So I was lying in the bath listening to pysbient music and thinking about things and I got to wondering; the Ophidian and Terathan war, what is that all about?
It isn't that they are enemies. They must have been for a long time. The governor of Delucia felt it was important enough at some time to commission a crappy mural of it that seems to have been made by Reebdoog the Blind and taken up most of the town's treasury and all of its stone supplies.
No there has been something nagging away at the back of my mind about it for years. Years.
But I worked out what it is. The Terathans have a fortified keep, with battlements, earthworks, choke points and all kinds of bad ass stuff. The Ophidians, who are winning, have a ruined shack in the desert.
A ruined shack....
And the Terathans share their keep with a whole army of bad ass monsters (by t2a time standards) like balrons, nightmares and dragons. Couldn't they go down to the basement and say " Dudes there's like totally hundreds of guys from a masonic serpentine penis worshipping cult* at the door, can you come upstairs for a minute?"
The Ophidians have a ruined dressing table and a smashed up bed.
So what gives? How can they be winning? What are they so angry about?
And shouldn't the Ophidians have the keep and the weaker Terathans be living like bums in the desert?
The official story is something like "crazy wizard.. blah blah.. army... blah....world domination..magic...". The best I could think of was the Ophidian matriarchs were away for the weekend and the apprentice shamen threw a party and the Terathans turned up drunk and univited and everything went to ****.
Any thoughts?
*that's my theory anyway.
It isn't that they are enemies. They must have been for a long time. The governor of Delucia felt it was important enough at some time to commission a crappy mural of it that seems to have been made by Reebdoog the Blind and taken up most of the town's treasury and all of its stone supplies.
No there has been something nagging away at the back of my mind about it for years. Years.
But I worked out what it is. The Terathans have a fortified keep, with battlements, earthworks, choke points and all kinds of bad ass stuff. The Ophidians, who are winning, have a ruined shack in the desert.
A ruined shack....
And the Terathans share their keep with a whole army of bad ass monsters (by t2a time standards) like balrons, nightmares and dragons. Couldn't they go down to the basement and say " Dudes there's like totally hundreds of guys from a masonic serpentine penis worshipping cult* at the door, can you come upstairs for a minute?"
The Ophidians have a ruined dressing table and a smashed up bed.
So what gives? How can they be winning? What are they so angry about?
And shouldn't the Ophidians have the keep and the weaker Terathans be living like bums in the desert?
The official story is something like "crazy wizard.. blah blah.. army... blah....world domination..magic...". The best I could think of was the Ophidian matriarchs were away for the weekend and the apprentice shamen threw a party and the Terathans turned up drunk and univited and everything went to ****.
Any thoughts?
*that's my theory anyway.
Had to look up pysbient lol 
