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Once it was called the Spire of Light, a palace, named after it's main feature a high spire that shone it's light all over the ocean, located on a coast with jagged cliffs. Once it protected ships from their doom in treacherous waters. Massive orchards surrounded these grounds, tended by untold numbers of mortals.
But it is no longer so. It's light no longer shines. Ships have crashed on it's jagged cliffs. The orchards have died, being replaced by neat rows of graves, the orchard of bones.
The Spire of Shadows is ruled by a Deathlord now, waited on by hundreds of ghosts, guarded by a veritable army. The forges that once provided shoes to horses, ring with the screams of souls being hammered into weapons. The Orchard of Bones being patrolled by abomination of bones and flesh.
She is The White Rose of the Abyss, her most common form that of a beautiful woman, still almost a child, with long flowing white hair. Dressed in simple white garments of morning, unadorned and modest. Her right arm is hidden beneath her clothes. For it is there she has one of the most feared weapons of the Underworld. The Heart-Rending Thorn, a beautiful and terrifying claw made of soulsteel, replacing her arm. Even the slightest touch able to cause searing pain to both living and dead. But it's true nature is that it is able to carve through souls without harming the surrounding flesh. And those she wounds like such, never are the same, for the White Rose of the Abyss holds a piece of them, binding them to her will, or slaying the outright.
Unlike the other Deathlords she doesn't gather massive armies, although hers is sufficient to defend herself. She doesn't hold millions of ghosts in thrall, forcing them to worship her, but the numbers that still do are quite impressive. She does have a network of people beholden to her, both living and dead
Her goals are as mysterious to the other Deathlords as they are to her own Abyssals and only the Neverborn might now what she is up to.
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Since I am starting this game mostly at the behest of a friend, I am going to give him preferential treatment.
I am also looking for one perfect circle of Abyssals.
Otherwise The White Rose of the Abyss does prefer subtlety, guile and intellect over direct confrontation, violence and blatant acts.
As for the location of the Spire of Shadows that's actually up to the players and open for discussions, so please give your preference here. Although it does have to be coastal in nature.
But it is no longer so. It's light no longer shines. Ships have crashed on it's jagged cliffs. The orchards have died, being replaced by neat rows of graves, the orchard of bones.
The Spire of Shadows is ruled by a Deathlord now, waited on by hundreds of ghosts, guarded by a veritable army. The forges that once provided shoes to horses, ring with the screams of souls being hammered into weapons. The Orchard of Bones being patrolled by abomination of bones and flesh.
She is The White Rose of the Abyss, her most common form that of a beautiful woman, still almost a child, with long flowing white hair. Dressed in simple white garments of morning, unadorned and modest. Her right arm is hidden beneath her clothes. For it is there she has one of the most feared weapons of the Underworld. The Heart-Rending Thorn, a beautiful and terrifying claw made of soulsteel, replacing her arm. Even the slightest touch able to cause searing pain to both living and dead. But it's true nature is that it is able to carve through souls without harming the surrounding flesh. And those she wounds like such, never are the same, for the White Rose of the Abyss holds a piece of them, binding them to her will, or slaying the outright.
Unlike the other Deathlords she doesn't gather massive armies, although hers is sufficient to defend herself. She doesn't hold millions of ghosts in thrall, forcing them to worship her, but the numbers that still do are quite impressive. She does have a network of people beholden to her, both living and dead
Her goals are as mysterious to the other Deathlords as they are to her own Abyssals and only the Neverborn might now what she is up to.
*****
Since I am starting this game mostly at the behest of a friend, I am going to give him preferential treatment.
I am also looking for one perfect circle of Abyssals.
Otherwise The White Rose of the Abyss does prefer subtlety, guile and intellect over direct confrontation, violence and blatant acts.
As for the location of the Spire of Shadows that's actually up to the players and open for discussions, so please give your preference here. Although it does have to be coastal in nature.
