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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JDowling" data-source="post: 1696486" data-attributes="member: 12596">No, I haven't.  I read about it having paladins and sorcerers and I threw up my hands in disgust as a knee-jerk reaction <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Rajaat, ah, I was close and both spellings could be pronounced quite similarly hehto be picky - new sorcerer-king is impossible unless he has power from a different source.  I believe the "epic" Darksun book (Dragon Kings?  god it's been a while), or one of the other books clearly stated that the elemental vortexs (or whatever they were called) had all died, or something as to not establish any more lines of power to similarly power beings.that is not to say a new dragon or avagon (spelling) was impossible, but the ability to impart magical power to their templars was cause by gaining the attention of an "elemental vortex" (i think that's what they were called) and those weren't around anymore, or weren't interested.to be not so picky - it's a neat idea, and I often toyed with the idea of there being a new Sorcerer King appear on the scene, something of an upstart in the proverbial sand box of Athas ("bah!  wretched new blood, who does he think he is anyway" etc)Maybe I should pick up those issues at some point.  I read over at the wizards board that the origonal author pretty much disagreed with how it was printed, and the editor added a lot of the really junky parts (paladins, et cetera).</blockquote>

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