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00:00:00What it is.
00:00:01Teor, outside, this place is kind of wild,
00:00:03it's palatial, but you see there's a huge
00:00:08lowering pathway, gravel stream,
00:00:11everything here is like white, imported stone gravel.
00:00:14It's like, you know, looking out,
00:00:16you see a wagon coming up this
00:00:19from a lower area underneath the palace.
00:00:23There's sort of a walled drive that goes down,
00:00:27and a large wagon that you see has the symbol,
00:00:31not of the Candescent Creed, but an older symbol
00:00:34of the House Halovar that shares
00:00:36some of the same iconography.
00:00:38It's a little bit hard to tell where the faith begins
00:00:41and the noble house ends.
00:00:42But I would recognize some of House Halovar,
00:00:44not as much the Candescent Creed.
00:00:45Yes, comes out, and you see,
00:00:47sort of struggling up the driveway,
00:00:49you see it's heavy, it's low down on the wheels.
00:00:52Someone forgot to fasten the back,
00:00:54a crate slides out coming up the ramp
00:00:57from down below, lands on someone's foot,
00:01:01like one of the sort of workers,
00:01:02and as it does, you see a bone break,
00:01:04and something shatters, and this glowing white liquid
00:01:08seeps out through the wooden box
00:01:10and badly burns their leg.
00:01:13They're on the ground rolling and kind of like screaming.
00:01:15I will run over to him immediately.
00:01:18He goes, .
00:01:19Can I steady yourself?
00:01:20Can I lift this crate up with?
00:01:22Yes, go ahead and give me an athletics.
00:01:25It's just a DC, we'll call it a DC five, honestly,
00:01:27just to get this crate off.
00:01:28That is a, yes, that is a gigantic natural 20.
00:01:32Wow.
00:01:33Natural 20?
00:01:34What?
00:01:36I'll say on a natural 20,
00:01:37if you also want to, yeah,
00:01:40you toss this thing off of him,
00:01:43and I'll say in the same action, if you want to,
00:01:45also you can, if you have any other abilities you want,
00:01:47you see he's like, yeah.
00:01:48I would do, I would just, I would lift,
00:01:50and also just do a very, like, a lay on hands,
00:01:52just to try and do a little heal
00:01:55to ease some of his pain.
00:01:57Wick.
00:01:59We run out to see some of this.
00:02:02As you exit the door,
00:02:07you step out into the courtyard
00:02:10and see Teor Pridesire, on a nat 20,
00:02:15single-handedly lift this crate over his head
00:02:19and reach down.
00:02:21A lion-headed emblem at his side
00:02:26glows radiant with light.
00:02:29As you see light extend from his paw,
00:02:34and you watch this man heal an injured guard
00:02:38here in the courtyard.
00:02:40I think on that nat 20,
00:02:43I'm going to, nat 20's crazy.
00:02:45On a nat 20,
00:02:48the cloudy city of Dolmachyar,
00:02:51momentarily there's a breakthrough,
00:02:53and the wagon and surrounding area,
00:02:55and Teor in particular,
00:02:57are bathed in sunlight in this moment
00:03:00as you exit the courtyard.
00:03:02I will, I was rushing out to see what the commotion was,
00:03:05but upon seeing this, I, the breath is taken out of me,
00:03:10and I momentarily stumble
00:03:12and have to just lean on Tyranny for a moment
00:03:16because I'm so taken by the almost painterly beauty
00:03:19of the moment,
00:03:19and clearly, this man has been touched.
00:03:23He, by the light.
00:03:25I'll also stand and rise,
00:03:27and as I turn,
00:03:28oh shit.
00:03:29Oh shit.
00:03:30The name hits in the wind,
00:03:31and the gold of my eyes fades,
00:03:34post nat 20.
00:03:35Mm-hmm.
00:03:38Whoa, that was so cool.
00:03:41That was very cool, yes.
00:03:46What seems to be going on out here?
00:03:48Just a moment, and I'll help up the man.
00:03:51He looks up and says,
00:03:52Thank you kindly, sir.
00:03:54Are you, are you a priest of the light?
00:03:59A friend of the light.
00:04:01Oh, pleasure, sir.
00:04:04That's marvelous.
00:04:06I was worried I'd lose my leg.
00:04:07They have you transporting horribly
00:04:09hazardous lipids.
00:04:11What was this that you were moving?
00:04:13That's nothing, no concern of yours.
00:04:15It's just
00:04:18church business.
00:04:19Church business.
00:04:21Sorry, the gentleman, Lord Wakandar,
00:04:24healed my leg,
00:04:25so I won't have to miss a shift at work.
00:04:28Everything will be all right.
00:04:29You won't have to.
00:04:31Don't worry not.
00:04:32Just take this where it's going,
00:04:34to my father, or?
00:04:36The Lord Goddard has already said
00:04:38everything's well to do.
00:04:39We're to ship this out to Azir
00:04:41first thing tomorrow.
00:04:42Excellent.
00:04:42We're moving it down to Caravan Hill right now.
00:04:44Make it so.
00:04:45Ever bright, ever right.
00:04:46May the beam reach you, my lord.
00:04:47Thank you so much.
00:04:48I'm sorry for being injured.
00:04:50You see, he accepted.
00:04:53It is a truly wonderful thing to have people
00:04:56that are so devoted to you in their service.
00:04:59You must be an incredible man to work for.
00:05:02Well.
00:05:03The best.
00:05:05Please, Tyranny, I must remain humble.
00:05:09I, some have called me a great man to work for, sure,
00:05:14but I don't hear that, nor do I acknowledge it.
00:05:17It's just who I am and who we all aspire to be.
00:05:20It is wonderful to see you again.
00:05:22Please allow me to reintroduce myself.
00:05:24My name is Teor, Pride Sire, and when I grasp his hand,
00:05:28it is iron tight, and does not let go.
00:05:33Mine is like a raw cut of veal.
00:05:38Just sort of clammy and soft.
00:05:40I see one of his pinkies just flirting with the idea
00:05:43of dislocation, but just kind of keeping it there.
00:05:46Yes.
00:05:47I was so moved by your concern last night
00:05:49and the raw, pure emotion that you showed
00:05:53over my friend, my fellow comrade,
00:05:57and I wanted to thank you for that
00:05:59and see if we could speak a bit further
00:06:01about what it was that was making you so upset.
00:06:05Tyranny, I'll frame your hand.
00:06:06Oh, can I also shake your hand?
00:06:08Actually, this is great.
00:06:09Hi.
00:06:10Tyranny.
00:06:12Wow.
00:06:13Your hands are so big and rough.
00:06:15His hands are so soft.
00:06:17It's crazy.
00:06:18Soft with the holiness of the creed, yes.
00:06:23It is a pleasure to meet you, and yes,
00:06:25thank you for coming.
00:06:27I'm sure we can find a way to assist each other.
00:06:31I can guide you in any way you need to go,
00:06:34and perhaps you could be of assistance
00:06:38to my family as well.
00:06:39I would be very open to any such suggestion.
00:06:42I came here to serve the amazing Loza Blade,
00:06:45but obviously my brother and others that know the Ozzy,
00:06:49we have been waylaid by this.
00:06:54It is hard to know what to do next,
00:06:56but I saw in you a kindred light.
00:07:01Yes.
00:07:02Something that answers lie in that light,
00:07:05and I knew that if I found you,
00:07:08I could find someone that would help me guide,
00:07:11guide the others to that light.
00:07:14You see, Tyranny, when you carry yourself
00:07:17with goodness and justice, others see it, respect it,
00:07:21and home in on it.
00:07:23Always carry yourself with respect, self-respect.
00:07:27I understood, Uranians.
00:07:29Yes, I'm sure I can guide you
00:07:33to somewhere where your true heart can do its best.
00:07:37A friend of the light is a friend of mine,
00:07:39and please, come inside with us.
00:07:41Thank you, that's most kind.
00:07:43You enter into the manor and arrive up at your study.
00:07:48The Via Aurora is beautifully pointed,
00:07:50and you have a little bit of privacy here to discuss.
00:07:53Mm-hmm.
00:07:56Well, if I may ask,
00:07:59how were you friends with the Ozzy?
00:08:02Do you mind if I make myself comfortable?
00:08:06Sure, go ahead.
00:08:08I'll reach back and take the shield that's on my back
00:08:10and take it off, and underneath it,
00:08:12you'll see a giant golden flail
00:08:15with an angled head underneath it,
00:08:16and it, when I put it down, it weighs a lot.
00:08:20It's much better.
00:08:24The Ozzy was a friend, but also a mentor.
00:08:28I looked up to him in the torn banner
00:08:31of the Falconer's Rebellion.
00:08:33It was, it meant a lot to me
00:08:35and the people that I served with,
00:08:37but we had gone our separate ways over the years,
00:08:40and Loza Blade and I were coming back to Dol Makyar,
00:08:44and we meant to find him and my brother.
00:08:48Cid, do you know him?
00:08:50Do I know Cid?
00:08:51Cid Pridesire?
00:08:52Give me a history check.
00:08:54Okay.
00:08:54Call it a difficulty, 20.
00:08:55Helseudemir.
00:08:57Oh, nice.
00:08:59History, 16.
00:09:0016.
00:09:01The name, the name Pridesire rings a bell.
00:09:03I'll say on a 16 history,
00:09:06the Falconer's Rebellion,
00:09:09I forget how old Wick is.
00:09:10How old is Wick?
00:09:11He's only like 28, 29.
00:09:13So you would have been a kid
00:09:15at the end of the Falconer's Rebellion.
00:09:17The torn banner you know on a 16,
00:09:21which meant that this mercenary in front of you
00:09:23fought on the other side of the war from your family.
00:09:26Oh, oh dear.
00:09:30Well, forgiveness is one of our central tenets.
00:09:36Do you still harbor resentment or ill will
00:09:39towards the noble houses?
00:09:41Of course not.
00:09:42No, such things are the ways of the past.
00:09:45All of that has been remedied and new power has been instilled.
00:09:48Has it not?
00:09:49It has.
00:09:50Yes.
00:09:51And we are to bury the old hatchets and move forward with friendship
00:09:59and partnership with even those who fought against us.
00:10:04And that's why Tyranny and her sisters work with us.
00:10:07They form our shadows.
00:10:10Our faith believes that the light can burn through any shadow.
00:10:16And she and her sisters were once demons.
00:10:20Well, I still am a demon technically, but I'm on my way.
00:10:23Yes, yes.
00:10:25How redemptive.
00:10:26How many sisters do you have?
00:10:28I have three sisters.
00:10:30A handful, to be sure.
00:10:32Do you have siblings besides Cid?
00:10:34Just my brother.
00:10:37A small knock on the door, and then without waiting for a response,
00:10:42the door opens.
00:10:43A number of servants out there, and the faux-tark, Vanessa, walks in.
00:10:48Your grandmother.
00:10:49Yes, yes.
00:10:50I pick up my cane and sort of comport myself well.
00:10:56She walks in and says,
00:10:58Right, Wick, we need to talk.
00:10:59Hello, and who are you, my friend?
00:11:01I am Teor Pride Sire.
00:11:03It is a pleasure to be in your presence, faux-tark.
00:11:06I understand that there was an accident outside,
00:11:10and that you healed one of our porters.
00:11:16With, not only healed, with radiance.
00:11:21He might be luminous, or some sort of light-touched.
00:11:26Are you one of the luminous?
00:11:27Are you one of our faithful?
00:11:29This term is new to me.
00:11:31I admit I am new to the Candescent Creed,
00:11:34but tales of your light has spread far and wide
00:11:38outside of Dolmachiar.
00:11:40I had journeyed into the city to learn more.
00:11:45Give me, if you feel so inclined, deception or persuasion.
00:11:50With each one of those is better.
00:11:54Oh, it's not going to matter either way.
00:11:57Five.
00:11:58Five.
00:12:00She looks at you and says,
00:12:04How wonderful that news of our order has reached that the light spreads as it must and always shall.
00:12:17A warrior gifted with innate connection to the light itself.
00:12:25Might I ask, I looked on a register that the inimitable Loza Blade, whose reputation far precedes her, had made an appointment with you.
00:12:41She vouched for Teor here.
00:12:44Well, the House Tyconis, having arrived for the somber and tragic execution, are currently present, and they believe there may be some danger afoot in the city.
00:12:59I think a bolstering of House security may be prudent.
00:13:06I hate to think of such things.
00:13:08I wish only that peace and justice prevailed in the heart of all, but until such time as the light can fully spread, such that none seek violent response, I think it might be worthy of us to take the word of one such as Loza Blade if it's all right with you that we increase your security detail, my grandson.
00:13:18I think it might be worthy of us to take the word of one such as Loza Blade if it's all right with you that we increase your security detail, my grandson.
00:13:28I'm, of course, more than capable of defending myself, and with tyranny at my side, I have even more protection.
00:13:37However, absolutely, Votark, if you recommend even more security.
00:13:44Votark, if I might be so bold, Loza Blade is, well, to be fair, a fan of this honored House Hoan.
00:13:53Despite our past differences, we see the good that's been laid and the time spent.
00:14:00If I may, I would like to put my name forward as perhaps a consideration for that protection.
00:14:07I'd like a moment.
00:14:09It's like a moment. Dangerous times, and a sturdy fellow is offering himself.
00:14:14It's like fortuitous.
00:14:15Well, let's take Master Pridesire.
00:14:18Servant, let's see that Master Pridesire is, first of all, can we not supply a drink or some food or something of that for Master Pridesire?
00:14:28That's on me.
00:14:29Yes.
00:14:30Go ahead and take him, and we'll send Sir Felonius to you.
00:14:32That would be.
00:14:33My uncle.
00:14:34Make weekend his uncle, our head of security.
00:14:36Sir Felonius, wonderful.
00:14:37We'll have it all settled. Thank you so much. The light, as always, moves in all directions, and it is simply for us to open our arms and receive it. Thank you.
00:14:50Thank you, Votark.
00:14:52See the young Master Pridesire to some food aspirant?
00:14:57Yes, Votark and Janessa. All right, let's go get snackies. Are you okay?
00:15:04I think so, yes, yes, thank you.
00:15:07You are shuttled out, the door closes, so it's just Janessa and Wickander.
00:15:11Janessa turns to you and says, get rid of the elf throw rug, would you?
00:15:15What?
00:15:16The cat man?
00:15:18Yeah, he's up to some funny business.
00:15:21I got no such thing for you.
00:15:23Why don't you kind of open your eyes and realize that our house has got enemies.
00:15:28Lows of Blade was the commander of the Torn Banner.
00:15:31Yes, that was years ago.
00:15:32They all should have been hanged as traitors.
00:15:34I thought that we had let bygones be bygones and were moving forward with friendship and...
00:15:40There are no bygones. There are never bygones.
00:15:44But...
00:15:45Everything is another drum beat of a drum that's been ringing since the dawn of time.
00:15:50The Halevars were the House of Priests.
00:15:55Second only to the Royal House of Obradimia.
00:15:59We were the golden crowned.
00:16:04And then the Shapers' War cast our homeland into eternal darkness.
00:16:08One after the other where the gods fell, the Barrow Dells rose.
00:16:11This world is half poisoned.
00:16:14Wastelands, ruins, magic chaos, eternal night.
00:16:18That's the thanks for killing the gods.
00:16:21And you're going to let one of those Torn Banner walk in here?
00:16:24And what?
00:16:26Ask you about why Thiazzy Fang is dead?
00:16:30This whole plan has been a mistake.
00:16:33This whole plan has been a mistake.
00:16:34Now, I'm sorry.
00:16:36I'm sorry if I've done something wrong, but...
00:16:39What plan are you talking about?
00:16:41I thought we were going to spare Thiazzy.
00:16:43To show our goodness to the people of this fine city.
00:16:47To earn some of the forgiveness that is baked into our seven shining tenants.
00:16:52Forgiveness is one of them.
00:16:54I thought we were meant to forgive people like the Torn Banner and like Thiazzy.
00:16:59Why couldn't we have spared his life?
00:17:07The Tekonis are moving, and we need to move and keep up.
00:17:13Do you understand?
00:17:15They are our closest allies.
00:17:17Sure.
00:17:18And that means that our backs are right within reach of their knives.
00:17:24Oh.
00:17:25Why are they still so strong?
00:17:28Their lands destroyed and sundered, halfway between Stormwreck and Eternal Night?
00:17:34Why?
00:17:36What moves are they making on boards we can't see?
00:17:41Thiazzy had to die because the Tekonis wanted him to die.
00:17:45And right now, we need them close.
00:17:48I still can't get my eyes on what exactly it is that they can do.
00:17:53You.
00:17:54I've done you wrong.
00:18:00I've betrayed you.
00:18:03No.
00:18:04Not you.
00:18:05No, no, no, no.
00:18:06You speak only truth.
00:18:08I thought it would be of great benefit to our house that our Scion should walk only in the light.
00:18:29But there's nothing solid that doesn't cast a shadow.
00:18:34Yes.
00:18:36I made a mistake, and I've been making it, and it's time to set things right.
00:18:40Don't make any plans for tonight.
00:18:44When your father returns, it's time for you to know the truth.
00:18:53You mean to promote me?
00:18:57Yeah, Wiki.
00:18:58You're getting promoted.
00:19:00And she opens the door and leaves, and that's where we'll take our break.
00:19:04Yeah, Wiki, you're getting promoted.
00:19:12Hello, and welcome back to the city of Dolmachiar.
00:19:16As we arrive at the next day after the funeral, the wake of Thiazifang.
00:19:24Light descends on the Arknod, a massive museum of many wings that lies in the neighborhood of Lugzash, high up in the city, near the headwaters of the river Vrush.
00:19:38The Arknod actually can see its expanse buttresses the river, a short clifffall of about 20 feet into the surging waters.
00:19:48The higher up you get in altitude in the city, the more the waters are foam white and immediately deadly if you fall into them just from falling into foam that you can't swim through.
00:20:00You look and see that the Arknod is this massive spiring gray stone.
00:20:06Like a lot of the stone that was shaped in the ruins after the Shapers' War, this stone is flawless, smooth gray, almost polished to the touch.
00:20:18Summoned by druids victorious in their defeat of the gods.
00:20:26For indeed, the old path, as it is called, was very nearly erased from the existence of Ahriman by the gods who sought for their millennia of rule to be the only path by which mortals could access the divine.
00:20:44And yet the old path did survive.
00:20:48And the ancient smiths of the Loy family, a family of Orcish smiths, native to Dolmachiar, crafted the first of the Pariah Blades, those swords that were used to defeat Asgra, the Conqueror, Shaper of War.
00:21:06The Loy Wing, so named for that family of Orcs, is a beautiful wing of the museum dedicated to celebrating the revolutionary history of the Shapers' War.
00:21:20Taliesin, Belair, as the curator of the Loy Wing, what do we see as we move into the dusty light and where do we find Belair within the Loy Wing?
00:21:29Um, well, it's, uh, it's after hours, quite obviously.
00:21:36Um, it is grand and, uh, has that echoey reverb of a, of a institution with far too much money.
00:21:46Um, each, uh, each exhibit, um,
00:21:51Um, kind of stands in this large circular, or the main, uh, uh, the main room is this large circular room where, um, the sword itself is up in the center, uh, well lit with a series of small plaques around it.
00:22:09Um, it's also, um, every exhibit, I should also say, is slightly magically enchanted so that when you walk up to it, you start hearing, um, the audio recording of what's there until you walk away and then it's, and then it silences itself so that you can maintain the quiet.
00:22:28You, uh, voices that would approach the lights on a well-crafted but simple cold iron blade, so dull in its lack of ostentatiousness, it is, obviously never knew the touch of fire, was smithed carefully over time from raw ore, through pure effort of metalworking,
00:22:57metalworking, pounding of hammers again and again and again and again.
00:23:02It seems like the light from these magical cantrips, as it touches it, almost sinks into the blade, as though this blade were so common that magical light could not even rest upon its fuller blade or edge.
00:23:19Off to the side, in an open door, we see an office.
00:23:26Candles burned down to the very basin, and a silver coffin sized for a halfling on a desk, books and scrolls open, a sleepless Bolaire and Murray here working in this place. You've been working all night.
00:23:42Go ahead and give me any skill checks that you would have thought to make during this night of working to look into this.
00:23:49I would have had, well, I would have had, um, every filed, uh, indexed filed piece of paper that we have pulled out just so that we have that, the paperwork, so we don't have to go down into the, into the archives.
00:24:04Everything that exists is a piece of paper.
00:24:07Yeah.
00:24:08Got a giant pile of those and a few, um, clearly very old books, um, piled up that we're looking through, including a translation, a book for translating some of the, uh, the text on the coffin.
00:24:20Anything you would want me to pull?
00:24:22Well, I would have done a very meticulous ritual casting of an identify spell.
00:24:28Um, I think you almost see, you see like, Murray's got like gloves on, and you see, um, something that you might not have noticed before, but she's got this like, um, basically a little monocle that clips to the top of her hat.
00:24:41So it is now very precisely positioned to the front of her left eye.
00:24:46She has been, uh, using mage hand and using, uh, taking the tip of her fingernail and almost using it to carve and do a half-assed autopsy on a, on a big old box as she's been kind of doing this all night.
00:25:03So I would, uh, yeah, I would do a nice little investigation here.
00:25:09What, are you going to use investigation?
00:25:10Well, no, I'm going to, I'm going to use identify to investigate.
00:25:13Oh, identify.
00:25:14I will say also the object is sitting on a desk that, and it's illuminated by bright limelight so that we can really see it.
00:25:22It's not candlelight.
00:25:23It is, uh, it is a bright chemical.
00:25:26Yeah.
00:25:27It's also sitting on some sigils that are clearly there so that if something goes horribly wrong, it will contain it as best it can.
00:25:38Zul, question for you.
00:25:41Have you opened the box or left it closed?
00:25:45Until we know what it says on the outside, I would say not.
00:25:48Yeah, I would, I would identify before open.
00:25:52Well, Lair, as curator here, you see wizardry at work, this craft of the Pentevril, and I think seeing wizardry here, Murray, without any roles necessary, the ethos of your school alive and well in your heart, there will be limits to how much truth you can glean if you don't look in that box.
00:26:21Now, it's extremely prudent not to open it, far be it for me to tell you to open it, and I actually, I would say even above table, I'm totally fine if you don't, but that conflict is here.
00:26:34The conflict of truth, great truth, at least in the philosophy of the Pentevril, requires some risk.
00:26:41Mm-hmm.
00:26:42We're at step one, though.
00:26:44Yeah.
00:26:45Right.
00:26:46If you do step one, then we will open.
00:26:49Do you have, like, one of those big flus, you know, like how sometimes you see them in laboratories, and they kind of help, like, because I know there's a whole bunch of bad mist that came out of this, so I just don't know if there's something, like, you know, for ventilation, so we don't burn our eyeballs?
00:27:04We have that, yes.
00:27:07All right.
00:27:08One second.
00:27:09I just open up a, we have a vent system, again, everything that we have seen happen, we build something to try and make it so it won't happen again.
00:27:19Mm-hmm.
00:27:20Mm-hmm.
00:27:21So there's, it'll help.
00:27:22Uh, you have everything set up.
00:27:27Uh, do you cast your Identify spell just on the exterior of the box?
00:27:32I hate you so much.
00:27:35I hate you so much.
00:27:37I'm going to do something before we do this that she will not notice.
00:27:41Yeah.
00:27:42I'm just going to drift into the.
00:27:45Says who?
00:27:46You will not notice this.
00:27:47Says who?
00:27:48Says me.
00:27:49I'm going to drift into the black box.
00:27:51Okay. Has anything changed?
00:27:53Is there a sign of anything changed?
00:27:57Just a risk, just a hunch.
00:27:59Uh, uh, deterioration a little more rapid than.
00:28:03Okay.
00:28:04Yeah.
00:28:06Um, moving through this space.
00:28:10We're going to open the box.
00:28:11You're going to open the box?
00:28:12Well, we're going to take a nice, a nice distance.
00:28:14Mm-hmm.
00:28:15I'm going to mage hand.
00:28:16Yeah, we're.
00:28:17Open the box.
00:28:18Got it.
00:28:19Got all the windows open.
00:28:20As you open it, once again, you see mist.
00:28:24And have more of an understanding of how to engage in this way, in this moment.
00:28:34You identify spell moves throughout these silver plates.
00:28:44This is not an ancient artifact.
00:28:46This has been assembled very recently.
00:28:48As a craftsperson, what's bizarre is that the lining leaves only a sliver of what the lining would have been attached to, because the lining is now just open mist.
00:28:58But you do see enough wood that is well tended to, on that identify, I think you can see that that wood actually might come from far up north.
00:29:07Go ahead and give me, this is almost like a tool proficiency check if you have one, or you can give me arcana as well, whichever you prefer.
00:29:13Oh, oh my goodness gracious. Where's Chetney when you need him? Armory.
00:29:19I have alchemist.
00:29:20That'll work.
00:29:21Okay.
00:29:22Yeah, go for it.
00:29:23Yeah, I'll just do a straight arcana.
00:29:25Mm-hmm.
00:29:26Using a tool is just adds.
00:29:28That's not great.
00:29:29Intelligence plus proficiency.
00:29:31Or it might be wisdom plus proficiency, depending on the tool.
00:29:33I'll say, it's a, well, yeah, it's actually the same as my arcana.
00:29:40There you go.
00:29:42That's 20.
00:29:4420.
00:29:45Dirty 20.
00:29:4614.
00:29:47You recognize this, having looked over this, the wood, the thin bit that you see, is at this point almost totally fossilized.
00:29:58This is recovered wood from the wastes, deep within the wastes, shattered and fallen trees from the place where the goddess of life, the Shaper of the Elves, died.
00:30:09Is that the?
00:30:11Selandri.
00:30:12Selandri.
00:30:13Selandri.
00:30:14Interesting.
00:30:15But the plates are halfling.
00:30:17And that Identify Spellmarie, as you begin to read the text, it translates all of the Kessie and all the Celestial.
00:30:24These plates are taken, being set into a massive, there are some ancient halfling temples that were dedicated to their goddess Rauwen, the Trickster.
00:30:37And they would have been almost in hanging books of fabric or tapestry that in their holy places you would turn for a crowd to be able to read, almost like a massive storybook in a holy place or in a chapel.
00:30:51The plates have been taken off and affixed to this coffin.
00:30:54So the components are ancient, but the coffin is new.
00:30:57The plates reference on that, and with the Identify, this is the coffin of Olbalad.
00:31:07Olbalad is a Celestial who was sometimes called more colloquially by halflings the Sister of Mists.
00:31:19And she was effectively the halfling Angel of Death, a Celestial that guided them through the mists on their way.
00:31:29So what your Identify speaks out in the writing here, where you realize that some things...
00:31:35It's not this vulgar, but the plating is almost like how you construct a ransom note out of pieces of a magazine.
00:31:44It's not that small in places, but the meaning of some of the ruins has been changed by how they've been arrayed around the coffin.
00:31:51Olbalad was a Celestial that was a psychopomp.
00:31:57It took those that died into the realms of death, to their final afterlife.
00:32:02So to have a coffin of a Celestial that was supposed to guide you from life to death almost seems like a working of blasphemy in some ways,
00:32:12which has a very different context in a world that killed its gods 70 years ago.
00:32:16But the coffin of Olbalad is what this is now.
00:32:23And it is not ancient, it's new.
00:32:26But that's what is written here.
00:32:28The last thing I'll say on that...
00:32:32What did you roll for your check again, sorry?
00:32:35For my Arcana check?
00:32:36Your Arcana check. 14.
00:32:38You would know a very simple fact that is not too uncommon for wizards to know.
00:32:46After the gods died,
00:32:50the study of wizards concluded that there were beings that were older than the gods.
00:32:54The Faerie, the Fae, had been around for much longer.
00:32:57Demons had always existed on Armon in some way or another.
00:33:02Other ancient beings, old and connected to the spirit,
00:33:06they say that giants walked this world before the gods arrived,
00:33:11and the gods defeated them when they arrived here.
00:33:15There are some types of beings that were not here before the gods were here,
00:33:21because they were called or sung into being or came from whatever realm the gods came from.
00:33:31And these were the celestials.
00:33:33Their roles, beautiful, ethereal, the heralds and servants and warriors of the divine, crafted from the power of divine might themselves.
00:33:45And when the gods died, the celestials went feral and became ravening like monsters.
00:33:59To see a celestial is to see death itself.
00:34:03And their presence is felt almost nowhere in the world.
00:34:07For in the aftermath of the Shaper's War,
00:34:09to leave one on the loose or running was a death sentence for that region, essentially.
00:34:17Essentially.
00:34:19And this coffin claims to be the coffin for that celestial.
00:34:26Oh, Ol' Paladin.
00:34:27No.
00:34:28Oh.
00:34:33Well, I reckon we've got a problem on our hands.
00:34:35We've got a very, very serious problem.
00:34:40I'm going to get a tool and gently scrape the inside to see if there's any, what would pass for remains.
00:34:53Just the dust of organic dust.
00:34:55Give me a difficulty 10 dexterity saving throw.
00:34:59All right.
00:35:00I also will add, I'm not breathing.
00:35:04Mm-hmm.
00:35:0815.
00:35:10You reach in with the tool and get to a point where you stop before you approach the mist any closer.
00:35:20The end of your tool has exited into the mist to the point where it should be pushing out the other side of the coffin,
00:35:29and it is not.
00:35:33Interesting.
00:35:36Oh shit.
00:35:39Oh shit.
00:35:40I'm going to drop it.
00:35:41Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:35:43How long do you wait to hear something before you give up?
00:35:48I'm patient.
00:35:49I'll give it 30 seconds.
00:35:5030 seconds.
00:36:03Oh.
00:36:04We are so fucked!
00:36:07Oh dear.
00:36:08I'll be a shaper's anus.
00:36:10Fuck.
00:36:11We got a pretty little relic on our hands.
00:36:14That was disgusting to say.
00:36:16What do you think happens if I shove you in that void?
00:36:21I'm just kidding!
00:36:23Oh no, you were just kidding. I would have murdered you on the spot.
00:36:27To each of you, this is a ton of information that now calls out to you in terms of whatever happens next from here, you have stuff in places in the museum that Murray probably should not go.
00:36:42Murray, there are many treatises and probably people that are worth talking to back at the Penteveril about what you've just found out here.
00:36:51Mm-hmm.
00:36:52We need someone with a familiar, something similar. We need to put something living in there that we can see through.
00:36:59Oh.
00:37:00Oh.
00:37:01Not a person, but someone who can see through other people's eyes.
00:37:07We got a few puppies that I know.
00:37:09Well, can't make an omelet without breaking a few puppies, I suppose.
00:37:16Let's just go for it.
00:37:17Well, all right, hang on, hang on.
00:37:19What?
00:37:20I mean, there are so many questions. First and foremost, what did the Aussie want with this? This was his last dying wish sitting upon us right here.
00:37:27Why did he want it again?
00:37:28What did he want this? And also, what the hell? I mean, it is pretty, pretty crazy that we got this, which has some stink of the Shaper's War, and then we got a little angry elf girl over in the other house who also wants a rock, also having to do with the Shaper's War.
00:37:48But then this has got some, like, halfling stuff, and that's got elf stuff. What's going on?
00:37:53I do not...
00:37:54What did the Aussie have going on? And did you know something? Because I know you know things, Bolaire.
00:38:02On occasion, I would procure artifacts for him, and in return, he would send me things to look at.
00:38:21You just said absolutely fucking nothing.
00:38:25I know.
00:38:32Marie.
00:38:33Yeah. Shit.
00:38:34You look out and see sunlight creeping into the Loy Wing.
00:38:37Oh, fuck.
00:38:40Don't you hate it when you accidentally, like, you're awake all through the sunrise, and now it's light again, and now it's going to, like, throw off my circadian rhythm all day? I'm going to...
00:38:50I barely sleep, to be fair. I'm too old for this. Not going to sleep for a week now.
00:38:56He would send me very questionable objects, and I would do my research, and occasionally I would give them to people I did not know with no questions asked.
00:39:14I did some dirty work for him. He's dead now, so I hardly think it matters at this point.
00:39:22Well, hey. That makes two of us. Look at that, we got more in common than what you think.
00:39:30Why do I like you? You're just awful.
00:39:35Everybody likes me. Stop talking crazy.
00:39:37Oh, my god.
00:39:38All right, let's go find out some more shit about this box.
00:39:41All right.
00:39:44Murray, you head out, also having your, so funny as to say in the game of D&D, a job.
00:39:50You are the bursar of the Pentapural. You got to go to work.
00:39:52I've got papers I got to grade today.
00:39:58As Murray heads out, Belair, you have your private areas of the Loy Wing to check.
00:40:06Moving deeper down into off-limits areas of the Loy Wing, moving past a certain hallway back towards the vault where there may be some interesting objects to peruse or texts to talk to here.
00:40:28And you keep thinking about the fact that you heard Taisha say it. Mask. There was a mask in the box. And you think about how long you waited for that tool to make a noise.
00:40:39As you're heading towards the vault, down a side hallway towards a very special, let's call it cargo area, you see some boxes that were not here when you left for the execution yesterday.
00:40:54Crates, I assume?
00:40:58Yes.
00:40:59How large?
00:41:00About three and a half feet on each side, cubes.
00:41:05Fuck.
00:41:10I'm just going to open the crates at this point, not whatever's inside them. I'm just going to take a look. This is as safe a place to do it as any.
00:41:18You open the crates, you look inside, and what you see are wicker-covered ceramic casks. They look like dyers casks, and then you look under the clay lids and see paint leaking out at the top. They're filled with paint.
00:41:45And there's just one last note left pinned on a piece of parchment with a small stiletto dagger that just got left here. And it just says,
00:41:58For Hal, with all my love.
00:42:02Oh, you absolute fuckwit.
00:42:07All right. I'm going to reseal it. I'm going to go into my private office. I'm going to pull up anything I have, which is probably not much on the fate of Termina, whatever I can find about this thing might be. I'm going to pull a couple, one, as big a book as I can find.
00:42:33I have a little mechanism that will flip the page every ten minutes. And I sit. And I become perfectly still. And I let the pages flip in front of me for a few hours.
00:42:52Gorgeously freaky. Elsewhere in the city, in the neighborhood of Rosigar, the noise of horses arrayed in Fineland, snow-white horses, armored soldiers, pole arms on their backs, soldiers of the house divinos,
00:43:16ride forward. A carriage pulls in front of a building. Emerging from it, golden breastplate, symbol of house divinos. Across from it, the house of Royce, their liege lords.
00:43:33Silvering mustache and goatee. Scars across the cheek, golden helm taken down to a side. A broadsword, a polearm astride the carriage top. General Raymond Divinos exits the carriage, looking at the exterior of the tangled sheet.
00:43:56A house of companionship and warm welcome within Dolmachyar. Up on the second story, those who are still asleep in this early morning hear the barking of a general of the Sundered Houses outside going,
00:44:18Julian! Julian!
00:44:23Julian!
00:44:27What state do we find Sir Julian Divinos in?
00:44:30The morning rays of light hitting dried, cracked lids and lips that are deeply dehydrated. Julian, his hair, dark hair, thrown asunder across the
00:44:46wrecked bedsheets, clambers up over the voluptuous, tan-skinned woman, and the blond-haired, muscular young man, who begin to stir as he steps and scrambles and stumbles on the floor,
00:45:05grabs a nearby pitcher, and what little bit of liquid in there is, appears to be non-alcoholic. He chugs desperately as he's beginning to realize,
00:45:15beginning to realize how hungover he is, and the sound of his father's voice is not helping.
00:45:20Mm-hmm. You show that, appearing at the door, you see, hold on a second.
00:45:32You see that Madame Gurlist appears, a sort of older gnomish woman. You see she has a goblet of wine in her hand.
00:45:39Little hair of the dog that bit you?
00:45:42Oh, Madame Gur, I got sense.
00:45:44Hands it to you.
00:45:46Says, I don't know if you heard your dad's here.
00:45:51I heard the whole fucking city heard.
00:45:54Well, we are always grateful for your business, Sir Julian.
00:45:59Tell him I'll be done in just a moment.
00:46:02Him? No, your dad.
00:46:04Yes.
00:46:05Yes.
00:46:06Yes.
00:46:07You see that she rushes downstairs, and you see he sort of walks out and goes,
00:46:13General, good to see you again.
00:46:18At which point, Julian kind of goes and starts gathering his things, still as new as the day is long,
00:46:26slowly getting himself together as the two other companions begin to rouse from the noise and the chaos.
00:46:32He glances over and,
00:46:36I appreciate your services.
00:46:38And he sets out two sets of coin, studies them both, and puts two extra coins on the stack.
00:46:43Referencing the younger gentleman.
00:46:47Until next time.
00:46:50He throws his capelet over his shoulder and, with a deep breath, steps into the center area of the brothel towards his father.
00:47:01You step out. As you step out, the guards of House Divinos all gauntleted hands through their breasts as they bow, and you see your father turns around and says,
00:47:12Don't salute him!
00:47:18As you step out,
00:47:20Well, Julian. Pleasure to see you, my son.
00:47:24Father.
00:47:27By what honor do you come on this gracious step beyond your comfort to greet my morning in person?
00:47:38Well, going to your chambers in the Divinos Estate, I presumed I would find my son in the extremely expensive bed that we paid handsome money for,
00:47:52where we sleep in a strange city when the husband of our liege lady has just been executed.
00:48:00So I thought maybe you'd be, I don't know, nearby?
00:48:03How does it feel to be wrong again?
00:48:08Your dad raises a hand to you, looks at the gauntlet, and starts to take it off, and by that time has calmed down enough.
00:48:23Getting the fucking carriage.
00:48:32And he gets into the carriage.
00:48:34He takes a minute, sweat on his brow now, as the nausea that he's kept at bay washes over him for a moment, swallows, doesn't make eye contact with any of the men, and just enters the carriage after his father.
00:48:55He goes in, looks up at the driver, palazzo dadinos.
00:49:02Horses take off, soldiers fall in, he stares at you.
00:49:08You smell like the tanners.
00:49:15What's the point of travel if not to engage and enjoy in the local culture, huh?
00:49:25I find your interest in local culture bears a striking resemblance to every city and its culture.
00:49:34What can I say? I'm a man of the world.
00:49:41There's a lot more to the world than brothels, bars, and taverns. A lot more.
00:49:51Well, maybe one day you can show me, proud father.
00:49:56The resupply carriages have not made it to the Plaza Tavinos. Word has reached us that they were stopped at the Tvalmar Pass.
00:50:11Do you know anything about this?
00:50:15Do you know anything about this?
00:50:18Does not seem like it's part of my purviews, so no.
00:50:21This is news to my ears.
00:50:28Is there anything you heard at the Farav of Thiazifeng yesterday when you attended in escort of the Lady Aranesa?
00:50:36A lot of tears.
00:50:43Small war stories.
00:50:46You know.
00:50:48People that have a very strong opinion of this man.
00:50:57You know about it.
00:51:00Surprised you weren't there for how well you were two friends, huh?
00:51:07Right?
00:51:08Storied history.
00:51:10So gracious.
00:51:11Two of you thick as Steve's for so long.
00:51:14Fiazifeng saved your cousin's life at the end of the War of Ax and Vine.
00:51:19It was a tragedy and a heartbreak that he ended up on the other side of the Falconer's Rebellion.
00:51:30Every man makes their choices.
00:51:33I'm sorry that I was the consequence of his.
00:51:36My hope for you at the funeral, having spoken to the Lady Aranesa of what unfolded there, is that you see what it means to live a life of honor.
00:51:58To answer your first question, Father, from what I saw, this party was not a man who had dabbled much in honor in many years.
00:52:12There are things.
00:52:30I hope Aranesa got what she needed out of it.
00:52:33She deserves at least some closure for what he did to her.
00:52:38I have never understood your hatred for Thiazif.
00:52:47You did what you did.
00:52:49You neglected my orders, disobeyed my commands, rode off and captured the Hero of the Torn Banner.
00:52:58Made a name for yourself.
00:53:00Brought him in, delivered him to Takonis, Halovar, the others.
00:53:06You got your glory, and it's like you hate him for it.
00:53:12Why?
00:53:21He sits a minute, clenching his jaw even tighter before he, without making eye contact, at his father.
00:53:27Do you know how much of your golden path I was set up for?
00:53:39To have you turn away and throw our entire house's name for friendship with that man.
00:53:50The glory was mine, yes, but you solid everything.
00:54:03So I don't forgive him for what he did to you, as much as I don't forgive him for what he did to Aranesa.
00:54:09Men do make their own choices, and maybe one day you will take an interest in why they make those choices.
00:54:24Pulling into the Palazzo Divinos, you emerge from the carriage, walk inside, and see near a fireplace downstairs in a drawing room, the Lady Aranesa, who looks a little panicked.
00:54:46And she says, General Raymond, a word?
00:54:49You see, he says, yes, Lady Aranesa, and walks in.
00:54:53Looking at Aranesa, I'm kind of panicked, do you enter the room with them, or?
00:54:56Seeing her face, I definitely would, yes.
00:54:58As you walk in, she looks up and says, the wagons have, we've confirmed that they were stopped at the Tvalimar Pass.
00:55:06You see that General Raymond goes, can we just ride to the pass?
00:55:11And she says, no, the other side, the other side of the mountains, before Kavros, they've been behind us, they're days away at this point.
00:55:20And you see he goes, that's strange, why didn't the rear guard not make mention?
00:55:27He looks and says, looks over at Julian, and you see Aranesa touches his arm and says, I trust Julian with this information.
00:55:39You see your father crosses his arms and says, very well, Lady Aranesa.
00:55:45It has come to our attention that there may have been a plot to rescue the Azifang.
00:55:54You see, Aranesa looks at you with a look of like, we know what we heard at that funeral, and that's not.
00:56:00Not a very good one.
00:56:02You see, he says, disturbing things have come to us.
00:56:10The Taconis are currently searching for a member of their family, one who dwells primarily here in Dolmachiar.
00:56:22If rumors are correct, it is possible that he knows something of this plan, in which case he was acting in direct contradiction of his family.
00:56:36It may be to our benefit if we can find the young boy before anyone else does.
00:56:47And what's there, Aranesa?
00:56:52Aranesa nods and says, it would be wise. He is, I believe, in danger.
00:57:01Then I am at your service, Lady Aranesa.
00:57:07You see that General Raymond nods and says, if you find him, I would bring him here for the time being.
00:57:14Don't let anyone see you bring him here, but we should get a chance to talk with him if we can, to understand what may have happened.
00:57:23And we are not going toe to toe with the Taconis.
00:57:27We are just trying to understand what happened and hopefully advocate on the young boy's behalf in case there had been a misunderstanding, which given the insanity of the rumor, there must be.
00:57:37You see he says, he turns to Aranesa and says, given the gravity of this and the carriages, should we postpone the gala tomorrow night?
00:57:46And you see she turns and says, no, no, appearances are everything.
00:57:49Absolutely. If anything, invite more people.
00:57:52We should have it be as much of a to-do as we possibly can.
00:57:57In fact, Julian, are you all right?
00:58:02I'm fine.
00:58:04You see your father walks over to the mantle and says, Julian, are you going to be able to do this?
00:58:14Always.
00:58:16He says, good. You are my eldest son.
00:58:20And he splashes a full pitcher of water in your face. And I love you. To it, then.
00:58:32He reaches and tightens the demigauntlet on his left hand. You hear the metal plates clinking and squeezing into place.
00:58:45Wipe yourself off. You head forth from this place.
00:58:48Such a loving observation, as you're my eldest son.
00:58:53That's it. It's a great family dynamic.
00:58:54Yeah, yeah, yeah. Super healthy.
00:58:56Super, super healthy.
00:59:01We arrive in the woods outside of Dolmachiar.
00:59:07Robbie, where do we find Cadigan outside of the city here?
00:59:10Where you'd find him most nights. He's just sleeping out.
00:59:13Found a little patch where there's a split in the canopy where he's been, and it was a rough night. Sleep. Sweat. Alcohol pouring out into his clothes that are already well-worn.
00:59:28He's got Wulfric sort of underneath the back of his head, arms folded, legs crossed. And as that first little splint of morning sunlight comes through, it just catches him in the eye.
00:59:39Oh god. And he wakes up and starts to stand, and he's shuffling through the memories of last night, and it's pretty foggy.
00:59:51Yeah. I mean, he recalls there was an altercation. He remembers that he was at a funeral. He remembers why he was there.
00:59:58But he went pretty hard the rest of the evening on the streets by himself. And as he stands up, and him and Wulfric sort of, you know, get themselves settled for the day, kind of cracks his neck a bit.
01:00:11And when he moves his shoulders and cracks his neck, it sounds like you're stepping on empty snail shells.
01:00:17Just everything in him crackles, and no cartilage left, much to speak of.
01:00:24And he's got a leather bandolier on his chest that's full of, like, tinctures and herbs, and he just takes a little tiny snuffbox out.
01:00:33And Wulfric sneezes behind him. And as he's sifting through these memories,
01:00:42he's trying to find that mooring to hold on to about what the night was all about.
01:00:49Because he's feeling through his pockets, and they're empty.
01:00:53Yeah.
01:00:54No gold, no food. His water skin's empty, even.
01:00:58And he doesn't know what to do with himself. He's lost again.
01:01:02Yeah.
01:01:03And the one image that he is just locked onto, surprisingly isn't Teora's old battle partner from ages ago,
01:01:12or even Azune, who he hasn't seen in a long time. It is that fairy that was so torn apart by the death of this man.
01:01:21And that memory of this fairy's tears and really brings all the pieces of the evening back in.
01:01:29And he remembers that he was a small part of it. And he starts to remember what happened in that scene of that scuffle.
01:01:38And he looks down at Wulfric, and Wulfric looks up at him like a good dog.
01:01:42And instead of saying what he wants to say, he just does a little thieves' cant, and just does this.
01:01:49Which means, find the pixie.
01:01:52Mm-hmm.
01:01:53And Wulfric just goes .
01:01:55And he's off into the woods, through the underbrush.
01:01:59And Cadigan cracks his neck again and goes,
01:02:02what a nine.
01:02:04And he takes off after him.
01:02:06Give me a survival check as you do so.
01:02:08Okay.
01:02:09Not great.
01:02:1313.
01:02:1513.
01:02:16On a 13, I think you look up and just see gray morning skies in Dol Mancara.
01:02:27You're following Wulfric, who's headed back to the city.
01:02:29Thimble's got to be somewhere in there.
01:02:30Mm-hmm.
01:02:31And as you sobered up a little bit, I think you look and just notice higher up in the city,
01:02:40you see a little dot. You're used to looking for the movements of wild things.
01:02:44You see a flutter of wings.
01:02:49And there is a balcony way up high.
01:02:52The highest neighborhood of Dol Mancara is called Marud.
01:02:55It's near the, it's the gray tower where the Revolutionary Council meets.
01:02:58Right.
01:02:59And it looks like there is some monument.
01:03:03Small, humble, but you can see it because it's right against the river.
01:03:08And you just see a falcon descend towards that monument and rest there.
01:03:17Falcons are cliff hunters.
01:03:19They look for places of altitude to look for the birds.
01:03:21And this place is high up.
01:03:22You can kind of see the whole city from there.
01:03:24There's rock doves and other sort of, you know, birds that they would hunt and eat.
01:03:28So it's nothing, it doesn't strike you as unusual at all.
01:03:31But I think just the noise of that lyre playing, of Hal and his daughter playing broken wing.
01:03:40And just seeing Thimble, the quality of light coming off her body almost shifting in that moment of grief.
01:03:50That grief has the power to destroy.
01:03:57And that's the last thing Fiazzi would want.
01:04:03You take off and head towards, head towards Hal's home.
01:04:12As you do so, you are going to probably be the first to arrive there to wake everybody up.
01:04:18Luis, really briefly with you too.
01:04:21We are going to move from, as Wulfric leads Cadogan back into the Rookery, across the river.
01:04:31In Rubblecliff, we see the Brethren Hall.
01:04:34The home of the Revolutionary Guard.
01:04:38Those proud warriors defending the legacy of the Shapers' War,
01:04:42when all mortals joined arm in arm to defeat, well, the gods, but also a lot of other mortals.
01:04:48When I say all mortals, that's not true.
01:04:50There were plenty of mortals on the other side.
01:04:53But the Brethren Hall elides that purpose.
01:04:57This was the war of mortals versus the gods.
01:05:00And seeing the sort of suits of armor gathered here in this place for the Revolutionary Guard,
01:05:08Azune, you begin to walk inside to sort of, I guess, clock in.
01:05:16What's the first thing you would do as you enter this sort of chamber here?
01:05:21Well, I think my morning routine begins the moment that I wake up.
01:05:24Yeah.
01:05:25And as soon as my eyes open, I'm already on the job.
01:05:29Yeah.
01:05:31As I suit up in my room, I replay again, like, the events of the night before.
01:05:41And in my mind, I have the last moments of Thiazzi's execution and watching his body hanging and suspended in the air.
01:05:50And I'm caught between the things that I feel like I should do, need to do, the things that I spend very little time on are the things that I want to do.
01:06:00Yeah.
01:06:01By the time I arrive officially on the job, I would have already gotten my gear on.
01:06:10I would have already began in my own room the Detect Magic ritual.
01:06:17Well, I leave my room with that already activated because that, as an arcane marshal, is one of the very things that I'm tasked to do.
01:06:24Keep tabs on any arcane anomalies or arcane surges that happen around, and I leave my room with that already activated.
01:06:34On my mind is what is in store today.
01:06:46My job usually consists of some administration.
01:06:48There's some permits, perhaps, for people that are looking to get sanctioned places to practice arcane magic.
01:06:58There is some maintenance that I would do to fix devices that are meant to support arcane research.
01:07:08And then there's the patrol.
01:07:10Yeah.
01:07:11And right now I'm making sure that my patrol is changing.
01:07:15As you walk around, you have your area, the Revolutionary Guard, you know, was here to protect the city in the wake of the Revolution.
01:07:25And then after that, it was here to be part of keeping the peace.
01:07:29And then after that, of the different offices here, some have fallen into disarray or disrepair.
01:07:34The arcane marshals are still very active.
01:07:38These are the people whose job it is to be able to be warriors that can also detect magic and can keep the city safe from threats of demon or undead and different kind of supernatural entities.
01:07:49You see, as you are getting your stuff together, with some notes of notices to the guard about changing laws.
01:08:00There's a lot of training and notices about the reality of not being able to cast magic in the marketplace anymore, which wasn't the case even a year ago.
01:08:09Walking into the office of your captain, Edrian Fazir of the Arcane Marshals, you see that Edrian looks up at you, and there's someone seated in his office already.
01:08:25Sir Harrandus Einfazen of the Council of the Chamber of Lords Advisory.
01:08:31Your captain, Edrian, looks at you.
01:08:33Older man, big belly, rotund.
01:08:36He's got sort of like a strap of white around his chin.
01:08:39Human man looks up and goes,
01:08:42Arsene, good to see you, my lad.
01:08:45Have you met Sir Einfazen?
01:08:48I turn to take this stranger in. Have I met him before?
01:08:54You recognize him as a knighted lord of the House Einfazen.
01:08:59Mm-hmm.
01:09:00He...
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