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1. She can hide her presence from the demons or Usurper. Can she do the same for us?
2. Are there any specific demons she knows of working for the Usurper? Any we should be on the lookout for?
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- She's not hiding her presence from the demons or the Usurper in any way that would help you. The way she's hiding is by being a construct that looks, sounds, smells, and feels just like a human.
- She has a huge list of demons she knows, and many of them are in the faction that would like to negotiate with the Outsiders (or are insane). There are something like a dozen or two demons who are perhaps comparable to the gods. There are tens of thousands of demons, including all who are with the gods, those who aren't, and those who are insane; most of those tens of thousands aren't on a level with the gods, though.
Some demons Nalia can talk about:
- The Purging Fire
- Iceblood Emperor
- Emem the Giant
- Iakalos
- Botros Albaf
- Braelyn Del Basque
- Salena
- Abisai, a more minor demon similar in powers to Salena.
- Grrn, a major crocodile-demon.
- Deòrsa, a snake-demon and ally of Iakalos
That's just a sampling of some of the ones either you've spoken to her about or that she can warn you about.
A) The Iceblood Emperor? Let's hear more of that. If there's any relation to oh, say, the Iceblood Empress we killed and butchered for her parts… I kinda think we might have to deal with him at some point.
B) Apparently Braelyn's ultimate goal was just to win independence from Spain.
C) Who is Salena again?
D) Grrn. While this doesn't, obviously, need to be explained to me, I imagine Darias (or really anybody) will be asking "what the hell is a crocodile?"
E) Deorsa. Is that who we faced on the road? If so, who is Iakalos? And what exactly was Deorsa talking about when she asked if we thought we could get away from it?
Dammit, this is what happens when I try to do three things at once. Iceblood Empress - Iealdith. No one new. My proofreading error.
Also, to clarify, I was just trying to dash out a really basic overview of the kinds of demons she's telling you about or able to discuss with you when you bring them up. She wouldn't say "croc-man", she'd be explaining "thick lizard skin, big, pointy teeth, etc., etc." I just wanted to dump some kind of answer as quickly as I could.
Salena is another name for The Winter Lady - I think Salena is the name used by the Great Lake humans, but I could be wrong. It could be something else. In any case, you have multiple names for her already.
Deorsa is who, based on your description, Nalia thinks you could possibly have faced on the road. Iakalos you have information on from long, long ago (dharven times, I think). That's a good question - what was Deorsa talking about? She certainly was about as clear as mud….
… but Braelyn does totally hate the Spaniards, right?
It's the lisping, right?
Basically, for each of those demons, Mal will be asking the usual demon questions. How do we fight them, what do they want, how do they relate to each other, how do they operate, how soon until they can respawn, etc? This intel will go straight into a cold crystal he'll show to people who need to know in the communities he visits, and finally dumping it into the Zwallen's Library for future generations to look up.
Oh, and because I know the information in the cold crystal will be partially visual, I want to stress that I'm not putting anything about Nalia in there, just visualizations of the demons. If I need to Silent Image and have Nalia correct me until I'm "drawing" Abisai and Grrn correctly, so be it.
Also, there are two Winter Ladies now? So help me, if one of them says "the cold never bothered me anyway…"
Many of those questions aren't entirely straightforward. Some of the demons are fairly insane; others don't necessarily have desires that translate to anything in human experience. There are other things that generally make sense, though. For example, Braelyn, being a fire demon, has a physical form weak against cold/ice/water. Botros Albaf (and god, I hope I'm naming the right demon here), being crystalline, is somewhat weak against sonic damage. Of course, most of the demons are fairly intelligent, so they compensate for these weaknesses where they can.
You can confirm something you guys have probably suspected for a long while. Most of the more powerful demons, and even some of the lesser demons, are resistant to physical damage on this plane. There are some sources that can overcome this resistance. You've already discovered some of them - whatever your innate granted boons that make you mythic, for example, means your attacks bypass their DR. Similarly, argia and… shit… that silvery special amorphous metal, can't remember the name, something like veneresite… that stuff, properly crafted into a weapon, also allows for bypassing that DR.
Oh, and there aren't two Winter Ladies. There's the Iceblood Empress, who is a lesser demon with delusions of grandeur who you defeated earlier. And then there's the Winter Lady, who is effectively a minor goddess of winter, nearly as powerful as the Nine, and who Braelyn helped you overcome in Yegek. And yes, there are also demons who are effectively minor gods and goddesses of the others and of other things, but they're not as widely worshipped and aren't worshipped by either the Islanders or the Mierans.
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