Subject: Re: Morient - The Tree, the Dragon Trone and clerics
From: Andre Martins
To: MOrient team


The Tree


Whether this tree has any real magical powers or not is subject to
academic discussions among the chung-euneses(?) academicians. It doesn't
detect to any form of magical detection, but it stands more than a
millenia after Rohindarta dat under it and remaint verdant even after hit
by a number of thunderbolts.


It has no obvious magical use, but the followers of Rohindarta have to
travel there at the beginnning of their treinament. They sit under it for
a whole month, without moving, even eating, for a whole month, when they
claim to contact Rohindarta. Some claim their spiritual journey take just
one hour, some claim it takes years, where they travel to marvellous
places, but the fact is that all of them meditate for a full month, coming
back in a state of full healthy. It is even claimed that none of them can
be hurt while meditating there, something that is probably true, as their
most advanced clerics have this power everywhere.



The Dragon Trone


Rohindarta understood the world as a great illusion where pain and death
were unavoidable lies. So he decided to create an item that would reflect
his vision of the world. The trone was created from a big branch from the
treee where he had sat under, that he carved by himself. Anyone sitting on
the trone, has its senses enhanced to a point that he or she can become
aware of everything happening inside Chung-Eun. A sensation of well-being
and detachment of mundane things also comes with the experience and the
person there sat is completely shielded from any external influences.


However, that amount of information is overwhelming for any creature.
Dragons, somehow, are able to ignore most of it and concentrate on just a
few things, like detecting ships and oulanders that get close to the
country. Humans have their mind completely altered even by touching it
and, if there is a dragon sat on the trone, he can use that state to plant
whatever memories he wants in their brains. Oddly, whatever they start
believing to be their true past, has real effects on the world. Mages
whose fake experiences include the learning of a new spell, find this
spell written in their books later, scars really appear on people's faces
and so on.




Clerics of Rohindarta


His clerics still receive their spells if they pray for it, but they
usually don't use it. This way, as they are not much trained to cast
spells, their powers manifest later (treat them as 2 levels lower for
purposes of how many spells they can cast). They believe they must spent
most of their lives meditating and getting detached from mundane passions
and desires. Some sects are specially imune to pain, due to their
treinament and they receive as many hit points as fighters. Other receive
martial training and some special manuevers (volunteers, use the Oriental
Adventures?).


At 5th level, they must travel to the Tree and embark on their spiritual
voyage. After that, they become completely imune to all kind of illusions.
At 7th level, they become immune to any mind-controlling magics. At 15th
level, they reach a new understanding about the nature of the universe and
they become able to try to disbelieve the real world, just as if it were
an illusion. On a successful saving throw against spells, nothing in the
world can affect them. At 21st level, they can try to disbelieve even
immortals and immortal level magic, but with a -6 penalty.


Comments anyone? Now we have an outline of Bhuda (that we still must
disccuss), does anyone care about helping me with Lao Zi and Confucius?


Andre