PCIHenry wrote:
Southernskies wrote:
Uh oh. Time to find somewhere to hide.
I don't know. Even if you were
invisible, they'd find you.
Uhh ... Tukufu can claim to have bomb shelters in different cities. That was an add on for a kickstarter somewhere wasn't it? Useful item?
PCIHenry wrote:
Since a soul is needed as a catalyst to create intelligent undead and the souls of these legionnaires have presumably gone on to either the Cauldron or the Paradise of the Gods long ago, how did they rise to take up arms against the Empire? Was it the curse of the Gods for the disrespect shown to Them by the Mad Emperor as many say, or was something else at play?
I'll give you a hint - something else was at play.
What? WHATS THAT YOU SAY? The common story retold is not the Gods truth in Arcanis!?! Sir I am shocked. Just shocked you would imply such an impiety. And us all on a public forum...
Well, more seriously that's a genuinely interesting tidbit. Not sure how that puzzle piece fits into anything. I see a couple of options after ruminating on this but none of them immediately say "THIS" to me:
Option #1:
Vault is really right and somehow they were undead all along but only became active after being "insulted." Solves the "soul mystery", but doesn't explain where they are and what they were doing. Or how they (must have) lost their standard. Or how they knew about what was happening in Coryani. I don't like Option 1 without a lot more data.
Option #2: Something big went down that raised them. In Eldest Sons we have the example of the lost val'Ossan navy that was turned into lacedons by the Kurenthe Curse in Seremas Harbor. The second worst thing to ever happen to Seremas. If so, we're necessarily talking about something as big as the Kurenthe Curse and you would THINK it would have been noticed.
"Hey dude, did see the mountain that blew up last night? No brah, was too busy watching the sky weep green fire." Also super duper strange that it happens almost *exactly* at the same time that Quron val'Dellenov is insulting them/their standard. I don't like this option either without a lot more data.
Option #3: Based on prophesy, or forewarning of some kind, or just standard operating procedure the Legion of the Black Sun went into hibernation somewhere in Ufilia either as undead or with the intention to rise as undead. The conditions to reactivate were triggered when their standard got "looted" from their secret "hibernation pod" but they don't reactivate fast enough to catch the looter and only learn about where the standard is later when everyone talks about what the Mad Emperor did. This is thin but at least it doesn't need a lot more
*something* to fill in giant holes that seem like deal breakers. It does beg the question of why they are hibernating? Are they on some kind of eternal guard duty and only check on things once a decade? (What are they guarding against?) Or did they know in advance they would be needed at some point to confront something. (And what is it?) Either would fit well with a bunch of OCD control freak obsessives... I do like this option. Doesn't mean its true but i see promise on this line of thought.
Option 4: Something I'm missing or something I don't have enough pieces yet to see ... always possible.