General Summary
Ancient gods such as Gorum and Desna remain popular in much of Numeria, while Nethys was a favorite among the mages of the Technic League. Brigh, the goddess of invention, also has many followers, including a chapel within the chaotic Scrapwall, which also hosts a cult-like gang known as the Lords of Rust who worship a little-known god named Hellion. There is some worship of Abadar, mostly in the larger cities. Erastil has many followers, and the people of Iadenveigh are particularly dedicated to him.
Even newer gods like Iomedae have begun to make inroads in the last century thanks to the increasing presence of Mendevian Crusaders. Since the opening of the Worldwound, demonic cults have grown in popularity as well, particularly those of the demon lords Deskari and Baphomet.
Recordings (incompelte)
First Hour: Link
Issues with recording, so no further recording of the session
Bonnie
Visiting the kids
Clyden: The Inherited Farm
From someone he cared for deeply
Short walk outside of Torch to let the sheep run
C has not been eating the animal feed
C needs to check in Abel once a week
C will check in with Val too
Looks like his dad, Davos
Midday
Abel: The School
Abel has been giving rose shit for working with Garmen
Abel does not react well to the news of an impending TL invasion
Immediately wants to tell everyone
B -> A
Thorn more advanced than we thought
TL is after it, as in their number one target
They get their hands on this, things go bad for Numeria
It talks
"You are just as bad as Macron with that stuff!"
Khonnir's almost dead; TL had folks here, some are dead
A doesn't like that she's dealing with this
If it wasn't that it was Macron, or someone else in the town, then rose, then
Where you going?!
HH first, to pass on some information
Then Scrapwall, cos the LoR almost blew the town up
He's immediately going to tell everyone
She's proud of him for thinking of raising folks to defend Torch
Dinner
He's bringing Val, expecting rose, and also the neighbours
Also expecting the crazies
B knows Abel is very confused, very angry
Feels like she's running off again
A: When you see Macron, be nice to him, because I won't be when he gets back here
A: Last he heard, he was off to Starfall with rose. He dropped in for 2/3 days here, then disappeared again.
B is worried what Macron's latest 'bad crowd is
Shops for dinner, and heads back to hers
Kolug: The Conversation Continues...
K has an arrow pulled back
T watches K's physique
K has comfort with a bow; knows the basics
r was made aware of K's shadow, and has been keeping her eye on K a lot of the time
Weird grace confidence to the way he holds himself
Posture of the shadow is upright, straight, taller almost
T puts themself in front of the target
K doesn't fire
Something was raging against him, wanting to take control of the situation
K stood fast against it
T testing a theory
T: That the entity that is bonded with you wished to attack
K looks like he's going to cry, run, or both
Looks genuinely horrified
When K tries again, it looks like someone with some knowledge, but inexperience
r says he should get his head checked
Joram or Bonnie; K favours Joram
T shifts herself to a mirror sheen and moves to allow K to see himself
K looks like he expects
rose's Workshop
r disarms her traps
K gets his notes and starts organising sheets/journals
r starts looking at the scrolls about the TL
From 13 onward, gets weirder
More paranoid
Pages ripped out, with bulletpoints following to explain what's been torn out
Journals
All written withint around 5 years
Number:
15 Total
Oldest 1 Homework
Roughly one year each
3 from one year period
What year?
Around 15/16 year old Kolug
Final journal ends with:
They won't let me live, they won't let me die, I give up.
15 year gap before the next journal, his current one
Note
Be great, not good over and over, Shining style
Journal
17 years ago this month (13 yoa approx)
Diary starts before the fall
A couple of pages of a To Do list, like he's preparing for a trial
Standards, training, feeling confident
Gap of two months
Next one is random lines
Some look like they might be poems
Torn out page
Next Page: I don't know what happened, but I failed. I don't know what happened, but I failed.
All down the page
Torn out page
Six months after the first entry, it returns to a more day-to-day diary again
Torn out Pages
Time skip
Paranoid up to repeated sentences
Torn out pages...
Time skip
and on and on like that
Time period between these get shorter
Trials: What rose knows
A lot of Kellid tribes tend towards Coming of Age trials
Usually feats of str, cunning to demonstrate
If a Kellid cannot demonstrate one of these traits, they are given a trial of skill
Craft skills
Journal suggests it was the Str/Cunning he was prepping for
T: Is there a way to retry a trial?
K doesn't answer
Stands up (straight) and is looking at the mass of journals with an 'oh shit' look on his face
Answer
Not really with Str/Con, as they don't usually survive it
Crafting/skill are repeatable
Journals
T picks up his latest journal
"What did you do the day before this entry?"
K bought it in HH before he left
Was busy compiling the scrolls of the TL
rose doesn't think that looks like giving up
Be great, not good
K wants to ask his mum about it
Doesn't know where she is
T thinks it is more glory seeking phrasing
K has a thought
Numeria isn't always ruled by a Black Sovereign
It's often fractured among hte many tribves
Those who take over SF tend to become the BS
Many gaps without the direct leader of the 'united tribes'
4 Known Black Sovereigns
Most go down in history, are known for how they became the BS
Except for The Unnamed Warrior
K finds the page
History / Timeline of the BS??
The Unnamed Warrior
Information seems weirdly redacted
'We don't talk about it' sort of thing
Kellid tradition at the time was oral
Favoured Armaments: Sword and shield
May be a modern interpretation
Assumed he was from the Black Horse tribe
There's a temporary base called the Black Horse Outpost
Built in honour of him
T theorisesd that a specific spirit entity has been bound to K
Caused by a near death experience
K realises something; "Fuck."
Goes catatonic
T & r
rose asks Thorn to try to avoid killing K if the spirit entity makes him a threat, if possible
T: Command override accepted
The Conversation Continues
T suggests that she can safeguard K's journal to prevent page removal
K gets up, shifts to August, tries to leave
r gets in the way of the door
K picks her up and
T tries to comfort K (ish)
rose reads the diaries
Private Scene: What rose learns / surmises from reading Kolug's diaries
Towards the end, in the latest journal, she pulls out a marker and starts making very quick notation
Then
K falls asleep
rose has Thorn put him on the only free spot of floor, the space by her mother's old shrine
r & T talk about K
T doesn't consider him a threat; doesn't consider the spirit to be entirely K
r talks about him needing to be taken care of, likely by the group
Bonnie: Evening
Abel and Val arrive first
Huge queue outside the door
Mostly taking place outside now
Abel and rose fight and snipe at one another
They are united on Macron tho
B reveals that she's hiding a lot more grey than normal with
Bonnie's Hair
r notices that the strands that are not grey, but white
Reminds her of Garritt Burrwaddle
K knows that gnomes can go through a period known as Bleaching
Usually after a point of depression
Depression is lethal to gnomes
They either come out of it as a bleachling, or they do not recover at all
Usually comes from the lack of wonder in the world, but there are other types of depression in the world
B's been holding back a few years now
Abel, rose, and Clyden are very focused on her now
rose promises the boys to keep Bonnie on her toes
Partying into the night
rose is definitely getting drunk
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