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Kirkbride: /* Practice (Ossium) */

2026-09-09T23:32:25Z

Practice (Ossium)

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	There have been several reports of a gang of cunning bandits making use of some strange tactics over the past season. Apparently, a few of them lie on the ground, pretending to be injured, whilst the others beg passersby for help. Then, when their targets are nearby with their guard down, the bandits strike. Gutting the nearest and causing chaos. They've not ''killed'' anyone... yet. But at one point this ploy is going to go wrong. They have stolen, and apparently spent, a lot of wealth over the last three months; mostly targeting the workers of the [[Vale of the Sunless Depths]]. The magistrates have asked the incumbent Custodian of the Sunless Depths, '''Arkady Morazovich''', to spring the trap and kill the bandits.		There have been several reports of a gang of cunning bandits making use of some strange tactics over the past season. Apparently, a few of them lie on the ground, pretending to be injured, whilst the others beg passersby for help. Then, when their targets are nearby with their guard down, the bandits strike. Gutting the nearest and causing chaos. They've not ''killed'' anyone... yet. But at one point this ploy is going to go wrong. They have stolen, and apparently spent, a lot of wealth over the last three months; mostly targeting the workers of the [[Vale of the Sunless Depths]]. The magistrates have asked the incumbent Custodian of the Sunless Depths, '''Arkady Morazovich''', to spring the trap and kill the bandits.

	If successful, the grateful workers will provide two wains of mithril ~~the~~ '''Arkady Morazovich''' after the Autumn Equinox.		If successful, the grateful workers will provide two wains of mithril to '''Arkady Morazovich''' after the Autumn Equinox.

	==Further Reading==		==Further Reading==

Kirkbride: /* The Place That Was Not (Conjunction) */

2026-09-09T23:30:48Z

The Place That Was Not (Conjunction)

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 There is no suggestion that the enchantment is in any way illegal, it's not a crime to annoy the Thule. The [[Conclave]] could choose to [[endorsement|endorse]] the casting of the enchantment, which would ensure that the coven involved was shielded from any legal consequences. If that happens, the Thule would instead demand that the Conclave itself make amends for their losses.
-==The Place That Was Not (Conjunction) ==
+==Conjunctions==
 * '''A band of Mirk Lizards are attempting to establish a camp in the Semmerlak'''
 * '''This skirmish is a [[Accessibility#Combat_Highly_Likely|combat highly likely]] encounter'''
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 ==Further Reading==

Vsabo: /* The Place That Was Not (Conjunction) */

2026-09-09T14:28:24Z

The Place That Was Not (Conjunction)

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	* '''''Romand Reinetova Remislav'' is [[Sentinel_Gate#Prognostication\|responsible]] for killing the Mirk Lizards'''		* '''''Romand Reinetova Remislav'' is [[Sentinel_Gate#Prognostication\|responsible]] for killing the Mirk Lizards'''
	{{AgainstBarbarians}}		{{AgainstBarbarians}}
	It is the wettest night of the summer when a thing with the shape of a person slides out of the Semmerlak and makes itself known to a cabalist in Moresvah. Its fellow servants of [[Dho'uala\|Undertow]] have apparently been conversing with a band from the Mallum who have sailed up the ~~nameless river~~, across the Barren Sea, and now make their way upriver towards the Semmerlak. Later reports from the river patrols identify the band as Mirk Lizards, and that they have landed on an island in the Semmerlak and are preparing to establish a camp there.		It is the wettest night of the summer when a thing with the shape of a person slides out of the Semmerlak and makes itself known to a cabalist in Moresvah. Its fellow servants of [[Dho'uala\|Undertow]] have apparently been conversing with a band from the Mallum who have sailed up the Nameless River, across the Barren Sea, and now make their way upriver towards the Semmerlak. Later reports from the river patrols identify the band as Mirk Lizards, and that they have landed on an island in the Semmerlak and are preparing to establish a camp there.

	'''Romand Reinetova Remislav''', as the incumbent [[Watcher of the Semmerlak]], has been tasked with killing the Mirk Lizards before they can pose a threat to Imperial citizens. If unsuccessful, the Mirk Lizards will no doubt become a thorn in the side of those who make their homes on the shores of the Semmerlak.		'''Romand Reinetova Remislav''', as the incumbent [[Watcher of the Semmerlak]], has been tasked with killing the Mirk Lizards before they can pose a threat to Imperial citizens. If unsuccessful, the Mirk Lizards will no doubt become a thorn in the side of those who make their homes on the shores of the Semmerlak.

Vsabo: /* The Dark Power Problem */

2026-09-09T14:24:27Z

The Dark Power Problem

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	Rituals that create territory-wide effects - enchantments and curses alike - always do certain things. They might also do additional things depending on the circumstances in the territory where they are cast, but the effects are unpredictable. There are [[Varushkan Monster\|monsters]] in Varushka, and while they are not an omnipresent threat by any means they are certainly not tamed. Any large-scale magic that targets a Varushkan territory will impact not only the Thule - who can at least be reasoned with - but also the wolves, sovereigns and other entities that lurk in those territories, who cannot.		Rituals that create territory-wide effects - enchantments and curses alike - always do certain things. They might also do additional things depending on the circumstances in the territory where they are cast, but the effects are unpredictable. There are [[Varushkan Monster\|monsters]] in Varushka, and while they are not an omnipresent threat by any means they are certainly not tamed. Any large-scale magic that targets a Varushkan territory will impact not only the Thule - who can at least be reasoned with - but also the wolves, sovereigns and other entities that lurk in those territories, who cannot.

	Imperial ~~Enchantments~~ by contrast are rarely focused enough to have a significant impact on the sovereigns of Varushka or their creatures. Yet even here there is a little bit of risk. An Imperial curse that made the dead walk for example could easily create significantly more problems in Varushka.		Imperial enchantments by contrast are rarely focused enough to have a significant impact on the sovereigns of Varushka or their creatures. Yet even here there is a little bit of risk. An Imperial curse that made the dead walk for example could easily create significantly more problems in Varushka.

	Before anyone asks, it isn't possible to make an arcane projection that targets a territory but circumvents this problem. The only way to avoid or mitigate the problem is to create the arcane projection ''carefully'' and give thought to what its effects, and especially roleplaying effects, might do to a monster.		Before anyone asks, it isn't possible to make an arcane projection that targets a territory but circumvents this problem. The only way to avoid or mitigate the problem is to create the arcane projection ''carefully'' and give thought to what its effects, and especially roleplaying effects, might do to a monster.

Vsabo: /* Stranger on the Road */

2026-09-09T14:21:06Z

Stranger on the Road

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	It is the only dark power of Varushka that can travel by the roads, but when it does so it is bound to harm none and present only a pleasing face. It cannot hurt anyone who travels with it - and they often do not realise the horror that walks alongside them - unless they somehow invite it to do so. It is an echo of this essence that causes the mora to act as if they are simple travellers until someone breaches the bonds of hospitality, that let the trudnik masquerade as innocent draughir until their hosts or guests gave them the opening to attack. What it can do, however, is use words as weapons. It can poison those who listen to it tell its tales or offer its friendly advice, and if they accept its twisted words and act on them, it lures them into its service. The worst of its servitors are those that look to all eyes as if they are just normal folk, but whose spirits and minds are rotten and twisted. The wolves who are "hairy on the inside" - who stab their friends in the back, hack their parents with axes without warning, poison a meal for no reason. Not all random acts of inexplicable cruelty and violence are the doing of the Stranger, but many are.		It is the only dark power of Varushka that can travel by the roads, but when it does so it is bound to harm none and present only a pleasing face. It cannot hurt anyone who travels with it - and they often do not realise the horror that walks alongside them - unless they somehow invite it to do so. It is an echo of this essence that causes the mora to act as if they are simple travellers until someone breaches the bonds of hospitality, that let the trudnik masquerade as innocent draughir until their hosts or guests gave them the opening to attack. What it can do, however, is use words as weapons. It can poison those who listen to it tell its tales or offer its friendly advice, and if they accept its twisted words and act on them, it lures them into its service. The worst of its servitors are those that look to all eyes as if they are just normal folk, but whose spirits and minds are rotten and twisted. The wolves who are "hairy on the inside" - who stab their friends in the back, hack their parents with axes without warning, poison a meal for no reason. Not all random acts of inexplicable cruelty and violence are the doing of the Stranger, but many are.

	Uncanny Companion can be bargained with, and as long as it is in its fair seeming its boons may be dangerous but they will be true. If it is ''not'' in its fair seeming form, then the boons it offers are curses that will drag those who accept them to their doom. The problem is that it is often not possible to tell simply by looking at it whether it is truly fair or just pretending to be. One of its strangest elements is that it tells the truth. When it is wearing its friendly seeming it never lies, but it allows people to deceive themselves by interpreting its words the way they want to. Always and always, it works to corrode trust. To make people suspicious of strangers who could be their friends, to drive wedges between loyal companions, to sow distrust of honest merchants and virtuous folk.		''Uncanny Companion'' can be bargained with, and as long as it is in its fair seeming its boons may be dangerous but they will be true. If it is ''not'' in its fair seeming form, then the boons it offers are curses that will drag those who accept them to their doom. The problem is that it is often not possible to tell simply by looking at it whether it is truly fair or just pretending to be. One of its strangest elements is that it tells the truth. When it is wearing its friendly seeming it never lies, but it allows people to deceive themselves by interpreting its words the way they want to. Always and always, it works to corrode trust. To make people suspicious of strangers who could be their friends, to drive wedges between loyal companions, to sow distrust of honest merchants and virtuous folk.

	The hounds and the geese whisper one last secret - it is the roads of Varushka that are its domain even though paradoxically it cannot directly harm anyone who uses them. The roads promise safety, but that safety is constrained by rules, and it is this tension that grants the Stranger and its servants their power.		The hounds and the geese whisper one last secret - it is the roads of Varushka that are its domain even though paradoxically it cannot directly harm anyone who uses them. The roads promise safety, but that safety is constrained by rules, and it is this tension that grants the Stranger and its servants their power.

Vsabo: /* The Dubik */

2026-09-09T13:54:19Z

The Dubik

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	The magical creatures whisper a secret to those able to listen - ''the'' Dubik, which is also called ''Odech the Wanderer'', ''That Which Walks Among the Boughs'', the ''Death of Grass'', ''Thorn-that-thirsts'', ''Venomroot'', ''Ghost-of-the-Dead-Forest'', ''Thornroots'', ''Bloody Rose'', ''Death-that-waits'', ''Moontree'', and ''Summer's Bane'' among others - has returned to Varushka. The Dubik, the progenitor of the creatures that share its name, always appears as a creature of wood and leaf, but it is actually a bodiless spirit that can move as a wind. Sometimes it slumbers, like a tree in Winter, but when it wakes it follows a pattern. It finds a plant - usually a tree - one that has stood proud and strong for many years - and it leeches the life from it, possessing it, transforming it into a vessel for its vile consciousness. It cannot move - not without outside assistance - but it squats somewhere in some out of the way place and it waits. It births dubik, who go out into the world to seek the blood of the living. Sometimes it draws to it those poisoned by hate, or jealousy, or bitterness. It stings them with its thorns, and a little of its malice takes root within their spirits and slowly spreads through them, granting them boons but ultimately turning them into living tools of its spiteful design. It also creates other servants - it can use a fraction of its essence to craft servants from plants that died of poison and send them out to bring ruin and misery.		The magical creatures whisper a secret to those able to listen - ''the'' Dubik, which is also called ''Odech the Wanderer'', ''That Which Walks Among the Boughs'', the ''Death of Grass'', ''Thorn-that-thirsts'', ''Venomroot'', ''Ghost-of-the-Dead-Forest'', ''Thornroots'', ''Bloody Rose'', ''Death-that-waits'', ''Moontree'', and ''Summer's Bane'' among others - has returned to Varushka. The Dubik, the progenitor of the creatures that share its name, always appears as a creature of wood and leaf, but it is actually a bodiless spirit that can move as a wind. Sometimes it slumbers, like a tree in Winter, but when it wakes it follows a pattern. It finds a plant - usually a tree - one that has stood proud and strong for many years - and it leeches the life from it, possessing it, transforming it into a vessel for its vile consciousness. It cannot move - not without outside assistance - but it squats somewhere in some out of the way place and it waits. It births dubik, who go out into the world to seek the blood of the living. Sometimes it draws to it those poisoned by hate, or jealousy, or bitterness. It stings them with its thorns, and a little of its malice takes root within their spirits and slowly spreads through them, granting them boons but ultimately turning them into living tools of its spiteful design. It also creates other servants - it can use a fraction of its essence to craft servants from plants that died of poison and send them out to bring ruin and misery.

	Finding Odech the Wanderer is a daunting task. The sparrows sing that it is ''one tree in a forest'', that there is something in its essential nature that allows it to hide as long as it is surrounded by living plants. Magic will not find it - and the squirrels whisper that [[Zoria]] herself could not find its location with her [[divination\|divinations]], no matter how long she looked. She wondered if perhaps the true secret of ''Thorn-that-thirsts'' is that it is the ghost of a dead [[weirwood]] tree, and that it enjoys all the protections that a living tree might have.		Finding ''Odech the Wanderer'' is a daunting task. The sparrows sing that it is ''one tree in a forest'', that there is something in its essential nature that allows it to hide as long as it is surrounded by living plants. Magic will not find it - and the squirrels whisper that [[Zoria]] herself could not find its location with her [[divination\|divinations]], no matter how long she looked. She wondered if perhaps the true secret of ''Thorn-that-thirsts'' is that it is the ghost of a dead [[weirwood]] tree, and that it enjoys all the protections that a living tree might have.

	Even if it is found, like any sovereign it probably cannot be destroyed while Varushka persists. Its body can be destroyed, but that frees it to move as a spirit and find a new host to poison and inhabit, and the only thing one can say with certainty is that host will be far, far away from where the last one died. The only good news is that after it moves as spirit, it inevitably slips into slumber. Indeed, say the little birds and the ivory squirrels in the dreams of the wise, it has slept away the last few years in the [[Tolvoli_Butcher#Tolvoli_Slaughterhouse_and_the_Heart_of_the_Tempest\|Heart of the Tempest]], and called its children around it. Now though, it has awoken again and the enchantment on Ossium has drawn it to that place to take up its new body and begin the new season of its cycle of misery.		Even if it is found, like any sovereign it probably cannot be destroyed while Varushka persists. Its body can be destroyed, but that frees it to move as a spirit and find a new host to poison and inhabit, and the only thing one can say with certainty is that host will be far, far away from where the last one died. The only good news is that after it moves as spirit, it inevitably slips into slumber. Indeed, say the little birds and the ivory squirrels in the dreams of the wise, it has slept away the last few years in the [[Tolvoli_Butcher#Tolvoli_Slaughterhouse_and_the_Heart_of_the_Tempest\|Heart of the Tempest]], and called its children around it. Now though, it has awoken again and the enchantment on Ossium has drawn it to that place to take up its new body and begin the new season of its cycle of misery.

Vsabo: /* The Dubik */

2026-09-09T13:50:51Z

The Dubik

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	Those [[dedication\|dedicated]] to Wisdom, especially those who have made a pilgrimage to the [[Guardian_of_the_Maze_of_Zoria#The_Maze_of_Zoria\|Maze of Zoria]], report dream encounters with white-pelted squirrels and small pale-feathered birds crowned with crimson that provide an unpleasant explanation as to why [[#Shadow Garden\|dubik are spreading across Ossium]].		Those [[dedication\|dedicated]] to Wisdom, especially those who have made a pilgrimage to the [[Guardian_of_the_Maze_of_Zoria#The_Maze_of_Zoria\|Maze of Zoria]], report dream encounters with white-pelted squirrels and small pale-feathered birds crowned with crimson that provide an unpleasant explanation as to why [[#Shadow Garden\|dubik are spreading across Ossium]].

	The magical creatures whisper a secret to those able to listen - ''the'' Dubik, which is also called ''Odech the Wanderer'', ''That Which Walks Among the Boughs'', the ''Death of Grass'', ''Thorn-that-thirsts'', ''Venomroot'', ''Ghost-of-the-Dead-Forest'', ''Thornroots'', ''Bloody Rose'', ''Death-that-waits'', ''Moontree'', and ''Summer's Bane'' among others - has returned to Varushka. The Dubik, the progenitor of the creatures that share its name, always appears as a creature of wood and leaf, but it is actually a bodiless spirit that can move as a wind. Sometimes it slumbers, like a tree in Winter, but when it wakes it follows a pattern, It finds a plant - usually a tree - one that has stood proud and strong for many years - and it leeches the life from it, possessing it, transforming it into a vessel for its vile consciousness. It cannot move - not without outside assistance - but it squats somewhere in some out of the way place and it waits. It births dubik, who go out into the world to seek the blood of the living. Sometimes it draws to it those poisoned by hate, or jealousy, or bitterness. It stings them with its thorns, and a little of its malice takes root within their spirits and slowly spreads through them, granting them boons but ultimately turning them into living tools of its spiteful design. It also creates other servants - it can use a fraction of its essence to craft servants from plants that died of poison and send them out to bring ruin and misery.		The magical creatures whisper a secret to those able to listen - ''the'' Dubik, which is also called ''Odech the Wanderer'', ''That Which Walks Among the Boughs'', the ''Death of Grass'', ''Thorn-that-thirsts'', ''Venomroot'', ''Ghost-of-the-Dead-Forest'', ''Thornroots'', ''Bloody Rose'', ''Death-that-waits'', ''Moontree'', and ''Summer's Bane'' among others - has returned to Varushka. The Dubik, the progenitor of the creatures that share its name, always appears as a creature of wood and leaf, but it is actually a bodiless spirit that can move as a wind. Sometimes it slumbers, like a tree in Winter, but when it wakes it follows a pattern. It finds a plant - usually a tree - one that has stood proud and strong for many years - and it leeches the life from it, possessing it, transforming it into a vessel for its vile consciousness. It cannot move - not without outside assistance - but it squats somewhere in some out of the way place and it waits. It births dubik, who go out into the world to seek the blood of the living. Sometimes it draws to it those poisoned by hate, or jealousy, or bitterness. It stings them with its thorns, and a little of its malice takes root within their spirits and slowly spreads through them, granting them boons but ultimately turning them into living tools of its spiteful design. It also creates other servants - it can use a fraction of its essence to craft servants from plants that died of poison and send them out to bring ruin and misery.

	Finding Odech the Wanderer is a daunting task. The sparrows sing that it is ''one tree in a forest'', that there is something in its essential nature that allows it to hide as long as it is surrounded by living plants. Magic will not find it - and the squirrels whisper that [[Zoria]] herself could not find its location with her [[divination\|divinations]], no matter how long she looked. She wondered if perhaps the true secret of ''Thorn-that-thirsts'' is that it is the ghost of a dead [[weirwood]] tree, and that it enjoys all the protections that a living tree might have.		Finding Odech the Wanderer is a daunting task. The sparrows sing that it is ''one tree in a forest'', that there is something in its essential nature that allows it to hide as long as it is surrounded by living plants. Magic will not find it - and the squirrels whisper that [[Zoria]] herself could not find its location with her [[divination\|divinations]], no matter how long she looked. She wondered if perhaps the true secret of ''Thorn-that-thirsts'' is that it is the ghost of a dead [[weirwood]] tree, and that it enjoys all the protections that a living tree might have.
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	There is more of course - the Dubik is said to have been the creator of the Crown of the Dark Forest, or at least arranged for it to come into Varushkan hands - but those stories are for another time. For now it is enough to know that the Dubik is awake, and it is somewhere in Ossium.		There is more of course - the Dubik is said to have been the creator of the Crown of the Dark Forest, or at least arranged for it to come into Varushkan hands - but those stories are for another time. For now it is enough to know that the Dubik is awake, and it is somewhere in Ossium.

	===Stranger on the Road===		===Stranger on the Road===
	{{CaptionedImage\|file=mora.jpeg\|caption=Take care when fighting monsters, lest you become a monster yourself.\|align=right\|width=400}}		{{CaptionedImage\|file=mora.jpeg\|caption=Take care when fighting monsters, lest you become a monster yourself.\|align=right\|width=400}}

Vsabo: /* Bloody Harvest */

2026-09-09T13:48:48Z

Bloody Harvest

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	Unfortunately, focusing the dubik in the territory into areas of naturally high industry, will also result in damage to [[Ossium#Kurstrozi's_Lumbermill\|Kurstrozi's Lumbermill]], the [[great work]] that provides a significant boost to the production of Ossium's forests. Until the start of the Autumn Equinox 389YE the lumbermill will not provide any measures to forests - instead each one will receive either a ''blackblood thorn'' or some ''bloodvine liquor'' as they continue to experience problems with the dubik. Causing trouble for the Lumbermill could have other impacts as well - [[Come_together#Where_It_Comes\|there are plans to make use of the Lumbermill]] which could ''not'' be pursued while it was plagued with dubik.		Unfortunately, focusing the dubik in the territory into areas of naturally high industry, will also result in damage to [[Ossium#Kurstrozi's_Lumbermill\|Kurstrozi's Lumbermill]], the [[great work]] that provides a significant boost to the production of Ossium's forests. Until the start of the Autumn Equinox 389YE the lumbermill will not provide any measures to forests - instead each one will receive either a ''blackblood thorn'' or some ''bloodvine liquor'' as they continue to experience problems with the dubik. Causing trouble for the Lumbermill could have other impacts as well - [[Come_together#Where_It_Comes\|there are plans to make use of the Lumbermill]] which could ''not'' be pursued while it was plagued with dubik.

	The civil service cannot provide accurate numbers easily but they estimate that between Varushka and Navarr, there are at least a hundred individuals attending Anvil this summit who operate a forest. If fifty individuals receive ''Verdant Bounty of the Twilight Bayou'' it will be enough to drive the dubik into a frenzy, draw them away from forests that haven't been enchanted , and damage Kurstozi's Lumbermill.		The civil service cannot provide accurate numbers easily but they estimate that between Varushka and Navarr, there are at least a hundred individuals attending Anvil this summit who operate a forest. If fifty individuals receive ''Verdant Bounty of the Twilight Bayou'' it will be enough to drive the dubik into a frenzy, draw them away from forests that haven't been enchanted, and damage Kurstozi's Lumbermill.
	{{CaptionedImage\|file=Zoria.jpg\|caption=Paragon of [[Wisdom]], who commanded beasts to serve.\|align=right\|width=500}}		{{CaptionedImage\|file=Zoria.jpg\|caption=Paragon of [[Wisdom]], who commanded beasts to serve.\|align=right\|width=500}}

	==Dreams of Wisdom==		==Dreams of Wisdom==
	* '''Dedicates of Wisdom who have visited the Maze of Zoria may have experienced revelatory dreams'''		* '''Dedicates of Wisdom who have visited the Maze of Zoria may have experienced revelatory dreams'''

Vsabo: /* Blood on the Snow */

2026-09-09T13:33:19Z

Blood on the Snow

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	===Blood on the Snow===		===Blood on the Snow===
	* '''Agramant has registered approval of the enchantment'''		* '''Agramant has registered approval of the enchantment'''
	[[Agramant]] is not an eternal of the Night realm and has no business having any opinion at all on the enchantment settled over Ossium. However, he ''is'' included on some rosters of sovereigns and it seems that makes him feel he can express his enthusiastic support for the magic that has been worked here. The servant (its not clear if ~~its~~ a herald or not) that delivers the message has to shout it at the walls of [[Ossium#Kostjyas_Respite\|Kostjyas Respite]] while cheerfully dodging arrows. The message amounts to "''Voice of the Pines, He-who-calls-the-lost-to-feast, heartily approves of this ritual because people who get lost in the woods of Varushka either gain wisdom or provide a meal for someone stronger than they are.''" The herald goes on to request that the next such casting take place so that it will affect the Winter months when many predators risk going hungry, and if possible use Winter magic so that ''Blood-on-the-Snow'' can have as much fun as his fellow sovereigns.		[[Agramant]] is not an eternal of the Night realm and has no business having any opinion at all on the enchantment settled over Ossium. However, he ''is'' included on some rosters of sovereigns and it seems that makes him feel he can express his enthusiastic support for the magic that has been worked here. The servant (its not clear if it's a herald or not) that delivers the message has to shout it at the walls of [[Ossium#Kostjyas_Respite\|Kostjyas Respite]] while cheerfully dodging arrows. The message amounts to "''Voice of the Pines, He-who-calls-the-lost-to-feast, heartily approves of this ritual because people who get lost in the woods of Varushka either gain wisdom or provide a meal for someone stronger than they are.''" The herald goes on to request that the next such casting take place so that it will affect the Winter months when many predators risk going hungry, and if possible use Winter magic so that ''Blood-on-the-Snow'' can have as much fun as his fellow sovereigns.
	{{CaptionedImage\|file=Varushkan Monsters.jpg\|caption=There are monsters in Varushka, and that includes Ossium.\|align=left\|width=275}}		{{CaptionedImage\|file=Varushkan Monsters.jpg\|caption=There are monsters in Varushka, and that includes Ossium.\|align=left\|width=275}}
	Message delivered, the messenger disappears into the darkness. There is no way of telling if this was a herald that had defied the Conclave's enmity (very unlikely indeed), a human servant of Agramant (possible), or someone with no connection to Blood-on-the-Snow trying to stir up trouble.		Message delivered, the messenger disappears into the darkness. There is no way of telling if this was a herald that had defied the Conclave's enmity (very unlikely indeed), a human servant of Agramant (possible), or someone with no connection to Blood-on-the-Snow trying to stir up trouble.

Vsabo: /* Forgotten Garrison */

2026-09-09T13:26:41Z

Forgotten Garrison

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	They don't ''think'' it will damage the Towers themselves - they are physically present after all - but it's not impossible there may be some damage given their origin. But without this kind of dramatic action the only thing to do will be to wait for the cobwebs to fade and there's no indication they are going to do so by themselves.		They don't ''think'' it will damage the Towers themselves - they are physically present after all - but it's not impossible there may be some damage given their origin. But without this kind of dramatic action the only thing to do will be to wait for the cobwebs to fade and there's no indication they are going to do so by themselves.

	The garrison of the Towers of Zulgan Tash is currently zero, and it will not start recovering until the curse is removed. At that point it will receive natural resupply, which can be ~~speeded~~ up by any of the usual means ([[mithril]] or an enchantment such as [[Bells of Silver and Brass]]). The problem isn't that the garrison is dead - it's that they have mostly forgotten they ''are'' a garrison and it will take time or magic to round them back up and treat the damage to their memories the spiders have inflicted.		The garrison of the Towers of Zulgan Tash is currently zero, and it will not start recovering until the curse is removed. At that point it will receive natural resupply, which can be sped up by any of the usual means ([[mithril]] or an enchantment such as [[Bells of Silver and Brass]]). The problem isn't that the garrison is dead - it's that they have mostly forgotten they ''are'' a garrison and it will take time or magic to round them back up and treat the damage to their memories the spiders have inflicted.
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