Winter Cat on 15/1/2009 at 17:47

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I still wonder who is pagan coming to pick up Mosely's letter. Weythran? Or someone else?

jtr7 on 16/1/2009 at 02:50

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The Pagan corresponding with Mosley is not Weythran, Blackrat, Cedar, Birch, or any named character, but probably Viktoria. Mosley asks her co-conspirator to send "an agent" to pick up her messages. Weythran and Blackrat do not adhere to the strict rules of the pagan faction, and therefore, I do not put them with that faction. The Courier is unnamed and there is no canonical connection to Weythran or Blackrat. There's not one mention of "seesie", "be thems", "bes you", "trappers", or any talk of plants, or Viki or the Woodsie Lord, or any dead giveaway, including not having a name that is also the name of a plant, not working for Viki's interests, greed, and hanging out in The City for reasons other than agriculture or gardening. A Watch Officer would not call Blackrat and those like him "nothing other than poor street filth", or "street garbage" or "the worst [snitches] you can find" if they were pagans. If they were pagans, they would be arrested on the spot and/or killed, because that's what the City Watch, under Truart, is doing with them (for Karras, who's paying the Sheriff to do so).

It's a major plot theme that the pagans are being severely discriminated against by the City Watch and Mechanists, and pagans are being arrested, handed over, backstabbed, murdered, and there are a few mentions of pagan agents in The City. With all the plant life being killed off, the pollution, and the increasing threat to the pagans, they are trying to find out what the enemy is up to, and looking to stop it. There are many pagans in the city, and all of them are unnamed. Earlier, Mosley doesn't like what's happening, and her plants keep dying, and she seems to understand the pagans are the solution, genocide is overkill (heh), and Truart's new age is unacceptable. Of course, she had no idea that Karras was controlling Truart by stroking his ego and filling his pockets, until later, and then she knew it was time for Truart to be assassinated. Mosely tells her co-conspirator she has been given "express orders to destroy any Pagans I find!" and "Truart was hired! Yes, and by the Mechanists! He has met with Karras, their leader, several times, and from those meetings came the order to systematically eradicate all Pagans. Oh, and they're so clever! You are now officially 'potential obstacles to the greater good' who 'must be eliminated'!"



So basically, the game doesn't name the courier, doesn't provide any clues to his name, and so, you could make the name up, as long as it's the name of a plant. :D

jtr7 on 16/1/2009 at 12:01

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"Rhodey" for short.:p

Or should that be Rhodesie?

jtr7 on 16/1/2009 at 12:42

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:wot:

242 on 16/1/2009 at 16:19

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I don't think it's a pagan dialect:

page_0: "Blackrat -
Third message this week, no answer again! \
Be you ignoring me, or be caught in your own trap? \
Drop a note for me or I fly the city, for once the \
rat be trapped, his cousin be not far outside the cage.
- Weythran"