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Saint Joan of Arc grants Sir Alphonse Veritas the Boon of Saint Joan of Arc: One time only, as an immediate action, cast protection from fire (caster level equal to character level) on yourself and up to 5 allies within 30 feet of you and of each other!


As the Mighty Ones catch their breath over the unconscious bodies of Dukes Phillip and Humphrey, the ghost of Joan of Arc appears a final time to Sir Alphonse and the others, this time in a gown, unmarked by any sign of fire, her hair braided and crowned with garlands. She smiles and embraces the Oath Keeper, who feels a refreshing coolness as she kisses both his cheeks... Merci beaucoup, Sir Alphonse...

Then she is gone...


Alphonse Veritas, Oathkeeper wrote:
Ghost of Joan of Arc wrote:

Materializing out of the shadows near the curtain, a translucent woman, badly burnt, her hair burned off, and armored in plate and mail, passionately pleads to Sir Alphonse: Derrière ce rideau se trouvent les méchants qui m'ont capturé et m'ont fait brûler comme hérétique! Vengez-moi, Sir Alphonse, je vous en supplie!

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The apparition vanishes...

An Englishman to the core, Alphonse doesn't understand a word of French. However, he gets the gist of what she's asking for regardless.

"Worry not, vengeance shall be had for your unjust treatment. If not this day then another their sins will come due."

Hearing and apparently understanding Sir Alphonse's promise, the ghost of Joan of Arc smiles and nods before vanishing into shadow...


Materializing out of the shadows near the curtain, a translucent woman, badly burnt, her hair burned off, and armored in plate and mail, passionately pleads to Sir Alphonse: Derrière ce rideau se trouvent les méchants qui m'ont capturé et m'ont fait brûler comme hérétique! Vengez-moi, Sir Alphonse, je vous en supplie!

French:
Behind that curtain are the villains who captured me and had me burnt as a heretic! Avenge me, Sir Alphonse, I beg you!

The apparition vanishes...


Appearing to Sir Alphonse in a dream as he sleeps in the Waterfall Grotto during the party's last night in the Mines of King Solomon:

Young Alphonse, barely old enough to be fighting alongside his father and other brave English knights as they lay siege to the French city of Orleans, sits atop his armored destrier, watching sadly as his countrymen, who know longer seemed as noble and fair to him as they did before the long, bloody conflict in France, launch loads of flaming pitch at the city walls of Orleans with catapults...

Suddenly, she is there, sallying forth from the postern gate waving a tattered white flag that is on fire as she rides out toward the English besiegers on a horse that appears to be roasting in flames as well...

Smoke billows out of her glowing red full plate, and her hair is a mane of fire, but she seems to weather the flames as if they were a summer wind...

Her steed leaps over ranks of pikemen and archers and gallops up to young Alphonse...

She looks sadly at the English aasimar, apparently unnoticed by his father, brothers, uncles, and the other English knights and their squires...

Bonjour Alphonse. Je suis venu vous porter un message. Le même mauvais ennemi qui m'a brûlé sur le bûcher est sur le point de brûler votre maison en Angleterre. Avec moi, ils ont utilisé vos compatriotes et m'ont brûlé comme ils font des sorcières. Mais ils brûleront votre maison avec le feu du dragon.

The flames consume the Maid of Orleans entirely, and Sir Alphonse awakens in a cold sweat.


As the adventurers sleep that night in the Waterfall Grotto for one last well earned nights sleep, the restless spirit of the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc, comes to haunt the dreams of the paladin Sir Alphonse Veritas.

She appears to him as she did when he was a young knight fighting under the English crown against France in the Siege of Orleans. The noble young crusader had defended her honor even against his own English brothers in arms, even though she was on the wrong side of the war, because he had believed God truly did speak to her. Alphonse had empathized with the zealous young maiden, and felt sorry when the Burgundians captured her, turned her over to the English, and had her burnt alive as a heretic.

To be continued...