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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 2678137" data-attributes="member: 2020">Yes and Yes.  Bigtime.  Consider Edena himself.  He is a cleric of Odin;  Edena is a norse cleric.  Well, what happens in Norse Mythology when you die?  You go to Nifleheim, to eternal darkness and cold, as one of the Dead.  Eventually, you fade into Nothingness.  (In D&D, Nifleheim is in The Gray Waste.)  So, regardless of your alignment, regardless of your life, regardless of what you do or why, you are going to the Plane of Ultimate Evil, there to sit til Ragnarok as one of the Dead, not caring or moving, slowly fading away into oblivion.  Going to Valhalla by dying in combat only DELAYS this from happening.  It does not STOP it from happening.  Odin showed up personally (his avatar) and took Edena for a little trip.  He showed him Nifleheim and his ultimate fate.  Now you know why Edena is just a little nutty.  He has to get everything out of life he can, for life is all there is!  That is an example of background being a driving force for a character.  And indeed, at first Edena was not driven by this background, for I chose Odin as his deity long, long before I knew anything about Norse Mythology (rueful look.)  -  Trillirra was a Haldendreevan elven girl.  The history of Haldendreeva I detailed in another post.  Needless to say, Trillirra's background made a big splash on how she behaved, and what she did!  -  Evendell was an elf from old Delrune, before it became Haldendreeva.  He was an innocent, country-bumpkin type elf, who only wished to be friendly and merry, and to heroically stop the enemies of the elves.  His naietivity was his downfall ... at the hands of his fellow PCs.  -  Osilovar was a generic paladin.  But I took inspiration from the opera Siegfried (not the other three operas in the Ring Cycle, just that particular one.)    Siegfried was immune to fear.  It was a partially psychological thing, partially magical.  In any case, Siegfried never did discover fear for himself:  in the end, as he lay dying, he learned fear for another.  Siegfried was also remarkably naive and innocent.  So Osilovar was free of fear, naive, and innocent.  He, like Siegfried, loved to blow his horn.  Osilovar ALWAYS blew his horn before entering a dungeon, attacking a fortress, or attempting anything that could be interpreted as hostility.  I found a new use for the paladin's Lay On Hands ability:  it worked real well for reaffixing your teeth in your mouth after they had been knocked out, because the horn had been whacked through them by your fellow, infuriated, party members.  (Eventually, they just took the horn and jumped up and down on it like the Tasmanian Devil did to Daffy Duck's bagpipes)  -  Vailante the Valorous was based on Dirk the Daring, from the Dragonslair Arcade Game.  Vailante also had an Intelligence of 6.  Nuff said.</blockquote>

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