Terran's Journal Livestream: 9/29/19 - Alanis the Wizard!

I brought this up during the stream, but I wanted to expand on it more here for kicks and maybe to get a conversation going, but I don’t think the BoB can or should trust Alanis right now. Why? (This is all conjecture, but bear with me lol) 1. Almost all of the initial information we got about her was from Ulfgar, who undoubtedly has a pro-Alanis bias. Back when the BoB first met him, all riddled with crick rot, he revealed that Alanis and Thiala had a huge falling out over something he couldn’t remember. Based on recent happenings, I wonder if Alanis did know or found out that Thiala didn’t actually destroy the divine heart and they were fighting over what they should actually do with it. 2. I have an incredibly hard time believing that Alanis didn’t have any kind of protective spell in place or magical artifact in her possession that warned against fiends back in the Faewild. If she was paranoid and concerned for her own self-preservation enough to leave the material plane, she would have some kind of protections in place, right? Beyond just physically disguising herself as a sea crone?? So if she did have all of these things in place, how was she unaware that Bev Sr had allied himself with the Nine Hells? And she also admitted to actively watching/scrying over the BoB when the were in the Faewild, so why wouldn’t she keep an eye on her other allies too? I just think she had to have known. 3. We know she’s smart as hell, and we also know she’s a manipulator and willing to play a long game (very literally with all the wish spells, as far as we know). How do we know she was truthful with the BoB when she was saying what happened with all of her previous wishes? Why was she always much more interested in stopping Thiala’s path to power rather than trying to seal and effectively destroy the Nine Hells? Yes, there was one potential future where Ulfgar teamed up with Ilsed and Hell took over the material plane, but could that have been a red herring? In every wish she made, her goal wasn’t to achieve peace and unity - it was explicitly to stop Thiala. 4. Whether or not Alanis herself is strictly allied with the Nine Hells is TBD. Pretty sure she’s careening herself towards a hell portal in the astral plane right now. Is she getting reinforcements? Is she opening the portal more to bring the fight to Thiala now? Anyway, this is my fan theory and I may very well be wrong about this and that’s fine. Murph has been a great DM and has shown us plenty of twists and turns before that I’m sure the end of the campaign is going to be very different than any of us could predict. Everything about Alanis has been gnawing at me for a while and this seems like a good time to chat about it.

Diana

I love these streams so much! Always amazing! :)

Josnak

2hr stream,,, you're treating us right

Saru

I've been picturing Olivia Octavius too!

Zed

love yalllll

Yes!!!!!!!!

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