[HQ Ignorance] OOC : one funny idea about the banner being the guardian...

[Nic Hughes]

Loran wrote:
> The thing should be a really neutral symbol to accepted by every belief that we have within our group.
> The banner and a Vexilla are near to one each other, that's why Alamond was thinking about it, but you said that Azhur would rely more on a western reliquary... unless we have something more pagan like a potential arkati device coming from Azhur's family past...
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I think a reliquary would be more suitable for a purely religious and 
possibly static group. I can quite easily imagine warbands of knights 
using banners in the West.

> This is the funny part : Imagine that the Banner is a long lost guardian with its encoded speech on it (remember the description? "Big sized, strange inscriptions in an ancient and forgotten language were embroidered in black on both sides").
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> Imagine that the guardian is trying desesperatly to communicate since centuries!!! :-D
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> Anybody able to read it and to understand it, could then communicate with it... but nobody remember the language, tricky no?
> Perhaps if someone remarks that the inscriptions are changing from time to time... this would be a clue to begin with?
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That would be an amusing form of guardian communication, band members 
can somehow make sense out of the words they see fluttering on the 
banner - what they see depends on what the guardian is trying to 
communicate at the time. Of course the essense/spirit/whatever of the 
banner can not communicate with anyone now because nobody is bound to it 
in a hero band.

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> Because a probleme could be that Arkat and Talor can be opposed in some point of view, the first was a traitor, the second a loyal one, wasn't they ? ;-)
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Well yes but Arkat was also Gbaji ;-)

The awareness power of the guardian may well be against traitors rather 
than against external threats, that might fit well with the Talor myths 
(although one of Arkat's other followers became a byword for loyalty - 
Makla Mann ).

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> I have written in scene 4:
> "It is said to inspire allies and terrorize enemies"
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> and on my PC sheet :
> Old Banner of the Red Valor of Ancestors :
> - Truce and Negotiation (14)
> - No harm from Uz of Ralios if unfurled (no level because not tested)
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I would think these would be additional to the powers of the guardian, 
i.e. powers of the physical form of the banner rather than of the 
magical being inhabiting it. Although transferring Truce and Negotiation 
into its blessing or defence could also make a lot of sense.


Nic