Connects to: 17.11, 27.18.01, 29.14.01, 29.14.49 and 49.11.
In the depths of the Undercity is a region where even the Society of Engineers (29.14.49) fears to venture. It is the prison of nine ancient and half-forgotten gods that once defied Alberon.
Keeping a god imprisoned requires great power and constant vigilance and not even Alberon can bind nine. But the servants of the God of the City of Shuttered Windows are a clever lot and have bound the gods in a dense web of illusions so that they believe that they are fighting one another for control over a world that never was. One god raises up a jungle of tentacle palms to squeeze a rival’s temple to dust and another brings forth an army of gibbering lemur-men to slaughter the priests of another. They have fought for centuries and will probably fight for centuries more and as they do so their struggles fuel the illusions that bind their minds and the chains to immovable force that bind their forms. Of course if the gods would cease their struggle and cooperate they would break free in minutes…
Every so often things leak out of the illusory prison and cause much havoc in the Undercity and a few have even emerged into the sunlit world.
While the Society wisely steers clear of this prison a few brave souls venture down to try to gain wisdom or even to free the imprisoned gods, for a few of them still have small cults.
Of the nine one is Asrigh, an ancient wind deity and another is Unnath the Unborn, a strange god that once manifested itself in the wombs of virgins, whores and crones giving strange powers and weird commands to its “mother” before moving on to a new vessel.
Connections:
- An ancient prophesy says that if any of the imprisoned gods are freed the walls of the City will sink forever.
- The old songs that Naideen of Dinivar knows are hymns to one of the imprisoned gods, and the snakes that she visits are holy to that god (17.11).
Hooks:
- Who are the other seven imprisoned gods?
- What sort of things leak out from the illusionary world that the gods are fighting over?
- Do Asrigh or Unnath have any cultists? What happened to Unnath’s mothers?
- Who is crazy enough to try to break into the prison? What are they after?
- Who made that prophesy?
- Whose lore has Naideen uncovered? How?