Ortho: Current Plotlines

There could be a good plot hook on the Forbidden Goddess. How she "fell" from the grace of the Harmonium. There are a thousand plothooks there. And how she is worshipped today by the True Believers. I like the stone with a hole in it idea Clueless had. Where you place an specific plant or nut or flower, the flower I think would be best, unless you want to go ironic and have it be a nut (nut=crazy=chaos does not equal the Harmonium), in the hole. I think that seeing through the portal window would be only accesable during the crescent moon, under which are fabled stories of secrets, seeing into the future, sages are known to be born under the crescent moon, waxing or waning.

I would write more but time is not allowing me to.

Just let me know if you want more on the Forbidden Goddess aspect from me and I will write more later .

From 'Ortho: The Beginnings' Thread:

These are ALL plotlines having to do with the Forbidden Goddess aka the Elven Lady.(She is spoken about in the thread "Ortho: The Beginnings")

1- A PC or NPC goes to Three Rivers and visits the Garden in the middle of it. While in there they:

a-See a vision of the Forbidden Goddess and are intruiged->obsessed as to what it means.

b-See a small part of the Pure Truth of the Harmonium that the Elven Lady/Forbidden Goddess taught, and are interested->obsessed as to what the rest of it is. They then start their pilgrimage to Pan Thaera.

c-Run into an animal Totem while in the Garden who speaks to them telepathically and sets them on a pilgrimage to Pan Thaera.

2- Anywhere on Ortho they find the Elven Lady/Forbidden Goddess through:

a-An animal Totem that speaks to them telepathically

b-A ladybug or other insect lands on your shoulder (anywhere on your body really)

c-A specific leaf from a specific tree falling on you, or by you brushing past it while it is still on the branch

d-Any other specific (see Ortho: The Beginnings Thread-the part on the Forbidden Goddess/Elven Lady) aspect of Nature touching you
physically

.....telling the PC or NPC a little about the Lady and a little about her ways of the Pure Truth of the Harmonium (basically enough to get them interested in finding out more about it). They then want to go to the Garden in the middle of Three Rivers (see #1), or to Pan Thaera (see #3). These incidences happen most frequently in Pan Thare or in the Garden btw, but can also happen in any place on Ortho.

3-The PC or NPC goes to Pan Thaera, feeling pulled or drawn to the Lady's secret Druid's Circle, which contains the huge sensory stone with a hole in the middle of it. By this time the PC or NPC should have enough information or get in enough information in Pan Thaera, that they need to bring a nut to the Sacred Place of the Lady. Once in the Sacred Place of the Lady they eventually find, after however many trials you would like to put your PC or NPC through, the Sensory Stone with the hole in the middle of it. On the Sensory Stone it is written in every language known to all parts of Ortho (even secret languages), "Put the nut in the hole in the stone, and watch the Truth come to light.".

After doing this they immediately see what the Harmonium went through to take over Ortho in the beginning to the present, what the Harmonium went through to take over other worlds from beginning to present, and what the Pure Truth of the Harmonium Way is... not the corrupt way that it has been run or is being run (however you want to run it in your campaign), the ways of the deity Lao Tzu, (do not forget to put the ways of the deity Lao Tzu into this knowledge learned ), and lastly that they are to spread the knowledge of everything but the specifics (ie:what other worlds were conquered, the names of the people she knew, the way to get to this Sacred Place (since part of the learning is in the journey), etc.).

There ya' go Clueless! I finally put my thoughts oabout the Elven Lady to written words! Yay!