Re: Belintar's death

From: Light Castle <light_castle_at_...>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 03:57:47 -0400

OK, with some further digging, I seem to have come across a reference (which I can't find now) saying that he died during the Esrolian sacred rites. (He is the main person in all the rites in all the sixths, that's part of how he runs the place.) Then they called a tournament, and he didn't reappear. (Which makes me wonder, did anyone "advance to the finals" of that tournament at all? Or was the tournament a non-starter from the beginning?)

I'm probably running my campaign in Holy Country 1618 or 1619, so I'm trying to figure out if a few things have been widely established or not.

Namely:

How well known is it that he got taken out by Jar-Eel? (Did she earn "The Razoress" for this particular move, btw?)

The politcal fall out. Obviously, the chaos in Herotland is due to this. The High King tries to become the new Pharaoh and fails, then we get New Malkonwal, a new King (soon beseiged in Whitewall), etc. Esrolia seems to have some maneuvering among the queens, with the Queen of the Red Earth (?) hooking up with Fazzur to get power.

I presume someone (the old guard involved in supporting Pharaoh directly?) did make attempts to either bring him back or make a new God-King, or simply keep the damn country together.

Anything on general activites of the other 6ths over the early stages of the Hero Wars (1618-1625?) I only know of the Whitewall scenario and the Temple of the Reaching Moon in Sartar.

LC

On 28 May 2004 at 1:33, Mikko Rintasaari wrote:

> As far as I can remember this happened during a tournament of Luck and
> Death. Periodically the Pharaoh needs a new body (Like Delecti the
> Necromanser) and the champions of Holy Country compeat for the honour of
> being his new vessel. Sounds strange, but the upside is living as an
> angelic being in divine bliss (propably in the City of Wonders).
>
> The Pharaoh is well known for dying and coming back. The theory is that
> Jar-Eel ambushed him on the Hero Plane halfway through the rites and
> dismembered him.
>
> Now it's high time for some hero to put the Pharaoh back together again.
>