After healing Sun Xiao and himself, Auron looks around for possible relics of interest.
I'm going to sleep so not much details for now, but Auron and sun can find that the great advances the Imaskari did in in extradimensional magic are ascribed to the direct stealing of the "words" from the gods. A word of creation, the word that control space and time. Since that time the Imaskari became Godless because they believe they coudl achieve the very same deeds of the gods if only they could discover more of those secret words.
Erd cleans her blade and watches the readers stoically.
Garren moves up to strike the demon before it can escape.
Garren takes a look at some of the tablets.
"This words of creation stuff sounds crazy! Seems like we're in the right place!"
"Interesting. We may now have confirmation of the kind of power someone with the Verses could wield, though aren't any closer to FINDING anything." he studies the tablets more closely, looking to see if he can find where, exactly, they might have stolen the Words from.
Erd and Bili wander over to the corpses, where the half-orc hops down to investigate.
Ok, Garren, Sun and Auron keep studyng while Erd patrols the surroundings.
So, more storytime. The tablets at hand contains mostly Hymns, to read them all would takes weeks or months. The low relief and statues on the other hand are more direct.
It is not clear from where Umyatin the great gained knowledge about the words, but there are some vague reference to a cold beyond the stars. The narrative continue with Umyatin travel to "the space between everything, the road that goes Everywhere, where you are when you aren't anywhere else." Sun recognize it as a reference to the astral plane. Somewehre there he found the place where Helm (god of protectors) secured since time inmemorial the words that gave form and order to space and time.
There he faced the Guardians. who where instructed to protect that place. Umyatin did not dare to confront the guardians cause he knew their power was great. Instead Umyatin resorted to deception. It is not described what he did, but he gained some time to read words. Where the gaurdians discovered the deception Umyatin Already had obtained some understanding that allowed him to scape their wrath.
Almost 3,000 years later a plague decimated Imaskari many cities. The king Senshiasen II planed to do what even the mightiest of his ancestors did not dare. But those were desperate times. To learn the secrets of the whole verse of space and time. He commanded a whole army of high artificers to the astral plane and make war agasint everything on his path. The toll was high but Senshiasen had access to the power he sought.
At this point the tale do a unexplained jump. Instead of talking about Senshiasen II the story continues with his son Senshiasen III, Wich is very weird taking into account that Senshieasen II acomplisehd a great deed and the Imaskari was that kind of people that like to gloat about their works. Something bad and important must had happened, something the authors of this place were not insterested in representing.
Either way, the wizards of Imaskari used the power recently adquired to brought hundreds of thousands of people from another world to be their Slaves. They also created a barrier that denied divine intervention. Senshiasen the Third died Shortly after. In his final Image you can see him holding two tablets. One of them looks very much like the one you take from Sylwaris.
The tale continue describing the history of Inmaskar to just before the fall of the Empire at the hand of vengeful gods. Those are other (more or less) 2,000 years. No more again they tried to look for more secret words. Althought the study of what Umyatin and Senshiasen II discovered was the reason for the development of the magic in Imaskar, it seems that the most deep secrets were only knew to the Kings.
Most of the information here you have never heard about. It probably was only meant for the Imaskari Elite.
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Erd on the other hand let his teammates do the boring academic work. She just patrol the area. Her yes have not seen anything, her ears have not detected anything but suddenly Bili begins to be very nervous, she is smelling something.
"Remind me to transcribe these registers once we deal with the hostile presence in this place." says Auron as he reads some of the ancient words.
Seeing Bili's nervous reaction, the disciple of Oghma decides to play it safe and casts Invisibility Purge, taking care to do it was discreetly as possible.
Auron's spell reveal the precense of several Cacodaemons Spying on the group. The tiny beast start flying chaotically when their invisibiilty is lost.
"Tsc..." sighs Auron "Disgusting little things..."
Erd jumps off Bili, pointing to one of the monsters and yelling, "Attack!" The half-orc then charges at one of the low-flying daemons.
Sun takes to the skies, trying to get in the center of the group of Daemons and attack one.
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Garren contemplates the importance of having a ranged weapon.
You clear the room. The Tiny Daemons didn't make any attempt to strike back, mostly because most of them died in a couple of seconds, but is clear that they were not trying to fight.
"Were they sent?" Erd asks, climbing back onto Bili and swapping her longsword and shield for her bow. "Any more?"
"I don't sense any more nearby."
You take a portal and are teleported to a big weird room. You are in what seems to be the inside of an mostly empty sphere made of brick. You are at the inside surface of the sphere. It seems to be that that gravity always acts "outward", aka pulling to the surface of the sphere. In the air there are, frozen in the air, broken statues and pillars. In the center there is an inactive portal.
At the antipodal point from you you find the man you came here looking for. Amman is pretty much as described By Sylwaris. A black, bold, tall Man in his 40s with three blue dots in his Forehead (aproximate picture).
To complete his description he wields a small shield in his right arm and a long scimitar in his left hand. He weard heavy white robes that cover most of him, but even then, you can tell that there is an armor behind the robes.
He is surrounded by 3 armored Ceustodaemons. One of those use a Tower shield and noting in his other hand. The other two have longspears. There are other 12 non-armored ceutos scattered over the place.
So you found us,- he say with slow a deep voice (the place have a great accoustic btw)- I have to say I'm not surprised, you have proved to be a resourseful group. My name is Amman Bel Amjad in case you didn't knew it and... - he is interrupted.
My lord,the work will be finished in about a minute and half - say a semi translucient image of a goblin covered in wolfskin.
Good. That give me enough time to dealt with our guests here. - Amman say and then the image make a reverence and dissapear. Well, I suppose before starting any clash I should give you the opportunity to leave so you do not end like the poor Tandall, what do you say?
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We will use semi-individual innitiative this time. So roll init (assuming you do not runaway)
I'm pretty sure I had other things to mention, but I do not remember them at the moment.
"I do not run away!" Erd yells up. She readies her sword, looking to Auron for guidance.
Garren simply shakes his head and flickers out of sight with a shrug.
"So you had something to do with Tandall's death?" Sun's eyes narrow.
"Tandall may have been a self-righteous ass, but he was one of the few people I trusted. Your death will be bloody and painful."
Erd
x12 regular ceustos 21
Auron
Tower shield ceusto
Garren
spear ceusto
Sun
Amman
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