Haku1
Ze Hamster of Lurkdom
Okay... I R ST.  :twisted:
And if you're a player in my Anathema! game, please read no further lest Gaia frown and declares "Firery Rocks Fall from the Heavens and EVERYONE dies.".
Spoiler bar aside...
Recently my players have done... something either incredible stupid or epic. Or possibly both.  :lol:
To date, my PCs are fearsome anathema, grown potent on essence harvested from the Sun. They have survived the Wyld Hunts that the Empress and the Immaculate Order called forth on their kind. It also helps that there are about 500 (minus their 5) solar anathema out there.
So catching word of a legion marshalling for soldiers, worthy heroes to deal with a circle of anathema up north, and their entralled followers, they struck first.
Using poison, stealth and foul magics... devastated a legion, captured a number of strange warstriders and converted the general of the legion (one Tepet Lissara) into an enslaved thrall with fearsome magics.
Deciding that they needed a base, they struck a deal with the Council of Entities in Nexus for ownership of the Wyld region in Fire-wander. And after a rather long and protracted struggle, they conquered it and returned it to Creation... while creating a race of mutants, dark elves they're called.
Next, they did a recruiting storm, and managed to get up an unsavory legion of mercenaries, as well as summoning up a few 2nd circle demons.
They headed up north... for the Empress and the Realm had pressed the attack against the circle of anathema up north and were successful in destroying their army and capturing said circle of anathema.
They figured that no one would think that ANOTHER circle of anathema would attack several victorious legions.
So, they laid seige to the city of Cherak, where the legions were canvassing and preparing to return to the Realm with their spoils of war and war equipment...
Needless to say, the battle was nice and epic... down to the failed assassination attempt made on Mela reincarnated (starry eyes version), before Mela got croaked when the bugger was facing a dawn, and Octavion (dematerialized) AND had a Night-caste do a fly-by beheading from behind.
More drama and stuff... including looting of the city and running off as Cherak explodes due to a cascading essence feed-back in the central manse of the city...
*boom*
So, how would The Scarlet Empress and the Realm react to this slap in the face? Especially given that the Solar anathema left behind survivors who've -seen- their faces and stuff.
Edit - Mind you, I've got at the very lest "Remember Cherak!" and such reactions, much like the US had their 9/11, Pearl Harbour, Lusitania reactions.
And if you're a player in my Anathema! game, please read no further lest Gaia frown and declares "Firery Rocks Fall from the Heavens and EVERYONE dies.".
Spoiler bar aside...
Recently my players have done... something either incredible stupid or epic. Or possibly both.  :lol:
To date, my PCs are fearsome anathema, grown potent on essence harvested from the Sun. They have survived the Wyld Hunts that the Empress and the Immaculate Order called forth on their kind. It also helps that there are about 500 (minus their 5) solar anathema out there.
So catching word of a legion marshalling for soldiers, worthy heroes to deal with a circle of anathema up north, and their entralled followers, they struck first.
Using poison, stealth and foul magics... devastated a legion, captured a number of strange warstriders and converted the general of the legion (one Tepet Lissara) into an enslaved thrall with fearsome magics.
Deciding that they needed a base, they struck a deal with the Council of Entities in Nexus for ownership of the Wyld region in Fire-wander. And after a rather long and protracted struggle, they conquered it and returned it to Creation... while creating a race of mutants, dark elves they're called.
Next, they did a recruiting storm, and managed to get up an unsavory legion of mercenaries, as well as summoning up a few 2nd circle demons.
They headed up north... for the Empress and the Realm had pressed the attack against the circle of anathema up north and were successful in destroying their army and capturing said circle of anathema.
They figured that no one would think that ANOTHER circle of anathema would attack several victorious legions.
So, they laid seige to the city of Cherak, where the legions were canvassing and preparing to return to the Realm with their spoils of war and war equipment...
Needless to say, the battle was nice and epic... down to the failed assassination attempt made on Mela reincarnated (starry eyes version), before Mela got croaked when the bugger was facing a dawn, and Octavion (dematerialized) AND had a Night-caste do a fly-by beheading from behind.
More drama and stuff... including looting of the city and running off as Cherak explodes due to a cascading essence feed-back in the central manse of the city...
*boom*
So, how would The Scarlet Empress and the Realm react to this slap in the face? Especially given that the Solar anathema left behind survivors who've -seen- their faces and stuff.
Edit - Mind you, I've got at the very lest "Remember Cherak!" and such reactions, much like the US had their 9/11, Pearl Harbour, Lusitania reactions.