Although the treachery of Rosler is not fully explained, just eluded to that he was loose-lipped with her location and attack plan against the Whispering Tyrant. Did Arazni find out that he was rumored to be contributory to her death, and come back to Rosler's Coffer to desecrate and destroy his tomb, or was it someone else?
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Although the treachery of Rosler is not fully explained, just eluded to that he was loose-lipped with her location and attack plan against the Whispering Tyrant. Did Arazni find out that he was rumored to be contributory to her death, and come back to Rosler's Coffer to desecrate and destroy his tomb, or was it someone else?
so... it's weirdly described in the book.
Like... the Shrikes aren't buried there, and Roslar's not buried there, but there are other people buried there? But the Tomb is kinda not open? so how did bodies get in there? Who would want to be buried there?
It's possible you could work it that Arazni famously returned to wreak havoc on the town and desecrate the tomb at some point; this would help build atmosphere for later. Maybe she wrecked the tomb, slew the garrison, and that's what allowed the orcs to attack so successfully? But why would she bother wrecking it if he's not even buried there? Or maybe she would do it just to destroy the memory of the man?
Personally, I cut out most of the 2nd tomb visit... I couldn't wrap my head around who would be buried there, so the monsters as written didn't make much sense, and I wanted to move the story along. I did add something which was pretty unique to how I set up the game - an encounter with the ghost of one of the Red Shrikes - but other than that and the first major monster, I skipped it entirely.
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I was under the impression that nobody was ever interred within Rosler's tomb itself. I had instead thought most of the undead within had come from the surrounding cemetery.
No, I don't think Arazni or anyone else purposely damaged the tomb. I thought it had just not been maintained at all since it's near-completion, and that the Radiant Fire was what caused the damage in its current state.
I'm not in Book 2, but in The Dead Roads there are actually a fair number of people who were buried in Roslar's Tomb. These include a vague list of 'retainers, squires, and servants' though if you were to ask me how/why all these people managed to die close enough to Roslar to get a place in his tomb but long enough before the scandal, I would have to start twiddling my thumbs.
Then again, it's not like this tomb could have been made over night, there was still about 5 more years of crusade going on meanwhile, so probably these bodies were all originally interred elsewhere (relocating a body after the juicy bits are gone is a surprisingly common activity historically) and moved to the tomb in preparation for the big consecration when the scandal came out.
Oh, and Abdell. Cannot forget Abdell is also in there.
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I'm not in Book 2, but in The Dead Roads there are actually a fair number of people who were buried in Roslar's Tomb. These include a vague list of 'retainers, squires, and servants' though if you were to ask me how/why all these people managed to die close enough to Roslar to get a place in his tomb but long enough before the scandal, I would have to start twiddling my thumbs.
Then again, it's not like this tomb could have been made over night, there was still about 5 more years of crusade going on meanwhile, so probably these bodies were all originally interred elsewhere (relocating a body after the juicy bits are gone is a surprisingly common activity historically) and moved to the tomb in preparation for the big consecration when the scandal came out.
Oh, and Abdell. Cannot forget Abdell is also in there.
there are bodies in the tomb in Eulogy.
i kinda think of it as
Oh, and Abdell. Cannot forget Abdell is also in there.
Oddly, book 2 actually says that Abdell isn't there. Pages 26-27: "Despondent over his mount’s death, the paladin had the horse’s remains cremated, and Roslar kept the ashes near his side for several more years before he perished. The architects of the tomb knew of Roslar’s adoration for his horse, and so they constructed this mausoleum specifically for the animal. Abdell’s ashes weren’t ever here and have since been lost."
I ran the Boneyard version of the tomb as a much more direct reflection of the Material Plane version; a copy of a tomb materializes in the Boneyard when the one on the Material Plane is consecrated, and a copy of a creature's remains materialize in it when the creature is interred. This helps guide the creature's soul in its journey along the River of Souls, as the soul is naturally drawn towards its body. I could not come up with a satisfying explanation for the tomb as written. It seems that a horse skeleton appeared in the Boneyard tomb with no Material Plane analogue because a skeleton is the more Platonicly ideal content for a tomb than cremated ashes, even though the room was built to hold the horse's ashes. Also the horse body showed up despite not being buried there, but Roslar and the Shrikes did not.
It seems that a horse skeleton appeared in the Boneyard tomb with no Material Plane analogue because a skeleton is the more Platonicly ideal content for a tomb than cremated ashes, even though the room was built to hold the horse's ashes. Also the horse body showed up despite not being buried there, but Roslar and the Shrikes did not.
Thank you for this delightful yet perplexing insight into the material condition of Roslar's Tomb. The situation is even more baffling than I could have imagined XD
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It seems that a horse skeleton appeared in the Boneyard tomb with no Material Plane analogue because a skeleton is the more Platonicly ideal content for a tomb than cremated ashes, even though the room was built to hold the horse's ashes. Also the horse body showed up despite not being buried there, but Roslar and the Shrikes did not.Thank you for this delightful yet perplexing insight into the material condition of Roslar's Tomb. The situation is even more baffling than I could have imagined XD
it's like a platonic form of that one horse's bones.
it's weird. I decided not to think too much about it.