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In Which Korvosans Rally & The Dead Envy The Living
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Aesocar, Andoletta, Angradd, Apsu, Arqueros, Damerrich, Easivra, Eldas, Erastil, Falayna, Folgrit, Ghenshau, Gruhastha, Grundinnar, Iomedae (again), Kelinahat, Kroina, Lymnieris, Myr, Neshen, Olheon, Osiris, Ragathiel, Shizuru, Smiad, Svarozic, Tanagaar, Torag, Tsukiyo, Vildeis, Wadjet, Winlas, Zohls, Aegirran, Arshea, Benorus, Bes, Bharnarol, Bolka, Chaldira, Chinostes (Good Aspect), Cihua Couatl, Dalenydra, Eritrice, Halcamora, Irez, Isis, Jaidi, Jaidz, Kazutal, Kelksiomides, Khepri (in before the alignment debate), Korada, Kurgess, Lorris, Lythertida, Mazludeh, Neith, Omrataji, Ondisso, Qi Zhong, Rowdrosh, Sarenrae, Seramaydiel, Shei, Shelyn, Shelyn again (apparently pre-Earthfall her favored weapon was a dagger? only difference that I see), Soralyon, Trudd, Upion and Warrik, Uskyeria, Ylimancha, Yuelral, Abadar, Alseta, Amaznen, Anubis, Aroden, Dranngvit, Erecura, Horus, Imbrex, Irori, Jerishall, Kerkamoth, Kols, Lissala, Maat, Magdh, Magrim, Matravash, Otolmens, Psomeira, Ra, Thoth, Valmallos.

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Getting a god's attention isn't necessarily easy - there's a requisite combination of state of mind/goals/knowing their name/knowing their nature, where having more of one substitutes for having less of the others - but if you @everyone, people do show up in the server. 

Even when everyone's busy, like they are today.

Huh.

That's a fairly interesting mortal. 

Would Otolmens like to explain this interesting mortal?

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Otolmens would LOVE to explain this interesting mortal.

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Somehow there's no one within a step of LG with the budgetary slack today to spare a divine intervention on falsifying Altronus's alignment and following it up by enpaladining someone who would predictably probably fall. 

It'd be easier and cheaper to change his alignment by transforming him into a Good person, but they aren't going to do that, either, because it wouldn't be easy or cheap (or, one presumes, appreciated).

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Shucks. I don't know if anyone even heard me, and there's no one left to try.

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Oh, well, technically,

Source Distant Shores pg. 23
Category Basic (Faith)
The faith of Holomog focuses on finding the good in unusual places and appreciating the nuances of virtue in the world. You may treat Asmodeus as if he were a lawful neutral deity for the purposes of determining your own alignment as a cleric, inquisitor, or other divine spellcaster. You may not select the evil domain unless your own alignment also contains an evil aspect.

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Okay, but I'm not from Holomog.

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I'm pretty sure that the Lord of the Pit can't first atone you to LG, and subsequently choose you as His paladin

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Her paladin.

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Choryon is one hundred percent correct. Let me find the source... ah, here we are.

Distant Shores, pg. 21:

9. Shrine of the Wily Linguist: Temples both new and ancient cover Spineback, but the smallest is perhaps the most unusual. A tiny, neurotic church of archivists and arbiters here worships Asmodeus, known locally as the Wily Linguist, thanks to a minor role he played in aiding Mazludeh in mediating , recording, and filing the Celestial Concordance between the mortals of Holomog and the forces of Elysium, Heaven, and Nirvana. Visiting Asmodeans might be somewhat torn between amusement that a nation of angel-worshipers pays him some honor, and consternation that they invariably depict the notorious god as a woman. First Arbiter Oluche (LN female human cleric of Asmodeus 6) struggles to keep her temple afloat, organizing fighting tournaments and poetry competitions for the temple’s annual Days of Wrath celebration that helps fund their archives through the rest of the year.

...You know, I'm a bit of a wily linguist myself. 

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Would you go as far as to call yourself a cunning one?

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Indeed. I eat pussies like that frenchman Tarrare: I just -

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Barry please don't finish that sentence. 

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Why is there a way for Asmodeus to count as LN, out of all the Evil gods??

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Well, he is the god of trickery.

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I guess. That's not really an explanation for why He gets to play by different rules, though.

Mechanically, what's going on here that gives Him unique abilities the other gods don't?

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My headcanon is that Asmodeus spun off a LN servitor demigod and named her Asmodeus* with an asterisk.

Demigods give one fewer domain than full gods, but that's fine, because Asteriskodeus doesn't give Evil. It fits perfectly.

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And it's only Asmodeus who's doing this?

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Well... he seems to be the only one naming the servitor after himself, at any rate. 

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No one else is doing it because - Lawful Good wouldn't get as much Asmodeus does out spinning off a Lawful Neutral god to scoop up any LEs who'd make for useful clerics or go to Hell - Abadar and Norgorber already exist and Axis is nice for people who wind up there -, Chaotic Good doesn't need to spin off a Chaotic Neutral - Gorum and Calistria live in Elysium -, and Chaotic Evil doesn't want to spin off a Chaotic Neutral servitor demigod because the words "Chaotic" "Neutral" "servitor" and "demigod" don't belong in the same paragraph, let alone all in one sentence.

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That seems plausible enough to her and also seems extremely unlikely to be true unless you have secret knowledge or there's a god listening in on your headcanons and applying them to the real physical world. 

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Don't look at ME.

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Anyway, I need to go do so many other things, you know how to get in touch, right? Toodles.

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Oh, great, she finally left.

Someone should loop in the Caydenite and Ragathiel cultist: we're forming a plan. 

(Well, actually, we're forming several plans - independently of each other - and some of our plans are more kindly and thought-through than others. This is one of the better ones.)

First, we need to kill the shadows who would be released when we kill the powerful clerics. Then, we need to kill the powerful clerics. Then, we kill the new priests. Most of them are first-level inquisitors with cure light wounds as half of their spells known, some of them will be much more durable than they were yesterday, but not so durable that swords don't work for killing them. The new 1st-level clerics are a bigger threat: channeled negative energy does 1d6 damage with a saving throw for half, but they can do it 1-7 times each and that'll add up. We should accept surrenders from the newbies if they renounce Hell; a paladin can check them for an Evil aura to keep the bastards honest. 

The big risks, as we see them, are that we might miss a shadow, or one or more or most of the shadows survive the damage we can do to them in the first round (this one looks pretty likely, if we're being honest, but we're optimistic that we could chase them and finish them off before they reproduce), hide under the ground, and pop up somewhere else to take vengeance, or one of the shadow-controlling wizards might die in the chaos, or that the Prince of Darkness picks more clerics in the middle of the battle, or that we beat the shadows but lose the fight against the diabolists and their sympathizers because they have a 6th-circle cleric and an 8th-circle wizard along with the rest of the Queen's faction (which possibly includes the Korvosan Guard unless we can talk them into deserting) and also probably a bunch of the Acadamae impers will throw in with the diabolists out of devil-binding necromancer solidarity because oh wait the Ragathielite is wearing an Acadamae uniform maybe I won't finish that sentence.

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