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You are Lieren of Nothing, The Gentle and Golden eyed giant of Shangrala, the second son of the emperor and primarch of his legions of space marines, The great hunter of the wilds and natural enemy of all tyrants, grand architect of the Long-Jia Empire and head of its ministry of development, Betrothed of ancient Kanzeon, and friend and idol of many.

Having subtly orchestrated the destruction of the faiths and ideologies aligned to the chaotic powers in the lands of the Zoroast now unified by its first truly and benevolent ruler, through cunning and a little aid from the souls of your lost brothers, the religious upheaval was disguised as little more than a by product of the power grab performed by the once minor seaport governor Arash Zaandia, in the lands of a thousand and one faiths. The Spenta alone, the guild of artisans who worshiped Hei'an Fu and offered to him sacrifices of slaves and great quanities of wealth in their forges, required your direct attention to shatter and scatter to the winds as little more than dust. Easily crushed by the unmatched martial might of your sons, the astartes of the second legion, the sweet taste of victory over yet another cabal of heartless tyrants, was stolen from you, as in during your meditations and wanderings in the astral realm, you found that two of your brother primarchs suffered greatly.

BUT alas, the devil lords blocked your attempts to reach out to them, and though your nameless father and dear brother Magnus promised to use their vast psionic might and training to aid these abused brothers in anyway they were capable of you were not satisfied with mere guidance offered or comfort given through dreams or telepathic communication. However, helpless as you were to help them yourself due to the accursed scar given to you by the self proclaimed gods of chaos that branded you as a prize to be sought after as well as an enemy to be conquered, you lamented as your beloved shining emerald star, Kanzeon, tried to ease your aching heart.

However, your alien student and fanatic of the journey, Carys of Ulthwe, suggested a means for you to circumvent the spiritual walls put in place by the foul patriarchs of discord. So, agreeing to travel to the webway to meet with her former teacher and master, Eldrad of Ulthwe, you first returned command of the elements of your legion upon Shangrala to a rebuilt and revitalized Dae-hyun, and met two of Kanzeon's sisters, the industrious and boisterous Anahita and the newborn Liberty. Who under Dae-Hyun's care had become rather foul mouthed and fierce natured, much to the displeasure and outrage of Kanzeon, Mari and Al-Uzza.

After your affairs upon your homeworld were set in place, but before you set off to travel through the Labyrinth dimension, you reached out to Magnus to invite him to the audience you were no traveling to...
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>>5311436

"Once more, my dear brother, I invite you to both observe and join me in the audience with that aged and sagacious race named the Aeldari" You say cordially and kindly, as you and Magnus sit a table across from each other, in an illusionary tea house you had created to make this astral meeting between you two brothers all the more comfortable "I know you would never forgive me if I denied you a chance to illuminate yourself with the knowledge and wisdom they possess, even if they, like men, can be blinded by arrogance and lead by foolish leaders"

Magnus lifted an eyebrow, his facial features shifting as the colors of his eyes cascade with colors that could only be seen in the depths of the great sea, as his people the Prosperans named the spiritual realm of the Empyrean

"Oh I wouldn't hold a grudge over such a petty thing, I was satisfied with my first encounter with that Xenos breed, when you requested my aid to speak on behalf of those who had, through means that still elude even my research, come to follow The Journey" Magnus said almost idly, as he admired and studied every detail you had made and placed within the dream tea house the two of you sat within, searching to reveal subtleties of Shangralan and specifically Long-Jianese culture so he may come to understand you even more intimately than he already did

"However, I shall still send an Astral presence, if only to see the differences between the cultures of the craftworld and to support you in your meeting with this Eldrad. Such a mysterious figure must be approached with caution, even if he presents himself as a friend" Magnus continued on stoically "And, while it may seem rather hypocritical of me to warn for caution considering the manner of which I once approached the denizens of the Warp, if my observations of the Aeldari psyche and soul and the theories that I hold considering both are accurate, their psionic potential only expands with age and if Carys, who herself is old, considers this Eldrad to be not only her elder, but all but a figure of legend made manifest in the modern Era, approaching him unguarded is just asking to invite disaster upon yourself"

"I do not believe you to be a hypocrite at all, my dearest of brother. I only knew the dangers of the great sea because of my unusual eyes and gift of truth revealing sight" You humbly reply, going through the motions of sipping from your tea cup and putting it down, though it is nothing more than a projected image "and I thank you for your support, and deeply appreciate your promise to guard me from any treachery or ill will that may be directed towards me by my hosts. I shall contact you when I arrive at Great Ulthwe"
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>>5311438

"Your humility is admirable as always, brother. I am sure I am overreacting and acting more like Amon than myself, but experience has taught me you attract danger like a flame draws in moths" Magnus said jovially, but the sharpness of his words told you of how deeply concerned he was for your well being and that he feared if he was not present, he'd find you bloodied and beaten as he had when you were drawn into the trap set by the once nonexistent Chun Qiang "And Carys, we simply must debate and discuss the finer points of your people's psionic traditions and abilities at a later date, perhaps with old Guozhi to join us, if he is still healthy enough to undertake the strain of joining our spiritual conference"

"I would be honored to, wise brother of the great philosopher" Carys said quietly, bowing her head as, after cupping your first and Magnus politely bowing his head, you two brothers depart from one another, and you find yourself upon the lifeless moon, the closest access point to the webway to Shangrala.

Kanzeon stands, her arms crossed as she sees you and Carys party down the ramp leading away from her true body, the great space faring vessel that had carried you all to this lonely rock drifting through cosmic chaos.

"I might be prejudiced against the Eldar for their ancestors folly and fuckups" She sighs, throwing a contemplative yet bored seeming glance towards your handiwork upon the moon, tapping her foot as she pursed her lips and pouted, before delivery the insult directed to the corpses hanging from the various crags and spires that arose from the surface of the grey space rock "But, I cannot in any honesty claim that I expected any specimen of their race to be so stupid as to wait around anywhere near the home of the Giant who butchered their former employer and all his family and more trusted servants, let alone start planning to enrich themselves by RAIDING the same giant's planet"

"Hmm, greed can blind even the most astute and perceptive of men" You muse, as you watch the bodies of the Aeldari raiders say on the weak wind of the bare atmosphere of this lonely, drifting moon "And the prospect of extending one's life is a temptation that can root itself in even the most stalwart and brave of hearts"

"If only they had turned away from their dark path and forsook their evil ways" Folant the veteran rangermourns hanging his head "I mean, you would've still hung them for the atrocities they had committed, but, at least then they may have found some measure of redemption"

"Or dignity" Kellas drawled, shaking his head dismissively "Did you hear how they begged, and pleaded? Accusing everyone but themselves of being the ringleader of this ramshackle operation, and boldly claiming they were coerced and unwilling followers? Utterly repugnant and shameful"

"I wonder how Yin Lei would judge these poor sinners" Carys airily remarked
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"He would've approved of their hanging with all his heart. That old man...I didn't think it'd be possible to be so much of a zealot without a god to follow" Kanzeon chuckled "If he wasn't convinced of threats beyond Shangrala's borders and saw it as his duty to aid humanities return to the stars, I'd think he'd have retired as a general and become a monk somewhere"

"The Black General? No, he is like the Old fox" You say quietly and reverently "He is the kind of soldier, the kind of officer, who will not leave the battlefield until his last battle is won or he suffers his first defeat and is slain. And speaking of Yan Zihao, I still regret I was unable to witness his last charge myself"

"I'm surprise that old bastard could even die" Kanzeon whispered quietly, a twinge of sorrow to her otherwise assertive tone "And you wish to be beside everyone you know, in their last moments"

"As I hope they are by my side when I breath my last, as I wish you and I are never so cruely parted by "fate" and death" You say solemnly and sorrowfully as you bow your head

"Tch, you're just trying to make our parting here sad so our reunion will be all the more uplifting and emotional" Kanzeon says, hiding her face behind a fan to hide her tears and single sniffle "Oh don't start! I'm not complaining at all! I'll fully indulge in that innocent pleasure of embracing you once again, in basking in your presence, as I know you shall marvel and be struck by awe when you look upon me again"

You smile, and wipe tears from your own eyes

"I do so enjoy the natural sense of dramatics the Shangralans exhibit" Folant laughs "You two are only going to be apart for a few days at most, must you be so theatrical in how you say your goodbyes"

"Of course, such elaborate and poetic gestures are instinctive to long-jian men such as I. We are raised to be of eloquent tongue and elegant speech, to weave poetry with every meeting and uphold proper etiquette and keep a dignified bearing in whatever circumstances we may find ourself, no matter how unusual or unexpected" You casually explain

"And its infectious! Trust me, I've found myself writing new code in purple prose cause of him" Kanzeon chuckled "Now go on, and travel into that gate you've hung a few corpses from, lingering will just make my brief solitude all the more painful!"

"Make sure to tell Mari not fret and believe I've died in some desolate waste, give Al-Uzza the list of duties, work and projects I'll be unable to see to while I am gone, keep Anahita from meeting Tao Dandan or Shan until I can act as chaperone for their meeting, and" You say, repeating the list you had prepared to make sure nothing went too terribly wrong in your absence from Shangrala

"And teach Liberty her manners and give her etiquette lessons, and as I promised, I'll keep a detailed log of everything you've missed" Kanzeon answered warmly "Don't worry so much Lieren, the world you envisioned and built won't fall apart, it has strong foundations"
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>>5311442

"I know, but it is natural for me to worry for my friends and family. Take care, my dearest and most brilliant star, whose radiance cannot be matched by any set in the heavens. I swear I shall return to you soon, and repay every tear you shed in my absence with a kiss" You sigh lovingly, winking as you step into the webway, and leave Kanzeon. The sight of her blushing face and maiden smile and adorable, flustered embarrassment, will keep you strong in the face of the unknown and strengthen your resolve to meet this Eldrad fellow

Who the more you hear of him, the more cautious you become. A living legend, as Magnus said not so poetically, is something one should approach carefully.

So, taking the helm of the levitating barge Kanzeon had made just for this occasion, you begin your travels through the labrinth of the webway, guided by Carys, Folant and Kellas' experience and familiarity with the paths that lead towards the home they abandoned to pursue the Journey.

And what a scenic journey it is, to traverse the webway, your eyes are met with countless sights of tragic and quiet beauty, and you can barely comprehend the knowledge that comes to you, revealed by your piercing stare and scholarly study of the strange realm split between the living world and the land of spirits. You ask countless questions to Carys, to Folant, to Kellas, and to all the rest of her cadre of thirty nine, even those warriors whose bodies had been lost to them during the war of ruthless butchery and senseless death!

So you can be forgiven, for deciding to wander and take a detour and more ponderous path through the webway as you near the gate that will allow you to step aboard Great Ulthwe, as perhaps the first human to set foot on a craftworld in untold millennium if not simply the first man to ever be allowed to do so! It is simply to exciting, and all of your study, all of the lessons given to you by the all to happy to teach Carys and all the strange, mystifying sights and vistas left behind within these ruins of the Aeldari stellar empire, ignite your passion as a scholar and sage as well as your hunter's heart and both demand you explore this unchartable wilderness!

Of course, you ask for permission from all of your traveling companions, before taking this slight detour with them at your sides
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>>5311444

And what do you find, as you meander close by the gate to Ulthwe, Lieren?

>A familiar face. But that cannot be! For that face belonged to a slaver's who neck you broke beneath your heel. Chase the apparently reincarnated Stollaire through the black market you found him in, and ask the son of Cearnarch how he is alive again.

>A prophet of the journey! A Wraith guard wearing the colors of Kher-Ys, imparting other travelers with the lessons of the Journey! It is Amaethon himself! The Hunter meets the Farmer once more!

>What appears to be an abandoned battle field, besides the ruins of a long abandoned city. You can sense the stench of the progeny of she who thirsts within. Go hunting hedonists.

>A lost gateway! You must investigate what lays beyond it! What world waits unseen behind it!

>Write in
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>>5311446
>A prophet of the journey! A Wraith guard wearing the colors of Kher-Ys, imparting other travelers with the lessons of the Journey! It is Amaethon himself! The Hunter meets the Farmer once more
It's our boy!
We must take this to lock in his fate as active and well

>Other
The shadow of a stag horned figure drifts for now beyond our grasp.

I just wanna see how it's wrote up
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>>5311446
>A prophet of the journey! A Wraith guard wearing the colors of Kher-Ys, imparting other travelers with the lessons of the Journey! It is Amaethon himself! The Hunter meets the Farmer once more!
It's our friend!
>The shadow of a stag horned figure drifts for now beyond our grasp.
I like this
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>>5311446
>A prophet of the journey! A Wraith guard wearing the colors of Kher-Ys, imparting other travelers with the lessons of the Journey! It is Amaethon himself! The Hunter meets the Farmer once more!
Old friend! How was the tea?
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>Kurnous

Because Hunter god.
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>>5311446
>>A prophet of the journey! A Wraith guard wearing the colors of Kher-Ys, imparting other travelers with the lessons of the Journey! It is Amaethon himself! The Hunter meets the Farmer once more!
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>>5311446
>A prophet of the journey! A Wraith guard wearing the colors of Kher-Ys, imparting other travelers with the lessons of the Journey! It is Amaethon himself! The Hunter meets the Farmer once more!
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>>5311446
>A prophet of the journey! A Wraith guard wearing the colors of Kher-Ys, imparting other travelers with the lessons of the Journey! It is Amaethon himself! The Hunter meets the Farmer once more!
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>>5311446
>>A prophet of the journey! A Wraith guard wearing the colors of Kher-Ys, imparting other travelers with the lessons of the Journey! It is Amaethon himself! The Hunter meets the Farmer once more!
Gotta ask how the homefront is. The merest chance of snatching an entire craftworld's worth of eldar souls from Slaanesh is too good an opportunity to pass up.
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>>5311446
>A prophet of the journey! A Wraith guard wearing the colors of Kher-Ys, imparting other travelers with the lessons of the Journey! It is Amaethon himself! The Hunter meets the Farmer once more!
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>>5311446
>>A prophet of the journey! A Wraith guard wearing the colors of Kher-Ys, imparting other travelers with the lessons of the Journey! It is Amaethon himself! The Hunter meets the Farmer once more!
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We should offer to reembody those who have fallen just like we we did Amaethon way back.
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>>5311446
>A prophet of the journey.

It amuses me that Lieren is a menace to the eldar because his deft tongue. It's like the birth of rock and roll with all the old eldar banging their kids on the head.
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>>5311446
Those kalabites doomed themselves by deciding to set up camp and wait on the surface of the moon of shangrila, their equipment and vehicles shall make a fine addition of materials and resources. And informations too. Perhaps they will reconsider their approach the third time, or send more forces for "hunting".

>A prophet of the journey! A Wraith guard wearing the colors of Kher-Ys, imparting other travelers with the lessons of the Journey! It is Amaethon himself! The Hunter meets the Farmer once more!
i want to talk with Amaethon again, he is a great guy desu

>Write in
In the distance a tall ruined temple of a deity, is the site of a duel to the last. The two figures that fight are blurred from this far away, we must come near for see who are they....
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>>5311446
>>Write in
>A door of a strange metal, shifting ever so subtly as if it was a living creature. The symbols that cover it glow with an eerie green light.

I like to live dangerously
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>>5311446
>Write in
The shade of a most potent eldari, with horns adorning his helm. Why does he feel so familiar, yet you've never met him? (Gimme that dead Eldari hunter god encounter you)
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>>5311646
I'm curious as to what you're fishing for with that write-in, anon. Alluminas and Solkan maybe?
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>>5311446
>A prophet of the journey! A Wraith guard wearing the colors of Kher-Ys, imparting other travelers with the lessons of the Journey! It is Amaethon himself! The Hunter meets the Farmer once more!

I don't remember this lad, But I like the idea of a wrath Guard shouting about shit at random passing eldar
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>>5311917
pretty sure he was the guy in the deldar's tongue
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>>5311670
+1
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>>5311917
he's the guy we debated when they came to pick up the soul stone.
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>>5311446
>A prophet of the journey! A Wraith guard wearing the colors of Kher-Ys, imparting other travelers with the lessons of the Journey! It is Amaethon himself! The Hunter meets the Farmer once more!

Really surprised anons didn't vote for Kanzeon to come, hoping just going off Lierens memories will let us improve the golden dragon river.
Also since it is unlikely the Eldar would ever be fine with Lieren attempting to fully revive them we can instead focus on better wraith bodies, any Eldar in one of those is basically sleep walking and if Lieren can greatly improve it using just methods the Eldar have that would make even them feel indebted.
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I'll be real I want to vote for Stag boy I really do,but he wouldn't be in the webway. The god damned Clown however would be and we'd meet for the first time a fellow trickster.

The Stag is fragmented drifting within she whom thirsts
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>>5311446
Ah fuck it because it has momentum

>We find the Wraithguard spreading the good word
Yet as we talk the two of us behold a vision most strange? A Staghelmed man holding a spear beckoning meanwhile a clown leans over the pair of us arms around our shoulders having a laugh
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>>5312226
Sounds like we could use his shards to hurt her from the inside.
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>>5312226
We did have the chance to encounter him, so it's not entirely out of the question we can encounter him again.
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>>5311717
it felt like something cool, that's all
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What's the names of Isha's dead husband?
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>>5312581
>Kurnous
The vote is basically between him and our Far-flung farseer friend
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>>5312128
i believe his armor and the barge we are using, are collecting informations of what Lieren is seeing passively (they aren't efficient has kanzeon, but it would be still something). And Lieren can use the Lotus Sceptre for take his memories if he needs to.
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If we get Avatars of Isha/Kuronous, will they basically be Orion/Ariel?

Those could be game changers. A wild Hunt chasing Drukhari and chaos warbsnds down would be especially fun

Imperium might have to change some policies though.
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>>5311446
>A familiar face. But that cannot be! For that face belonged to a slaver's who neck you broke beneath your heel. Chase the apparently reincarnated Stollaire through the black market you found him in, and ask the son of Cearnarch how he is alive again.
Oh yeah this too

>>5312600
+1?
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>>5312226
I wonder what it'd take to get him to send out the Harlequins early? In canon they first reappeared some time in M33 and it's currently ~700.M30. Cegorach is probably already keeping tabs on Lieren, he's probably a great source of material.
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>>5312850
It's a poetic mon'keigh accidently reenacting Kurnous and Isha, is giving the eldar a new weapon against Slanesh while simutaniously shaking up their society, continously annoys chaos and is a trickster, the clown probably has a wing on the black library dedicated to Lieren and how funny he is.
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>>5312864
>What is that grey mon'kiegh doing?
>.....
>WHAT THE FUCK DID HE JUST MANTLE KHAINE?!
>QUICK WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
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>>5312925
>This man just dragged one of Granddaddy Shitbreath's favorite underlings to his doorstep for a curbstomping, provided the aforementioned curbstomping, and once he was done, vowed to cuck the fat sack of moldy lard in front of him and his wife. AND SHE LIKED IT. I swear, this guy is like something out of my wildest dreams.
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>>5311446
So which choice do I gotta make to find the shard of the eldari hunter god? We gotta get his shard if we want to make Isha moist.
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>>5312864
>Lieren, in one of his many ventures in the Black Library, finds their Cultivation lit based on him.
>He proceds read most of them for a couple of years before calling the Big Clown himself and giving him a lecture on all the mistakes within the wing like he did to that one playwriter.
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>>5311446
>A prophet of the journey! A Wraith guard wearing the colors of Kher-Ys, imparting other travelers with the lessons of the Journey! It is Amaethon himself! The Hunter meets the Farmer once more!
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>>5313163
If we keep talking about cucking Nurgle, Slaanesh is going to use this against us.

I know he nasty, but she worse and she has dibs on Eldar Deities and souls
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>>5313563
>I know he nasty, but she worse and she has dibs on Eldar Deities and souls
She has dibs on being starved to death like the rest of the parasite gods.
I do wanna help the Eldar that are capable of being saved honestly.
I wonder if The Journey or the Imperial Truth can provide a way for them to escape Slaanesh's clutches.
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>>5313575
It seems the journey does help somewhat, by what our eldar friends have said before.
The imperial truth is completly useless on the other hand.
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>>5313563
>she has dibs on Eldar Deities and souls
If Isha ever escapes Nurgle, she's in a real grey area for who has dibs on her. Nurgle has a claim since he's her (unconsensual) husband, Slaanesh has dibs since she claimed the rest of the pantheon (minus Khaine, Cegorach, and Ynnead), and Tzeentch probably has some plan he needs her for. Khorne probably just wants to kill her. There'll be a fight over it.
>>5313575
>I do wanna help the Eldar that are capable of being saved honestly.
Biggest issue is the instahell Slaanesh makes them go to. Pre-Fall eldar iirc reincarnated without limit, like Guozhi's technique perfected. But the warp was a lot nicer back then, so even if the connection between the eldar soul and Slaanesh was severed, it still wouldn't fix things completely. But HOW to do that is a much larger, nastier can of worms.
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>>5313680
If we ever free Isha, we need a follow up plan for WHEN the other chaos gods make their move to try and eat her.
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>>5313692
I think any plan to play keep-away with Isha as the ball has a lot of factors that we don't know yet, even OoC. The nature of the Eldar pantheon, for example. It's unlikely that they themselves are Old Ones, since Isha didn't look like a frog when we met her. So they could be psychic weapons created by the Old Ones, ancient eldar empowered to godhood by their species' collective belief, maybe they're warp creatures who dodged the inherent asshole-ness the Big Four (now Big Six and counting) by being created when the warp was calm. Maybe they're something else entirely that I haven't thought of in this post, but each possibility makes the game of keep-away harder.
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>>5313708
We could send her in the webway to hide out with the clown god.
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>>5313715
That works if there isn't an inherently psychic aspect of their being. If they're entirely warp-based beings, we won't be able to remove them from the warp. If they're sort of half-and-half like some theories state, there's still the warp half that has to stay behind. But I suppose half a god safe is better than none of a god...
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>>5313731
I don't know what you're talking about, but the clown god is sorta in the warp and is also an eldari god. Where ever he's able to travel, the same should be said for Isha.
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>>5313755
>>5313731
The webway is still kinda still in the warp. it's between real and warp space. think of it like a glass underwater tunnel and the water is the warp and the fishes and sharks are demons.
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>>5313211
Hope it isn't next to an emperor or primarch vote because those will always win.
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>>5313680
Guo zi's reincarnation technique works on Shangrala alone right? What are the chances Eldar could use this phenomenon after parking a craft world in our vicinity?
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>>5313755
>Where ever he's able to travel, the same should be said for Isha.
The Eldar Gods are not monolithic, each one has unique characteristics, sometimes even basic natures that others don't. They aren't the same just because they're all part of the same pantheon. For example, Khaine was shattered where the majority of others were killed and has a connection to Khorne that isn't reflected in any of his counterparts or other Chaos Gods. Ynnead seems to be a gestalt entity of eldar souls, which is unique to him, regardless of the nature of the other possible explanations for the gods. Cegorach appears to be by nature immune (or resistant) to Slaanesh, and imparts that resistance to his followers. So in short no, just because one god can do something does not mean they all can.
>>5313768
Then warp entities, being sealife, would not be able to exist for long in the webway without the warp also pouring in. It's why the sections where demons have broken in through tears (or cracks in this metaphor) in the structure are sealed off from the rest of the webway. Because the warp and accompanying daemons will flood the tunnel.
>>5313816
Does it? I'm not sure, if it ever came up I glossed over it.
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>>5313755
Apparently the clow could get away with it because of his role as a jester who mocks eldar's society shortcomings meant he was more distant to their collective psyche and thus harder for Slanesh to track down and claim.
Also he is trickster and fled as soon as he saw what was going on. But he probably would help Isha run and hide if she escaped, if only to fuck with chaos.
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>>5313985
I don't understand how a race that had the foresight to create a God specifically to belittle themselves ever managed to birth Slaanesh.
I'm a bit of a Lorelet, but how badly did they actually fuck up?
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>>5314173
they got bored
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>>5314175
Yeah, now I get it...
Elaborate.
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>>5314173
>I don't understand how a race that had the foresight to create a God specifically to belittle themselves ever managed to birth Slaanesh.
The Eldar Patheon's creation is very much up for debate, Slaanesh might be the only god they created.
>how badly did they actually fuck up?
Hard to understate it, it created the Eye of Terror among other, similarly bad things.
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>>5314173
Lore wise its split between the Eldar making their gods, and the fact that their a War In Heaven Race made by the Old Ones who might have designed their gods for them.

As for the Eldar fucking up, after the War in Heaven they ruled the galaxy completely uncontested for 60 million years, and around the 59th million year or something they started to fuck up.

Litterally.

With their tech and massively wacky emotional spectrum, they started to do more and more crazy shit. They would litterally sail on the surfaces of star, go jumping through gas giants, constantly seek out new forms of food/drinks/various entertainment, and murder each other in the street for various minor to major bullshit reasons.

But its fine, nobody actually died since their soul was retained and a new body was grown for them to inhabit.

They just kept it up long enough that Slannesh was born from their collective degeneracy, and while the craftworld and exodite eldar managed to see the writting on the wall and get out in time, the Dark Eldar are basically the best living example of what the Eldar Dominion was like right before Slannesh was born.

Minus loosing a tooooon of their tech and access to psychic powers and psy tech.
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>>5314173
Eldars are natural psykers and feel emotions on higher scale, and are prone to perfectionism and boredom, because of their extreme lifespan and ability to reincarnate. Also, Cegorach was more or less an outcast, more respected for the art than his role as critic.
After the War in Heaven where the Krorks became the Ork, the Necrons shattered the C'tan and went to sleep and the Old Ones died, the eldar were left as the only ones with signifcant power in the galaxy, which meant they had milleniuns to fuck about and slowly bcome more extreme and corrupt.
Slanesh is not the god of torture and fetishes, it's the god of excess. While it does include that, it also includes a pursuit in perfectionism, aesthetics and psyker powers. Instead of representing aspects of eldar society, it is the incarnation of the eldar as species.
Take for examplea the survivors. The deldar are basically just a continuation of how the late eldar empire, just that now the suffering has an excuse. The craftworld eldar, are protected by the infinity circuit and soulstones, but their path forces them to adopt a rigid mask while they perfect their craft, and some get so deep into it that they can't change paths, the harlequins escape Slanesh by being so fanatic to Cenogirach that their soul fuses to him when they die, and even the exodites go to an extreme in the primitivism and isolationalism, depending on the worls spirit to not be snatched.
The reason why the Journey is being so effective to them is probably because it takes the best parts of those methods while maintaining moderation.
Baiscally, all eldar are obssessive compulsives, Slanesh is the incarnation of that, and they all try to get all by focusing that OCD somewhere else.
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Sorry for going silent for two days, been a bit sick. I'll try to have the update out tomorrow. Depends on when I feel better.
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>>5314815
Please take care boss. Real life comes first.
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>>5314815
Shit, this pic reminds me, did Hashut fill out his portion of the brand when Lieren did him dirty in front of all the other gods?
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>>5314833
He marked Lieren when he first appeared in the daemon-engine factory.
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>>5314897
so we have 6/8 marks
1 from each of the main 4.
1 from Malal/Malice
1 from Hashut
who do you guys think are the 2 that are missing. My bet for one of them of them is the Horned Rat. I'm going to be disappointed if we don't come across Skaven either as a Abhuman or Xeno Species.

My crackpot theory for the last one is the screaming god child (my head canon is that they are either the god of insanity or Chaos undivided). If he doesn't put a circle or an eye that all the arrows are pointing two.
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>>5314815
thats ok
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While we wait what do you think of us working towards the title of lord of cycles. We create a path of enlightment (which is basically a philosophy that can be adopted by those who lack humanity to pursue humanity). Further, we create a reincarnation technique to allow those not born humans to follow this road so that when they die they can reincarnate as a human in their next life.
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>>5314815
Wishing you good health!
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yes!
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learning is fun.
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>>5315015
I think the GHR/Kweethul is all but confirmed, we were gonna get a skaven reference in the fight with the Keeper of Rust before the Nurgle's Garden write-in. But after him, the only Chaos Gods left are Necoho and Zuvassin, both of whom were Malal replacements and who I think might show up as two of his Greater Demons, and a few entities either mentioned as once-offs or fan made gods who've been confused as official. Maybe Zhedun/the Devourer of Existence? AFAIK he's heavily hinted at being the Great Maw, which would tie in to Malal's love of crossing the 40k and WHFB streams.
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>>5315388
Great Beast.
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>>5315388
I think Malal said that the world where Lieren's mutantion would be a horned titan also would be infested with skaven, and warpstone has appeared a few times.
Maybe Malal would use that old hurd art for a new xenos, they could be another form of beastmen/mutant, or demons of GHR.
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>>5315399
Just another name for/personification of Undivided, not a separate god. All the gods are aspects of him, he can't an aspect of himself.
>>5315403
Yeah, Voormis would've made Lieren xbawks hueg and given him horns. And it was infested with Skaven. I think we'd have gotten Green Man or Cernunnos parallels rather than the Monkey King ones we've gotten here. After the visions we received of how Lieren would turn out after landing in all the other places he could've in Yan and the different planet-dependent mutations, I've been wondering what Malal would've done with each different starting world.
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Calling the vote now.

A prophet of the journey! A Wraith guard wearing the colors of Kher-Ys, imparting other travelers with the lessons of the Journey! It is Amaethon himself! The Hunter meets the Farmer once more:15

The shadow of a stag horned figure drifts for now beyond your grasp.:2

Kurnous:1

A door of a strange metal, shifting ever so subtly as if it was a living creature. The symbols that cover it glow with an eerie green light.:1

In the distance a tall ruined temple of a deity, is the site of a duel to the last. The two figures that fight are blurred from this far away, we must come near for see who are they:1

the shade of a most potent eldari, with horns adorning his helm. Why does he feel so familiar, yet you've never met him?:2

A familiar face. But that cannot be! For that face belonged to a slaver's who neck you broke beneath your heel. Chase the apparently reincarnated Stollaire through the black market you found him in, and ask the son of Cearnarch how he is alive again.:1

total votes:20

So Lieren, as he explores the strange realm of the webway, comes across an unexpected sight, that of the departed soul of a farmer he had saved and befriended, bodied once more and teaching drifters and wanderers from the lessons taken from the Book of the Journey

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>>5312850
>>5312864
>>5312925
>>5313163
>>5313347
major kek

Also don't worry, I have plans for the prime clown. BIG plans
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There is a certain, wordless pleasure that comes when someone like you, a child of the wilderness and hunter by name and nature, finds a yet uncharted and unexplored landscape to wander. When a man who has seen all of one world, steps into an entirely unknown terrain, and looks upon scenery and sights strange with weather eyes that had witnessed and admired all the mysteries and wonders of the world upon which they first opened. It is a different sensation, than looking upon the dreamlike realms of the warp, for the innate distrust and hatred you feel for most of what you see within the realm of the spirits does not arise within your heart as you travel through the untamed and uncontrolled portions of the webway. Where the reach of the civilized portions of Aeldari society does not reach, and only travelers, outcasts, criminals and hermits stay. To walk these pathways, to journey through lands fully wild once more as you did in your youth, before you were burdened by wisdom and insights to the truths universe you never asked to receive, before the weight of leadership and commanding your friends, companions and students to die in the name of your selfless ambition for a better, tyrantless and degenerateless tomorrow settled upon your back and heart, before you were even aware of a world beyond that which you can feel and see, before you knew you were no natural giant but a product of science and sorcery bred for war and conquest. It brings about a feeling of pleasant, yet quite nostalgia. A warmth of memory of days of naivety, of stainless ignorance. Of simpler days, when all the great hunter of the wilds, when all the Giant of Nothing had to contend with were the intrigues of petty tyrants and the damages that had been wrought upon land and people through generations of misrule.

Before you declared war upon the Yan, before you stepped boldly into the bone devouring forest. Before you came face to face with true, primordial evil. Before you learned, from one who now is your lover and closest confident and most treasured companion, the true history of mankind and your origins upon a far distant world across a great expanse of stars and airless void. The recollection of simpler, more innocent days wraps around you like the comforting fogs and mists of Shangrala. It feels as though, once more, you have been granted the privilege to walk untrodden paths through a wilderness dangerous and untamed, that you are walking the Shangrala before your coming, before the White Dragon's path was set and before you brought the comfort of safety and ease of mind and demystified the white fog and the fear the people held for it. When you connected the realm of Yan, and began the first steps of a Journey that had lead you further and to far stranger places than the youth who crawled from the earth and learned to be human could have ever imagined.
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>>5315564

It is with Childlike gayety you lead your escort of friends on a excursion into the trails and faults of the webway surrounding the gate leading to great Ulthwe, away from the patrols of the kinsmen who saw them off and all but exiled them from their homes for choosing a path different from their own. Away from the safety and protection in the shadows cast by the craftworld that embodied itself as one of the few pillars remaining of their races former glory and majesty, before corruption and idle excess took root and blackened their collective soul. Before the fall. Before the long night. It is less of a hunt, and more like the playful adventures of brave children, testing the limits of their parents watchful gazes and wandering further from home and nearer to the forest.

So, it is with no small surprise and with great and curious excitement, that you come across a dock moored in a forgotten corner of the webway. A port hidden away from prying, judging eyes, a society reborn day by day as ships land and fly away, and their passengers mingle a do trade. A place were travelers, thieves and oddities mingle and share their bowels of rice and converse as friends even if they would be natural enemies away from this extradimensional inn, tucked away between crossroads of fate and fortune. Without saying a word, you dock your own barge, drawing quite a few curious glances from those resting or languishing at the docks constructed from pieces of asteroids and crashed ships. You have used your shapeshifting robes to disguise yourself as an Aeldari, to more easily blend in the crowds of this city of ill repute and exotic inhabitance. Oh it reminds you of when you first stepped foot into the city of Tyrant's end, when Lord Gao had demanded your presence in his court, and again when you returned with your father to see the world beyond Nothing and delighted and enjoyed with him the festivities offered by a people liberated in both mind and soul. Of the two festivals thrown in honor of your deeds that you joined and attended.

Carys giggles, and you realize you had began, almost instinctively, humming the tune of "Benevolence in azure and plum". A minstrel of some kind, dressed similar to Folant, smirked, having sampled and enjoyed the tune you hummed and began to strum his queer instrument, formed of crystal and wraith bone, to play an eerie yet relaxing tune that carried like the wails of ghost across the hidden port and deeper into the mystical expanse of the ancient webways.

"A fine song, friend" He said with a familiarity that can only be found between musicians "Its cadence and rhythm echo like the cries of Isha, as she was stolen away. A distant hope, drifting on the words of gods long gone. A travelers song"

"A hero's song" Cary corrects, knowing the origin and true form of the folksong penned in your honor "You played it too mournfully, it is not a song to accompany funerals"
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>>5315565

"Every song can be played before a grave" You remark sagely, as the minstrel looks you over with curious, judging eyes, as he tries to place you in the confining roles most Aeldari bind themselves to, even those who have refused to turn away from the self destructive path of all consuming excess and boundless cruelties "Why must grieving being connected with sorrow? One may mourn with all the merriment they shared with the deceased when they walked together, one may look back on the past with pride rather than shame or pain. But I agree with my friend, that particular song is out of place in a tomb, it is meant for warm fires and vibrant streets"

"So it is a mourning song, or else a song for a hopeless idealist who believes the glories of what has been lost can be returned, after it has all fallen away" The minstrel sighs through his nose, his long ears twitching as he adjusts his instrument "But, that shows me how that tune should continue, I think. It is not a dirge for the past as I first heard, it is a call for hope where there is none to be found. A wayward dream translated into song. A sadder song than any other"

You suppose the hopelessness of Aeldari is far deeper than that which had afflicted the peasants of Yan. You have nothing more to say, and so step past the sorrowfully minded musician and step deeper into the port city, entering the markets and hastily set up stalls to facilitate and encourage trading. Haggling surrounds you, and you marvel as a pack of Aeldari drunker than carps in a wine cask stumble past you. Carys peels away from your side, to look over some mysterious, age worn trinkets as Folant strides further ahead as he spots a weapon's exchange. Kellas vanishes, no doubt finding something that caught his eye, and slowly your party disperses into the crowd, seeking their own curiosities or admiring wares that entrance them.

So, you wander, studying and investigating the day to day life of these webway travelers, and meandering deeper into the heart of the ramshackle city of ships and markets. Before words more familiar to your ear than even the low growl of a panther or morning cry of a cliffjumper or shrieking chorus of night cranes and hook ravens, whisper from an alleyway. So you follow them, tracking the lessons of the Journey like the prints of a great beast, curiosity enflamed and risen higher than before.

You soon find yourself in a park of sorts, a clearing between buildings, a junction to seperate markets from one another. Perhaps left unfilled to allow for more illicit deals, or criminal activates. Whatever the cause for it to be here, it is not being used for anything so delinquent.

Instead, you spot a wraith guard, standing atop a stone bench, dressed in the colors of Kher-ys, and bearing their sigil of a shield wrapped in chains arranged like folded wings.
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>>5315566

The caged soul, has raised its mechanical hands towards the heavens in a manner akin to a Shuni firebrand giving a sermon to their flock of disciples. Around him, forming a disinterested guard, were a number of Aeldari warriors dressed in the same colors, but much less enthused than their charge was as he preached and raised his voice.

A crowd surrounded them, of cutthroats and brigands. But, it was clear from a wary glance that they had gathered, not out of curiosity to see a construct of war give a speech in death more impassioned than spoken by any living Aeldari voice, but rather out of genuine interest and attraction to the words they spoke.

Your words. Your philosophy. Your eyes flicked back to the wraith guard and immediately, beneath the veneer or wraithbone and arcane circuitry, you recognized the soul inhabiting the golem. It is Amaethon himself! Imparting the lessons of the journey to the travelers surrounding him, spreading it further yet from Shangrala. The Hunter yet again meets the Farmer most unexpectedly.

"A farmer can teach a fisherman much, a blacksmith can tutor a soldier, a noble has much to learn from his servants" The Wraithgod proclaimed, as you found yourself repeating his words silent, recalling the exact moment you put those words to ink "Do not lock yourself away from the world, but wander freely and learnfrom your fellow sapient, instead of hating or fearing him. The paths we hold ourselves to, go beyond mere moderation. Are we so weak we cannot temper ourselves, without swearing blindly to devotion to a focused, empty way of life. To risk trapping and lessening ourselves, due to rigid adherence of a singular skill, one facet of the complex enigma that is life? I SAY TO YOU! Such rigidness is as foul a poison as the excesses of our ancestors! Balance can be found between complete, smothering order and lawless hedonism, for they are but two extremes. White and black. THE WORLD IS FILLED WITH COLORS! Yet we blind ourselves to all but the most basic two. I have met, with a great thinker, a mind possessed by benevolence and wisdom beyond that held by our leaders, who has realized the truth of this multicolored and varied world, who has realized to live is to experience a great many joys and sorrows!"

And not only is he speaking your words, he has made his own. It is a rare talent to be able to understand the real meaning of text, but it requires a truly scarce sort of wisdom to not only comprehend a work fully, but be able to seamlessly and skillfully expand its teachings and lessons as if they were already written and presented to you.
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>>5315567

What do you do, Lieren?

>Cast off your disguise, and praise Amaethon for his understanding, and ask why he has left his home after being away from it for so long

>Enter the crowd, and challenge Amaethon to a debate while you're still disguised as a wandering Aeldari. Openly question your own words and world view, and see how he replies

>Just sit silent, listen, and depart with a smile when he has finished, content that your friend is doing well with himself. Before meeting Eldrad

>Boisterously great Amaethon, lifting the wraithguard into a great hug, and discuss what has happened since you last met. And then bring him and his guards to your meeting with Eldrad.

>Write in
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>>5315568
>>Enter the crowd, and challenge Amaethon to a debate while you're still disguised as a wandering Aeldari. Openly question your own words and world view, and see how he replies
>Boisterously great Amaethon, lifting the wraithguard into a great hug, and discuss what has happened since you last met. And then bring him and his guards to your meeting with Eldrad.
>Cast off your disguise, and praise Amaethon for his understanding, and ask why he has left his home after being away from it for so long
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>>5315568
>Enter the crowd, and challenge Amaethon to a debate while you're still disguised as a wandering Aeldari. Openly question your own words and world view, and see how he replies
>Boisterously great Amaethon, lifting the wraithguard into a great hug, and discuss what has happened since you last met. And then bring him and his guards to your meeting with Eldrad.
Both or either one of these fits Lieren the best.
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>>5315568
>>Enter the crowd, and challenge Amaethon to a debate while you're still disguised as a wandering Aeldari. Openly question your own words and world view, and see how he replies
Then
>>Cast off your disguise, and praise Amaethon for his understanding, and ask why he has left his home after being away from it for so long
Way back when, I thought this would be how the Emperor would first meet us, disguised as a skeptic of the Journey and challenging us to a debate. Guess it could still happen, but it's funny how that sort of thing changes.
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>>5315568
>Enter the crowd, and challenge Amaethon to a debate while you're still disguised as a wandering Aeldari. Openly question your own words and world view, and see how he replies
Then
>Boisterously great Amaethon, lifting the wraithguard into a great hug, and discuss what has happened since you last met. And then bring him and his guards to your meeting with Eldrad.
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>>5315570
+1
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>>5315568
>Enter the crowd and listen intently then as you feel the Wraithguard look upon you give him a wink.

He can I vote us up if he so chooses or can resume as normal, we can mentally let him know how happy we are to see him again but not cause a scene.
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>>5315571
>Support
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>>5315568
>>Enter the crowd, and challenge Amaethon to a debate while you're still disguised as a wandering Aeldari. Openly question your own words and world view, and see how he replies
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>>5315568
>Enter the crowd, and challenge Amaethon to a debate while you're still disguised as a wandering Aeldari. Openly question your own words and world view, and see how he replies
I fucking love civil discussion and orderly debates.
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>>5315568

>Enter the crowd, and challenge Amaethon to a debate while you're still disguised as a wandering Aeldari. Openly question your own words and world view, and see how he replies

Then once done


>Cast off your disguise, and praise Amaethon for his understanding, and ask why he has left his home after being away from it for so long
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>>5315568
>>Enter the crowd, and challenge Amaethon to a debate while you're still disguised as a wandering Aeldari. Openly question your own words and world view, and see how he replies

Then, when finished

>Boisterously great Amaethon, lifting the wraithguard into a great hug, and discuss what has happened since you last met. And then bring him and his guards to your meeting with Eldrad.
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>>5315579
Kek. We'd probably meet him as a adherent to the journey if our warp brand weren't so obvious.
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>>5315568
>>Cast off your disguise, and praise Amaethon for his understanding, and ask why he has left his home after being away from it for so long
>>Enter the crowd, and challenge Amaethon to a debate while you're still disguised as a wandering Aeldari. Openly question your own words and world view, and see how he replies
in the opposite order
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>>5315568
>Enter the crowd, and challenge Amaethon to a debate while you're still disguised as a wandering Aeldari. Openly question your own words and world view, and see how he replies
>Write in
Share some dragons-spit and teas with the crowd as we turn this forum into a philosophical debate?
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I'll remind Yall Elrad ain't a man to keep waiting not bring many uninvited guests. We're already pushing our luck with Magnus....oh fuck where is Magnus
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>>5315568
>Enter the crowd, and challenge Amaethon to a debate while you're still disguised as a wandering Aeldari. Openly question your own words and world view, and see how he replies
>Cast off your disguise, and praise Amaethon for his understanding, and ask why he has left his home after being away from it for so long
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>>5315568

>Cast off your disguise, and praise Amaethon for his understanding, and ask why he has left his home after being away from it for so long
I wanna know what’s happening on Kher-Ys
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>>5315568
>Enter the crowd, and challenge Amaethon to a debate while you're still disguised as a wandering Aeldari. Openly question your own words and world view, and see how he replies
>Cast off your disguise, and praise Amaethon for his understanding, and ask why he has left his home after being away from it for so long
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>>5315567
I support >>5315570

Because the philosopher testing his student in disguise is classic.
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>>5315568
>>Enter the crowd, and challenge Amaethon to a debate while you're still disguised as a wandering Aeldari. Openly question your own words and world view, and see how he replies
>>Cast off your disguise, and praise Amaethon for his understanding, and ask why he has left his home after being away from it for so long
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Had some machine spirits issues. Will call the vote in a few hours
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>>5317814
Have you tried smacking the machine spirit?
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>Enter the crowd, and challenge Amaethon to a debate while you're still disguised as a wandering Aeldari. Openly question your own words and world view, and see how he replies


If he manages to argue back, then he's going to get more fans.
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Calling the vote now. Sorry for the wait, fell asleep.

Enter the crowd, and challenge Amaethon to a debate while you're still disguised as a wandering Aeldari. Openly question your own words and world view, and see how he replies:18

Boisterously greet Amaethon, lifting the wraithguard into a great hug, and discuss what has happened since you last met. And then bring him and his guards to your meeting with Eldrad: 7

Cast off your disguise, and praise Amaethon for his understanding, and ask why he has left his home after being away from it for so long:10

Share some dragons-spit and teas with the crowd as we turn this forum into a philosophical debate: 1

Total votes:19

So Lieren will enter the crowd anomalysly and challenge Amaethon to a debate, while still disguised as a wandering Aeldari, openly questioning his own words and world view to see how he replies

And then cast of his disguise and praise Amaethon for his understanding and ask why he has left his home so soon after being returned

Writing now
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Like a leaf swept by the wind or carried by the gentle flow of the stream, you find yourself approaching closer to Amaethon and his captive audience. The armor worn by them is customized, more personal than the armor usually worn by Aeldari. They are free spirits, unchained to the traditions and order demanded by the society of the craftworlds yet not mired in the thoughtless cruelty and soul destroying excesses and hedonistic delights of those wild descendants who have refused to step from the path of moral decay and sinful lifestyles lead by their ancestors who did birth the Maiden of wanton pleasure with their earthly pursuits and abhorrent carnal delights. You are careful to not leave your gaze focused on any one member of the crowd for too long, less they begin to feel the unpleasant sensations of being studied and seen through by your gilded eyes. Certainly there are criminals amongst them, you can tell by their body language, mostly through their posture and how they hold themselves and the narrowing of their eyes to create a fierce mien to warn away competition or would be rivals not yet bold enough to challenge their elders. But, outright villains, remorseless killers and thieves ? You cannot say. But for them to listen so intently and with such quiet respect and regard for the speaker, makes it unlikely you would find any of Cearnarch's kind by your side in this open forum of the mind. A forum that shall soon became the stage for a proper philosophical debate. It is practically tradition for philosophers to challenge their students to debate, while disguising their true identity. You've done it with Yin Lei before, and with Luli, over radio and through letters sent down the giant's road to their abodes.

Its always such fun to test those who have chosen to follow the road you have chosen for yourself, and to measure exactly how well they have come to understand your worldview, to see just how much of your wisdom they have inherited through your writing. It is easy enough for you to make your way through the crowd, even if it is composed of the rougher, more forceful kind of traveler than your average philosophical gathering at the tea gardens and winehouses of Shangrala. Except those built anywhere near the Lai province, those debates often devolve into outright brawls of fists rather than duels of words. Though only recently, after the Vishnu and New Varro men integrated into the populace those lands. Though, according to historical records, most court philosophers and scholars of the Yan chose to avoid holding debates near the homes of the horse lords. Even disguised as an Aeldari, you stand out, if only due to your height and broadness of shoulders, but that has been written off by those who have noticed you making your way closer to Amaethon as a peculiarity of breeding or ethnicity.
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>>5318533

You are seen not as an alien intruder but more as a countryside local visiting a city for the first time in his life, or a foreigner of a distant though familiar land appearing unexpectedly.

The success of your disguise is achieved through your understanding of Aeldari Body language and common mannerisms, and so you hold yourself like any other member of the crowd. You stand like them, walk like them, and even breath like them. Amaethon begins to, from memory, another passage of the journey. Meanwhile, you begin to carefully construct a passable accent, by comparing those of Carys and her followers, the Aeldari of Kher-ys including Amaethon himself, and Cearnarch's brood and hirelings. It must sound convincingly common and lowborn, rural rather than urban, with a rustic roughness.

"All men are free to make their own destiny, to follow their own paths" He says, his ethereal voice reverberating with stoic dignity and unshakeable belief in the words he speaks, as if they could stop as storm if he stood before it or carve a path through a mountain if spoken loud enough. The tone is familiar, for you have spoken with it countless times before. A clever play and seamless transition from one tenet to another, creating a connection between the two in his lesson and thus in the minds of his listeners. You cross your arms, subconsciously trying to place them in sleeves that aren't there, surely this will make you appear more brutish than you intended.

"The Journey I speak of, the road I suggest, and way I guide you down, is not one to be forced upon another" He continues, a certain harshness in the timber of his words as the wraithguard he inhabits raises a clenched fist before its chest, above where his heart would be when he still possessed a heart of flesh and blood, It is an impressive show of will and force of personality, that he can act so cognizantly and speak with such refinement while interred in a waking dream in the chassis of that war machine. It could be argued awareness comes not from within, but through his faith in the teachings he preaches, however you would argue in turn that following those teachings is what has given him the mental fortitude to speak so skillfully when all others would be reduced to near silent weapons of war.

"Nor is any other way of life!" He shouts, a fire in his voice, a liveliness rare amongst even living Aeldari, pure and untouched by the dark revelry of their debased kinsmen "One is free to make their own choices, for better or for ill. No matter how benevolent
a rule is, to force a single individual under it, is a sin most grave and foul"

Silently, you begin to devise and put together a rebuttal to issue a brazen, outspoken challenge towards your own words and work, a challenge for Amaethon to defend the Journey unknowingly from its creator.
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>>5318536

A wry, playful smirk crosses your face, as you tap your foot and begin to covertly show outward signs of annoyance and irritation with what he says, to lure him into a verbal confrontation

"Any who would force another down the path they walk, or stop them from following the road they choose, should be opposed should be fought and battled if it comes to it" He bellows, ensuring his voice carries far beyond the space between the markets "Oppressors, no matter the cause they follow, are a blight. Every man should stop oppression if he see it, slay the
tyrant if they meet them!"

A resounding round of applause falls, hushed and mutter approvals and agreement, as Amaethon pauses in his repetition of the lesson to allow the parts of it he has already spoken to soak and take root in the minds of his appreciative audience. They are practically in the open palm of his hand, with how much of their attention they have devoted to his lecture and how closely they are listening to it, how much they anticipate its continuation. This brief period of pause provides the perfect opening to begin the debate between teacher and student.

"Must I alone raise my voice in dissent against the foolishness you preach? Against the words that herald destruction not only for yourself but for all who here them? Am I the only one not so taken by this speaker's charisma as to be wholly held in sway by the Mon-Keigh drivel he repeats as if it was spoken by Lord Asuryan reborn? Has hope truly made all present blind to the threat and danger posed by the philosophy held by this seer already dead?" You ask loudly, loutishly calling out Amaethon and causing the whispering crowd to fall completely silent. Judging from how one of Amaethon's guard shift's her shoulders, if they had been men they would have been driven to a laughing fit at your outburst, at the price of their charges dignity and honor.

You nearly whip you arm out to your side out of habit, so instead lift your chin and huff impudently, throwing a scornful, disdainful look across the whole of the crowd as you stride to the front of it imperiously, held held high and chest lifted proudly. Amaethon remains silent, as he considers you and studies you. He knows you still insist on speaking more vitriol and warnings against his beliefs and respect for a man who saved him from imprisonment on the end of a psychotic's tongue.

"To keep the ignorant for encouraging their own destruction, to prevent tragedy from befalling those around them, is in now way oppression. You speak against education and teaching as if they were the same as slavery, claiming that discipline is indoctrination!" You shout, stomping a foot and dismissively waving your hand before throwing it and your arm forward to thrust an a accusing finger towards Amaethon's chest
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>>5318538

"How easily it is forgotten, that disaster that befell our great race when we became wayward and lived without restraint or control, what came about such boundless free will and self determination? Oh our empire of old was possessed by a myriad of beliefs and sects, countless schools of thoughts and philosophies, numberless cults and churches ran without oversight or true law. The Paths we now follow, are not so smothering, and they certainly do not oppress us as they prevent us from returning to the form of repugnance our predecessors degenerated to follow and hold. And what's more, you call for us to slay these teachers, these elders who guide us further away from damnation"

The silence remains. Amaethon steps down from his podium and walks to meet you, face to face.

"Allow me to elucidate the meaning of the passage, and illuminate your mind clouded by enforced tradition and stagnancy" He says calmly, arms held behind his back "A wise teacher does not bind his students and force them to remain beneath him, nor does he cast them out when they prove less than able. You misunderstand, what a teacher is. They can only offer guidance, not forcefully lead their charges to become their own legacy. Oppression, great or small, stifles one's own personal growth and prevents great minds from revealing themselves and achieving their full potential. You mistake the merest freedom for lawlessness, cousin, and thus have rendered yourself blind to the fact I do not speak of nor advise complete anarchy to take hold of our species but rather challenge the necessity for paths to be so constrictive and suggest a healthier alternative to the rigidity they impose. We are a species driven by compulsion, that yearns for perfection that cannot be achieved. You warn of the path that lead to She who thirsts, but I have seen that a child caged is more like to seek out thrills than one who has been taught moderation. Self mastery can be found beyond the walls of the paths, freedom is not so dangerous as you have been taught to believe. You see black and white. I see only shades of grey, let us debate, cousin, and see which view is more...clear to our gathered audience"

And so the debate begins in earnest
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<Xenos artifact, catalogued as specimen Sigma Epsilon No: <Data corrupted>. Species of origin: Aeldari. Date of Creation: CA <Data lost>.M30. Theorized Purpose of Artifact: Religious/ Aesthetic. Unusual properties of note: <Data Redacted for Clearance levels Omega to Beta>. Noteworthy events: <Data redacted, see prior message>.

Artifact description: A mural carved of multicolored psionically reactive crystal, a subvariety of the warp touched mineral <Data corrupted" Colloquially referred to as "<Data corrupted> Stone", this particularly variety has its more detrimental effects upon living biomatter and the structure localized reality having been externally removed and refined away. It is often considered a masterpiece by Scholars of Xenos art.
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The mural depicts a gathering of Aeldari lifeforms, all but two indistinct from one another and featureless except for the base physiology of their species. One of the two unique figures in the scene depicted is a soul bound construct translated as "Wraithguard" in gothic, branded with the sigil of the Craftworld Kher-ys (Current Status: <Data updating>), who is standing as if in defense against the other unique individual though not in opposition against it. The other figure is <Date redacted> <Data redacted> <Data erased> <Data undergoing analyses> <Data undergoing Analyses and review> <Date deleted> <Data Pending deletion><Data redacted><Data undergoing debate and intimate study><Data to be brought before council to decide if it will be deleted or given protected status> as hinted by a Golden Aura surrounding <Data deleted for hearsay> <Data redacted for societal unity> <Data locked after the uprising of <Data lost>> appear to be in friendly debate <data pending approval> The scene appears to be depicting the fabled meeting between an Aeldari adherent of the Journey and <Data...recovered, repairing document, Process beginning> Primarch Lieren of the second legion, who met with Ulthwe shortly before his recovery and admission to the imperium and great crusade. Of particular note, the two figures are standing directly beside one another, of equal height and position, showing that, to the creator of the artifact, they either hold similar importance and merit or share a station in society, that they are equals. An oddity of Aeldari art of the era, as it depicts a human as an equal and venerated figure, akin to a figure of their myths rather than a beast to be scorned. Lieren and Farseer Amaethon hands are interlocked, even as they debate wordlessly before their audience of faceless Aeldari.

The Artifact is a mural depicting the supposed and fabled meeting by the writer of Journey, and one of its earliest non human adherents meeting in debate, with Lieren disguised as a member of the xenos species: Aeldari, upholding a time honored Shangralan tradition of visiting one's successful students in disguise to test their mettle and intelligence.

The piece is titled "The Hunter and The Farmer meet in debate, upon the crossroads of the Journey without end". The artists behind the piece is the 15th primarch, Magnus of Prospero.

The Previous warden of this document, and many others, are undergoing trial by the Emperor's Ordo <Date redacted> for the crime of damaging historical documents to adhere to personal standards of morality. Further editing pending approval by the <Data redacted>
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The debate had lasted hours, and Carys had coyly chosen to take Amaethon's side alongside Folant as you, with the whole of the audience and your entourage standing against you and defending Amaethon, as they all speak their own insights and personal understanding of the lessons he has given, throw themselves into the field to challenge you in verbal combat.
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>>5318541

Many have given up, and lay defeated at your feet, but Amaethon, supported by Carys, continues to stoically and calmly defend the Journey, meeting your every rebuttal with a carefully constructed and unaggressive response, treating your more as a student than a threat.
It continues and continues, with each of you backing the other in the corner before fighting their way out, pointing out previous fallacies in the other's argument and forcing a response and defense of statements made just prior. It could've gone on forever, but you have been invited to meet with Eldrad, and you cannot waste time debating for days, when you must request assistance in aiding your brothers and rush to their aid, so you may return to Shangrala and return to your work and treasured ones who remain there.

So you declare the debate a draw, by reaching up to your mask and tossing it to Amaethon without a word.

The crowd, which has grown substantially since your debate had began, falls as silent as a field of corpses. Amaethon recoils as you laugh boisterously, and slap your hands together, clapping in admiration for his obstinate debating skills and stoic loyalty to the Journey

"Well spoken, well spoken my friend! I haven't had such a challenging debate since I met with Guozhi beneath a plum tree to debate the value of lies!" You shout as several Aeldari faint from surprise, and one nearly chokes on his own tongue trying to call you Mon-keigh in shock "I must praise your depth of understanding as well, few students of philosophy, few career sages even can declare they have reached such a level of comprehension concerning the true message of the journey and the real meaning of its lessons, yet here you stand, a farmer who has more wisdom than the lot of them"

"Lieren" Amaethon at last manages to gasp as you stride to his side and place a hand on his shoulder "You could've overcome me at any moment in that debate, yet you remain humble"

"What purpose would there be in that? I was playing a role to challenge your wisdom, and I am doubtful I could, if I was arguing beliefs I actually held, you were a fierce opponent, Amaethon of Kher-ys" You say gregariously , loud enough for the crowd to hear, before lowering your voice, so none can hear what you say next "Speaking of your home, why have you left it so soon after you returned"

"I was cast out, for "Corrupting" The eternity circuit" He says plainly "I cannot fault my superiors for their decision, they are leaders, and I was weakening our defenses by sharing what I had learned from you. As punishment, I was taken from the safety of Kher-ys, and thrown out to the wild until I repent on my actions publicly. Which lead a number of my students, both bodied and not to accompany in self exile. These warriors at my side, are to be my witnesses"
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>>5318543

"Hmm, fools" You mutter under your breath "They court death in their stubborn refusal to adapt and realize the risks their stifling rule brings about. Just as Young hearts yearn for romance, every sapient being needs room to express themselves and release their emotions. Allowing it to build up, and under great pressure can be"

"Disastrous, yes, but, the younger generations of kher-ys have been taken by your words at the trial of Carys, and her efforts to spread the Journey before you interfered on her behalf" Amaethon says calmly, bowing his head "but what of you, why have you left Shangrala to venture into the webway, Wise hunter?"

"For the salvation of my blood" You answer, as you sit down beside Amaethon's wraithguard, to start a friendlier conversation with him.

What do you do once you have finished speaking with Amaethon, Lieren?

>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.

>Give Amaethon a gift in the former of a jade mask to wear on his wraithguard, one of the kind worn by the Wanderers in the fog.

>Ask him and Carys about Eldrad. And Cearnarch.

>Browse the markets yourself, before leaving to attend your audience with Eldrad

>Write in
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>>5318546
>>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.
>>Give Amaethon a gift in the former of a jade mask to wear on his wraithguard, one of the kind worn by the Wanderers in the fog.
>>Ask him and Carys about Eldrad. And Cearnarch.
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>>5318546

>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.

>Give Amaethon a gift in the former of a jade mask to wear on his wraithguard, one of the kind worn by the Wanderers in the fog.
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>>5318546
>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.
>Give Amaethon a gift in the former of a jade mask to wear on his wraithguard, one of the kind worn by the Wanderers in the fog.
Also
>The Previous warden of this document, and many others, are undergoing trial by the Emperor's Ordo <Date redacted> for the crime of damaging historical documents to adhere to personal standards of morality.
Seems like our Inquisitor of Ordo Redactus has finaly crossed the line.
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>>5318541
>The other figure is <Date redacted> <Data redacted> <Data erased> <Data undergoing analyses> <Data undergoing Analyses and review> <Date deleted> <Data Pending deletion><Data redacted><Data undergoing debate and intimate study><Data to be brought before council to decide if it will be deleted or given protected status>
Big kek

>>5318546
>>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.
>>Give Amaethon a gift in the former of a jade mask to wear on his wraithguard, one of the kind worn by the Wanderers in the fog.
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>>5318546

>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.

>Give Amaethon a gift in the former of a jade mask to wear on his wraithguard, one of the kind worn by the Wanderers in the fog
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>>5318546
>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.
>Give Amaethon a gift in the former of a jade mask to wear on his wraithguard, one of the kind worn by the Wanderers in the fog.

>Xenos artifact
>Species of origin: Aeldari
>The artists behind the piece is the 15th primarch, Magnus of Prospero.
I... what?
Does Magnus also disguise himself as an Aeldari for the kicks or something?
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>>5318540
>>5318541
Wait, but how is it a Xeno artifact if it was made by Magnus?
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>>5318572
>>5318580
Notice how it was mentioned the previous keeper of the document is being charged for fucking with it? and Lieren and Magnus are only mentioned when the document's is being repaired?
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One does not fuck with anything a primarch touched. Entire planets have burned for merely a picture of one or a discard scrap of paper once touched by their hands. I dont doubt for a second that entire ordo is at risk of burning.>>5318572

Also, the fact that Magnus was not censored/cursed gives hope he stayed loyal during the heresy seeing as how the inquisition was not formed until after the heresy ended. Hell the heresy in this story may end up just being Lorgar putting on a one man show. Wouldn't that be funny.
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>>5318546
>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.
>Give Amaethon a gift in the former of a jade mask to wear on his wraithguard, one of the kind worn by the Wanderers in the fog.
>Ask him and Carys about Eldrad. And Cearnarch.

I think one of the best ways to get Eldrad to help us is channeling Isha and maybe crafting an item with her essence.
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>>5318546
>Ask about eldrad.
>Head to our meeting immediately.
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>>5318546
>Ask him and Carys about Eldrad. And Cearnarch.
>Give Amaethon a gift in the former of a jade mask to wear on his wraithguard, one of the kind worn by the Wanderers in the fog.
>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.
In this order.
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>>5318546
>>Ask him and Carys about Eldrad. And Cearnarch.
>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad.
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>>5318546
>Give Amaethon a gift in the former of a jade mask to wear on his wraithguard, one of the kind worn by the Wanderers in the fog.

>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.
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>>5318546
>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.
>Give Amaethon a gift in the former of a jade mask to wear on his wraithguard, one of the kind worn by the Wanderers in the fog.
>Ask him and Carys about Eldrad. And Cearnarch.

Wondering if we are starting to significantly effect the timeline for the better, just looking at that report from a warp fuckery perspective.

Interesting that the journey seems capable of making wraith bodies fully aware and awake, I imagine that could be used as a wedge to make craftworlds more accepting of the journey since they would have much less need of spirit seers and could bulk out their armies with wraithguard.
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>>5318970
>Wondering if we are starting to significantly effect the timeline for the better, just looking at that report from a warp fuckery perspective.
>Interesting that the journey seems capable of making wraith bodies fully aware and awake, I imagine that could be used as a wedge to make craftworlds more accepting of the journey since they would have much less need of spirit seers and could bulk out their armies with wraithguard.

It also seems to be capable of guiding those who were lost on the paths out of being lost. IE they're no longer insane and locked permanently into a a specific mind set.

Farseers are literally incapable of seeing things not as some form of manipulation/future sight outside of like Eldrad.
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>>5318557
>>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.
>>Give Amaethon a gift in the former of a jade mask to wear on his wraithguard, one of the kind worn by the Wanderers in the fog.
>>Ask him and Carys about Eldrad. And Cearnarch.
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>>5318546

>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.
>Give Amaethon a gift in the former of a jade mask to wear on his wraithguard, one of the kind worn by the Wanderers in the fog.
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>>5318546
>>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.
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https://youtu.be/s6zvPVkCrmI
Angron Lore while we wait
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>>5319147
>40K lore video
Naw man.
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>>5319184
Bored fish man for the file name
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>>5318546

>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.
>Give Amaethon a gift in the former of a jade mask to wear on his wraithguard, one of the kind worn by the Wanderers in the fog.
>Ask him and Carys about Eldrad. And Cearnarch
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You think the shrine of khaine will react to Lieren considering he mantled khaine once?
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>>5319504
They will if we do it again.
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>>5319504
If the Ynnari were a thing yet they probably would notice we manthling Ynnead too, since Amaethon did.
At this rate we are going to go through the enture pantheon.
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>>5319529
Watch them still deny us as an ally for a bunch of bullshit reasons.
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Man we should meet Kuronous. More Gods to mantle.
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So, I really like the Confucius angle we are going for. Seeing as he was worshiped not as a god but rather as the greatest of all scholars and a spiritual teacher this could be a great way for us to infect and shape the nescient Faith of the Savior Emperor. Can you imagine the power this will provide us? Plus the way I see it the reason why Slanesh wants eldar souls is because of the amount of faith they provide. I believe that due to how the warp operates the reason why all eldar souls go to her is because the eldar believe thats what happens when they die. If enough eldar simply believe hard enough that when they die they will reincarnate then it may be possible. But it does not happen because they view reincarnation as a myth that Slanesh cut them off from. If we can get enough people xeno or otherwise to believe in reincarnation we can starve the chaos god's hells of new souls. Thoughts?
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>>5319753
The bit about Slaanesh and Eldar souls is pretty firmly contradicted by fluff, I'm sorry to say. Eldar souls go to Slaanesh for two reasons. Firstly, because they have a wholly unique relationship with her, as the race that brought her into fully realized existence. And secondly, because Eldar naturally tend towards Slaaneshi behavior. Their nature is of passion and obsession, which gives Slaanesh such an indisputable claim to their souls post-Fall.

To quote oldlore, "Slaanesh is nothing more than a manifestation of the Eldar mind in its most wild and unconstrained form... To an unfettered Eldar mind there is neither sanity nor madness, but merely a wave of perfect existance fulfilled by its own savage momentum."
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>>5319776
Nice critique. I counter with Harlequins. The laughing god gets their souls because they have faith in him and the main reason Slanesh gets Eldar souls is because 1. shes the entire eldar pantheon and therefore has the strongest claim 2. because the eldar burn brighter in the warp and warp predators can interact with them more easily because of this.
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Also, Slanesh is weaker now since this is 30k not 40k. If the eldar can create Ynari then all I'm saying is they can create an Eldar version of the Journeyman who may be a facet of the human Journeyman. Imagine a non god spirit receiving the collective worship of multiple races. Wouldn't that be a potent force.
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>>5319796
>The laughing god gets their souls because they have faith in him
Close, Cegorach TAKES their souls because of their faith, as a reward. He doesn't receive them passively. He's even more involved when it comes to Solitaire, who's souls he wins in gambles with Slaanesh.
>shes the entire eldar pantheon and therefore has the strongest claim
Slaanesh eating the Eldar gods didn't make her the pantheon. It just took the gods out of the equation one way or another. The Eldar Patheon didn't claim souls after death anyway, eldar just continuously reincarnated, as you've stated.
>the eldar burn brighter in the warp and warp predators can interact with them more easily because of this.
If the psychic presence of the Eldar was just sort of an open call to warpforms, they wouldn't solely go to Slaanesh. It's certainly WHY Slaanesh likes eldar souls so much, they're the most psychically powerful race in the setting. More "meat," so to speak. But that isn't HOW she claims them.
>>5319799
>If the eldar can create Ynari then all I'm saying is they can create an Eldar version of the Journeyman who may be a facet of the human Journeyman
I'm not so sure. One of Ynnead's unique traits is that he already sort of exists. Since he's more purely a warp entity than the other Eldar gods, his existence isn't linear. It's how he's a known entity before his "birth," how he's Morai Heg's husband and father of her children, and how Lieren was able to mantle him. It's not like the Eldar sat down and decided to create a god, he was always there, even pre-Fall. A personification of the Journey, if it exists somewhere in the warp, would take so long to come into being, even with the Eldar and other races of the galaxy, that it isn't worth considering as an option. The Chaos gods took billions of years to come into existence. Slaanesh needed the same plus 60 million years of the most powerful psychic race ever being degenerates. Despite what poorly-written nulore about how a small conglomeration of species can create a distinct warp entity in ~6,000 years may lead one to believe, it takes a REALLY long time to make them.
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>>5319843

You have good points. All Im saying is that having faith and acting on that faith is how you get a reaction from the warp. The emperor in the warp did not take that long to manifest he was already making moves before the heresy. Did I base my reasoning off new lore more than old lore? Yes. As for the pantheon I'm saying that the gods have staked claims on certain types of souls including the emperor in the warp. Not all souls from this staked preference go to their respective claimant, but the other warp entities know that hey will get a fight on their hands if they contest the claim.

Last as for reincarnation. We already know how to do it. We did it to the butcher king and his wife.
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>>5318546
>>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.
>>Give Amaethon a gift in the former of a jade mask to wear on his wraithguard, one of the kind worn by the Wanderers in the fog.
>>Ask him and Carys about Eldrad. And Cearnarch.
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>40k timeline omake and silly write up idea if we get "Forgotten"

Beneath the golden radiance of the Imperial Palace the Dark Cells fester full of horrors and mysteries beyond understanding, forbidden to be seen by all Mankind but their Wardens of the Adaptus Custodes Shield Host; The Shadowkeepers. Shield Brother Athomon stood watching the Cell before him, beside him of the hundred Custodes who watched the dark there were four.

The cell was carved in black stone, an almost featureless thing but for a single viewing port and below it a carved sigil, eight petals and a numeral 'II'. The Cell had been silent for millennium, but the golden light that danced like embers against the window may crackle as energy fields protect it.

Athomon could feel something watching him even beyond the wards set by their Creator and the Sigillite himself, like someone stroking his skin with a fine blade soaked in icy water. For a moment he swore he saw something, a figure? Something reaching out to the cell towards him not threateningly but beckoning him to the window.

He closed his eyes and gestured to his brothers, he knelt. Two placed hands upon his shoulders and a third placed a sceptre with a bloom upon his brow, a strange feeling and now....

Athomon stood awaiting stationing once again, he was posted to the Black Cell of Golden Embers today, his first posting there...what would it hold?
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>>Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.
>>Give Amaethon a gift in the former of a jade mask to wear on his wraithguard, one of the kind worn by the Wanderers in the fog.
>>Ask him and Carys about Eldrad. And Cearnarch.

Yeah.I'm curious about this wraithguard.I also wanna take him with us so we could maybe learn from the method and shove Guo Zi into a psyker-dreadnaught. ^_^

To prevent his soul from being eaten of course .
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Whose to say we are not in that cell by choice. closed door cultivation is a common practice in wuxia and xiaxia. Just lock yourselves away to contemplate the secrets of the universe. Hell Lorgar does it in cannon. >>5320379
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>>5320400
We should lock ourselves next to Lorgar's room so he can perceive the gods better. And watch as they rage and spit and curse at us while we taunt them in flowery talk.

He'll be unable to function with all the psychic noise.
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>>5320416
That's thinking to small. I say we drive Lorgar more insane than Konrad by proceeding to do everything he wants to do but better. Can you imagine the mental strain of having your every idea and accomplishment compared to your older and more successful brother? Hell at the right we are going we may end up replacing Sanguineous or Dorn on the Vengeful Spirit.
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I honestly cant wait to see how the imperium, our brothers, and their legions react to us throughout the timeline. I like to imagine our legion being the legion of teachers and martial scholars just going planet to planet spreading our teachings, educating the populace in martial, psychic, scientific, and artistic pursuits, and codifying laws. That and developing our homebrew cultivation technique to the divinity severing stage.
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>>5320428
In direct 1 vs 1, we would lose to suped up Horus I think.

No amount of monkey king can compete with the physical champion of the dark gods in the materium. Especially when we got our ass kicked by Be'lakor. We will grow and improve yes, but he is still the benchmark.
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>>5320451
dont worry anon we still have more daemons and eldritch gods (Born to prosper, Rangdan xenocide is a fuck, 410,984,367,503 dead guardsmen) to bench press onto our knees
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Am I the only one excited and amused by the idea that while the Imperium falls to shit and Roboute laments his role as regent wishes his brothers were here some random custodian informs him there's one in the basement?

Also, Big E definitely has primarch prisons somewhere in his palace. He was that kind of guy.
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>>5320428
Man that's alot of work. The room idea is funny because it's just Lieren being "helpful."

>>5320451
I must disagree. Monkey King has like 7 types of immortality. Horus will have like 4-5(primarch + 4 for everchosen)

Lieren already has 3 available(Primarch(Base)+ Eldar god mantling+ Journeyman) to him.He just needs to find more and develop it into a cohesive whole.

He's not there yet... but he's got a good head start.

I recommend mantling our other brothers and perhaps the Emperor if we can swing it.

>>5320430
Are you suggesting we bring worlds into "compliance" by staging a popular revolution via media and self help?

And that we do it to contrast with Lorgar's own methods, to the point that he shall be forced to adopt ours because it has no gods involved?

>>5320794
Wait. Are you saying you want to have us imprisoned? Why can't we just use the golden mean teleportation method or break into the Emperor's Webway project with a shit load of reinforcements?

That seems like such a waste of time from a practical point of view.
Good for an exciting dramatic reveal though.
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>>5320859
I'm just commenting on the what-if. What I really like is a combination of Lorgar (War of words), Horus (Spear Tip throat stab-withdraw-repeat) , and Alpharius (subversion, invisible bullshittery, and contingency plans in the form of leaving some Astartes behind to manage our not cults, recruit, and uplift the populace.) Basically how we conquered the Angra.

My end goal is for us to codify a path of humanity to allow mortal men, astartes, or even muant to cultivate their soul to the point of transcending the flesh and soul to become a non-chaos demon prince of humanity. That and we don't die just transcend our flesh to a higher plane of existence.
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As for how we affect compliance I love the idea of going full wuxia and Xianxia on the fuckers. Imagine being some farmer or hiver and you just see glowing giants in flowing robes and ornate armor descending on ships shaped like birds and heading straight for the poorest shittiest parts of the civilization not caring for dirt or smells and delivering them food, clean water, medicine, augments, and books. That is of course after we infiltrate, judge, hang, and prepare for our later reveal.
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Calling the vote now. Sorry for the wait

Enter Ulthwe and meet with Eldrad, you've wasted enough time already.:18

Give Amaethon a gift in the former of a jade mask to wear on his wraithguard, one of the kind worn by the Wanderers in the fog:15

Ask him and Carys about Eldrad. And Cearnarch.:10
- Only ask about Eldrad: 1

total votes:18

So, Lieren will ask Carys and Amaethon about Eldrad, and the dead Cearnarch, before departing to Ulthwe to meet Eldrad, though not before giving Amaethon a gift in the form of a jade mask.

Writing now

>>5320379
Nicely written. Enjoyable little drabble that was. Great work

>>5320400
Imagine Lieren ending his closed door meditation just to fight the BEAST
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The crowd soon departs, leaving you to wile away hours conversing with your friend in the park between the rest of the markets, joined only by the dour and clearly irritated bodyguards sent by Kher-ys to watch Amaethon in his travels and hope vainly for an issue of repentance and plea for forgiveness that they knew as well as you did, may never come. It was a peaceful reprieve from the hustle of the alleyways of stalls and corridors of fencers and bustling docks, in the lull and quiet in this space, you and Amaethon were able to speak openly and at great length, discussing all manners of things, from the occurrences of your life since he was taken from Shangrala, to the spiritual sensation of being locked within the infinity circuit of a craftworld. Why, you and the wraithguard even exchanged koans and parables, to see what wisdom was universal between the Men of Shangrala and the Aeldari of the craftworlds. The two of you switched seamlessly from discussing in the Aeldari tongue, to the Language of Long-Jia to speaking wholly telepathically as you ponderously moved from one subject to the next. It felt, triumphant, to speak to him of all you have accomplished, and cathartic to speak of your failures and those friends you have lost along the way to achieve your dream and ambitions for a truly prosperous Shangrala, ruled by benevolent and virtuous men. And it was also a great relief for Amaethon to have a willing listen with which to vent his frustration and anger towards the blindness and stubbornness that had afflicted the leaders of the craft he had once called home and sanctuary. His entourage did not dare raise their voices to contest or rebuke the scathing vitriol he spoke concerning the elders of Kher-ys, nor did they argue that their policy of enforcing their people to undergo excessive levels emotional suppression and the harsh punishments they carried out against those who did not seek to silence their hearts and quiet them of all sensation and feeling was necessary for survival as a mental protection against the whispers of the brood of Se Nie and the temptations offered by the evil spirits clawing at their walls.

They simply starred ahead, though you could see the anger within them from the posture of their shoulders and subtle movements of their neck and head, as you listened to your bodiless friend release his own anger and speak complaints that had long been kept hushed and silent by those he trusted as his peers and superiors. He speaks against the unfairness of which he and those Carys had taught had faced and the injustice carried out against them by those staunch traditionalists who refused to allow their people to take a single step from the path their forebearers had laid for them to strictly follow eons before.
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>>5321026

The rant exhausts him, and by its end, the two of you sit in silence, as Amaethon, through sheer force of will, keeps his lucidity that had threatened to slip away from him from the sheer effort it took him to speak against the crimes committed against him and the resulting emotional drain that settled upon him when he had spoken his last grievance against the injustices of Kher-ys.

"All I can hope, is that they will one day choose to listen to your teachings and realize they can coexist with the Paths, that their is danger in suppressing one self so utterly and completely. We Aeldari, naturally possess powerful passions and strong emotions. And you have taught...You and Carys have shown me what is risked by bottling up such potent forces. That one does not need to focus themselves fully to a single aspect of life, to a single skill or profession to achieve self control and that mastery overone's self and emotions can be reached without devoting their whole existence to a singular obsession. It is...I never thought I would understand vexation as a I now do, but it is infuriating to be told simply practicing moderation and trying another way of life is unacceptable and dangerous. The Journey is not threat but"

"It is a boon that allows one to find inner peace and unlock what potential may have otherwise been forever sealed away. It is a guide, that teaches its readers how to live virtuously and morally, how to come together as one whole no matter how vast of a distance separates them" Carys muses, as she joins you in the quiet garden of the webway market place "It is a message of hope and optimism, in a cruel world. And that is why many of our kind fear it. They dare not even dream for a better tomorrow, dare not hope that we may one day find prosperity, especially if it would be achieved by following a "Mon-Keigh's" personal philosophy and wisdom. To accept Lieren as a teacher, would be to admit they were his lesser, in their eyes"

"And surely, as many did upon Shangrala, fear they shall be named tyrants and cast down by those who have opened their eyes and seen the horizon" You state calmly, sitting up from the bench you had laid yourself out upon "or, fear that there lurks a poison beneath the words I have spoken and written, that the compassionate and benevolent intent of my journey hides a lurking corruption. That I offer a bejeweled, gilded chest in which lurks a poisonous toad. That I do not seek to bring to them a gift of wisdom and understanding, but rather slide the dagger of deception and trickery into their back. That the virtues I uphold and commend are little more than hollow lies, meant to entrap and mislead"

"Many have eyes, yet do not see, Lieren" Carys says bitterly, shaking her head as she leans against her staff "Or refuse to"

"Yet, even though you are blind, you can perceive the honesty of the journey and its worthiness" Amaethon muses, as he moves his prosthetic body to stand beside her
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>>5320879
That sounds like what the emperor purported wanted mankind to evolve into.

I'm not sure if I wanna find out that he disagrees with our vision.We might not simply get a rebuke/reprimand like Lorgar.

>>5320893
On one hand that's going to be authoritarian as fuck regardless of the Social Uplift. Killing authority figures that are simply corrupt instead of being absolutely irredeemable sounds like just asking for a rebellion.

Perhaps a heavy handed show of "WE ARE THE NEW MANAGEMENT.DO NOT FUCK WITH US" needs to be thought of.

On the other hand. This is 40k and that's pretty mild to the point of slowing down our compliance rates.(Like Lorgar)
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>>5321029
"What of Eldrad? Will he be able to see the Journey for what it is? A message rather than a commandment? A guide rather than gospel?" You ask, suddenly curious of the great seer you are soon to meet, wrapping your arms around your legs as you look up to your two Aeldari companions "Can he understand its meaning, its purpose? See the wisdom in its lessons enough to, if not approve then at least tolerate its teachings? Amaethon, you said he was a contemporary of Cearnarch did you not, when we first spoke? And you, Carys, until recently, you were the high seer of Ulthwe's direct disciple, were you not? If I am to soon meet and have an audience with this man, I would like to know as much as there is too know about him even before I lay my golden gaze upon him"

"Only by age, not by temperament or deed" Amaethon says "I know you do not imply as such, but Eldrad is well and widely respect amongst what remains of our noble race. He was ancient when the old were young, and he is perhaps the most powerful amongst our number psionically. It would be no understatement to name him the best of the Aeldari, a great hero of the past survived to the modern day, though I am not of Ulthwe, I and all others admire and trust him greatly. The only similarity he shared with that wretched huntmaster is that he ancient. In all other ways, they are opposite. Eldrad is wise , Cearnarch was foolish. Eldrad concerned himself with the fate of his fellow Aeldari, Cearnarch cared only for his own satisfaction and pleasure. Eldrad protects and guides our kind into the future, Cearnarch languished in the folly of the past, willingly I might add"

Carys nodded in agreement

"Yes, though he and I have parted ways and not on the best of terms, I still admire Eldrad. Though I walk a different road and see the world a different way, believe different things, I am still proud to name him my teacher" Carys said happily, rocking from her heels to her toes "He is...in some ways like you, a beacon of hope, a figure around which his people and civilization thrive. And he is burdened by the choices he has had to make, for the greater good of Aeldari kind. I'd say that Lieren and Eldrad are the same, in that you and he both work to better to future and ensure prosperity it is just"

Carys groaned and hung her head

"It is just that he concerns himself with Aeldari lives above all others, and while you disdain fate, he clings to it and uses it so well that there is no greater weapon in his hand than it, as all farseers do. He has, by necessity, closed his heart so he may guide and lead us to as much safety as can be found in this uncaring universe" She continued on, rolling her wrist as she ignored the glares shot towards her by Amaethon's guards
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>>5321037
"He is, as you would say, of virtuous heart. And was understanding of my reasons for aligning myself to the Journey and choosing to uphold its teachings and forsake the path that had defined me since my youth even if he considered it a folly. So you have nothing to fear, he is no zealot blinded by faith, and he is most certainly not willfully ignorant"

"Of course one who possess such vast intellect as Eldrad would be so understanding, where the council of Kher-ys was not" Amaethon said sullenly "Perhaps, if Eldrad could debate with Lieren, they could reach an understanding and prove to the rest that the Journey is not harmful, that its teachings are valuable and the philosophy itself is purely beneficial and greatly practical. I take it, you shall depart to meet with Eldrad of Ulthwe soon, Lieren"

"Yes, I have kept him waiting long enough, most impolitely. I must plead forgiveness for my lateness, less I sour his view of me. Though I have never had much care for Face or social standing" You say, nodding once as you pluck at the few whiskers of hair sprouting from your chin

"Than this is good bye, till we cross paths again" Amaethon said solemnly, cupping his fist as you do you return the gesture

"Until we find ourselves upon the same road, my friend" You say, reaching into the satchel secured to your belt "But before we part ways, I have a gift to give. A sign of our friendship, one that my teacher has already given to Carys and her followers"

"A jade mask" Amaethon gasps, as you pull it out and show it to him. It is carved of rare and valuable mutton fat jade, cloudy with few variations of color, with an oily sheen upon its surface. Though, unlike the masks worn by the Wanderers in the fog, this one is not featureless. Instead, it has been made into the image of Amaethon's mortal visage, in an expression of peace and contentment

"There was no need" He said softly, as he took the mask in his hands and traced his unfeeling fingers across its faced "You are too generous, I thought I knew the limits of your virtue and kindness, yet you have surprised me just as greatly as when you told me you killed Cearnarch and were of all things...human"

"To give when one has plenty, is virtuous, to share when one has little, is virtuous" You state, smiling widely and cheerfully "You gave me your trust and friendship when you had nothing else to give, so I give you this token, to symbolize the faith we share between one another. Besides, to have no face to wear, I imagine it to be...saddening, I suppose"

"You have my thanks, and I wish you well on all your travels to your last, Until we next meet, I shall treasure this gift" He replied joyfully, he would be crying if could shed tears "and Promise I shall repay it in kind"

"When we next meet" You chuckle mirthfully, as you pat the wraithguard on his shoulder "I wish you well my friend"

And with that, he walked away, circled by his guards.
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>>5321039

"Shall I alert our companions we are to depart this port immediately?" Carys asked plainly

"Of course, we have kept your teacher waiting for far too long. I only hope I have not earned his ire by indulging in my curiosity to explore this strange realm" You say, the warmth of camaraderie still radiating deep within your heart.

How do you greet Eldrad after you're granted entrance to Ulthwe, Lieren?

>Respectfully, upholding proper etiquette and kneeling as you ask forgiveness for your tardiness. Greet him cordially and with all the respect someone of his standing deserves

>By Introducing him to Magnus, as you alert your brother that the meeting is beginning, as you act as an anchor for his projection to foist itself to. Better to be upfront that you have invited a guest

>Immediately challenge him to a philosophical debate, and ask to be shown around the craftworld! You have never stepped aboard one before, and you would very much like to see what life aboard them is like

>Get right to your business and ask if is able and willing to lead you to your suffering brothers. That is your reason for seeking an audience with him, cordiality and politeness can be forgotten considering the present urgency

>write in
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>By Introducing him to Magnus, as you alert your brother that the meeting is beginning, as you act as an anchor for his projection to foist itself to. Better to be upfront that you have invited a guest

Magnus! We found you a friend!!!!!

Perhaps the only one aside from the Emperor who might have something to teach him.
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That's sounding a little too Greater Good for my tastes.>>5321029

>By Introducing him to Magnus, as you alert your brother that the meeting is beginning, as you act as an anchor for his projection to foist itself to. Better to be upfront that you have invited a guest
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>>5320895
>AH OLE GOLDIE EYES WE MEET AGAIN
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>>5321044
>By Introducing him to Magnus, as you alert your brother that the meeting is beginning, as you act as an anchor for his projection to foist itself to. Better to be upfront that you have invited a guest
Somehow I feel like prostrating ourselves and asking for forgiveness is just gonna piss him off.
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>>5321044
>By Introducing him to Magnus, as you alert your brother that the meeting is beginning, as you act as an anchor for his projection to foist itself to. Better to be upfront that you have invited a guest
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>>5321036

So the word bearers only conquered about 50 systems by the time Monarchia happened. They were a legion who did not wage war and were found later in the crusade. While our sons are veterans of the unification war which makes most of the crusade look like a tutorial. Our goal is not to enslave or bomb worlds into compliance. Our goal is that when the heresy comes none of our planets declare for the Warmaster and that their ruling body and systems of government last throughout the centuries to come. As for heavy-handed, that is reserved for hostile worlds where there is little to no chance of agreement. That's why we have air superiority and golden age weapons for.
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>>5321044
>Introducing him to magnus

We should be polite, but I think demonstrating trickster lieren is the way forwards here.
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>>5321044
>Respectfully, upholding proper etiquette and kneeling as you ask forgiveness for your tardiness. Greet him cordially and with all the respect someone of his standing deserves
>By Introducing him to Magnus, as you alert your brother that the meeting is beginning, as you act as an anchor for his projection to foist itself to. Better to be upfront that you have invited a guest
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>>5321044
>>By Introducing him to Magnus, as you alert your brother that the meeting is beginning, as you act as an anchor for his projection to foist itself to. Better to be upfront that you have invited a guest
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>>5321044
>Respectfully, upholding proper etiquette and kneeling as you ask forgiveness for your tardiness. Greet him cordially and with all the respect someone of his standing deserves
>By Introducing him to Magnus, as you alert your brother that the meeting is beginning, as you act as an anchor for his projection to foist itself to. Better to be upfront that you have invited a guest
Be polite, be efficient
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>>5321044
>>Respectfully, upholding proper etiquette and kneeling as you ask forgiveness for your tardiness. Greet him cordially and with all the respect someone of his standing deserves
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>>5321044
>Respectfully, upholding proper etiquette and kneeling as you ask forgiveness for your tardiness. Greet him cordially and with all the respect someone of his standing deserves
>By Introducing him to Magnus, as you alert your brother that the meeting is beginning, as you act as an anchor for his projection to foist itself to. Better to be upfront that you have invited a guest
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>>5321044

>Respectfully, upholding proper etiquette and kneeling as you ask forgiveness for your tardiness. Greet him cordially and with all the respect someone of his standing deserves

>By Introducing him to Magnus, as you alert your brother that the meeting is beginning, as you act as an anchor for his projection to foist itself to. Better to be upfront that you have invited a guest
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>>5321044
>>Respectfully, upholding proper etiquette and kneeling as you ask forgiveness for your tardiness. Greet him cordially and with all the respect someone of his standing deserves

Two primarchs at once might send a bad message
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>>5321044
>By Introducing him to Magnus, as you alert your brother that the meeting is beginning, as you act as an anchor for his projection to foist itself to. Better to be upfront that you have invited a guest

>still apologize for being late.
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>>5321044
>Respectfully, upholding proper etiquette and kneeling as you ask forgiveness for your tardiness. Greet him cordially and with all the respect someone of his standing deserves
>By Introducing him to Magnus, as you alert your brother that the meeting is beginning, as you act as an anchor for his projection to foist itself to. Better to be upfront that you have invited a guest
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>>5321044
>Respectfully, upholding proper etiquette and kneeling as you ask forgiveness for your tardiness. Greet him cordially and with all the respect someone of his standing deserves

>Other
Ask if we may have another witness referring to Magnus, if he says no then don't bring Magnus along. It'd be rude to insist since we are infact late
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Lads as much as I hate to say it this is meant to be a one on one chat, ask him if he minds a witness in the form of Magnus don't just call him in because that's rude as hell. He can deny such a thing, also be ready to present a gift for our tardiness, maybe...as harsh as it is, the blade of love? Show him such a thing is infact possible!
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>>5321450
>>5321044
support
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>>5321457
I take offense to everything in this post. Mostly because regardless of what we do we only need to do one simple action to secure his favor no matter how much we piss him off.
You just need to remember who he worships.
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>>5321044
>Respectfully, upholding proper etiquette and asking forgiveness for your tardiness. Greet him cordially and with all the respect someone of his standing deserves
>Ask if you may bring your brother Magnus to join the discussion via his psychic projection.

No idea how formal Eldrad is and how much sway he has over Ulthwe to facilitate this meeting. He may be a excellent fellow to Lieren but if the rest of the seers on Ulthwe really don't like the idea of the meeting or want to squeeze as much as possible in the negotiations some things could cost Eldrad too much to allow.
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>>5321044
>Respectfully, upholding proper etiquette and asking forgiveness for your tardiness. Greet him cordially and with all the respect someone of his standing deserves
>By Introducing him to Magnus, as you alert your brother that the meeting is beginning, as you act as an anchor for his projection to foist itself to. Better to be upfront that you have invited a guest
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>>5321450
>>5321457
Inviting Magnus won a previous vote, he already will be here. So not telling Eldrad about the extra guest would be the rude option.
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>>5321457
>>5321620
We already brought Magnus, Go read shit next time. The quest is worth the read.
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>>5321760
>>5321828
I feel it is best to treat voters as if they were attention deficit.
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>>5321044
>>Respectfully, upholding proper etiquette and kneeling as you ask forgiveness for your tardiness. Greet him cordially and with all the respect someone of his standing deserves
>>By Introducing him to Magnus, as you alert your brother that the meeting is beginning, as you act as an anchor for his projection to foist itself to. Better to be upfront that you have invited a guest
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>>5321044
>Respectfully, upholding proper etiquette and kneeling as you ask forgiveness for your tardiness. Greet him cordially and with all the respect someone of his standing deserves
>By Introducing him to Magnus, as you alert your brother that the meeting is beginning, as you act as an anchor for his projection to foist itself to. Better to be upfront that you have invited a guest
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I don't know how many of you have listened to this but this to me is what Malice sounds like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaeHBvh5auU
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>>5323208
He sounds like he needs to quit smoking.
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>>5323208
He sounds like an ork without the silly cockney
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>>5323698
OS of GorkMork Kork?
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Malals machine spirits seem to be angry again
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>>5326899
Given the length of this bout of radio silence, it's surely a battle of absolutely titanic proportions.
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>>5326915
I hope he's doing okay
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>>5327149
If we get to a full week without an update, then we can panic.
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Is it possible to donate s laptop to Malal? I would like to do so.
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So this is embarrassing. So, I thought my keyboard had broken, despite being pretty new, and that belief was the reason for my radio silence and the wait. Found out it wasn't broken, and that it was just unplugged. Thankfully I found this out before buying a replacement, and just when moving some wires around

So I feel like a massive idiot.

I'll call the vote and write that update you've all been waiting on in a bit. I am truly excited to write Lieren and Eldrad's meeting, which makes the fact I only haven't already cause I didn't think to check my PC's ports for four days all the more painful

>>5327149
thanks for your concern

>>5327414
And you for your generosity, though it isn't needed
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>>5327456
Malal needs to setup a kofi or something.
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>>5327456
that mean we will be waiting 2-3 days before the next update.
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>>5327456
Malal please, Its okay to just admit your being held hostage. Just tell us and we will send aid.
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>>5327456
>I thought my keyboard had broken. Found out it wasn't broken, and that it was just unplugged.
kek
>Thankfully I found this out before buying a replacement, and just when moving some wires around
At least it was something we can laugh about without there being any kind of harm
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>>5327456
Don't be ashamed Malal, even the greatest tech-priests sometimes forget to perform the sacred rite of jiggling the plug in the case the ritual of turning it on and of again fails.
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Calling the vote now, after far, far too long

By Introducing him to Magnus, as you alert your brother that the meeting is beginning, as you act as an anchor for his projection to foist itself to. Better to be upfront that you have invited a guest:15

Respectfully, upholding proper etiquette and kneeling as you ask forgiveness for your tardiness. Greet him cordially and with all the respect someone of his standing deserves:13

Ask if we may have another witness referring to Magnus, if he says no then don't bring Magnus along. It'd be rude to insist since we are infact late: 3

total votes:20

So Lieren will greet Eldrad respectfully and cordially, and ask forgiveness for his lateness before introducing him to his Brother Magnus, being upfront that he has chosen to invite a guest


>>5327513
The water rations are generous and the beatings light.

>>5327494
Hopefully not.

>>5327581
Lmao
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Eldrad knew he stood upon the crossroads of fate, upon a fractural point that split into thousands of possibilities. The second progeny of the Gestalt of ancient shamans and soothsayers, a figure he regarded with both hope and dread. He had directly witnessed the primarch's psionic awakening and the radiant light that constantly surrounded his every burning soul like the halo of a new born star, and so he was privileged to witness the great destiny surrounding the humble warrior, and the promise that whispered in his mind whenever he turned his mind's eye and psychic perceptions towards that mist shrouded world once consumed by the machinations of the six great gods of chaos. The eightfold path denounced and turned inward, a direct challenge to the nihilistic and ultimately selfish lure of chaotic power, spoken by a man torn from the destiny written for him by the very same gods he cursed and fought wherever he encountered them. However, eons of life had taught Eldrad to be ever cautious, even if he could envision fate and direct destiny with far greater ease than any other who walked the path of the seer, even his fellow members of the council of seers of Ulthwé. And simple experience in divination and scrying had taught the ancient Farseer that anything which possessed a destiny tat was so malleable and transient that even he could not track or foresee it was something to be approached carefully and with great preparation and trepidation. Lieren of Shangrala, was a dangerous entity, merely witnessing his psionic assent through forcefully manipulating and all but throwing his own essence into the a crucible of spiritual fire, had robbed her of her eyes and somehow broken her from the path she had walked for centuries, influenced her to take risks and trust a being who could easily become the doom of the Aeldari, as he could its salvation.

It was true, he seemed immune to the corruption of the dark powers, almost as if he wore his hatred and contempt for those parasitic gods as a kind of shield, or, as Carys had suggested not long after she risked her own life to aid the anomaly that was the golden panther of the mists, all of the daemons of chaos simply had nothing to offer to interest the golden eyed son of humanities pinnacle and so he simply could not be tempted by them. But, while Eldrad could not divine the primarch's own future, he caught glimpses of the smirking titan through other futures, like a ghost made of fog. He had once, forseen, Lieren hanging the remnants of the old empire by their needlessly sharpened spires, standing amongst the flames as serene and kindly seeming as he was when Eldrad looked upon him as he met his apprentice forlorn. Surrounded by corpses and treating the conflagration as if the tongues of flames were little more than petals blossoming forth from a garden.
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>>5327673

While most of the brief sightings he had made of the primarch in his cultivating of fate, were at worst benign to the further survival of his people, Eldrad had not been blind to simply how dangerous he was. Men could be raised or trained to kill without remorse, regret or hesitation. What made Lieren dangerous, was how calmly he calculated when to kill and if something deserved to die. While his future remained shrouded to the farseer, he could still look upon his past, and witnessed firsthand how the second son would go about measuring sin and misdeeds, before carrying out executions as calmly as if he were plucking thorns from a rose.

Lieren, of all of his gene modified brothers, had thus far killed more of his own kind than any other currently active. But, while this terrified a few other members of Ulthwe's seer council, it relieved Eldrad. For all the danger Lieren theoretically and hypothetically represented, he was at his core a logical being, with a strong code of ethics and morals. A philosopher of peace and prosperity who paved the road to the paradise he envisioned for all to share with the bones of those who stood in his way, or offended him with their wicked ways, and the mortar of that road was blood and flesh. Eldrad was cautious and at times dreaded Lieren, but he did not fear him, for, despite the ghosts that followed behind him like the veil of his home planet, he was no zealot. He truly believed every life he had taken was necessary to achieve his ambition of a truly prosperous, virtuous society free from the corruption of their ancestors.

And that is why Lieren was dangerous. If he came to the conclusion something was a threat or deserved to die, he'd simply wipe it away, with as much thought as pruning a diseased branch. And, though Eldrad had advise caution and distance from the ever burning fire that Carys had become enamored, and night obsessed with, he was not so unsettled by him and what he represented to vouch for killing him simply because they could not possess foreknowledge of him or feared that he would judge the Aeldari as a threat to the world he journeyed forever towards. That did not mean he trusted him or expected to find an ally and guardian of what remained of the Aeldari race in Lieren, he simply realized that.

In a fashion, the work of the Farseers and the work of the hangman were not so different. After all, for all the corpses Lieren had left in his wake, a Farseer a tenth of Eldrad's age had left ten times that of the Giant's tally to protect the craftworlds and their inhabitants.

So, Eldrad chose to accept Carys plea for him meet with Lieren, who had been forced to witness the fates of two of his brothers dammed to serve the same powers he opposed by principle and instinct, yet could not understand they were fated to become the same devils he fought.
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>>5327674

It took much debate to convince his peers to agree to allow the Monkiegh monk aboard their craftworld, but though they all in part dreaded that golden blaze, Eldrad reminded them of the hope he had spread for their race.

The death of that brat Cearnarch who debased the good name of slain Kurnous with his galaxy wide hunting expeditions and tournaments, his valiant protection of the pathless Aeldari who aligned themselves to him, and the oath he swore to Isha herself upon being subjected to the odorous sight of the grandfather of plague's manse, and the caged cold light who now sent out legions across Sha'eil against the relentless scourge that had consumed that once peaceable realm. For all the danger Lieren posed, Eldrad knew that he also embodied a great hope. A hope he intended to make a reality.

Hopefully, Lieren would see reason and decide to turn his back to his kinsmen dammed by fate, and work to prevent their ascension into immortal atrocities.

Eldrad took in a sharp breath, having chosen to take off his helmet and armor in a show of good faith to the primarch, hoping to endear himself to him early so he could guide him to do what must be done, and realize the destiny Carys saw in him as a cleansing flame of hope. The other Aeldari present, however, were armed and armored as if they were expecting the siege.

They certainly did not expect the figure they looked upon with worry and unease to appear before them, dressed in humble robes like a farmer recently pulled from his fields, thread bare and smelling of loamy earth and fresh growth. And they certainly did not anticipate the "Monkeigh that will kill or damn us all, like that fool Carys" To immediately kneel and throw himself to the ground, performing a particular form of prostration known as Kowtowing, practiced by the primitives of a particular long dead Monkeigh empire.

"Forgive me, Eldrad of Ulthwe, Shepard of fate and guide of the future, he who has lead the Aeldari from their darkest hour and defends them from the cruelest and most tragic of fates!" He shouted tearfully as Eldrad immediately forgot the speech he had prepared as he realized exactly how Carys must've felt when she stared into his awakening soul and had her eyes melted from the sight alone. It took great effort to keep himself cautious as Lieren smacked his head to the ground as tears fell from his eyes

"I have no excuse for my tardiness, there was no reason for me to delay the audience I had requested. I have slighted you and your noble peers of the seer council, who aid in the monumental task of preserving the Aeldari species" He continue, as he lifted himself from the ground and Eldrad looked upon the cursed mark he bore, left by all six of the Chaos gods that even now weakened the arcane defenses of the gate of Ulthwe's webway portal
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>>5327675

"And there is no justification for my lateness, of noble seers, for you waited because, like a spoilt child, I indulged in my curiosity of the magnificent astral road your ancestors had constructed, and gave into my desire to explore it freely, forgive me for this afront and breach of the trust of the pact penned by Carys and her former, honored teacher, Eldrad of Ulthwe" The primarch guiltily admitted, as if he had himself committed some great crime

Eldrad had to stop himself from asking why he was apologizing, they knew he'd be late. But, like a Grynix pouncing upon a songbird, Lieren took advantage of his momentary hesitation and broke his composure. Eldrad sensed the arrival of second, heavier psionic presence, and realized at once that Lieren, had through some cruel twist of fate, met a third of his brothers condemned to service the dark gods and all their whims. A second primarch, with skin vividly red, appeared, an astral projection tied to Lieren's own soul. Yet despite the shock and anger Eldrad felt, a certain, whimsical mirth rise within him

A low chuckle lifted from his lips, as he threw his head back, amazed by the audacity of their guest and the misfortune he had in the brothers he had found. Yet, strangely, the presence of Magnus the Red, the sorcerer king, was...different than he had witnessed before. Immediately, Eldrad stopped laughing as the implications of this alteration of the Crimson King, however he silenced them just as quickly, knowing what incredible ability Lieren possessed

"And once more I have performed an unforgiveable breech of etiquette! Oh my excitement has reached such a high, I've completely forgotten my manners!" Lieren proclaimed, showboating as he lashed his arm to his brother "Allow me to first introduce my brother, who has chosen to join in our conversation, which though is rude of me to force upon you fine folk of Ulthwe, you must understand, this is a family matter for both of us, and myself, Lieren of Nothing, Second Son of Wenyan, Second Son of a Nameless father, and hopefully a friend to you all, despite our...obvious differences"

"I must say, I was expecting a far more dignified and solemn entrance, but you did not disappoint me in how dramatically you approached me" Eldrad said warmly, matching the tone set by Lieren, and wincing as his eyes glanced against him. That was a gift that would make the exalted princes of Sha'eil would be envious of, yet, Lieren was clearly uncorrupted by its presence and indeed seemed to have made the power in his eyes his own. Lieren was a paradox, and impossibility, Yet here he stood before Eldrad and the Seer council of Ulthwe, they could not deny that he or his seemingly impossible feats were real. Eldrad knew he was walking a dangerous path now.
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>>5327676

He had to guard his thoughts and empty his mind nearly completely or else that piercing gaze may turn this peaceful audience into a disaster, or worse yet a bloodbath. He had to hold no attentions, make no plots nor think beyond the moment. Eldrad had to forsake his eons of experience and training, lest he bungle this meeting.
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How do you initially approach your audience with Eldrad, Lieren?

>By beginning a debate of the nature of fate and destiny, knowing he and his underlings are hesitant and doubtful of your aim to reach your brothers from a quick study of the younger members of the seer council, and try to use this to earn this aid in aiding you brothers

>Mention that only one other person had the quick thinking to realize the single weakness of your eyes, and ask why he is guarding himself so, after all you have come here as a friend.

>Knowing they must be withholding support out of caution or belief your brothers are fated to suffer, present several accounts of individuals who were seemingly condemned to suffer one fate, yet found another by their own choice or the intervention of others.

>Attempt to endear yourself to Eldrad and his peers, as the farseer is so clearly attempting to do with you. You both are aiming to use the other for your own goals, so why not play along?

>write in
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>>5327678
So the alpha legion can totally counter Lierens eyes then

>By beginning a debate of the nature of fate and destiny, knowing he and his underlings are hesitant and doubtful of your aim to reach your brothers from a quick study of the younger members of the seer council and try to use this to earn this aid in aiding you brothers
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>>5327678
>>By beginning a debate of the nature of fate and destiny, knowing he and his underlings are hesitant and doubtful of your aim to reach your brothers from a quick study of the younger members of the seer council, and try to use this to earn this aid in aiding you brothers

>>Knowing they must be withholding support out of caution or belief your brothers are fated to suffer, present several accounts of individuals who were seemingly condemned to suffer one fate, yet found another by their own choice or the intervention of others.

The accounts should be incorporated into our arguements that fate is changeable. Else it would invalidate all the work that Farseers do to guide their race.
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>>5327685
Cearnarch used the same method Eldrad is using, if you recall.

It only really works to keep him from noticing your intentions, briefly, by emptying your heart/ Mind, basically leaving a blank page for him to see when he turns his gaze to you. Kind of like, your enemy can't anticipate your next strike if you just swing wildly.

But, remember, even without his bullshit truth vision, Lieren is just naturally talented at reading people like books.
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>>5327692
>>5327678
Support

>Write in flavour
"I hold in my hand a dice, a simple thing but we're I to roll it what does its fate say? Will it still do so if rolled from my hand?"
Testing time~
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>>5327678
>Hopefully, Lieren would see reason and decide to turn his back to his kinsmen dammed by fate, and work to prevent their ascension into immortal atrocities.
Yeah dude you gotta talk to em to fix em.

>write in
>Kindly provide teas and treats from your home world as if you were the host of this discussion. Typically it is the head of the household that provides for its guest, but to give when you have little is virtuous. To give when you have much is virtuous. Plus you are especially proud of this particular blend of leaves and roots.

>>5327715
+1 flavor.
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>>5327678
>>By beginning a debate of the nature of fate and destiny, knowing he and his underlings are hesitant and doubtful of your aim to reach your brothers from a quick study of the younger members of the seer council, and try to use this to earn this aid in aiding you brothers

>>Knowing they must be withholding support out of caution or belief your brothers are fated to suffer, present several accounts of individuals who were seemingly condemned to suffer one fate, yet found another by their own choice or the intervention of others.

>write in
>Kindly provide teas and treats from your home world as if you were the host of this discussion. Typically it is the head of the household that provides for its guest, but to give when you have little is virtuous. To give when you have much is virtuous. Plus you are especially proud of this particular blend of leaves and roots.
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>>5327692
>>5327715
>supporting both

>>5327693
I imagine if someone did that in a crowd it would just make them stick out.
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>>5327678
>By beginning a debate of the nature of fate and destiny, knowing he and his underlings are hesitant and doubtful of your aim to reach your brothers from a quick study of the younger members of the seer council, and try to use this to earn this aid in aiding you brothers
>Knowing they must be withholding support out of caution or belief your brothers are fated to suffer, present several accounts of individuals who were seemingly condemned to suffer one fate, yet found another by their own choice or the intervention of others.
>write in
>And of course gift them a book of the journey traduced in aeldari, bringing a gift is a universal good gesture

if magnus wants to say anything, allow him
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>>5327678
>Begin a debate on fate and causality
>Use the accounts of people who's fates we have changed.

I want to mention cregornach, but that would be rude.
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>>5327678
>Knowing they must be withholding support out of caution or belief your brothers are fated to suffer, present several accounts of individuals who were seemingly condemned to suffer one fate, yet found another by their own choice or the intervention of others.
>Attempt to endear yourself to Eldrad and his peers, as the farseer is so clearly attempting to do with you. You both are aiming to use the other for your own goals, so why not play along?

>Lieren, of all of his gene modified brothers, had thus far killed more of his own kind than any other currently active.
More than Russ or Curze? Huh.
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>>5327678
>By beginning a debate of the nature of fate and destiny, knowing he and his underlings are hesitant and doubtful of your aim to reach your brothers from a quick study of the younger members of the seer council, and try to use this to earn this aid in aiding you brothers
>Knowing they must be withholding support out of caution or belief your brothers are fated to suffer, present several accounts of individuals who were seemingly condemned to suffer one fate, yet found another by their own choice or the intervention of others.
Just look at the giant red mango with us.
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>>5327678
>>By beginning a debate of the nature of fate and destiny, knowing he and his underlings are hesitant and doubtful of your aim to reach your brothers from a quick study of the younger members of the seer council, and try to use this to earn this aid in aiding you brothers
>>5327805
>More than Russ or Curze? Huh.
No elves on Fenris and Nostramo. I'm sure they beat Lieren out for total killed though.
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>>5327846
I think when he say "of his own kind" he means Lieren's own kind, not Eldrad's own.
That was what I though he meant at least.
But on second reading both would make sense, so whatever I guess.
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>>5327678
>By beginning a debate of the nature of fate and destiny, knowing he and his underlings are hesitant and doubtful of your aim to reach your brothers from a quick study of the younger members of the seer council, and try to use this to earn this aid in aiding you brothers
>Knowing they must be withholding support out of caution or belief your brothers are fated to suffer, present several accounts of individuals who were seemingly condemned to suffer one fate, yet found another by their own choice or the intervention of others.
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>>5327846
I doubt it. >>5327846

We are space Cathay. Fenris only had scattered tribes that mostly died before they were 30. Nostromo was a few hives were the number one cause of death was suicide. We have lead hundred thousand strong armies and conquered entire kingdoms. Also, lets not forget the 888,887 dead from a single battle.
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>>5327678

>By beginning a debate of the nature of fate and destiny, knowing he and his underlings are hesitant and doubtful of your aim to reach your brothers from a quick study of the younger members of the seer council, and try to use this to earn this aid in aiding you brothers

>Knowing they must be withholding support out of caution or belief your brothers are fated to suffer, present several accounts of individuals who were seemingly condemned to suffer one fate, yet found another by their own choice or the intervention of others.

And all the write ins so far, they all make sense for lieren to do
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>>5327678
>By beginning a debate of the nature of fate and destiny, knowing he and his underlings are hesitant and doubtful of your aim to reach your brothers from a quick study of the younger members of the seer council, and try to use this to earn this aid in aiding you brothers
>Knowing they must be withholding support out of caution or belief your brothers are fated to suffer, present several accounts of individuals who were seemingly condemned to suffer one fate, yet found another by their own choice or the intervention of others.
These two options seem to fit together quite nicely.
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>>5327678
>By beginning a debate of the nature of fate and destiny, knowing he and his underlings are hesitant and doubtful of your aim to reach your brothers from a quick study of the younger members of the seer council, and try to use this to earn this aid in aiding you brothers

>Mention that only one other person had the quick thinking to realize the single weakness of your eyes, and ask why he is guarding himself so, after all you have come here as a friend.
>Knowing they must be withholding support out of caution or belief your brothers are fated to suffer, present several accounts of individuals who were seemingly condemned to suffer one fate, yet found another by their own choice or the intervention of others.

LOCAL ELDAR, GET BTFO'ED BY MNAN WHO SPEAKS BETTER POEMS.
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his whole speech about "YoU DoN't UndErStAnD dEsTiNy" argument just got its face blown off because of good boi magnus lmao
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>>5328160
Fate is the salve of fools, you just need to look at the one that calls himself it's architect to know it to be true.
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>>5327678
>>Mention that only one other person had the quick thinking to realize the single weakness of your eyes, and ask why he is guarding himself so, after all you have come here as a friend.
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>>5327678
>>By beginning a debate of the nature of fate and destiny, knowing he and his underlings are hesitant and doubtful of your aim to reach your brothers from a quick study of the younger members of the seer council, and try to use this to earn this aid in aiding you brothers

>>Knowing they must be withholding support out of caution or belief your brothers are fated to suffer, present several accounts of individuals who were seemingly condemned to suffer one fate, yet found another by their own choice or the intervention of others.

A two-pronged attack against Eldrad's belief that Fate declares Angron and Lorgar doomed!
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>>5327678
>By beginning a debate of the nature of fate and destiny, knowing he and his underlings are hesitant and doubtful of your aim to reach your brothers from a quick study of the younger members of the seer council, and try to use this to earn this aid in aiding you brothers
>Knowing they must be withholding support out of caution or belief your brothers are fated to suffer, present several accounts of individuals who were seemingly condemned to suffer one fate, yet found another by their own choice or the intervention of others.

Hopefully this goes well enough to get Eldrad to mention the other primarchs in deep trouble.
There is Curze already going double nuts from his visions, Mortarion is having a bad time and I think gets crippled from the toxic gas on his planet, are there any others in need of help now? Fulgrim gets gotcha'd by a daemon blade late in the crusade, Pert is still a landmine but Lieren has partially defused him.
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>>5328395
I think curze will like us well enough, we have similar ideas about justice, ok maybe not as extreme but we can convince him I'd bet
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>>5328415
Curze legion, in canon, would have been fucking hung from their own bolter feeds if they entered the same airspace as Lieren.
The legions would never fight together after the first bloody slaughter.
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>>5328418
no not at first, remember anon the terrans weren't the problem, they became shit up once he stopped caring and let the retards do what they wanted. If we came convince him to keep caring it'll all be gucci
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>>5328395
>>5328415
If I remember right, last time we saw a PoV from Curze he was getting even madder because Lieren's shenanigans were fucking up his visions.
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>>5328438
I wonder if it'll make him stay his hand even more or make him slay even harder.

Because if he can see their future changing, he'd either hesitate or kill harder and faster before their futures are different.
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>>5328558
it depends on what visions he's seeing. it wouldn't be the first time he's seen multiple visions of the future.
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> Simple and to the point. Due to Malal Reborn shenanigans, and Hashut, Old Prophesy is fucked. Get with the Journey and risk success or stick with outdated visions and ensure failure.
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I cant get over how Lieren kicked te door in, fell flat on his face then sprang back up like a chihuahua on coke to keep talking.

It makes me giggle every time I think of it
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>>5328821
Getting to see Lieren through other people's eyes is always a treat, since he usually rationalizes his eccentricities in his head. Without that, his trickster-ness really shines through.
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We should start using our psyker ability to float more so we can cackle, lounge and float through the air to lean over shoulders. Just straight up treat gravity like the theory it is.
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>>5327676

>>By beginning a debate of the nature of fate and destiny, knowing he and his underlings are hesitant and doubtful of your aim to reach your brothers from a quick study of the younger members of the seer council, and try to use this to earn this aid in aiding you brothers

>>Knowing they must be withholding support out of caution or belief your brothers are fated to suffer, present several accounts of individuals who were seemingly condemned to suffer one fate, yet found another by their own choice or the intervention of others.
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Calling the vote now. Sorry for the wait, 4th of july wiped me out. Had a great time though, and I hope you guys all did as well.

By beginning a debate of the nature of fate and destiny, knowing he and his underlings are hesitant and doubtful of your aim to reach your brothers from a quick study of the younger members of the seer council and try to use this to earn this aid in aiding you brothers:16

Knowing they must be withholding support out of caution or belief your brothers are fated to suffer, present several accounts of individuals who were seemingly condemned to suffer one fate, yet found another by their own choice or the intervention of others.:14

Attempt to endear yourself to Eldrad and his peers, as the farseer is so clearly attempting to do with you. You both are aiming to use the other for your own goals, so why not play along?:1

"I hold in my hand a dice, a simple thing but we're I to roll it what does its fate say? Will it still do so if rolled from my hand?":3

Kindly provide teas and treats from your home world as if you were the host of this discussion. Typically it is the head of the household that provides for its guest, but to give when you have little is virtuous. To give when you have much is virtuous. Plus you are especially proud of this particular blend of leaves and roots.: 1

And of course gift them a book of the journey traduced in aeldari, bringing a gift is a universal good gesture: 1

Mention that only one other person had the quick thinking to realize the single weakness of your eyes, and ask why he is guarding himself so, after all you have come here as a friend.: 2

Simple and to the point. Due to Malal Reborn shenanigans, and Hashut, Old Prophesy is fucked. Get with the Journey and risk success or stick with outdated visions and ensure failure.: 1

Total votes:21

So Lieren will begin to debate the nature of fate and destiny with Eldrad and the rest of Ulthwe's seer Council, and knowing that they are withholding support out of caution or belief his brothers are fated to suffer, present several accounts of those who altered their "Destinies" through their own actions or the intervention of others to strengthen his argument over the transience/ changeability of faith

Writing now
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>>5329897
Didn't realize you were from the greatest country on God's green Earth. Glad you had a good time.
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"I believe it is not necessary for either of us to state our cause for seeking this audience, Seer" Magnus Began, his projected image sitting cross legged in the air, arms crossed over his chest in a manner most befitting a scholar of his achievements, befitting more the image of a thug or street tough guarding a winehouse or silver shop from the wandering hands of thieves than the philosopher king of a society of psykers such as your brother, who has no equal concerning the feats he is capable of performing with his immense, innate power and the talent required to expertly wield it and use it as naturally as any other man does draw and release their breath. You remained silent, sucking on a particular candy you had been offered while you waited for the seer council to gather and convene, to democratically decide if the request of two outsiders, one who had by completely accident began to corrupt their youth with philosophy and fine poetry. The hard ball of sugar, shaped very much like a traditional medicine pill, was flavored with a slightly sour flower and didn't taste like anything else your tongue had ever sampled, it wasn't offensively sour and resembled more a muddling of citrus oils across a finely ground sugar mixed with freshly picked petals. A pleasantly subdued taste, not too sweet or sour, every note of its flavors were quite and relaxed rather than loud and demanding. You quite liked it, and would have to thank the child who shared it with you when this meeting had come to a close. For, not only did you enjoy the lightly favored sweet greatly, but it also served well to disguise your attentiveness towards the council's subtle movements beneath their robes and the nearly unnoticeable shifts of their expressions and the well hidden emotion lurking in those coldly crystalline orbs they observed you and your brother with as nothing more than the idle ponderings of a man deep in thought. Though admittedly, the appearance of being wholly consumed with your own internal monologue and thought processes was held up more by your mental shielding and barriers you put in place to keep any curious mind among those presence from peeking into the well illuminated halls of your psyche.

"While, normally, I would be content merely to have the privilege of holding an audience with the rulers of a race so gifted with wisdom on psionic talent, more pressing matters have lead us here besides the exchanging of notes or requests for mutual instruction between our two races. Though much could be learned through the cooperation we seek" Magnus continued on as you rolled the hard candy around your mouth, twirling your bone hair pin through your hair as you redid the bun you wore, lazily shifting your eyes from one Farseer to the next.
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>>5329927

Though you had little reason to look at them, even if you had plucked your eyes out or addressed the council with your back turned towards them, you would have still noticed how hesitant and doubtful they all were before you would have seen your own nose. Eldrad, was purposefully keep his heart empty of emotion or feeling and his mind wiped of thoughts, a precaution you took no offense upon noticing. To be looked upon by the golden light within your eyes, was to be known and understood beyond even what you yourself realized about yourself. Sages and Prophets, who often delighted in cultivating an air of mystique around themselves, and charlatans who claimed to be either, did so abhor meeting your gaze. Though the path to wisdom is a journey to meet one's self, the wise oft dread what is hidden beneath the knowledge they've spent a lifetime acquiring and hoarding. Eldrad is clearly of a selfless character, to so devote himself to the safety of his people, and is more open minded than his peers even though he clouds his mind to avoid being scrutinized as deep as your gaze can pierce, for he was the one to plan this audience. It is clear he is trying to endear himself to you, so you cannot call him genuinely kind as for the short of a span you've known him he has worn a smiling, gregarious mask to try to set you at ease and earn your trust, while avoiding judgement. But being secretive is no sin, nor mark of villainy. And admittedly, you are a stranger, who speaks and teachers strangely and acts just as oddly in the pursuit of efficiently achieving whatever goal you have set out to accomplish. To a leader of a society as rigid as the craftworlds, it is expected for Eldrad to take every precaution while meeting one such as yourself, who if one only knew the stories told of you, seemingly makes a hobby of hunting down tyrants and flits gayly from one village to the next, passing koans and proverbs that to the untrained and unappreciative eye seem to possess the ability to turn a simpleton farmer into a brilliant mind, a once in a generation genius, while battling great devils, spirits, beasts and wicked men with dance like movements and grace.

But, before he veiled his mind by emptying it and acting without the usual conscious decision making and indepth planning most Aeldari practice, you noticed he was shocked by your brother. Not at his arrival, but by something else unexpected about him, some aspect or detail changed as if he were an old friend rather than a stranger. Or an old enemy, young and hale once more. Your eyes narrowed, as you subjugated a particular young and brash farseer to your attention after she chuckled at the idea of Cooperating with Mon'keigh. You did not mind if you yourself were laughed at, but mocking your friends and kin did have a way of drawing your ire.
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>>5329928

"The native psykers of Prospero and Shangrala could learn much from the traditions of the craftworlds" Magnus continued, as you lifted your gaze from the egotistical girl and turned back to Eldrad, pursing your lips as you sucked on the flower flavored candy you were enjoying

"Indeed, many of my students from the sect I manage, the wanderers in the fog, have been shown to be quite adept at the arts mastered by your seers, shapers, dreamers and warlocks. I have seen the bounty an exchange of traditions and teachings can bring, unity is an asset and strength not easily ignored' You say, speaking up at last "I have heard that learning the techniques of your psykerist paths is rather difficult, though not as difficult as mastering the intricacies and finer details of the Aeldari language to be fully fluent is quite the challenge, and rare is the man who can speak with equal elegance as a native speaker, who can truly capture the poetry and beauty of your ancient tongue, they lose the metaphor and symbolism, are ignorant of particular and peculiar phrasing"

"But that is not why we are here" Magnus states, in perfect Aeldari, as you had of course taught him the language not long after you had learned it

"Unfortunately, my students would enjoy to meet new teachers and peers" You reply with a sly smile, speaking purposefully in the old dialect used by Cearnarch and his brood. A collective shiver went down the spines of the council, expect for Eldrad, who only slightly turned his head

"I'd ask you give my regards to your students" He says, replying with the same dialect and a amused timber to this tone "Too often are minds closed to what is different, what is alien. To accept that others hold wisdom of a different kind but equal worth to that held by your own kind, is a rare quality, that must be praised. But, yes, we should get to the business of which you have contacted us to seek our council and advise, concerning the location of your brothers who you have seen to suffer greatly yet cannot reach out to as you have with your incredible brother Magnus, if only we had been born as childhood companions...what two minds as great as ours could have accomplished together"

The mask is talking, but beneath its gentle and airy voice, you can still notice the concern Eldrad holds for Magnus, for what is different than he has expected. You catch the candy between your teeth. Magnus smirked, clearly enjoying the farseers compliments.

"Lieren, yours is a rare human mind that can comprehend as easily as it does the falling of leaves or shifting of winds, that all actions, great and small, effect the wider galaxy, like a rock dropped into a puddle as I believe the recording of your personal philosophy describes it as, ripples that continue forever, reaching all other things" Eldrad spoke in a measured by amicable manner, carefully choosing his words as he looked from you to Magnus
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>>5329929

"Magnus, you are an psyker who, despite his youth has accomplished great things, not through brute force but care application of his gift. Freeing your people from the predations of the psychneuein and creating a civilization from naught but ruins. As your brother notices the consequences every action has upon the living, you are witness how the currents of the great sea shift by the merest application of emotion or belief. Thus, both of you should well understand why we are hesitant to offer our assistance, devoting energy, resources and time that could be spent on bringing about outcomes already predicted and forewarned to us. Often, our prophecies are ignored by the younger races, but surely, you two wise brothers will heed our council. What you ask of us is akin to dropping a boulder into a shallow pond, there are consequences that will be brought about, both dire and catastrophic, if we were to accept this pact and aid you in reaching your brothers. Perhaps we could, together, come to an alternative agreement. Terms beneficial to both parties, that do not risk bringing about cataclysm. Overt action would be..."

"No" You say calmly, crunching the candy between your teeth "I must reject this generous proposal, Sagely one, for I do not believe it to be necessary. Fate is not set in stone, destiny not writ upon stars hung in the heavens. As I have often said, Fate is the salve of fools. It is no raging river that one can only hope to be lightly battered as they sail down it without every having a chance to leave it for calmer waters. Nor is Destiny penned directly to a soul upon its creation. Fate is a gentle stream, Destiny a blank page. Easily changed"

There is a long, tense silence. Which is to be expected as you just told life long seers who have spent more hours looking into the future than they have the presence that their understanding of the nature of fate and destiny is incorrect, that it is far more malleable than they hold it to believe. Like telling a stonemason to shape Granite or Marble as if it were wetted clay. Or telling an architect to build a tower atop a marsh, or a doctor to trust a new medicine made from combining several powders known to be poisonous, or that one could turn pounded rocks and charcoal into fire. Advice you had given before, that met success when you were listened to. The silence is long, and unbroken and you take the time to clear your teeth of the crystals of sugar stuck to them.

"We farseers would be worthless if we were unaware we could change fate" Eldrad says stoically "Our species survival depends on changing the winds of destiny. But we are not so vainglorious to believe that we can change all aspects of the future, if it were, the Aeldari would not be in a state of perpetual decline, fighting every day for survival. Fate is mutable, yes, but it cannot be controlled so completely"
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>>5329930

"Nor should it, if it could be. To do so would be placing a iron collar upon the necks of all things, hammering their hands in place with burning iron nails" You reply as quick as a whip "I am not of the belief that you and your fellow seers march to a relentless beat of an imagined, preordained path, I have merely stated that some paths are overlooked in favor of other, more obvious trails forward through the future. I may hold the practice in contempt, but I have practiced divination before, I know the future can be forewitnessed and with suitable skill, selected to be brought about by all other potentialities, but those forays I have taken as a hobbyist seer have shown me"

"Nothing compared to what Farseers have been witness to, I do not mean to demean or insult you, but your divination and our precognition are two very different things, Mon-keigh" Another farseer, with a harsh voice snaps

"Oh of course they are!" You laugh, nearly causing the angered seer to choke on his own breath as you grin and throw your arms up in a shrug "For you look far ahead, while I look close to where I stand. If one anticipates events that shall not arrive for sometime, they become obsessed by them and even terrified. Prophecies are oft self fulfilling, and trying to prevent them often fulfills them, but they are also, by nature deceiving. If one is looking for portents, they shall find them. Of course, your farseeing is serves its purpose as a survival mechanism, if one follows one path without lifting their eyes from their next step, they shall never notice when it splits and breaks into other perfectly serviceable roads"

"You should know as a road builder" The farseer muttered under his breath, and you resisted the urge to point out how that was no argument at all

"Nor, would they notice when the land is suitable to begin constructing an entirely new road" You say, still smiling gregariously as Magnus observes quietly, having nothing to add to debate you have now started "If one only follows a single road all their life, they will only reach one destination"

"That which they have already sought to bring about" Magnus ads with a sagely nod as you shifting your seat, which is entirely too stiff to be comfortable "That is why you seek to prevent us from finding our brothers, offering other forms of appeasement, because you have divined far into the future, and believe stepping from the path you have set to follow to be a dangerous risk as it would alter the careful calculations you have performed to reach the future you have seen"

"Precisely, it is more generosity than we are given to offer other species" Eldrad says with a simple nod to Magnus, before turning towards you "However, if one does not look at the bigger picture, they will never know its theme. If one listens to a single verse of a song, they will never know the tone of the entire composition."
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"You see fate as constantly shifting, because you have not studied it at length. To use your road analogy, one should only walk the road that will take them to their destination. If they step from that road, to explore another, they shall never arrive where they intend to be"

"Hah, one can end up anywhere if they walk long enough" You reply, grin turning pantherish as you narrow your eyes "The path may be harder, leading over mountains and across seas, but it can still be taken. With labor a road can be redirected. It may not be applicable to your honorable, and noble work of preserving the Aeldari race, which necessitates the careful measuring of fate and future and construction of plans to prevent looming disasters or encourage great windfalls and times of plenty and prosperity, But dedicating ones self to one vision of the future is simply...Inefficient, it is like trying to pave a road across a lake without first draining it. For, the future changes with every breath we take, and shall continue to shift long after we've taken our last. I have seen sudden swerves of personal fortune and changes of destiny with these eyes of mine that reveal the truth of all things"

Hostility rises in the air, but Eldrad raises a hand before any member of the council could air their grievances.

"By all means, give us an account of these sudden shifts of fate" He states calmly, rationally "Give us proof of destiny being suddenly upheaved and redirected, of those condemned to great suffering, tragedy, monstrosity, or colorless lives. Otherwise, I fear we shall be arguing semantics over our personal interpretations of fate until the last star in the universe sputters and burns out. So, provide proof of your conception of transient fate"

"Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to, Eldrad Ulthran of Ulthwe" You say reverently as you quickly flip through the pages of your memory in search of examples that will prove your point to this council of set in stone seers, accounts of those individuals you have seen throw off the reigns of their supposed destinies. You need to be careful choosing whose story you first relate, if you do not convince the seer council with the first account, they simply will not listen to the others you give. Bai, who died a heroic death saving countless others despite being born with a murderous urge? Your revered father, Wenyan, who went from a poor farmer to raising you into a man who changed not only a world but its people? The Wild Vishnu Tribes, who escaped the fate of servitude and damnation that had befallen their "Civilized" Counter parts. Or Yan Zihao, a child of the abhorrently corrupted and monsterous Yan Dynasty, who went on to give his life to preserve the freedom and prosperity that had arose from his kingdom's ashes. Or perhaps someone else? Kanzeon maybe? Yourself?

You grinded your teeth in thought

Whose story do you lead with, to prove your point, Lieren?

>Bai.

>Wenyan

>The Wild Vishnu

>Yan Zihao

>Write in
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>>5329935
>Young Meixu who was prophized to never be raised with love and most often over throw Kanan her self after growing up in the wild even after Kanan had already been slain by lieren.

>nd, you suspect, at least one of their number was nudged closer towards you opinion of fate after reading young Meixiu's fate. After all, the man confided that by all futures he could see, she was never supposed to have been found by Guozhi, let alone raised upon love and care. Which was, in a grim way, comforting. And proved your fears that if she had not been found, she would have grown to menace the countryside. Indeed, after comparing visions with his fellows, it was found that one of her prior "Destinies" was to usurp an ascendant Kamal Kanan at the moment of his triumph over the Yan. Her Sheer brute psionic force aided by hedge sorcery managing to surmount his "divine" patronage and centuries of experience, and perhaps the late tyrants own gluttonous hunger for the souls of young women.
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>>5329940
>support.
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>>5329940
Nice write in, support
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>>5329940
I support Meixu, she is the prototypical example. She shall not overthrow Kamal kan anymore nor shall she become a vile and evil witch, thanks to our interference.

Bai makes for a good second case, since his nature is utterly opposed to the man he was. But he didnt change his nature, he simply harnessed it.
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>>5329935
>>5329940
Oh fuck I got a good one!
Add in Isha! We have tilted divine scales, we gave her hope!
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>>5329935
>>5329940
+1
Meixu is the obvious choice, and by far the best example.
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They are Eldar. So they are god worshipers. What else do they need but the return of their shepherds and their mother?

>>Plan full human/Eldar Alliance
> I have freed Arianka from a beast that was so vile that the universe forgot. I offer to you my aid in restoring your other gods. I have met Isha and butchered the Great Unclean one watching her. I was not strong enough then. With your help we can take her back. In exchange you must aid me in finding all my brothers. The galaxy is full of dangers even for one such as us.
It is enough to make even one such as our father resort to harsh brutal and inefficient ways. Help us and I promise you a future no one can foresee. One where we rip what is left of your gods from the belly of the Temptress to return them to you.

>With Isha's return you shall have children a plenty. Your population shall be renewed. With the rest? Your empire need not be a memory. You shall once again bring order to the galaxy. Wiser and humble. Free from the arrogance of youth. And this ill earned superiority that holds you back from greatness.

>Forget your paths. For the future has already changed. Build this road with me. Or continue walking into a fate you know shackles you from your true potential. Your true glory returned.

> But be warned. Danger abounds my path. Already there are two gods recalled from their slumber. We shall lean heavily on your ancient knowledge to navigate this path. For how else are we to attempt the impossible?
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>>5329935
Meixu works for me.

Also, that smug farseer with a distaste for interspecies cooperation wouldn't happen to be a canon character, would she? Maybe from a series of rts games or infamous romantic fanfiction, both of which feature interspecies cooperation quite prominently?
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>>5329980
Let's cool our heels there, Oberkomanndant Overkill.

They are not going to accept us at our word that we will free Isha. To tell them they cant see this future will have them recognise that hey, it is pure fantasy, because they do have good sight, even if they are arrogant as shit.
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>>5329940
>Support
>>5329935
>Kanzeon and her sisters, who you saved from the predations of chaos. Specially Mari, who you saw would be destroyed, and for her vessel come an undending plague.
>The return of Malal and Hashut, turning six where there were there once four, and equally the empowering of Arianka and tge souls of your dead friends, forming a new opposition. All actions that change fate works on it's fundametal level, that you learned through experiments with divination.
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>>5330023
You really want to tell them we helped summon more chaos gods?
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>>5330129
Not really, but it's something we did so I wrote it to not forget about it. I don't expect anons to vote/use that one, so it should be safe.
The Mari vote is the important one.
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>>5330139
I only now realized I should have just mentioned it in the post instead of making it a write-in.
Oh well, it was fun, so it wasn't wasted time.
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>>5329940
+1 this is by far the most potent proof we have. A once supposed Witch that could contend with the strongest psykers in the galaxy (an alpha or alpha plus), turned to a sweet girl who has friends, family, and comrades.

>>5329935
Hey what was the names of that once chaos wizard turned slave, turned self redemptionist? Typically once you go chaos, you dont go back, but that guy straight up told chaos to fuck off.
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>>5329940
>support
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>>5330152
Tahir Azzi, and another shuni preacher by the name Hanif Nagi who also repentented, which is proof it was not just a fluke.
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>>5330165
Sweet

>>5329935
So I wanna +1 mention these guys too >>5330165
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>>5330158
also going to plus 1 Tahir azzi
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>>5329943
I'll add
>mention Tahir Azzi and Hanif Nagi
I can't help but imagine an eldar asking "do you have proof of your conception of transient fate" and lieren just slap's a big ass book on the table asking "You want it in alphabetical or chronological order?".
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>>5330023
Adding
>Mention the shuni priests that rebelled against Kamal, like Tahir Azzi and Hanif Nagi, who burned their mutations and freed their souls from Tzeentch.
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>>5329940
Support! Hahaha, Meixiu is literally the perfect example!
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>>5329940
+1
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>>5330236
+1 this

>>5329935
This is just too funny of an idea of Lieren literally pulling out a big ass book of every. Single. Person. Both named characters and unnamed that had denounced the chaos gods and are stronger for it. Bai and Rudan the amazon dude with the skull paint are both good examples. Both were "destined" to becoming the pawns of the blood god, blood thirsty with murderous intent, but instead of letting themselves be ruled by their bloodthirst, they rule it. I mean fucking Bai 1v1 an entire army of khorne demons, only before killing a greater demon. That's a feat not many space marines can ever achieve.

Bai my bro I still miss you.
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>>5329940
+1
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>>5329940
support

>>5330236
yeah he has a ton of examples could remain more than a full day talking about it
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>>5329935
>Young Meixu who was prophized to never be raised with love and most often over throw Kanan her self after growing up in the wild even after Kanan had already been slain by lieren.
>Mention the shuni priests that rebelled against Kamal, like Tahir Azzi and Hanif Nagi, who burned their mutations and freed their souls from Tzeentch.

The second doesn't precisely relate to greatly changing fate, but using sheer faith to go perfectly clean after being a long time corrupted chaos sorcerer is really huge on the impossibility scale, plus since it was the changer involved I wouldn't be surprised if they were load bearing pillars of some sort so the squid would make it hard for their destiny to shift.
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Calling the vote now. Sorry for the wait, got distracted by a video game, my bad.

Young Meixu:14

Isha: 2

I have freed Arianka...: 1

Kanzeon and her sisters:1

The return of Malal and Hashut:1

Tahir Azzi + Hanif Nagi:7

total votes: 14

So Lieren will begin his argument with the tale of Meixu, then the accounts of Tahir and Hanif, before giving every denial of destiny he has thus far personally witnessed

Writing now
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And in your mind's eye appears a familiar smiling face of a young girl. Meixu, a child and tragic orphan born possessing strength equivalent to a natural disaster and easily the best account to lead with, for the Aeldari are a proud race and will ignore and undervalue accounts given by those who were born, raised and have lived beyond their order of their paths and great sanctuary vessels, but two of their number had used the techniques of the path of the seer to look into young Meixu's future and found that in none of their divination's was she found by kindly old Guozhi and raised with the love and care that had been stolen from her from by cruel, greedy and heartless men. Men who she reduced to little more than crumpled heaps of broken bones and severed limbs. By all of the reckoning of fate and all visions of destiny, Meixu was condemned to become a plague upon the people and land, a witch driven to wickedness, evil and sin by the slaughter of her village, who never knew love, kindness, compassion or friendship. The breed of sorcerer long feared by superstitious and ignornant, who you had once believed could only be found in children's stories and folktales, but knew all to well how common they were not only upon fair Shangrala but across the wider galaxy, wherever men hoped and schemed.

Indeed, Meixu was ordained to be the final death of the putrid soul eater, Kamal Kanan, her innate power crushing all the blessings of the supposed architect of fate and his several lifespans of experience and practice beneath its heel.

And who was Meixu now? A friendly if at times overprotective and proud little girl, who had many friends and many loved ones, and rather than being a hermit witch in the wilds, traveled from her home in a school in the mountains to buy sweets and play in fields of flowers, and this is in spite of taking part in conflicts between psykers that would pale the face of even veteran soldiers had they merely heard tale of the battles she had fought in, let alone took part in them as she herself had, and at a very young age. She endured no trauma nor suffered from what she had seen, before Guozhi had found her or afterwards, in part due to the care he, you and so many others had given her.

Young Meixu's story, above all others, showed how fragile fate truly was and how quickly it could turn and change. She who was born to live a life as a monsterous and heartless sorceress, instead lived one filled with comfort, love and happiness.

"Oh I have more stories than could fill a novel or be writ upon a scroll, honored master of fate" You say softly, as a proud smile slowly formed upon your lips "That prove destiny shifts as easily as sand and changes as quick as the winds. If you wish for me to share a story that proves my point, then, venerable seers of Ulthwe, allow me to tell you of a little girl named Meixu"
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>>5332278

Magnus was smiling now as well, his ever shifting eyes twinkling as he remembered the powerful little soul who he had seen once or twice at your side.

"A child?" A farseer hissed through their helmet, its lenses adjusting as he turned to his nearest peer, while eldrad tented his fingers and frowned, narrowing his eyes as he looked down at you and studied your expression, considering every word you had thus far spoken. There were mutterings and hushed whispers, as all of the council tried to anticipate the purpose of your choice and thus the angle from which you would defend your argument, despite only having heard Meixu's name.

"Oh it has a sad beginning, one that brings me near to tears just remembering. Meixu was born in a humble village, to loving parents who had already been blessed with many children. Though, no she alone remains, for, not long after I had brought prosperity to the Kingdom and populace of Long-Jia, the village was visited by a band of villains and brigands. Bandits of the sort that once plagued the few roads that I had not built, murderers and thieves who care little if the lives they end bring them any boon besides the vile joy it brings to their withered hearts. And of all who had been born there, who had lived their lives tending the fields there to make a humble but honest living from the wealth of the land, Meixu alone survived the visit of this parade of killers and looters"

You raised an open palm, to prevent any interruptions as you gently lowered your head and sighed.

"Oh, you suppose that that is the end of Young Meixu's story, that it is a tragic drabble meant to impart how quickly blessings can be lost and replaced with sorrow, an account of a peaceful life ruined by the misdeeds of others. But, that is merely the beginning of my tale, so lash your tongues and listen still" You said, raising your voice and speaking more sternly "For none of the bandits lived past the village's destruction and died soon after they had come with torches and swords in hand. For, Meixu was born blessed, yes, but not for the idyllic home or loving family that had been taken from her as swiftly as day turns to night. For, she was born a psyker whose power is matched by very few. A storm trapped in the small body of a girl. Her little hands command unseen forces, as if the spectral hands of a long dead giant hide within her own shadow. Telekinesis is what this power is called upon Prospero, upon Shangrala it is known as the spirit's touch, and I know not what you Aeldari name it"

Extending your arm, you turn your hand around, and slowly clench it into a fist.

"Meixu, terrified and possessed by a rage and fear no child should ever knew, wished for the monsters who had come to her home to be taken away, to vanish and disappear" You state as you open your fist and stretch your fingers out
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>>5332279

"Instead, awoken by the sparks of hatred and terror of watching all she knew be cut down and put to the pyre, an great conflagration of Spiritual energy, Qi, rose from within this little girl and readily gave itself to her to command. The bandits died terribly, their bodies crushed like ripened fruit, lifted from the air and compressed, twisted and torn apart" You continue on, lazily lifting and gracefully moving your outstretched hand through the air, using a subtle expression of Spirit's touch to create a breeze throughout the chamber "Their broken bodies gathered in a heap, Meixu then found herself alone her only companions, ashes and tears"

Raising up your hand, you lifted it towards Eldrad, turning the wind you leashed to softly whisper past his ears as your smile grew wider

"Until, a passing monk, a wanderer beneath the fog, came upon her. His name was Guozhi, and he had been born and died a thousand times. His great wisdom, cultivated through each of his many incarnations, drew him to the site of this great tragedy, for even though his body was aged, his spiritual sense remained sharp while his vision clouded and faded. Thus he found Meixu, sat alone amongst burnt out houses and charred bones, confused and frightened by the power revealed to her and the trauma of having all she knew ripped from her hands to be cast alone into a cold, uncaring world" You whisper, as the scene plays before your mind, as you imagined it must have gone. Aged Guozhi, bent back, approaching young Meixu, despite sensing the dangerous power she held within her, like a caged devil of disaster "And the old Monk, despite sensing the threat she posed to not only herself but all those near her, approached her with open arms and a grandfatherly smile, without fear, doubt or hesitation, and he took her from those ruins to teach as his own student, to train her to control the blessing and curse that had followed her since her birth, like a choking mist"

Someone breaths, so you move your hand from the air, where you had been slowly twisting it and lifting and lowering its fingers ponderously, gesturing to command the soft breeze your held throughout the chamber to hold it up to prevent the interruption and rebuttal of your story by a seer who simply doesn't know when a story is finished being told.

"Then, my mentor introduced her to me, not long after I had established a place of learning, not only for psykerism but various mundane knowledges, talents, trades and arts, the first of the many academies I had built. At once I sensed her power, and at once I cried for the tragedy she suffered, and so ensured she would live a live without hardship or struggle, without being looked upon with suspicion or fear that she was a sorcerer and practice of forbidden and demonic sorceries" You say,
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>>5332280

a little faster since it is clear some of these farseers, despite the great patience required and enforced by the path that had consumed them mind and soul, possessed very little actual patience.

"A witch, as it were. And she had flourished ever since, living a happy life full of smiles and joy, with many friends, peers and beloved teachers and playmates" You continue on "Even when she was called upon to use her great power, against my wishes, she remained carefree and unaffected by the horrors she had met and crushed between her hands like so many beetles. But, this was not the fate that the heavens had bequeathed her, this life she lead went against all plans of Jian Qi, the lord of lies and herald of false hope, may his bowels be consumed from within by a legion of rodents and other vermin, may he be blighted with failure and struck down from his throne of slander and deception, may his eyes boil and melt from his skull, leaving him blind to not only the present, but the past and future as well, may he..."

"May you please continue with Meixu's story?" A farseer reprimands, sternly, not having seemed to notice they were now leaning from their seat in anticipation to hear how the story of a girl they'd sneer at as "Mon-keigh" will continue and end, more than the lesson it sought to impart concerning fate. A lesson Eldrad had already realized, judging from his resigned expression and stiff posture, even if he sought to prevent you from reading his intentions and gauging the interests of both his heart and mind, subconscious actions and thoughtless motions revealed all you needed to notice his feelings

"Forgive me, to speak the name of the demon lord of schemes fills me with such vitriol and revulsion my tongue becomes as venomous as a scorpion's sting" You say cheerfully, as you adjust your own seated posture, resting one leg atop the other and then resting your hands upon its knee "But as the story goes, the pleasant, worriless life that Meixu has been blessed with in place of the idyllic and quite life filled with familial love and simple comfort, was never to be. All divinations concerning her future, showed events that now never could be. She was to be a witch of the wilds , a vain sorceress who never knew the love and kindness of her fellow man, a blight upon Shangrala and her people, a devil in human skin who lashed out and infected all with the misery well rooted within her heart. Prophesized to spread death, corruption and chaos, she was fated to dethrone a sorcerer king who ruled a land forever cast by night of endless sands and abomination, a king chosen by the crane of many colors and many lies, a beast that devoured souls and brought them to a hell of his own making tied to his own putrid spirit, sucking upon them like a bloated tick."
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>>5332281

Standing, you finish your tale by loudly, near bellowing its finished lines, with a hand between your twin hearts "I killed that monster who sat like a fattened toad upon a nation of zealot priests and ambitious wizards, and Meixu, whose hands should have wrapped around his throat, never met hide or hair of that repugnant creature"

"And that is supposed to convince us of your view of fate? Because at the cross roads of destiny, one path was accidentally chosen over the other? And you had only looked down the path not chosen after it had already been made impossible?" A haughty young seer chuckles, as Eldrad furrows his brow and grits his teeth, he knows as well as you the novice amongst them had just stepped directly into your palm and played into your "An by whose divination did you come to learn of the fate Meixu avoided, of wickedness and evil performed by a lonely soul mislead by chaos' whispered temptation? A novice amongst you primitives, surely, playing with bones and offal as you delight to, perhaps tossing bones into a fire to see how they crack, or writing characters if a name to construct meaning from their composition, or maybe even consuming a psychedelic brewed from a strain of fungrus grown from..."

"Ah, actually you probably know them!" You shout, as Eldrad slumps in his chair, holding and covering his face with both of his hands as what can only be described as a great psychic sigh rolls over the whole of the council of seer's court

"What?" The novice near barks as you sneer both triumphantly and in great amusement

"They were Farseers who left Ulthwe to pursue the teachings of the Journey, deciding its guiding lessons aligned more to how they desired to live their lives" You state, unable to hide your smugness as the farseer nearly collapses in her chair "They met Meixu, and read her faith and never saw her meeting Guozhi once in any of their divinations, but to be certain they compared what they had foretold of a fate that could no longer be with several of their peers, whilst they visited the temple I built for my disciples, to safely and securely cultivate their powers and train to control them rather than be controlled by them"

You step closer, and sense several of the seers instinctively shield themselves with Qi as they see you grin.

"And they all saw the same fate. A girl, whose power eclipses all others born upon Shangrala, of mundane birth, without any particular blessing of any particular "God" or evil spirit, or even their patronage, overcoming one of their foremost champions upon the world" You sneer and cackle, eyes narrowed into slits that glow like molten metal in a crucible "She was destined to loneliness, to corruption, to villainy and heinous deeds, with no friends or companions, only slaves and thralls. And yet, the old monk found the crying child, and took her from that path to a life unseen by seers...I imagined were trained, if not by you, then your peers"
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>>5332283

You laugh uproariously, throwing your head back as you sweep a hand through your iron hued hair

"Primitives and novices indeed" You jest, grinning at the now thoroughly shamed and humiliated farseer, who appears to be trying to shrink away into nothingness from how they're now sulking in their seat "Shall I move onto the next account, or have I made my point? Or must you shame your former followers by claiming they were mistaken or perhaps misused or mispreformed the techniques YOU taught them?"

"One cannot easily remove themselves from the grip of the great powers of" Another farseer speaks, after stammering as he composed himself to answer "Perhaps, "Jian Chi" has a far worse fate intended for Meixu, that you are leading her towards after being content with saving her from the destiny divined by those who have forsaken our protection and guidance?"

He winces as he feels a sliver of your killing intent, for his statement gravely insults not only his former students, but Guozhi and Meixu herself

"Perhaps. But I have seen those who worshipped such powers step away from their control, casting off their collars of obedience and forsaking thralldom and servitude to lead virtuous lives, to become benevolent and wise despite their misguided allegiances to dark powers and odorous spirits" You answer back far more calmly, and colder than the farseer had himself spoken "I have witnessed those consumed by corruption cast off the taint they invited into themselves, whose mortal vessels were twisted and maligned with the energies of the empyrean's discordant winds and foul airs, purifying themselves in body, mind and soul! Shall I tell the tales of Tahir Azzi, a sorcerous priest of the Shuni, who was a black hearted and monstrous as his peers, who with knife and fire cleansed his body of the influences as by will alone he cleansed his mind and by faith he cleansed his very soul, of Jian Qi's warping influence, to chant and cheer as the statues of the self proclaimed god he once worshipped were torn down and cast to rubble. Perhaps, his fellow priest, Hanif Nagi, who saw his zeal and faith was misplaced in the the deity he had been born to follow following a vision only he and his eldest son know the contents of, who rules the Nagi province of the Shuni region now? Tahir is a healer! Using what he learned beneath Kamal Kanan to cure sickness and mend wounds, save lives and ward of death and pestilence, HE FOUGHT against the hordes of Nitya SINHA, the butcher of kings! The greatest champion the dark powers had released upon my home, in battles where friends and noble companions bled and died. Tell me, are they and Meixu at danger of falling back into villainy, corruption, sadism and evil, oh venerable seer"

"I...I have nothing to state" the seer mumbles, lowering his head in defeat

"That should be impossible" Eldrad states calmly, shaking his head
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>>5332285

"But we all know your eyes see the truth of all things. But, what you witnessed, what you saw, was a miracle. A rarity in this grim and dark galaxy, nothing more. A fluke of fate, lead Guozhi to Meixu, denying the architect of fate her power and soul, Tahir and Hanif severing the chains set upon them by chaos is another miracle, a coincidence that will likely never be repeated, purposefully or not. What is lost to chaos is forever damned"

"My studies show me that that is simply not true, Eldrad of Ulthwe" Magnus chimes in suddenly, raising his voice clearly and out of turn "I have researched the energy you refer to as "Chaos" at length after realizing the threat it, and the entities born of it posed. And these experiments of mine have, thus far, achieved results that are easily reproducible in a contained environment, upon non living materials and dead bio matter. I dare not risk extending my studies to living subjects, for I have heard, at great length, the horrors of chaos corruption and mutation, and would never subject any man to such a cruelty, even if it would broaden my knowledge of the dangerous tides of the great sea. But, if dead flesh can be removed of this "taint", surely there would be required no miraculous or divine intervention for it to be cut from living flesh and mind"

"What" Eldrad answers dully, blinking twice as he looks at the beaming smile Magnus wears, before turning to you, and much more sternly barking "WHAT!"

The room is deathly silent, and eyes that looked at you with disbelief, contempt, suspicion or imagined superiority now looked upon you two brothers with blatant shock and amazement.

"Or perhaps you would like to hear of my dearly departed friend, Bai, who was born with a murderous urge and killing instinct, who rather than turning his violent desires against his fellow men, reigned them and turned them against the deserving and vile" You say calmly, confident in your victory "Who faced the servants of Kong Nue, who gives such blessing of bloodlust like flowers to a jade beauty, and he not only conquered them, but out right refused Kong Nue when he offered to "gift" him that repugnant power held by his war dogs"

"What" Eldrad plainly states again, wiping his face as the rest of the seer council continues staring like deer's in front of a motorized carriage

"And died nobly fighting the evil spirits he commanded, never once giving into his bloodlust or murderous instinct, he was a hero, noble, true, and valorous. How about the Vishnu tribes, who lived by the bloody Gospel of the red handed high minister of murder" You laugh "Who consciously forsook their gruesome and cruel traditions of survival of the fittest, forsaking their past yet remaining warriors, becoming stalwart defenders of the realms of men when their civilized kin were conquered and replaced with motherless and fatherless puppets of slaughter"
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>>5332286

Eldrad is silent, and still, as a low whisper rises from the other farseers as you pause your speech to breath.

"How about Yan Zihao's story, a man who was born from a lineage rotted by the spiritual molestation of SHE WHO THIRSTS!" You shout "A family that's corruption was evident by the eyes of foxes they all shared, who lived a life of luxury and disgusting excess and thoughtless sadism and inhumanity, who looked upon the vileness of his kindred and forsook their monstrous life of self pleasure and empty hedonism, who tried to give his life in battle against my forces to save the few unruined members of his dynasty and their most trusted servants, who joined Long-Jia to hand over power to Jinhai, and emperor born a commoner, a humble guardsman who invented a martial style, that he remains the sole master of even when I! a man designed for war and battle, am only second to him, when he performs the carps dance with peerless beauty and elegant ease. Or should I mention my soon to be bride and her sisters, who had every reason to give into Misanthropy and nihilism, but only two of which actually did even while trapped alone, with every temptation to forsake their austere duty and abandon their lonely quest"

"Lieren" Eldrad whispers

"What of my father, Wenyan, who was doomed to die of hunger along with all the rest of his village, forsaken and tormented by the tyrants who owned him from birth, who instead met with a golden eyed child who turned Nothing into Jade and brought prosperity to a suffering, sick and starving land plague by miss rule, depravity, hedonism, excess and simple sadism and now stands before you, made into the man he is now by the lessons of an old farmer who thought the world to be without hope, kindness or benevolence"

"Lieren, you have more than made your point" Eldrad said, louder and more sternly "We have...decided to test your belief, an experiment if you would, of reaching for destiny none of us have yet seen through precognition or divination. We will, lend you assistance in your quest to find your family"

You take in a sharp breath of air, but glower when you hear what Eldrad says next

"We shall give the coordinates and star charts to the location of one of your lost brothers" He says stoically "And we shall lend no other aid. We will not risk Aeldari lives in an endeavor we believe foolish. You have proven the concept, now show us the reality, Lieren of Nothing. Prove that you can save your brothers from their destiny, and then, we may see about continuing this assistance beyond this singular intervention"

And as one voice the seer council of Ulthwe declares "Choose, either alone, or with your brother's wise council"
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>>5332287

What do you do, Lieren?

>Try to argue to be allowed to try and save both of your brothers, knowing it will not change their minds of stone.

>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger

>Choose the student of the abusive priest. His life is in no danger, but wounds of heart are more deadly than any physical scar.

>allow Magnus to decide, he has reached out to both alongside your father, he's more informed of their situations and thus should be allowed to make the decision rather than you

>Write in

Hope you enjoyed the update
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>>5332288
Very much boss

>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger
We gotta do it especially since they leaked his model today
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>>5332288
>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger
I don't know if we could save Angron if he gets nailed.
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>>5332288
>>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger

I hate to say this but Angrion is in much more danger then Lorgar is.
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>>5332300
>I don't know if we could save Angron if he gets nailed.

We could if we were to move his soul to a cloned body. But that's about the only way to do it.

Lorgar issues can be fixed via therapy and giving him something to believe in like the journey. And that's if they don't choose to help us reach him later on since this is literally an experiment to see if you can change destiny.
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>>5332314
and killing his dad and erebus
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>>5332288
>Ask to be shown the gladiator.
>Ask to be Lead through the webway to our brother, rather than use Kanzeon's warpdrive, since it should be faster.

If it isn't faster, don't bother.
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>>5332288
>allow Magnus to decide, he has reached out to both alongside your father, he's more informed of their situations and thus should be allowed to make the decision rather than you
But I'm pretty sure its Angron we need to save first before he gets NAILED!
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>>5332288
>>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger
>>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger

Good shit Malal. I'm sure the warp drive to him is going to get nasty but that just means we need to try harder.
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>>5332288
>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger
Out of the two, Angron has by far the biggest chance of being saved from his fate; even if he already has the nails Kanzeon can probably save him as long as he's not too far gone.

>"What" Eldrad answers dully, blinking twice as he looks at the beaming smile Magnus wears, before turning to you, and much more sternly barking "WHAT!"
Magnus knowing chaos and being a (somewhat) responsible scholar is the grandest mindfuck and kek Lieren has made possible
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>>5332288
>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger
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>>5332323
+1
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>>5332288
>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger
We don't have time to argue any longer, the time to act is now.
I feel for Lorgar, but he could conceivably rise against his father or see the light of the Journey by himself as many other Psykers have.
Angron is bound by forces outside of his control, and thus requires immediate attention.
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It might be best to inquire about the farseers help for the future, because if we are capable to save one brother we would like to do the same with the other too.
Using again the webway would be ideal for cut on time even if the colonyship can no doubt make such long travels. Using the golden path would be also nice, but it needs a connection from both sides and currently Lorgar and Angron can't exactly build anything of that kind, neither have the time or interest for it.
Lookin at the planets is a good idea before any decision. Angron lives in a civilized (not moral one) world under a worldwide tyranny. He would no doubt want to save not just his fellow gladiators but even the lower masses, this becomes increasingly difficult against such tyranny on his own.
Saving Angron, would be a war. One in which we have the advantage of surprise and likely the possibility to gain in the shadows relevant informations/equipment for rebels, kill key leaders, spread malfunctions, spread blood feuds between tyrants, hack and take over machines/buildings ecc.... before attacking them openly. If Angron is being given the nails while we arrive, we might not be able to do any prior planning/action.
Lorgar world instead, doesn't not offer the same level of human danger but is adoptive father would no doubt do everything it could for save his neck. Which means evil spirits, magical beasts and heavily mutated humans ... of course that amounts to nothing if we quickly arrive and fall on him like eagles. Lorgar would be manipulated against us no doubt, but it might not work this time.
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>>5332288
>Choose the student of the abusive priest. His life is in no danger, but wounds of heart are more deadly than any physical scar.
As sad as angron's life is, keeping lorgar from falling is so god damn important, and angron himself is nothing more than a pawn in the scheme of grand hersey. I don't think we can afford to waste a single second with this one
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>>5332375
Valid points, but consider the fact that if we delay Angron's rescue, his chances of being implanted with the Butcher's Nails before we arrive increase dramatically.
And then there's the possibility of Lorgar falling as he did canonically, in which case we're more than capable of mitigating the effects of his ideology given that the Journey exists and is tied to a similarly charismatic individual.
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>>5332288
>>5332288
>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger

Although Lorgar is a key player, his fall was really emperor's fault and not outside factors. We won't be able to convince him not to believe in the emperor even if we meet him now.

But Angron on the other hand was not responsible for his own downfall, we can save him if we did this.
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>>5332288
>>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger

Goddamnit. I want to help Lorgar, but if Angron gets those fucking Butcher's Nails shoved in him all is lost for him.
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>>5332438
The Emperor did literally nothing with Lorgar. His only misstep wasn’t capping Erebus and Kor-Phaeron in the head.
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>>5332288
>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger

Ulthwe destroyed by facts and logic.
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>>5332468
Having Guilliman grief his minecraft city was a step too far
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What do you guys think pert is up to.
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>>5332565
killing his dad I bet
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>>5332288
>>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger
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>>5332288
>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger

>Write in
"Oh noble Eldrad and venerable seers before I depart a final thing, we came to talk and thus we debated yet as I leave to prove my words with this gift you gave I shall now ask; as I venture to save a brother across those far flung stars is there anything you would like me to watch for? Anything to in part repay you trust?"
(Given them a chance to ask for something to salve pride but also get them thinking, because we're looking at them and will glean intentions and ideas as they consider something we did not say we'd do but simply watch for.)
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>>5332288
>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger

I don't think I've ever been in a quest where Argon was given hope for salvation.
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>>5332534
Nothing short of that would ever unfuck Lorgar since he needed his hypocrisy rubbed in his face. It only seems extreme to people that don't understand his character. Lorgar is a self-deluded ass that refuses to ever take responsibility and instead placed responsibility for his actions on his "gods" in canon. He never listened to a thing the Emperor said beyond Crusading and bringing planets under the Imperium's control before the razing of Monarchia.
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>>5332565
After we told him there was cool shit downloaded in his pod, he's probably cooped himself in his workshop to make shit. Calliphone bangs on the door to try to get him to bathe, but it hasn't worked.
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>>5332288
>>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger
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>>5332642
he's already been saved from the nails in 11th primarch quest.
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>>5332288
>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger
Can you remind me who's with us? I know it's some of our sons, the small ship our wife made (i.e. mini shipfu), some wander of the fog friends, and our eldari companions.

To convince the seer council to go out of their way to help us more, could we request they let us undergo trials in saving any of theirs that might be in danger or in torturous torpor like our wraith guard friend? Endangered eldari, lost soul stones, etc, destroyed craft worlds.
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>>5332857
>Can you remind me who's with us? I know it's some of our sons, the small ship our wife made (i.e. mini shipfu), some wander of the fog friends, and our eldari companions.
It's just the Eldar Journeymen afaik.
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>>5332288
>>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger
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>>5332288
>Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger
>Ask Magnus if you are correct in believing the Gladiator to be in the greatest danger.

Malal can Carys and company get us there via the webway with just the coordinates of the system or do we need to talk Eldrad into telling us the webway path needed to get to it?

Going there via the webway is just about the only viable way to get there in good time safely without getting into a journey to the west situation where by the time we get back the emperor has been waiting for us for a good while.
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>allow Magnus to decide, he has reached out to both alongside your father, he's more informed of their situations and thus should be allowed to make the decision rather than you

Either or. Lorgar would an excellent convert, But we probably can save Angron too.
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Calling the vote now, sorry for the wait, wasn't feeling well.

Ask to be shown where the Gladiator has fallen. He suffers more than the other and is in more present danger:18
-Ask Magnus if you are correct in believing the Gladiator to be in the greatest danger.: 1

Ask to be Lead through the webway to our brother, rather than use Kanzeon's warpdrive, since it should be faster.:1

allow Magnus to decide, he has reached out to both alongside your father, he's more informed of their situations and thus should be allowed to make the decision rather than you:3

Choose the student of the abusive priest. His life is in no danger, but wounds of heart are more deadly than any physical scar.:1

Oh noble Eldrad and venerable seers before I depart a final thing...: 1

request they let us undergo trials in saving any of theirs that might be in danger or in torturous torpor like our wraith guard friend: 1

total votes:22

So Lieren will be ask to be shown where the gladiator has fallen, deciding he is in greater danger than the student and suffers more beneath his chains

Writing now

>>5332901
it will be provided, and I imagine there's a gate near to Nuceria, if not on it. Ya know, cause of the attempted spawn kill the space elves tried and failed to pull
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>>5334739
>it will be provided, and I imagine there's a gate near to Nuceria, if not on it. Ya know, cause of the attempted spawn kill the space elves tried and failed to pull
You know we really should point out how stupid that was when we find out about it.
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>>5334739
awww yiss time to let lose(ish) in a target rich environment >:)
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You lock eyes with Eldrad, your expression stony and unchanging despite the great internal turmoil you are currently working to suppress and tame so as not to lose composure or lash out with all of your tongue's venom and fury. The air becomes supercharged with static, the pressure of the council chamber changing as if it had suddenly been placed beneath and compressed by all of the weight of a mountain of peerless height that reaches beyond all of the heavens. A deep emotional current rushes through the still, peacefull air of this place of debate and deep consideration and reflection of both past and feature. Eldrad, high seer of Ulthwe, and you the great hunter of the wilds and he who sees the truth of all things, remain motionless as lesser pyskers observing the silent, unspoken clashing of wills and benign testing of one another's mental and spiritual defenses is carried out. To those who possess the gift of spiritual sight or the ability to sense and thus witness the endless realms beyond the material world, would see that to two of you are performing an almost ceremonial, friendly astral spar while your mortal vessel remain still, the only sign of the respectful duel you have chosen to throw the both of yourselves into against the other as a test of their psyche's fortitude and quality of their spirit, the hidden demeanor of the soul revealed through unseen blows and parries performed idly as you work through your feelings and cast them aside to make a decision no man has to make.

The choice between which brother to save, and which to leave behind. Though it will be a temporary abandonment, it is still a grave and terrible betrayal even if you have never met either of these men who you know to share your blood and hope will share your benevolence and wisdom. Eldrad knows this , and takes no offense to serve as your opponent and the target of your emotional venting and diffusing, knowing well the great depth and extent of your self control. He is well aware, that to be capable of making your choice, you must wash yourself of all emotional baggage and turmoil, to quite the storm raising from your heart upon hearing the council of seers' blatantly unfair demand for you to make such a choice, a choice you refuse to allow Magnus to make in your stead or take any part in making. This burden shall be yours alone to bear, the weight of this betrayal shall rest upon your shoulder's and no others,

Gradually, your mind achieve a state of serenity and silence, returning to a calm void completely within your own control. Crossing your arms, you sigh through your nose and close your eyes. Furrowing your brow, bowing your head and tapping a foot, you once again sigh, this time through your teeth as you hang your head to the side and release a growling noise from your parted lips as you struggle to find an answer to a question that should never have been presented to you to begin with.

It is a difficult choice, to be forced to make.
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>>5334762
Eldrad tried his best
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>>5334826

But, logically, there is only one answer to be made. The most reasonable and efficient. True, one brother suffers abuse at the hand of controlling tyrant of a father figure, abuse which disgusts and enrages you. But that old man, should he still live after his heart ceased to beat upon meeting the mere projection of your blazing eyes filled with fury and murderous wrath, can do no harm to him, besides emotional trauma, which despite common belief can be healed as readily as any physical wound.

But, the other suffers in fighting pits, made to battle and kill, beneath the heel of uncaring masters who possess great and terrible technology the preceded the long night. You know well the power such relics, called Archeotech, weild and they dangers they present when misused. For you have had such artifacts yourself and have had them turned against you as well. There is no telling what threats are held above your brother who fights as a slave's head, what tortures he endures. He is in greater present danger, standing beneath blades that can scour and cut his genetically engineered and sorcerously strengthened hide, than the other who is only threated by barbed words and back handed strikes that can do nothing but harm him emotionally. When made to choose, between threat of death and continued abuse, as much as it pains you to make the choice, protecting the brother whose life is actually at risk and endangered every day he remains changed is simply the logical decision. And the most efficent.

Sighing heavily, you lift your head and adopt a proper, polite posture once more and through the narrow slits of your barely open eyes, consider Eldrad, who has remained entirely motionless and unperturbed by your eternal struggle and brief exchange of mental strikes and spiritual slaps the two of you had performed.

"Then, if I must be forced to choose, I would request to be shown the way to the planet upon which my brother fights for the amusement of men, whose tyrannical and sadistic reign is held up only by the tools and weapons they have stolen from ancient graves and tombs best left forgotten" You say quietly, as Magnus bows his head and turns away, sending a brief pulse of emotion to show you he agrees with and stands by your decision. It is a wave of gratefulness and relief, and is a wordless way of thanking you for bearing the burden of making such a choice on your own.

"His blood is shed, and he is scarred, while the crowds jeer, laugh and cheer. He is forced to kill, under threat of death. His position is precarious. Even if he is a favored champion or executioner, all it would take is one fit of pique or dreadful whimsy for him to be beaten and broken beyond repair" You continue on sadly, feeling clouds of sorrow filling your head and raining sadness back down to the very core of your heart
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>>5334830


"Wounds dealt by words can be mended, trauma forgotten, abuse buried. But nothing can return from death, nor walk again after being laid in their grave. I have made my choice, so fulfill your promise and lead me to my brother enslaved upon blood soaked sands!" You bellow, raising your voice as you take a step forward.

Eldrad closes his eyes and bows his head

"As you wish" He says calmly, though remorseless "I hope you find success in this endeavor, and that you Magnus, may be further enlightened by the knowledge you seek amongst us here upon Ulthwe, even if our time together is fated to be short and ended by the departure of your brother"

"I shall prove to you all that the will of man can overcome even the tides of fate" You state calmly "Until we next meet, Eldrad Ulthran, may your own endeavors be fruitful and prosperous and bring great joy to the craftworld of Ulthwe. I must now depart, but I graciously thank you all for the hospitality you have shown me, an outsider and stranger, today. May a new dawn shine brightly in your future"

"And I hope your Journey is long and without troubles" Eldrad replies "That your eyes remain untarnished by the sight of evil and wickedness, that your crusade against immorality and chaos will one day come to an end. May Shangrala's mists shroud your step, and her fogs comfort your soul. Until we next meet, Lieren of Nothing"

And with that, you leave the councilroom, allowing Magnus his privacy to learn from the great seers while you plan your next move.

You move your hand from the rail you had set it upon and frowned upon seeing your grip had deformed it. Despite your suppression of your feelings, they still affected you, and left you in a truly bitter and grim mood.

What do you do now that you have made a truly painful decision, Lieren?

>Travel to this world called Nuceria alone, and seek out your brother in chains and teach those heartless masters to fear the passing of kind golden eyes. There is no time to waste

>Return to Kanzeon, and gather a covert force to aid in your liberation of your kin, before entering that arid land as a mist rolls over hills. Time spent preparing, is never wasted.

>Sit down with Carys and Folant and thank them for their aid and bemoan the caution of the Farseers of Ulthwe, preventing you from saving both of your brothers.

>Calm yourself by meditating, and playing with curious Aeldari children, entertaining them with stories before fully taking advantage of this rare privilege you have been granted, to observe and study the society and way of life of the craftworld Aeldari.

>Write in
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>>5334832
>Return to Kanzeon, and gather a covert force to aid in your liberation of your kin, before entering that arid land as a mist rolls over hills. Time spent preparing, is never wasted
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>>5334832
>NO. TIME. TO. WASTE. Travel to Nuceria alone
>Ask Carys and Folant to return to Shangrala, and gather a covert force in our stead to reenforce us while we prowl ahead of the advance. Our beloved, Our sons and the brothers of the panther should be more than enough to aid in this mission of critical mercy.
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>>5334832
>Travel to this world called Nuceria alone, and seek out your brother in chains and teach those heartless masters to fear the passing of kind golden eyes. There is no time to waste

Longer we take the more time they have to shove those damn nails in his head.
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>>5334867
Support.
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>>5334832
changing >>5334866 to support >>5334867
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>>5334867
+1
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>>5334867
Supporting.
Lieren going ahead of the main force to gather Intel, set the stage, and secure the extremely important objectives is entirely plausible.
It's similar to what he's done before and honestly fits with his emotional yet hyper-pragmatic thought process.
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>>5334867
+1
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>>5334832
>>Calm yourself by meditating, and playing with curious Aeldari children, entertaining them with stories before fully taking advantage of this rare privilege you have been granted, to observe and study the society and way of life of the craftworld Aeldari.
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>>5334832
>Calm yourself by meditating, and playing with curious Aeldari children, entertaining them with stories before fully taking advantage of this rare privilege you have been granted, to observe and study the society and way of life of the craftworld Aeldari.

>Sit down with Carys and Folant and thank them for their aid and bemoan the caution of the Farseers of Ulthwe, preventing you from saving both of your brothers.
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>>5334832
>Sit down with Carys and Folant and thank them for their aid and bemoan the caution of the Farseers of Ulthwe, preventing you from saving both of your brothers.

>Calm yourself by meditating, and playing with curious Aeldari children, entertaining them with stories before fully taking advantage of this rare privilege you have been granted, to observe and study the society and way of life of the craftworld Aeldari.
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>>5334832
>Calm yourself by meditating, and playing with curious Aeldari children, entertaining them with stories before fully taking advantage of this rare privilege you have been granted, to observe and study the society and way of life of the craftworld Aeldari

>Once done return home and ask that the dragons golden road be used again to Terra. This serves a twofold reason
1) allows our own sons to cycle out with those of our Legion so they can get to work fixing things there
2) we bring some of Angrons own sons to help save their pops
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>>5334832
>>5334867
+1
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>>5334832
>>Calm yourself by meditating, and playing with curious Aeldari children, entertaining them with stories before fully taking advantage of this rare privilege you have been granted, to observe and study the society and way of life of the craftworld Aeldari.
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>>5334832
>Return to Kanzeon, and gather a covert force to aid in your liberation of your kin, before entering that arid land as a mist rolls over hills. Time spent preparing, is never wasted.

>Sit down with Carys and Folant and thank them for their aid and bemoan the caution of the Farseers of Ulthwe, preventing you from saving both of your brothers.
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>>5334832
>>5334867
This.

Also fuck playing with the kids, and sitting down with Carys and Folant. We can bitch about stuffy eldar farseers when we're SURE Angron doesn't have Nails in his head.
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A stealth /fog panther load out would be the best option here. Especially if we're going to go rescuing him and his friends. Thankfully uncle Malcador sent us a specialist. We'll also need to plan our exfiltration. Nothing beats the golden ratio teleport gate. But the webway would also be perfect for this. But it would also be perfect for transporting an invasion force.

Just need Angron to not kill our Eldar due to his trauma.

Looks like we're getting ready to start the great crusade without dad. He's going to be so proud.

Especially if we decide to "compliance" the shit out of this Archeotech tyrant hell hole.


Buuuuutttt........ Going Spartacus sounds like it's going to be more fun. Porque no los dos.

>tell our Eldar guides to gather an infiltration squad with a weapons cache. This shall be where our freed slaves will arm themselves to liberate their planet, and to organise an invasion force for the future.
>Include the Infiltrator from terra. Get him to plan this operation out or to help us with the infiltration however he can.

>Travel to this world called Nuceria alone, and seek out your brother in chains and teach those heartless masters to fear the passing of kind golden eyes. There is no time to waste
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>>5334867
+1
We can do much on our own but without the support of ours sons both angron and us will be at risk.
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>>5335075
picking up the spy may actually be a pretty good idea desu
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>>5334891
I'm going to support this anon's plan too
>>5335075
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Wasn't there a theory that the Emperor gained great psychic abilities in exchange for half his future sons? On the planet Molech did he make this deal I believe.

If true, I think we're going to be screwing these deals/fate. All thanks to Malal.

... Would put us on Emps shitlist though.

Is this why Tzeetch acts like an idiot sometimes? Because foreknowledge is like conspiracy theories? It could be right, but you act so stupid in the moment preparing for it that it wrecks everything anyway.
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>>5335112
This quest seem to be going with the one where Emps is a amalgamation of shamans, since when Lieren looked at him with the golden vision he saw his true form.
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>>5334867
>support
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I'm just spit balling here but I have an idea atleast for getting things started. Lieren goes ahead and does his normal scouting/making mischief, we locate where the majority of Angrons Gladiators are held which will likely be multiple sites. Then as one we hit these locations freeing a mass of them at once, we ourselves going for our brother, we bring our Ship family whom may be able to partially outfit a number of those we free as they begin the rebellion.

However next is the important bit, momentum and unpredictability, we strike out at different locations across the world freeing slaves in other locations so the enemy can't gather a force of their own instead forced to look to their own internal issues, from there we just support our brother for this is his moment and with us watching or even working beside him we shall ensure whats' needs be done is done.

Finally the final objective, over time gradually show Angron that not all Eldar are like the ones he met. Draw parallels between how there are good humans and bad ones for example.


Thoughts?
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>>5335132
Counterpoint. Dont free our brother immediately, decapitate the high riders leadership and use the chaos to free Angeron and his slave brothers, outfit then with their wardens arms and armour.

Thought there is the issue of food.
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>>5334867
support +1
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>>5335214
Won't that inspire some Morty-level seething from Angron because he didn't get to kill them? Primarchs are real petty bitches.
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>>5334832
>Travel to this world called Nuceria alone, and seek out your brother in chains and teach those heartless masters to fear the passing of kind golden eyes. There is no time to waste
>Ask Carys and Folant to return to Shangrala, and gather a covert force in our stead to reinforce us while we prowl ahead of the advance.

Going in first alone while having reinforcements sent after us does seem to be a good decision. Though I would leave who to send to Carys, Folant, Kanzeon, and Dae-hyun.

Personally I would have it be something like Kanzeon, half of our eldar, psykers, marines, panther brothers, and then fill out the rest with a split of Long-Jia veterans and regulars to ensure if there are still any nasty surprises on Shangrala they can at least be stalled until Lieren everyone returns.
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>>5335277
I agree, I don't want to conquer Nuceria for Angron or prevent him from meting out justice, I want to put him in a position so he can do both personally. Angron being the only one to not unify his homeworld was a sore spot for him in canon and in Betrayer the first thing he did when he returned was to kill all of the High Riders. Best to avoid any sources of animosity, so long as they wouldn't do more good in the long run.
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>>5334832
>Travel to this world called Nuceria alone, and seek out your brother in chains and teach those heartless masters to fear the passing of kind golden eyes. There is no time to waste
>Write in
Send Carys and Folant back to Shangrila. Send what we know of the world, and prepare a route to said world preferably use the webway for cut on time. We aren't doing any outside conquests other than that, this a specific mission for save our brother and his homeworld.
Nothing else, since we have not planned for that and aren't ready for that.

In regard to the war force, fleet : two colony ships will suffice.
War force, should be left to the decision at home even it should follow what informations we know.
A mix of marines, eldars, wanderers, war machines, brothers of the panters and qian spies would be ideal. A certain lady could help greatly with spying.
Even if would deploy some Dai Stalwarts and a few Steel Giants with the marines.

In regard to the terran Infiltrator, he is not our man and i don't want him near any of our tech or people we care for. So he should remain where he is.
The golden dragon path is a costly system of travel. It also necessities of warp anchors and a lot of energy, so we might not be able to use it if we are far away. We could use it after Nuceria is free by Angron hands (with our aid) so he gets his sons and then we get back to Shangrila.
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>>5335444
We will need to bring our supply line with us. So Kanzeon or one of her sisters is a vital asset, to ensure that we can feed, house and outfit those we free.
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>>5334832
>>Calm yourself by meditating, and playing with curious Aeldari children, entertaining them with stories before fully taking advantage of this rare privilege you have been granted, to observe and study the society and way of life of the craftworld Aeldari.
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>>5334867
Changing vote
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>>5334832
>>5334867
+1 to this
I would vote to prepare, but this seems like a reasonable compromise.
A shame too, because cute Eldar children is something I would love to see.

>Every primarch we have befriended so far were traitors in the heresy.
>We will likely save Angron, and probably Lorgar at some point.
Wouldn't it be funny if the heresy this time around was just Lieren's closest brothers standing up against the Emperor to save Lieren from getting erased? Unlikely, but if they don't take Xeno and/or Kanzeon well it could maybe happen.
I could see Chaos scheming for something like this, since we are prying their champions from their grasp quite well so far.
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>>5334832
Support >>5334867
>>5335572
I can't really see Big E taking well to his son fucking an AI and palling around with the eldar, but I also can't see lieren(or magnus for that matter) turning to chaos at any point for any reason. It could very well turn into an uneasy alliance between the Emperor and his more, lets say 'liberal' sons against the primarchs corrupred by chaos
I also can't see lieren saving every traitor. Fulgrim will be consumed with jealousy when he meets him and Mortarion is still the bitter stubbornly autistic asshole we all knkw and love
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>>5335572
Don't forget
>The only time we've interacted with any canonical loyalists is when Lieren was piss drunk (which is almost impossible for a Primarch)
Guys...I think Lieren's canon counterpart wasn't exactly a sterling example of Imperial values.
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>>5335596
Kanzeon and her sisters are technically not AI, unless the Emperor wants to define himself as one too.
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>>5335596
Curze is also probably a lost cause, unless he can see that his actions are abhorrent sooner than he did canonically.
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>>5335664
no, we can fix him
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>>5335596
>Big E taking well to his son fucking an AI
I mean no sex is involved.
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>>5335885
I imagine Big E's definition of "sex" is also incredibly skewed given his unique perspective on things.
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>>5335724
The dude was shown a better path multiple times but still decided skinning folk was better
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>>5336356
That's the daemon/psychosis in hims headkw4
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>>5335908
He's probably had normal sex too.
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Calling the vote now. Sorry for the wait

Return to Kanzeon, and gather a covert force to aid in your liberation of your kin, before entering that arid land as a mist rolls over hills. Time spent preparing, is never wasted:0

Travel to this world called Nuceria alone, and seek out your brother in chains and teach those heartless masters to fear the passing of kind golden eyes. There is no time to waste:18

Ask Carys and Folant to return to Shangrala, and gather a covert force in our stead to reenforce us while we prowl ahead of the advance. Our beloved, Our sons and the brothers of the panther should be more than enough to aid in this mission of critical mercy.:16

Calm yourself by meditating, and playing with curious Aeldari children, entertaining them with stories before fully taking advantage of this rare privilege you have been granted, to observe and study the society and way of life of the craftworld Aeldari.:6

Sit down with Carys and Folant and thank them for their aid and bemoan the caution of tell our Eldar guides to gather an infiltration squad with a weapons cache. This shall be where our freed slaves will arm themselves to liberate their planet, and to organise an invasion force for the future+ Include the Infiltrator from terra. Get him to plan this operation out or to help us with the infiltration however he can.:3

Total votes: 25

So Lieren will ask Carys and Folant to return to Shangrala and gather a covert force in his stead, while he journeys alone to the world called Nucercia to begin his mission of liberation

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There is no time to waste, you must set out immediately to stand by your brother's side and aid him in lifting the collar and chains set upon his neck. Liberation cannot be delayed, even if it means you must travel to this world benighted by slavery and tyranny, this realm of applauded slaughter and oppressive control named Nuceria utterly alone to ensure you are not slowed on your journey or impede by the time and logistics required to gather a potent fighting force, a private army strong enough to wash over the hills, valleys and mountains as a tide the washes over and casts down the high towers of the bloodthirsty elite, as avatars of vengeance and heralds of freedom and prosperity arriving from the heavens like celestial emissaries and wrathful demi gods. Of course, gathering an army that could perform such a task through sheer numbers, would be much more taxing upon the people of Shangrala and threatened every professional industry as well as the harvests soon to arrive, and would be near impossible to muster and supply so soon after the end of the bloodiest war in Shangralan history. The wave of liberation, would be a metaphorical flood, but an actual storm of martial force. Yes, while you went ahead, scouting and gathering vital intel and necessary knowledge of the lands and kingdoms you were soon to make war upon, a covert force of elites and specialists would be gathered once again upon Shangrala. Your noble Brothers, Your valorous sons, your beloved emerald crane, and other key experts and masters of the varied and many arts of war and the troops they have raised and trained into excellence. The Imperial army shall be left to defend Long-Jia and her allies from threats within, without and from the stars or depths of hell. But those fighting men and women, who have endured the most brutal and lethal of combats, shall once more be called upon to liberate their fellow man and once again march beneath the panther hide banner.

Time is of the essence, so you shall serve as the sole scout and first of the vanguard of virtue to step upon Nuceria and you shall travel their alone, prowling like a panther beneath the night hidden from the glow of lanterns and the eyes of men. Unhampered by the smaller steps of others, and the burden of planning and organizing the advance personally. A hunter's march. You will carry only what you need to efficiently do your work and bring justice and judgement to the lawless, while others field, equip and debrief the covert operatives to ready them for battle upon a foreign world with the intel and knowledge you have personally procured.

The stage shall be set by your hands, and the first sparks of rebellion fanned into long before your reinforcements arrive hopefully. Once you have positioned yourself upon nuceria and become well informed of its present circumstances and the power structure of its ruling governments, you fully intend to free your brother, with or without an army at your back.
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>>5336739

Knowing that conversing even briefly would waste precious seconds that could be otherwise spent traveling to the plains of Nuceria and preparing to break your brother from his captivity, you chose to instead reach out to Carys and Folant, the two equal leaders of the Journeymen born upon Ulthwe, who accompanied you today back to their home and served as your guides to it and across the webway. It takes a fraction of a moment, a splinter of consciousness and a rush of thought for you to impart your plans and to request them to see to the mustering of your reinforcements, giving them a mental list of those individuals you considered vital to the success of your quest, whose absence on Shangrala however brief would not negatively effect the Long-Jian Empire's military, bureaucracy of its ministries or its many vital industries both private and collectivized. It is no dialogue or telepathic conversation, and sensing the urgency of your missive, Carys responds similarly, sending a message only to inform you that she has understood your directive and accepted the task given.

With nothing but curiosity and scholarly interest keeping you on Ulthwe, you thus depart, moving with the fleetness of wind as you take the most optimal route back to the Star Metal barge Kanzeon had made to transport you and your alien entourage to Ulthwe, wasting no energy or motion on any of the movements you take as you stride to the ship. And with a careful application of Qi, you separate part of the barge from the whole, and manipulate it to take the form of a ship that is sized to transport you and you alone, optimized for speed and control rather than comfort, though you do add a texture of dragon scales and phoenix feathers to its surface, though that is also to alter its aerodynamics rather than solely being a choice of aesthetics and pointless decoration. Then, with a second turn of your hands, you repair the barge itself so Carys and her followers may return to Kanzeon and carry out the duties you gave to them in your absence.

Hoping aboard your personal ship, you cross your arms and command it mentally to lift from the ground, its anti gravital engine purring as you quickly ran through the webway route Eldrad had personally transmitted into your mind, painting it in your mind's eye as a simple map written on ox hide. You would only stop once on your journey, and that was while you waited for the gate into the webway to be opened to allow you to depart. And the moment it was, you became as a shooting star, flying across the vastness of the labyrinthine dimension in pursuit of the vision of your brother, a golden star chasing after a crimson star adrift in the vast cosmic darkness.
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>>5336742

Your hand wrapped tightly around the hilt of the sheathed sword of love and silently you reaffirmed your dedication and resolve to see your brother the gladiator, your brother the slave, freed from his shackles and lifted up so he may turn his axes and martial skill against those who have wrongfully imprisoned and taken away his ability to determine the path he would walk and the life he would live. Tyrants. Enemies of freedom and the spirit of humanity itself. They would hang for their crimes, and soon learn to fear the passing of otherwise kindly golden eyes.

What do you do first, once you have arrived upon Nuceria, Lieren?

>Establish a base camp in the wilderness, turning your one man vessel into a sanctuary as you get the lay of the land and learn its character and that of the beasts that live upon it, and keep your distance from any of its human natives to avoid causing a stir or attracting unwanted attention before you are ready

>Learn the language of the Nucerians, by spying upon the common, rural folk away from the cities and passing travelers, helping where you can and killing those villains who cross your paths, Slavers, raiders and thieves, by hanging them as you have all others, while also teaching them in a manner similar to how you did to Nothing. Old habits die hard, it is often said

>Travel to the nearest city from where you arrive, disguising yourself by transforming your robes into the common dress of the lands, and using your pskerism to mask your appearance , in a manner akin to your father and with a technique similar to Guozhi's shroud, which you shall name "The Dragon sheds its scales to walk amongst snakes", so you can gather information without creating a scene.

>You knew the nobility of this world to possess dangerous technology and inhuman cruelty, but you do not know the exact level of threat they pose. So measure it, by ambushing one of their members as they're out on a hunt or are traveling between palaces and doing battle with ALL of the men escorting and guarding them on their journey

>write in

IT BEGINS!

https://youtu.be/xlNmLvRgXHw Some music fitting the upcoming Adventure.

Also, I would like to apologize for how long I've been taking between updates.
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>>5336744
>Establish a base camp in the wilderness, turning your one man vessel into a sanctuary as you get the lay of the land and learn its character and that of the beasts that live upon it, and keep your distance from any of its human natives to avoid causing a stir or attracting unwanted attention before you are ready
>Learn the language of the Nucerians, by spying upon the common, rural folk away from the cities and passing travelers, helping where you can and killing those villains who cross your paths, Slavers, raiders and thieves, by hanging them as you have all others, while also teaching them in a manner similar to how you did to Nothing. Old habits die hard, it is often said
>Travel to the nearest city from where you arrive, disguising yourself by transforming your robes into the common dress of the lands, and using your pskerism to mask your appearance , in a manner akin to your father and with a technique similar to Guozhi's shroud, which you shall name "The Dragon sheds its scales to walk amongst snakes", so you can gather information without creating a scene

It's all good boss, time for solid panther to begin his hunt
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>>5336744
>>Learn the language of the Nucerians, by spying upon the common, rural folk away from the cities and passing travelers, helping where you can and killing those villains who cross your paths, Slavers, raiders and thieves, by hanging them as you have all others, while also teaching them in a manner similar to how you did to Nothing. Old habits die hard, it is often said
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>>5336744
>Establish a base camp in the wilderness, turning your one man vessel into a sanctuary as you get the lay of the land and learn its character and that of the beasts that live upon it.
>Learn the language of the Nucerians, by spying upon the common, rural folk away from the cities and passing travelers, helping where you can and killing those villains who cross your paths, Slavers, raiders and thieves, by hanging them as you have all others, while also teaching them in a manner similar to how you did to Nothing. Old habits die hard, it is often said
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>>5336744
>You knew the nobility of this world to possess dangerous technology and inhuman cruelty, but you do not know the exact level of threat they pose. So measure it, by ambushing one of their members as they're out on a hunt or are traveling between palaces and doing battle with ALL of the men escorting and guarding them on their journey
Ambush this soul and munch their brain to, learn everything.

>Learn the language of the Nucerians, by spying upon the common, rural folk away from the cities and passing travelers, helping where you can and killing those villains who cross your paths, Slavers, raiders and thieves, by hanging them as you have all others, while also teaching them in a manner similar to how you did to Nothing. Old habits die hard, it is often said
A key detail here is to scatter our teachings around so that no one group can be crushed and when we do our teaching do so in disguise so they don't realise another giant is about

Game time lads
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>>5336744
>Establish a base camp in the wilderness, turning your one man vessel into a sanctuary as you get the lay of the land and learn its character and that of the beasts that live upon it, and keep your distance from any of its human natives to avoid causing a stir or attracting unwanted attention before you are ready
>Learn the language of the Nucerians, by spying upon the common, rural folk away from the cities and passing travelers, helping where you can and killing those villains who cross your paths, Slavers, raiders and thieves, by hanging them as you have all others, while also teaching them in a manner similar to how you did to Nothing. Old habits die hard, it is often said
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>>5336744
>Learn the language and aid the rural folk, slaying the villains we find.

>We know they have archeotech, but not the threat. Hunt the noble and slay their escorts.

It is time for the son of fog to hunt!
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>>5336744
>Establish a base camp in the wilderness, turning your one man vessel into a sanctuary as you get the lay of the land and learn its character and that of the beasts that live upon it, and keep your distance from any of its human natives to avoid causing a stir or attracting unwanted attention before you are ready
>Learn the language of the Nucerians, by spying upon the common, rural folk away from the cities and passing travelers, helping where you can and killing those villains who cross your paths, Slavers, raiders and thieves, by hanging them as you have all others, while also teaching them in a manner similar to how you did to Nothing. Old habits die hard, it is often said
>You knew the nobility of this world to possess dangerous technology and inhuman cruelty, but you do not know the exact level of threat they pose. So measure it, by ambushing one of their members as they're out on a hunt or are traveling between palaces and doing battle with ALL of the men escorting and guarding them on their journey
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>>5336744
>Establish a base camp

>Travel to the nearest city from where you arrive.
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>>5336744
>>Establish a base camp in the wilderness, turning your one man vessel into a sanctuary as you get the lay of the land and learn its character and that of the beasts that live upon it, and keep your distance from any of its human natives to avoid causing a stir or attracting unwanted attention before you are ready
>Learn the language of the Nucerians, by spying upon the common, rural folk away from the cities and passing travelers, helping where you can and killing those villains who cross your paths, Slavers, raiders and thieves, by hanging them as you have all others, while also teaching them in a manner similar to how you did to Nothing. Old habits die hard, it is often said
>You knew the nobility of this world to possess dangerous technology and inhuman cruelty, but you do not know the exact level of threat they pose. So measure it, by ambushing one of their members as they're out on a hunt or are traveling between palaces and doing battle with ALL of the men escorting and guarding them on their journey
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>>5336812
+1
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>Travel to the nearest city from where you arrive, disguising yourself by transforming your robes into the common dress of the lands, and using your pskerism to mask your appearance , in a manner akin to your father and with a technique similar to Guozhi's shroud, which you shall name "The Dragon sheds its scales to walk amongst snakes", so you can gather information without creating a scene.


I know you guys want to save everyone but we need to save Angron first. The liberation is coming. But we need to get him the heck out of dodge before the nails become permanent.

Even Emperor was not able to remove them because of how they integrated into his body over time.

Also were a chaos beacon. We must move quickly or else we risk causing dark gods casting their gaze upon us.
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>>5336744
>>Travel to the nearest city from where you arrive, disguising yourself by transforming your robes into the common dress of the lands, and using your pskerism to mask your appearance , in a manner akin to your father and with a technique similar to Guozhi's shroud, which you shall name "The Dragon sheds its scales to walk amongst snakes", so you can gather information without creating a scene.
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>>5336744
>>Travel to the nearest city from where you arrive, disguising yourself by transforming your robes into the common dress of the lands, and using your pskerism to mask your appearance , in a manner akin to your father and with a technique similar to Guozhi's shroud, which you shall name "The Dragon sheds its scales to walk amongst snakes", so you can gather information without creating a scene.
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>>5336744
>Establish a base camp in the wilderness
This is more like look for a good spot for our reinforcements to land or to harbor any fugitives we break out. A good well hidden shelter.

>Travel to the nearest city from where you arrive, disguising yourself by transforming your robes into the common dress of the lands, and using your pskerism to mask your appearance , in a manner akin to your father and with a technique similar to Guozhi's shroud, which you shall name "The Dragon sheds its scales to walk amongst snakes", so you can gather information without creating a scene.
The main focus.

>You knew the nobility of this world to possess dangerous technology and inhuman cruelty, but you do not know the exact level of threat they pose. So measure it, by ambushing one of their members as they're out on a hunt or are traveling between palaces and doing battle with ALL of the men escorting and guarding them on their journey if the opportunity arises
This is only one mission within this operation. Sure as the sun will rise, Lieren will cross paths with a degenerate noble eventually and when he does there will be good intel to be gained from digging into his brain.
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>>5336744
>Travel to the nearest city from where you arrive, disguising yourself by transforming your robes into the common dress of the lands, and using your pskerism to mask your appearance , in a manner akin to your father and with a technique similar to Guozhi's shroud, which you shall name "The Dragon sheds its scales to walk amongst snakes", so you can gather information without creating a scene.
>You knew the nobility of this world to possess dangerous technology and inhuman cruelty, but you do not know the exact level of threat they pose. So measure it, by ambushing one of their members as they're out on a hunt or are traveling between palaces and doing battle with ALL of the men escorting and guarding them on their journey
A base is a distraction, we chose immediate action because we need to get to angron fast
Revolution second, extraction first.
And I don't think he would appreciate use getting a headstart on him
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>>5336744
>Travel to the nearest city from where you arrive, disguising yourself by transforming your robes into the common dress of the lands, and using your pskerism to mask your appearance , in a manner akin to your father and with a technique similar to Guozhi's shroud, which you shall name "The Dragon sheds its scales to walk amongst snakes", so you can gather information without creating a scene.
>You knew the nobility of this world to possess dangerous technology and inhuman cruelty, but you do not know the exact level of threat they pose. So measure it, by ambushing one of their members as they're out on a hunt or are traveling between palaces and doing battle with ALL of the men escorting and guarding them on their journey
We need info, and we need it fast. These two strike me as the fastest way to gather it.
Once we know enough, we can hopefully yoink Angron out of murder jail before anything permanent happens.
We can always make a base with him once he is freed, and go from there I think, but getting Angron freed come first above all.
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>>5336744
>Travel to the nearest city from where you arrive, disguising yourself by transforming your robes into the common dress of the lands, and using your pskerism to mask your appearance , in a manner akin to your father and with a technique similar to Guozhi's shroud, which you shall name "The Dragon sheds its scales to walk amongst snakes", so you can gather information without creating a scene.
>You knew the nobility of this world to possess dangerous technology and inhuman cruelty, but you do not know the exact level of threat they pose. So measure it, by ambushing one of their members as they're out on a hunt or are traveling between palaces and doing battle with ALL of the men escorting and guarding them on their journey

Finding Angron and determining what state he and his fellow gladiators are in should be our #1 priority, for all we know he rebelled early or is about to because of Lierens psychic visitation and if we take it slow he is fucked in that case, Khorne is going to want to rush the nails.
After that figuring out just how deadly the high riders are comes second, first because we need a good idea of what they can do because they managed to enslave a primarch and thus are extremely dangerous, second Lieren will likely have to rush a rescue and fight his way through a army.
Lastly we must be very careful that we don't steal Angrons one defining goal all his life by doing the revolution for him or we are likely to end up in a Mortarion situation where he hates us because we denied him his one and only chance to redeem himself.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBIA4_AO4X4

They recently released the new Angron.
This rescue mission has been approved by GW.

>Travel to the nearest city from where you arrive, disguising yourself by transforming your robes into the common dress of the lands, and using your pskerism to mask your appearance , in a manner akin to your father and with a technique similar to Guozhi's shroud, which you shall name "The Dragon sheds its scales to walk amongst snakes", so you can gather information without creating a scene.
>You knew the nobility of this world to possess dangerous technology and inhuman cruelty, but you do not know the exact level of threat they pose. So measure it, by ambushing one of their members as they're out on a hunt or are traveling between palaces and doing battle with ALL of the men escorting and guarding them on their journey
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>>5336744
>You knew the nobility of this world to possess dangerous technology and inhuman cruelty, but you do not know the exact level of threat they pose. So measure it, by ambushing one of their members as they're out on a hunt or are traveling between palaces and doing battle with ALL of the men escorting and guarding them on their journey

>Extra
FIND ANGRON!
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>>5336744
>Travel to the nearest city from where you arrive, disguising yourself by transforming your robes into the common dress of the lands, and using your pskerism to mask your appearance , in a manner akin to your father and with a technique similar to Guozhi's shroud, which you shall name "The Dragon sheds its scales to walk amongst snakes", so you can gather information without creating a scene.
>You knew the nobility of this world to possess dangerous technology and inhuman cruelty, but you do not know the exact level of threat they pose. So measure it, by ambushing one of their members as they're out on a hunt or are traveling between palaces and doing battle with ALL of the men escorting and guarding them on their journey

Apply Lotus Sceptre has needed, open up and look at the tyrant guards equipment after an overwhelming attack. Of course we should also have other devices for intercept/listen to communications, same for our armor. If the noble has anything on him of use, such as codes, passwords and what not that would be quite beneficial.

Immediately freeing Angron is ill wise, he is considered a top pet. This tyrants will search everywhere for find him, and since no rebellion is formed the results would be a disaster for the population and the gladiators.
What we need instead is ensure we can make contact and talk with him, preferably once we have collect large amounts of informations. The contact should be a brief talk, then we deliver him some communications devices taken and modified from Nuceria. With this done, we can learn all the informations needed for start a rebellion, and avoid he gets the nails by ensuring his masters will be occupied with something else.
I imagine that now a few days will pass which should be enough for aid us, i doubt Angron would be in danger while we do this. The rebellion instead will need more time than a few days, it cannot be organized in a second both within the gladiators cells and outside in the slums of the low classes of the world.
And it certainly cannot attack his foes without minimal training (for low classes at least), equipment and distractions, it would be a massacre.

A few days are honestly not enough for him to be in danger, more time was passing before. It was more reasonable he was in danger then, than now. Of course there is still great risk with more time passing, we know that.
Ensure our transport ship can't be found before leaving, coordinates of the vessel secure position (among other things) should be send when our kin arrives in the solar system.
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>>5337494
It's a good thing we can eat brains for memories right?
No need for the Lotus Scepter. As for starting a rebellon,it doesn't seem to be the smartest idea. Especially since they have an actual planetary communications grid and archeotech weapons. We should be careful.
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>>5336755
Changing to
>Establish a base camp in the wilderness, turning your one man vessel into a sanctuary as you get the lay of the land and learn its character and that of the beasts that live upon it.
>Learn the language of the Nucerians, by spying upon the common, rural folk away from the cities and passing travelers.
>Travel to the nearest city from where you arrive, disguising yourself by transforming your robes into the common dress of the lands, and using your pskerism to mask your appearance , in a manner akin to your father and with a technique similar to Guozhi's shroud, which you shall name "The Dragon sheds its scales to walk amongst snakes", so you can gather information without creating a scene.
I made sure to remove the avoid people and kill villains part.
Gathering information is the first step, but better to not start raising alarms just yet.
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>>5337531
Lieren has a great disdain for eating humans which includes brains, and the sceptre doesn't require him to eat brains; it does a quick puncture and the job is done.
Angron will not be able to win with only his gladiators and if we help him too much who knows what he will think in the future, he needs to become the savior of his world. That would be a true victory, besides he has no intention to leave his gladiators behind
He also has a vendetta with the tyrants of this world.
A rebellion is the only way, otherwise Angron's family and friends will be killed off if he escapes alone and he certainly doesn't want to escape because he knows he will be hunted down. And the disadvantage of escaping now is quite high, exactly because they have access to archeotech and Angron has currently no allies beyond gladiators. Lieren is just one.
Making a rebellion doesn't mean rushing it, and since Lieren had created one in the past he is well suited to aid Angron in making his own. Lieren also know some stuff about archeotech and fought a war against an enemy with the same level of tech as him.
Two primarchs and an incoming fleet that plan a 3 (slums, arenas and space invasion) way attack against the tyrants would allow a great victory. Add a 4 way if we put the tyrants against each other for stupid motivations, before we strike.
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>>5337494
>>5337531
>>5337641
Why eat their brains or use the lotus scepter when he can just read their minds like he did with that deldar he interrogated?
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>>5336744
>Travel to the nearest city from where you arrive, disguising yourself by transforming your robes into the common dress of the lands, and using your pskerism to mask your appearance , in a manner akin to your father and with a technique similar to Guozhi's shroud, which you shall name "The Dragon sheds its scales to walk amongst snakes", so you can gather information without creating a scene.

If we do this we might be able to make our way to where Angron is held captive and lend him our aid, or else let him know we're here and he's not alone.
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>>5336806
I change my vote here to one solely composed of

>Find the nearest city.
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>>5337454
>This rescue mission
I even got a name for it
Operation Nucerian Freedom
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Calling the vote now.

Establish a base camp in the wilderness, turning your one man vessel into a sanctuary as you get the lay of the land and learn its character and that of the beasts that live upon it, and keep your distance from any of its human natives to avoid causing a stir or attracting unwanted attention before you are ready:8

Learn the language of the Nucerians, by spying upon the common, rural folk away from the cities and passing travelers, helping where you can and killing those villains who cross your paths, Slavers, raiders and thieves, by hanging them as you have all others, while also teaching them in a manner similar to how you did to Nothing. Old habits die hard, it is often said:8

Travel to the nearest city from where you arrive, disguising yourself by transforming your robes into the common dress of the lands, and using your pskerism to mask your appearance , in a manner akin to your father and with a technique similar to Guozhi's shroud, which you shall name "The Dragon sheds its scales to walk amongst snakes", so you can gather information without creating a scene:14

You knew the nobility of this world to possess dangerous technology and inhuman cruelty, but you do not know the exact level of threat they pose. So measure it, by ambushing one of their members as they're out on a hunt or are traveling between palaces and doing battle with ALL of the men escorting and guarding them on their journey:11

Total votes:21

So Lieren will, after hiding away the craft he used to traverse the webway, precisely measure the threat the nobility pose toby ambushing a small hunting party or escort traveling between palaces, before traveling the nearest city from his landing site, disguising himself with psykerism and his transforming robes, to blend in the populace so he can perform reconnaissance and gather information without drawing attention to himself

Writing now
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The air upon Nuceria is unlike that of Shangrala, that is clear the moment you set foot upon the soil. It is lighter, warmer, and is lacking something you have never noticed until you have noted its absence. The presence of the Empyrean, the cool wind of the great sea, the ambient static of the Warp, is nearly entirely missing here, even though your brand thins the veil between the worlds the wall between what is real and what is dreamed is far thicker and more sturdily built than any place upon shangrala, even where the mists and fogs blot out the corruption that had so infested your planet. Even the regions thinnest with Qi, where the realm of spirits only gently flows as it bleeds through the cracks in the veil, are more open and exposed the Immaterium than this high mountain peak you stand upon, which is bathed in the psionic and spiritual energies flowing from your still powered craft, and cascading from you like the waters of rushing waterfall pouring from the peak of a mountain.

However, you do not grieve for the lack of spirituality here, for that means there is less of a chance of the greatest enemy to rear their ugly head to attempt to foil or take advantage of your mission here. Less chance of you running into anyone who knows the meaning of the scar upon your brow, and what your head would be worth if offered as sacrifice to the right shadows. You kick the dirt, staring to the sky and squinting as you watch the sun descend towards the horizon, painting it an inspiring mirage of reds, yellows, oranges, golds, pinks and violets, different in hue and and arrangement from the few unhidden sunsets you have been privilege to witness from the highest peaks of Shangrala or upon Kanzeon's back as the two of your soared as lovebirds through the sky, singing your songs and sharing in the special gift of an unveiled sky.

"This is a gift, the residents of this plane do not know they have, to see the sun in its brilliance, to admire the colors it sheds across the skies as if they were painted" You sigh, closing your eyes, taking in a deep, ponderous breath to test the quality of its air and become acquainted to its taste and lightness. There are slightly chemical differences to the atmosphere, but it is breathable, even if it leaves a strange after taste across the whole of your tongue and clogs your nostrils with dust and pollen. You place a hand over your eyes, to admire the colors of the sunset and movement of an unhindered sun for a few moments longer, as the air cools around you and the myriad of colors deepen and saturate, violet turning deep purple, pink fading to a dusty cherry red, yellows, oranges and golds vanishing to be replaced with a muddy persimmon color as queer thin and long tailed clouds traverse the heavens like flocks of birds in flight.

And there are birds in flight as well, singing songs and crying out with voice entirely unknown to your ears, their silhouettes cast upon the fading light just as unfamiliar.
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>>5338374

You savor the serenity of the night's approach, and the quiet of the remote, mountaintop upon which you arrive, enjoying the caress of a cool breeze, and the thousand aromas of nature and wilderness around you. Wet soil, blooming flowers, dry stone, waterlogged bark, the bare hint of the passing of wildlife, fur, musk and droppings. Like the incense of a temple, the aromas of an undeveloped countryside both put you at ease and calm you. But this is not time to meditate upon the beauty of nature, or idly bask it in its magnificence, there is work to be done.

Beginning with hiding any sign of your presence. That should be easily enough done, by finding or creating a cavern to store the vessel that carried you hear and taking every step with care as you descend the mountain. Dawn will still be hours away by time you are finished hiding away every sign of your arrival and passing.

Though, that leads you to the first obstacle in your path to finding and liberating your brother. Namely, that you know nothing of Nuceria, the lay of its lands or positions of its cities, villages, communities or land marks and have no clue where any road may lead you. And while you can see much further here than you could on Shangrala, to the point your can see to the very edge of the horizon, the curvature of the world, and all of the features and man made constructions upon it from where you stand to where the horizon ends, you cannot with confidence accurately course a path to the nearest city or even just the closest lonely village may sit upon this vast openness, though you could measure the distance from this mountain top to them but it would be most unwise to trek towards what you see without knowing the quickest route to it, or of any impediments and obstacles that may be in the way between here and there

You should've asked Eldrad to provide at least a basic map before you left, but impatience was a necessity, when there was no time at all to waste, knowing that your family was in danger even if it was only one member of it threatened.

Immediately, you realize how you can solve the problem of not knowing the quickest and most efficient route to your destination, as well as the issue of you not being fluent in the native tongue, as well as the answer to the question of how much danger you'll meet and inevitably face here upon fair Nuceria from the tyrants who befoul its sweet air with their presence alone. And this realization comes from the blowing of a horn unlike any instrument played by any culture of your homeworld, it is...unsettling, unnerving in an instinctual way, like the crying of children or bellowing of sick or injured animal. It makes your skin raise, and causes the rest of you to shiver involuntarily when you hear it droning dirge. Its a hunting horn, one designed specifically to disturbed and disorient whatever quarry is being sought, be they beast or man.
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>>5338376

And judging from the clarity and shrillness of its sustained note, it is made of hiqh quality materials and of fine craftsmanship. Meaning of course its owner is wealthy and likely belong to the abhorrent nobility that has caged your kin. Patting the satchel at your side, you feel the shape of the Lotus Scepter and know immediately what you must do. To both get the measure of your enemies and their weapons, and learn the language they and their subjects share.

Ambushing and starting a battle, isn't at all conductive to hiding your presence, but you can hide any sign of the fight between you and this noble hunting party as easily as you hid your craft, and the benefits of doing so far out weigh the risks of being discovered. Though it is unlikely that you shall be. Even veteran hunters are at risk of vanishing in the wilderness, or becoming acquainted to the food chain in the role of prey rather than predator. All you have to do, is ensure they do not send out a distress signal of every kind, and they shall simply...disappear as far as their kin and peers are concerned.

And so, morphing your robes into a suit of full body armor, without any decoration or coloring, you take the weapons you brought with you in hand, and begin to sprint and skip down the mountain side, in pursuit of the horn and its blower.
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Lycurgus, Scion of House Loc'ria, was having the time of his life! Heady, potent Adrenaline was pumping through his flames, enflamed by the bitter hunting wine he had drank to bolster his stamina, and dull the pain of his recent implants, which had taken to sharpen his senses to a bestial level, allowing him to see with vision sharper than a hunting hawk, track scents better than even a hunting dog of the finest breeding and most illustrious of lineages, and even allowed him to hear the footfalls, breathing and even the blood coursing through the heart and veins of his quarry. It was...taking some adjusting, but the pangs of alien sensation and overstimulation of his senses were drowned out by both the liquor he had imbibed and the sweet ambrosia produced by the surplus adrenal glands within him, just one of his many upgrades he had taken to mold himself into an apex predator and deadly fighter who could kill a common man with a slap of his hand...actually, he should see about getting injector ports put into his finger tips, so he could poison with a touch or inject his friends with the heady concoction pumping through his body. They deserved to share in this high that could only be obtained in the hunt.

He had left his stallion behind, as its augmentations needed a brief recharging and the undergrowth was too thick to bring anything larger than a hound along with them. His cousin, Lycus, Lead the pack they had brought from their palace's kennels, starved to the point of madness and ferocity, ahead, to harry and exhaust the bear they had wounded with a expertly aimed shot of a las caster that burned through its armored plates.
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>>5338377

A tragic loss of a trophy that would've been the envy of any hunter, but it had large enough tusks that it was still a worthwhile pursuit as far as Lycurgus was concerned.

His vision began to swim, hazing over from an oversaturation of adrenaline and endorphins, and a beeping device in his skull was warning him his heart's auxiliary chambers and valves needed to be open and a chemical purge would have to be released from the heirloom alchemical still that had replaced his kidneys. Groaning, he staggered, the slaves he had chosen to carry his rifles, spears and other tools and killing implements rushing to hold him steady as his body readjusted.

His ear implants, still acclimating to his physiology, seemed to go a bit funny, as he heard the growling and barks of the hunting dogs turn into frightened whines and yips. He blinked, smacking his head to force the rebelling augmentations to readjust and stop feeding a false output. Those dogs wouldn't be scared of a dying bear, he'd know, he trained them against the beasts.

He...felt an emotion he had never experienced before as he realized his cybernetics weren't glitching, and he was hearing correctly. With a thought, he buzzed the devices all of his companions wore at the back of their necks, alerting them with a shock that the hunt had just got more exciting as several of the frightened, bear killing hounds came running back through the forest, dragging the electrified leashes they wore across the ground.

And the arm that they were anchored to, that had been severed far cleaner than a bear's claws could do. There were reports of the electro stunner Lycus had been carrying, as it was agreed that Lycurgus would recieve the glory of the kill tonight, after being denied it the last outing.

"Has your fool of a cousin gotten himself eaten?" A brother by marriage asked in annoyance "or has he just fallen over drunk"

A bone rattling scream answered both his question and Lycurgus' own curiosity

"The hunt has just gotten more exciting" He purred, as he marched forward "He's found something far more entertaining than an old, weak bear, lets see what's killed him and bag it"

"Understood" his companion whispered, as the rest of the party fell in line and formation, following Lycurgus' lead as he lead them to the clearing where Lycus had chased the bear and been killed by...Nothing?

The clearing was empty. There was not half devoured cousin, kicking and screaming against some misbegotten forest monster. The only blood was the bears, the scanners in his eyes told him. Suddenly, that unfamiliar feeling returned to him, weighed down his chest and making his burning face feel...oddly cold. Swallowing hard. Lycurgus stepped further into the clearing, whistling to be handed one of his heavy duty guns, the type that could melt through the powered armor he wore. Useless in a hunt, but...he felt like he was hunting any more

Something fell from the treetops with a snap.
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>>5338379

"FUCK!" He barked, swiveling around on his heels and firing his gun the moment he had pivoted around. His throat and eyes burned, as a vortex of super heated air burned out from the end of his rifle, which was more of an artillery piece than

"Lycus?" He gasped, seeing his cousins half evaporated corpse hanging from a particularly heavy branch and

"IN THE TREES!" His brother by marriage roared, throwing an delayed compression spear up, up above the hanging half of a corpse where.

Lycurgus felt his eyes open wide, as he saw the THING sitting up there with dimly glowing golden eyes.

The explosive spear that had been thrown from the launching mechanism implanted in his brother's arm, was suddenly flying back towards its point of origin. As if it had been caught and thrown back, but that was impossible, it was fired fast enough to make a sonic boom! Nothing could possibly react quick enough to reach out and grab it

Yet, the spear hit his brother, and then activated, creating a temporary anomaly in the flow of gravity, crushing his body down upon the glowing tip of it

"FIRE EVERYTHING" Lycurgus cried, as the branch lifted, the weight upon it releasing as the shadow figure leapt from it, and landed in the middle of the hunting party

It was a giant, at least as tall if not taller than the Unbeaten, the pride of joy of House Thal'kr's fighting pits. But, this titan was dressed in in a seamless suit of armor than ran silver and gold, and gave off an air of serenity and calm, even as enough firepower to level a small army was pointed at him...it? Was it even human? It's stance was ethereal, fay. One leg lifted in the air, the other standing on the toes of its feet, and it held its arms out and its hands flat, constantly moving and changing position them as it observed every hunter around it with a momentary glance

"Die!" One of the more addled hunting companions Lycurgus had brought along shouted, firing his tri beam las rifle, the three colored lights spiraling to a singular point that could pierce through a yard of hardened cermaite and...The giant shifted, lowering its both its feet flat to the ground, and bowing its back and shoulders as it thrust a palm forward


And somehow deflected the drilling beam with it, sending it through the canopy. Then, before he could swing his heat ray around, he was upon the addled man who shot at him, moving as a blur. His friend was in the air, gagging as he was choked from inside his own throat, as the Gold and Silver Giant shoved one of its hands straight through his chest to grab hold of his spine from inside his chest cavity. He was already dead, the rest of them knew this, so they all opened fire, sending las fire, plasma bolts and stranger, arcane ammunition that could no longer be produced at the brute.
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>>5338381

Another of Lycurgus' friends died, as the giant twirl around as if dancing, leaning and used the momentum of his movement to tear the head from the corpse stuck to his arm's shoulders and hurls it like a sling stone.

The head impacted on the other man's own, and broke his skull from his helmet

"Need a bigger gun!' Lycurgus cried, snapping to his servant as he looked away from the carnage unfolding "Something with real stopping power, hurry or throw yourself to the behemoth typhoon of carnage"

He dove for cover, behind the bears corpse, as his spear carrier followed him hurriedly. Glancing past the wall of fur, Lycurgus saw a man get his head kicked off as the strange demon spun itself around, dodging a blast of a cerebrum scrambler, he only knew that he had, because it hit another of the hunters in the circle and blanked his brain. Not like he'd suffer for long as the Giant then caught a dart thrown up from a flechette cloud tossed at his feet and flicked it through his temple as he walked in a bizarre, swaying fashion, which some how avoided every shot fired at him even though he was moving like a reed in the wind. Lycurgus winced as his friends, brothers in arms and beloved companions did the stupidest thing they could've done, and ran to engage the monster in close quarters combat.

"Hurry, hurry hurry" He hissed at the slave he had foolishly had his spinal cord stappled and higher thought processes removed "Before the fucker works his way through all those stupid bastards"

The slave drooled at him, as if it somehow had the mind to ask "wouldn't it be worth a fortune on the slave market?"

"No, no not worth it to try and capture it, need to kill it before it kills me" Lycurgus snarled like his name sake, as he adjusted his senses and fumbled with the weapon handed to him. It was a platform to fire a small nuclear payload, contained within an shield of energy.

Against his instincts, he looked over the bear carcase again, and saw that the monstrous giant was now on fucking fire! Golden fire! and had just ripped open one of his friends with a sword larger than Lycurgus stood tall, again gold and silver and glowing, not from the fire coating it, but from some kind of inner light. That wasn't a powerfield

"Get the fucking missile loaded you stupid bastard" He growled, as he watched the giant cut a ball of searing plasma in half, and rush through the brief gap created before it exploded outward and consumed him to impale the man who had shot it at him, incinerating him almost as fast as his heat rifle good

"Fuckfuckfuckfuck" Lycurgus chattered as he pushed his slave aside and pushed the missle in place him, as screams filled his ears as the monster tore his way through his heavily armed hunting party like a saw chariot through a crowd of starving street urchins. The red light blinked on, telling him it was ready to launch

"DIE YOU MISBEGOTTEN CUR!" He roared as he stood bravely and
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>>5338383

found an empty clearing, save for the smoldering patches of grasses, and dismembered corpses of his closest friends, some of whom he had known since childhood.

And now, they were all dead, killed by something that hopped around like a dancer and could drive it hands through armor and bone with contemptuous ease.
Lycurgus realized what he was feeling now, it was fear. He had heard it described once, by a slave his sister grew dissatisfied with, now he knew what it felt like. It was...cold...and deep. Deeper than anything else

He heard a tongue click, and spun around, firing his rocket as he spotted the towering devil. Who then vanished in a sea of nuclear fire, black smoke and....and it didn't get vaporized. It was floating, just above the energy dome that contained the nuclear blast, that had consumed his slave and all his other weapons...and all his other missiles. Its legs were crossed, and it was holding...Lycus' Electro stunner, which seemed miniscule in its hands.

A moment Later Lycurgus was screaming on the ground, as the behemoth fell upon him, like a cat pouncing a mouse. He struggled for his power knife, kept at his belt, knowing his brain would fry after just four agonizing seconds of the electro stunner being applied to him full blast. It was already melting through his armor and

It stopped?

His head swam, and he realized he was being lifted from the ground, and he couldn't move his arm. He glanced down, and saw the giant had pinched and torn out the muscles and nerves that allowed him to lift and control the arm that had been going through his knife. He started begging, pleading, bargaining and then...

Where was he, where was his gun, why did everything hurt? Was that blood he was smelling, what was...
Where was he, where was his gun, why couldn't he remember where he was? Was that blood he was smelling, What was...
Where was he, Where was his gun, Why couldn't..couldn't he remember that..that word, was that blood he was smelling , what was
Where was he, where was his gun, how'd he get here, was that blood he was smelling, what was...
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Having taken all you needed to become fluent in the language of the Nucerians, and having stolen enough memories to find your way to the nearest city without being delayed, you reached into the last noble hunter's chest, and stopped his heart with spirit's touch and then dropped him on the ground, striding over him to investigate the weapons that survived your ambush.

Some of them had come close to injuring you, and some actually had, and most of them were unlike any you had seen before, even in the Butcher's War. You were almost pushed to use "Reality shifts before the approaching storm", but thankfully, skill once more overcame raw power. You'd have to bring these weapons back to Kanzeon to analyze and study. But for now, you'd store them away with your ship, before heading on the road to the closest city.
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>>5338384

The technology of these "High Riders", was just as deadly as that used by Nitya Sinha. You were fortunate your opponents were all blind drunk tonight. Such good luck would be unlikely to visit you again

As you walked, you performed a technique your nameless father and venerated teacher Guozhi had inspired in equal parts, by the illusion you father shrouded himself in and the shroud Guozhi used to travel in peace, unnoticed and unsee, you called it
"The Dragon sheds its scales to walk amongst snakes", and it was born from the illusions you used against the Shuni,

though greatly improved and refined, and no longer was bound to a banner or paired bangles as you had used before . By using the gentle moonlight within your heart and the very essence of darkness, you were able to complete replaced "Lieren" with whatever you wanted, weaving an illusion so true seeming, that only eyes like your own or other supernatural sense could pierce it. An illusion you were thankfully able to extend to the sword of harmonic balance, to make it appear and feel like a simple staff of knotted wood, like Guozhi carries.

Now, you walked as an old, white bearded man with clouded over eyes and a hunched back, your resplendent silver and gold robes transformed into the garments of the peasantry of this world, but not a slave. While being captured may allow you to infiltrate places you couldn't otherwise reach, until there was a needed to allow yourself to be shackled, you would do your best to avoid it as you traveled to and within the city under the shadow of the southern most range of the Desh'elika mountains. A minor city state, eclipsed by the northern titan Desh'ea, from which the range had earned its name, but, one that was wealthier and more populated than most.

There you'd begin your search, under the disguise as a harmless old man.
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>>5338387

And how would you gather the information you sought, Lieren?

>Use the memories you stole from the hunter Lycurgus, to earn a position in the House of Loc'ria, by saving a score of their number from a "plague" that had befallen them. In actuality, it is scurvy. How odd they are so advance yet are laid low by something so easily avoided.

>Act as a beggar, and listen to passing conversations as you teach the urchins and beggars of the city of Loc'ea the journey, as well the three martial styles you practice both to amuse yourself, and so they can defend themselves from the guards, slave takers and nobility. And invent a new, defensive style

>Attend the gladiatorial games and place bets while subduing your disgust and outrage, so you may purchase slaves and establish a cover as a supplier of fighters. While treating those you buy and free kindly out of the public eye, entertaining them with stories of your home.

>Pretend to be a weak, witless old fool, and when thugs and blackguards try to take advantage of you, covertly steal their memories, and then repeat the deception on their masters until you've gathered a supply of memory cores, each containing vital information of Nuceria and its inhabitants.

>Write in
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>>5338389
>>Act as a beggar, and listen to passing conversations as you teach the urchins and beggars of the city of Loc'ea the journey, as well the three martial styles you practice both to amuse yourself, and so they can defend themselves from the guards, slave takers and nobility. And invent a new, defensive style
I've wanted a tortoise style for a while now.
Also, it feels damn good to be killing techno-barbarian tyrants again.
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>>5338389
>>Act as a beggar, and listen to passing conversations as you teach the urchins and beggars of the city of Loc'ea the journey, as well the three martial styles you practice both to amuse yourself, and so they can defend themselves from the guards, slave takers and nobility. And invent a new, defensive style
What is Lieren if not a man of the people?
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>>5338389
>>Use the memories you stole from the hunter Lycurgus, to earn a position in the House of Loc'ria, by saving a score of their number from a "plague" that had befallen them. In actuality, it is scurvy. How odd they are so advance yet are laid low by something so easily avoided.

>>Attend the gladiatorial games and place bets while subduing your disgust and outrage, so you may purchase slaves and establish a cover as a supplier of fighters. While treating those you buy and free kindly out of the public eye, entertaining them with stories of your home.
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>>5338389
>Pretend to be a weak, witless old fool, and when thugs and blackguards try to take advantage of you, covertly steal their memories, and then repeat the deception on their masters until you've gathered a supply of memory cores, each containing vital information of Nuceria and its inhabitants.
>Use the memories you stole from the hunter Lycurgus, thugs, blackguards, and their masters to earn a position in the House of Loc'ria, by saving a score of their number from a "plague" that had befallen them. In actuality, it is scurvy. How odd they are so advance yet are laid low by something so easily avoided.
>Use our new knowledge and position of power to both purchase slaves, and hire the orphaned and destitute in the guise of vetting both guards and servants for House of Loc'ria, where in actuality we will be slowly build up our rebel forces.
Do these in that order.
We'll play things our the first time around, like the first few years of Shangrala. We will infiltrate their society posing as a civil servant like last time, build up enough trust, and pull the rugs from right under them.
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>>5338409
>support
>teach some of newly purchased slaves your three martial styles so they can defend themselves and in the process invent a new defensive style.
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>>5338389
>Use the memories you stole from the hunter Lycurgus, to earn a position in the House of Loc'ria, by saving a score of their number from a "plague" that had befallen them. In actuality, it is scurvy. How odd they are so advance yet are laid low by something so easily avoided.
>Attend the gladiatorial games and place bets while subduing your disgust and outrage, so you may purchase slaves and establish a cover as a supplier of fighters. While treating those you buy and free kindly out of the public eye, entertaining them with stories of your home.
Our first step to spreading prosperity on Shangrala was made by working under tyrannical nobility, it would be fitting for us to do the same again.
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>>5338389
>>Act as a beggar, and listen to passing conversations as you teach the urchins and beggars of the city of Loc'ea the journey, as well the three martial styles you practice both to amuse yourself, and so they can defend themselves from the guards, slave takers and nobility. And invent a new, defensive style
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>Use the memories you stole from the hunter Lycurgus, to earn a position in the House of Loc'ria, by saving a score of their number from a "plague" that had befallen them. In actuality, it is scurvy. How odd they are so advance yet are laid low by something so easily avoided.
>Attend the gladiatorial games and place bets while subduing your disgust and outrage, so you may purchase slaves and establish a cover as a supplier of fighters. While treating those you buy and free kindly out of the public eye, entertaining them with stories of your home.

Old dog.Old tricks.
Best toys. Fastest way to get to Angron.
Probably should find more ammo for nuke launcher and other guns.

The guns here sound like they belong in fallout:New Vegas.
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>>5338389
>Use the memories you stole from the hunter Lycurgus, to earn a position in the House of Loc'ria, by saving a score of their number from a "plague" that had befallen them. In actuality, it is scurvy. How odd they are so advance yet are laid low by something so easily avoided.
>Attend the gladiatorial games and place bets while subduing your disgust and outrage, so you may purchase slaves and establish a cover as a supplier of fighters. While treating those you buy and free kindly out of the public eye, entertaining them with stories of your home.
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>>5338389
>>Use the memories you stole from the hunter Lycurgus, to earn a position in the House of Loc'ria, by saving a score of their number from a "plague" that had befallen them. In actuality, it is scurvy. How odd they are so advance yet are laid low by something so easily avoided.
>>Act as a beggar, and listen to passing conversations as you teach the urchins and beggars of the city of Loc'ea the journey, as well the three martial styles you practice both to amuse yourself, and so they can defend themselves from the guards, slave takers and nobility. And invent a new, defensive style
>>Attend the gladiatorial games and place bets while subduing your disgust and outrage, so you may purchase slaves and establish a cover as a supplier of fighters. While treating those you buy and free kindly out of the public eye, entertaining them with stories of your home.
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>>5338389
>Act as a beggar, and listen to passing conversations as you teach the urchins and beggars of the city of Loc'ea the journey, as well the three martial styles you practice both to amuse yourself, and so they can defend themselves from the guards, slave takers and nobility. And invent a new, defensive style
Teach them some proper teamwork so they can use their numbers and stealth. They own the streets! Start painting a pair of golden rings/eyes on walls
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>>5338389
>Act as a beggar, and listen to passing conversations as you teach the urchins and beggars of the city of Loc'ea the journey, as well the three martial styles you practice both to amuse yourself, and so they can defend themselves from the guards, slave takers and nobility. And invent a new, defensive style
>Use the memories you stole from the hunter Lycurgus, to earn a position in the House of Loc'ria, by saving a score of their number from a "plague" that had befallen them. In actuality, it is scurvy. How odd they are so advance yet are laid low by something so easily avoided.
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>>5338389
>Use the memories you stole from the hunter Lycurgus, to earn a position in the House of Loc'ria, by saving a score of their number from a "plague" that had befallen them. In actuality, it is scurvy. How odd they are so advance yet are laid low by something so easily avoided.
>Attend the gladiatorial games and place bets while subduing your disgust and outrage, so you may purchase slaves and establish a cover as a supplier of fighters. While treating those you buy and free kindly out of the public eye, entertaining them with stories of your home.
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>>5338389
>Use the memories you stole from the hunter Lycurgus, to earn a position in the House of Loc'ria, by saving a score of their number from a "plague" that had befallen them. In actuality, it is scurvy. How odd they are so advance yet are laid low by something so easily avoided.
>Attend the gladiatorial games and place bets while subduing your disgust and outrage, so you may purchase slaves and establish a cover as a supplier of fighters. While treating those you buy and free kindly out of the public eye, entertaining them with stories of your home.
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>>5338389
>Act as a beggar
>attend the gladiator games.

Establishing good reports with the lower classes makes establishing safehouses childsplay.

Hiding a primarch would be no more difficult than flipping our hand.
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>>5338699
Hiding Angron isn't the issue.
Getting him to come with us WILLINGLY is the big problem here. He's only staying captive due to his fellow gladiators being held hostage, remember?
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>>5338701
If we can hide a primarch, with a network of slumdogs who obey our whims and wills, how much harder would it be to hide the gladiators?

Massive jailbreak, we clear the path open, then split these. . lets say 300 gladiators, into 20 groups of 15, split them with out guides amongst the poor and destitute who now know how to kill a man in a single punch, and have them disperse to disparate safehouse locations, while we remain behind to attract the attention of the high riders with our brother.

Give it 20 minutes then vanish. While the High riders are then scrambling, we can slowly and steadily smuggle the gladiators to freedom. . . or arm them and our allies amongst the poor and lead them in open revolution when reenforcements arrive.

Angeron won't have the opportunity to protest during the escape.
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>>5338389
>Act as a beggar, and listen to passing conversations as you teach the urchins and beggars of the city of Loc'ea the journey, as well the three martial styles you practice both to amuse yourself, and so they can defend themselves from the guards, slave takers and nobility. And invent a new, defensive style
>Attend the gladiatorial games and place bets while subduing your disgust and outrage, so you may purchase slaves and establish a cover as a supplier of fighters. While treating those you buy and free kindly out of the public eye, entertaining them with stories of your home.
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>>5338389
>Act as a beggar, and listen to passing conversations as you teach the urchins and beggars of the city of Loc'ea the journey, as well the three martial styles you practice both to amuse yourself, and so they can defend themselves from the guards, slave takers and nobility. And invent a new, defensive style

>Attend the gladiatorial games and place bets while subduing your disgust and outrage, so you may purchase slaves and establish a cover as a supplier of fighters. While treating those you buy and free kindly out of the public eye, entertaining them with stories of your home.

Instead of acting as a beggar, act as a doddering old fool who's gone soft in his old age.
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>>5338389
>Pretend to be a weak, witless old fool, and when thugs and blackguards try to take advantage of you, covertly steal their memories, and then repeat the deception on their masters until you've gathered a supply of memory cores, each containing vital information of Nuceria and its inhabitants.
>Use the memories you stole from the hunter Lycurgus, to earn a position in the House of Loc'ria, by saving a score of their number from a "plague" that had befallen them. In actuality, it is scurvy. How odd they are so advance yet are laid low by something so easily avoided.
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>>5338775
It might be better to speak with Angron privately before making any concrete plans so we can establish exactly what we need to do to allow for his escape.
It's gonna be a pain in the ass if we break him out and he decides to martyr himself to try and save another Gladiator we missed.
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>>5338389
>Act as a beggar, and listen to passing conversations as you teach the urchins and beggars of the city of Loc'ea the journey, as well the three martial styles you practice both to amuse yourself, and so they can defend themselves from the guards, slave takers and nobility. And invent a new, defensive style

>Attend the gladiatorial games and place bets while subduing your disgust and outrage, so you may purchase slaves and establish a cover as a supplier of fighters. While treating those you buy and free kindly out of the public eye, entertaining them with stories of your home.
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>>5338888
It seems like something to do.
But organising an underground is not a bad investment of our time in any capacity.
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>>5338952
Good point. Ensuring we have a way of moving freed slaves out of the major cities is probably a good idea.
It would also give us a way to potentially move soldiers into said cities much more covertly than we could otherwise.
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i get massive harlequin/eldar and alpha legion vibes from from Lieran. We should teach this to our sons. Can you imagine the equivalent of gladiator pits of the World Eaters on our ships but instead we have martial art tournaments, psyker duels, and risk style command and conquer tournaments to see who can infiltrate and takeover a planet/country the best? We can even invite other legions and hand out honors and prizes.

>help the urchins
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Also, we should probably inform our sons of our ability to collect and store memories through tech and psyker methods. Can you imagine how useful it would be to preserve ourselves and our legion by having a library were recruits can experience memories of those who came before them? Also, we need to back up our memories in case Big E pulls something on us as he did with the other primarchs. Hell Horus had an entire storyline where he went on a quest to learn what the emperor actually did to increase his power.
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>>5339191
Our memories are dangerious. Immensely so.

We are a being of focus, precision, moral virtue and sheer fucking will. We see the TRUTH of all things, and that will do things to a mind that isnt prepared for it. Going on a binge through our minds isnt healthy for anybody, and moreover is a massive security risk, over anything but the most innocuous information.
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>>5339379
The scepter permanantly removes the memory when used, I don't think it would be good to abuse it too much.
Also it might be involved with the soul tech used to make Kanzeon and her sisters. I don't remember if it was confirmed, but it would make sense.
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>>5339464
>Also it might be involved with the soul tech used to make Kanzeon and her sisters.
It explicitly is.
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>>5338389
>>Pretend to be a weak, witless old fool, and when thugs and blackguards try to take advantage of you, covertly steal their memories, and then repeat the deception on their masters until you've gathered a supply of memory cores, each containing vital information of Nuceria and its inhabitants.
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>>5339468
I think so, and also remember Kanzeon talking about that, but I'm not sure exactly how and don't want to archive dive to confirm the details.
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>>5338389
>>Act as a beggar, and listen to passing conversations as you teach the urchins and beggars of the city of Loc'ea the journey, as well as the three martial styles you practice to amuse yourself. So they can defend themselves from the guards, slave takers, and nobility. And invent a new, defensive style

>Attend the gladiatorial games and place bets while subduing your disgust and outrage, so you may purchase slaves and establish a cover as a supplier of fighters. While treating those you buy and free kindly out of the public eye, entertaining them with stories of your home.
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I have a proposal; we get around the poor and lower classes spreading our teachings, styles to defend themselves and so on. At the same time we approach Angron on the quiet and tell him what we have begun but will make no move till his signal, ask him what he wants from this.

Thus we ensure he feels this is his call and that if he breaks out then there are options laid ready, splashing gold painted eyes across the cities and a cryptic warning "Gold eyes await their Red Brothers' Call"
So when he yells/does his jail break we start burning shit at the same time forcing the High Riders to not know whats going on and be divided
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>>5339658
i agree and i think Angron would be fine with our help, the high riders have simply a bigger advantage on him at the moment.
Even if he does a jail break on his own, they would simply attack him and his gladiators and shoot them all he can't do much for change the several disadvantages when him and his companions are costantly either in their cells or the arena.
Can he disorganize the garrison or the security system looking over the arena fighters ? Make them drunk or hack it ? Reach the armory without being seen and getting the equipment present there ? No unfortunately.
He can put up a fight if those disadvantages are neutralized and there is an equal ground, and if there is a revolution outside he can connect with it and bring the fight right in to the front doors of the palaces of the high riders. Our presence and the arrival of our fleet and strike force would be the icing on the cake, and would create additional confusion in the tyrants military ranks.
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>>5339658
No. Rescue him first and extract butcher's nails.
Everything else comes after. At best we need to build a hide away for the rebellion for when we start it, because we won't have time if people are chasing after him.

Those things are archeotech and we need to either free him of find a place to place his brainscan, and a soul stone to store his spirit. while we grow him a new one.

We do NOT want a primarch with these Khorne Nails in his head for any amount of time.
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>>5339674
If we're very lucky, he hasnt been implanted yet.
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>>5339675
Worst case scenario, we take a sample of his DNA and get to work with Kanzeon on cloning the parts of his brain that the Nails have replaced.
We might also be able to preserve his remaining memories and implant them into the new grey matter with the Lotus Scepter, but don't quote me on that.
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>>5339754
IF it were that easy, the Emperor would have done it. He's supposedly one of the greatest genesmiths around and he created the primarchs. THose nails are a monster of a problem if he of all people couldn't get those out.
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>>5339784
Counterpoint to that is, the emperor flat out didn't care for some primarchs and showed extreme favouritism. He already had knowledge of the heresy happening so he flat out ignored some primarchs and let them develop in unhealthy ways.

If he truly cared for Angron for example he would have come down to the planet and save him instead of kidnapping him and leaving his friends to die.
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>>5339789
Isn't it also implied that The Emperor considered Angron a failure after his inability to conquer or otherwise rule his adoptive homeworld?
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>>5339789
Counter-Counterpoint: Angron was a Primarch. No resource was denied to him Especially not personal healing.

>>5339796
He may have considered him a lost cause but I'd wager it would have been the Archeotech Nails that sealed the deal. Captured and turned into a Gladiator in a Archeotech rich world by the natives is unrealistic expectations for a victory.

In that case? We coopt him ourselves and he becomes ours instead of emps.
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>>5339895
Angron as far as we know hasn't been Nailed yet.
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>>5340123
Last we saw, he certainly wasn't.
Though he's already made multiple escape attempts, so it's only a matter of time before his owners realize he's only going to play along to a certain point.
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>>5340253
We only need to find out if Oenomaus os still alive or if they fought a pair of nailed ogryn.
Well, as long as our actions haven't caused a butterfly effect and indirectly changed canon even in Nuceria.
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Could we contact him with a psychic power?
Coordinate an escape or outright kill the nobles watching so we have time to escape and hide whole the city burns?
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>>5340569
>Could we contact him with a psychic power?
It's worth a shot now that we're on the same planet, but I get the feeling Khorne's shroud over Angron isn't so easily abated.
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Is it even there? Or could we channel Bai's virtuous spirit into Angron to defy Khorne once again?
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Calling the vote now. Sorry for the long wait, machines spirits were being bastards

Act as a beggar, and listen to passing conversations as you teach the urchins and beggars of the city of Loc'ea the journey, as well the three martial styles you practice both to amuse yourself, and so they can defend themselves from the guards, slave takers and nobility. And invent a new, defensive style:12

Use the memories you stole from the hunter Lycurgus, to earn a position in the House of Loc'ria, by saving a score of their number from a "plague" that had befallen them. In actuality, it is scurvy. How odd they are so advance yet are laid low by something so easily avoided.:11
-Use our new knowledge and position of power to both purchase slaves, and hire the orphaned and destitute in the guise of vetting both guards and servants for House of Loc'ria, where in actuality we will be slowly build up our rebel forces.: 1

Pretend to be a weak, witless old fool, and when thugs and blackguards try to take advantage of you, covertly steal their memories, and then repeat the deception on their masters until you've gathered a supply of memory cores, each containing vital information of Nuceria and its inhabitants.:3

Attend the gladiatorial games and place bets while subduing your disgust and outrage, so you may purchase slaves and establish a cover as a supplier of fighters. While treating those you buy and free kindly out of the public eye, entertaining them with stories of your home:13
-Teach them martial arts:1

total votes: 22

So Lieren will act as a beggar, listening to the whispers of the city as he trains the beggars and urchins of the city how to defend themselves with his martial arts, creating a forth new style, focused on defensive.

Then, once he is satisfied the slums are safe, attend the gladiatorial matches and place bets so he may purchase slaves and establish a cover as a supplier of fighters, while treating his "slaves" kindly outside of the public eye.

And, thus having established an identity within the higher rungs of Loc'ea's society, use the memories he took from Lycurgus and his rising fame as an owner of skilled slaves/ fighters, to achieve an even higher rank by endearing himself to the house of Loc'ria

Thus establishing a support base in the lower classes, building a loyal guard force, and earning the favor of the ruling nobility to be granted privileges he would be otherwise kept from

A familiar ploy.

writing now
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>>5341527
Tyrants being removed from power by trusting a stranger blessed with heavenly wisdom who blesses all men of virtue and poor circumstances with the chance to live a life of plenty and joy.

Never heard of the good roman kings.
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You are not harried, as you pass through the red painted gate set in the towering walls of tan stone, fashioned in a style foreign to you, it is minimalistic in construction, yet grand in scale. These are walls that are meant to withstand an assault carried out by the weapons of a past long forlorn, and endure the devastation they wreak as well as the mundane strength of arm and iron that, say a slave uprising would bring to bare. You lift your eyes up from the ground, looking to the top of the gate house holding along the razor edged iron gate high aloft above the street leading into the city, like the blade of a guillotine ready to crash down on the necks of the people. Where no hands can reach, and few eyes can see, lies an image of three black wild dogs, wolves perhaps, circling one another with their tails held firmly in their misshapen iron jaws. You pause, admiring the artistry of the mural despite its brutalist symbolism. A work of art formed from hundreds of miniscule tiles placed and set in stone. Beautiful as the image it depicts is crude. You are shoved on your back by an impatient traveler, and leered at by the guards dressed in armor sculpted to create the illusion of muscularity. You fake a tumble, catching yourself on your staff as you glance to the eyes hidden behind the snarling masks of iron worn by gate guards. The masks they wear remind you all too much of those traditionally worn by soldiers upon Shangrala, particularly the jeering, mocking smiles preferred by families such as the Gao or the Yan. You huff, and shuffle along, ignoring the bitter reminiscence the attire of the "protectors" of Loc'ea has brought to you, and the memory of your long defeated enemies it has stirred within your heart.

Somberly, and grimly, you shuffle along on shaking legs, replacing your usual stride and mannerisms with that of frail and frightened old man as you enter in Loc'ea proper and are utterly disgusted and offended by what you seen. The abject poverty and destitution of the people awakens a deep rage within you, that rises up to your mind like a thick, black smoke. You can see clearly the signs of starvation amongst the vagrants and beggars who line the street, while flabby faced and blubbery stomached merchants and nobility idly gossip as they are carried high above the filthy streets and clogged gutters upon shining palanquins of polished copper, bronze and gold, resting amongst cushions overstuffed with feathers as they pass above the poor and common with so much as deigning to glance down at the suffering the costs of their excesses and decadence spreads. Your wrinkled face warps into a snarling grimace, hidden by the sand worn and sun bleached hood you wear over your ratty robes, as you limp beneath the shadow cast by one of the liters and watch in despair as grown men, reduced to tanned skin draped over their bones, scramble for the pits and rinds of fruit tossed carelessly into the city streets.
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"A misers idea of generosity" You spit in disgust, as you walk past the hungry eyed men kicking and clawing at one another to try and pry a particularly flesh covered pit from the other's rat like hands. You have not seen such desperation since your days of service beneath the twin dragons of the Gao, to look upon such extreme poverty once again fills your throat with bile and your skull with the pounding drum beat of murderous, yet righteous rage. You continue walking through the market place, trying to keep your eyes low to avoid rousing your anger too greatly. There are statues, towering high above the tiered buildings beside which the market stalls and carts are set, statues of proud gladiators, augmented with cybernetics though thankfully not to the abhorrent degree of, say, Nitya Sinha and the Vishnu who sold their people's soul to stand beneath him and bask in the bloodiness of his reign. Around the pedestals that these statues are set, children gather to play and look upon the stone visages with awe and blind hope. Men and women do as well, pausing in their chores and labor to look wistfully towards the stone titans who cast their great shadows down upon them.

That is how the Nucerian elite control the lower classes. with sport and idolatry, rather than unyielding tradition and oppressive fear as the Yan preferred. It is upsetting to see men reduced to such a pitiful state, where they aspire to stand as tall as statues of stone of men long dead, and are only distracted by the toil and suffering of their impoverished lives by partaking in gladiatorial matches vicariously, watching from the stands and cheering or jeering as they watch their favorite fighter take the stage. But, you can see, that they do so not to vent a bloodthirst or murderous lust, but rather relieve their frustrations of being forced to live and die in slums, to be born poor and never rise to a higher station. Their is anger boiling here, with the collective hearts of the populace, beneath their dour faces and masks of despair.

You smirk, realizing how fertile of a ground you have found for rebellion. But, still you remain a stranger, so upon finding a shaded corner near a market selling all manner of fruits, dried strips of meat and risen bread that seems to be mostly made of gravel and dirt, you sit down, crossing your legs and setting your walking stick against the wall at your side, joining your voice with the chorus of begging that echoes through the city's slums. And there, unnoticed and overlooked, you listen to the conversations of all who pass by. Be they slaves, free laborers, guards on patrol, or nobility venturing out of their palace in search of some vice or another, you hear their whispers and learn much, and all you have to do is sit, look loathsomely pitiful and repeat a mantra of pleading for coins, food, water or shelter.
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You of course, are given none, and are even spat on and have dirt kicked into your face as you raise your upturned palms beseeching generosity and pity from passersby. Such selfishness, such lack of virtue and compassion makes you feel ill. Sighing, you adjust your posture and glare at the sun high in the sky, as it beats down upon your brow while a crawling wind carries to your the stench of the slums, wet fermenting filth and sour sweat mingling with rotting fruit and putrefying meat. It stings your eyes, so you decided to go a more popular and populated crossing, since the gossip spoke around you here no longer teaches you anything new.

A scream catches your attention, as you fake hobble down the tight alleyways and winding streets. The shout of a child in pain. Your eyes narrow dangerously, as you quicken you pace and trace the source of the distressed cry, and come upon a scene that enrages you beyond words.

A boy, dressed in rags, with a disfiguring scar across his cheek, blood soaking into off white tunic he wears, which is open just enough expose bruise both fresh and healed. Other children, girls and boys both, watch frozen in terror, hiding away or looking for a route to escape unseen as three guards, dressed in the sculpted armor of their uniform and wearing the snarling masks that hide away all hints of humanity, approach the injured boy,

Who you can now see is holding a basket of shriveled, apple like fruit, clearly stolen. You can also see the sheen of spit on the lead guard's face, and the blood dripping from the dagger in his hand.

"My my, what's all this racket" You complain, shuffling forward as the guards surround the young thief, you stick a finger in your ear and twist it around, as if clearing it of wax "can't an old man be allowed peace and quiet as he sleeps, I know it won't be long before I begin my eternal rest, but I'd be ever so thankful if I'd be allowed a brief respite from the noise and clamor of the world, however momentarily"

The guards and beaten boy turn away from each other to look at you, the terrified children watching from their hiding places and stoops now looking afraid for you rather than their friend.

"Eh?" You gape, glancing up at the guard who is now too baffled to be enraged by your interruption, or perhaps by the flowery and refined manner in which you speak, despite clearly being a gormless old beggar "Oh, poor child, unfairly struck and unjustly beaten, just trying to fill his belly and stave off hunger. Not only for himself, but for all his little friends, as thin as dried wheat. Tch tch, how cruel the hands of man and turning of the world can be, when the desire not to starve is considered a crime grave enough to illicit the sheeding of blood. It is a valuable thing, you know"

The guard's eyes narrow with pique and fury as you shuffle between him and his fellows, who are chuckling in bemusement as you pick at the illusionary beard hanging from your chin and dragging at your feet.
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>>5341887

"Life? it cannot be returned once snuffed out, unlike a flame. It cannot be repaired one broken, unlike a shattered pot" You scold, head lowered "Tell me, youngster, do you truly think this boy's life is worth less than a few half rotten fruits?"

The guard stomps forward, trying to intimidate you as he lifts up his knife still wet with blood. When you do not cower or fall to your knees to beg forgiveness, he decides it would be wise to use his words to try and instill terror into you.

"A street rat is worth less than a worm eating its way through the fruit, he is filth, no one will care if he dies, as no one will mourn you if you do not learn to keep your nose out of business that isn't your own, old fool" He snarls as you flick your fingers and tilt your head, looking up at him with a apathetic expression "You'd think you'd have learned not to, if you've lived to be so old"

"Ah, so you think all men are worth less than worms?" You question coyly, smirking in a way intended to be infuriating "Brute, lacking in sense and wit, allow this old man to illuminate your mind, all men are equal. Every life holds the same value. If you think I am so worthless to be killed in a gutter like a dog gone lame, then the same applies to you, and the master you serve. Leave the boy alone, he has done harm to no one, but if you continue to beat and bully him, harm shall certainly come here to you, and swiftly"

"G..get out of here, old fool" The child thief spits through his missing teeth "This has nothing to do with you, I don't need your help, you're just going to get killed"

"Don't die grandpa!" A little girl wails "Run away, they won't let you go if you talk to them like that, you'll be killed for sure"

"Leave him alone you bullies!" Another boy calls out as the guard cackles and his two counterparts shake their heads, arms crossed over their chests

"And whose going to punish me for upholding the law, you old coot? You? You couldn't fight off the flies biting your face, you can't honestly believe you could do anything but bleed on me" He sneers, patting your head mockingly as he twists his knife around "And you'll be hung with this little thief if you think to report my transgression, and will learn just how wrong you are about all men being of equal worth and value then"

"Of course I will" You state bluntly, pushing his hand from your head "Your eyes must be more clouded than my own if it isn't obvious who between us would emerge the victor. Even if all of three of you attacked me at once, you would find yourself on the ground before this stick of mine falls to it. And that is a promise. Leave these children alone, reflect on your deplorable actions and wickedness, or be punished for them"
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>>5341891

"Are you insane?" The little thief squeaks as the guard stares at you blankly as his co-workers wince and narrow their eyes, as if they expect you to suddenly grow ten feet tall. Without a word, the head guard's dagger flashes through the air, whistling as he swings it towards you throat.

"So be it" You mutter, tossing your staff in the air, and lifting up both your hands to meet the guard rushing towards you if defense of his wounded pride.

You pinch the nerve between his wrist and hand and twist. He drops the knife, and before his eyes can finish widening, you jab a series of pressure points in his arms, leaving it to fall limp at his side. Side stepping and shuffling away, you release your grip on his wrist, and let him stumble forward, one arm failing as if it had been dislocated. His knife falls to the ground, as he trips and catches himself with his functioning arm.

He stares in confusion as his swaying, useless arm, clearly trying to get it to move as he leans against the wall, unable to understand why it isn't working and how you've managed to paralyze it with just a few prods of your finger. It jiggles like jelly in a thick stew as he stares at you in impotent fury.

"KILL HIM!" He shrieks, another sword is swung down towards you head, you pivot and twist around on your heel, manuvering yourself to stand just to the side of it before catching it between two fingers.

"Poor form" You scold, shaking a third finger "You've left yourself wide open"

And you thrust your spear hand into the guard's unarmored side, bruising his kidney. His eyes water and his cheeks fill with vomit as he struggles to remove his sword from your grip as you lift it up, and then let go, reaching to pinch a nerve cluster in his neck with your claw hand, after raking it just deep enough across his cheek to tear the skin. The combined pain of being kidney punched and having a cluster of nerves crushed by your hand, renders that guard unconcious. Your walking stick is almost to the ground

You lean your head, twist your shoulders and let go of the second guard, as they third swings his blade at your neck. Avoiding both steel and unconcious thug, you press your fists together and punch them directly into the chestplate of the third guard, whose eyes were wide with panic as you approached him by stepping over his fallen brother in arms. He goes flying back, his armor and the wall he was thrown into now both dented by the force of your strike. Huffing, you adjust your posture, no longer looking crooked and hunch backed as you turn around just in time to see the first guard rushing you with his dagger, his disabled arm flailing in the air at his side.

You catch your staff as it falls to your side, and slam it against his jaw, sending a shower of teeth, blood and spittle flying from his now loose jaw.
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>>5341896

He collapses onto the second guard, as the third falls from the wall, conscious, but unable to stand or breath properly after meeting the combined power of both your fists.

"How far we have fallen, that our guardians are so ignorant they do not know to listen to their elders, and think they know better than them" You mock, as you drop your staff next to the face of the guard, drooling and groaning on the ground "Let this be a lesson boy, of respect. Not just towards your elders, but all life. Just because you are strong, does not mean you are invincible. Take this beating to heart, and better yourself"

The little thief yells out a war cry, and you catch him by his wrist, as he moves to dash the head of the guard open with a large rock fallen from the masonry of the wall of the alley.

"No" You state sternly, pinching his ear and pulling "He deserves death, for the abuse of the powers of his office, but we are not executioners, at least not today. All life is of equal value, and forgiveness worth more than gold. Mercy will be a greater punishment than death to a man as proud as he"

"He'll talk you old fool, tell the others what happened and then we'll all be" The boy rambles feverously, you click your tongue and shake your head

"He will not, for then he will bear the shame of being beaten by a harmless old man. Would you keep a guard employed, who can't even win against an old codger like me? Let him go, to suffer in disgrace and stew in his humiliation" You say, warning the boy "A corpse speaks more than sealed lips"

the little thief, with a scar on his cheek and missing teeth, looks from you to the guard rapidly, his face contorting with rage and internal debate and conflict. He raises up his hand holding the rock, and drops it

"Lets get out of here" he mutters, running away as his friends stand where they've hidden themselves, looking to you with as much as they would the statues of a great gladiator.

"How did you do that? did you cast a spell on them, huh, old man?"
"Did you break his arm? That was amazing! They won't pick on us again after a beating like that"
"Never seen anything move that fast even in the arena"
"You're incredible grandpa! are you a retired gladiator?"
"Want an apple? or two? I'll give you three if you teach me how to do that!"
"Thank you for saving Aegeus, he always gets himself in trouble trying to keep the rest of us safe"
"Are you blind? I knew a gladiator who could fight while blindfolded? Did you, uh, sense their movements or something?"

"One at a time, one at a time, these ears of my aren't as sharp as they used to be" You laugh, smiling "And that bout took a lot out of me, so while I'll be happy to teach you and anyone else who asks martial arts.."

"Martial arts?" Aegeus, the noble brat with a scar on his cheek asks
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"Lets just say, they're a way for even the weak to stand up against the strong, a kind of fighting that allows even an old man like myself to beat a man in the prime of his life" You explain, twisting the hair of your illusionary beard and plucking at it as Guozhi habitually does "In the hands of a master, even the advantage of weapons and armor become useless"

Aegeus takes your hands and leads you to the shade beneath a towering, ancient tree in a quarter that seems abandoned, at least by the architects and builders of the city, for it has fallen into great disrepair through neligence and the passing of time.

"We'll rest here, the guards never patrol the slums, least when they aren't chasing thieves" He says, sitting next to you as you cross your legs, to his confusion "Why are you sitting like that"

"Why have I adopted the Lotus position? I'm intending to meditate to center myself and emptying my mind of troubling things" You say kindly, causing the youth to stare dumbfoundedly at you, as his friends gather around you in a small mob, which has increased since you've entered the territory of the poor and destitute "It'll help me to listen to all of your many questions"

And there are many questions. It would seem, for your heroics, you've become a quick friend of the poor of Loc'ea, and already the little ones are telling exaggerated stories and tales of your battle against the three guards. You can't help but smile to see that no matter what world you walk upon, legends and myth spring up like weeds wherever you wander.

For first night of your stay with Loc'ea, you spend entertaining the leaders of the beggars, urchins, the elders of the poor and forgotten, with slightly alterted retellings of your adventure, shifted to fit your cover as an old, wandering beggar, and explain to them the foundational concepts of martial arts and meditation. Aegeus sits as close as his elders allow him to, and stays up late into the night, as do many of the older children who listen to your words like they were spoken by a god. Inevitably, as the night drags on and the air cools, and Aegeus' mentor and adoptive father offers you a glass of cheap wine aged to the point of being nearly vinegar, that your conversation turns from story telling, to subtle and nervousness attempts to raise the question if you can teach Martial arts.

"Well, in old age, men should be cared for and kept in comfort...if you don't have anywhere to travel"
"It is incredible, truly incredible, that a little, withered man like you could beat twelve elite guards with one hand behind his back"
"It would make us feel safer, if you stuck around for awhile, and listening to your stories is truly fascinating"
"Yeah, old man, you tell the best stories, and It'd be a really shame for you to leave so soon after arriving"
"I want to learn how to fight like you, I wouldn't have gotten cut if I knew martial arts"
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"I suppose" You say, after being assaulted by enough requests to fill an entire wing of the ministry of developments record building "That I could linger for awhile, rest these old bones of mine and do some good by teaching a new generation of martial artists, that is, if any would be willing to endure the rambling of an old beggar long enough to hear the wisdom hidden inside of it. Though I warn you, I will be a harsh teacher, even if I'll accept any willing to learn, be they young or old, man or woman..."

The leaders of the slum were all to happy to hear that, and threw as much of a feast as they could with their meager stores of food and drink.

You barely ate, giving most of what you were offered to the children, and began to explain to the cleverest and most educated of the partygoers your world view and personal philosophy as the night carried on. Come morning, you walked through the slums, banging a pot to serve as a gong, waking up the whole of the district to begin your first lesson, as Aegeus followed beside you, shouting to promote your school in the gutters and to entice prospective students to come join "Elder Kynigós" in his morning training

Kynigos being the Nucerian word for hunter, of course.

"Don't hide away like rats, walk with Kynigos this morning and see how a little old man can throw a trained soldier into the dirt. Gather around him, and you might be lucky enough to be hear his aged wisdom and gifted some of it in turn. All life is equal, from the slaves, to the worms, to the freeman, to the nobles in their palaces! We are all brothers and sisters, so come listen to your grandfather...even though he isn't related to any of us, but he asked me to say it like that, so that's what I'm going to do! Tired of being pushed around and kicked while you're down? Come learn from this old man named Kynigos, and see for yourself how he is wiser than the philosophers kept in the golden courts!"
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"A king of beggars? that is ridiculous" The captain of the guards asked incredulously as he sat on the steps outside of his home, sharpening his sword as his underling stood before him, his face more purple and bloated than a ripe grape, his jaw held in place with a bandage "The beggars and urchins would sooner stab each other over a piece of stale, wormy bread than agree with one another, let alone gather together and organize, you got drunk and beaten in a brawl, and are now trying to make excuses, just like that tax collector, Avgí who claims a pack of...get this, children without shirts and bandages wrapped around their hands, beat him while he was extorting an illegal bakery. Listen to me when I say this, the next man to make up a ridiculous story about the people of the slums banding together and somehow becoming a threat to TRAINED SOLDIERS! Will be tied outside of the guardhouse and beaten until death, spread the word to the rest of the posts"
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"I am getting well and truly tired of hearing your excuses for your failure to catch criminals" He sighed, as he sheathed his short sword, called a Xiphos

He stood and snarled at his underling

"What, have you all gotten frightened of entering the slums and gutters? What can a bunch of starving, jobless peasants do? We have swords, we have armor, we are fed, and we are strong" He growls angrily "I don't know what has made you all so worthless all of a sudden, but your failures reflect on me! And I worked hard to earn this position and I will not lose it, because my men suddenly became craven and frightened of their own shadows"

"But he's real! He's really real! We've seen him, in the early morning, with a practical mob of beggars, vagabonds, urchins and thieves, teaching them how to fight and speaking in riddles! The beggar king is real!" The guard whimpered, his bloated face covered in tears as the guard captain shook his head

"A drunk's tale. You probably just saw an old man stumbling out of a bar, surrounded by pickpockets" The guard captain said dismissively, slapping his underling on the most bruised part of his cheek "If you believe this "Beggar king" exists, then patrol the slums, if you aren't too afraid of roving packs of urchins and bands of beggars that you won't even approach them while armed, you disgrace of a man"

"Please captain, listen to me! We've been catching less thieves cause they...they move like snakes! like fish in a stream! They clamber up walls and run along rooftops!" The guard ranted, as the captain began to ignore his clearly deranged subordinate "Listen to me! I'm telling the truth! That old man is teaching them some kind of spell to turn your muscles into jelly, teaching them to make their fists like iron, please, you have to believe me! I've seen them with my own eyes, leaping through the air like birds, breaking stone blocks by punching them! The beggar king is real! He's real dammit!"

"lay off the wine, before it kills you" Is all the guard captain said in response
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"What's a tortoise, Kynigos?" Aegeus asks as you show him the stance and first moves you have created for a style you have invented while training the oppressed and poor of Luc'ea, to allow them to defend themselves from swords and daggers, without having any armor or protection besides their fists and feet. It is a defensive style, with a wide and low stance meant to maximize stability to the point of becoming all but unmovable, while keeping their arms raised in front of themselves and held together to act as a shield of bone and flesh. While the Carp dance avoids, dodges, parries and slips through guards with a flowing ceaseless assault, this style endures, blocks, catches and counters. Where the Fog panther style overwhelms with ferocity aggression, strength and speed, attacking blood vessels, nerves and tendons to cripple, organs and arteries to kill, utilizing, pinches grips and holds, this style endures and exhausts,
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only attacking when the opponent has spent themselves and can offer no resistance. While the Night Crane is dedicated to precision, using pokes, pinches and kicks, to attack pressure points and meridians as well as internal organs to shut down the opponents body and seal their movement, as well as any mystical abilities they possess

this Style relies on broad, general strikes and punches, that break through guards and render any armor worthless in the face of the users strengthen collected and gathered into a single. The first strike you developed being the two handed punch you used against a guard, some days prior. It is a passive and defensive style.

One of which you have named in honor of the Century Tortoises of Shangrala.

Of course, mundane men who practice it, will have to wear metal rings on their arms or armor them for the "Shell" to function as intended, even if they train their arms and harden the bones and muscles within.

"I will explain later, now, try to break my guard" You state calmly "You'll need to learn the basics of this style now, since I shall soon become busy"

"Sneaking into the high rider's courts?' Aegeus asks coyly, a grin on his face covered in bandages

"I must say" His father, your second in command in the slums, a man who calls himself Achaz says excitedly "it takes quite a lot of courage for any man to even plot what you're planning, let alone as one as old as you are, Kynigos. I just hope you live long enough to carry it out"

"Oh I wouldn't worry about that. I have cultivated this body of mine to be rather long lasting. Like preserving a strip of beef, or pickling a radish" You say coyly, as you sidestep Aegeus' punch and press a fist into his side as he overextends "Though you must work to leash that aggression of yours, here, try again, but do not overextend"

"What the hell is a radish?"
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"I'm ruined! I'm ruined!" Tax collector Avgi wailed as he drowned his sours in honeyed sweetened wind, which was no salted with his tears "I can never finically recover from this! I should have never taken that bet! How did you know that cripple was going to win"

"Call it intuition" The old man said with a wink, as he sat, legs crossed in a queer fashion, he had started attending the games not long before, and had an uncanny ability to guess the outcome of any match with a mere glance, he was a beggar when he first started attending a week or so before, but now he was wealthier than Avgi. Which wasn't hard, considering he had just won most of the taxman's wealth. Perhaps he was looking for a servant, and Avgi could work of his debt working beneath him

"I shouldn't have taken that bet against you! What are you spending all of your winnings on anyways? Its not like you've been enjoying it, buying new clothes, moving out of the slum, or enjoying yourself in any way besides tormenting your fellow gamblers" Avgi grumbled jealously
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"A wise man saves his seeds, to plant when the earth is fertile and the rain is plenty. I am doing the same with my coins, saving them, so I will enjoy a greater bounty yet" He answered in the mysterious, confusing manner he always used "In fact, I have my eyes on a few ripe fruit, waiting to be plucked already"

"You're thinking of becoming a lanista? You certainly have the coin to open your own stable now" The tax collector stated ruefully, as that strange old man named Kynigos just smiled and watched the fight. Avgi winced, and turned towards his smiling friend. He must've been imagining things, cause he could've sworn he had just felt a wave of heat radiate out from the hunched old man....
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"Tell me...tell me about the death of the boar again" One of your gladiators, Boter, asks, as you busy yourself stitching his stomach closed again, the big, bronze hided man wincing as you worked the needle through his flesh, his heavy beard fleck with blood and drool "How the panther broke his army without ending a single life"

"I'm sorry...I'm sorry" the opponent his last match, Noemon muttered in the corner of the room, the servos of his mechanicle eye whirring as he pulled nervously at his braids "I didn't mean to strike so deep, I didn't mean to..."

"It is fine, child, he'll live. You didn't cut his bowels. He just needs to rest and keep the wound clean" You say calmly and gently, to reassure the veteran fighter "But it is good you have chosen to stand at his side in this trying hour"

"I...I thank you, Kynigos, I..am still not used to your kindness" Noemon whispers, as the rest of your so called slaves gather around Boter, all of them scarred and implanted with some form of cybernetics are another, all possessing gentle and open hearts "I am honored to fight for you, in the arena, even though I am freed"

"You aren't just saying that, are you, old man? A man can't survive a gut wound! Everyone knows that!" Boter cries out as you smirk confidently

"Most men do not have me treating them, I lost a dear friend to such a wound, so I taught myself how to treat it so I would never have to lose another in such a manner" You say soothingly as you finish the last of the stich work and rub the wound with a antibacterial salve "Now, you wanted to hear how the panther hunter the boar? Well, you all seem to enjoy that story, but perhaps you'd prefer to hear how the panther freed the goddess chained by stone and bound by curses?"

Like children, the hardened killers scurry closer to you on their knees, their eyes bright and smiles genuine.
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"I've heard you can bring your slaves back from the brink of death" A low voice whispers as you walk through courtyard of the school you purchased from the man who you bought most of your gladiators from

"Oh? Is that what men are saying about me behind my back now?" You ask as a man dressed in a black cloak emerges from the shadow, but beneath it you can see the finery he wears, the jewelry and fine silk clothes
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>>5341923

"that kind of rumor seems rather treacherous, if men believe me truly to be a sorcerer so soon after I begin my business as a Lanista. Even though it is true"

"How? What pact have you made to come to possess such an ability" The poorly disguised noble, who you recognize as the head of house Loc'ria, a man by the name of Lycuarch

"Simple knowledge and practice. I well versed in the secrets of medicine" You say simply "If you have lost a favored fighter, I must apologize, for I cannot bring back the dead, only ward death away. Once it has arrived, there is no power that can chase it away"

He moves closer, he's brought guards along, lurking just outside the walls of the courtyard

"Are you versed in treating illness, or can you only mend wounds and heal scars?" He asks anxiously, wringing his hands together

"I can cure all ailments of the body, from within or from without" You state calmly

"Even curses?" He asks, eyes wide with nervousness

"Most curses are just misunderstood sickness, tell me the symptoms, and I shall give you my answer" You state plainly, tapping your walking stick on the ground

"My daughter, she is very sick, it cannot be anything but a curse. She weakened, become pained all over, refused to eat and began to burn up as her bodied reddened" He says pitifully, and with deep and honest concern "She began angry for no reason, began to bruise where she didn't rash, and now her teeth have began to fall out and bleed. And she is not the first or only member of my family to suffer so"

"I see. I see" You say pulling out your beard, wondering idly how such a technologically advance society could not recognize scurvy "Bring me to your daughter, and I shall see her treated and well within a couple of days, if not within the night. But, the master of the city, need not hide his identity"

"You cannot blame me for my deception, wise man. You would have accepted without thought, knowing I would give anything to see her well again" Lycuarch says, casting off his hood "I needed to know if you could truly heal her and the others who have fallen ill. And I know not how you could see through my disguise, but I can only trust you, for otherwise I shall have no hope but to be left without heir or child"

"Only a quack and charlatan would treat a patient they did not know how to cure" You state simply "Give me time to purchase the necessary medicines, can I expect an escort to your palace? or must I walk there myself"

"You will be delivered there in the utmost comfort" Lycuarch says with a predatory smile "And you shall not fail"

"I would hope not, or I'll have to doubt all I've learned thus far in my life" You laugh, walking casually past the father of the man you killed when you first arrived on Nuceria "Shall I entertain you for dinner, or am I expected to prepare immediatly"

His silence is all the answer you need.
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>>5341928

What position do you ask for after performing a "miracle" to save Lycuarch's daughter, Lieren?

>Master of the Arena, so you'll be well informed about the business and be able to keep the fighters from dying like dogs to appease the mob of the city

>Advisor and court magician, as despite possessing archeotech, the house of of Loc'ria is remarkable ignorant of medicine and science, so you'll take the position that'll allow you the greatest influence over them.

>Administrator of the city and lands surrounding it. The people here are starving and are withering under the malaise of their lives. They must be given hope and purpose.

>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so

>Write in
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We already know where Angron is though. The guy we lotus scepter Ed already knew of him


>>It was a giant, at least as tall if not taller than the Unbeaten, the pride of joy of House Thal'kr's fighting pits.
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>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so

After finding and rescuing our brother we should be able to house him and his men in the slums. While we wait for reinforcements.
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>>5341934
>>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so
As much as I want to better Nuceria, I don't want to rob Angron of the skills he'll gain doing it himself
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>>5341934
>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so
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>>5341934
>Master of the Arena, so you'll be well informed about the business and be able to keep the fighters from dying like dogs to appease the mob of the city
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>>5341934
>>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so

This is Angrons world. His challenge to overcome, his vengeance to take, and his people to free. We're just giving him a hand to balance to scales of his shit start.
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>>5341934
>Master of the Arena, so you'll be well informed about the business and be able to keep the fighters from dying like dogs to appease the mob of the city
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>>5341934
>>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so
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>>5341934
>>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so
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We're here to save Angron, not do his job for him.

>>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficient means of doing so.
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>>5341934
>Advisor and court magician, as despite possessing archeotech, the house of of Loc'ria is remarkable ignorant of medicine and science, so you'll take the position that'll allow you the greatest influence over them.
I think people are sleeping on the position that allow us to know about the Butcher Nails and prevent their implantation.
Also it's great we made the beggar sect.
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>>5341934
>Master of the Arena, so you'll be well informed about the business and be able to keep the fighters from dying like dogs to appease the mob of the city
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>>5341934
>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so
>Write in
This will also allow us to shuffle people around and get our poor people uprising started in other locations ready to rise up when our brother starts the fire
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>>5341934
>Diplomat and herald

We are the best of the best with tricky words and evil lies.
Also yes, the Beggar sect is flipping cool. I just hope that we can subtly get some of the nobility to care for the poor. Otherwise we will have no nobility when the killing starts.
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>>5342242
There isn't going to be any nobility anyway if we're planning on having Angron conquer the planet.
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>>5341934
>>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so
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>>5341934
>>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so


>>5342242
>>5342282
If there are nobles hearts they shall be saved even in this filth, and kids should be saved.
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>>5342282
I'm with >>5342315 we love our brother and will support him whole heartedly. But innocents will not be cast to the butcher to sate his bloodlust.

Even if we have to steal them away ourselves.
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>>5341934
>Advisor and court magician, as despite possessing archeotech, the house of of Loc'ria is remarkable ignorant of medicine and science, so you'll take the position that'll allow you the greatest influence over them.

Rather find out more about the nails and stuff, plus we can then cut the entire supply off or find out exacetly when his gonna get juiced before storming him.
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>We've been catching less thieves cause they...they move like snakes! like fish in a stream! They clamber up walls and run along rooftops!
I know Iron Monkey when I see him.
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>>5342282

Dude. There is always a planetary governor.
And it is a heritable position.

Now, we might destroy the institutions of this planet but we'll need the nobles/rich educated classes to run it for the imperium.

Removing them entirely is just going to make compliance take ungodly amounts of time.
We could fill in the need with our people but why would we divert valuable manpower and transportation for this?
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>>5342369
I’m saying that Angron would murder everyone related to the high riders regardless of innocence.
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>>5342369
We could just prune the garden, so to speak, and remove anybody getting in the way of a total reformation of the ruling class. I
It's not like we exterminated the entirety of the noble class on our homeworld either.
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>>5342393
From our astral viewing of Angron he didn't seem as though he had been implanted with the nails yet. It may be possible to reason with him somewhat if we build up a rapport with him, and even introduce him to some people of genuine virtue here.
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>>5341934
>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so
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..... Perhaps we could ensure that the house that owns Angron + his family/friends gets deep in debt. Or lose favour, prestige or members. The price to buy Angron and his kin, is likely too high at the moment and the house Thal'kr will likely not sell him if they are financially stable. Or in power.
If we don't need to assault/infiltrate the arena where they are, and they are under house Loc'ria we could avoid the nails entirely and prepare a rebellion with him. Making them free men in the process
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>>5342525
Recognize that if they're in deep debt, they're likely going to capitalize on Angron's profitability even harder to keep afloat.
That means pushing the envelope more and more with his performances, possibly accelerating his implantation as Angron would more than likely become unmanageable even faster.
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>>5342526
good reasoning, but a position of herald and diplomat could be still used to great advantage, Could there be another way ? Lieren is still a primarch. Maybe making a marriage between the two houses ?
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>>5342532
Only if we are marrying the Virtuous to the Virtuous, to make the slaughter of their rotten kin all the easier.

Because clean as this>>5342525 is, it isn't A scouring tide, which I believe that Angeron will insist on enacting. It will require a lot of effort to persuade him to engage in slow and systemic reform.
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>>5342526
We could throw them a few curveballs.
Death of an Heir, Theft of their treasury, Kidnapping of a family member, sudden loss of face, the loss of their Lanista...
all these things can cause them to need to come up with the money fast, and then we can offer to buy Angron on behalf of our house, come with the needed funds to "expand" the ludus of the house.Loc'ea.

.....Until unsurprisingly....They are all well equipped and managed to get free inbetween games and the city state is conquered.

All the while the Beggar Sect continues to expand around the world, feeding us info and infiltrating the homes of our enemies who will think us weak until it's too late.
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>>5342561
They might decide to spite us even if they take a deal that allows us to buy Angron.
This is all getting a little metagamey though, we should be focusing on what allows for Lieren's goals as opposed to our fears as readers.
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>>5341934
>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so
The other three options would be our best choices to help Nuceria as a whole, but Angron needs to come first. Once he is free we can take all the time we need to help the rest of the planet.
Besides, if we take one of the other three positions, our responsibilities/politics means we might get very little opportunity to go elsewhere and look for/into Angron proper. Being a diplomat gives us the perfect cover for a rescue operation.
We also already spent a lot of time getting this far, and we managed to get a good spot where we could hide Angron, so now we can probably plan freeing him with impunity.
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>>5342561
I think it would be better to simply collaborate with Angron and let the family that owns him be none the wiser to their inevitable fall.
Here's hoping Angron isn't the tactically retarded general he was canonically.
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>>5342652
That family Nails him because he wouldn't abide their cruelty to his fellow gladiators.

We should hurry and get him out of there. They're probably losing patience by now. Best grab him so we can coach him while we build the rebellion together. We'll have to rescue his band too sooner or later. Their loss is what drove him away from the emperor.(who was a callous doofus when he let them die)
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>>5341934
>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so
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>>5341934
>>Advisor and court magician, as despite possessing archeotech, the house of of Loc'ria is remarkable ignorant of medicine and science, so you'll take the position that'll allow you the greatest influence over them.
>>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so

Considering that we have shown ourselves to be able to heal diseases that are unknown, its not unlikely we'll be able to get these two together.

A court mage diplomat will be an interesting mix. One that can easily let us be shanghai'd into gaining favours from the other clans whom we come into contact with. As a healer and sage of archeotech.
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I'm changing my vote here
>>5342028

>supporting >>5343152
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>>5343152
Supporting

If possible of course. An adviser needs to stay home while a herald is always on the go
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>>5341934
>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so
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>>5341934
this >>5343152

>court mage diplomat
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>>5341934
>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so
Rush Angron, unparalleled strat
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>>5341934
>>Advisor and court magician, as despite possessing archeotech, the house of of Loc'ria is remarkable ignorant of medicine and science, so you'll take the position that'll allow you the greatest influence over them.
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>>5341934
>>Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so
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https://youtu.be/cWT5W_Xw-uA
I can quite imagine Lieren getting along with Corax
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Calling the vote now. Sorry for the long wait, was feeling real melancholic for some reason or another. But I'm back to my usual self, so I can and will write!

Also delighted you guys both recognized and like the beggar sect.

Diplomat and herald. You need to find your brother quickly, and being given the task of meeting with the other ruling houses of Nuceria will surely prove to be the most efficent means of doing so:19

Master of the Arena, so you'll be well informed about the business and be able to keep the fighters from dying like dogs to appease the mob of the city:2

Advisor and court magician, as despite possessing archeotech, the house of of Loc'ria is remarkable ignorant of medicine and science, so you'll take the position that'll allow you the greatest influence over them.:7

Total votes:25

So Lieren, in exchange for saving most of house Loc'ria from Scurvy, will be given the honored and highly esteemed and influential position of Diplomat and Herald, hoping to find his brother through his dealings with the other ruling houses of Nuceria.

Writing now

>>5342337
Heh

>>5344562
Same, and vividly. Also Imagine the TTS version of Lieren.
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>>5345463
>Also delighted you guys both recognized and like the beggar sect.
How can I not recognize a major wuxia trope? Personally I can't wait to see them grow into a major faction of the Imperium.
Also I think we have a good opportunity to invent body cultivation on this world.
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>>So Lieren, in exchange for saving most of house Loc'ria from Scurvy, will be given the honored and highly esteemed and influential position of Diplomat and Herald, hoping to find his brother through his dealings with the other ruling houses of Nuceria.

We already know where to find him though.
Lycurgus knew of the Unbeaten and then speculated about our relation to him. We just need to host an event/ against the house while assuring the boss that we have a way to defeat Angron...... ohh.... OHHHHHH

OH NO we picked Herald!
Should have gone with advisor or Master of the Arena if we wanted to get him brought to us.

..... Ah well. At least we should be able to get to him faster this way.
>>It was a giant, at least as tall if not taller than the Unbeaten, the pride of joy of House Thal'kr's fighting pits.
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The patriarch of the Loc'ria tries his best to intimidate you through any means as you are escorted to the walled palace he and his kin calls home. From the towering, heavily armored and augmented guards he employs as your escort, to the conversation you too share as your carriage is stopped in the middle of the bridge concerning the repugnancy of liars and fitting punishments for charlatans that claim to hold the secret knowledge of all curing panaceas and miracle operations, which you are of mind that a simple hanging or execution by firing squad would suffice if their snake oil resulted in any deaths while Lycuarch vouches for an unreasonably cruel and excessive punishment of sending the trickster to the charnel houses of the local arenas with armament or armor to meet a gruesome demise at the hands of the gladiators there. He couldn't be more blatant and open with his threats, even if he stood high upon a stage and performed a one man play concerning what fate will befall you should you fail to save his daughter from the plague that has stricken his house. A plague by the name of scurvy, a minor ailment upon Shangrala that only afflicts those of poor means or poor sense who do not eat a varied and healthy diet, and has all but been forgotten as pills containing necessary vitamins, minerals, fatty acids and all the other elements required to keep one's body healthy and flourishing can be bought in almost any store, if one is too lazy to simply prepare themselves meals that include the necessary components for their body's continued vitality, or are too busy to do so or otherwise go out to restaurants to eat, as is the case for many of the more diligent imperial scholars and officials. There were even bottled and canned drinks that served the same purpose, that had began being produced in Xia once its vast industry was once more turned away from war. Drinks that had grown quite popular with monks, martial artists and career soldiers.

It was depressing to see a world as advance as Nuceria to be blind to the dangers and completely unaware of scurvy. The ruling houses were the same breed of fools as the Vishnu were, using technology they did not understand, and worse relying on it so completely that without it they would quickly degenerated into barbarity and anarchy, unable to run a society or live without the comforts they inherited from their ancestors while their subjects and slaves suffered and toiled in appalling conditions and sicj deplorable poverty they were barely surviving, Malnourished and overworked, but unable to fight back because the tyrant's whose heels were pressed hard upon their backs and necks, held in their hands ancient horrors of ages long past and weapons of wars so terrible they had become forgotten to linger as horrific shadows cast by the passing of the Long Night.
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>>5345530

"Of course" You say, as the carriage begins to shudder back to motion, as the engine in repowered after much percussive convincing from the driver "Death in battle is far from the cruelest punishment that can be given"

Lycuarch is stunned to silence by this statement, allowing you to covertly motion to the members of the beggar sect you have raised, that have boldly chosen to tail you as you enter the den of rabid wolves, to stand down, as you were in no way threatened or endangered by your present company, advising them with a flash of two fingers to keep their distance and with a sudden jolt of your head and craning of your neck and lifting of your chin to keep watch from a vantage point, where they will not be seen until you were able to relay further orders to them. Hopefully young Aegeus and the others would listen to their teacher and not make a mess of your scheme out of misplaced fear that their elder was being taken to dig his own grave.

"You have watched enough bouts, that I am confident you know well how painful death in the arena can be...so I wonder, traveling mystic, what exactly have you see to make you believe such an execution to be petty and merciful" Lycuarch said, confidence and threatening demeanor eroded as he, against his instincts and common sense, being so caught off by your chilling statement that he now looked at the age withered, crooked and shivering old man in front of him as if you were a snarling fog panther

"Oh I didn't not call it merciful, my lord" You correct, wagging a finger, as your eyes narrowed, the sunlight casting upon them to reveal a glimmer of gold beneath the fog covering them "For it is cruel, needlessly so. But I have seen far more messy ends and sadistic means of execution. Hanging, can be as merciful as the hangman choose, being instant and painless, or lingering and agonizing. Death by the blade, how merciful or cruel it is, is measured by the skill and orders given to the swordsman. But, death by being boiled in a vat of oil? The death by a thousand cuts? The five agonizing venoms, thirteen lethal poisons? Trampling? Quartering? Skinning? All excruciatingly painful and pointlessly cruel"

Lycuarch shrinks back in abject terror, as you tap your chin, memories of all the torture and death you have seen as you waged war against the tyrants of your home comes rushing back to the front of your thoughts, vivid as if you were seeing them anew and fresh.

"I've seen men used as living canvas, sunken in rivers but kept breathing for weeks if not months. Women, chewed and partially eaten to be left in a field of glass" You quietly whisper "Children, used as targets for arrows, men reduced to beasts of burden and hunt to set upon their own kin. The world is full of horrors, and men create many far more terrible than nature could possibly muster. And I have seen many of these excesses of cruelty, sadism and inhumanity"
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>>5345531

"that is why your open threat of what fate I should meet should I fail to cure your house, does not cow me or frighten me" You state plainly and much more loudly "Honestly, if I had to choose, I'd prefer to die by the head of a spear or thrust of a blade a thousand times before facing even one of the more dragged out deaths I have seen in my long days of wandering"

"What is the worst death you have ever seen?" Lycuarch asks with geninune and gruesome interest, now realizing you could be a trove of inspiration of how to punish dissidents or failed servants. So, deciding to amuse yourself, and to distract from your urge to impale this tyrant through the throat with the iron bars place over the carriage's windows, you decide to give a joke as an answer, though it is a death you have seen and caused, though accidentally.

"Heart attack, a fat lord who was so terrified by a roaring lion, by so obese he could not flee from it, he chose to die of fright rather than face the terror before him. His heart gave out, and his wretched soul fled his body" You say with a frown "A kinder fate than he deserved, but, even the foulest of men do not deserve to be tortured in death. That is why I believe a quick hanging or dagger to the heart to be by far the cleanest forms of execution, for it does not tarnish or dirty the hands of he who carries out the sentence, for the grime of savagry is much hard to scrub from ones skin than blood"

"Seeing a gruesome death encourages others to not make the same mistake" Lycuarch argues. You shake your head and look at the window, idly palming and rubbing one of the citrus fruits you were able to find in the market, that resembled a strange sort of white speckled lemon, with a thicker rind and tarter flavor, but richer in the vitamins and acids that would help heal and prevent scurvy. You'd have to see about cross breeding their fruit or adapting it to Shangrala's soil when you reunited with Kanzeon, perhaps you could even name it after one of her late sisters, either Albina or Philotes, who delighted in tampering with and rewriting genetic code

"Fear is a poor ruler's tool. For, much like a beaten dog, it does not take much for a man thought to be cowed to submission, to find fangs to bare at his master when they have been hit one too many times" You say coldly, immediately frightening the patriarch of the Loc'ria clan "As many tyrants of the past have learned, a terrified populace is one that is willing to fight to the death opposing the source of their fear"

"...You must've had personal experience in such matters, perhaps I was wrong to treat you as a lesser. I wonder, what fallen house from which do you hail, Kynigos the beggar?" Lycuarch asks, raising his voice to try and hide the fact that you have managed to break his mental defenses and intimidate him with but a few words and hints of your past.
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>>5345532

You remain silent, smiling serenely as you peel the fruit in your hand, enjoying the smells of its oils and juices as you allow them to drip onto the delicate silks lining the cushions you sit upon.

Arriving at the marble palace of house Loc'ria, lit by lights similar to the sort that light near every residence within Long-Jia and Bask, and which will hopefully spread to the homes of the Zoroast and Angra, and even further flung people of Shangrala. There are stranger sorts of technology present here, remnants of the highest peak of humanity and its most terrible of tragedies. They are displayed, some as art or curiosities, others as power sources, others still as weapons or defenses. Few are being used for their proper purposes, as upon the walls of the Loc'ria palace, you see a device that should be used for cleaning being used as a crude shield generator with far too little power to be effective as either. Kanzeon would be driven into a rage if she was present to see such wastes of technology, though she'd be even more enraged to see how it was being misused to oppress and terrify the people of this world. Nuceria was Kanzeon's deepest fear made manifest, that men would become so reliant upon technology they would become its slaves, and that they would use the power of controlling it to render their fellow men as slaves.

You could picture her, leading a force of drones equipped with projectors of molecular deconstructing energy, the same kind she used to free herself from her tomb and to take apart Aeldari technology and refine it to its base elements, taking away each and every comfort of the nobility and leaving behind blocks of inert material that they do not have the knowledge to remake into the wonderous machinery it once was, leaving them as helpless as those they oppress. That is, if she got to the palace before you could find enough ropes to hang its owners from its gate. The abuse of tools that were meant to better the lives of all, deeply enrages you

but you keep your composure, and go through the motions of feigning concern and worry for your charges, and demand isolation, peace and an array of tools and fanciful gadgets to create the "Elixir" that will end the plague.

When really, you just sit in the medical wing of the building, surrounded by glass vials, tubes and beakers and an advance medical bay that could have synthesized the cure for an actual plague if it wasn't out of raw material, which must be why it was left to gather dust in disuse, believed to have been broken by age. Kanzeon's medical technology is far beyond its capabilities, and you dread to see how exactly the cybernetics and modified organs that are widely implanted into the gladiators of the Nuceria's arenas. It must resemble butchery more than surgery.
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>>5345533

You extract all the necessary "Cure" by juicing the fruits, pounding and grinding their rind into a fine powder after extracting its oils, and then with a dramatic flair, you add the tart juice, rind powder and oils into the fanciest of crystal glass bottles you had been given, a finely carved and shaped glass that is decorated with grape vines and twisted at the neck with jutting "thorns" of glass at its base that makes it hard to hold.

And, chanting and mumbling gibberish, and holding a piece of dried ice you made in the crude laboratory you had built to create a billow of smoke circling the extravagant vessel of what amounts to citrus juice and vitamin powder to the beside of Lycuarch's remaining child, a daughter grown and matured, younger that Lycurgus and much thinner, as she has been left to waste away. She is senseless, and missing most of her teeth, her gums red and agitated.

You add a drop of citrus juice to a glass of water, and force her to drink it, and you do the same for all others who suffer from the "plague". And you make certain they are well hydrated and fed, against the protests of Lycuarch, who is enraged by the inclusion of fresh vegetables to his family's diet, calling them "Peasant food". Which is...confusing, since even the hedonistic nobility of Yan ate their vegetables and overindulged in eating fruit of all sorts. But, his complaints are silent as in two days time, his house that was on the brink of annihilation by poor diet, begins to recover and its afflicted members begin to feel hale and lively once more, some of whom even thank you directly and offer you wealth, slaves, and privileges beyond what the master of the house has already promised you. One man, a brother of Lycuarch, falls to his knees and embraces you tearfully, his children surrounding the two of you crying as they see their father returned from the brink of death, the man himself blubbering his thanks as he struggles to remain upright.

You blink, and for a moment, you see Tao Song before you, grinning ear to ear moments before you snap his neck. You wonder, if any of the Loc'ria will accept the punishment they face for their misrule, cruelty and multitude of other crimes with as much dignity and grace as the long dead patriarch of the Tao family? For now, you just smile, and gently brush aside and rufuse the offers given to you by the tearful man and the oaths his older children swore. You can't help but to see a resemblance to Dai Niu and his sons in the smiling faces that surround you. Dai Gang and Dai Chongling have outlived most of their younger brothers, who died nobly defending Shangrala and her people, from threats both alien and native to her. While many of those you have treated and healed, will meet their end by your hands, just as many are free of their family's corruption and wicked nature.
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>>5345536

You remember the resentful glares of the Mao children, and the grudge the Kang still harbor against you in their heart. Will the Loc'ria be the same?

"They will fully recover in two weeks time" You tell Lycuarch, when you manage to leave the procession of grateful nobles, who, by their own choice, shame themselves to speak their gratitude to you, a pauper and stranger "Keep a close eye on them, and make sure to follow the instructions to make the tincture precisely, skipping no step and substituting no ingredient"

"How can you be so calm in the face of such gratitude?" Lycuarch asks you, looking upon you with amazement and reverence, his cruel eyes filled with tears and gratitude, as he swills from a dark bottle, filling his belly with bitter wine that nearly equals Dragon's spit in its unpleasantness

"I'm very adept at hiding my emotions, I am overjoyed to be met with so many smiling, gracious faces. I have also saved many lives before, however, the triumphant satisfaction and delight I feel whenever my care or actions preserve a life, remain as strong as the first time I did so" You say with an earnest and truly happy smile "I was just observing proper etiquette and showing polite professionalism and respect, I am truly ecstatic to have been able to save all of the ill"

"I see...well, such miraculous work must be rewarded, and I'll feel much safer if you work for me and my house, rather than risk losing you to our rivals" Lycuarch says, his speech already slurring "Any position, any job you may desire, any rank and title you seek shall be yours, Kynigos the ancient"

"Hmm" You say, hiding your triumph of achieving your ends so master "Name me your herald, envoy to the other noble houses and clans of Nuceria, so I may travel freely and unopposed, and so I may...refine your edicts before they are given to the wider public"

"So I may never be feared?" Lycuarch ventures "So you may entice the other houses and cities to ally with us? Earning the loyalty of both the mob and my equals...raising my station as well as your own, ensuring the name Kynigos becomes synonymous with glory You are a cunning man, almost as cunning as a wolf. Waiting until your twilight years to immortalize yourself in history, What a wonderful friend I have found, from the filthiest of gutters"

"Or a jackal" You jest

"What manner of beast is a jackal? Is it another type of wolf"
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>>5345537

What is your first order of business as Diplomat and herald, Lieren?

>Traveling to the nearby cities, officially to establish a network of trade and defensive pack between the cities, but actually to look for your brother in their arenas, since you know he fights in them, but not which one precisely. Lycurgus knew of him, but you were unable to extract a memory telling you exactly where he is imprisoned.

>forge edicts to reduce the power of Loc'ria over the city, without them noticing, and pass laws to allow you to punish the dirty lawmen and officials of the city, replacing them with men and women loyal to you.

>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate.

>Have your beggar sect spread the journey in the slums of other cities, while you induct the virtuous and wise of the nobility of Loc'ea to it, while your gladiators spread it to the other fighters of its arenas

>Write in
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>>5345540
>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate.
>Have your beggar sect spread the journey in the slums of other cities, while you induct the virtuous and wise of the nobility of Loc'ea to it, while your gladiators spread it to the other fighters of its arenas
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>>5345540
>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate.
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>>5345540
>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate.
>Have your beggar sect spread the journey in the slums of other cities, while you induct the virtuous and wise of the nobility of Loc'ea to it, while your gladiators spread it to the other fighters of its arenas
Our brother will hear of us before we come before him. We can let him know we are sowing seeds, all the men, the people need is their figurehead and true leader. Dear brother the time is coming and when you rise we shall see the downtrodden arise beside you
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>>5345540
>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate.
>Have your beggar sect spread the journey in the slums of other cities, while you induct the virtuous and wise of the nobility of Loc'ea to it, while your gladiators spread it to the other fighters of its arenas
The fastest way to find Angron, and spreading the journey in this way wouldn't take much time from us, since others would be doing the bulk of the work.
Besides, plunging our roots deeper will make flipping the whole rotten structure over later easier.
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>>5345540
>>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate.
>>Have your beggar sect spread the journey in the slums of other cities, while you induct the virtuous and wise of the nobility of Loc'ea to it, while your gladiators spread it to the other fighters of its arenas
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>>5345540
>Have your beggar sect spread the journey in the slums of other cities, while you induct the virtuous and wise of the nobility of Loc'ea to it, while your gladiators spread it to the other fighters of its arenas

>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate.
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>Traveling to the nearby cities, officially to establish a network of trade and defensive pack between the cities, but actually to look for your brother in their arenas, since you know he fights in them, but not which one precisely. Lycurgus knew of him, but you were unable to extract a memory telling you exactly where he is imprisoned.

>forge edicts to reduce the power of Loc'ria over the city, without them noticing, and pass laws to allow you to punish the dirty lawmen and officials of the city, replacing them with men and women loyal to you.

>Interrogate the Arena Master about where the Unbeaten is. Then Lotus scepter the interrogation from his mind.

All these options take too long.
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>>5345540
>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate.

>Have your beggar sect spread the journey in the slums of other cities, while you induct the virtuous and wise of the nobility of Loc'ea to it, while your gladiators spread it to the other fighters of its arenas
Lets plant our seeds, though I'm a little worried of excluding the first since its the most MAXIMUM PROSPERITY option. We are on a mission though
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>>5345540
>Ask where the Unbeaten is and go there
>Have your beggar sect begin to spreadu the Journey to the slums of other cities

The azure winds come baring salvation once again.
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The Emperor recognizing the Beggar Sect from times long past might be amused. Or he might recall Wuxia memes.
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>>5345540
>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate.
>Have your beggar sect spread the journey in the slums of other cities, while you induct the virtuous and wise of the nobility of Loc'ea to it, while your gladiators spread it to the other fighters of its arenas
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>>5345540
>forge edicts to reduce the power of Loc'ria over the city, without them noticing, and pass laws to allow you to punish the dirty lawmen and officials of the city, replacing them with men and women loyal to you.
>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate.
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>>5345540
>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate.
>Have your beggar sect spread the journey in the slums of other cities, while you induct the virtuous and wise of the nobility of Loc'ea to it, while your gladiators spread it to the other fighters of its arenas
the rebellion grows
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>>5345540
>>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate.
LETS GOOOOOO
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>>5345540
>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate.
>Have your beggar sect spread the journey in the slums of other cities, while you induct the virtuous and wise of the nobility of Loc'ea to it, while your gladiators spread it to the other fighters of its arenas
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>>5345540

>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate
>forge edicts to reduce the power of Loc'ria over the city, without them noticing, and pass laws to allow you to punish the dirty lawmen and officials of the city, replacing them with men and women loyal to you.

>Have your beggar sect spread the journey in the slums of other cities, while you induct the virtuous and wise of the nobility of Loc'ea to it, while your gladiators spread it to the other fighters of its arenas
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>>5345540
>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate.

>Have your beggar sect spread the journey in the slums of other cities, while you induct the virtuous and wise of the nobility of Loc'ea to it, while your gladiators spread it to the other fighters of its arenas
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>>5345540
>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate.
>Have your beggar sect spread the journey in the slums of other cities, while you induct the virtuous and wise of the nobility of Loc'ea to it, while your gladiators spread it to the other fighters of its arenas
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>>5345540
>>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate.
>>Have your beggar sect spread the journey in the slums of other cities, while you induct the virtuous and wise of the nobility of Loc'ea to it, while your gladiators spread it to the other fighters of its arenas
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>>5345540
>Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate.
RUSH A(ngron) RUSH A RUSH A RUSH A GO GO GO GO GO

Then
>Have your beggar sect spread the journey in the slums of other cities, while you induct the virtuous and wise of the nobility of Loc'ea to it, while your gladiators spread it to the other fighters of its arenas
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>>5345540
>>Have your beggar sect spread the journey in the slums of other cities, while you induct the virtuous and wise of the nobility of Loc'ea to it, while your gladiators spread it to the other fighters of its arenas
i feel like casting a wide net is probably our best bet here
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Has anyone considered the " Chaos was promised half the primarchs" angle?

Who do we stand to lose if we rescue Magnus, Peturabo, Lorgar and Angron?
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>>5346737
no cause that's retarded gw dumb shit and the qm has said he's ignoring shit like that cause it's stupid.
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>>5346737
Keep in mind we've literally broken causality and fate by reintroducing Malal into "canon" so I'd think any 'deals' are long since null and void if they ever existed at all.
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>>5346737
Lieren is the game piece that act and does what it wants for his own gains, refusing completely to be moved or influenced by others, in the so called "game" the parasites play. And they really hate him for this and many other reasons, the bounty on the head might not be enough for specify just how much.
Furthemore additional "players" have been revealed and this ones are now playing (and playing also means destroying the plans of others, not just moving the pieces and influencing things) the "game" openly too.
Now more than ever, it's unknown what will happen next. Which aids Lieren, because tyrants can't be so sure anymore about "destiny" or "fate".
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I can see so many possible Horus Heresy routes.
Psyker vs none psyker Legion tension more than canon, the mechanicus having their own schism cos of the sisters. Hell the eternal issue of if Lieren decides one of his brothers has "got to hang".

There's even gonna be the issue of if we get trusted to much to be the watcher some Primarch will say "but who watches him?"

Not even counting xeno issues
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>>5346737
That's stupid so I hope not.
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>>5346737
Even if it were to happen, there's to consider that Lieren could mediate in Nikaea because thats one hell of a philosophical debate (one which I'd say Magnus did terribly at) making sure Magnus doesn't fuck around the warp could also fuck with causality and not breach the webway project
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>>5346737
>>5346737
Got bad news for you, Canon at this point is fucked.
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>>5347251
Canon of course off the rails. But we're not talking about that or even fate.

This was (allegedly) a deal. And I'm worried we're getting a reshuffle instead of a majority.

Of course.....Malal counts as Chaos.
I'm down for a Malal/Malice Chaos primarch to further screw with the "PLAN tm"

But in any case that's what the farseers are for.
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>>5347315
Considering how Malal has said that he doesn't like out of nowhere bullshit corruptions or some of the dumber parts of new lore, I doubt he is going to forcefully fall others primarchs.
The chaos gods are probably going to attempt it though. Which means nore chances to ruin their plans.
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Well corruption is gradual until you grab a possessed item and even then it's a fight.
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>>5347315
The Malal Primarch/Champion/Daemon Prince is Lieren.
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>>5347315
Anon we ARE the new primarch to fall.
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Malal does not need to do anything. Let me tell a tale of the Seekers of Truth Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes. They were an honorable chapter who shielded the innocent until they were blessed with the ability to detect lies. They were driven insane and the entire chapter was turned to chaos in a matter of days thus becoming the Scourged.

Think of what this means. An entire chapter of virtuous, honorable, and loyal Astartes (possibly an Ultra marine successful given their color scheme of blue,red,and gold) including their chapter master were broken in a matter of Days. Most of the time it takes years or more likely decades for this occur so this means that they were utter failures of astartes or they were that utterly broken by the truth.

I don't care how mentally strong, chaos resistant, or human lieren is eventual he will go insane, go renegade, or get forced to make decisions he does not want to do.
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Malice has been in the shadow of everything we have done and continue to do. Personally, I think he will infect our legion through good intentions. Each of the traitor legions were corrupted through the flaws inherent in their legion and their primarch. I would argue that our biggest flaw is our desire to help everyone in need when such a thing is impossible.
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>>5347558
the reason why they went insane is because

1.) they were already feeling extreme guilt over working for the inquisition.

2.) it was a blessing from Tzeentch and thus was made to fuck them over.

3.) they didn't just here the lies from people they directly interact with they "Herodicus and his men could hear every lie spoken by mankind" a.k.a every lie ever told by humans.

4.) they heard these lies constantly in their heads like a telepath that can't control their power and hears everyone's voices constantly.
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>>5347579
In that case we shall need new BALANCE AND HARMONY techniques for our sons who develop this terrible affliction.

Because excess is the enemy of sustainable progress.
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>>5347579
Lieren isnt a marine. Amd these marines lack the force of will of Lieren, he who sees the absolute truth of everything his eyes fall on and has borne the brunt of the wrath of the false gods, before having the option to ignore it.

He is beyond simple trickery and torment. They need to produce some situation, wherein we agree to a deal.
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>>5347558
It will be up to us to make good decisions then or the decisions we feel like Lieren would take, this is a quest. There isn't Gw writers here that can decide what happens. We will decide how it goes and ends, and if we seek an end worthy for Lieren we will get said end.
Without the final say of x or y malicious entity and the petty slaves that serve it.

>>5347566
Yet nobody is given help most of the time in 40k. Talking is avoided when it could resolve many issues easier than guns. Who will be given help ? A select few ? Who deserve to be talked with ? Again only few ? It may seem a weakness, yet it can also be transformed in a great strength. And do remember the journey is not a bunch of words Lieren says like a peddler on a street.
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I need more of malals writing in my life.
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>>5348148
Don't worry, you'll get your serving of purple prose and Wuxia tropes soon...maybe.
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I have an idea. Why not gamble for the ownership of Angron and his slavemates?
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>>5348689
You don't think they'd try and cripple Angron just to spite us if we cheat them in a bet?
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>>5348689
He is one of their most prized possessions, they would need to be incredibly desperate or Angron value plumet to even consider it, and without resorting to nailing him to get even bloddier shows first.
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>>5348689
>>5348724
>>5348733
We should pull an emperor and challenge Angron ourselves, basically make a bet the family has no way of winning, old man goes into the pitt, and we beat angron with out Wuxia psychic martial arts, and leave with him. Losing to an old man plummets his value, and serves as a black mark against his family.

From there we can teach Angron a bit of what we do and have him grow beyond a pit Dog
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>>5348987
"Kynigos" could just take the match as a sort of exhibition and fight with a special rule in place.
Maybe something like evading Angron for a set duration. Or maybe it could be knocking him down a few times.
Either way, both of those things would be impossible for what is ostensibly an old man, but not for Lieren.
That said, this IS Angron we're talking about.
If we can't get him in on the plan, Lieren would have to fight seriously just to do any of that.
I'm not entirely certain he'd be able to maintain his disguise while doing so.
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>>5348995
Fighting an actual Primarch with real combat experience would be a test, but we have to rememeber that Angron is never challenged here. Lieren has been challenged and pushed all his life, but Angron has by comparison had it kind of easy seemingly with his enemies.

Meanwhile Lieren would have every advantage you could ask for. Save maybe raw strength
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You know thinking about it we're going to have to work out something with dad real soon. The Mechanicus are gonna have signed the Treaty of Mars well before we join the Crusade proper with the Cogboys becoming very firmly entrenched into the forming Imperium. They are already devout Machine God worshiping nuts, already they're pretty similar to their 40k ways though obviously not quite as far.

The issue we're going to face is us rocking up with all the tech we have, we're basically sat on a treasure trove beyond imagining for them in terms of raw data but the Ship Sisters are also going to be insanely divisive figures. Some will see them as Abominable intelligence no matter what we say for example, the Sisters will not like how tech is relied upon and worshiped, they won't like the god angle nor the totally over the top or irrelevant religion that formed.

We're setting up for a whole damn Mechanicus Civil War at this rate especially since Pert has seen the missus! he'll know how they were made and understand how everything works. He might go bloody nuts and try to go full Cyberman "Upgrade" the world on us if we don't watch out, The Cogs also torn between what we show and their traditions. Throw in how Dad don't even know yet and we're headed for a total cluster fuck,
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>>5349015
they can do shit to primarch worlds. So they can go pound sand.
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>>5349018
*can't.

And with that typo time to sleep.
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>>5349015
The primary issue here isn’t the threat to our world or ourselves, but the fact that without the Mechanicus the imperium will lack the prebuilt industry and expertise nessasary to fuel the rapid growth of both the imperium and the great crusade.

We do not possess the means of filling that need, and nor does the Emperor likely have the patience to wait for us to build things up.

Keeping the Mechanicus intact is gonna be nessasary, but I don’t know if it’s possible
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>>5349015
>>He might go bloody nuts and try to go full Cyberman "Upgrade" the world on us if we don't watch out

I think that might make the mechanicus very very happy.
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>>5349034
IF we can convince the sisters to go along with it. One option we could pursue is convincing the cogbois they are avatars of the machine god, or its angels to say the least; being pinnacles of human engineering ticks one of their boxes and their intelligence being made of human souls opens up to debate if they are AI or not. We cannot prevent a schism but we can at least swing it in our favor if we plant the seeds early.

Speaking of which we really need to have "THE TALK" with dad about the ships, sooner we come out with what we are hiding, less chance there is of him deleting us
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>>5349041
i suggest having the talk after we save Angron so that if he is not happy with our wife and her sisters, he will at least see the value that they might signify to the imperium if he accepts them. Plus the fact that they helped save another of his sons from chaos cultists it will definitely help ease some mistrust of them.
oh and also the possibility of grandchildren
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>>5349041
>>5349055
Also, one could easily put forward the idea that the ships are not AI, but those followers of knowledge that has ascended like the Magos in the Mechanicus who forgo their individuality and consciousness to join that big network on mars.
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>>5349055
He will surrender with Liberty.

Jokes aside i think the journey spreading might help us in this with the Mechanicus and Imperium at large. Knowing that a primarch made this book will naturally interest a lot of people on Earth and then Moon. Then when Mars enters in union, they will also hear of it and be interested.
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>>5348689
NGL I like it. We should totally do that just for the lolz we can tell all our other brothers.
I mean theres is definitely some market value for Angron. If we do a couple of speech and barter checks, we can probably buy him right off the bat.

>>5348995
Lierem probably knows telepathy.

>>5349008
Those are all very true points. Angron has been mostly pitted against humans, augmented humans, animals, and juices up cyber ogryns. Lieren has faced drukari, Belakor, hordes of demons, The Butcher who probably could had given Angron a run for his money, literally tidal waves of angry cyber human clones, more demons. Oh and he's still weapons DaoT PA.

>>5349015
Ship sisters are capable of mind reading and have bodies to socialize with. Their effectively Men of Gold. It would be easy for them to ingrained themselves within the Mechanicum and slowly change their doctrine. Kind of like the Mechanicum Schism that happened around the time of the Horus Heresey, except less messy.
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Don't worry I'm still alive
Gonna write the update in a little. Haven't been feeling myself the last few days, but I'm recovered enough to write.

And make a new thread, since we've hit page 10.

However, for the life of me I can't come up with a synopsis of this thread. So before I count up the vote, I'd very much appreciate if one of your guys could help me come up with a description for this thread.

Sorry for the long wait.
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>>5349500
Lieren uses his verbal prowess to win more unlikely allies amongst the eldar, and begins his work to free his enslaved brother
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>>5349500
Lieren farms, farmingly effectively farms
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>>5349525
I always get a chuckle out of the hypothetical farmer Lieren that does nothing but tend to his crops and open a petting zoo.
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>>5349500
just make sure to put Eldrad destroyed by facts and logic somewhere in their.
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>>5349500
The hunter meets the farmer, the Ulthwe council gets dunked on and Lieren gets up to his old tricks in Nuceriam
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>>5349568
Now I have to draw Lieren dunking on the Chaos Gods
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>>5349500
Remember Malal that it's more important your well being than a bunch of morons. So please if you feel bad take your time and do what you need and want to do so that you feel better rather than sacrificing your healt for a update

As for the synopsis:
Lieren enters the webway and encounters an old friend on his way to meet with Eldrad. Once he finally meets with the most ancient Farseer, he destroys the old Farseer with FACTS AND LOGIC. After realizing that Lieren was right he gives him the choice to rescue just 1 of his brothers in danger. Although it saddens him, Lieren chooses to save the Gladiator and he receives the coordinates of Nuceria.
He send Carys to gather his friends,sons and our beloved to aid us while we go straight to that cursed planet and starts to spread PROSPERITY
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>>5349500
Gonna be a little longer than anticipated, as I got volunteered to do some yard work. If the heat doesn't break me, I'll have this thread archived and the new one up after I get back.
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>>5349574
Neither daemon or eldar can avoid the shangrala slam dunk.
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>>5349626
>Tzeentch is running out the clock, Magnus has him on lockdown.
>Passes it back to Khorne-AND A QUICK SWIPE FROM LIEREN FOR POSSESSION!
>Glides past Slaanesh, shoots to Perturabo in the paint!
>Pert eyes up Nurgle, breaks to his left-
>Pivots back, Nurgle's ankles explode, Pert goes for the 3!
>It's off the backboard!
>AND LIEREN FLIES IN FOR THE ALLEY-OOP!
Meanwhile Malcador is sweating his ass off in a giant golden eagle suit.
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>>5349647
I see Nuffle is trying to get bloodbowl into 40k's universe by rebranding himself as Nubble.
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>>5349779
It's beautiful, anon
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>>5349784
Nice
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Calling the vote now. Sorry for taking longer, I
was worked ragged

Well you have a reputation as a lover of the arena, so just ask who the "Unbeaten" is owned by, and make up an excuse to travel to that citystate:18

Have your beggar sect spread the journey in the slums of other cities, while you induct the virtuous and wise of the nobility of Loc'ea to it, while your gladiators spread it to the other fighters of its arenas:16

Traveling to the nearby cities, officially to establish a network of trade and defensive pack between the cities, but actually to look for your brother in their arenas, since you know he fights in them, but not which one precisely. Lycurgus knew of him, but you were unable to extract a memory telling you exactly where he is imprisoned.:1

Interrogate the Arena Master about where the Unbeaten is. Then Lotus scepter the interrogation from his mind.:1

forge edicts to reduce the power of Loc'ria over the city, without them noticing, and pass laws to allow you to punish the dirty lawmen and officials of the city, replacing them with men and women loyal to you.:3

total votes:20

So Lieren will simply ask who owns his brother, and make an excuse to travel there, while having his beggar sect spread to the slums of other cities, while inducting the rare virtuous and benevolent noble of Loc'ea to it, and trusting his freed gladiators to spread it to other fighters in the arena

Writing now

One good thing about being forced to maintain a family member's garden, is I met their new puppy, who was a real playful boy who actually helped cheer me up through a rousing game of chase.

Said pup was described as "Real mean and tough" which was a bold faced lie, considering the boy was immediately friendly

>>5349784
kek Incredible,
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