Who rescues Brigit?

[Ribusprissin]

She's right there, trapped in the Ring of Carcer, waiting for you to step through. The question is, who are you? Branding from the Grigori lands? Sphener, the ex-angel? Chalid? An unnamed scout who found a poisoned blade, captured a pet wolf, killed Orthus, slaughtered your way across Erebus, and took down Acheron? Maybe you're Acheron himself? (I know Acheron is held just as well as Brigit, but this is lore not gameplay)
Who do you see yourself as when you rescue Brigit?

 

[Diamondeye]

In my last freeing of Brigid, Valin Phanuel, guided by the angel Sphener, rescued Brigid from deep within Doviello territory. I am Elohim, by the way.

 

[Tyrs]

That's just classic

 

[Seon]

In my last freeing of Brigit, I used a Vampire Lord stained with the blood of countless Lanun soldiers, Mercurian Angels, and even more pheasants. It was something that automatically made my eyes somersault in its sockets

 

[Avahz Darkwood]

yep them are some tasty little birds....

 

[LDiCesare]

The nearest to Brigit-freeer hero I can think of is Sigfried/sigurdr, so you would expect a dragon slayer to rescue the valkyrie, errr... angel, from her circle. Which in Erebus probably means a Grigori Dragon-Slayer.
Said dragon-slayer probably started out as a hero, but a mere warrior, he spent his young years learning smithing (staid idle gaining xp in capital) and forged himself a sword out of the broken weapon of his father (upgraded to iron weapons). Sigurdr then moved on and became dragon-slayer: He was the one who gave Acheron the death blow, and he almost drowned in the beast's blood. He managed to swin of the blood, severely burnt, and spent days to recover. After this period of rest, he realised that the blood had hardened his skin, and that he now understoof the language of the Birds.
As he left the city, his winged friends told him about a winged maiden, imprisoned in a forsaken place. She was held there since times immemorial and had only been able to ask a dove for help before dark forces bound her. The dove told the story to other birds, and birds kept telling it generation after generation, hoping some day a bird would find the hero that the winged woman awaited.
Sigurdr set on a quest to find the angel. He followed the bird through orcish jungles, fighting the Clan on his way till he reached the wintery lands of the Doviello. Sigurdr fought these barbarous men and almost died to the fierce blizzards until finally he reached the Ring the dove had talked him about.
Even he was afraid of the terrible ring of shimmering lights beyond which he couldn't see, but he had fought orcs and goblins, savages of all kinds, and killed a Dragon. He was the best warrior among the Grigori, the people who are not afriad of gods. Why should he fear this? He strode forward, sword in hand, and would lift the spell and free the angel.

 

[KillerClowns]

If Brigit were to be freed in some sort of canon (e.g. a Scenario) I'd imagine her as being let loose by either the Elohim or the Bannor. But I prefer to think of the time I freed her with an orcish paladin during my experimentation with an Order/Clan strategy, for obvious reasons.

 

[Corlis]

If Brigit were to be freed in some sort of canon (e.g. a Scenario) I'd imagine her as being let loose by either the Elohim or the Bannor. But I prefer to think of the time I freed her with an orcish paladin during my experimentation with an Order/Clan strategy, for obvious reasons.

This, this is the reason I want to play as the Clan one game. Just so that they can perform a righteous revolution and instate Brigit as the new Angel of Fire.

 

[Thunder_Gr]

This is one of the beautiful things in stories like this. I imagine a nameless warrior, having gathered experience from the fighting against pesky undead, ravaging orcs, bandits, demons, vampires and the like, but not sworn to any religion.
Traveling north, passing through the unhospital tundra, fighting frostlings, wolves and polar bears in the process, he finally reaches the frozen wastelands.
He is in a quest for finding a trapped Archangel. The oracles have prophecised that this can turn the tide against the forces of hell. This would give the world of Erebus a chance to survive.

Following the given signs from the prophecy, he finally finds it. The unnatural glow of fire in the midst of the frozen wastelands is visible from a great distance.
The prophecy was clear "Only the worthy one will be able to pass through the Ring of Fire to rescue her. Any unworthy will burn and turn to ashes."
Is he the worthy one? He cannot know. But he must try... The fate of all he cares and loves in this world may depend on it...
He takes the step into the ring...

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I don't really think a Grigori hero would free Brigit, as the Grigori would see her intervention in the affairs of men as wrong.


I typically assume Brigit is freed by the Mercurians, the Bannor, or the Malakim. She would fit well among the Mercurians, as they are also angels driven by a passion to defeat evil. She would fit well among the Bannor because she was probably very important in their religion before the fall of their mistress Bhall, because both Brigit and the Bannor maintain a holy passion as a defining characteristic, because her story is well known among the Bannor, and because there are still Bannor religious orders operating in her name. She would fit well among the Malakim because the good angels of Fire mostly defected to serve Lugus (although that might have been retconned out when she actually made it into the game).

Among the units, I'd imagine Valin Phanuel is the most likely to free her. Among the heroes, I'd choose Decius.


I didn't like that Brigit was left out of the scenarios, so in my version I added a cold, blizzard filled region of to one side of the Lord of the Balors map, and placed the Ring of Carcer there. It isn't necessary to free her, but wandering into that abandoned corner of the map can be quite useful in storming the rest of the Fane of the Lessers. I've freed her from her prison there more than other places. I suppose it could also be appropriate to place the ring of Carcer in a remote portion of the Mulcarn Reborn map too, so she could reprise her original role and lead the forces against the god of her opposite sphere.

 

[KillerClowns]

I don't really think a Grigori hero would free Brigit, as the Grigori would see her intervention in the affairs of men as wrong...

Intervention? Released, she is a servant of no god, but rather her rescuers. She is no more intervening in the affairs of men then Cassiel, another fallen angel, is. The Grigori might argue otherwise if she were serving the Order or another religion, of course, but as a servant of their own cause... if nothing else, the chance to control power like that would at least convince the Grigori to find a really good justification for their hypocrisy.

 

[Verdian]

I don't really think a Grigori hero would free Brigit

I've always pictured her being rescued by a Grigori hero, myself. Probably because that was the unit I used the first time I rescued her. But the reason I prefer that method is because the Grigori freeing an angel seemingly goes against their nature. The Grigori have (in my opinion) the weakest army lore-wise. I can see a brave group of adventures battling their way to the unknown lands of the frozen north in an attempt to rescue the one person that may be able to save their lands. But admitting that they, as mortals, need divine help would be a difficult decision.

I actually plan on running that campaign in DnD as soon as Nikis finishes his work.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

I am unsure who this Brigit is, other than she is a winged valkyrie but for some reason reading this thread, I can definitively imagine a fair demon from the Infernals that has repentet and become a paladin!

 

[thomas.berubeg]

She is the Archangel of Bhall who refused to fall with her mistress, and so was banished to the icy wastes.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

If Brigit would refrain from using her divine powers and stick to philosophy like Cassiel they would have no problem with her, but I don't think she would do that. Her very nature is one of action, of passion. She would intervene in creation, and try to drag her rescuers into a war against evil that is not theirs.


You are correct that they have the weakest army. It isn't really an army even, but a loosely organized collection of local militias. This is fitting, as Cassiel has taught them to distrust powerful states and standing armies, and to avoid all wars except fighting to protect one's own home and community. Adventurers are technically part of said militias, but the officers can't seem to stop them from frequently going AWOL on some foolish quest.




I just thought of one more character who might free her from this prison: Auric Ulvin.

Of course, he wouldn't just free her from the Ring of Carcer, but from her life; this old enemy of the God of Ice would be a fitting sacrifice to fuel the ritual that would bring him back. I'm now thinking I may add the Ring of Carcer to the Blood of The Angels scenario, and make freeing/capturing/killing her an alternate victory condition. If Auric finds the Ring of Carcer and can manage to break through, he can let Cassiel live.

 

[Lord Haldane]

I should think that Yvain, perhaps more so than most other beings in creation, would be quite likely to know of Brigit's location. As for passing through the barrier itself, if the feat could be at all accomplished through divine power, then the most revered Druid would also perhaps know something of calming even the most searing of flames.

Whether he would be interested in actually dealing with the quagmire of freeing her is, naturally, an altogether different question!

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Yvain seems like an odd choice, even though her holy flames might (like all fire from before Bhall's fall) be harmless to the innocent and thus no real threat to the forests. Yvain knows most lands well because he understands all the lifeforms that dwell there, but Bhall made sure Brigit was imprisoned in a barren land where there are no such creatures who might tell the tale of how to find her.


The Barrier is not made of flames, but of starlight. If it were fire, Brigit would likely have enough sway over it to free herself. No, the fabric of her prison seems very much a part of Ceridwen's sphere.


If the barrier were of flame, then the water sphere would be most appropriate for calming it. I don't really think Nature would be all that useful. Since it is made of the fabric of the dimensional sphere -- of attachments, obsessions, expectations, regret, and pain, which would be strengthened all the more by its prisoner's obsession with escaping -- then it is proper for the Enchantment sphere to subdue it. The civ of this sphere is the Luchuirp, but the meaning is heroism, virtue, and being true to oneself.

 

[.Arawyn.]

i was a balseraph harlequin, who had captured countless animals and walked around alot, and also who killed some people.


EDIT: And he wasn't nameless. i gave him a Name. His name was [dramatic pause] BOB!

 

[xendelaar]

I freed her with Rathus Denmora(I think it was him), the stealthy guy? What is supposed to happen when you "free" her? I stepped into the circle with my hero and I defeated her. She died and nothing happened! I had to work my ass of to get to my hero to level 15!

 

[A Moon]

I freed her with Rathus Denmora(I think it was him), the stealthy guy? What is supposed to happen when you "free" her? I stepped into the circle with my hero and I defeated her. She died and nothing happened! I had to work my ass of to get to my hero to level 15!

What's supposed to happen is that you don't use a hidden nationality unit.