The Cross of the City of the Gods

[Havard]

In "Robilar Remembers: Journey to the City of the Gods", Rob Kuntz (with Dave Arneson) describes how Mordenkeinen and Robilar retrieved a large cross-like object from the City of the Gods and brought it back to Blackmoor. Later they learned that the object had been stolen and presumably had been returned to the City of the Gods.

Any suggestion to what this Cross might actually have been?

-Havard

[Freedom92]

Could have been a device from the city that was required to keep reactors stable or simply a religious fetish for the aliens. What was the cross described to look, feel, etc.?

[Havard]

Could have been a device from the city that was required to keep reactors stable or simply a religious fetish for the aliens. What was the cross described to look, feel, etc.?

Here's what the story has:

Mordenkainen stopped and examined a table. On it was a cross-like object the size of a battle axe. Next to this were several scrolls of vellum. He cautiously prodded the cross with his staff. It looked to be made of precious metals, some recognizable, but some, to his amazement, not so easily placed. He thought of adamant, and other god-metals.

Rob Kunt'z end commentary has the following:

The cross-artifact was disposed of in Blackmoor for an enormous sum of gold; the merchants who bought it were later slain by those from the city who came searching for it. The cross, it is assumed, was taken back to the city. I considered this part of the adventure anti-climatic to the story as written, so it was dropped as a source from the onset, but here you have at least the summary

Read the whole thing here: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5851 ... /OJ_06.pdf

-Havard