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Wahisietel
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X-posting because it's relevant

Wahisietel said :
So, something interesting that helps sort out the timeline of the horror stuff.

The Pestilent journal (aka The Strange Tribes) is said to have been written by Herbert Dunwich. "The weeping", a book Mod Raven contributed to OSRS's Myths Guild, is also written by Herbert Dunwich. The weeping takes place in the Third Age, and involves an encounter with a strange weeping creature in a cave with previous signs of Zarosian occupation on the northern coast of Forinthry. The creature is described as being hulking, with spindly arms and a flash of razor sharp talons, and sounding like a weeping woman. To me, it sounds like some kind of ripper demon that has not fully taken control of its host, but we cannot rule out that is related to Xau.

Regardless, due to the Pestilent journal sharing its author with The Weeping, we can determine that it most likely takes place in the Third Age. From this, we can determine a likely timeline of events!

Decaying journal - Second Age or earlier
Festering journal - Second Age or earlier
Rotten journal - Second Age
Death at Sea - Late Second Age, shortly before the fall of Zaros
Pestilent journal (The Strange Tribes) - Third Age
Blasphemous journal (Beneath the Waves) - ???
Old diary (Expedition Journal - 32) - Fifth Age, ~year 159 You never were our brightest star, Khazard. 'Vermin slaughtered like lambs'? What does that even mean?

14-Mar-2018 15:38:56

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

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

HOLY HECK HOW DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT.

3 Deities--- Tribunal (3 gods)
Obsidian- Link to xau-tak?

14-Mar-2018 18:11:53 - Last edited on 14-Mar-2018 18:12:29 by Solmestix

Goldmage162
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According to Mod Raven in a lore answers thread (a link to a snapshot can be found in the rs3 wiki article for the Obsidian Tribunal)

"The Obsidian Tribunal is NOT a god. ;) "

Now, I suppose he could always be playing with us and mean that it is not A god, it is MULTIPLE gods.... but that seems needlessly cruel and intentionally misleading. Do you really think Mod Raven would EVER do something like that?

15-Mar-2018 05:30:44

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Goldmage162 said :
Do you really think Mod Raven would EVER do something like that?

Yes. I totally would.

But I might not be doing so in this case.

Maybe.

Or am I?

= Raven =

15-Mar-2018 09:10:54

Zulkir

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Doubtful the Obsidian tribunal is actually related to these new "Characters"

Kidnapping is a very mortal way of getting to someone, it's leverage.

Xau-Tak doesn't need leverage on Saradomin, he doesn't need leverage on anyone, That would ruin what Xau-Tak is being built up as, he shouldn't plot like Zaros or be cruel like Zamorak.

Xau-Tak at least in my opinion needs to be maintained as this mythical force that near enough mirrors the Elder Gods, a being completely detached from traditionally mortal ways of thinking and doing.

No, the Obsidian Tribunal is likely what the Magisters of Teragard either now refer to themselves as or how they are present day known. It makes sense really, he'd just get in their way and if we can take on Oreb single handed it's clear that they couldn't fight a tier 3 head on.

At least, that's how I see it.
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15-Mar-2018 17:24:11 - Last edited on 15-Mar-2018 17:30:16 by Zulkir

Uncle Harper
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A thought came to me upon the porcelain throne, the great beast of Tusk and Fury may not be Tuska, what if it is Bandos? We know after Bandos ascends he travels the cosmos looking for followers before coming to Yu'biusk. He has a considerable amount of power, and though we've never been told he held the elder horn, it could be possible he did at some point before discarding it or losing it on Jermyn for Marimbo to find. He is one of the few known being to ascend without the help of an elder artifact. And he some how got to t3. We know excess exposure to the horn increased Marimbos power. Maybe that's how Bandos got to T3 as well. 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 17:25:17

Uncle Harper
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Zulkir said :
Doubtful the Obsidian tribunal is actually related to these new "Characters"

Kidnapping is a very mortal way of getting to someone, it's leverage.

Xau-Tak doesn't need leverage on Saradomin, he doesn't need leverage on anyone, That would bring Xau-Tak down from this mythical creature to some petty creature that needed to hold someone as lowly as Saradomin back with a ransom.

No, the Obsidian Tribunal is likely what the Magisters of Teragard either now refer to themselves as or how they are present day known. It makes sense really, he'd just get in their way and if we can take on Oreb single handed it's clear that they couldn't fight a tier 3 head on.

At least, that's how I see it.

Maybe she was taken to become something more. But her status as "above a normal mortal" allowed her to resist the change. Thats just a theory, I agree with you the Obsidian Tribunal does not sound like a Xau-tak related faction. Zaros and Seren both know of them and show little regard, I feel like if they were connected to Xau, Zaros and Seren may show more concern. 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 17:29:42

Zulkir

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Uncle Harper said :
Zulkir said :
Doubtful the Obsidian tribunal is actually related to these new "Characters"

Kidnapping is a very mortal way of getting to someone, it's leverage.

Xau-Tak doesn't need leverage on Saradomin, he doesn't need leverage on anyone, That would bring Xau-Tak down from this mythical creature to some petty creature that needed to hold someone as lowly as Saradomin back with a ransom.

No, the Obsidian Tribunal is likely what the Magisters of Teragard either now refer to themselves as or how they are present day known. It makes sense really, he'd just get in their way and if we can take on Oreb single handed it's clear that they couldn't fight a tier 3 head on.

At least, that's how I see it.

Maybe she was taken to become something more. But her status as "above a normal mortal" allowed her to resist the change. Thats just a theory, I agree with you the Obsidian Tribunal does not sound like a Xau-tak related faction. Zaros and Seren both know of them and show little regard, I feel like if they were connected to Xau, Zaros and Seren may show more concern.

I wonder what those two would have to say if we asked them about Xau-Tak.
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15-Mar-2018 17:32:17

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