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Originally Posted by joppeknol
The banestorm 'garland'. A kind of a golden circle with scultured leaves. It was used by the dark elves, to fuel the spell that started the banestorm. It is a ako super powerstone with the limitation that all stored energy must be used in one spell (e.g. use it to throw a fireball and now you have to throw a 4000fp fireball.). There is now way of telling how much energy is contained in it. It is somewhere in the ruins of an old elven city in the great desert and guarded by a cult of fanatic dark elves.
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Originally Posted by Gold & Appel Inc
Wouldn't the Dark Elves put a limiting enchantment on something that powerful that makes it usable by Elves only? And why just guard it, instead of try to use it for something?
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If the bane spell had succeeded, there wouldn't be any non-elves left to try to use it. (I'm assuming that the garland itself was created for the purpose of casting the bane.)
The cult was founded by a Dark Elf who survived the backfire because he couldn't take part in the ceremony due to being a Mana Damper; having that Advantage is one of the requirements for being a priest of the cult.
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If the stakes are that high, why not get the greatest heroes of the realm to do this?
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The demon wants a group of talented nobodies to retrieve the items, to make sure he can still easily take the items from them should they decide to keep them for themselves. The "greatest" heroes might be a problem; the PCs are, in the demon's estimation, "just good enough" to retrieve the items, and wont attract undue attention by their mere presence in the area.