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Uncle Harper
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Beneathe the waves felt like a follow up to death at sea. "As I slept I heard its song in my dreams. " They are of course talking about the black stone hands which in death at sea the werewolf tells sliske they found an artifact and at night it sang to them then threw itself overboard. Only one of the crew survived. Like the ape creatures the rest likely went into the water and drowned themselves due to the singing. Finally the priestest spoke in an alien language which eventually led the ape like creatures to kill one another just to get closer. Gustaf mentions xau tak and send the other inmates into a frenzy. When Lygrass mentions him, the other patrons murder him. The connections are clear. The artifact in death at sea is the black stone hand sculpture. I have seen the dark universe yawning, where the black planets roll without aim;
Where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or lustre or name.

12-Mar-2018 23:00:07

Wahisietel
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Chronological order of the lorebooks seems to be the following:

Decaying journal > Festering journal > Rotten journal > Death at Sea > Pestilent journal > Blasphemous journal > Old diary

One thing to note is that these new lorebooks make no reference to the Underwater City/Atyl-Atys (and do not take place when it would presumably still be around on the surface), so we still know pretty much nothing about it, despite it presumably being the sunken horror city. You never were our brightest star, Khazard. 'Vermin slaughtered like lambs'? What does that even mean?

13-Mar-2018 01:50:16 - Last edited on 13-Mar-2018 01:51:15 by Wahisietel

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Iceman3317 said :
Also the lake they seem to talk about in one of the journals, seems to be another World Gate. And with how powerful it seems Xau-Tak is, I would say he is nearly as powerful as Guthix, Zaros and Seren.

Based on the Mwanu creation myth in the Decaying Journal, Xau-Tak came into being early in the existence of the current cycle (existing prior to the stars, and finding interest in Jermyn while the plane's jungles lacked any sapient life). This places Xau-Tak as having originally been a denizen of one of the lower planes of existence (possibly even one that existed in the previous cycle).

Granted, the myth itself could very well be exaggerated. And I do notice some parts I find suspect (the jungle lacking any animal life seems awfully unlikely since we've been told the elders made simple life in general and not just plants), but I'm somewhat fond of the idea that Xau-Tak survived the last revision or arose from it's remains and that it 'uplifted' one of the species of Jermyn to make the Mwanu (the horror race) much like Bandos 'created' his races from the denizens of Yu'biusk.

As for the lake, I think that might just be Jermyn's equivalent of the Schism/Daemonheim Rift. It lacks the characteristic red energy the other two examples have (though that may have been concealed well below it's surface), but it shares two major traits with the Schism/Rift.

First, it whispers to those that approach it, beckoning to them to enter.
Second, it appears to be a permanent (it explains how the horn got to Gielinor after Marimbo lost it (tossed into the portal)) interplanar portal that connects at least two planes, does not appear to have originated from the elder blade (the only god's the Mwanu knew were Xau-Tak and the god Marimbo drank to death, neither of which had the blade), and deposits those who enter in no apparent proximity to the portal itself.

13-Mar-2018 03:25:11

Hguoh

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So perhaps Xau-Tak has somehow managed to 'infect' the Schism/Rift/Lake. This would explain it's apparent omnipresence throughout the planes (seemingly every plane has one of these somewhere) as well as it's ability to know the future (the apparent time wonky-ness of Daemonheim indicates the phenomenon has an odd interaction with time (it also may be the case that Robert the Strong's journey through the Schism sent him back in time, explaining how we could meet him when he's not yet as a cat without needing to travel back in time)).

'Infecting' the Rift would enable Xau-Tak to wrap its tendrils around any denizen of any plane in this revision as well as exert some modicum of control over where the Rift/Schism/Lake deposits those who enter (getting every piece in it's game to the right places at the right time). This could also allow Xau-Tak to do everything it does without being a god (explaining why we were told it was tier -1 (i.e. not in the god tiers)).

It also opens up some potential conflict between Xau-Tak and the other being we know of that has an odd relationship with time itself: Aeternam.

13-Mar-2018 03:38:57 - Last edited on 13-Mar-2018 03:39:27 by Hguoh

Uncle Harper
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So we gonna just ignore the Hooded pirate? Dude is obviously dead. Examination of him tells us he smells bad, has grey fingers, and when he touches us we nearly vomit. He wants a black coin (Probably obsidian) and gives us a message to take to the wise old man that sounds kinda threatening if I must be honest. I have seen the dark universe yawning, where the black planets roll without aim;
Where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or lustre or name.

13-Mar-2018 16:15:31

Solmestix
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Tbh the coin is probably that same black stone we see everywhere Xau-Tak is around. And that warning, that is NOT about Rabid jack. If that isn't either Xau-Tak returning through Jack or Xau-Tak himself returning then it is nothing. I think Xau-tak is gonna have a massive part to play in Pieces of Hate, we just won't see it. Speaking of pirates...

Do Y0u tHinK YoU CaN sAvE ThEM pLayEr? YoU cAN't, ThERe iS A (Insert lovecraftian description) AnD ThIs Is XAU-TAK

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