by Imarë » Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:20 pm
Sorry, wrong button.
I had stopped when Sir Felkar was lying in the street post robbery. Ewen, following, saw an opportunity and decided to kill him, carving the return of the symbols on Pelisa in Coranan. I think this started a whole run of events. When the morning came and the Baron became aware that his trusted captain of the guard had not only robbed him but was killed in the process. He now had two problems, he had lost the sizable donation that the Temple of Morgath was forcing out of him and someone had killed Felkar. He decided the thing to do was run for it back to his own manor. He fled. He was pursued by, we are almost totally certain, the men of Rahel. These men were seen leaving the city at a fast clip hot on the heels of the Baron. He was then, presumably, brought back into the city somehow and placed in guest quarters in Rahels home. Sometime after these events, Bevan visits the Aerths and is invited to dine with them. Rahel is there (coincidence? I get the impression that she does not visit mom much...) and decides to go to the dinner also. Now I would assume that Rahel knows about who Bevan is and what her mission is. Perhaps she is thinking of helping (like Rhonna and Para are in Tashal), but Bevan does not show up alone, she brings Ewen. She somehow recognizes that Ewen is also a deryni (jury out as to whether or not he knew at this point) and decides to get closer and invites him for dinner. At this dinner, she feeds him a substance in the aquavit which shows to a certainty that he is a deryni. This also gives her a chance to read what he knows (Stavron et al). Now there is a delay between when the Baron goes missing and when he reappears in the stocks (about 10 days). Why? Rahel would have no need to question the man, she could have gotten what she needed by touch. I believe the delay was to either seek further instructions from her superior or to wait for him to arrive. I will not hide that I think that this is Lord Morgan of Darring. Since the last time we saw him was up in Lorkin, this is a pretty good feat but we know the deryni have a way of commuting which seems to lessen the time needed. So now Lord Morgan now is in town and what does he do? In my mind he goes and visits the daughter of the perfumer. Why? The only reason that I can come up with if that he has some personal connection to the girl; my supposition is that she is his daughter (he does seem to have rather increased the ranks of the family tree). He gets into the house the same way he got into the castle when he killed Chafin III, using deryni powers (which we also saw in use in the north while attacking the other castle). Somehow he is heard while there in the girl’s room and Slaaka comes to protect the house, naked with a sword. Lord Morgan takes umbrage at this and very quickly gives him a mortal wound and then disappears (harming neither the daughter nor her mother mind you). His words could either represent a previous acquaintance between the two or it could be that Lord Morgan objected to be accosted by a man in the buff. We learn about the attack first hand from Borana and Slaaka himself and then go off on our way. I believe it is after this that the Baron makes his reappearance in Golotha. I think Lord Morgan is the one who did the deed, payback for the loyalty shown to Arren II. After this the journeyman is also killed and both have the mascles carved upon the chests (diversion? fun? Purpose?). It is while investigating the killing of the journeyman that Ewen and Sir Baris have the run in at the square with the Morgathian presence across for Borana’s shop. It is shortly after this that the house is found to be empty; everyone assuming that she went to Shiran for perfume. Certain things argue against this for me. First, Slaaka was alive at this time (he had a couple of days left) and his body never went to Boraga. There was also no sighting from anybody that she was seen to leave the city. My belief is that the Morgathians, looking for the offering the Baron was due to give, found out that Slaaka was one of those who robbed him of their money and they wanted it. They took Slaaka and Borana and her daughter to their temple to work on this. If my hypothesis is correct, Lord Morgan would not have been happy with the Morgathians taking his daughter and went to rescue them. Can anyone else think of anyone with the ability and desire to take on the Temple of Morgath? And then inflict such a beating on the place (six that we know of, perhaps more)? It would be interesting to see if the hill outside of the city has a new guardian added to it (Slaaka has still never turned up you know). It is about now that the party decides that they must go and give a personal report to Sir Auram about the death of the Baron and what they have seen in Golotha. It is also at this point that Ewen decides to come out of the closet on his activities. It is also at this point the city is rocked by rebellion once again. Person or persons unknown (guess who I think?) went and killed the man the Agrikans called “the Prophet”. Anyone who had talked with any Agrikans in the city would know that he was held in very high regard by that community. I think this was done to make the Agrikans go off the deep end. What then happened while the Agrikans were wilding through the city? The dark knight appeared to fight Sir Zaurial, causing grievous wounds with ease. The only reason that Sir Z. was not killed was that his knights threw themselves in front of the dark knight and were slaughtered in short order while he was being dragged away. While they still have their seat on the council (Sir Klytis was sure to keep his skirts clean as usual), the power of the Agrikans was broken in the city. No longer are they in charge of keeping order in the city, the Legion is. We arrive back in a much more orderly city under the control of royal authority. Later, on the procession of Arren II through the streets of Golotha with King Alegar it might help to explain the bow he gave to Rahel, “thanks for helping bring the city back under control for me” kind of thing.
I think, in short, what happened was that Lord Morgan was keyed into the fact that a knight had been killed and the Baron, his employer, was captured by his minion (not in a pejorative sense). He then decided that this would be a good chance to bring royal authority back to the city and set the rest of the actions in motion (except what the Morgathians did). I have decided that Arren II knows about and condones the actions of Lord Morgan. While not being able to be tied to them, they are always helpful to him and he can deny he has a part in them. I believe that Lord Graver also has this knowledge and, while working for Arren II, is willing to help Lord Morgan as much as possible.
Now comes the interesting parts. We know that our Ewen and the daughter of the perfumer Jelesa (sp) are basically two peas in a pod (different ages). If Lord Morgan is the girl’s father, and we know he is a deryni who has sired children who are all deryni, could Ewen be an offspring also? It would help explain why Rahel has taken interest in him; we know she has a preoccupation with Lord Morgan (the tapestry et al.). Maybe it would also help to explain why Ewen was honored by being knighted by the King himself while no one else received honors.
Please feel free to poke at my assumptions. Any additions or suggested changes will be considered gratefully.