Your Uncle Valin is a seer on the royal court and personal advisor to the king. He has been grooming you to carry on his legacy but his pragmatic and ruthless approach to advising the throne sometimes makes you apprehensive. His preferred manner of scrying is to consult his Planitar a powerful elven artifact. He
- Offers advice and guidance. Is the assistant to the king.
Common Conversations
Questions
Does knowing the future impact your actions upon it.
To know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
The vision made me want to freeze into immobility, but this, too was action with its consequences.
Have you ever lied about what you have foreseen?
Sometimes my visions are vague and I cannot be accurate but the pressure of needing to say something puts me in a place where.
Worries
Will be blinded and his plantar destroyed when attempting to scry
The King is doomed to be replaced by a False King.
Leads and Lore
Slosky’s Occulus
The Triarchy
There is a rumor of an empire, ancient and lost to time. An Empire ruled by three perfect women who could never do wrong, and who would never die. And though they were beautiful, ageless, and merciful, the kingdom that grew around the Triarchy was the most monstrous yet made. A tyranny of torture and pain that could never end while the three immortal sisters lay at its center like pearls in a poisoned shell. Until one day it did. The women disappeared and were never seen again. The Empire slowly faded and fell, leaving only a memory, like a nightmare recalled at dawn.
Once, there was an Empire ruled by three perfect women. One time would not touch; she would never age or die. One was loved;everyone who met her eyes would want nobody else. And one stopped harm; no one who kissed her could hurt another being.
Perfection drives man mad. Beyond its inner court, the Empire was murderous, evil, and insane, but the sisters at its heart would never age and no one who met them would, or could, ever do them harm.
The Empire could not end, only change hands.
The sisters lived a cosseted, disconnected existence, almost unaware of the horror that occurredoutside of their direct presence. Blind, protected, puppet Queens of a nightmare realm. Until, one day, three treasonous ministers, with rather mixed motives—devised a plan.
They would take the sisters to the Maze of the Blue Medusa.
The Medusa, Psathyrella, was aeons old even so long ago. Immortal, clever, cold-hearted, and almost without fear, she could keep the sisters prisoner without being seduced by their various perfections. The Maze of the Medusa, where she held immortal threats in forms of stone, was lost, broken from reality and time, near impossible to find, and, if found, still harder to survive.
The plan succeeded: the three sisters, and their three treasonous ministers, disappeared.
The Empire fell and is now little more than legend, a dark mark on the memory of mankind.
Accessing the Maze of the Blue Medusa
The key to the Maze of the Blue Medusa’s entry is the theft of the painting “False Chanterelle”. It must be illegally stolen… not bought, forgotten, inherited, or found. Fraud is acceptable. On the night of its theft, hang it on the north wall of a moonlit room. The woman in chains will turn and ask for help. In these exact circumstances the painting acts as a gate between the moonlit room and the prison of False Chanterelle. Touching the painting takes you into the room with the bound woman.
The Stargazers
Sir Uravulon Calcidius
A calal of wizards who are all long deceased.
This unpleasant, sadistic human researched in his tower far away lands and parlayed that into massive power.
The Star Crystal
worth 5,000 sp.
The god that crawls
some good stuff
Artifacts
The Circlet of Kreps
Affix it to your skull and screw in the screws. Speak the binding ritual to complete the connection. Reduces Charisma by 2. It visibly pulses with an unearthly energy. It is bound to a familiar trapped in the stygian library. This Familiar will frequently offer you lore
The Eye of McMillen
Can see the desires of those who it gazes upon. What would they be willing to sell at any price that they dare not mention.
Must be installed in your eye with a DC 15 surgery if the roll is failed the eye is lost. Once it is installed it should be covered with a patch when you do not wish to use it. When you stare upon someone the eye asses them. Make a DC 10 Wisdom Check. Lose 1 Wisdom until next long rest.
You then know what they would sell to you that they would not normally speak of.