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Why Is There A Nympharium?

To understand what will come next, you should first accept the following premises:

-In Chapter Three of T.H. White’s The Sword In the Stone, Merlin says “But I unfortunately was born at the wrong end of time, and I have to live backwards from in front, while surrounded by a lot of people living forwards from behind.” This is wholly accurate.

An entity that might be the thing called Merlin, Emrys, Vauthes, Merlyn, Merlin Silvestris, Merlinus Caledonensis, Vermauthes, Merlin Emrys, Myrddin, Myrddin Wylit, Myrddin Ambrosius, Myr, Myrd, Magus, Merynum, Lailokem, Laleocen, Taliesin et al will, in at least one potential future, sometime after you read this, be born—to a woman and to a demon. He will age slowly through ever-more-primitive centuries until coming to be known as a wizard.

-An omniscient though otherwise ordinary observer, moving through time in the natural way, would, at some point before the 12th century, see: an increasingly-younger being—after decades as advisor to a king of the Britains—seduced by a naiad (often called Nimue, Nymue, Niviane, Niniane, Nyneue, Nyneve, Viviane, Evienne, or even Elaine) who locks him up in an awful palace made of thick green glass beneath the ocean .

There he watches Nimue’s belly swell as his hybrid children—part-water-creature, part-sorcerer, quarter-demon—gestate. They will be born less than thirty years from when you read this—centuplets, 101 nymphs like their mother in form and like their father in time. It is with these daughters and their machinations that this work is concerned.

-From, again, the point of view of an ordinary observer: sometime in the 17th century it will become clear that a great and subtle conflict is in progress between a large number of long-lived women, in a variety of nations, each strange, each a sorceress. The masked adept Ligea Narthex plots from her Fens Ultraviolet, the long-limbed Cianotica Bast directs armies from the island fortress of Glaucous Murdonon —and 100 other frightening women of demonic lineage and naiad blood vie with them for spoils geographical and metaphysical.

-Through the mesh of intrigue, necromancy and misdirection, Cianotica Bast eventually saw things as they were: her rivals were her sisters. Like Nimue before her, she contrived then a scheme combining hostile architecture and erotic entrapment. It was called the Nympharium and she left it rusting in Negadimensional Space until her sisters had grown too young to resist or remember her magic.

This worked—some years before you read this—in 2005—the ninety-nine nymphs were ensnared in the cruel Nympharium—which exists at once in two times and 99 places at once. Each chamber exists once in the real world, and the whole exists in Negadimensional space.

-Time and possible futures are usually imagined upright like an elm: what is past is the unsplit trunk below, what we have yet to experience expands above as potential events and consequences divide into limbs, branchs, twigs. In considering the situations presented here, we have to imagine instead a willow, or an umbrella, with the tips hanging near the ground. The tree is revealed as a curtain rises, we encounter the leaves and branch-tip spurs early, before the trunk begins to divide, we see the result before its origin, the effect before the cause, the adult before their conception, the endgames of possible futures before the crucial present which chooses between them.

-As of the moment your players encounter the Nympharium, Bast has caught the ninety-nine young nymphs who will become her enemies. She has tampered with them—but not decisively. She feared some miscalculation by which she might edit herself out of existence.

She was a cautious woman, and busy: she had a war to run. 

Violence In The Nympharium, featuring:

demons

romance in portugal

Violet leopard orchid zombies

The PanoptiKhan

Gianlorenzo Bernini and his rival Giuliano Finelli

goblins

a race to kazakhstan

ninjas

hell

royal fist monkeys

a battle on the yangtze river

Giacomo Antonio Marta, Jesuit and spy

a scheming vizier

frost giants

a mapping challenge

Narvik Cross, a victim of the demon-cats

qelong cameo

yoon suin cameo

Harst Insidious—A green-skinned, one-eyed wretch, shambling and narrow

centipede god

zebra priest

negadungeons

posidungeons

Moriyama Utagawa, dashing, long-haired eldest son of Lord Nobuyushi and Lady Kaori, who acquitted himself admirably at the Battle of Broken Lake.

100 girls and 100 octopuses

metalized polypropylene

brassieres

the special part of a jewish temple where they keep things they can’t throw away because the name of god is on them

nymphs

the droll god

the spinneskelle

protolarvae

hyperlarvae

megalarvae

the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse

pirate queens

pterosaurs

a temple of true neutrality

venetian carnival masks

the scots and brits feuding over a bonny lass

the fearsome warlord, annihilus neroxx

SO MANY TRAPS

brain eaters

clouded leopards

the isle of nephilidia

ancient vampire tubeworms

witches

a tar cyclops

meeting your baby self

bloodfriends

the pentamorph

a time-stop heist

Thuggee cultists

homicidal scholars of several nations

the aspidochelone

the chameleon prince

a manor house murder mystery

puzzles

the octophant

the black sphinx

wizard apes

your rich uncle

the war pig

the forest of 500 shadows

The Isle of Massive Crustaceans

the undead army of onibaba

....and much more

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