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Trickyz
post Nov 15 2018, 03:14 PM
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I am looking for a group of mercenaries to investigate the recent manipulations of the mana flows.

Having communed, it is obvious that there is a very real threat to Primus, the mana flows and magical creatures of Primus. The difficulty is that when trying to scry specifically about the cause, people involved or the organisation that is causing this things start feeling pretty dangerous. I can't be sure of course but it does seem that whoever is behind this is prepared to ritually strike either the individual or the location that the scrying comes from and potentially on a significantly large scale. Having taken advice from Luis Athanyn we would kindly request that further communing is kept to a minimum as whilst your own personal wards may protect you we can not guarantee that those around you will be safe.

It would also appear that communing about such events appears to set up a link between the organisation and the scryer I can tell already that I am being communed about even sat within a rite of the blinkered eye. It would appear that spells of some description have somehow been added to the mana flows from the exostance and which flow over Primus. Particularly troublingly as much of the mana flow passes through the throne of glass I am concerned that this also represents a threat to the Empire.

What I have gleaned so far is the nature of some of the spells;

One spell appears to draw power away from the caster as spells are cast, I guess the best way to explain this is that spells are using more mana to execute but in a way that most could not tell. So in effect you reach your reserves unexpectedly. Several of my acolytes have died from exhaustion when they simply should not have.

One spell appears to suck on the life force of an individual casting a spell to the point that this can also lead to unexpected death and tragedy. I would advise anyone new to the art of manipulating mana to be extremely cautious it should be noted that currently it is not affecting all casters and appears to be sporadic in nature so far.

The next spell seems to cause a permanent link to be formed between the mana user and another entity, I can't be sure but it appears we are being used as some kind of power source to sustain or empower something.

Another troubling matter is that these spells are very evil and malign in their nature to the point that they do seem be attempting to subvert all magic, magical creatures and artefacts of power over to some malign entity.

The only information I can glean as to a source of these spells is another plane possibly called Oterus the unforgiving. My research into anything by this name is coming up pretty blank I am afraid. I suspect that this is demonic in origin.

The Inquisition is willing to pay an additional 5000grulls for a full written report of events in addition to the standard mercenary pay.

Due to the nature of the threat the location and date of our mission to resolve this will be left until the last moment so as to prevent scrying form the organisation that is behind these events.

Interested parties should make themselves known to me as discreetly as possible.

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post Nov 15 2018, 05:41 PM
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Having done my own research into this, I will do my best to make sure I am there to defend

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post Nov 17 2018, 12:57 PM
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We are Hive.

We don’t understand. Magic is not real. This does not seem important.

But if is true that is threat to Empire, we will serve the Empire Hive, in any way we can.

We are Hive.
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Trickyz
post Dec 5 2018, 10:30 PM
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Thank you Sparek and Hive for your offer of help.

We have managed to ascertain that the safest day to travel to realm of Oterus the unforgiving is Thorsday 13th of this month.

This is when the path you must travel will be at its most stable. I use the phrase most stable as even at this time it is quite obvious that the path you must travel and the realm that you will be travelling too is incredibly unstable being formed of all colours of magic but from what we can gather it has no anchors to hold it together and keep it in place.

It is being sustained and supported by wizards of Primus and without their knowledge we believe.

In addition; the deaths of less practiced wizards is increasing at an alarming rate.

We would advise that practitioners of magic be mindful that they may be "tapped" at anytime.

Inquisitor Metcalfe



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post Dec 10 2018, 09:37 AM
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To Those going on this Thorsday's mission,

I have managed to construct a ritual pathway that you will be able to take to get to the plane of Oterus and back. This appears to be the only safe way to travel to Oterus and back.

The plane of Oterus is very unstable, it would appear that transportation by supernatural means is very difficult and dangerous. More than that though; is that transporting on and off the plane is highly likely to cause huge tears in reality which would be extremely dangerous for those around the person that does it.

I would like to let the mercenaries on this hire to know that the inquisition will not take it lightly at all should a mercenary decide to shift off plane whilst other mercenaries are in the vicinity. I would like to make this clear that this in our view it would be murder of a fellow mercenary on the same hire should a mercenary die because of such actions.

We are getting close to the day and tensions are very high around the office, this mission is of grave importance and we are busy constructing weapons that we believe will prove to be very useful for your mission.

Once again we can not thank you all enough for your help, Primus and the Empire needs you.

Inquisitor Metcalfe


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Netheril
post Dec 10 2018, 10:38 AM
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We are Hive.

We have drunk from the pools of life, and been granted visions. We guarded our dreams and trod warily, but it was too late. Already careless dreams have been dreamt, and those responsible for what is occurring have increased their efforts as a result.

At least this meant we could dream more freely. We have some information, though there is much more to learn. We are not amongst the most skilled at the dreaming.

We will share what we know when we meet with the mercenary hive that is to gather soon. We have brought too much attention to the Hive, and would not do the same to others for no benefit.

But if there should be those more skilled at the dreaming, who wish to know what we have learned, we are happy to share. Otherwise we would warn the threat of careless dreaming is real.

We are Hive.
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post Dec 10 2018, 11:58 AM
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I will attend

To build on what has been said, transporting off the plane will destroy everything in roughly 60 feet. I will reiterate this to those attending on the day so no-one can misunderstand

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Will
post Dec 10 2018, 01:15 PM
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I shall be there. I am capable of significant potency in my scrying, and shall reserve as such for when I am in the thick of it as it were.

I look forward to travelling with you all to combat this threat to Primus.

If there are any other druids traveling please let me know.

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Netheril
post Dec 10 2018, 01:19 PM
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Kesira,

We are what you term druid.

We are Hive.


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post Dec 10 2018, 07:09 PM
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This sounds really exciting, I’ll see if I can make myself available to help out.

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post Dec 14 2018, 11:39 AM
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The Snow Summary
The current threat that Oterus possessed has been dealt with by destroying the world/being he was creating, although he will likely look to attack again as he wishes to take vengeance upon the mercenary caste for the death of his family.

Full Report
A group of us gathered at Inquisitor Metcalfe’s request. There was a serious threat to the whole of Primus that was the result of a giant being ritually manifest within the exostance, its size was such that it could fit the whole of Primus within his hand. This being was known as Oterus the Unforgiving, and the plan was for him to close his hand and crush Primus once the manifestation was complete.
The being was of such a size that it was effectively its own plane within the exostance. However due to both the size and that it was still forming the “walls” between the plane and the exostance where incredibly weak and unstable. Inquisitor Metcalf have devised the plan of entering the brain area of this being and opened a pathway there.
We were presented with a large number of ritual caches that, although extremely dangerous, could be placed within the weak points and tears of the realm and explode at once destroying. We made the sensible decision to leave them behind while we first explored the realm and discovered the locations to place them.
The realm was unstable as we expected, and contained a number of both demonic and undead threats as well as rituals and defences designed to slow down and drain mercenaries of their powers.
We fairly soon met a projection of Oterus and I was able to talk to him for a short while. It turns out he was a man from Primus originally who lived within the heartlands with his wife and 2 children. Unfortunately when Rodanne was returned to Primus in IM1016 his wife and children were killed and he is blaming mercenaries solely for this, deeming it the consequences for them acting without any consideration for others.
The projection soon left and we continued our way through the realm, the majority of demons and undead were being created by the realm itself. I suspect Oterus must have made some form of demonic pacts to created the world and the demons. There were however also additional demons bought to that place, the most dangerous of which could transport themselves off the realm causing a partial collapse fatal to anyone nearby.
Contained within the realm were also some of Oterus’s memories which we were able to speak to, including that of his wife and children. His wife does not want him to take the actions he is currently asked him and wished us to try and convince him to stop.
Near the end of the day we had the opportunity to speak to another projection of Oterus and I was trying to explain the above to him and reason with him however it was not very successful. He is hell bent on the destruction of all merceraries even if that means he dies trying as he feels he has nothing to live for. The projection then unfortunately faded when a warding defence was crossed. He had placed it their intentionally to trigger to show that mercenary’s need to think about their actions. He also wished for all present to personally apologise on behalf of all mercenaries for the death of his family.
With the projection gone and the centre of the area discovered the caches were places and we fought out way off the realm before triggering them as we left destroying the realm. The collapse of which may cause black snow to be seen falling over Primus over the next few days.
Oterus himself wasn’t on the plane and his current location, or him personally, is shielded from scrying but I suspect he will attempt to attack Primus/mercenaries again in the future.
I have since reviewed both my notes and memories from when Rodanne returned to Primus as I was co-ordinating the mercernary actions at the Dawn that year and at no point did the scrying or investigation reveal that any people would be killed by Rodanne’s return and I am confident that every reasonable action was taken to safely merge Rodanne back to Primus and save the 6000 people within the city.


Theodore Be'Akris
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Rob
post Dec 14 2018, 05:51 PM
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So

Are the young mages still dying and are their still issues with the safe use of magic?

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RichFromant
post Dec 14 2018, 07:03 PM
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Magiarch,

With the destruction of the realm the rituals causing the issues with magic were all destroyed, resolving the danger and difficulty mages recently faced.

Theodore Be'Akris


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post Dec 16 2018, 06:47 PM
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Excellent

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