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The Giamarga wrote:Or maybe they joined the Carnival? Isabella, tell us a bit more about this child? She should not be too normal. What does she do when entering other peoples dreams? When did she discover this ability first and whose dreams did she enter?

She could play with the Familiar, you mean? That might be too much plot in one place.

As a young child, she doesn't have much control over her powers - she does it unconsciously, staring with her mother's dreams, due to their close emotional and physical proximity. She has not yet realized that dream and reality are separate, and since children so often come up with imaginary friends and worlds, her mother hasn't noticed either. If she had a tutor or began to push the limits of her powers, she could probably do all sorts of things: watch people's memories, meddle with their subconscious, implant thoughts in their psyche... doing such things will draw her closer and closer to "ascension", however.

DeepShadow of FoS wrote:And where's the father, Isy? You left out what happened to Illhousen.

I didn't actually have that module, so I sorta begged off that question >.> Well, let's see. He could just be with the mother and child, because that would frankly be the most creative thing (since when does that ever happen?) but as an alternative let's say he distracted the Nightmare Court so his family could escape. He couldn't quite escape the Nightmare Court, but desperately fled from them into the only place he could - the dreamscape of the nurse or their daughter. He still guards them from the Court from where he is now. His family can still talk to him when they sleep, but the mother inevitably forgets in the morning due to the hazy nature of dreams.

To get this started again I will do Augustus and bait a new hook.

Augustus was a very stoic and disciplined wizard with a strong sense of honor. He scoured the globe looking for arcane information getting deep into debt. When approached by Davion he was glad someone would pay his travelling expenses and was willing to work for him for that and for Davion paying off his debt. Just before he returned to Davion he was warned by an elven diviner he just helped that he might regret returning but despite that he did so. As far as he was concerned a deal was a deal and it was worth his life to keep his honor.

In the Book of Shadows it says that the Three Hags helped the Lady of the Lake. How did she hear of them from a remote area of Darkon? Why didn't they kill her on sight? She is beautiful and would remind them of everything they lost. A song is unlikely to change their minds as their wills are too strong for the charming song to work.

Well, all those questions (apart from how she heard about the hags) are answered in the book of shadows. They didn't kill her on sight because she were a little taken back by how fearless she was (by going straight the the hut), and were then even more shocked when she started singing to them about killing those that killed her lover. They decided to help her because the liked the evil part of it, they liked how brazen she was, and they hoped it would lead her down a path similar to their own.

Does Harkon Lukas know what his curse is? What feats has he attempted that ultimately lead him to the knowledge of his curse?

Epically wrote:Does Harkon Lukas know what his curse is? What feats has he attempted that ultimately lead him to the knowledge of his curse?

Harkon investigated his curse after his second child's disastrous betrayal. He consulted a Vistani caravan that entered Kartakass, and bargained for three days with the raunie for what he could give them in exchange for the exact conditions of his curse. This Vistani family was given hairs from his head, spittle from his lips, and finally, in the throes of grief as he explained his need on the third night, they got tears from which to craft the most powerful wards against wolfweres. The tear-streaked scarf proved so powerful that the vial of spittle and the hairs went into a storage cabinet, but one morning the raunie discovered they were gone. The band had split a few years prior, with her sister becoming raunie of the new band, and she feared what terrible purpose her sister would put those stolen tokens to.

Harkon, for his part, learned that among the specifics of his curse, his child will only turn on him if the child knows he is their parent. Thus he has taken to anonymous support of a number of his most ignorant by-blows, trying to figure out how to remain anonymous while still shaping them into the pillars of a new wolfwere society.

New Hook:

The Bladebound in Pathfinder are a subclass of magus who wield black blades that have power, but also possessive egos. Some Ravenloft Pathfinder sources claim a connection between these black blades and the Ebonbane, either that these are servants of the Ebonbane, or are siphoning power away from it to make it weak. What is the real source of the black blades, and does it have to do with Ebonbane at all?

The black blades are not linked to Ebonbane---well, not directly. We all know of Ebonbane's mortal nemeses, but what of his other-than-mortal foes? As it turns out, the possession of Grand Caliph Muhdar* ab Sang and the resulting Heretical Wars greatly interfered with the long range machinations of a powerful hellfire wyrm (MMII), who has now sent black blades into the Demiplane of Dread in a novel attempt at getting revenge. Each black blade has a special purpose, and while the black blades of the Dread Realms seem to have disjointed schemes, they work toward a single goal: directing a chain of events that will bring about a conjunction. When this finally occurs, Shadowborn Manor (and perhaps, incidentally, many other domains) will return to their planes of origin, and the infernal dragon will be able to get at Lussimar.

Does the wyrm control all black blades everywhere, or has it simply gotten its claws on a few for personal use? That is a question for another time.

*The Caliph's first name is spelled two different ways in Mistipedia. Is it Muhdar or Mudhar?

New Hook:

The Kyton Device which Francois de Penible uses in Children of the Night: Demons is a disturbing method of kyton reproduction that Francois first learned of while reading the Madrigorian. How did this Kyton Device enter the Demiplane, and how did Drigor know about it? Did he have something to do with it? Did he just speak of it without knowing one was actually in the Demiplane with him?

Wolfglide wrote:*The Caliph's first name is spelled two different ways in Mistipedia. Is it Muhdar or Mudhar?

I believe the only source that mentions him is the Shadowborn novel. I just checked it and it's "Muhdar". I've corrected Mistipedia. Thanks for pointing out the error.