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Lukas

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Lukas is a priest in the campaign Zincirsiz ("Unchained"), a man in his sixties who lives in a village east of a settlement burned by devils. One of the captives freed from those devils, a man of about sixty, described him as kind, able to heal and to work small miracles, and a help to the villages around; his family, he said, had settled there later. He is a different man from Governor Lucas of Sınır Sapı.12

The temple house

The village is an ordinary one surrounded by fields. Lukas lives in a two-storey building that is both his house and a temple: below are an altar and seats for about twenty people, and above is the priest's home. On the altar stand symbols of the earth gods, such as a cauldron and a hammer. The cauldron and ladle are the symbol of Amarath, and the hammer and anvil that of Volkan.324

Beneath the altar a hidden hatch leads down to a library of books in many languages, and under its stairs is a second hidden compartment holding a small locked chest.5

The manuscript and the devils

Jonathan River, Olaf and Tim came to him one evening. Behind closed doors Jonathan told him that the village to the west had been burned and its people killed by devils. Lukas was frightened but not yet convinced. At Jonathan's sign Tim took on the face of the freed captive, and the priest said that face and name might be familiar; Jonathan then revealed that he was a mage and spoke of the threat that was seeking the manuscripts.67

Lukas was wary of strangers asking for a holy family heirloom. He would not burn or hand over a sacred thing without seeing the danger, and for the time being he would not say where it was. He said that if he died, he could leave its finding and destruction to them as a religious duty. They agreed instead that he would hide that night among the trees on the village road and see a devil for himself.89

At midnight Lukas, Olaf and Tim hid while Jonathan waited in the open; the relic's will said it had passed the request on by entering a dream. A bearded devil came and told Jonathan that its kind had settled in a cave on the forest path that they had cleared of bears. Jonathan said he would bring the manuscripts within a few hours and ordered them to be ready to move, and the devil left.1011

Having seen the proof, Lukas prayed for Jonathan's task and led them to the temple. He opened the hatch under the altar and the hidden compartment under the stairs, and with a key from around his neck took from the chest a long, upright manuscript in old Celestial that did not look aged, and gave it to Jonathan.512

What Lukas knew

Lukas said that the manuscript was one part of the story of how the gods, through their angels, defeated and imprisoned a great devil lord, and that to the right eye it held secrets, treasures and the places where things were hidden. He did not know how many parts there were. When Jonathan asked for a false trail for the other parts, Lukas suggested the library of the central earth temple in the Marble Palace, while stressing that he did not know whether any part was really there.1314

If no other way remained, Lukas offered to be given to the devils as a captive whom they could question and kill, to save his people. Jonathan refused and said he would look for another way, and the priest reminded him that the manuscript was a dangerous store of treasures and secrets. Back at the devils' camp, Jonathan told their commander that he had killed the priest and looked into his mind; it was a lie.1516

Notes

  1. ↑At the tableYazmalar | DnD 5E Oynanış #20 (Zincirsiz #20), 1:22:19
  2. ↑At the tableYazmalar | DnD 5E Oynanış #20 (Zincirsiz #20), 1:30:51
  3. ↑At the tableYazmalar | DnD 5E Oynanış #20 (Zincirsiz #20), 1:28:01
  4. ↑BookLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 25
  5. ↑At the tableYazmalar | DnD 5E Oynanış #20 (Zincirsiz #20), 1:47:43
  6. ↑At the tableYazmalar | DnD 5E Oynanış #20 (Zincirsiz #20), 1:33:23
  7. ↑At the tableYazmalar | DnD 5E Oynanış #20 (Zincirsiz #20), 1:35:12
  8. ↑At the tableYazmalar | DnD 5E Oynanış #20 (Zincirsiz #20), 1:37:40
  9. ↑At the tableYazmalar | DnD 5E Oynanış #20 (Zincirsiz #20), 1:41:43
  10. ↑At the tableYazmalar | DnD 5E Oynanış #20 (Zincirsiz #20), 1:44:23
  11. ↑At the tableYazmalar | DnD 5E Oynanış #20 (Zincirsiz #20), 1:46:33
  12. ↑At the tableYazmalar | DnD 5E Oynanış #20 (Zincirsiz #20), 1:50:09
  13. ↑At the tableYazmalar | DnD 5E Oynanış #20 (Zincirsiz #20), 1:50:48
  14. ↑At the tableYazmalar | DnD 5E Oynanış #20 (Zincirsiz #20), 1:51:41
  15. ↑At the tableYazmalar | DnD 5E Oynanış #20 (Zincirsiz #20), 1:53:32
  16. ↑At the tableYazmalar | DnD 5E Oynanış #20 (Zincirsiz #20), 1:57:14

Sources

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Books

  • SSGLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide(Bad Badger Games, 2024), p. 25

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