Talk:Alexandria's Advancement

This is metagame, and offically "spoiler" territory, but not in any way that will impact any of the games from a play PoV. Also, since a lot of the Alexandria Story is absent from the wiki still because it's hard work and I keep putting it off, this serves as a nice rough sketch of the development of everyone's favorite Monotheistic Godhead. Well, maybe some people's SECOND favorite, which I suppose I can't begrudge.

Additionally, although a lot (most, actually) of Alexandria's life is unaccounted for in any reliable chronicle, the Canon of Orthodoxy does give some surprisingly detailed information about her early training. Or, actually, probably not surprising at all, as the Pre-Sojourn portion of the Stand's Adventures were all about gathering information and training. Generally speaking, before the Long Sojourn, the members of the Stand were significantly higher level than Alexandria and she acted as a ward or low-power cohort. Upon her return from the Long Sojourn, she was higher level than any of the Stand save Antioch and Marwynn, who both had unlocked (or at least hacked into) Obelisks. When Alexandria unlocked the White Obelisk, all bets are off in terms of estimating levels and powers.

Alexandria's Life In Crunch and Fluff

• C. Level 1: Commoner 1
  • Alexandria, an orphan of unknown origin, is brought to Tragidore by an old Bard whose name I don't want to look up and raised.
  • Around a decade later, around the age of 14, the shit with the Black Wyrm goes down. Tragidore is razed.
• CL 1: Rogue 1
  • Commoner Level become Rogue
  • Alexandria, along with the other Children of Tragedy, begin training under various members of the Stand while travelling to civilization.
  • Once it becomes clear she is a target, early emphasis on stealth and resilience.
• CL 2: Ro1/Fighter 1
  • Sterros, possibly worried that Alexandria is going to become a shiftless liar like Sayid, and definitely aware that Alexandria's final destiny would be martial in nature, insists that she also be trained to be a competent warrior.
• CL 3: Ro 2/Fi 1
  • Her natural dexterity allows her to excel as being evasive. Begins to have disturbing, possibly prophetic dreams featuring a recurring bald gnome.
• CL 4: Ro 2/Fi 1/Ranger 1
  • Kivan Half-Elven spends more time with an Alexandria torn between the competing agendas of Sterros and Sayid.
  • Alexandria is inexplicably drawn toward the Scarlands and the Mountains of Gildenhome. The party detours on their way to Hakan City-State.
• CL 5: Ro 2/Fi 1/Ranger 2 (Bow)
  • The Dark Naga are first encountered(?)
  • The punishing terrain of the Scarlands, and the increasing acrimony between Sayid and Sterros pushes Alexandria closer to Kivan.
  • Alexandria meets the gnome telepath Granger, who indicates Alexandria needs to stay with him to train and everyone else can go and continue whatever they were doing.
  • Sayid and Kivan insist the decision is Alexandria. Personally, Sayid advises against it and Kivan advises for it. Sterros insists the entire situation is patently unacceptable.
• CL 6: Psionic Warrior 6
  • Alexandria decides to stay and train, and eventually Sterros relents and leaves. (He insinuates in his own Testimonial there was a strong deal of Psionic compulsion involved.)
  • Granger is kind of a major league ass-hole and grade-a racist, and she and him quarrel constantly
  • Unlocks Hidden Talent[1] feat, helps her unlock a couple of basic powers with Psychic Ciurgery (including Reformation, although she may not have realized it at the time because it was beyond her ability to access.)
  • Granger puts her through a jacked-up psionic mindgrinder[2] hoping a psion will come out the other side.
  • What comes out instead is a new Alexandria - more focused, more serious, more confident, but also less emotional, less empathetic, and generally more aloof. Alignment Shift!
  • What *also* comes out is a blindingly fast, preternaturally aware, ruthlessly lethal Alexandria where before there was a hodgepodge of skills, talents and priorities.
  • Granger sends another set of disturbing dreams to the Stand, recalling them. He sends Alexandria away with him, indicating he realizes now he does not have the skills to give her the training she obviously requires. She is given a Knowledge (Psionic) psicrystal to help her develop.
• CL 7: Psionic Warrior 7
  • Alexandria begins the slow process of being her own teacher.
  • Sayid receives word of the death of his father, the disappearance of his brother, and the general collapse of his family's fortunes. He and Marwyn leave for Petara with Mikos Lygit, and the Halfblood Twins, the half-elf orphans grudgingly and rather inattentively warded by Marwynn. (They will stay with Sayid when Marwynn leaves to rejoin Alexandria. They will be killed during his campaigns.)
  • Alexandria, Sterros, Mythrian and the remaining stand work for Antioch collecting and researching the Chronicles.
• CL 8: Psionic Warrior 8
  • Alexandria and the Stand denounce and abandon Antioch after his botched attempt to enter the shadow realm and assassinate the Dark Lord.
  • Now in possession of the most comprehensive collection of the Prophecies in existence, the Stand flees Hakan Free-City by sea and makes their way to the Free Poleis to drum up support for their cause.
  • Word of the Prophecies and the rise of the Dark Oracles quickly spreads through the Free Poleis, many of them the dedicated seats of several Oracles of various gods. Accusations, Inquisitions, renunciations, counter-inquisitions, purges, proscriptions, and downright assaults break out with rapidity throughout the Poleis.
  • Soon Gildenhome will be forced to send in forces to contain the violence, leading Odessa to do the same (as the two nations had, for centuries, purposely left the region politically unstable and actively worked against Poleis unity.)
  • The High Priestess of the Goddess of Peace declares Alexandria and the Stand to be Enemies of Peace and orders their destruction.
    • [I love the irony, here. -Slitherrr 19:06, 29 May 2011 (EDT)]
      • I like my metaphor like I like my butter. -gm
  • Begin Prophet's War.
• CL 9: Psionic Warrior 9
  • Alexandria and Sterros solidify alliances and work on a grand strategy among their handful of supports.
    • Many Poleis declare for Alexandria outright. The Celstians under the Joshua Pryce attack and harass the Odessans, but do not declare for her outright.
    • The Elves, with no warning and giving no reasons, declare for Alexandria. This puts them at odds with Odessa. Also, by this time Petara is in the midst of a full scale civil war initiated by Sayid and the Bedowyld peoples of the interior. As such, the Elves have complete control of the seas.
• CL 10: Psionic Warrior 10
  • A few weeks(?) into the war, the fleets of the Lost appear.
  • A council is held between emisaries of the Lost, the Elven Admiralty, and the Stand.
  • A bunch of yelling happened. Everyone yelled at everyone else for a long time.
  • Alexandria agrees to leave with the Lost. (Very good reason to believe Mythrian *despised* Alexandria after this, though the Church would never admit it.) Promises to return soon, and empowers Sterros to fight and act in her name.
• By this point, most of the Stand is around level 12-13 and most of the "second string" is around level 7-9.

Long Sojourn ~10 Years

• CL 18?: Psionic Warrior 7?/Monk 12?
  • At this point, most of the party is Lvl 16-17, with Marwynn breaking into Low Epics.
  • Alexandria returns with a contingent of The Lost. Now in her mid to late-20s, she looks much different from when she left. Tall, lean, and impossibly agile, she wears no armor and carries no weapons.
  • She beats Arek to Death with her bare hands.
  • Learns the secrets of the White Obelisk with the help of Marwynn and Antioch
  • Base movement approaching 100.
    • What's that? Double move of around ~20 MPH, run speed of ~50 MPH. Can probably use some PSPs to outsprint a cheetah.
      • 45.45 miles / hour at 4x -Slitherrr 19:10, 29 May 2011 (EDT)
        • Before any PSPs are spent, yes? -gm
          • Yup, I don't know enough about Psionic Warrior off-hand to add that to the calculation, I was just converting her base move x4 into mph. -slith

• CL EPIC
  • Alexandria assumes the Omnity, Demi-Pantheon perishes, the bonds on the Dark Lord's prison are loosed.
  • Alexandria Becomes outsider type. (Hey, didn't Sayid and Antioch both have a Greater Outsider Bane weapon?)
  • Gains a mess of free levels, attribute adjustments, exceptional and supernatural abilities.
  • Almost single handedly puts an end the Prophet's War.
  • Essentially is declared Empress of the Earth by what is left of the world's clerics and war-exhausted nations.
  • No time to rest, guys! Begin Alexandria's Crusade.

On The Rest of the Stand

• Marwynn: Fighter 4/Sorc X (Specializing in Greatsword)
• Sayid: Rogue 4/Fighter ?
• Sterros: Cleric ?/War-Priest Prestige ?
• Kivan: Ranger ?/Elk-Rider Prestige ?
• Mythrian: Paladin
• Antioch: Rogue ?/Shadow Dancer ?
  • Intelligent Magical Sword: Sorc ?
• Mykos: Rog 2/Ftr 2/Bard X