hey, so remember the prophecy?
It seems like the Ogrest Cult is aware of it, and trying to safeguard any funny looking trinkets from the prying hands of pesky adventures (else some bad fate could befall their Ogrest). They are trying to prevent the forming of a PC. Their plan’s execution is a classic rookie fumble. If I were to hide some sort of powerful power or artifact or like the legacy of the gods or some shit, I’m just spitballing here, I would have put it in some very obtuse place nigh inaccesible to mortals and hidden the answer of its location in some very other very far away and harrowing to get to locations. I would then erase my own memory, and then, unburdened by the past, spend my days being the funniest NPC a quest has ever known. But that’s just me.
Funnily enough, it seems like main PCs motivation here is vengeance rather than heroic aspiration.
Which, makes sense. PC has only memories of how long they’ve lived, and they’ve lived barely. It is easy to hold a grudge if even 4% of your total memory of everything that has happened to you so far involved getting flung down the sewer by a creature named grambo.
PC is a very prideful creature in these quests (and we love that for her. I support her) as seen with them seeing themselves capable of taking on a dragon in Rii, and incessantly complaining that they were worthy of more that just a lowly Rat Quest. To be tossed away like trash is not good for her. When I was little I thought that if a thick tree trunk fell on me I could just… move it away effortlessly. No tree fell on me to prove me wrong. PC at these stages exudes that child-like belief of being invincible. Maybe there aren’t too many confirmed incarnates hanging around because they have the wisdom of a kid yet the agency of a fully formed being that won’t be stopped by a parent if it wants to wrestle a dragon. (But PC did and she survived sooo….)
