Prime Sorcerers

Aidan dreams of a strange layered city of graceful stone ramps and catwalks that is surrounded by dozens of tall black spires covered in that strange crystalline circuitry common in the psionic and divine tech he’s seen. Each spire bears the symbol of one of the gods (note that some are not represented, such as Rhys & Alrin, Corinth, Meredith, the nameless god and Hagen Rul). A gagged man and woman are being dragged through the streets by figures wearing black robes and masks, each of them bearing a symbol of a god upon their robes. The man and woman wear strange robes of white and gold, the same style of robes you had seen on the corpse in the laboratory prison. One bears the symbol of Re that you wear. The other wears a strange symbol you’ve not seen before (Ist). They are dragged before a group of the black robed figures, the lead of whom wears the symbol of the Justicar.

He says to them: "You are the last of the prophets of the Prime sorcerers, the false gods of the old world. We have brought you here to Gotter Hiria (which you recall reading about in Nir, known as the "city of the gods", where the gods themselves resided in the far North before the time of the Lance) to face your sentences before the Gods that have judged and condemned you and your kind. Jumal of Re. Herisa of Ist. You have been judged by the Gods as guilty of conspiracy, treason and blasphemy. Your souls will be cast beyond Creation, where you will find only torment in Chaos for all time, forbidden the joys of Heaven. Your children shall be slaves of the Church and shall be sent into the frozen wastelands to the south to work upon the great Lance until their dying days."

The dream turns gory as the two are stripped, flayed alive and disemboweled. Then a robed figure wearing the symbol of Sahara is allowed to tend to them. They are healed. And the torment begins again. The entire time several of the robed figures chant the ritual that will "cast their souls into chaos beyond creation" - but more realistically, simply outright destroys their souls entirely.

Your point of view notices a rat on a wall near two priests, it waves at your formless perspective as if to come closer. You do.

Priest one: What of Re’s daughter, Selcis? She was not entombed with the others. This could prove problematic. Karas has assured me that we have done the right thing. With no more followers, the Primes will be ever powerless in their tomb. But she could be a problem, especially if she seeks out her dragon allies before the Lance is completed. The dragons must not get a message to their Primordial masters before we are ready.
Priest two: Not to worry. Selcis is still half mortal. She can die. By the will of Shall, she WILL die. With her death and the destruction of the Primordial avatars by the power of the Lance, the will of the gods will be ultimate. We shall rule both Heaven and Creation.
Priest one: But what of the rat priest’s prophecy? The scorpion, which is Selcis’ sign, shall escape your trap and will bear seven heirs, each born with her Seal. If not her, these offspring could ruin everything!
Priest two: The rat. /he spits/ He only speaks nonsense and riddles. Most of us believe his priests should be up there suffering the same fate as that scum. Why the gods allow he and his priests to continue to live I do not understand. Shall has always stated that the rat should die.
Priest one: Shall thinks everyone should die.
Priest two: Not everyone. Just those that deserve it. And blonde people. Prostitutes and policemen. Women in general. Oh. And children. People who interrupt. Jesters. Anyone who wears green. //The conversation continues in this manner until you awake.//

Known Primes

• Re (eye of ra or hawk)
• Ist (tyet)
• The Four Sisters (demigods w/ mortal mothers)
  • Sebik (crocodile) - war & battle
  • Selcis (scorpion) - healing
  • Ubasti (cat) - protector & defender
  • Juto (serpent) - protector & defender (the gods punished her daughters, making them medusa)
• Ode (xx)
• Heqet (frog)
• Anubis (jackal) - known to be the lord of the dead
• Tout (baboon) - known as a patron of knowledge, language & history
• Peta (mask)
• Setesh (sha) - known as the patron of gateways, visitors/foreigners