The Final Session

And GM Notes

Since this is prepared some months after the end of the game, and I'm not sure who all will actually read this, I'm doing the short-short version. Apologies to anyone who's bothered by this.

In Chaos, things had boiled up into full-blown war by the time the Amberites arrived with the tainted Werewindle. Estancion and Saklas had an uneasy alliance against Jala, who was apparantly trying for both the position of Emperor and Lord of Hendrake.

And with the forces of Hendrake and Ec behind him, and the recent holes in the upper nobility created by the Robelone incidents, it seemed he might even have a chance. As the two armies clashed, the Amberites flew up into the Logrus itself (which had, by this point, completely demolished it's building) and swung Werewindle through several of its tendrils, which had the desired effect.

Tristan was kidnapped by Jala and forced to resign his throne, and, later, went into Primal Form, which, to everyone's immense suprise, caused Jala to do the same. Jala was subsequently killed by the Amberites.

Never the less, it seemed that Jala's forces would kill the command of the other forces (specifically, Saklas, Estancion, Omric, et al.) when Conjuration-enhanced Demons under the control of Drathamalas and Geryon arrived on the scene, turning the tide of the battle (they were /badass/ Demons) and allowing Estancion to get to the Cathedral of the Serpent.

Estancion was crowned Emperor, Saklas Lord Hendrake, and Omric gave the guardianship of Stormbringer to Drathamalas. The Amberites survived and had all of their Primal Powers in the appropriate state of un-taintedness. And, if not everyone was as happy with their ending positions as they might have been, they were a lot better than most alternatives.

GM Notes:
  1. Brand, unable to use Werewindle's powers because of the interference they caused with his 'Living Trump' abilities, was sending it home to safekeeping so that his daughter, Adria, could find it if he failed in the Patternfall war, in essentially a moving Shadow Pocket. Geffemo, a powerful Shadow Sorceror, noticed the disturbance in the material of Shadow when it entered his homeland, and was able to bring it down. After several years of study, he was able to use Conjuration to link his blood to the sword.
  2. Omric was unable to find Mournblade (or Robelone) after 600 years of searching because Stormbringer was repelled by them both, and was twisting his Shadowwalking away from them.
  3. Neither the swords nor the Pattern nor the Logrus are intelligent, but the 'laws of physics' they obey are very complex, leading to strange behaviour.
  4. The illusory shell that the Raksasha employed was a natural, Sorcery-like power of their race.
  5. Robelone Jezby strengthened the psychic link between his House and Mournblade in order to use their combined power against Omric. Omric used the powers of Stormbringer to disrupt that link, at precisely the moment of the most intense combat. The dying agonies of much of House Jezby caused the taint in Mournblade.
  6. The swords are synnergistic in their powers — while each sword is usually roughly one quarter the power of the Pattern or Logrus, one person wielding both swords wields almost the equivalent of the complete Pattern or Logrus — if they know what they're doing.
  7. If a Pattern sword and a Logrus sword touched, they would destroy each other and likely the local Shadow, or at least create a serious Abyss rift.
  8. Putting a small amount of Primal Chaos in a Shadow Pocket would create a small Abyss rift. Larger amounts would likely destroy the Shadow.
  9. Putting a Primal Sword into a Shadow Pocket would likely create an Abyss rift, but not destroy the sword. (Though, barring intervention by the Unicorn or Serpent, the sword would likely be lost).
  10. There is no equivalent of the Jewel of Judgement for the Chaos side, but the Serpent is more powerful than the Unicorn, so parity is retained.
  11. Amberite nobility do not have the 'link to the universe' that high Chaos nobles do, because they have not bothered to cement their positions into the fundamental nature of Order.
  12. The conflict between Robelone and Omric was of such major spiritual significance that ripples reflecting the conflict moved out across all of Shadow. For a time afterwards, the politics of pretty much every Shadow within an hour's hellride from Chaos could be characterized by two lords turning the organizations they were members of against each other in conflicts that destroyed both organizations. By six hundred or so years later and the other end of Shadow, it had calmed down a considerable amount, but inspired a writer named Michael Moorcock on Shadow Earth to write a novel about Elric of Melniboné and his sword Stormbringer, and their fight against Elric's cousin and Mournblade.
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