[Sorry, Mando, he's gonna need to talk magic at you.]
It's pretty complicated, but the Nightmare King is not a creature native to our plane -- I guess you would call it our world? If you are extraplanar, you are always pretty susceptible to getting banished back to your own plane, so the crown was a talisman that kept it anchored to our plane.
The last time an adventuring party dealt with him, they managed to get the crown and banish him, which sorta sent him back to his own realm, but he was also still kinda connected to the forest through the curse he put on it. He just couldn't leave or do anything.
That's why Kalina was trying to bring the crown to the forest. Cause if they could do a ritual there, they could reestablish the connection and summon the Nightmare King back to his full power and abilities. And that would've been so bad.
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Date: 2023-12-12 08:28 pm (UTC)[Sorry, Mando, he's gonna need to talk magic at you.]
It's pretty complicated, but the Nightmare King is not a creature native to our plane -- I guess you would call it our world? If you are extraplanar, you are always pretty susceptible to getting banished back to your own plane, so the crown was a talisman that kept it anchored to our plane.
The last time an adventuring party dealt with him, they managed to get the crown and banish him, which sorta sent him back to his own realm, but he was also still kinda connected to the forest through the curse he put on it. He just couldn't leave or do anything.
That's why Kalina was trying to bring the crown to the forest. Cause if they could do a ritual there, they could reestablish the connection and summon the Nightmare King back to his full power and abilities. And that would've been so bad.