Player campaign creations

He flips the page he was reading and is mildly surprised, seems these agents were very good. There was a sketch of the tarot card that looked a lot like him. They noticed the similarity themselves. They go into a bit of history, as much as they could find, about the tarot deck. Seems it was a very old, very rare, variation of the standard decks of the shadow, they weren't able to find out much more then that. Shame.

Hammett hands that page over to Eric, "You ever see one of these? I came across it on my trail of Vada. A mystic recognized me from his cards and took us to an underground chamber with a design on the floor, that design is what gave us the map to where Vada was heading." He rolls up his sleeve and shows Eric the map tattooed into his left forearm. "It also gave me this. So I wouldn't get lost, I suppose. But it makes no sense.

After the tarot section the agents went on to describe their process for searching for other items or areas of power. First they got all the myths and legends they could find cobbled together, your Ark of the Covenants, Crystal Skulls, Holy Grails, Bermuda triangles, and so on then crossed off everything that were also legends and rumors among neighboring shadows. If they were found in multiple shadows, then they probably weren't real. What they were left with were legends and mythic items that were unique to the shadow of Kasaba. It was a small list, but even then no proof that any of them were real or the reason for Vada's invasion.

One of the legends caught Hammett's interest, because it actually was Vada's target, of course the agent's didn't know that. "Here we go." It was second of the three remaining legends. This legend was about God's fighting on a mountain top in Central Asia. The battle was so great that it sheared off whole peaks and mountainsides, and a massive crater was blasted out of the mountain peak where they clashed. Neither God won the battle, but the legend spoke of powerful weapons, relics and tools of war left behind in the crater after the God's departed. "Locals" of the area feared the crater and would not go near it or take anyone to it. But of course it was a legend so no one ever knew exactly where the battle was supposed to have taken place, or when.

The agents then apologized for not being able to find anything more concrete in their research, but they did add an amendment, well a suggestion really.

They suggested that given Kasaba's unique location in shadow, it was the last place being of true Chaos, Demons and the like, could reach before the effects of Amber and the Pattern began a serious toll on their forms, so it would make a logical encampment for any forces from the Courts to stage out of for spying or a possible invasion of the Golden Circle and Amber. It was also the last location where gunpowder and electricity consistently worked before entering the Golden Circle. They didn't think that was a coincidence.

They suggested that maybe the great library of Amber, or other sources, might have records and reports of the original creation of the "Golden Circle" by Oberon, Dwarkin and whoever else might have been around in those days. Those reports might say why they drew the boarders of the Golden Circle where they did, and why they did not expand it further to take in Kasaba and other near by shadows. Was there a reason why they stopped where they did? Did they meet some sort of resistance, whether of Chaos nature, or shadow beings of some power, now long gone, that fought back against their control beyond that boundary all those ages ago? If battles did occur in that region of Shadows maybe there were left over sources of power now long lost and unclaimed. If any of that was true, only the records and reports from that time would give more information, unless Dwarkin and possibly Benedict (if he was even alive at that time) could be convinced to discuss such matters.