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MarkusTay63 wrote:

Darra'pol excerpt: She performs her duties in the Interrogatuum - a bleak Obelisk of Basalt that sits upon a floating Earthmote above the city. From its bottom hang cages with prisoners - some of whom died long ago, the vultures picking at their rotting carcasses. The moans and wails of despair from the still-living can be heard in the streets below...

Great Idea, but a small nitpick... What about human waste products from the cages? Do they just rain down on the city at random? Seems... messy.

Then again it is 4e. Messy seems to run in the family.

Ok FRCG names one council member Mansard Kanaoth so I guess another seat is taken, and I have to say I actually like the plot attached to the guy.

BTW the Streetwise 40 and the picture of the warlock knight with telos on the last two pages of the warlock knights part in the book are quite interresting, and I am not shure how much the knights serve Telos/ or use him.

If you take a look at the shardsouls, they seem a bit suicidal ( I guess they want to rejoin with big T) but their powers actually make me suspect that there is more to Telos than first expected. The picture of Telos is a bit weird, the purple light is most likely generated by himself (all the warlock knight radiant powers are purplish) but the runes arround him make it look a bit like he´s imprisoned or keept in sleep there. I guess we will have to ask Rich about it.

EDIT:I forgot to mention that there are some banite priests among the knights so I guess now I have a god to multiclass cleric in

Well I as I understand it, when Telos fell from the Sky (I am currently pretty shure that he is a Dawn Titan) he lost conciousness and fell into a coma, but his great mental powers were instinctivly searching for someone to help him and protect him.
The first person that responded was the human now known as the voice of Telos (his past is something we could all do together, from evil bandid to disillusioned priest or even humble farmer everthing is possible), the voice became Telos defacto chosen destined to protect Telos in his vulnerable state.
I am not shure what criteria Telos uses to call others to him, but there is certanly an uncontrolled power inside him that the warlock knights and luminaries now use.

I guess the Voice of Telos is the defacto translator for Telos wishes since he can´t communicate them by himself, and only the voice and some powerfull warlock knights have so far been able to withstand his psychic presence to get a vague understanding of his will.

The city of Telos was build arround the place where Telos now fell to the ground. His body now resides in the inner chamber of the great temple in Telos, only a select few are allowed to see him, but his body is mined for new Ironfell as soon as he regenerates - but always under close guard from warlock knights - Telos may be able to regenerate from the mining but he is unconcious and can´t defend himself. The sanctum is protected with the help of several rituals preventing teleportation, scrying, and is the target for a sanctum ritual cast on the voice and several council members.

At any given time several shardsouls and shardsoul avatars are hidden inside ready to destroy any intruder who dares to enter.

After reading the ritual of the Iron ring and the associated magical disease..... well I am very happy that they stated to add countermeasures for rituals (and magic circle still needs one among others - though I guess knock could work) but if you have access to the ritual to ending the effect of the pact is really easy - but if you don´t it´s pretty impossbile since you dont do endurance rolls, but wisdom checks so it´s pretty impossible for unwise characters.

I would suggest rituals to detect pact breakers (active over the city of telos and several other key places for the knights), something that alerts the ritual caster that whoe broke the pact when they break it, and maybe a tougher version of the Ritual itself.