Panatheon 19: Tigerface

0:03 Hello, and welcome to Is that a six or a nine? And now it's AD and D podcast made by idiots. I'm an idiot. My name's Mike Corp. I'm joined by Carl Nicholson. I'm playing Belle El Suffolos. Maria Nicholson. I'm playing it craftsly. And Alexis? Soiree. Do you know what? I really like that, right? I like that one. I can't. Remember that on the fly? I started to panic, didn't know what I was going to call. You went for that? For sure, I like it. It is Alex though. I'm playing roof cool. It's going to devolve even further, but I'm just going to not introduce you at all.

0:36 Just completely blank me. Anyway, how are we all doing? Everybody OK? Yeah. Yeah. Good, it's just just getting straight in with this one. I reckon last time in Panatheon you guys finally went clubbing and it was great. You met a dude in a pink toga who gave you a pin so that you get a badge. You can get in and out all of the time. You got drinks from elementals that were running the bar. Ick played some backpack music on the stage with some band members that seemed to recognise him, but mysteriously he had no idea who they were.

1:22 Bell, involved in some drinking games that everyone else is behest, got way too drunk, and found himself invited to a strange cult of Dionysian loving say to people. Meanwhile, Riv went to the VIP section, which was specially designed to only allow people in with God blood, including herself and her sister, who she joined at a booth with a glass full of ambrosia. There you had to. Fraught. Heart to heart conversation about how a Riff was kind of the ungrateful favourite of their mother, about how Shiv really had to try to stand out and at every time was gay.

2:08 Overshadowed by Riff to the point where when Zeus came to hit on them at a booth in a nightclub, a super hot dragon lady turned up, got rid of the gods, and then moved in on Riff. Hell yeah. Shiv, Shiv is not like you. No, we've just bonded. We're fine. I can't. I can't be blamed for what happened while I was gone.

2:36 And that that's where we are now. So you guys wake up the next day, guys? Yeah. We'll take it in turns to wake up in the Prince's frat house. You somehow managed to drunkenly stagger yourselves back to the Prince's flat. Student digs, I guess. Roll a Constitution check. To see who wakes up. Birth like we did on the beach. Hello, whoops. Put a dent in my You dropped, you dropped your dice, your ich rastly boulder. I swear to God they're dented. I steal bin in the corner of the kitchen. I'm so sorry fucking.

3:22 Girl. 19. 19/21/21 Jeez you guys, you guys aren't going to be home over. 23. What the fuck? That's going to be the best. That should definitely be disadvantaged. He's. Still wakes up. Yeah, we've been drinking. Should be rolled to disadvantage. Yeah, go on then. It's only to see who wakes up first, really. But I guess the score will affect your hangover. Still pretty decent. 12/17.

3:55 Nice. OK, 20. Yeah, rib. You wake up groggy as hell, you wake up in bed. Oh shit. I got. The bed make make an investigation check as you wake up. Can I roll with ties? No, I can't. Can I? Yeah, you can. Can I just next time you do a spell, we'll do something? Yeah, fine. Fuck me, stupid roll. 1. 6/6

4:31 yeah. You, you wake up, you're in bed. Yeah. Stuff. Nothing going on in the room otherwise. Yeah, you stumble out of out of bed and Bell is standing sort of on the balcony overlooking City hands class behind his back, sort of meditating. Hello, Have a good night, Bell. Morning. Bell roll AD 6 and then AD 8. Bell vomits. I want a 2 on the D6 and an 8 on the D8. So, Rib, you see Bell standing? Yeah, shirtless. Nice. He's just woken up shirtless. His back is a tapestry of scars all knitting together.

5:20 They're all over his shoulders, his arms, just absolutely. You can see he's had a hard life, clearly still quite like tanned sort of olive coloured skin, but just white scores all the way across it. Different depths and directions and just a life of battle. Yeah, but on his on the top right sort of shoulder blade, you see a mark, you see he has a tattoo. And it's, I don't even know how to fucking describe that dark sort of abstract. It almost looks like you're sort of classic ghost shape, just like a sort of Round Top slightly sort of like like a person under a sheet is holding their arms up with two little holes in it for eyes, like a little tattoo on your back belt.

6:11 Little black Halloween ghost. I'm never drinking again. I love. Those so that. That's a Shadow Fell brand tattoo I might get rid of. That. Draw that on me. And what does this do? So you're attuned to it, it's about that much. Yep, you have dark vision within a range of 60 foot and advantage on dexterity cheques. Fucking boiler. At. Yep. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to become insubstantial for a moment, halving the damage you take once a day. Once a day. I I can go. How could you, Bell?

6:51 That's so cool. When did you get that? I don't know. When you turn around and see Riv, Riv roll AD 6 please. That might. Be my face. Peen peen on do. You. Want me to re roll? Yeah, I want them to be different. OK, so you have on your lower arm roll AD 88. 8. It's the same one stop copying 5 you have on your on the inside of your forearm, on your left forearm on the inside you have it looks like sort of a trail of footsteps, but when you look at them they kind of like meander a bit. They move on your skin and sort of fade in and out.

7:41 Yes, and you have a ghost step. Tattoo Oh my God, sick I. Don't have a pen? Someone's going to write mine down. Again, you're attuned to it. Cool. Well, you'd have to be attuned to it for it to work anyway. Yeah, it has three charges, which it regains at dawn. You can use a bonus action to expend one of the charges to become incorporeal until the end of your next turn. For that duration you have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from non magical attacks. These are wild. This cost all of your money.

8:10 Yeah, that's still done. You can't be grappled or restrained. Oh good. You can move through creatures and solid objects as if they were difficult terrain. If you end your turn in the solid object, you take 1D10 force. If the effect ends while you're inside a solid object, you're instead I shunted to the nearest article by space and take 1D10 force. You'll never make that mistake, yeah. That's so cool. Yeah, you can basically turn yourself into a ghost. I love it. Yeah, you have that like on your arm.

8:41 He can see that. Like a bow Bow. I'm assuming we got that from the same vendor. Yeah, I don't remember it though that.

8:52 Place needs to be shut. Yeah, I know. What about? Me. Have you immersed from your room yet? You're not. Awake. I'm still asleep. You could wake up now if you like and as you leave your room just. Make sure I'm awake. As you wake up and walk out of your you're you're on a sofa near Bell. So it looks like probably Bell slept on a sofa on the other side of the room to you and woke up earlier and you kind of like

9:22 I'm awake and when you sit up, roll AD 63. Don't. Need to reroll that.

9:29 When Ick sits up, he's just wearing his kilt. He had ridden up a bit while he was asleep. God damn. It he's just in his kilt and you can see he has a full chest piece of roller D83. You wake up and you have a full chest piece of like like a Beanstalk going up sort of like in between your pecs. Yeah. And then by and spreading out across them across your chest. This is a coiling grass tattoo. Oh, that's sick. Do you know what it is? No. It sounds sick as hell. So again, you're attuned to it. So when you get magic items that are good, you have to attune to them.

10:10 Yeah. So you can already have so many. So you get 3 achievements off. This one has grasping tendrils. While the tattoo is on your skin, you can, as an action, cause the tattoo to extrude into inky tendrils which reach for a creature you can see within 15 feet of you. The creature must succeed ADC 14 Strength saving throat or take 3D6 force damage and be grappled as an action. The creature can escape the grapple by successfully seeding ADC 14 Strength or dipsteric check a couple ends if you hold it.

10:37 If the creature is ever more than 15 feet away from you or you use this tattoo with a different creature, it seems you can do that. That doesn't have like a once a day or charges or anything. It seems you can just do that. That's insane. Hell, man. So yeah, you can just cast ever odds black temples or whatever. That's crazy. That's a six spell. That's a beautiful. Spot about it. What's weird is yours was very rare and hers is uncommon. It turns out you spent shit loads of money getting tattoos. It was.

11:15 Oh no, it seems the jet. Did the Prince get one, do you think? Yes. OK. I'll roll for him, I think. He's going to. I will. Roll. He's going to freak the fuck out about it, but he's definitely got one. Oh my. God, it's not on his face, my poor boy. Got a face tattoo? That would be amazing, wouldn't it? Yeah, he wrote a one his face. Oh no. Excellent. I'm here for. It's a masquerade tattoo apparently. My God, he's just got a mask, no. This is our king. Boy epic. It appears as whatever you desire. Oh shit.

11:59 As a. Bonus action You can shape the tattoo into any colour or pattern and move it to any area of your skin. Where it takes form is always obviously a tattoo. You arrange its size from those words that are called piece to an integrate work of art that covers all your skin. As an action, you can use the tattoo to disguise yourself to this DC13 once as well as cast from the tattoo. So once a day he can cast this guy's self on himself with his face tattoo. Honestly, that tattoo really suits him. Like the the mechanics of the tattoo.

12:31 Yeah, it's. Kind of. Fucking I love the idea how he can move on the skin. To elsewhere he's he wakes up and he's just got Jigglypuff really on his forehead. Why were you? Why were you thinking of Jigglypuff? So I was thinking that he thought it was like being getting face painted. So he's got like a full lion. Oh. Yeah, stuff. He's got a live faceplate that's even bad. Perfect. Oh. My God. What animal do you want to be? What are you guys looking at that? I feel not bad. I'm actually inclined not to tell him, I mean.

13:18 We might. We may need to. Present that as they hang it high fives the Prince and just go to it. Oh my God. Wow, can this be defined a way like we can't have him ruling the country with? He can just move it under his shirt. We don't. We don't. Until that happens, we don't know that. It does say if you're achievement to the tattoo and the tattoo vanishes so he could. He's oh OK, he's not king yet. Let him have this fun. And it can be on any area of his skin. And he's like, oh man. Oh my God, this kid, Honestly.

13:57 You. Just. You may be the first king in history where you have to wear a mask around people. No one is ever going to take you safely. I think you can move and you see it like focus it just it turns green. So it's got a pretty green face. That's not it. Hang on, hang on. Somebody find me a Burr. I take Bell's sword and just like, aim it.

14:23 Thank you. Yeah, that's. The crane blade. That's your tattoos, right? Hey, does anyone want to do anything else in Amnesty before you leave? Yes, I wish to go to the library. Oh, oh, yeah, I forgot we were going to do that. We got so distracted partying. Yeah. OK, cool. Let's let's go. Yeah. You know the way to the college now. So you go to the library. What are you looking for in the library? I have written a list. I will be here. Oh my God, supply me with coffee. You get a beer, you. Are welcome to either help me or leave me, I don't care what.

15:07 Are you doing? Reading I would there are things that are there are five things that I'm looking that I'm aiming to look for. I am looking for anything on the Kadian Anand's War battle War battle reports specifically for the Kadian Canadian annals. Anand's War History of the Gods specifically shares anything that would pertail to a story or folklore of Aries and Nike and trade deals with other keeps to do with Anand's over the over the histories. Can I ask a question? Yes, why do you? Did did you get Is that your name from birth or did you give yourself that name?

15:56 That's the name that was assigned to me. Assigned to you. OK, cool. I was just. No, I was just curious. I didn't know if that's your birth name or. What people chanted one day when I won a fight. Did did big big the uncle? When I was a child, Pragya Titis just referred to me as the boy the. Boy didn't ever give you any other name. No, just. The people gave me my name. How does that work? They chanted a name upon my victory, and it's a name that stuck. I claimed it for my own. But you, yeah, that's fine.

16:35 So before then, you were just the boy I was. Just a boy. Such as how you were introduced in your first fight and the next fight is Belle Seppos versus the boy and. When, when you're when, when, when you're a child, when you're a child in the in the arenas, you don't really fight as much. You're more of a token. Gladiators will fight to protect you or hold on to you for a certain amount of time. You are the goal, the objective, you're the prize. So whatever team wins that team and their boy win. You don't.

17:15 Right, so Bell's not your actual name. It's a no no.

17:21 No, sorry, I want to look up on Kadian history. OK, so you're going to do that as well. You're going to look up the war. I yeah, specifically more stuff. The Kadian Anand's war battle reports history of the gods, stories of Aries and Nike, and trade deals with other keeps. So when I was young, the battle, the battle master once said that the the captain of the guard who brought me to the editorial pits said that this child was found covered in blood, the son of Aries and Nike found at the battle site of cadium of a cadium fight.

18:04 But I've never believed it. I would love to look up if there is any like history about any high up families missing a child. Cool. I guess investigation, but we'll do it for each point. OK. So investigation for rich family missing child, do that first. I'm sorry. Can I use? I can't use. Oh no, I did a long rest, right? I'm assuming we did a long rest. Obviously. Right. No, you did. You did your tides of chaos to check your beds when you fuck. Damn it, go. I just got to cast a spell and risk of destroying this valuable.

18:49 Library. Can I step outside?

18:53 I just need to release some of this raw. Magic on the clap. Can I change like cast? Oh I don't know, mind slither on someone near me. I mean, it needs to be. It's fine, fortunately. I don't think I have anything like I only have false life. I have false life. What's false life? It gets. Temporary. I'll give myself some temporary point, OK. And then I'm outside. OK. 27. Be the same. I mean, you're not going to look at, not going to cause any destruction. No. Maybe I should keep it? But you are fucking off fine.

19:32 Yeah, I'll be back in a minute. One SEC, Yeah. You're transported to the actual plate. I'll be back in a second.

19:44 Oh. Shit, they put another top of me. I just have like 8 in my wardrobe. Right, you have an I heart I heart AP. That is a the 14 every jump. By my ear, Jesus Christ. Yeah, 14. So you are looking for stories of missing children from? Royalty. Politicians kind of that kind of vibe around the time that Bell showed his. Yeah, so. Babyface, there's a. Lot of there is a lot of you find a book that's essentially it's less of like a thing that people would read and more of a reference thing. There's a list of basically people that have been killed during the Caden invasion and there is just a long list of like people's names.

20:45 Scions for like the front bit of the book is save for aristocracy and people and stuff. There's a few in Casmaydan. You don't recognise any of the names 14 right? It's just you can see that there's a lot of names in Casmaydan, which is where El Cephalus was found. But there is, there's, there's a couple of places you see like in you can kind of track if you, if you knew about the war like intricately, you'd be able to see that like there's a list of names from Casmaydan and then from Padeques and then Amnest and then and then eventually like the list almost seems to reverse.

21:26 And you can kind of, you kind of can see that that's where the war changes and it starts going back towards Casmidin, which was the last full battle. So you can see there is 2 lists of. It's almost mirrored if you like, Yeah. Yeah. OK, that's fine. There's quite a long list of yeah, names. This is a big dusty, boring looking time, which is a list of names. That's just of the fallen, basically. OK. That's fine, I'll I'll just be on hand to get books about if you need some cool. Right, first question, you were looking for rumours of Nike and Aries?

22:02 Do you know we can start then? Family so children of Nike and Aries. Or like maybe or like notable like historical interactions between the two. So I'm not I'm not expecting like in depth fucking like on this day, but folk laws and stories specifically to make it easy. I'll narrow it down specifically anytime they have met on a battlefield. Make an investigation check. 15. So Nike's the Guinness of victory and Aries the God of War. Aries is a bit more sort of. He's more like the visceral, violent bit of war.

22:38 Athena is also a war God, but she's more like strategy. So your average foot soldier would probably look up to Aries and make offerings to Aries, whereas your general might make an offering to Athena. Nike is more kind of wide-ranging than just war. So if you're, if you're going to war, you would make an offering to Nike, but you'd also do the same thing if you were having an exam today or particularly worried about a long sea voyage or like anything that you, you are hoping for. Good luck, good fortune, basically.

23:18 That said, they do overlap a bit. If you are going to war or you're in the midst of a huge invasion or war or whatever, then people will be making offerings to both of them. OK, there's more sort of like folklore than actual mythology. So the final battle, the second battle of Kazmaiden where and the battle of the parts of Erebus, which was like the end of the war where and enforced the Kadeans back through the mountain pass. A lot of a lot of soldiers at the time. And if you were to find a veteran, we'd probably say the same thing.

23:57 They tell stories that Aries was with them, that Nike was seen on the battlefield arm in arm of Aries and Hercules was there. And they'll tell stories of essentially these angelic beings fighting alongside them, leading them in a charge or whatever. OK. Next question. Anything on the The Canadian Anan's War maps or battle reports Nitropol like the battle of Erebus Pass? Were there any Anemian like civilians were part of like the campaign trail as it were? Or were they all not an Union Cosmodian civilians?

24:41 Or were they all Acadians? Like how far into Canadian territory were they pushed in before they like before the battle was won? Make an. I'll say do that at advantage because you know specifically what you're looking for essentially there. 13. Yeah, You find some fairly mainstreams of history books that like, famously, like Casmaydin, was this huge fortress that was designed to overlook this mountain pass. And it fell pretty much instantly because it wasn't maintained properly. It wasn't garrisoned properly.

25:18 No one really took the threat of an invasion seriously because it never happens and then immediately got overtaken. However, the people of Casmayedan put up a resistance from within. There was a lot of sort of like guerrilla fighting. I couldn't speak. There was no there was no proper battle until the Panathen United Army came in, liberated the city.

25:43 Wait, so. The thing you know that means the pillar. The Annan's army took down the Kalyan army, Yeah, but then the Kalyan army joined forces when the Panatheon, No. I'm getting confused, sorry. Kadian is the bad guys. OK, so. The Panatheian Alliance is like, yeah, like, like Sierra Satya Peracutes. All of the cities United sent all of their armed forces together. Rather than fighting Katie's individually and losing. They all grouped together, put Annan's in charge because they're the strongest military and the best leaders.

26:22 And then in that way they were able to fight Katie's back, which then led to, at the end of the war, basically, Annan's didn't relinquish control of the army. The actual army officers were quite happy to sort of stay as one big group, at which point they were kind of gluten anus and pancreatitis. Essentially, Strong armed everyone into agreeing to be under the auspice of Allen's create a pantheon state rather than all of these individual city states. Right. OK, I'm there. Yeah. So, yeah, there's a lot of stuff about this Cadian guerrilla resistance, essentially.

26:57 There was never any big battles, but it was always, you know, some bandits essentially ambushing and arms shipment. The line of reinforcements in supply came through the parts of Erebus and quite often there were sort of small groups of soldiers, essentially resistance fighters in the mountains picking off bits of the supply line where they could. Right. And it was. Like a small rebellion, yeah. Little like, yeah, yeah, they didn't. It wasn't like they just went, Yep, find whatever and gave up. They didn't want to be, you know, they, they value their freedom ironically.

27:34 A la France. Yeah. Yeah. Is there, has there been any information about maybe an army more powerful or they're building up more resistance or rebellion to make a bigger attack? Has there been any kind of information about that? Make an insight check. OK, let's see if you've heard anything. That's winning 5. It always seemed likely. Certainly Casmaidan was reinforced pancreatitis, one of his biggest sort of projects while he was in charge of the military, you know, after the war, was rebuilding the defences, building a fortress at the part of Erebus, reinforcing the fortress at Casmaidan for fear that there would be another invasion again.

28:23 Pancreatitis was sort of well known for wanting to take the fight back to them and being annoyed that he couldn't. As far as the actual bat battle at the Pass of Erebus, the Panadayan army essentially had them on the run, Had the Kadian army on the run, small skirmishes through the pass because they could. Once you get into that mountain pass, there's no overtaking, then you can't skirt around them, so they're able to sort of small skirmish actions to cover their retreat. Then once they get up to the other side of this mountain pass and they're into the Kadian side, Britain is essentially stopped there, didn't go into Kadian.

29:05 Land didn't take the kill. Yeah, he, he stopped and you find books to sort of like rationalise this. He, he can, he could see as he was chasing them that there was no getting around his position. So he stopped there and then asked for peace, which the Kadeans pretty quickly went with because they were worried. As far as a new threat from Katie's, there's nothing concrete, there's nothing obvious. OK. And since since the uncle Pancreatitis has been in, has there been any push to attack because you were saying that he was always angry because he got turned down to attack again?

29:41 Do we know any information and maybe he there? Won't be anything in this. Yeah, not in the library. Yeah, find a couple of like really boring stooges publisher I declassified like intelligence things. It's more like a Lonely Planet guide to going to Katie's now that it's not a war zone. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, of the of the pieces of information about the glutinous not going in for the not going in for the kill, is there any speculation that he would have actually been able to have victory had he tried?

30:15 Make an investigation check Invested.

30:21 Not 20. 18 Cool. Yeah, they're pretty good.

30:29 Yeah. You find sort of mixed. There's a lot of like urban nationalist stuff, which is like, obviously we had them on the run, we could have done that. Whereas there are other sort of slightly more conservative voices. They're a bit more, you know, it was the right decision to stop the war. Look at how we've flourished since how could we possibly have invaded another country? And 1 you know, the and then you do find quite like in that 20 quite a good book written by a general from the an Indian army that kind of lays out his case.

31:08 It's quite, it's quite a good sort of like military journal, the guy named Xenophon. And it's like part memoir, part Boy's own adventure of all these cool battles and shit. And it basically says that you know, when, when they got to or when they got through to Katie's, that the army was fucked. The Kadena's were returning. But essentially Glutena's reasoning was the reason they overthrew us so quickly was because we were all separated, right? We're we're all the single states. We only cared about ourselves, whereas they're a nation.

31:44 They came through, they used their united strength to overthrow us. And it was only through uniting that we were able to throw them back. So that was his his whole shtick that he then starts saying to everyone is united, we're stronger. That's how we that's how we protect ourselves. That's how we we improve are. You getting the information that you want him. Next question. It's like that. Bits and pieces, things are falling into place. This is this. Is ties with Matthew earlier and it was very much it.

32:11 Oh my God, bells on. One again yeah, you can see the game I'm just gonna go to bed now I'm not part of this I don't want to know what's going on it's. Fine, it's. Fine, yeah. I can't believe he's not looking for books about his own history.

32:28 History of the Gods, specifically we're. On the investigation, check to look for stuff about Charez. 1. You find absolutely nothing. It's. Unfortunate. Can I look for information about? No, I was, I was thinking, I want to know more about it. Was it was it was where? Where were you found on the battlefield? It was found on the battlefield. Was it the in the past? Was it on a battlefield? It was. It. Was around. Yeah, you don't know exactly where. OK, but it wasn't. I don't know exactly where either the most, the most, the most I ever got was that my the woman covering the woman who was covering my body was not in armour.

33:19 And so there's been a lot of believe, there's been hearsay saying that I am not from a I'm not, I'm not a soldiers. I'm not a soldiers child. My parents were not warriors. Because I I do question why you were there. Yeah. You're not me too. Yeah, sure. But learning. What battle was this? Do you know what was it the Battle of? This one, just this one. Just a random battle in Kasmoden, possibly during the first pushback. I was going to say, was this part of like Acadian, like rebellion, little one of?

33:53 Those little, actually, yeah. How long? How long was the Kadian The Kadian War? It was 10 years from from Katie's coming through the parts of Erebus to being pushed back. It was about 10 years because you had to have them taking over the country. You had to have an NS building everything back up again. Did I write my age down? No, and I'm 30. I'm 32, yeah. Can we look for any like, because I'm sure they would have like had to document and anything that happened, especially about like a battle. So around 32 years ago, can we look for documents on information about battles that happened around then?

34:34 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 7. That is an unnatural 20, an unnatural 20. Seven you find more. Battle to go back outside, fuck off to the astral playing for a minute. You keep hold of your Xenophon diary. I thought his name was Zenon, sorry. You flicked through to the liberation of Casmidian. You think about the fact that Bell was found by Ananian General, so seems unlikely that would have been in the first battle. Seems more likely that they were found. He was found as the Cadians were retreating and there is a story that he writes of pancreatitis.

35:21 So after the battle they have a they have a sort of side battle. It's a full scale battle but it was more a distraction on one side of Cadmade and to draw forces out of the city and away from the past as Gluteus essentially flanked around the back of the city and that was how they scored like a massive hit. They basically split the Kadian army in two and pushed through the past. There is a story that Xenophon tells of Pancreatitis essentially had made his way through a village and had returned with a child in tight who'd handed off to some monks in the city in Casmaya once, once the city was liberated, he'd handed the child over.

36:06 And Xenophon doesn't seem to know where the kid came from. He's just, you know, he went through this village. Everyone had been killed in this village. There was one kid left and he handed the kid over to some monks. There were a lot of kids being sent to monasteries and stuff and orphanages because it was a huge war. There was a lot of people were killed and a lot of families destroyed. So that that in itself is not unusual. It's just sort of an interesting story because it's like this super important guy had found this kids like.

36:38 Is the name of the village, Is it in here? No. OK, interesting. Yeah, Xenophon says that he doesn't know the village. He doesn't know where exactly this took place. He just knows that it was after this battle that this kid was returned, or found rather. Yeah, weird that. What was he doing in that village in the 1st place? First of all, I'm talking out loud here. Sorry. No, you're right. You're right. Did the story say that he went alone? He said he came back with him. He went to the village and came back out of the village.

37:07 That's all that was in there basically, I'm assuming. After the battle he said he anger died. He said I was in this village, I found this child under the body of his mother were in there. Felt bad for the wee nipper. I I turned the book to Bell and I say, does this sound a little bit familiar to you? How would I? How would I know? Story. Doubt it is. It is most certainly eye opening, yes. Pancreatitis. It wasn't in a It wasn't on a battlefield. Then you were taken from your A village. That was already under under slaughter because it's in a city that was a part of a war.

37:47 What a big battle, yes? But we don't know that. We do because it says it in the book. No, it is a village within the city that was being sieged. I don't know man, he's looking more and more dodgy to me. Why he's a? Hero. But he's not, is he? Yeah, he's a hero though. Yeah, he is genuinely actual hero. Goes into village, drives off bad guys, finds baby, saves baby. That's literally what a hero does. The. Village looked like it was really, you know, going to attack the Maybe it was just full of innocent people getting caught with the crossfire.

38:25 That doesn't mean I'm a hero. The village was in Casmaiden. Yeah. The fortress city under siege from the Canadians. He went in there to help them. Unfortunately, only one survivor. Me. Which is, you're doing this, he's doing this, it could be. Yeah. Pope against hope. I do, but I doubt. But no he's not. He didn't slaughter, why would he? I'm going to choose to believe your narrative for a second. If if what you say is true and he is a villain and he went in there and sorted everyone but one, why?

39:09 I don't know, I'm just throwing around theories. Without any, without a thought process to. I don't, I don't have all the evidence yet. I'm just building it. I don't but I don't have a fleshed out. Plan. You're building it under the narrative that he's that he's evil. So everything I've been told so far tells me that he's maybe not evil, but he's definitely some weird shit going on. No, that's just what you choose to believe from your own narrative. Welcome. To my life of like any conversation that I haven't caught everywhere.

39:43 He's wrong. I just, I just feel like we should keep an open mind, that's all. I'm if he proves to me that he's a perfectly decent dude then fine, but he hasn't so far. What celestial knowledge do you have on this my? God Celestial. You're a demigod. Yeah. Statistically, don't think that celestial is like a God. You better ask my celestial side. More like intimidation.

40:17 I'm not helping you. Oh. Bitch, I didn't know you were here. Oh bitch. Can I like, can I like roll intimidation on that? You're going to try intimidate me? Yeah, for my celestial knowledge. Yes. You haven't celestial knowledge sort of massive. We'll find out he's. Just angry because he's not half God. He's barely even human. Can I also do an intimidation? Yeah, I guess so. I don't know how. Intimidate each other. 21. I don't think that that's how that works, but yes. I don't know what. I don't know what to do though.

40:57 Do I just take it? I don't think you can necessarily intimidate another player that way. I he tell you what you can try in real life. Outside the game, he's just up to you. You can. You can roll and try no. Damn. It Oh well. 21 on intimidation. Pretty intimidating. So like if you're hiding anything, if there's any like shrap, any like shred of celestial knowledge, maybe you've had a dream or some sort of vision or your mother's like speaking to you right now and I can't hear it. I don't know. Like if there's anything that anything that you're holding onto that makes you personally believe that he really is as bad as what you make him out to be, by all means, you have the floor.

41:41 Share it. Otherwise I will. I really want you to keep an open mind and believe that he is actually the hero of Annan's and that is through his own governing force. That this whole place hasn't fallen into a civil war because King Luteanus is dead and the Prince and the Prince isn't able to rule because now he is a fucking Tiger I. Mean you're not. Do I have any I? Don't. Think so, dude. I don't think you're. I don't think you. So you as a demigod do not have any more knowledge on this than. I my God, how many times has she got to say no?

42:28 She's got to make sure that she understands that she is wrong. I'm. Just I'm not, I'm not insinuating that I know more information. I'm just you're also not keeping an open mind. You have to remember this right? You're not willing to be open minded about the possibility that he is do. You know what? If you're ever unlucky enough to be around the pair of these two when they're drunk and they get on the topic of politics and this is what it's like. Fuck. Me and they're both like, you're not being open minded either.

42:55 Oh no, I'm open. Oh no, you're not like my whole. Evening is taken up by that. No, but. In this instance he's also not being open minded. If I'm if I if for an instant I choose to believe that he is, I'm not. Asking you to believe it? I'm just asking. No, no I'm not. Doing this then that corrupts my whole world that that that essentially breaks everything. That what I know that destroys my world. Right, it weighs in. I'm trying to help you understand. I am not I I know we joke, but I'm helping you here in the library.

43:31 I know and I'm trying to find more information for you. I know just as much as you. This. You're right. This is, this is, This is hard and this is very sensitive. For sure I understand. That. Look, I think the best option right now is to go and talk to him because we're not going to get any answers. Well, I mean we can get background information. We got keep that, keep that diary close. We got, we got a lot, I put it. Like. Yeah, there's no one around, I guess. Nice. Does the village have a name?

44:09 No. Was it just a village? Find it. Is there any other terms? I agree. Have so. Many places on yard to. Find out I've I've ticked off, I've ticked off, ticked off everything. Oh oh shit. Trade deals, trade deals, Trade deals with other keeps specifically to do with Annan's. So see if Annan's is trading with other places. Yeah. So what I'm kind of like looking for is like if, if the king were to die, obviously he did what countries? Weird. Like what countries would benefit from the destabilisation of of Panatheon specifically?

44:45 And the easiest way to do that is do trade deals. I mean, that would be such a esoteric fucking. Oh yeah, it's high, high DC, I understand. Bro, I guess investigation for that, but then maybe if you want to do an insight just to think about it as well. If I do the insight first, does that lower the DC for the investigation? Yeah, OK. Look 9. I know what I don't know what I want, but I know what I'm looking for.

45:13 Holy hell. Horrific inspiration. I forget. I forget that I have that because human. Actually. 10 There you fucking go. That's what we're looking for. We're looking for a 17. OK. Plus one that's 18 and then tactical mind for double zeros, that's it's 10, isn't it on a zero? Yeah, yeah. OK. So that's extra time 28. 28 to look for who would benefit from the king dying. Or what if there was a if there was like a hold that was being treated poorly, what hold would gain financial, especially like financial, benefit from the loss of a?

45:56 Of the game Xenophon's diary that rib has has a lot of the sort of beginning of this knitting together all of Panatheon and there's a lot of places that are not happy with it. Some of the more sort of saviley states are very anti just because wars nowhere near them they don't care. Yeah. And so it takes a bit of sort of toing and froing and agreements to do it. Whereas people representing some of the cities that have already been taken over. So like Fasse, for example, the Lords of Fasse ran, they fled, got to Allens and and agreed to help.

46:37 And as they're agreeing to bring everyone together and unite their armies, the Saiyans feel a little betrayed at the end of the war when they basically pledge all of their army and resources that they have left to help this war. And then at the end, they don't get any of their stuff back. They're still regional governors. Like, they still basically are the Lord of Fasse. Well, if anyone here laughing, that's people in the library. It's a lab. Library 911. Yeah. The Fasseans seemed really annoyed that they didn't get all of their stuff back.

47:17 They're allowed to be regional governors still. They still have the run of the land if you like, but ultimately they have to answer to Alex and their army is completely strict from them. That's rolled into this unified army that that happened to everyone. And there was a lot of questioning about that. There are some states which are sort of still would prefer to be more federalized, I guess. So more sort of where our own entity, this is Fasse or this is Kazmaiden and we rule ourselves. Fasse and Damlia were two of the most vocal proponents.

47:57 A, they're closer to Annan's, so they have a bit more of a historic rivalry anyway. B, they were they're more militant states or were Fasse is quite famous for its cavalry. It's quite sort of like Clayton's land, whereas down there further South is a bit more sort of rocky and hilly, but it's famous for its sort of foot soldiers, a combination of light, light skirmishes and also heavy, sort of more like barbarian type. And all this unification was under Goutianus. Goutianus. Broil together. Every state has the odd not job that's very much like I don't want to be a part of this.

48:42 We should leave. We were doing fine on our own before neglecting the fact that the whole country had been invaded and taken over. That so that would so would that mean if if Pancreatitis, he was the general of the Anem's army, so he's in theory the general of the entire Panatheon army. How so? So during the war, Blue James was leading the army. Yeah. Was only when they had peace and everything calmed down that he didn't put pancreatitis in charge all. Interesting that making. So with Satya being so far away from an ends, is there anything that in the book that would have mentioned how they felt?

49:27 Because that's like pancreatizers. Home is like Satya like that's why he is. That's why he's like his how his home of office is. OK. Yeah, I'll definitely do an investigation. You could probably do just a general history as well if you wanted to to think about what it's like now. Neither is helpful, but that's. I have proficiency, yeah. Do history because you know, you know pancreatitis. 19. 6 So you know, pancreatitis is stationed in Satya. Satya is huge. It's kind of like Venice. It's like this sort of delta area, lots of little islands sort of spread between two large banks of this huge river.

50:06 Big bits of the city are built on these islands. And then there is just completely artificial man made structures. They've sunk posts into the into the lagoon and built cities on top of that. Because of its position, it is at the mouth of the Satyen River, which flows out of Andens. So Andens is built on this huge river. Not far along the course of the river it splits. One way goes to Lycira where you were before. Further north, more or less straight S is Satya. Because of this, because of this position, it was an important trade route.

50:42 A lot of trade goods going in and out. Rearview probably been to Satya before us. Being a pirate, which is the sailor in general, wink wink. As a land force, they didn't have a huge amount to offer. They had a big Navy, but they didn't have a particularly big army. What they did have shit loads of money so they can bankroll everything. After the war the Lord of Satya had been killed in action. Pancreatitis was put in charge of Satya as deputy. He controls the army, but he wanted an actual position as close to his brother as possible in terms of like power.

51:20 Interesting. Sitir is the second biggest city after Anna's. Some argue that it would make sense to be the capital itself. Anyway, as far as actually joining the war and joining Panathane is concerned, they were quite happy to bankroll a lot of what was happening the. Very Venetian. Yeah, the idea of get their money back after the war and then, you know, when Pancreatitis is in charge of it, he's the brother of the king. He can actually start demanding stuff. Did demand a lot of recompense for Satya.

51:50 And was the king Glutanus, was he as forthcoming about repaying them? He always tried to. OK, so the overall message you get about glutanus as you read through all these things is overwhelmingly positive. For whatever reason. Some of it is real sick of fancy. Like proper. Oh, he's amazing. He's beautiful. Isn't he great? He's such a good job. Look at everything. Oh, what a military genius he is. He's great. Oh, he's a Some of it is more sort of like reserved. Like factually good. Yeah, this is good stuff.

52:26 He's up, but there is nothing criticising him apart from a few episodes of things where people have quoted pancreatitis complaining that they're not allowed to attack. And this, this library, yeah, full of all this, Yeah, is where he was king. He still had power over here. Yes, yeah. Because it all became a unit, right? OK, interesting, interesting. It'll be interesting to know if OK, I'm going to have to go to like every library every place. Yeah. Just to, just to like just. To get to the bottom of.

52:57 It all, yeah. See, if it's like everywhere that this is happening, it's that whole fucking family.

53:04 She says that she's been paying any attention for the last hour. Oh, I thought you were talking about me. I was like, I have. Look at my nose. We cut the ick outside fighting a dragon. Good chair. It's hungry and tired and has been doing this since like 10:30 this morning and it's 5:30 so. We're gonna have. To stop about now. Yeah, I'm happy. I'm happy with the law done. But I do believe we have exhausted everything in the library. Cool. In that case you finish off your notes. Steal a book. This one's coming.

53:41 With us it is playing bagpipes in the college sort of square at the front. The Prince is doing a dance. Do it. You collect up ick and the Prince go back to the door. Pick up your adventuring gear, get ready for a journey. Anything you want, anything you want to buy, anything you want to find. Anything before you leave Amnes Forever probably. Nah, I'm ready to get the fuck. Out of amnes. I got myself a new armour. What have you done with Cerberus Fan? Servicefang is still on my back. OK, cool. Good to know.

54:13 You have a bag. Yep. I have fine clothes. Servicefang has not left my side. Regardless of how Riff feels about it. Fuck yourself. It's a, it's a badge of office. It's nothing underhanded at all. Yeah, sounds. You gather up your things, head to the Seagate, take one last head shaking. Look at the city that you hate so much for people that you cannot possibly stand for any longer. And then the distance you can hear, Oh yeah, we never figured that out. Oh no, we'll talk to the. Yeah. We'll see finds out what's going on.

54:51 I'm sure he'll be pissed anyway. And that's where we'll end the episode. Next time I will try and make you find something. Yeah, I love. I genuinely thought we were gonna like, we've done the nightclub bit. There'll be a bit of a funny thing where they all wake up with tattoos on their face and shit. I've never felt like such a background. Character like I didn't need to be here. Like it's. This is what's so weird, Bell. Dominates, and it could. You could have joined in. No, I can't, Bell starts.

55:21 And my brain just goes. But like, there was like a lot of law about like the politics and like wars of like countries. It doesn't care. Imagine if I knew this much history about an actual place. I know, right? I mean I've got some that gluteus like. Fair and taking bits of history that actually happened from. There. Really like setting off bad, bad bells, bad bells. Bad bells. Bad bells. Bad Baby Bells. Bad Baby Bells. I still. Don't get me wrong, I still don't trust pancreatitis as far as I could throw him, but I now also don't trust good tears, right?

56:01 Yeah, cool. Yeah, that's it. Thank you everybody for listening. Oh. Guys. Well done if you made it to the end. Yeah, you did better than me. If you enjoy listening to me talk for an hour, my audio book don't have one, I'll write 1 and then buy it. Thanks in advance. Toodles. Yeah, bye bye. Like subscribe rate buy my future book or like my no support my charity thing. Yeah. Bye. How did you think that was going to go? I don't know. This is not going how I wanted it to. I just wanted it to be a square and it's not a square.

56:47 No. I like to hit that point in recording. When I was. But ultimately they have to answer to.

56:59 I'm so sorry.