Fall of the Black Queen

[Havard]

Holy Coot! just read Havards Piazza post http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopi ... =24&t=3328

and dang if it isn't a perfect fit. "temple complex devoted to the Dark Lords of the Egg of Coot"

The Dark Lords are the "monsters of the Id"

whom the Egg of Coot - the Baron made immortal by the Id - serves.

I know some would read the lords as servants of coot, but the Coot is never described as having dark lord servants and I think it really reads as the Lords are the gods whom the coot serves, it makes more sense that way.

I am not sure that I would like to make a definite statement about the nature of the Egg of Coot IMC, but the connection between the Egg and the Temple of Id are interesting. I do like the idea of having an Id-worshipping Baron named Regscott there. Regardless of the exact connection, it seems clear that the Egg of Coot was somehow brought into this world by the actions of the Temple of Id. I am leaving open here the possibility that the Egg could be older, but that it was awakened by the Cultists of Id, perhaps working with some of the underwater races.

My other idea about the Temple of Id is that they were the original posessor of the Well of Souls. While the Temple was destroyed by the Elves, the Well of Souls was moved to a hidden location, only to be discovered by the Afridhi centuries later. I think it was Cthulhudrew who first suggested that the Well of Souls was created by Thanatos explaining a reference about an artifact created by Thanatos which had been destroyed in the Blackmoor era, mentioned in Wrath of the Immortals. Zugzul would not have created something like the Well of Souls, but being a power-hungry God, he thinks this artifact can be used to secure his people taking over the world.

I also wanted to include a reference to the Sun Gem of the Temple of Id, being an artifact created by Sollus and used by the elves to destroy the temple.

More later

Havard