The Bear of Orza's story has come to a bloody end.
This was a really fun introduction to the City of Rings. I originally made this character as a lighthearted attempt at checking the setting out and am ecstatic with how many stories I managed to get involved in.
I want to thank the DMs and players that put up with my harebrained schemes on this PC. Kudos especially to the players of Tzacol Ix, Atakat Ix, Jouvander, Rhamah, Niven, the Harcourts, and the Elven Warband for making this ride so fun near the end.
I never managed to take very many screenshots but here's a cursory outline of what went down behind the scenes:
Gervasy started off as an Awakened, and very quickly fell in with two strange adherents of Yeman on his first day who encouraged him to join House Orza in order to spread the faith. One of my primary goals was to convert all of House Orza to the worship of Yeman over that of the Lady-in-Waiting, or the Lord Departed. A foreign god for a house of outsiders. Rituals, rites, and funerals were often held in collaboration with the Yemanzi. Any prospective retainers were made to convert.
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[/hide]Gervasy was very close with his friends.
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[/hide]But he was not so nice to those below him in the Orzan pecking order.
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[/hide]Eventually an opportunity arose to harm a rival house that was amassing power at a far speedier rate than any others in the Peerage: House Velstra. Gervasy threw a lifeline to a pair of Blackjacks that had found themselves stuck between a group of hostile Velstrans and elves.
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[/hide]The two new Orzans were not long for this world and soon found themselves killed. With a plausible casus belli in place it was time to move to stage two of the plan.
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[/hide]He also arranged the impromptu marriage of Ser Jouvander Vindascas to Niven Scurlock, a Velstran retainer, as another political blow to House Velstra.
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[/hide]Gervasy and his allies then defeated the elves before making another gambit. He offered them a chance to live in exchange for their role in what was effectively a false-flag operation. The elves would attack the retainers of the other houses, which would in turn galvanise them into voting for his anti-subhuman and anti-halfbreed policies at the council. This was eventually meant to hurt the Vale and the Winespills, but I wasn't able to get that far; the plot was cleverly discovered by the Velstrans, and he was given his just deserts right before he could put his plan into motion.
Loot.
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[/hide]It's been fun, EFU. See you soon!