Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 14 Jun 2002 to 15 Jun 2002 (#2002-154) From: Automatic digest processor Date: 16/06/2002, 17:00 To: Recipients of MYSTARA-L digests Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 2 messages totalling 98 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Lilith the Invisible Moon 2. Sablestone ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 13:49:41 EDT From: Alex Benson Subject: Re: Lilith the Invisible Moon <> Sounds interesting. My version is a very complex character, so complex I haven't even figured her out. LOL. Basically, I have her as being a true rogue, rebelling against the status quo of the True-Blood Vamps. She sought power and change, seeking to a return to the primal hunter role they had once held. Passion and prejudice played heavily into this rash decision. She split and took a number of disillusioned True Bloods with her. They adopted the path of entropy and in a cruel twist of irony became the common entropic vampire; they lost their nobility. Such a fate did not befall Lillith (I'll call her that until I decide upon a name). Her defilement came in disgrace as her quest became her people's curse. She retained her True Blood nature but is a complete outcast to the True Bloods and Entropic alike. Though initially they followed her, the entropics soon scorned her as their leader as they lost their battle against their internal beast. The True Bloods resent her betrayal and persistant bids to ruin their footholds. Even though her beliefs mirror some of the True Blood Clans', they still offer little hope of alliances based upon the stigma she has. Entropics lack the leadership and organization to remember her and what they saw as a betrayal by her in condemning them to the entropic/negative path. In time, the Entropics "forgot" her as they spread their nature across the face of Mystara. Lillith still walks the planet, showing her presence occassionally. In arcane times she undermined the True Bloods' power base among the SW Azcan and the Nithians (both being True Blood attempts at revitalizing their former place in Tech Blackmoor society). In VtM terms, Blackmoor was their Carthage where they were mostly accepted and fed upon synthetic blood from Blackmoor factories. Alone, Lillith withdrew to bide her time. She maintains vigil over the True Bloods' activities and strikes at them based upon the Clan politics. Many speculate that she is trying to vindicate herself and reintegrate herself into the True Bloods. The demise of three Clans has been connected to her manipulations. And her involvement has more than once drawn warring Clans together to counter her intrusions. Lillith is very powerful and has the potential to be even more powerful. However, alone she lacks the powerbase that feeds the Clans and developes their powers. Hence she is basically untrained and unskilled. Regardless, her destruction would require a very powerful group of True Bloods. Given Clan politics, it is doubtful that the Clans wouyld go upon the offensive against her. They are more amiable to the idea of acting unified in a defensive position. Lillith's most powerful plot is one that even she dares not implement. That is the divulgeance of the existance of the True Bloods beyond the commonly recognized Entropics. This scheme has as many drawbacks as it does advantages. And alot of the advantages depend upon the True Bloods moving to war against the mortals and assert themselves as masters of the planet. There are just too many uncertainties to this plan. Strangely, Lillith follows many of the edicts her True Bloods follow. She is at war with the Entropics. She sees them as being a chaotic plague of barbarian beasts. Many True Blood sages believe this to also be her trying to win favor among the True Bloods. Lillith currently lives a nomadic existance. She prefers backwoods wilderness regions where isolationism and superstition allow her ease of movement. She also sees it as a nostalgic move from back when most of the world was wilderness. She is quitre adept at planting evidence to blame her activities as the works of entropic vampires. Quite usefull when those pesky adventurers arrive to avenge thew death of a favored brother/sister/aunt/uncle/childhood friend/ or other token acquaintence that hooks the PCs to the region. LOL ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 18:35:10 -0800 From: Mike Harvey Subject: Sablestone Is there any useful canon info about this principality? Mike -- Mike Harvey -- Beaverton, Oregon http://members.dsl-only.net/~bing/ ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 14 Jun 2002 to 15 Jun 2002 (#2002-154) ****************************************************************