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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 4580930" data-attributes="member: 63"><p>Let's see. Dates are a little fuzzy because I drew inspiration for the campaign from a home game I ran, but I ended up changing a lot to fit the needs for publication, which led to me having two memories for some things. But the best fit now is:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>About 100 years ago</strong>, Coaltongue and Shaaladel team up and win their first few local battles not far from Ycengled Phuurst (see adventure 7), and in the process the Torch of the Burning Sky is created. After a few months of trying to avoid being captured and tortured into making another such item, Trilla flees into the underdark through tunnels under Gate Pass.</p><p></p><p>It takes a few years, but with the aid of the Torch and some canny political maneuvers, Coaltongue gets a small nation for his people in what is now Ragesia, and Shaaladel liberates lands that the Shahalesti had lost, establishing the borders of Shahalesti.</p><p></p><p>Over the next few decades, Coaltongue forms alliances and chips away at Morrus (a name which morrus wishes I hadn't picked). He has effectively established Ragesia as a nation by <strong>60 years ago</strong>, at which point he is around 60 years old.</p><p></p><p><strong>50</strong> years ago, Indomitability comes up through Gate Pass during the annual festival of dreams, and ends up settling in Innenotdar.</p><p></p><p><strong>42 years ago</strong>, Ragesia conquers Gate Pass. This really worries Shaaladel, who thinks that Coaltongue might come for him next. Shaaladel tries to get the elves of Innenotdar on his side, and when they refuse, he sets fire to their woods in an effort to lay the blame upon Ragesia. Also, in an effort to track down Trilla and make his people more nationalistic and loyal (read, like Nazis), Shaaladel gets his people to annihilate the Taranesti in Ycengled.</p><p></p><p>Within a few days of the whole Innenotdar forest catching on fire and not dying, Etinifi sets forth on a quest to save his people, somehow.</p><p></p><p>Here's something from the until-now unrevealed history of the campaign's main villain. Leska, a young mage with amazing potential, had joined with the Ragesians, and was loyal to Coaltongue. But as tensions rose between Ragesia and Shahalesti, Coaltongue decided he needed to cement some of his control over the edges of his territory, which required he put down some rebellious groups. One such group was Leska's home town. </p><p></p><p>Leska found out Coaltongue's plan to raze her home and kill everyone she grew up with, and she desperately tried to stop it. By using all her magical knowledge a bit of power she shouldn't have tapped into, she managed to actually counterspell the activation of the Torch when Coaltongue was about to teleport his army into battle.</p><p></p><p>Viewing this as treason, Coaltongue at first was going to execute her, but she had been loyal, so he gave her an impossible task to accomplish: find the secret of immortality. After all, Coaltongue was 80 years old by this point, so he wouldn't mind being immortal. He promised her home town a one year reprieve. If she could find Coaltongue immortality in that time, he would spare her town and let her live. Otherwise, he would have her tracked down and killed, along with all her friends and family.</p><p></p><p><strong>41 years ago</strong>, Leska and Etinifi cross paths, and realize they have parallel goals. It is a cruel, soul-taxing experience that costs Leska most of her innocence and forces her to do terrible things, and though together she and Etinifi find the Aquiline Heart, Etinifi breaks under the fear of death and betrays her. Leska survives by sheer force of will, retrieves the blood of the heart, and, with only one hope left in her heart, she brings the secret to Coaltongue, only to discover that while Coaltongue had kept his word and spared her town, in the intervening year, the Shahalesti had destroyed the village because it was a thorn in their side too.</p><p></p><p>With nothing left to care for, Leska becomes a loyal servant of Coaltongue, hoping first to destroy the Shahalesti, and then slowly coming to desire nothing at all, except perhaps the freedom from having any attachments in the world.</p><p></p><p><strong>40 years ago</strong>, the people of Gate Pass liberate their city. The now immortal Coaltongue is content to rest on his laurels, and leaves the city as a buffer between him and Shaaladel.</p><p></p><p>Leska, tasked by Coaltongue to root out threats to him, begins investigating strange magical occurrences, such as the fire forest. This leads her to discover the trillith. </p><p></p><p>In the following few years, she manages to track down Etinifi, and imprisons him in a simple frozen oubliette, until she can find a suitable punishment. </p><p></p><p><strong>25 years ago</strong> is when I'd peg the creation of the inquisitors. With their aid, she locates and captures the trillith Agony in Ycengled, and brings it to what will become the scourge prison to begin a long process of magical experimentation into the application of pain and suffering as a power source.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Only Leska, not Etinifi. He was able to find the Heart because his forest was imperiled. If I implied he was sentenced to death by Coaltongue, that was either an error, or I've retconned. Sorry.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Oh, LOOOONG story. The short version is that Rhuarc was a mercenary working for Coaltongue 100 years ago (half elves live a long time), and because he was half-Taranesti, Shaaladel didn't like him and was a d*ck to him. That's how it started. He helped rescue Trilla from Coaltongue right after the Torch was created, which made both Coaltongue and Shaaladel want him dead.</p><p></p><p>Over several years, people came after him and managed to kill his friends or destroy things he cared for, until he just decided to withdraw from the world and stay in hiding.</p><p></p><p>There's also a whole bit about his mom selling her soul and his to a demon to take revenge on an order of knights, and him having to kill his own mother who was possessed by said demon. Rhuarc was a PC one of my players ran in a campaign around 2000, so he had a fairly convoluted life, as PCs are wont to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 4580930, member: 63"] Let's see. Dates are a little fuzzy because I drew inspiration for the campaign from a home game I ran, but I ended up changing a lot to fit the needs for publication, which led to me having two memories for some things. But the best fit now is: [b]About 100 years ago[/b], Coaltongue and Shaaladel team up and win their first few local battles not far from Ycengled Phuurst (see adventure 7), and in the process the Torch of the Burning Sky is created. After a few months of trying to avoid being captured and tortured into making another such item, Trilla flees into the underdark through tunnels under Gate Pass. It takes a few years, but with the aid of the Torch and some canny political maneuvers, Coaltongue gets a small nation for his people in what is now Ragesia, and Shaaladel liberates lands that the Shahalesti had lost, establishing the borders of Shahalesti. Over the next few decades, Coaltongue forms alliances and chips away at Morrus (a name which morrus wishes I hadn't picked). He has effectively established Ragesia as a nation by [b]60 years ago[/b], at which point he is around 60 years old. [b]50[/b] years ago, Indomitability comes up through Gate Pass during the annual festival of dreams, and ends up settling in Innenotdar. [b]42 years ago[/b], Ragesia conquers Gate Pass. This really worries Shaaladel, who thinks that Coaltongue might come for him next. Shaaladel tries to get the elves of Innenotdar on his side, and when they refuse, he sets fire to their woods in an effort to lay the blame upon Ragesia. Also, in an effort to track down Trilla and make his people more nationalistic and loyal (read, like Nazis), Shaaladel gets his people to annihilate the Taranesti in Ycengled. Within a few days of the whole Innenotdar forest catching on fire and not dying, Etinifi sets forth on a quest to save his people, somehow. Here's something from the until-now unrevealed history of the campaign's main villain. Leska, a young mage with amazing potential, had joined with the Ragesians, and was loyal to Coaltongue. But as tensions rose between Ragesia and Shahalesti, Coaltongue decided he needed to cement some of his control over the edges of his territory, which required he put down some rebellious groups. One such group was Leska's home town. Leska found out Coaltongue's plan to raze her home and kill everyone she grew up with, and she desperately tried to stop it. By using all her magical knowledge a bit of power she shouldn't have tapped into, she managed to actually counterspell the activation of the Torch when Coaltongue was about to teleport his army into battle. Viewing this as treason, Coaltongue at first was going to execute her, but she had been loyal, so he gave her an impossible task to accomplish: find the secret of immortality. After all, Coaltongue was 80 years old by this point, so he wouldn't mind being immortal. He promised her home town a one year reprieve. If she could find Coaltongue immortality in that time, he would spare her town and let her live. Otherwise, he would have her tracked down and killed, along with all her friends and family. [b]41 years ago[/b], Leska and Etinifi cross paths, and realize they have parallel goals. It is a cruel, soul-taxing experience that costs Leska most of her innocence and forces her to do terrible things, and though together she and Etinifi find the Aquiline Heart, Etinifi breaks under the fear of death and betrays her. Leska survives by sheer force of will, retrieves the blood of the heart, and, with only one hope left in her heart, she brings the secret to Coaltongue, only to discover that while Coaltongue had kept his word and spared her town, in the intervening year, the Shahalesti had destroyed the village because it was a thorn in their side too. With nothing left to care for, Leska becomes a loyal servant of Coaltongue, hoping first to destroy the Shahalesti, and then slowly coming to desire nothing at all, except perhaps the freedom from having any attachments in the world. [b]40 years ago[/b], the people of Gate Pass liberate their city. The now immortal Coaltongue is content to rest on his laurels, and leaves the city as a buffer between him and Shaaladel. Leska, tasked by Coaltongue to root out threats to him, begins investigating strange magical occurrences, such as the fire forest. This leads her to discover the trillith. In the following few years, she manages to track down Etinifi, and imprisons him in a simple frozen oubliette, until she can find a suitable punishment. [b]25 years ago[/b] is when I'd peg the creation of the inquisitors. With their aid, she locates and captures the trillith Agony in Ycengled, and brings it to what will become the scourge prison to begin a long process of magical experimentation into the application of pain and suffering as a power source. Only Leska, not Etinifi. He was able to find the Heart because his forest was imperiled. If I implied he was sentenced to death by Coaltongue, that was either an error, or I've retconned. Sorry. Oh, LOOOONG story. The short version is that Rhuarc was a mercenary working for Coaltongue 100 years ago (half elves live a long time), and because he was half-Taranesti, Shaaladel didn't like him and was a d*ck to him. That's how it started. He helped rescue Trilla from Coaltongue right after the Torch was created, which made both Coaltongue and Shaaladel want him dead. Over several years, people came after him and managed to kill his friends or destroy things he cared for, until he just decided to withdraw from the world and stay in hiding. There's also a whole bit about his mom selling her soul and his to a demon to take revenge on an order of knights, and him having to kill his own mother who was possessed by said demon. Rhuarc was a PC one of my players ran in a campaign around 2000, so he had a fairly convoluted life, as PCs are wont to. [/QUOTE]
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