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Soteris

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Soteris is the head of the armies of Avlor Aten, a city of the Geroni, in the campaign Yeni Dünya ("New World"). By his own account he answers for the city's armies and its defence. He is one of the three officials of the city's council, beside the civil head consul Orpi, who handles civil and diplomatic affairs, and Julia, who oversees justice.12

The interview

When a band of strangers from Aquila arrived in the city through a painting, Soteris questioned them in the civil administration building. He first spoke beside the head consul's two identical forms, then sent the others out and spoke with them alone. Once he had taken an unnamed object from a drawer, his words became understandable to them; nothing showed that it read their minds or forced the truth from them.34

He told them that the Empire had tried before to slip into the Geroni cities, and passed on the chief arcanist's view that the painting had not been set off on purpose, though outside interference could not be ruled out. He said that the city stood on the brink of war with the Empire and asked for military information. The council, he warned, could sentence them to death or hold them for the city's safety; they would be brought before a court and kept until a decision was made.56789

He said that no torture was done in the city, by a decision the council had taken some five hundred years before. When the Inran guide Fauna defended her companions, saying that their doctor healed people whom the Empire would not reach or help, Soteris answered that he weighed a person's worth to the city above their goodness. He offered to send word of her to her tribe.101112

Later reports

The head consul later told the band that Soteris had said to him in private that he did not take them for spies; this came before the council's sudden decision to hold them in chains for a detailed interrogation.13

Spoiler: Later eventsSpoils: Yeni Dünya #12 · Say what you have read

Notes

  1. ↑At the tableAvlor Aten | DnD 5E Oynanış #10 (Yeni Dünya #10), 1:49:06
  2. ↑At the tableAvlor Aten | DnD 5E Oynanış #10 (Yeni Dünya #10), 2:19:01
  3. ↑At the tableAvlor Aten | DnD 5E Oynanış #10 (Yeni Dünya #10), 1:40:05
  4. ↑At the tableAvlor Aten | DnD 5E Oynanış #10 (Yeni Dünya #10), 1:46:09
  5. ↑At the tableAvlor Aten | DnD 5E Oynanış #10 (Yeni Dünya #10), 1:47:27
  6. ↑At the tableAvlor Aten | DnD 5E Oynanış #10 (Yeni Dünya #10), 1:48:07
  7. ↑At the tableAvlor Aten | DnD 5E Oynanış #10 (Yeni Dünya #10), 1:52:40
  8. ↑At the tableAvlor Aten | DnD 5E Oynanış #10 (Yeni Dünya #10), 1:49:28
  9. ↑At the tableAvlor Aten | DnD 5E Oynanış #10 (Yeni Dünya #10), 1:51:59
  10. ↑At the tableAvlor Aten | DnD 5E Oynanış #10 (Yeni Dünya #10), 1:50:43
  11. ↑At the tableAvlor Aten | DnD 5E Oynanış #10 (Yeni Dünya #10), 1:57:10
  12. ↑At the tableAvlor Aten | DnD 5E Oynanış #10 (Yeni Dünya #10), 1:55:09
  13. ↑At the tableSert Diplomasi | DnD 5E Oynanış #11 (Yeni Dünya #11), 2:27:56
  14. ↑At the tablePolitik Hamle | DnD 5E Oynanış #12 (Yeni Dünya #12), 2:17:39
  15. ↑At the tablePolitik Hamle | DnD 5E Oynanış #12 (Yeni Dünya #12), 2:27:18
  16. ↑At the tablePolitik Hamle | DnD 5E Oynanış #12 (Yeni Dünya #12), 2:27:24

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