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Post by johntfs on Jun 8, 2012 4:08:24 GMT
Is there any point at which the New Order Grandmaster gets to rescue Oriah from Sesketera? I always kind of hated the way that subplot ended. I also got the feeling that if it'd been Lone Wolf in that book, he'd have departed the Isle of Lorn, gone back to Ghol-Tabras, rescued the girl's family and not left the city until he had Oriah in one arm and Sesketera's head stowed as Special Item. Oh, and he'd have dropped by where those necromancer shamans were and butchered every last one of them.
I know I tended to play LW as focused, ruthless and vindictive. When I play through the books and get to Book 10, I try to take a path that gets me to the Isle of Ghosts (without the Sommerswerd) just to have the pleasure of personally wasting Roark.
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Post by Black Cat on Jun 8, 2012 17:25:33 GMT
Who knows? Maybe you'll find a satisfying ending within the last 4 gamebooks yet to be released. My guess is that Sesketera will make a come back at some point...
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Post by zukkkermaus on Jun 8, 2012 19:08:48 GMT
I'm with John on this one. Always seen LW to have a whole undercurrent of bitterness - that's how I read and play him too. Bit like Connery's Bond in Dr No...
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Post by Rusty Radiator on Jun 9, 2012 11:50:44 GMT
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Post by Snowshadow on Jun 9, 2012 14:30:26 GMT
You'd think the NO GM would want to save Oriah but picture the scene years later - assume Sesketara is now leader of the entire Shadakine Empire, if he wasn't already. When the GM and Sesketara meet in battle and the Emperor is slain rule falls to his Empress widow... who could then sign a peace treaty with the Kai at the end of Book 32, just after Agarash is slain. For an 'All's well that ends well' finale.
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Post by Rusty Radiator on Jun 11, 2012 10:01:34 GMT
In the mean time Oriah spends 20 years, the prime of her life, trapped in a cruel loveless marriage, forced to bear the children of a man she hates whose soul is black as night.
Yeah, I think it's for the best she stay there really..... everyone's a winner. She'd have been better off if NOGM had thrown her in the sea.
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Post by Moon Dancer on Jul 26, 2012 13:20:37 GMT
I always got the feeling that Sesketera would turn out to be a sort of constantly recurring villain. Once he found out that you hadn't drowned when escaping from the Triasus, he'd keep sending thugs and assassins after you every so often, eventually showing up himself for a final showdown near the end of the series. That's how I'd have run it anyway. I like a good recurring baddie  |
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Post by Laguna Blade on Jun 25, 2015 7:34:40 GMT
Plus, why is Sesketera stats is way to high for a mortal? Even so-called supernatural being such as Gnaag or Kraaagenskul were not that high?
CS for:
Sesketera: 53
Gnaag: 50
Kraagenskul: 45
Chaos Master: 47
Sesketera more powerful than demigod? Pfftt....
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Post by GhostofLandar on Jun 27, 2015 0:07:14 GMT
That was my thought that I posted somewhere in the boards, that Oriah should have been saved but I think what made it difficult is that it wasn't saving just her but everyone he probably had hostage in scattered places. Sesketera needed mortality but NO Kai was in a rush.
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Post by johntfs on Jul 6, 2015 1:16:34 GMT
Plus, why is Sesketera stats is way to high for a mortal? Even so-called supernatural being such as Gnaag or Kraaagenskul were not that high? CS for: Sesketera: 53 Gnaag: 50 Kraagenskul: 45 Chaos Master: 47 Sesketera more powerful than demigod? Pfftt.... Consider that a single drunken bandit in the LW GM series had a CS of 38. |
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Post by Lucy Van Pelt on Oct 5, 2022 12:58:13 GMT
What happen to Oriah at book 31? I stopped reading when I am dead after being found with the stone dagger.
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Post by Black Cat on Oct 5, 2022 15:23:12 GMT
What happen to Oriah at book 31? I stopped reading when I am dead after being found with the stone dagger. *SPOILER* (Highlight to read) Sesketera plans to sacrifice her to get the heart of Agarash so he can come back. Of course, the NOGM will come to the rescue... |
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