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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arwink" data-source="post: 936367" data-attributes="member: 2292">I'm going to try to get a last update done before the weekend's gaming starts, but they'll be a bit scarce for the next two or three weeks due to assignment marking.In place of todays update, I'll offer instead some background notes to the last update:Simon Human-born and the Demon-stone war mentioned in the last update are basically references to the first 3e campaign i ran, in which Khynal, Durhon and Yip were all players.  I didn't want to make a huge amount of references to that campaign, largely because Capellan and Geoffrey didn't join the group until very recently, but I did want to have it floating around in the background so the players who were there had a sense of continuity.Simon was Khynal's PC, a cleric of the luck goddess that was probably one of the most reasonable, sobre and generally level-headed people you could ever hope to meet.  Even after a series of reincarnations had transformed him into a gnoll, and later an elf.  I think, eventually, the guards at his temple just let anyone in who claimed to be Simon as long as they didn't look human.  That was how often he'd head off to adventure, and come home looking completely different.  He's now an Ancient Elf with Epic levels, a nominal leader of the region but largely leaving the job to the family of his two comrades in arms.  He's currently an epic level cleric, and busies himself with keeping the Khest line safe and preventing numerous wizards and idiots around the empire from finding and experimenting with chunks of demonstone.  It's a full time job.Thrash/Fidelity's Grandsire was a Wild Elf Barbarian named Justice (Played by Yip), who later got turned into a human.  Bad luck all round, and he's at least two hundred years dead by the time the Copperheads game starts.  His family is primarily human or half-elven (he was a tad indescriminate in his conquests), and all of them are primarily long lived regardles of race.  It's largely thought that Justice is hanging in Valhala.The last character from the game, the rogue/wizard Drakius, dissappeared not long after the war was over, leaving his wife and children to run things in his place.  no-one knows exactly where Drakius went, but he had put together a small task force of wizard/rogues to help him collect and store evil artifacts to ensure they weren't used against the kingdom as they were in the Demonstone war.  It's thought that he succeeded, to some extent, but he's been MIA for over a hundred and fifty years.In the next update:  News about heading north, Blarth abandoning his responsibilities and Yip getting beaten up by dagger-wielding rat-fairies.</blockquote>

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