Rock wrote:What? S's last stop was definitely supposed to be Bluetspur? Where'd you get that information?
Much earlier in this same thread, which also talks about the "S as Azalin-clone" idea. There's a lot of great stuff in the earlier parts of this thread, like the "S as Azalin-clone", "S as the anti-Richten", and "Gaz Metaplot coincidentally setting off War of the Western Core, not purposefully but just as a side-effect of doing something else." It's definitely worth it to read this whole thread.
BUT... You were the first with the "downloaded memories into the bracer" so you definitely kick ass! Congratulations!
DocBeard wrote:Well, considering where her story was set to end, I'm going to bet an e-dollar that S's ultimate fate has something to do with the terrible, mind-bending powers of the God-Brain. Maybe S's personality would've been consumed by the Illithid God-Brain, leaving nothing for the bracer to deposit back into a clone body.
Actually, since the bracers don't seem to require a living brain, I don't think it'll be necessary to lose S in the process. But here's my guess:
The God-Brain's biggest desire is to know what it means to be alive, to walk and talk and breathe and eat and have a body to directly experience things through (as stated in RLDMG, which I and apparently everyone else missed, but which Mangrum explained here on the boards, eliciting a "Huh, that makes sense" from most people and eliciting a bitter flamewar from a poster named GodBrain, but that's neither here nor there).
My guess is that S is sent on this tour of the Demiplane to record information about the Demiplane, which is to be sent to the God-Brain. The God-Brain will take S's brain into its own mass, gaining even more sweet experiences of life via S's life's memories. S's memories on the bracers can always be reused to clone a new S, as God-Brains just use brains not souls or whatever. (Mind you, God-Brains are only composed of illithid brains, but I figure there's got to be a way around that)
Anyway, my assumption is the deal is this: God-Brain gets a great set of memories, including those of dying not just once but multiple times, to let it know even more what it'd be like to be alive, and perhaps also see that since Azalin could make clones of himself and S that a body could potentially be created for the God-Brain to inhabit itself. In return, Azalin has the God-Brain use its massive gestalt intellect to sort through the memories of S's for some certain pieces of information to give Azalin even greater insight on the nature of the Demiplane and on the Dark Powers themselves, insights necessary for wreaking vengeance on his Tormenters.
But that's just my guess. And I still wish that the trigger event for the War of the Western Core would be revealed... Even if it's just something like "Well, with the Via Strigos taking Darkonian trade through Nova Vaasa instead of Falkovnia, Falkovnia had no choice but to invade Borca so as to make up for lost resources..." And I hope the 4E adventure is related to the War of the Western Core, as I'd forgotten all about the idea when it was time to submit ideas to the FoS...
Whoo, me! 
Wait -- should I be happy that I managed to think like the authors of the Ravenloft Gazetteers? 
after Gaz 7, including her fate after the end of the Gazetteers (would she meet Azalin or maybe do something involving her daughter?) and Azalin´s intentions with the 13 children?
