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It's also worth noting that the Ripper Demon transformation occurs over the course of days, while the being behind the door in The Weeping would have been within that room for much much longer (being in an abandoned Zarosian structure in a room that must have been sealed for a very long time given the description of the air within).

All indications point to the being having been deliberately locked away before or during the empire's fall. It almost sounds like a banshee, though I wouldn't really describe them as hulking. Maybe a cave horror, though I wouldn't call their arms spindly and their cries are said to be a mixture of anguish and bloodthirsty roars. Edimmu almost fits, but there's again the issue of the importance placed on the vocalizations.

Not sure what it was, but I'm doubting a Xau-Tak connection. Seems more likely it was a Zarosian experiment (one of Zaros's attempts at making life or one of the bioweapons the empire developed) that twas deemed a failure and locked away.

Really though, The Weeping and Pestilent Journal serve to identify Herbert Dunwich as an outcast of the 3rd age who got around a lot, poked his nose into dangerous situations along the way, and lived to write about them.

14-Mar-2018 01:59:14 - Last edited on 14-Mar-2018 02:03:40 by Hguoh

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Hguoh said :
It's also worth noting that the Ripper Demon transformation occurs over the course of days, while the being behind the door in The Weeping would have been within that room for much much longer (being in an abandoned Zarosian structure in a room that must have been sealed for a very long time given the description of the air within).

All indications point to the being having been deliberately locked away before or during the empire's fall. It almost sounds like a banshee, though I wouldn't really describe them as hulking. Maybe a cave horror, though I wouldn't call their arms spindly and their cries are said to be a mixture of anguish and bloodthirsty roars. Edimmu almost fits, but there's again the issue of the importance placed on the vocalizations.

Not sure what it was, but I'm doubting a Xau-Tak connection. Seems more likely it was a Zarosian experiment (one of Zaros's attempts at making life or one of the bioweapons the empire developed) that twas deemed a failure and locked away.

Really though, The Weeping and Pestilent Journal serve to identify Herbert Dunwich as an outcast of the 3rd age who got around a lot, poked his nose into dangerous situations along the way, and lived to write about them.

Where is the Weeping Journal? Supporter of
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14-Mar-2018 06:06:35

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This may be off the wall and unrelated but the journals released detailed 3 entities of form correct?

Could this at all somehow be the Obsidian Tribunal that had Saradomin's daughter on a "tomb world'? Supporter of
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14-Mar-2018 19:04:05

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The creature described in the Weeping Journal seems to me like iut could possibly be referring to a Dragonkin- the way they are depicted in OS at least. Large (about twice as tall as humans) but with spindly arms topped with claws. Also intelligent enough and with reason enough to be crying in anguish and grief, especially if trapped with no way to relieve the pain from the stone use during the 3rd age, and likely to lash out at the first available thing.

Another possibility is some sort of actual siren creature as of yet únanse in ósea mythology.

14-Mar-2018 20:38:19

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Goldmage162 said :
The creature described in the Weeping Journal seems to me like iut could possibly be referring to a Dragonkin- the way they are depicted in OS at least. Large (about twice as tall as humans) but with spindly arms topped with claws. Also intelligent enough and with reason enough to be crying in anguish and grief, especially if trapped with no way to relieve the pain from the stone use during the 3rd age, and likely to lash out at the first available thing.

Dragonkin have wings to fly with and a breath weapon they can use to attack at range. Dunwich escaped the creature that pursued him out of the room by climbing a rope. Probably not a Dragonkin.

Rensler said :
This may be off the wall and unrelated but the journals released detailed 3 entities of form correct?

Could this at all somehow be the Obsidian Tribunal that had Saradomin's daughter on a "tomb world'?

I mean... maybe? Problem is we know even less about the obsidian tribunal than we do about Xau-Tak (they have a single line of dialogue in comparison to all that alludes to Xau-Tak), so it's hard to make any call on that. The best connection we have is that their name includes a black stone and that they are a group of three like these new idols.

Problem is, I'm not even convinced that the beings these idols represent are capable of interplanar travel (as Nyarlahydra seems to be the Skeletal Horror, and it doesn't demonstrate such power) to establish control of worlds (Zaros claims to have found Saradomin's daughter on a world the tribunal controls, which implies that they own more) or that they are even unique entities (given the priestesses in the Blasphemous Journal, the three idols might simply represent three ways Xau-Tak twists the Horrors or it's three 'favorite' types of creations.

15-Mar-2018 00:23:15 - Last edited on 15-Mar-2018 00:24:49 by Hguoh

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Hguoh said :
Goldmage162 said :
The creature described in the Weeping Journal seems to me like iut could possibly be referring to a Dragonkin- the way they are depicted in OS at least. Large (about twice as tall as humans) but with spindly arms topped with claws. Also intelligent enough and with reason enough to be crying in anguish and grief, especially if trapped with no way to relieve the pain from the stone use during the 3rd age, and likely to lash out at the first available thing.

Dragonkin have wings to fly with and a breath weapon they can use to attack at range. Dunwich escaped the creature that pursued him out of the room by climbing a rope. Probably not a Dragonkin.




Oh of course. My thought process was that it was severely injured and/or in enough agony that it couldn't do much or think.

15-Mar-2018 05:16:34

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Goldmage162 said :
Also, just for fun, can we get some theorizing on what it means to have a Godhood Teir level of i , assuming of course that it wasn't just a way of saying "NaNa I'm not telling."

Sure. The impossible teir.

Theory 1: Jmods are trolling you.
Theory 2: Xau is based on lovecraftian gods which are described as being impossible for mortals to comprehend. Therefore Xau is impossible to comprehend
Theory 3: It is impossible for a being like Xau to fall into any of the known god teirs.

Or D. All of the Above.

Finally if you must power scale, in an answer to a lore corner question of wouldnt zaros and seren just destroy Xau Tak, Mod Jack responded that they wouldnt be powerful enough to. So power wise hes probably at t2 or above or better yet, ti. 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.

15-Mar-2018 13:38:08 - Last edited on 15-Mar-2018 14:01:13 by Uncle Harper

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