fanguad
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Post by fanguad on May 20, 2017 11:02:48 GMT
Zerkova kidnapped an Iosan god, right? What's the name, and are there any other interesting details about that god?
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Post by welshhoppo on May 20, 2017 11:39:18 GMT
She captured Nyssor, the elven God of winter.
That God is the same one that forgave Goreshade and let him rejoin the elves.
She is also where the Nyss get their name from. Or the winter elves.
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Post by fanguad on May 20, 2017 11:55:09 GMT
Ah, so based on the blurb from the recent Ios models, she must have lost Nyssor recently.
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Post by welshhoppo on May 20, 2017 11:57:27 GMT
Yeah he was captured by Ossyian and Vyros back in mkII. It was a three way between Goreshade, Zerkova and the Iosians.
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Post by fanguad on May 20, 2017 12:30:16 GMT
Are the Iosan/Nyss gods known to appear in humanoid form? Is Nyssor male or female?
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Post by Netherby on May 20, 2017 13:57:19 GMT
Nyssor is male. The elf gods don't 'appear', they are trapped in the mortal world after they left the Veld or whatever it's called.
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Post by borderprince on May 20, 2017 15:04:53 GMT
Zerkova kidnapped an Iosan god, right? What's the name, and are there any other interesting details about that god? It's not as impressive as it sounds - Nyssor was in a large ice cube at the time and had already been captured by Cryx, after taking sanctuary with Cygnaran Morrowans in Khador while on the run from Everblight, if memory serves. It was more or less pass the divine parcel and Zerkova was next in line. Not so clear cut as that. There's a discussion about it on the PP IKRPG boards, with Doug Seacat chiming in as loremaster.
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Post by Rowdy Dragon on May 20, 2017 15:24:21 GMT
Ugh...It still feels unsettling. But the Elven Gods have been established as bad parents. So fo course a bad parent relents on a punishment when a kid "Feels Bad". The only good gods in the setting are the Dwarven gods and Marrow and Thamar. From The ultra abusing dad of menoth, to the Spoiling rotten Elven gods.
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Post by The Snark Knight on May 20, 2017 20:33:46 GMT
Ugh...It still feels unsettling. But the Elven Gods have been established as bad parents. So fo course a bad parent relents on a punishment when a kid "Feels Bad". The only good gods in the setting are the Dwarven gods and Marrow and Thamar. From The ultra abusing dad of menoth, to the Spoiling rotten Elven gods. This is why all of my RPG characters ever are basically Sisyphus. Nothing like exploiting the gods for fun and profit.
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Post by Netherby on May 21, 2017 6:23:32 GMT
Well, none of the Elf gods are particularly mobile these days. So capturing them isn't terribly difficult. As far as we know most of them are presumed dead at this point?
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Post by fanguad on May 21, 2017 15:07:27 GMT
Hmm, that's a bit more complex than I thought (I suppose I should have expected as much from fantasy lore-writers). So, here's why I am asking. I bought the Arkanaut Ironclad airship (GW mini, from their new steampunk dwarves faction) and am in the process of converting it to Khador (less dwarfy, more Khador anvils). Probably just as a scenery piece, but who knows. I thought I could dress it up as a greylord battle engine or something, powered by newly unearthed Orgoth artifacts, using an elven god for fuel. The big sphere on top of the ship could open and there could be a chained up elven god in there.
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Post by welshhoppo on May 21, 2017 15:21:33 GMT
Well, none of the Elf gods are particularly mobile these days. So capturing them isn't terribly difficult. As far as we know most of them are presumed dead at this point? I think it's only Scyrah and Nyssor left. And Scyrah is pretty much bed ridden and Will die in the next few decades.
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Post by The Snark Knight on May 21, 2017 15:24:01 GMT
Hmmm. I'd go Doom Reavers on a hamster wheel.
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Post by borderprince on May 21, 2017 15:27:14 GMT
SPOILERS from Devil in the Details after the quote. Hmm, that's a bit more complex than I thought (I suppose I should have expected as much from fantasy lore-writers). So, here's why I am asking. I bought the Arkanaut Ironclad airship (GW mini, from their new steampunk dwarves faction) and am in the process of converting it to Khador (less dwarfy, more Khador anvils). Probably just as a scenery piece, but who knows. I thought I could dress it up as a greylord battle engine or something, powered by newly unearthed Orgoth artifacts, using an elven god for fuel. The big sphere on top of the ship could open and there could be a chained up elven god in there. In Devil in the Details, the Black 13th infiltrate Khador to recover a Cygnaran engineer and his plans. For a workable flying machine which could apparently change the face of warfare in the Iron Kingdoms. Appropriate plot points and activities later, the B13 have worked out the captured engineer actually defected and was being retrieved by Strakhov.
The B13 kill the engineer, destroy the plans and force Strakohv to wear an eye patch, creating Strakhov2 (not sure why this means he switches to a mini-dress compared to his old uniform, but whatever).
That's canon.
But what if there were more plans, unknown to the B13?
So you might not need to Orgoth it up. Just IK/Khador it up as a development of the plans of the engineer. But given the interaction of magic and science in the IK, no reason Nyssor couldn't be the fuel. SPOILERS end.
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Post by Rowdy Dragon on May 21, 2017 19:40:25 GMT
SPOILERS from Devil in the Details after the quote. For the FIRST time ever, I actually LIKE Cygnar. That is AWESOME. That's INTERESTING. That's doing all the wrong morally black things for all the right reasons. THAT is a compelling good guy that could also be construed as bad.
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