>Develop a mind-manipulation spell to compel obedience The power to bind thoughts and mind. An occult spell of the golden age of humanity.
Something you considered using against Flora.
They were folkloric legends to the average person.
Ghal was proof of their existence, though he only knew the results and not the realization.
But the capital was the largest reservoir of lost knowledge, it had to contain the ritual.
So you looked for it while you were deciding what to do with Rigek.
You found the process of rituals incorporated into chimera factories.
Carved into the containers where abominations grow.
[New spell: [6 Aberrance] (Range: Touch) (The creature must be unconscious for 2h)
(Creates a behavior, idea, compulsion in the creature. The creature needs to succeed on a DC25 Insight roll if it wants to try to resist the effect. If successful, it can resist the effect for one day.)
(If the effects contradict/oppose something in the creature they don't replace it, they both exist at the same time. Example: Someone hates and loves garlic at the same time.)
>>5719468>>5719474>Give Rigek a choice binding, execution, and indefinite imprisonmentIn the guts of the fortress, as deep as it could be dug, is the prison.
Each cell created to contain aberrant monstrosities, mechanical or organic.
To this day all the cells are empty, their contents released towards the end of the Great War.
Ironically, it is one of the best preserved areas in the entire capital.
A place hermetically sealed for centuries.
And the only thing that it jails now is the traitorous captain Rigek.
He sits alone, enclosed behind thick sheets of steel.
You only see him through an opening in his door.
He scorns you, but he keeps silent.
So you talk to him about the options he has, about the little future he has left.
The way of turning him into a servant, enclosing his mind with magic and forcing him to obey.
Varying in levels of cognition, depending on how much he resists and how much you would have to cut.
The only option in which he would see the sun again.
You could leave him locked up here indefinitely,
but with a potentially infinite life, this was the worst option.
It was the option of waiting for an opportunity to escape, something he would not come.
And finally, execute him.
Simple and direct.
You had other ideas of what to do with him, but exile or demotion were no good.
He would end up hurting other people, even if he had to do it with his fists.
Rigek growled at you.
"Unlike you, I have clarity of purpose. I'm in tune with my nature, and I won't let you transform me into something that goes against who we are.
So the real options are to stay here and go mad or die. Kill me, but kill me yourself, I want to fall to an enemy and not my soldiers."
You looked at one of the chimeras that stood guard for Rigek.
An unthinking tool, barely aware of its existence.
How could he see himself so much in them?
It didn't matter, his destiny sealed, he would die.
