Re: MotM: Monolythe

In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Fri 06 Oct, Adam Miller wrote:
> That time of the Month again...:)
> 
> This time out, we explore Monolythe, a world of undead
[snip]

Interesting world...

I note that there are no vampires and mummies mentioned, the
first presumably because it preys on the (unknowing) living,
something this world is short of, and the second because the
culture that makes them is not native on this world.

On the subject of making undead, a (rough) description of the
process that makes a "Son of Acererak" either from a living
creature, or from a liche, and whether they have phylactries
giving them that vulnerability of liches, would be interesting.

You say:

"When a being dies in one of these tombs, his soul journeys not
to an Outer Plane, but is instead sent to Monolythe, flowing from
one of the springs that feed the Daughters of Styx."

The means by which such a soul trap, then soul transportation
across multiple crystal spheres (Interuniversal Teleport?), is
made to work would be of interest.

Presumably it involves mightly rituals on the source pyramids,
maybe combining arcane and divine magic?  Maybe all pyramids must
have a (hidden) pool of water (block of ice?) from the Daughters
of Styx in their basement?  What form are the 'souls' in that are
found in the Daughters of Styx?  Is it possible that they are not
actually souls, but are in fact a special variety of undead that
thinks it is just a soul?  So, what is going on is that at the
point of death in one of the source pyramids you don't actually
die, but are turned into this sort of undead, call it a 'soul
sprite'?

Might the mechanism that transports souls could be used to invade
Monolythe, as you could enter a pyramid and use the link to open
some sort of inter-universal portal to the head of the Daughters
of Styx, then take an army through?

Or, maybe there is some way that a spelljamming craft could
follow a guide through the phlogiston from a world where someone
has lost a companion to one of these pyramids, which would lead
them to the right crystal sphere, then actually to the world of
Monolythe?


By the way, I'm not sure what the 'XXX' means in the text - did
you mean to substitute something there?

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