Pathfinder People - Tar Baphon & the Whispering Way

Happy Halloween!
I'm celebrating the end of October with my longest video ever, covering the biggest, baddest lich on all of Golarion: Tar-Baphon, the Whispering Tyrant. I'm also looking at the Whispering Way, the terrifying necromantic cult which helped raise the Tyrant to power.

00:00 Intro & Spoiler Warning
1:45 History & Beliefs of the Whispering Way
19:12 The Rise and Fall of Tar-Baphon
35:54 The Isle of Terror & Xin-Grafar
46:27 The (First) Return of the Whispering Tyrant
1:07:23 The Shining Crusade
1:33:33 After the Crusade
1:47:30 The Events of Carrion Crown
2:07:17 The Events of Tyrant's Grasp
2:44:04 Developments Since 2E
2:52:19 Player Information
2:58:38 GM Ideas and Inspiration
3:11:47 Conclusions & Analysis
3:15:21 Outro

Disclaimer: This video is not affiliated with Paizo in any way. I do not own any of the artwork or intellectual property presented in this video. Paizo has created incredible lore and art for Pathfinder over the years, and I am including as much of it as I can for the purposes of education and commentary. See the Fair Use Copyright Notice on my channel description.

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So the whispering way are the curtis yarvins of golarion got it.

[joshuaturnquist]

Little Tar Baphon in the thumbnail is cute. It's like a poppet Tar Baphon.

[casimirlawnicki]

A Hollywood feature length film: I sleep

A 3 hour epic about a Lich ive never heard about: REAL SHIT. WE'RE SO BACK.

[watdahill]

More than 3 hours!! Sir you just beat The Mythkeeper from the longest video. Epic.

[TheLocalDisasterTourGuide]

3:08:36 Paizo - this scene needs to appear in an AP yesterday!

[bucknutz]

Dude that was great, I listened to the whole thing in one go this morning, and am now brimming with campaign ideas, nice job, although I couldn't help but flinch each time you mention the cult's "tenants" instead of "tenets, " as I think they'd make terrible landlords.

[kingcrowbro]

My new headcanon (as in I literally just made it up now) is that our fair lady, The Unyielding, rescued what tiny fragments of the the Tyrant's Grasp PC's souls remained from oblivion, reforging those pieces into divine heralds, *Her* divine heralds. They AREN'T the same as they were before, but they 'echo' the PCs...

Look I know its sappy, but if she liked them enough to do a last second teleport away from a magic nuke, there's no way she'd look at them planning to turn themselves into a deadman switch and not intervene at the end.

[TheLocalDisasterTourGuide]

From one excessively long-winded YouTuber to another:

Sir, that was impressive! I absolutely enjoyed that video & I applaud you for the incredible work you did on this!

And that Outro... that outro speaks to my soul.

Content creators never learn. LOL!

[strangerous]

I saw the length of this video, and pretty much decided not to watch it. But over the last couple days, I have been haunted to come back and revisit. I sure am glad you produced this, as it brings together a lot of information I knew bits of. You've earned a new subscriber!

[john-jamesoreilly]

The end of the Crusade made me laugh bc it made me imagine if the Allies had ended WW2 by leaving hitler down in the bunker after concreting over the doors.

[Rythian]

What a magnum opus. Well done! Time to settle in for a long listen or four. :)

[haski]

A great idea for a Halloween video, the runtime alone gave me shivers! See you on the other side friends, this one is gonna be epic.

Edit: My only regret is not having popcorn for a video of this quality.
I'll always be up for a ridiculously long video but don't burn yourself out!

[SarkFaLL]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!! Very excited for this holiday special!

[mushuable]

Man your content is top notch. I had randomly stumbled upon a video of yours about Kingmaker that I had already liked (very informative and detailed) and as I was browsing War of Immortals I read about Achaekek slaying Gorum and I was like "who dat?". Then I watched your video about Achaekek and loved it, then the Gray Maidens and loved it, now this... I'm set to binge listen / watch your podcasts. You're doing a great job at explaining Golarion's lore.
Even if the visual part is definetly nice, have you considered uploading to Spotify ? Id probably listen to it while cooking or something...

[presidenttogekiss]

You know what this reminds me of? Brain Drain, the lore oracle spell. It allows the user to enter someone's mind and get their thoughts.
A single Lore oracle with a subdued member of the whispering way could do a lot of damage

[ConFusin]

3 hour Podfinder video? I didn't know we were getting presents on Halloween!

[ylnJack]

I was so confused thinking it was Friday but so excited for this one a day early

[FelixYyz]

This is fantastic stuff. Thanks for making tnis video!

[kidrissa]

I was going to try to watch this tonight, but then I remembered I've got a 2.5 hour drive tomorrow. So, I'll listen to it on that trip. Thanks!

[matthewschultz]

This gives me an idea for a Champion of Pharasma who was once a member of the Whispering Way, but abandoned it.