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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 3940825" data-attributes="member: 360">Fleshing things out a bit, with something that might be totally nixed because I'm not sure Autumn would want a persistently... difficult province like Terrell in the Empire...Those in the Imperial City always said Terrellians were difficult. The last to fall to the Astresians, and they never let anyone forget it. It hadn't surprised anyone, that. Five generations before Astres' rise to power, the Efreet Lord Ren Terrell had shocked his peers by taking the daughter of one of his human councilors not as a concubine, but as his wife. Historians in the Imperial capital made it a cynical gesture, as Terrell had desparately needed human soldiers to hold a province threatened by monsters and barbarians. Bards in Terrell still told epic love stories, though few told them elsewhere; Terrellian bards were no more fond than anyone else of Astresian prisons.But whether motivated by cynicism or love or both, Ren and his heirs forged a true bond with the humans who had settled their last outpost of civilization. The humans of Terrell fought for their Lord -- Ren Terrell's genasi great-grandson -- when Astres' armies came, just as hard their planetouched fellows did. It was not until Astres brought a third army to bear -- two already having been broken on the walls of Terrell's capital -- that Martaan Terrell gave in to the inevitable, surrendered his city, and offically accepted the Sanction. He could not hold forever against both the Empire and the enemies that had always plagued his province, and appeasing the Astresians was possible.And a millenia later, Deren Terrell still held to the same philosophy. He wished there was an alternative. But too few would rally to his father's banner if he raised it in rebellion. And the Astresians had never seen fit to deal with the barbarian and monster threats more permanently. If they feared Terrell would go its own way and discard the hated Sanction the second they no longer needed the Empire, well, Deren could not blame them; that fear was quite well grounded in many ways. But in other ways it was groundless, as Terrell did need the Empire.At least for now. Barten Terrell had sent his son to master the arts of war, spell and sword. Deren wasn't privy to exactly what his father wanted him to do with the skills he expected him to acquire. But he expected that Barten had a plan. Certainly their had to be some reason beyond 'it will be good for you' to send him for training with Master Carthis in Embria rather than bringing a master to Terrell.Deren TerrellLN Fire Genasi warblade//warmageStr 14 Dex 12 Con 12 Int 16 Wis 10 Cha 14- will concentrate mostly on Diamond Mind and White Raven manuevers- would use the Advanced Learning alternate class feature for warmages in PH2 to pick up a handful of non-blasting spells</blockquote>

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