Rae ArdGaoth
Explorer
Indeed, the meager remains of the man's hand is plenty to restore his life force, as is proved to you when you gather the next day on the shore of the swamp.
The lizardfolk bring you to a mound of rotting foliage, molded into a vaguely humanoid shape, into which Richard's fingers have been transplanted, rather grotesquely, where they would go were mound his real body. When you arrive, the elder lizardfolk is just finishing an endless chant, and miraculously, Richard's fingers are twitching.
Within moments, the mound of rotting leaves begins to move and shake. From beneath the pile, on the other side, you see a slender, delicate hand emerge. Weakly, it begins to brush the dead brush off of its form, slowly at first, and then more quickly.
The naked form of an elf stands before you now. His face is narrower, and his ears are pointy, but it is unmistakably Richard Rawen. You also notice that his two fingers, the only pieces of him that remained, are rather thicker and knobbier than the others on that hand, and a faint seam at the knuckle indicates where the old body ends and the new one begins.
The lizardfolk elder tells you that the process required an enormous amount of the lizardfolk's scarce resources, and now that he has made your friend whole again, he expects you to do the same.
(How are you paying for this procedure?)
The lizardfolk bring you to a mound of rotting foliage, molded into a vaguely humanoid shape, into which Richard's fingers have been transplanted, rather grotesquely, where they would go were mound his real body. When you arrive, the elder lizardfolk is just finishing an endless chant, and miraculously, Richard's fingers are twitching.
Within moments, the mound of rotting leaves begins to move and shake. From beneath the pile, on the other side, you see a slender, delicate hand emerge. Weakly, it begins to brush the dead brush off of its form, slowly at first, and then more quickly.
The naked form of an elf stands before you now. His face is narrower, and his ears are pointy, but it is unmistakably Richard Rawen. You also notice that his two fingers, the only pieces of him that remained, are rather thicker and knobbier than the others on that hand, and a faint seam at the knuckle indicates where the old body ends and the new one begins.
The lizardfolk elder tells you that the process required an enormous amount of the lizardfolk's scarce resources, and now that he has made your friend whole again, he expects you to do the same.
(How are you paying for this procedure?)