FfH trivia game thread

[xienwolf]

Rex is totally wrong. I JUST saw it happen. He was attacked by 4 Lion Prides and then a skeleton finished him off.

Damn double-Mod-Modding...

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Correct (Rex, not xienwolf. I meant in the backstory, not in your last game)

(The second hero was Vaghan of Lugus, who appears as a Great Prophet and in the Abashi pedia entry. I made him basically be a paladin with law1, life1, spirit1, sun2, chanelling1,2, divine, sorcery, crown of brilliance, demonslaying, and undeadslaying (but not immune to disease). Just to amuse myself, I'll think I'm make him weak against dragons in the next version. I also replaced the Talia Gossam great prophet with a werewolf-druidess hero, just as a joke)

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

Who is Emmedriys?
Hint: He is a specailst

 

[xienwolf]

It's not MY fault you didn't specify which one of his deaths

The music. It might have lasted for a moment, or perhaps eternity had quietly passed as I stood transfixed at the edge of the forest. When it stopped, I felt my heart ache for the slowly dying beauty. The player, a slight elven lass, surely a princess of an ancient clan, turned to me and smiled. "Milady," I said, "Pray tell me what gift I might give you in return for the song that graced my ears, and what life of service do you ask, that I might chance to hear it again?" She but bid me take her instrument, this bright and perfect lyre, and to bring it here, to play it here that the joy given me might be passed on and peace grow stronger. Or at least that's what I tell people to sell more tickets. --Emmedriys, famed bard of Evermore

So the famed bard of Evermore.

Oddly enough, he doesn't seem to be on the list as a possible name for a Great Bard...


My question: Elizabeth's Father was told to "go and find a job tomorrow." He then goes on to appear as what unit in the mod?

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

A Great Merchant

 

[xienwolf]

You isn't allowed to guess Rex, you asked the last question So I neither confirm nor deny your answer.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I don't think Rex rgis of Ter was suppose to answer, as he had asked the question immediately before. He is right though, Tamur the merchant went on to be Goodreau the Great Merchant.

 

[xienwolf]

Yes, he was right and was not supposed to have answered, so since you were the first to repeat him it is your turn to ask. Unless I can call foul and ask my other question instead (shoulda asked it first anyway. Slightly harder)

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I can't think of a good one at the moment, so go ahead and ask your other question.

 

[xienwolf]

Which Demon is also a Great General, and which other Great General appears in a pedia entry where his name also shows up (Hint: This is the only pedia entry with ANY Great General names in it)

 

[MagisterCultuum]

There are no great generals in FfH, only great commanders.

I don't know of any great commanders that are really demons, but Averax is a Cambion (half-demon, like Mardero or Merlin in some legends) and Rivanna is a Wraith Lord (probably undead, not a demon). Several others could still be demons and we wouldn't know it. (See edit for the real answer)


Goroff Grist is the Great Commander found in the Civilopedia, where he is the adjudicator who condemns Lita the Witch to exile by being tossed from the CLiffs of Hastur; it is after falling from these cliffs that she is rescued/captured by a demon and forced to give birth to many cambions before she dies giving birth to last and most powerful, Mardero, and was then devoured by her offspring.


Edit: I just noticed that Hastur himself is on the list. I suppose that The Archangel of Mammon probably counts as a demon better than a cambion or wraith. He is also quoted in the civilopedia's Etherial Call entry, and his name of course appears in "Hastur's Razor," the Chaos 3 sorcery spell. Although not in the civilopedia, he is the cause of Danalins nightmares about Hemah, thus indirectly created the Octopus Overlords. His name also obviously appears in the name "Cliffs of Hastur" in the same civilopedia entry as Goroff Grist. This name makes me wonder if he is in fact the demon who captured Lita, and father of Mardero.

So yeah, the answers are Hastur and Goroff Grist.

 

[xienwolf]

Correct, Hastur is a Great Commander for some strange reason And Mardero's Pedia entry is where both names pop up at the same time.

Found those while trying to figure out the answer to "Which great person does NOT have a pedia entry," which turned out to be darn near all of them sadly

(And I forgot about the quote from Hastur. Had seen that while buzzing through, but filed it away mentally with Hastur's Razor as "not counting" so forgot about it a half hour later when I had a chance to re-use the potential question )

So, got a question yet MC?

 

[MagisterCultuum]

edit: Eh, I changed my mid about the question.

Why did Kyorlin try to commit suicide, how, who stopped him, and how?

 

[Mewtarthio]

Kylorin begged for death upon discovering his wife's unfaithfulness. Ceridwen granted him immortality and set his wife into her eternal reincarnation loop so that he could get a second chance with her.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Correct. Well, he not only begged but ran to a castle parapet and was about to jump off when Ceridwen stopped him. He granted him eternal youth (not true immortality, he can still be killed) and bound Epona this world so she will always return and he can always woo her again.

Of course, because of this whenever he found her again she abhorred him, and preferred death to life with him. She rejected him every time until after he abandoned Ceridwen and began to seek to end the Age of Ice.

Spoiler :

At my hand the first empire of man was won
For me long faithful men bled and died
Yet I was the one to which this treachery was done
This truth I knew but my timid lips denied
That a disloyal heart each night beside me lied
My queen who spent her love upon another man
That heart, which I desired most, I could not command

To flee that gilded hell I sacrificed my life
From the tower into empty night I'd fly
What pain is death compared to a faithless wife?
What hope exists to one who'd rather die?
So I stood upon the parapet and cried
"Come death, rend my flesh, gather my soul
Tear from me, this tragedy, this gaping hole"

No answer came from the chill November night
Only wind and echoes from a city far below
Until from deep within the pale moonlight
Came a goddess wreathed in a pallid glow
"Answer me, most mortal king, for I would know
If I returned your love and you weren't dead
Would you forget your oaths and follow me instead?"

I'm not mad enough to think that burning spirits can
Remake this loss, restore my past undone
And you cannot make us understand
That with even the most silvered tongue
Loves remains can never love become
Or heart won through cheat is ever truly got
Or that this pain would cease if mind forgot

If you've no hope left then leap to death
Else hear my words and enter this shadowed door
But I promise even if you don't draw breath
This pain will follow you to Arawn's shores
And in death you will possess hatred even more
For I know the dead; they are wounds unhealed
And if you leap now, to this your fate is sealed

So came I to learn from the goddess of pain
Ceridwen, breaker of men, maiden of the mask
Many aspects she has and more vile names
She taught me how to avenge my past
And have my wife reborn so that our love might last
Sorcery, her gift to me, would sustain my life
And instead of death would reincarnate my wife

Born anew I could find and woo my wife again
Her mistake erased I'd have my perfect queen
With her death and newfound life she'd make amends
And I would remain forever as a king
In time the happiness she'd bring
Would make worthwhile this twisted sacrifice
For Ceridwen's gift had come at a price

Two hundred years I stayed as undying king
My lands, once fair, ruled now by arcane might
Through generations of my people and my queen
I alone remained and changed to Ceridwen's delight
A cruel terror who commanded flame, death and night
I demanded that every man should come to obey
The least of my desires, which grew each passing day

Another Eve had passed, this time by my hand
After a break of years I went to seek her out
I found a young woman working on my lands
I approached and told her all about
The bond between us but she had only fear and doubt
Those eyes, once trusting, were now full of tears
Seeing the monster I'd become in all these years

She destroyed me in the centuries before
And now thought for this I was the one to blame
I returned to the life she now claimed to abhor
And left her in the fields her life unchanged
I approached her reborn forms but it was the same
Always revulsion at what I had become
And through any lie her heart remained unwon

My mages maintained Ceridwen's demands
Most of which had been trained by me
My kingdom destroyed by my own hands
The first empire of man a cruel theocracy
Devoted to Cerdiwen, enforced by sorcery
And I alone remembered times more fair
It was far more than my guilty heart could bare

A bloody rebellion started, which I lead
My empire became an arcane battleground
As the gods had warred now man did instead
Landscapes were lost, forests, mountains, towns
Untold numbers unto Arawn's shores were bound
In the end the great empire of man was gone
From it only shattered countries would go on

As ages pass these countries war against
Each other, forgetting once they were as one
Or how their bitter squabbling commenced
With an ancient love betrayed their war begun
Loves remains can never love become
The same is true for kingdoms split apart
Warring nations shattered by my heart

What of my queen across these centuries?
At times I glance her as our fates entwine
Sharing a few words or lives married
Occurs unforced as allowed by time
Love's strongest bonds are those that loosest bind
Her life to me, and mine spent trying to repay
My debt of sin to the men my acts betrayed

Perhaps I should have stayed with my first question.

 

[Mewtarthio]

You mean the one you mentioned in the other thread, that even you don't know the answer to?

Okay, next question:

To which civilization did Kylorin allude in his speech at the Battle of Adenshire? (hint: They're playable in FfH)

 

[MagisterCultuum]

No, I mean another question from the AoI text file which I had written before I changed my mind.

I could answer your question if it were allowed.

 

[Love]

Is it Lanun? [/irony]

 

[Mewtarthio]

Is it Lanun? [/irony]

No. Kylorin vanished shortly before the Age of Rebirth, so I don't think he'd know about the Lanun (unless they were around in the Age of Magic... but regardless, it's not them).

 

[Love]

DId you notice the irony?