Re: Chapter 8.1: Peryn's Crag
If no more conversation of note takes place, the late night begins to feel even later after a good meal and some drinks. The party enjoys a rare night in a very nice private room with little chance of danger at the doorstep.
The next morning, during breakfast, Derien returns with several red robed clerics who ask to examine each person, in the privacy of their room. It takes little time and just a physical check of lower back, along with a spell of prayer and soon everyone is assured they are not "stung".
After breakfast, Mallach arrives and says that Peryn has asked to speak with you again.
A trip back to the high temple shows the town to be simple and nice in the daylight, not so mysterious and lovely though as it had been at night. However, the opposite is true of the views. The western view in particular, fog over a great patchwork of green forest and far, far off, deep blue of the see. Returning to the old gnome, you find him again in the center of the garden, and he greets with a warm smile.
"I have prayed on the subject and also studied the lore of healing we have on golems, and I have some news for you. It may be incomplete, but it is a starting point. Vengeance Golems simply cannot be harmed in any meaningful way. Once put to a task, they will forever work to achieve it. To create one, requires not only powerful dark magic, but also a very powerful artifact. The artifact is inside the Golem to give it its immense strength and power it, but if it the artifact is removed, The Golem will quit its mission and return to its creator, and there before him, it will crumble. Based on the wounds from those who were healed here ages ago, those who successfully stopped such a golem, they were often missing limbs or hands, so I am guessing the artifacts were often found in the creatures mouth."