To The Corvi

I know you've felt it, the pressure and then the spike of pain. Some of us met it this past Feast.

The Red Road is calling and you are going to end up on it, whether you are ready or not. Learn what you can now of what we face, before it's too late. Find me, find Swyft, find Tyr, find Tsula, and learn.

Fight the Cult of Ceno and show them through steel & claw & shadow & mind that our path to our Lady of Chains is the right one, not theirs. Our goddess has no time for those who will not fight for what they believe in.

Lois Blair
Cenobite of the Harrower

((OOG: Investigation into this plot should be directed to Jacob F.))

If I may be so bold,

These people revel in pain and suffering. It grants them their power, no? I would consider a steady hand in this matter. If it is your pain and anguish they seek, do not give it to them. Instead, show them indifference when you dismantle their machinations. Show them that they cut stone and not flesh. Take from them their power with wisdom and compassion, so that they gain nothing when you come for them.

Give not to the beast the blood of which it seeks.

I apologize if this would be considered rude to have suggested.

Stars of Wisdom guide you,
Sq. Wrekk




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To Squire Wrekk,

Oh, fantastic. Another man telling me not to show emotion when I fight.

Do you think Aguara does not scream in rage on the battlefield?

I draw my strength from my own pain and my own anguish. I know it better than they ever will, for I carry it every day. To deny it is there just because I fight other Aguarans is to cut myself off from my own power, or to ask for it to come bubbling out at the worst possible time, because it will remain with me regardless of how much I try to pretend it isn't there.

No, Squire Wrekk. I will not be stone, and I will not show compassion. Not to other Aguarans.

To everyone else,

I cannot say for certain whether this current resurrection of the Cult of Ceno is truly made up of Aguarans, or is merely cultists who are mucking about with old Aguaran rituals they found. Aguarans do not really have heretics; Aguarans have the Iron Tome, true, but when there are differences of faith we just fight to determine whose way will be followed by those who survive moving forward.

The path forward is the same in either case: onto the Red Road, to fight until they or we relent.

I will post more information when I have a few moments to collect it.

Lady Heimdall,

My deepest apologies for my ignorance. I dare not claim to know the way, but only muse my suggestion out loud. I accept that I am wrong in what I have suggested and if you would permit it, request your wisdom in my error. If you would allow me, I will serve to aid you in your mission to the best of my ability, or simply stay away if you believe it to be the best course of action.

I would never dare to demand what one should do in a given circumstance, and so I apologize again for the offense.

Sq. Wrekk






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Squire Wrekk,

Well, who am I to deny you a chance to learn? Learn at least some of the Aguaran faith from me and then you can decide if you still wish to offer your assistance. The Corvi may not have much choice in this, but you do, and I will not take that choice from you.

Some further information, as promised:

The original Cult of Ceno is the reason Aguaran priests call themselves "Cenobites". They were a Kormyrian sect led by a person named Ceno around the time the Rift formed. Aguarans were not really known for scholastic pursuits like "writing things down", but Ceno decided to apply their Kormyrian sensibilities to the faith. They and their followers studied the philosophy and metaphysics behind the faith. Their personal end goal was to find a way to ascend to a purer form of pain and strife than a human body could contain, and become closer to/another mask of Aguara, though it had the ripple effect across the faith of bringing attention to the value of scholastic pursuits in general. To this day, those of us within the faith who have closer connection to the more cerebral aspects - priests - bear Ceno's name.

They studied, debated, and performed many experiments, and built a vast series of underground tunnels in which to hide their knowledge (and themselves - remember that at the time, openly worshiping a Dark goddess in Kormyre was punishable by death). They called this labyrinth the Red Road - yes, named after that Red Road - possibly because they wanted to use it to call forth the liminal space? It's unknown, because so much of the knowledge has been lost.

It was lost because one day Ceno believed they had hit upon the correct method and ritual to achieve their goal. The cult performed this great ritual, and then vanished entirely from Arawyn, never to be seen again. Some of their notes can still be found, in bits an pieces here and there, but I don't know if anyone has ever found the original tunnels. It's unknown whether Ceno's ritual succeeded or not; it either worked perfectly and they ascended, or it went horribly and the backlash destroyed the Cult of Ceno. Either way, nothing was ever heard from them again.

There is another piece of information you all need to know. Philosophy of battle and the Aguaran faith aside, these cultists in particular do not require seeing your pain or anguish in order to draw their power (no true Aguaran does, but that is another topic).

They dug up the body of a girl who died suffering and used the pain in her soul to do what they did.

You can't hide your pain when you're dead.

They don't need your pain. They just need pain. How many bodies do you think are buried in Travance that died suffering?

Nice to see you're just as insane as ever, Dunn.

I'll be keeping my chains and negative aspects, thank you very much. I earned them. We can quibble about that when this is overwith, though. Let's go kill some cultists together.