Roger Combs Through the Llyrian Research
Roger spent about a week poring over the Llyrian research. He ends up creating a body of reference notes so he can navigate the research and indicates there's a lot more in there than what he was able to glean or understand. Here's what he was able to determine on the subjects requested:
- Dating system - how does it relate to the current date/time?
The documents don't appear to have a direct dating system that Roger can link to the current calendar, but they are discernible relative to one another. There is, however, some reference to The Northern Wanderer having been a recent occurrence; since the comet was visible within the last couple of years, that means the events of these documents are probably at least 150 years old. - General overview of operation at the Llyrian facility
From what Roger can tell, there was a significant effort to create an army of warforged. The research indicates that the actual warforged production took less than a year; several years before were spent researching and producing the materials with the necessary properties. The Llyrian research was focused on musculature and solving a particular set of problems having to do with magic (Roger's not sufficiently Arcana-literate to interpret exactly what this means, but it becomes clear it's Necromancy). The output of the facility was one of several phases of production; the parts were shipped to another location for "fitting," then on to another place for some further processing. The last runs of production were mass-production of a specific model; several other models and prototypes were produced at various times in much smaller numbers. Prototypes (once complete) are supposed to have been archived at a place called Leng. - Reasons for making warforged “army?”
Warforged specifically weren't the goal, but they were the answer to a question that was being addressed by a larger group that included the Llyrians. They needed an army that could not be raised as undead, and the various groups involved designed warforged to fit that need. There was some great threat that was considered unstoppable without a means of avoiding that specific magic. - Involvement of lycanthropes and wolfsbane
Shipped parts were packed in wolfsbane as a means of preserving their magical properties; something about the herb repelling or containing the lunar power to transform. There are also references through the materials creation process that invoking the moon's transformation power has the potential to inflict lycanthropy if used improperly; certain portions of the processing mention having remove curse ready to hand as a precaution. - Location of Sunhaven and how they were transporting things there Sunhaven is only referenced a few times in the paperwork. Usually in reference to the "fitting" process, occasionally with technical drawings of pieces of musculature alongside support structure akin to bones. Its location is not mentioned, but shipments to Sunhaven are rigidly scheduled; transport is only available during certain hours on certain days. It seems like the Sun Carving is a bidirectional portal but only functions in one direction at a time; it's not clear what causes it to function or when.
Comments