Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 6:02 am
You´re right, it doesn´t say that it´s their HQ. I just assumed that it was, as Liebheldin owns it and I think it is rather unlikely that any of the other mediums has anything better suited.
As BTH still has an open hook, why not bait/develop the House of Doors here?
Here´s the passage from Van Richten´s Guide to Ghosts on guide mediums:
As BTH still has an open hook, why not bait/develop the House of Doors here?
So it is indeed her channeling apparatus. Does that mean that she has Ethereal Emptathy, and other ghost-related feats? Or Mist navigation feats? Are there actually one or more portals in the house? (As in Planescape portals or Mistways) Who/what tries to enter this world? How does she guard against them? Is the House of Doors perhaps a Phantasmagora?The young widow of the town´s former chief trade officer, Liebhelding of the Door (nee Liebheldin Kriegling) unofficially continues to oversee much of the city´s trade by aiding the current Handelleutnant Truantheim. This is a secondary duty at best for the young medium, who spends her day watching over the House of Doors, the reputedly haunted manor left to her in her late husband´s will. Through the many doors of the blocky fortress-like manor, Fräulein Liebheldin guides those she deems worthy into the spirit realm and guards against the things that attempt to enter this world through the House of Doors.
Here´s the passage from Van Richten´s Guide to Ghosts on guide mediums:
Guide Mediums
A guide medium is a unique and powerful individual. This person is actually able to enter the spirit world, the border ethereal, and communicate with a ghost on its home territory. My research indicates this is done in a manner similar to a wizard's astral spell.
Often, the guide medium must craft some manner of portal or gateway through which he will enter the spirit world. Some type of ceremony is held, during which the medium goes through a series of steps designed to open this portal. When all is ready, the mystic (and perhaps a handful of other people) can step through the gate and into the border ethereal.
Once in the spirit world, the medium has a natural understanding of what is encountered there. While I found the entire voyage utterly bewildering and disorienting the one time I traveled with a guide medium, she was never put off by the weird landscape of the spirit realm. When we encountered the spirit that we sought, it was all I could do to offer even the slightest aid to the medium battling it.