kiryu133 said:

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maybe she figured out how to do it without turning to Heresh? she always struck me as an intelligent 'gal so she should be able to figure it out. personally, the idea of a campaign about Gem fighting Necromancers and developing a hatred yet at the same time realizing it could be her way to gaining eternal youth sounds interesting to me. she was always the "undeads are eeeeevil" type so sometihng interesting could certainly be done.

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Avirosb said:

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Obviously she did possess some merit since you want her back.

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Heroes IV bio said:

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Even though Gem was at the center of over eighty years of wars and conflicts, she remained young and beautiful thanks to the waters of a special fountain. With the destruction of the old world, she no longer has access to those magical waters and is beginning to age normally again - something she desperately wants to avoid.

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Sligneris said:

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That being said, being a human druid living with the elves, resenting necromancy but eventually becoming undead herself, afraid of her mortality... it does sound like an interesting idea. I mean, I feel like NWC was also aiming to go for that in Heroes V, so it could both provide some continuity and also carry more of their legacy.

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Sligneris said:

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One another character it could be interesting to see reappear is Gem however, but with a twist of sorts. I couldn't help but feel that her Heroes IV biography suggested that she would eventually become a Necromancer, seeking to maintain her youth and life at any cost. It could be interesting to see her appear first as a Sylvan hero in Heroes VII and then in the game after - as a vampiric Necropolis hero.

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kiryu133 said:

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maybe she figured out how to do it without turning to Heresh? she always struck me as an intelligent 'gal so she should be able to figure it out. personally, the idea of a campaign about Gem fighting Necromancers and developing a hatred yet at the same time realizing it could be her way to gaining eternal youth sounds interesting to me. she was always the "undeads are eeeeevil" type so sometihng interesting could certainly be done.

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Heroes IV bio said:

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Even though Gem was at the center of over eighty years of wars and conflicts, she remained young and beautiful thanks to the waters of a special fountain. With the destruction of the old world, she no longer has access to those magical waters and is beginning to age normally again - something she desperately wants to avoid.

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Sligneris said:

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She despised and fought Necromancers before and that would also be true for her Ashan reincarnation. Would she however succumb to Necromancy herself if she had no other options, even in the old world? These biographies led me to believe she would, if NWC didn't go bankrupt.

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I buried the children and freed the animals, which were still alive.  The real horror is that the dead children are the lucky ones.  They have gone on to the afterlife.  The tormented souls of the adults are tied to their undead bodies, unable to rest until the body is destroyed.

WHERE WAS THESE PEOPLE'S LORD TO DEFEND THEM?  These lands are supposed to be Erathian, and I have seen no sign of an organized force to oppose the Necromancers.  Don't they know the Necromancers won't stop harvesting until every single person is DEAD?

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I was with a small patrol traveling in the forest in the hour before dusk becomes true night. Bats swooped in the evening air chasing insects.  Suddenly they flew with more purpose, surrounded us, and transformed into Vampire Lords.

Sprites screamed, elves shouted.  Skeletal hands reached from the earth and pulled down my horse.  On my knees, I pulled lightning down from the sky to blast the Wights swarming my Dwarves.  The Unicorns charged, impaling Vampire Lords with their horns.  Just feet away, a Skeleton slew one of my Druids.

The sky exploded into light as my Phoenix swooped with fire running down their wings to char the remaining Vampires and Skeletons.  The Necromancer cast a final spell and turned to flee.

I rolled from my cot shaking with anguish and rage.  This time the Necromancer would pay for the death, for the dead.  Bursting from my tent, I raised my hand to pull down lighting to stop the Necromancer from escaping, only to stumble with confusion at finding a sleeping camp.

"My Lady?" asked a sentry, concerned.

"I had a dream", I said. "Just a...a dream.  A nightmare.  I'm fine.  Fine."

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This morning, screams brought us to a tiny hamlet.  A small roaming band of skeletons and zombies were attacking the villagers, but they were no match for my troops.  I rode down the last skeleton myself.  I knocked the skeleton down and trampled it again and again with my horse's hooves until all was left was a flattened pile of bone shards.  I swear I heard a sigh of relief as the skeleton's imprisoned soul was released to the afterlife.  However, my troops looked at me strangely afterwards.

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Today we rode through another small hamlet that had been "harvested" by a Necromancer about a month ago.  I buried what was left of the children's bodies.  There weren't any adults; they had all been raised as skeletons, I'm sure.

I feel so old and tired and angry and unsettled when I see this type of thing.  I don't see how Erathia is going to retain the Contested Lands if they can't protect their people from this horror.

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I was thinking about... things today.  Sometimes I just refuse to think about certain things, but it hurts too much, and, besides, I feel more settled now.  I don't think it's wrong to hate the Hateful or not forgive the Unforgivable.  What I think is wrong is to let that hating and unforgiving turn a person into the thing they hate or won't forgive.  I won't make that mistake again.  I won't be like them.

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When I went to tell Lord Fayette about Sandro tricking me, I learned he left on a mission into Deyja while I was searching for the boots and had not yet returned.  So I scryed for Lord Fayette and discovered his mission had gone horribly wrong.  He had been killed by the Necromancers and... and... resurrected as a Death Knight!  Curse all Necromancers!  There is one last service I can do for my lord.  I will grant his soul final peace by destroying the undead body chaining it to this world.  I owe him that much.

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The doll got to me.  It looked just like the one my sister had right before she died.  I remember thinking she was the luckiest girl in the world to have a doll like that.  Then the horde of skeletons killed everyone in my village.  I was the only survivor.  I'm GLAD the Council of Elders choose me as one of the pair to punish Deyja.

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