so of COURSE I'm gonna apply!
I'm debating whether to refurbish my character from that game, Berenice Bluethistle (halfling vanguard slayer angling for Bellflower Tiller later) or start from scratch with a different halfling, a vivisectionist alchemist multiclassing into wizard for Arcane Trickster later. Will sleep on it and see if I can reach a decision in the morning!
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To be fair, the University of Lepidstadt HAS had wizards as professors like the late Petros Lorrimor (IT'S BEEN 13 YEARS, HOW DID I NOT REALIZE THIS CHARACTER'S NAME WAS AN HOMAGE TO BELOVED HORROR FILM STAR PETER LORRE THIS WHOLE TIME?!).
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Yeah, there's a lot of debate going on there about "how do we treat people who recieved divine power they didn't ask for? Do we treat them same as we would an actual cleric and shun, shame or incarcerate them accordingly, or do we regard them more as victims of what's for lack of a better term a medical condition?"
But that's only in the halls of power. For the average Rahadoumi village, where even the Green Faith druids helping combat Rahadoum's desertification are treated with suspicion, mobs are forming to take matters into their own hands.
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I've thought a lot about it, and I think it's about time Pathfinder did an AP about the one of the oldest traditions of RPG characters and fantasy protagonists as a whole: committing tax evasion. (Yes, I follow Dave Prokopetz on Tumblr, why do you ask?)
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Note for upcoming errata: Neshen's entry here has the same mistake as in the Divine Mysteries book (page 308) where his edicts are repeated as anathema.
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Interesting implications here: Immonhiel appears to be in the "Other Gods" section of the supplement rather than the Empyreal Lords where I'd have thought she'd been classified. If this isn't just an error because she was one of the featured divinities in the Quest for the Frozen Flame AP, then it appears she may have made the same jump Sarenrae did from "mere" Empyreal Lord to true goddess!
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Squark wrote:
Oof, Syncretism is a big loss. I don't know about the power level one way or the other, but it was a huge win in worldbuilding terms and representing real world religious practices. It'll still be legal in PFS unless it's called out specifically, but it's still a shame.
I suspect the sorcerer feat Blessed Blood may also have gone unreprinted, which is also a pity.
EXACTLY! I don't care about the power level, I wanna do the Pathfinder equivalent of Serapis or Hermanubis! Like a kobold worshiping some kind of Iomedapsu figure inspired by Peace through Vigilance, or a Desnan who treats her and Black Butterfly as a singular dualistic entity! This ****'s cool!
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Noticed an error on Page 308 in the Appendix: In the line for Neshen (Knight of the Steel Lash), near the bottom, his edicts and anathema are identical, which I think isn't intentional. I can't imagine a god who exhorts you to "lead others to the light of good," while also forbidding it.
