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Depends on the lord. Orginally, DKs served Blood Mages. The main bulk of the group/what it turned into, doesn't. Thus, yes, the Lord typically has free will, though, is still subject to the commands of his predecessor, if one exists.

A Dread Lord kidnaps a fella, stuffs him into armor, kills him, draws blood runes, and such. That's the real basic of it.

You sent me the screenshots, which didn't entail what you over-exaggerate above. The person in question was event-team, and a well respected member of the community. He was reprimanded, and I did try to see if he continued that activity, nobody filed a report after. This was a while ago, probably 3.5, maybe late 3.0. If they have been since I left people in charge because I had to conduct OOC matters, tell me who. In reality, you were kicked for being pretty offensive in the chat and spamming memes/adding people who would do the same. Not for not abiding edginess. Last time I saw you was like mid-end 3.0-3.5. As I said, if you ever have an issue with someone, I have, in the past, constantly told both people who play DKs and people who RP with DKs to contact me and report them so I can get them kicked out or reprimanded in a swift manner. Nice guide, Italian. Good we got that unpleasantness out of the way in skype.

((Of course. All sorts of activity is a-comin'.))

All around was dirt and ash. The air was foul, and the stone bricks which once lined the walls were covered in tens of layers of dust. For all of this emptiness, every few moments, the cave would shake. A figure sat in the darkness, barely visible in the black which consumed the area. It was an armored man, if it could be called one. Time passed. Days, weeks, years? It didn't matter. Though the figure stirred, once in a blue moon, it was inert. Time, once again, passed. The figure was conscious, or, rather, grew moreso into consciousness as the time continued to move, and as his awareness of it began to dim. He spoke, once, before falling silent again: "Do as I say, Elben.." The voice stopped abruptly, and it wasn't heard again in the halls for years to come. Light peeked in above. The dark, cold cave that held the figure shimmered. The contraption to enter it, facing forward from where the being sat, activated. Slowly, the wooden elevator brought it's weight down, though no-one was on board. The Knight stirred, this time, fully. The dust and ash which had coated him began to fall off as he moved his limbs, and a creaking reverberated throughout the halls as the unoiled joints tried to move. The figure spoke, this time, in coherence. "Time." The knight slowly moved, his armor creaking time, and time again. He stared around, looking at the decrepit cave. Unable to see much, he simply stared at the contraption in front of him. Taking slow, timed steps, before arriving at the contraption once more. He looked to the hoist, the pully, which brought it down. It had been there for quite a while, longer than it had taken him to get up. He moved, and began reactivating the contraption, it rising as the Knight did. The sun shone brightly above, the wind strong. Around him, he stared to the trees, regrown from the death that the Necromancers had wrought to them. To Embermoor in the distance, walled off, and in a state of disrepair. The area around the elevator was covered in broken stone walls. A crease was present directly in-front of the man, large enough for an Ork to fit through. He moved, and stepped out. His gauntlets shook, and he pressed them against his visor, wiping away soot. Time had passed, a good deal of time. There was work to be done.

I doubt a change of scenery will do anything. The issues with 3.0/4.0 were/are ingrained within the features and staff, not the backdrop.

Why does everyone insist on WH40K levels of grimdarkness. If some people don't want that, they don't want that. Forcing it on them is silly. Unless they're making steam boats and shite, I can't see an adaquate reason to disallow certain styles of clothes that aren't ultramodern. We have Orcs, we have Magic, we have spoopy ghosts. Suddenly, a suit and a hat. LYNCH.

Verin grunts, one of his Servants fetching him this note. On the Main Road, Verin promptly writes down the following response, titled: "In reply to: Adherency Worshipping the Undead." "JUST LEAVE US THE NETHER ALONE. WE DO NOT WORHIP UNDEAD YOU FLESHY GITS. WE ONLY KILL YOU DOLTS WHEN YOU GO INTO A GIANT SWAMP WITH WARNINGS OUTSIDE STATING THAT IT'S HAUNTED, IT EVEN SAYS THAT LOSS OF LIFE MAY OCCUR. DO YOU EXPECT MUCH ELSE. IF WE SAW ONE OF YOUR CITIES AND IT SAID "UNLIVING GET THE BOOT", AND WE WANDERED IN, DO YOU THINK THAT ANYONE WOULD RIGHTLY GO NEAR IT, NO, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GITS. HOLD YOUR DUMB KIN ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR DUMB ACTIONS, KNIFE-EARS OR OTHERWISE. NOT OURS. VERIN, PROCONSUL OF THE DREAD KNIGHTS, DIRA MILITIS."

Er. No, this fight never happened, I never fought you, and I never gave you leave to take my head. Verin and Byron are me, Verin is the Char Name, which I do NOT use in the /setname, and Byron is my account. I did not have the Byron account when Abresi existed. Using the helm of a DK would likely make you go nutters if you didn't delicately remove the Blood Rune. Even then, it's pretty bad mojo to use a literally cursed helm. Unless I've accrued a sudden bout of amnesia, this did not happen. I've only RP'd with Lark once, never fought in his shop. Nor in Abresi. You PM'd me about this, and I stated the above.

Alright, I'll shoot in relation to LoTC's cosmology. Are there other planets? I know it's meant to be a mystery, but if the Void is a place which has energy drawn from it, is it even partway equatable to our space, or more akin, to, say, like, a giant freaking sky generator? Beyond that. What form of 'creator' is 'the creator'. Eru ilúvatar-esque? Are some of the events we see ingame, and some lore, direct reactions from his actions, does he meddle, or is he just the person who set things in motion?. Does LoTC's creator lore take an LoTR view? That is, varying levels of divine, ranging from folks who intervene and are only there to halt certain actions. Folks who are of a much greater power and deal in certain playing fields, a'la, Daemons/Aenguls. And then a big honcho? Or are all of these entities simply misrepresenting themselves to be of a far greater or lesser importance than their purported. Another slightly big one. Is the somewhat firm black/white morality accepted by the Clerical Order and other IC Religious institutions an actual 'thing' in the reality of LoTC's universe? Or, as I theorized above, do certain deities who abide certain principles simply misrepresent themselves?