Chapter 264 The Fatal Flaw of the Land of Three Rivers
Chapter 264 The Fatal Flaw of the Land of Three Rivers
Author: Night Knight
Chapter 264 The Fatal Flaw of the Land of Three Rivers
After this person is eliminated, we can only consider the gods related to death and immortality.
Jergal, the Recorder of Death, is one of the oldest gods. In the era of the Netheril Empire, he possessed powerful divine power. However, this Lord hated performing his duties and gradually transferred his priesthood to Bane.
, Baal and Melkor.
These three, at their peak, were all powerful.
This shows how powerful Jergal was at his peak.
But these three have become a thing of the past.
And Jergal now only has weak divine power. He only maintains fatalism, funeral and tomb guard, and several relatively unpopular death-related priesthoods, watching everything in the world with a cold eye.
Building the temple of this god is not that complicated, because he is indifferent to everything, including his own believers and beliefs.
Don't even think about getting any help from him in the future.
Even Gavin would not be willing to invest too much energy and attention in the presence of a god who had no desires and could hardly gain any benefits.
As for Kelemvor, the god of the dead, he was made a god by mortals last year together with Cyric and Midnight.
But compared to the rising gods of conspiracy, Cyric, and the goddess of magic, Midnight, he is still somewhat unknown.
Because most of the priesthoods related to death were taken away by Cyric, he is now just a small substitute, a little transparent. It will be ten years before he truly comes to the forefront and becomes a powerful god.
The war between Bane and Cyric completely broke out, and he took the opportunity to seize the entire Death Priesthood. At this point, the conflict between him and Cyric was also put on the table.
Believing in him now is a timely help, and you can easily win his attention and favor.
The only problem is that the God of the Dead was a warrior with a full sense of justice during his lifetime. Even after becoming the God of Death, he has not completely changed his mind. He has great disapproval of life extension and undead creatures. His priest advocates the destruction of all undead creatures so that they can survive.
Entering the cycle of life and death.
As for good and evil, they are not within the scope of their consideration. Since all immortal existences break the cycle of life and death, it is abnormal.
In this aspect, the Manor of Vizeme is obviously inconsistent with its character.
Since extending life span was mentioned, Gavin thought of a god who had the opposite attitude towards this matter than Kelemvor.
The healer of the blue, the poison of death, the lord of flesh and bones and the doomsday of pain and plague, Jasanapur.
He is a good deity whose main duties are healing, necromancy, physical knowledge and firm will.
He approves of people using various good means to extend their lives, including becoming undead, as long as this transformation does not carry the curse of eternal hunger and thirst.
Existences like the Estelle mother and daughter and Black Heather are naturally within the scope of his acceptance.
The only problem is that he is not a native god of Faerûn, but one from the multiverse.
Although his faith has spread to Faerûn, it is very narrow, with only a handful of preachers, and most people have never even heard of his name.
If you want to build his temple, you must have at least one of his priests, otherwise it will just be an empty building.
Where to find a priest of the Blue Healer? This is the biggest problem.
Gavin, who was making calculations and comparisons in his mind, did not make a decision immediately. Instead, he turned to Anna and said: "When you have time, Andrew will take you around the neighborhood and see if there is a suitable place to build a building."
The real Ilmat Church should be able to suppress the negative energy of the manor to a certain extent without completely covering it up."
As soon as these words came out, it meant that Gavin had completely given up on his plan to build a temple to the good god Zhuan in the Wezeme Manor.
Even the temples related to the death god Chuan are not planned to be repaired in the short term.
Instead, they fight through external suppression.
"Great, I've been wanting to do this for a long time." Anna's eyes sparkled with excitement, but the next second, she was a little entangled and said, "What should I do over there at the Dragon Oak Collar? I finally got a little bit there.
progress."
"That's just to let you accumulate preaching experience." Gavin said lightly, "The true faith of the kobolds is the dragon, and only the dragon. Those kobold believers you have trained are all false believers. I always
A bottle of dragon blood potion can lure them away.
Human beings and races with similar characteristics are the focus of our evangelistic training. In the future, I will further increase the resources allocated to you and try my best to help me train a large number of real pastors."
Previously, there was no other way, so Anna was asked to train kobold priests.
Facts have proved that they are not the material at all.
Even if they form an effective kobold medical team, they do not rely on faith, but on the magic-like abilities awakened through the three major rituals of dragon vein, dragon blood, and dragon transformation. They still rely on their own dragon bloodline.
Now that there is a better choice, Anna naturally has to step away and invest her energy in a more worthy direction.
"Ah..." The young priest's face suddenly fell. She is a person who is very nostalgic for old friendships. She is a little reluctant to let go of the kobold priests she has finally trained. After all, they have provided her with a lot of help in refining magic potions.
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"Don't worry, they will be the first to be dispatched as soon as the church starts to be built." Gavin reassured Anna, "After all, in many ways, they are easier to use than ordinary people, especially when you are training
Before there is a real priest.”
"I know Mr. Gavin has the most thoughtful ideas. I will choose the location early tomorrow morning." Anna said enthusiastically.
In the end, Gavin did not leave this matter entirely to the young priest alone.
Early the next morning, he set out with her and walked around the entire Vizeme vineyard.
Finally, the location of the temple was chosen on the other side of the vineyard.
The straight-line distance from Vizeme Manor is three and a half kilometers.
It was chosen to be built here because the Vizeme Manor was destined to be unsuitable for permanent residents, and even the surrounding areas were not suitable.
Rather than selecting a site for the Ilmat Temple, it is better to select a site for a new town.
A new town will be built around this temple.
Since it is a future town, it is natural to consider the convenience and safety of residents.
It is close to water to the west and road to the east, and is located on the only way to the Vizeme Manor.
Since it is a project, it is inevitable to mobilize kobolds from Chunya Forest. In this aspect, they are professionals.
Even if they have never repaired a human house before, it doesn't matter.
They can dig holes first and build roads first.
They not only need to build a residence for themselves on the Vizeme Manor, but also need to lay sewer projects for the future Vizeme town.
For large-scale engineering construction, the number of kobolds needed is not eight or ten.
Gavin initially planned to send 800 kobolds over, and it would not be appropriate for the Virginia lord to send them back and forth.
She can deliver up to three trips a day, taking eight people on each trip, so she has to deliver 800 kobolds for a month.
If these eight hundred kobolds traveled by land and were then transferred by a halfling fleet from the Asaba River, it would not take more than ten days.
How to choose is self-evident.
Even teleportation is not omnipotent.
A portal that can transmit in large quantities is a good thing.
It is a pity that Lord Virginia does not have a second Dragon Oak Mother Tree Seed in his hands.
The construction of ordinary portals is not a matter of high cost, but a matter of whether they can be built.
Most of the portals currently in use in Faerûn have a relatively long history, originating from the Elves or the Netherese Empire, and only a handful of them were built in modern times.
Relatively common is the constant teleportation array using magic constancy.
It's just that the teleportation circle is a nine-ring spell. There are only a handful of people who are proficient in it, and they are unwilling to build it on a large scale.
If the teleportation circle is used normally, only the corresponding casting materials are needed.
Once a permanent teleportation circle is established, the caster's experience points need to be consumed. The lower the conditions of use, the more experience points are consumed, and vice versa.
Gavin was not squatting at Wezeme Manor, waiting for the arrival of the kobold engineering team.
But on the third day, I boarded a halfling's houseboat and sailed down the Asaba River.
The halfling leader Avery is going to Feather Valley to buy cotton for Gavin.
Originally, Gavin wanted Vito Avery to handle this matter.
Later, I calculated that I had plenty of time, the travel method was convenient enough, and it was convenient, so I decided to go there myself.
Putting aside everything else, the intelligence collected along the way made Gavin say that the trip was well worth it.
Go down the river from Yewen Pond to the Black Feather Bridge.
The entire north bank belongs to the Battle Valley, and the south bank belongs to the Taser Valley.
It's just that the scenes on both sides are different.
Most of the areas in the Battle Valley are vast alluvial plains. There are settlements and towns, but they are scattered and very rare.
The first half of the Taser Valley is similar to the Battle Valley. There are large impact plains and many settlements. Many places have been reclaimed into fertile farmland. However, after reaching the second half, the Dun Hills lie across the valley.
Along the river, there are rolling hills and ridges, giving Gavin the illusion of returning to a rocky land.
"There is obviously a large area of fertile land here in the Battle Valley and the convenience of the Asaba River. Why are there so few residents and cultivated land here?" Gavin couldn't help but ask when he was about to leave the Battle Valley.
"Lord, I only see the bright side now." The halfling leader explained with a smile, "After the Komanso rainy season, the water volume of the three rivers surges at the same time, and the water surface of the entire Yevin Pond will be raised by one meter.
Adults should be able to imagine how turbulent the river here will be.
You have also seen the terrain just now. On the Taser Valley side, the Dun Hills are their natural river embankments.
However, there is no shelter or barrier here in the Battle Valley. It is common for rivers to burst their banks and flood dozens of kilometers of surrounding land.
In comparison, there is also a large area of fertile land on the Rosaville Road, with merchants coming and going, and lords and warriors patrolling it.
There is always no shortage of rain in the valley, so there is no need to worry about irrigation.
Between the two, if you were the lord, how would you choose?"
Seemingly thinking of something, Avery added: "Not as a lord, but as an ordinary farmer. Building a 150-kilometer river embankment is not something that one or two farmers can do."
of."
The implication of the halfling leader's words was obvious. He believed that the new lord of Vizeme Manor was capable of doing this.
It only took the other party less than two days to completely transform the Vizeme Manor from top to bottom.
If he was given another three or five years, what changes would he bring to the Land of Three Rivers, the Battle Valley, and even the surrounding valleys?
It's simply unimaginable.
Avery is full of expectations for this.
Because this means that they will have more job opportunities, enjoy more convenient services, and have a better life.
"It seems that if you want to develop this place, the first task is to build embankments and regulate the river." Gavin thought thoughtfully.
Even for him, this is no small project.
However, this project can be carried out in sections depending on the terrain.
The main problem now is that he doesn't have much idea about the Komanso rainy season. He doesn't know what the Asaba River will look like after flooding, so he can't start construction rashly.