A new sect for PS: the Peace Makers

by Alex David Groce 1996

"Chaos, law, can't we focus on your similarities instead of your differences?"
                                                        -Peacemaker Valis Tal
"Shut your bone box, and quit interrupting our battle."
                                                        -Tanar'ri & baatezu
(moments later, after both reaching for a stone the annoying interlocutor has
thrown between them)
"Hey.  What were we fighting about?"
                                                        -Tanar'ri & baatezu


        "How many fiends and planars must die before the Tanar'ri and Baatezu
realize that what they have in common is more important than what they disagree
about?  Law and chaos are opposed, it is true, but this senseless war is going
nowhere.  The real enemies of the beings of Baator and the Abyss are the Upper
Planar beings!  Only united can the forces of evil triumph.  Neither chaos nor
law is sufficient unto itself in this battle."
                                                        -Tarkus Nite
        Tarkus Nite is the founder of the Peacemakers.  Nite is acutally an
ancient ultroloth exiled from both Gehenna and the Grey Waste for seeking to
end the Blood War (which some suspect the yugoloths began for their own
purposes).
        He usually appears as a wise and benevolent appearing old man, only
adpoting his true form when dealing with fiends.  Nite began the Peacemakers
long ago (how long is as unknown as when he was exiled) to bring together the
three lower planar "Great Races of Evil" (his term) to exterminate the Upper
Planar beings he hated so.  As the yugoloths were already ready to work for the
highest bidder whoeever it might be, he concentrated on the Tanar'ri and
Baatezu in his efforts to end the Blood War.

        Of course, he hasn't succeeded one bit.  The Blood War has a LOT of
momentum behind it.  However, in Valis Tal he may have found the pawn he
finally needs to end the Blood War and begin the REAL bloodletting.


Valis Tal:  Valis Tal is everything that Tarkus Nite is not.  Lawful Good,
she's an ancient mage from an unknown Prime, who's been wandering the Planes
for years.  Over these years she's seen many a fiend slain and many an Outlands
village razed in the name of the Blood War.  She wants to end the war forever,
and "stop the madness."  In this interest, she's borrowed an ancient artifact
from the Mage's Guild of the mysterious world from which she originates
(possibly the mysterious world of the Harmonium):  the Sympathy Stone.  This
nondescript appearing stone can bridge the gap between any two beings, by
letting them briefly see each other's point of view.  Hopefully, once enough
tanar'ri and baatezu have seen it from the other side, they'll call off the
war.  That's all Valis wants.  She known nothing of Nite's plans for AFTER the
end of the Blood War.


Actually, things aren't even that simple.  While showing Nite the stone, Valis
Tal touched it while he held it.  Now they can both see the merits of each
other's viewpoints, which has led them both to become half-barmy, and half
enlightened.


© 1996 A. D. Groce


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