@o-louth said in House of Morning - Pcs:

@miasma @Gloomy_Sunday @Cpt-Elrad

Honored Squires of Morning,
To ensure our discussions move forward at a brisk pace, I pen this missive to summarize the latest discussions between myself and Dawnbringer Koeseph.

Beyond the already proposed agreement regarding the beholders and the wild walker monster army, the following topics were discussed:

The House of Morning gets:

• Legal rights to hunt necromancers within the entire kingdom, similar to the current "charter" of the Precepts regarding their strays.
• Protection against Heresy: The Church of Morning is fully recognised as the one true faith of Lathander in the entire Kingdom, and any heretical attempts to state otherwise, will be made illegal
• Dawnknights and above are given the right to enforce the laws of the land, outside Arabel
• The Crownguard and the House of Morning joins efforts to build a better arcane order, to replace the Precept Arcanum.

The Crownguard gets:

• Are allowed to enforce the Kings laws on Eveningstar soil, if done so by senior ranking members ((Rank 3 and above)), such as hunt rebels hiding within the forests, and similar actions to safeguard the entire realm. Any actions needed to be taken in Eveningstar village, may not be done without notifying and gaining permission from the House of Morning beforehand, and Crownguards must adhere to orders given by members of the House of Morning at any time.
• The House of Morning pledges its support to attempts to form a knightly order dedicated to all good faiths and the well being of the Kingdom itself. Deities could bebut not limited to Chauntea, Milil, Tymora, Torm. If Sir Myrkyr would find himself suitable to lead such a force or help train them, such would be a boon.

I shall await your response to these initial discussions, as I know Dawnbringer Koeseph may have taken a short leave of absence.

Respectfully
Sabriel Florent, on behalf of the Crownguard

Copies are handed to members of the Crownguard for reference

Her response

-Koeseph

Sacked off the idea of us giving them any gold for anything.

She basically wants two things long term:

*Higher ranking Crown Guards, to conduct their investigations inside Eveningstar lands (with various rules to ensure they recognize the church authority. Prehaps they can pay a stipend to the church for this? Happy to make a few gold coins out of them, they're all nobles after all.

*The establishment of a goodly order of Knights within the city - I said this would work if Lathander was the leading faith of the collective and we set the rules.

Keen to work with us to remove the Precept and install us as a similar authority
Keen to work with us to purge Tilverton
Keen to allow us "legal" bullshit over necromancers.

I'll be honest I am not bothered about much legality on paper, so I am not best placed to lead such discussions. If someone crosses the faith then they are purged by Lathander's glorious light.

-Koeseph

The Precept have yet to investigate their "half" of the thing - made them aware of what issues we have had, don't want any good men and women there to get into any problems.

I will have another word on who or what the Blue Eyed Man is and see if it's linked to anything else we have on file.

-Koeseph.

@o-louth said in House of Morning - Pcs:

@Gloomy_Sunday @miasma

To the representatives of the House of Morning,
As we have been unable to meet one another, I imagine you are out chasing dragons and saving damsels, I pen this missive, to push forward your war efforts against the Wilderness War host. Notify me of any changes, and have it signed and delivered to the Crown. I have asked Bob, my steadfast courier, to await your penmanship and return it to Arabel post haste. Do not give him any more gold, he shall only become greedy.

-Sabriel Florent

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The House of Morning calls to war against the druidic war host, and to support it vassal, the Crown shall answer.
The House of Morning shall:

• Bring to the field a fighting force, that if supplemented by Crown Forces, shall have the necessary strength and numbers to meet the War Host of the Wild Walkers, currently keeping the beholder hive at bay.
• The House of Morning pledges, that when the initial campaign has been won, it shall of its own pocket ensure a blockage, in numbers and strength capable of keeping the beholders from spilling out
• The House of Morning shall also pledge that its war host shall be capable in strength and numbers to meet and match the evil beholders and whatever else is lurking within the caverns.

The Crown shall:

• Supply the necessary numbers, that when combined with the forces from the House of Morning, shall be able to vanquish the Druid war host.
• It shall also supply specialist forces from the Crownguard, to assist in the following battles against the beholder hive.
• In following engagements with the beholder hive, the Crown shall offer what forces it can, to ensure a swift victory to appease the Gods and men alike.

Both parties:

• Both parties shall do their best to offer mercy to those druids they will have to fight, when they engage the war host. Any druids who either surrender, survive or are captured, shall be placed in Crown custody, and the Crown shall hold authority to broker peace with the remaining druids, to ensure that war does not spill into the entirety of the kingdom.
• Land, wealth, and general bounty shall be divided in equal measure, to pay restitution from the war efforts. Such discussions shall be held after the campaign has been won.
• Should the House of Morning fail to supply the necessary forces to replace the current blockage, it shall pay restitutive damages to the Crown, in a manner discussed between both parties behind closed doors.
  *This clause will be void, should it be the will of Tempus, and not the lack of numbers, that lead to a potential defeat.

A lot of fluff and no real backbone, could have been a one liner saying "give us a hand against some monsters"

Will have a word with them and see what they want, will spell out some steps we want to take forward too

• Koeseph

Bollocks to her then, she comes swanning in here I’ll cut her head off myself

• Koeseph

Why does she care / is so interesting in our visitor?

• Koeseph

@jergal_bones said in The Voice of the Sepulcher:

The eyes stir! The Wild ones growl! Blood taints the ground. The Sepulcher rises. The eyes will be shut, this the Sepulcher demands.

Do not interfere.

Praise Jergal.

A few proclamations have been found littered about, will do some digging to see about the details.

• Koeseph

A woman, Fey, made a sending for a member of the Precept the tiefling Pilotess about something she had found and didn’t want to bring into the city

Went and had a look out of interest, it turns out she was infected with a parasite / larve thing with a human face that pulled itself out of her mouth.

She then went off back to the Forest of Eyes where she found it, jabbering about “hosts and vessels” and a blue eyed man that was meant to be dead but isn’t.

Somehow linked with the Beholder woman? No idea - I will have a word with her if she survived the trip.

I got the bottom half of it, the Precept got the half with the face, if anyone wants a look.

• Koeseph

[Half a large larve creature is left in a bloody leather bag]

@Man-in-the-Mist

While long term we need to look at establishing ourselves fully within Arabel we should also look closer to home, taking smaller steps to expand our reach.

Hullack -

Push into the woodland, cutting back the forest and driving out whatever villainy resides there (lycanthropes and shit like that)

Eveningstar -

Expand our boarders absorbing smaller surrounding hamlets and opening up the faith to them.

Establish an institution which rivals the Precept, a place where we control, manage and police magical use and activity - we cannot trust others to manage this.

Tilverton -

Duke Misrim and his Church of Cyricists. Show his people there is a better path in the light than the dark. What does this church offer his people that we cannot, and how do we sway them other than marching in there and purging the lot of them.

Ruins Below Arabel -

A plethora of religious information under the city, relating to both the faith and its previous iterations. This should be dubbed a holy site and taken under control of the Church.

@gloomy_sunday

I met with the chap and he basically just mentioned necromancers, a swamp and a dead god.

Assume we will arrange to venture out with him on his next jaunt tracking the creatures, will again reiterate that we will keep anything we find.

• Koeseph