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#1 zombiegleemax Jul 18, 2006 19:53:01	I know Iuz has his soul husks in the howling hills, does anyone know what these are or adventures relating to this? This was touched upon in Iuz the Evil? What is the latest on this subject or source?
#2 cwslyclgh Jul 18, 2006 21:08:36	IMC the soul husks are a bit different then most peoples conceptions of them... but I ran a story arch about one of the soul husks... it seems that one of them was stolen during the waning days of the greyhawk wars, and the heroes that stole it could not find a way to destory it, so they magically split it into 3 pieces and hid them.... one day one of them goes bad and decides to try to claim the power for himself... he killed his compatriots, but not wanting to risk the traps and guardians that his firends had set to gaurd them tricked the PC's into going after each one... once they had them all he reassembled the soul husk (after sending the PC's on another false errand, so they wouldn;t be there to foil his plans) and in a ritual to claim it's power killed abunch of clerics of St. Cuthbert and then fled to his stronghold on the Negative energy plane... the PC's were mighty annoyed at that, and have vowed to get him... but to this point have decided to work on other goals first.
#3 Mortepierre Jul 19, 2006 3:20:56	I know Iuz has his soul husks in the howling hills, does anyone know what these are or adventures relating to this? This was touched upon in Iuz the Evil? What is the latest on this subject or source? The main source is and remains Iuz the Evil. Long story short, in order to become a demi-god, Iuz had to leech "energy" from different beings (among other despicable acts) and those he keeps permanently imprisoned in "soul husks" in the Howling Hills. If someone were to destroy them, Iuz's power would suffer a severe blow, perhaps even enough to knock him down to quasi-deity status or lower. According to WGR5, the location of the soul husks is also Oerth's Fort Knox since Iuz spared nothing to make sure nobody would succeed in invading it and securing the husks. That said, the same accessory offers just that kind of mission for (very) high-level adventurers (as a suggestion, not an actual module though). Nothing has been done about it that I know of but perhaps LG Meta-Region III has. You would have to ask someone playing there.
#4 extempus Jul 19, 2006 19:27:38	I've toyed with an adventure with the Soul Husks, but have yet to put any serious thought into it. I've often wondered why there is such enmity between St. Cuthbert and Iuz, as he hasn't been around all that long (and was imprisoned beneath Castle Greyhawk for 65 years to boot, so what could he have done?). Maybe I missed something (I don't have all the Greyhawk-related materials, unfortunately), so I came up with a wild idea... Iggwilv had been planning to transform her son into a demigod, and before those plans were completed, Heward, Keoghtom, Murlynd, Kelanen, Zagyg and St Cuthbert formed a posse to capture them. Iggwilv was busy with her base on Luna (from Return of the Eight) when Iuz was captured, and to avoid capture herself, fled Oerth and discovered an abandoned Citadel in the Negative Material Plane. She continued with her plan, hoping Iuz could free himself from imprisonment once he was transformed, and as she returned to Oerth, accidentally found herself in a parallel Oerth. She was struck with a perverse whim: since the six who imprisoned her son were quite powerful and beyond her reach, why not trap their counterparts instead? They were quite powerful in the parallel universe, but Zagyg was not a demigod there, and she was able to capture them, including an avatar of St. Cuthbert that happened to be there on a mission. She then used them for the Soul Husks, and that explains why St. Cuthbert has an especial hatred of Iuz...
#5 zombiegleemax Aug 11, 2006 21:58:35	A nice idea Extempus! higgshr, I recall some old fan fiction about heroes invading the Soul Husks, and Iuz killing the Prince of Swords... Unfortunately, I think the old GreyTalk Archives are still offline.
#6 zombiegleemax Aug 13, 2006 7:55:12	Might have been my blatherings about events in the campaign I play in. There Iuz has ascended to full godhood by killing and diablarising Cuthbert and the four main hero-gods - Murlynd, Heward, Keoghtom and Kelenan. Two of the PCs in the party volunteered to go to Doraaka to free the Earl of Walworth (City of Skulls essentially). The GM ran it as a side adventure, with the players of the characters who didn't go playing a group of Almorian NPCs. The raid lasted one session, with the party members dying in a variety of unpleasent, if mostly heroic, ways without even getting within a sniff of the earl. The best death went to the PC priest of Kelenan who ended up in the Abyss being forced to fight what remained of Kelenan's tortured soul to the death. They agreed killing each other, thus freeing The Prince of Swords from his torment. A noble death.
#7 thanael Aug 14, 2006 13:24:28	A nice idea Extempus! higgshr, I recall some old fan fiction about heroes invading the Soul Husks, and Iuz killing the Prince of Swords... Unfortunately, I think the old GreyTalk Archives are still offline. Do you mean the great fiction by Man Of The Cranes? You can find it on canonfire: http://www.canonfire.com/cfhtml/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=Man-of-the-Cranes (Though it does not feature Kelanen the Prince of swords himself, but an ex-paladin turned Kelanen worshiper)
#8 zombiegleemax Aug 15, 2006 11:16:56	Both of those, and I think a tale by Michael Sandar too, shared stories about the struggle against the Old One. I recall Woesinger's felt the most poignant to me; the image of Kelanen slain by his own sword-scholar remains chilling. Alas for the Sword-Prince! Woe to the Cambion!