[HQ Ignorance] Scene 42: Wilkairtha Questions .. and a revelation.

[Nic Hughes]

Lev Lafayette wrote:
> Wilkairtha listen in to the conversation, a scowl on
> his face growing, 'though his body betrays no
> agitation.
>
> "Even if what you strangers say is true about
> Theoblanc, and I do not dispute the possibility, your
> means of destroying him seems improbable to me. How do
> you expect to reach him beyond his forces of the
> undead? Why are you certain that such, ugh,
> 'activities', will destroy him or his power?"
>
> "In two nights time it will be Wilday. My people will
> transform as accords to The Curse. Then we will be
> strong and we can attack!"
>
> A contemplative Swordsinger, who hitherto had been
> working on the binding of hilt, suddenly looks up in
> surprise at Wilkairtha. 
>
> "Full Moon, Evening, Wild Day, Death Week, Dark
> Season? Oh, most certainly the children of Vivamort
> will be ready for you. I cannot think of a worse time
> to be confront them."
>
>   

Aalmon looks at the death-worshipper for a moment and smiles before 
turning back to Wilkairtha "As he says, they will be at their strongest 
on that night and they will be expecting your attack. My power too is 
ruled over by the moon and although I am strongest then I would not face 
vampires on that night if I can help it. We can use this against them 
but if we spend our lives in a direct assault on them when they are 
strongest we will spend our lives cheaply indeed. By all means give the 
appearance of preparing to attack, that in itself will pull most of 
their forces together ready to repel your hordes. If the main strike 
falls elsewhere and in a different way then it has all the more chance 
of success.

As to why I think our rather odd plan might work, think on this. 
Theoblanc has spent over a century building up his power within the 
church with an iron hand, the church in return grants him immense 
magical power. Such power that he has comes by the church he would lose 
if his true nature were revealed. While he has the power of the whole 
church to wield he is probably too much for all of us, without it we may 
not even need to defeat him. If he was disgraced and a new king on the 
throne not in his thrall then all this would look very different." He 
finished gesturing once again at the diorama.

"In a way the Curse forces your hand, I understand that and that is what 
we came here to help with. This woman Theanora of the the Telmori people 
has discovered part of the way to do this, yet I believe there is more 
to what she has discovered than any of us have yet understood. If we had 
but more time to explore what this means and how to use the transforming 
nature of the moon that was revealed when she rose " he says with a 
reverential bow towards the North West where Sedenya hangs in the sky 
"then I could talk to you of how we could use that. But with so little 
time it would be a gamble, even if we succeed in the transformation we 
do not yet know what new path it would lead us on. So whilst our devious 
little plan is but a humble thing I do believe that if it disables our 
main foe then we have time to resolve the great wrong that we came here 
to heal."

Aalmon pauses and rubs his hand through his hair thinking over what he 
has just said.

"If some of this sounds like mystic gibberish then I can only apologise 
for my poor expression for I am a mystic of the path that you 
encountered many centuries ago and for which you were cursed. My insight 
tells me that there is a way to transform the Curse but that it is not 
something that can be explained in words or performed with some magic 
ritual, it is something that must be experienced to be understood. This 
is why I came and this is why some day I must take on the gift that you 
gave to Judge Kraken, for without it I cannot experience and understand 
and so I cannot help any others on the path."

OOC: If anyone else other than Wilkairtha picks up on that allusion to 
Nysalor then the cat is out of the bag so far as Aalmon being illuminated.

Nic


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