Campaign Related Questions

In terms of the Legion of the Watchful Hunter, I’m assuming that either 1) There was a confusion about how large a canon Legion is in Coryan, as established in the Codex Arcanis (mk.1) or 2) It came with 5 additional Legions of Auxillia. Though (1) likely played a huge part in this, I would in no way be surprised if an occupation force was sent into a satrapy with a hefty reenforcement.

I’m not sure if it was confusion or not. It’s clear that when a Legion is founded that the number of men is 1,000. It’s not clear whether all legions must remain at that level once fielded or if that is simply the minimum number to be considered viable. The original campaign referenced the legion at 4,000 when destroyed. In the MetaOrg document that was proposed though not adopted during the first campaign a legion was proposed to be between 3000 and 5500 not including Auxillia.

A large number of Auxillia is certainly possible. It’s also possible that commanding officer was a High General in charge of multiple legions marching under the banner of the Watchful Hunter.

At the very least, given the distance from the capital a larger than normal Legion would make sense.

With a sweep of his hat,

Paul

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10) If a Val were to become Psionic by being Silence-Touched, would they eyes turn ‘clear’ as if they were awakened naturally?

10) I would think yes. For the simple reason that agents of the Silence are all about stealth and subterfuge. So changing a Val’s eyes to look the proper color (or lack there of) is the best way to avoid revealing that he/she is Silence Touched. I mean it’s pretty big give away if their agent uses psionics and still has the steely gray eyes.

But I can’t recall a single Val agent of the Silence in the old campaign. So I can’t provide proof either way.

I started to have a look through a couple of the old adventures that dealt with the silence to see if the clear eyes were mentioned.

Unfortunately my Archives of the 3.5 adventures are incomplete due to a harddrive failure a while back. But I was looking through one mod called “The Sacrifice of Generations” and it reminded me of something interesting to do with the silence.

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11) We know that the Khitani and Uls have followed a more asian-style naming scheme even during the First Imperium when they were part of that world, and they were isolated from the rest of the Imperium since the events of the Blood War. Did the Khitani language and noticable difference in culture start then, or after the Dreaming of Larissa led them to the northwest corner of the continent? Speaking only from a linguistic point of view, I can’t see Khitani being at all related to Altheran, but that could just be me applying our world to Arcanis where Chinese is not related to the Indo-European languages that represent the rest of the ‘known languages’ in the Arcanis universe.

Again we don’t really know. BUT the guys from Enpyben have vaguely Finnish names and we have essentially no Finnish influences on the Coryani tongue. The Finnish names came with their “clan” when they came over for the Gods War before Altheris gifted everyone with a common language. I *THINK* a similar thing happened with all the tribes that have Asian influenced names. In this scenario we have Chinese-ish people speaking something close to Latin…peppered perhaps with some cultural hold overs. That doesn’t map perfectly with things like the wide spread use of the word Dao for Broadsword but it would make some sense.

I agree its hard to see how you get Latin and Chinese out of one root language.

Regardless, if you look how much the English has drifted in 1000 years its clear the Coryani and the Khitani can’t speak to each other without interpreters.

I would suspect Eldar magic is safer as it takes longer to cast. This means that there is less primal forces traveling through the body to achieve the same effect.

One thing that I would have to wonder then is… do primal casters suffer from the wasting illness since they get their spells indirectly?