Greatest Sacrifice Part II [Archive] - Wizards Community

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JaiaDrottsingr

05-11-06, 09:04 PM
Credit goes to Shaun.

Post Script
Don't say Mystra.
Priest_of_Shaundakul

05-12-06, 07:41 PM
You couldn't bump the old topic? :confused:
JaiaDrottsingr

05-12-06, 09:41 PM
No, I don't exactly remember what you, or any others, wrote.
Zsych

05-19-06, 06:02 PM
What do you mean by Greatest Sacrifice? People who sacrificed a lot?

Karsus obviously! He sacrificed his chance at becoming a permanent god by using a spell that he was nearly sure would kill him... for the sake of his people. Obviously if he understood gods enough to take the power of one of the strongest, he should have been able to turn himself into a demi-god at least, normally.

Then Mystryl the crazy decides that she can't handle Karsus having control of the Weave even temporarily and commits suicide, forever destroying magic(to the best of her knowledge), but as it happened(or so Ed says), there was a blabbering lunatic, slobbering all over herself, who was accidentally hit by the remaining spark of Mystryl's divinity and turned into Mystra. Who proceeded to strip humanity as a whole of the chance to achieve the greatest heights of power ever again. Thereby completely destroying the people that Karsus had sought to protect(since their mythallars stopped working in the Weave... at the time).

(in all likelihood of course, Ed meant to imply no such thing, when he explained the somewhat ridiculous circumstances of Mystra's birth. But couple the latter day temporary effect, Karsus Avatar, with Mystryl not even knowing that magic would be saved in the form of Mystra, since she personally had no backups at all.... and things start looking rather bad for the goddesses of magic :))
Lord Karsus

05-22-06, 09:51 AM
What do you mean by Greatest Sacrifice? People who sacrificed a lot?

Karsus obviously! He sacrificed his chance at becoming a permanent god by using a spell that he was nearly sure would kill him... for the sake of his people. Obviously if he understood gods enough to take the power of one of the strongest, he should have been able to turn himself into a demi-god at least, normally.

Then Mystryl the crazy decides that she can't handle Karsus having control of the Weave even temporarily and commits suicide, forever destroying magic(to the best of her knowledge), but as it happened(or so Ed says), there was a blabbering lunatic, slobbering all over herself, who was accidentally hit by the remaining spark of Mystryl's divinity and turned into Mystra. Who proceeded to strip humanity as a whole of the chance to achieve the greatest heights of power ever again. Thereby completely destroying the people that Karsus had sought to protect(since their mythallars stopped working in the Weave... at the time).

(in all likelihood of course, Ed meant to imply no such thing, when he explained the somewhat ridiculous circumstances of Mystra's birth. But couple the latter day temporary effect, Karsus Avatar, with Mystryl not even knowing that magic would be saved in the form of Mystra, since she personally had no backups at all.... and things start looking rather bad for the goddesses of magic :))

-Word.