The Map Provided by the Arcane Sons...

We must be strong friends. It is time to show what friendship, unity and trust brings. We can do this. I believe in you all!

Since I’m not sure how quickly this information has spread, and we only have a few days until Corsair relocates us to the Chaos Wastes, i am providing the following update:

Last feast, Corsair took me on a trip around Arawyn to every city containing Necrophitus’ undead. While they are numerous, they are not acting as we would expect. They are not needlessly slaughtering and pushing back against the living. Instead, they seem to be acting in a calculated manner- they are pushing back and trapping people, moving in ways that are clear to be a diversion. They were meant to distract us, to force us to attempt to split our strengths and tear us apart.

Cara,

Once we've done the work in the Wastes... I will be taking volunteers back to Fort McWilliam in the Highlands to clean up the mess there. One hopes without That One's power driving them, they will get rolled up without needless loss of life there.

You are absolutely right- it is absolutely a diversion of sorts but sometimes even they need to be dealt with as quickly and resolutely as possible.

Let us hope we can do whats necessary in a timely and efficient manner so we can all go to where the problems are to excise them like the cysts they be.

-Duncan

Speaking as one who both knows undead and tactics pretty well...

This makes zero sense. If he truly meant these undead to be a distraction, why NOT let them rip, rend, and tear flesh from bone as their very nature demands? Why bother with the magical energy and attention needed to keep these undead at bay? Right now- these undead are not a distraction at all. Why would we literally care about them if they aren't even harming the people of Arawyn? Does Necrophitis have a vested interest in keeping a world population intact? Or are they rounding up these people in order for a use later- a sacrifice or a ritual perhaps?

Keep in mind that I am not calling your report into question- Im questioning our reaction to it and the possible tactics behind what it is that we are seeing.

Allyce

I imagine it has to do with his real goal.
His goal to extend his reach 'beyond the Stars'
Either they are being collected for a reason, or just to distract us as Cara says, however:

That level of intelligence in undead generally means either that they are sentient or that they are advanced in some other way.

I would postulate that if they are indeed using advanced tactics and organization and are not a mindless horde would mean that it might be impossible for us to discern their intentions by just looking at them. Who knows the complexity of the order they were given.

Just my thoughts on how they are acting. I am going to go back to preparing for our trip. The best way to deal with it all is to deal with the problem. At best, they will be destroyed, at worst they will all become feral.

I never said they were not attacking nor killing people. I started they were not acting with the aim of mass slaughter. They are meant to divert our attention. If I had not been taken around the globe, we would not have known what they were doing. We would still be assuming they are slaughtering everyone and everything in sight.

There is a bigger plan here we do not know.

many orc in gaaldron still not free in da pits, badddd orcs who if free help murder da ones you want dead, when we go der to gettem out, LET DEM CLAIM DER VENGEANCE

Might I suggest the power of Augury, newly found within the priesthood of Eodra. Along with the psions, we priests could make use of this spell/prayer to coordinate efforts and communicate with whom we have once spoken in each one of the areas of concern.

Father Ephrem

Such tactics are a by-product of aberrant reanimation. It's not something Travance has honestly commonly seen, so it doesn't surprise me that many of you are unfamiliar with undead being used this way. The undead carry out long, complicated tasks with calculated thought due to the souls fueling them. As normally the brain of a reanimated creature such as undead breaks down to primal function, the soul has some way of imparting tactical knowledge to the construct.

In the end it's obvious that Arcane is positioning more than anything else, his move is coming very soon and has already begun.

-Orophin

(OOG note: empathics are catching a whole bunch of rage and anger coming off of this.)

I care not wha' is causin' this. Something's gettin' a kicking fer messing wi' me homeland.

((I don't know if they'd get that from written words, unless it were written such that it looks angry.))

(yep. Mess with hibernians, you get the wolfhound's teeth.)