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| game_systems:pathfinder:crown:adventure_journal [2023/04/04 21:35] – [Fire Door of Stavian I] Bryan Stephens | game_systems:pathfinder:crown:adventure_journal [2024/01/11 10:43] (current) – [Machination, Coronation, and Exaltation] Bryan Stephens | ||
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| Screams and cries of pain echo across this miserable battlefield. Buzzing flies and the stench of rotting flesh choke the air. Bodies lie piled in heaps on the blood-soaked ground, some of them still reaching out to beg for care or a swift death. Hands twitch and eyes blink in the charnel piles. Against the sky, an armored figure stands tall among the dead, surrounded by six gore-covered scimitars driven into the soil. This is the territory of Emperor Gennaris III, the Conqueror, remembered as one of Taldor’s greatest military leaders. | Screams and cries of pain echo across this miserable battlefield. Buzzing flies and the stench of rotting flesh choke the air. Bodies lie piled in heaps on the blood-soaked ground, some of them still reaching out to beg for care or a swift death. Hands twitch and eyes blink in the charnel piles. Against the sky, an armored figure stands tall among the dead, surrounded by six gore-covered scimitars driven into the soil. This is the territory of Emperor Gennaris III, the Conqueror, remembered as one of Taldor’s greatest military leaders. | ||
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| Gennaris’s legend manifests as a spirit of slaughter. His is the unwavering belief that war is necessary to protect a nation’s freedom. The deaths of his enemies weigh heavily on him, but Gennaris is still convinced that military might is the only key to Taldor’s survival as a nation. He sees the group as a threat to Taldor’s security and when he sees the them arrive, he points and declares | Gennaris’s legend manifests as a spirit of slaughter. His is the unwavering belief that war is necessary to protect a nation’s freedom. The deaths of his enemies weigh heavily on him, but Gennaris is still convinced that military might is the only key to Taldor’s survival as a nation. He sees the group as a threat to Taldor’s security and when he sees the them arrive, he points and declares | ||
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| This arched door seems worked from solid gold. In the center of the door, the image of a lion rears on its hind legs, its mouth open in a silent roar. Beyond this door stands an idealized vision of Taldor from the ancient past, as it exists in most citizens’ minds: | This arched door seems worked from solid gold. In the center of the door, the image of a lion rears on its hind legs, its mouth open in a silent roar. Beyond this door stands an idealized vision of Taldor from the ancient past, as it exists in most citizens’ minds: | ||
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| Golden fields of wheat, rippled by the wind into ocean-like waves, extend as far as the eye can see, until they meet majestic mountains at the horizon. Bone-white ruins jut haphazardly from the landscape. A heroic figure stands atop a broken column, stark against the endless sunset. | Golden fields of wheat, rippled by the wind into ocean-like waves, extend as far as the eye can see, until they meet majestic mountains at the horizon. Bone-white ruins jut haphazardly from the landscape. A heroic figure stands atop a broken column, stark against the endless sunset. | ||
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| The exhaustion of his ordeal leaves Carrius unconscious for several hours, providing ample time to report to return with Martella Lotheed and Princess Eutropia. By the time Carrius awakens, Eutropia has made arrangements with the palace sentries and Ulfen Guard to stand down. | The exhaustion of his ordeal leaves Carrius unconscious for several hours, providing ample time to report to return with Martella Lotheed and Princess Eutropia. By the time Carrius awakens, Eutropia has made arrangements with the palace sentries and Ulfen Guard to stand down. | ||
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| At her coronation, Eutropia gives a brief message of hope and thanks. The heroes of the hour are, of course, in attendance, and the Grand Princess formally knights each of them, as she did a year ago before they left for Meratt county. She jokes that //”This time, there are witnesses!”// | At her coronation, Eutropia gives a brief message of hope and thanks. The heroes of the hour are, of course, in attendance, and the Grand Princess formally knights each of them, as she did a year ago before they left for Meratt county. She jokes that //”This time, there are witnesses!”// | ||
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| Unlike last year, this year the group is fully engaged in the week of celebrations and schemes leading up to the Gala. It is more and more clear the level of fame they all now possess. People who would never have given any of any of them the time of day, now not just listen to the heroes, but seek them out. While Cassia and Corwyn are used to interaction with nobles, it unsettling to the rest. Corwyn uses this time to investigate buying up his family’s debts, while Cassia spends time with the high families of the Zespires, the Vinmarks, and of course, her own Kathis. | Unlike last year, this year the group is fully engaged in the week of celebrations and schemes leading up to the Gala. It is more and more clear the level of fame they all now possess. People who would never have given any of any of them the time of day, now not just listen to the heroes, but seek them out. While Cassia and Corwyn are used to interaction with nobles, it unsettling to the rest. Corwyn uses this time to investigate buying up his family’s debts, while Cassia spends time with the high families of the Zespires, the Vinmarks, and of course, her own Kathis. | ||
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| Family banners and provincial flags drape the sides of most buildings, with merchants hawking heraldry ranging from replica banners of the old Armies of Exploration to wooden swords and handheld Taldan flags for children. Taverns offer themed drink and food, with varying bars adopting well-known nobles from the long history of the empire as their mascot or self-declared patron. In the market, there are dolls of heroes of old and their enemies. They group is amused to find versions not only of the Grand Princess, but of each of them, including some of the enemies they have fought. | Family banners and provincial flags drape the sides of most buildings, with merchants hawking heraldry ranging from replica banners of the old Armies of Exploration to wooden swords and handheld Taldan flags for children. Taverns offer themed drink and food, with varying bars adopting well-known nobles from the long history of the empire as their mascot or self-declared patron. In the market, there are dolls of heroes of old and their enemies. They group is amused to find versions not only of the Grand Princess, but of each of them, including some of the enemies they have fought. | ||
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| This year there is a large foreign continent of visitors from around the Inner Sea who have stayed the week since the coronation. There is a growing notion that Taldor is about to change, and the world waits with baited breath. This is especially true for lands bordering Taldor, or former areas controlled by it, such as Andoran’s Supreme Elect Andira Marusek, a delegate from House Thrune in Cheliax, Erik Thrune, and Senator Laux Devaux from Galt. There are even some leaders from a couple of the River Kingdoms. | This year there is a large foreign continent of visitors from around the Inner Sea who have stayed the week since the coronation. There is a growing notion that Taldor is about to change, and the world waits with baited breath. This is especially true for lands bordering Taldor, or former areas controlled by it, such as Andoran’s Supreme Elect Andira Marusek, a delegate from House Thrune in Cheliax, Erik Thrune, and Senator Laux Devaux from Galt. There are even some leaders from a couple of the River Kingdoms. | ||
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| //”People of Taldor, let us move forward into the future! Let us work together to rebuild Taldor, not as it was, but as it can be.”// | //”People of Taldor, let us move forward into the future! Let us work together to rebuild Taldor, not as it was, but as it can be.”// | ||
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| With that she lets the crowd applause as she waves. After that she turns to you and thanks and congratulates you each in turn. Those of you not made a Senator or a Minster, she invites to be part of her Privy Council, which by tradition cannot be a Senator or member of the Cabinet. | With that she lets the crowd applause as she waves. After that she turns to you and thanks and congratulates you each in turn. Those of you not made a Senator or a Minster, she invites to be part of her Privy Council, which by tradition cannot be a Senator or member of the Cabinet. | ||
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| Eutropia’s legacy is remarkable for its nuanced balance. Her rule is marked by taking a firm hand against threats and rivals, treating allies and the poor with great respect, and using the benefits of both to invest in infrastructure. Eutropia the Measured is a cunning diplomat, expanding foreign trade and attracting foreign scholars, artists, and workers to Taldor’s shore to enrich its culture, while sending Taldan envoys to the other nations of Avistan, Casmaron, and Garund to spread her country’s knowledge and art. To help the nation see to its own needs more efficiently, | Eutropia’s legacy is remarkable for its nuanced balance. Her rule is marked by taking a firm hand against threats and rivals, treating allies and the poor with great respect, and using the benefits of both to invest in infrastructure. Eutropia the Measured is a cunning diplomat, expanding foreign trade and attracting foreign scholars, artists, and workers to Taldor’s shore to enrich its culture, while sending Taldan envoys to the other nations of Avistan, Casmaron, and Garund to spread her country’s knowledge and art. To help the nation see to its own needs more efficiently, | ||
| - | What is next for the heroes? Is it a life of peace and happily ever after? There are still dangers in the world. The Brotherhood of Silence has been defeated. Its patron god [https:// | + | What is next for the heroes? Is it a life of peace and happily ever after? There are still dangers in the world. The Brotherhood of Silence has been defeated. Its patron god [[https:// |
| The End for Now. | The End for Now. | ||
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