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→Part 1 Of Templars and Assassins
Now that they see him closer, he seems to be a former Knight templar. His entire outfit is templar except his cloak and he made a weird crown with bits of wood on his helmet.
His left hand was cut (probably himself) and he has replaced it with a black clay handwhich seems ancient.
This black clay hand clutches a very strange scroll case.
They arrive in the ruins of a City with very high pillars carved inside a mountain.
They are greeted by an dark giant in rags with a crown under his rags, his hand is black with claws. His seems to laugh with a very deep voice and very slowly.
Action : Knowledge (heresy) : They recognise إرَم ذات العماد Iram ḏāt al-ʿimād / Iram cité des piliers / Iram of the Pillars and the king would be Shaddād bin ʽĀd. Explain that this king was mad and defied god, which is why his city was destroyed by wind and flames.
Each engraved with Hieratic filled with gold.
In the middle of the room is a book whose cover is made of bones on a pile of skulls. The book is clutched by two black hands.
As they enter the room, the entire city behind them starts burning.
'''Combat (skirmish)'''
One of the Assassins has a black mask with a crownand a black glove, he scratches himself like crazy. His skin is clearly covered with red spots, he has been deouvred by Lices and periodically he scratches himself like crazy.
His blade is clearly covered in poison, how to fight him ?
After the battle some of them manage to run away, and the scroll is GONE ! It was all a diversion to steal it.
They still have the clay hand though.
'''Detail : the chaplain examines the corpse of the Assassin and he is disgusted that he is covered in Lices (poux et puces)'''
The fortress is empty but there's a terrible stench of death.
Dead Assassins everywhere in the entrance. They seemed to have fought each others. One of them has his own left hand around his throat.
Lots of dead Assassins and dead slave girls.
One of them is barely alive. Her left hand is compeltely broken.
"The King, the mad king. They couldn't stop him. He is upstairs."
The Old Man in the mountains is waiting for them there. And there's a dead hooded figure with a crown on his headand his left hand completely dark, he was pierced by lots of scimitars.
They easily kill him and in this Assassin’s hideout, they find the burned pages and the scroll box.
Roncelin is furious and he smashes the black hand. Inside the clay he finds some ancient bones.
Now that they have more time to identify the seal, they realise that it’s the Seal of Barral 1er des Baux, so they decided to ask for his help, since Roncelin know him.