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<blockquote data-quote="den4quest" data-source="post: 7394425" data-attributes="member: 6698977"><p>Just got done playing our dynamic duo of Adrigar, a duergar 6th level fighter/cleric and Shaemus, dwarven 8th level fighter. The point of the story where the duergar (who is lawful neutral in alignment, not evil) joins a full party of dwarves who are passing through a dwarven town that borders the underdark, took place a few years ago. The duergar was imprisoned on sight and was going to be tried and exectuted by the next day. However, the highest ranking dwarven priest in the party took a special interest in the opportunity presented by this non-evil duergar. Knowing the duergar came out of the part of the underdark which the dwarves had to travel next, the priest pulled rank on the local cleric who was presiding over the duergar case. Taking responsibility for the duergar after having a good long enlightening discussion with the grey dwarf about his unique outlook on dwarven religion, he realized what an asset the duergar could be. Also, this particular high priest of Moradin who had never been fully in touch with Moradin (he had been sleeping for decades). Adrigar, the grey dwarf had a firm belief that any dwarf (gold, grey, shield) could be accepted by any dwarven diety so long as you perform and sincerely worshiped said diety. He had proven it himself by learning the prayers of the core pantheon himself by studying on his own. The dwarves, prior to meeting the duergar cleric, were trying to get back to the capital city of the dwarves to report their findings that the nearby duergar nation (were actively trying to force their dwarven clan to move, abandoning their silver and iron mines to the duergar nation forever!). Being one of three dwarven high priests in his area he had a feeling that one or both of his own peers had cut an under the table deal to bring down their own nation if they could profit from the plunder, with the duergar. Remember one of the biggest flaws in dwarven kind is their lust for wealth....all dwarves grey or not. So, enemy of the enemy is my friend kind of thing...works out. The high priest of Moradin tries to retry the duergar nation for the crimes commited to his people. Now convinced because of the response of the highest dwarven priest in the realm that the idea to sabotage his home was a terrible one contrived by the 2 other greedy, disillusioned dwarven high priests along with the duergar. High crimes these were because innocent dwarves had died in the flooding, cave-ins and plague which were orchestrated by the duergar to drive the dwarves away. Through the next few years the party got whitled down to just the 2 characters mentioned in the opening sentence. A year ago, on a simple retrieval from the underdark job, to bring back the body of a famous hero that died in this part of the underdark recently. They find the body and liberate it from a troglodyte tribe only to get hit by an earthquake that blocks their only way back to the surface. When Adrigar was first allowed to travel with the dwarves, Shaemus was the biggest hater in the party. You will be suprised at how quickly and tightly 2 people that hate each other can bond and even become friends when trapped hundreds of miles from home in a strange part of the underdark. Today they finally made it out to the surface. Both of them know they could not have done it without the other. Sometimes the duergar saved the dwarf (like when having to bluff their way past his own evil relatives) and now it is the Shaemus's turn to return the favor by returning Adrigar back to the underdark. (The place where they fought their way to the surface ended up being in an old dwarven stronghold that was being overrun by orcs and the cave they exited had to be collapsed to block the horde from slaughtering them and the other dwarves.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="den4quest, post: 7394425, member: 6698977"] Just got done playing our dynamic duo of Adrigar, a duergar 6th level fighter/cleric and Shaemus, dwarven 8th level fighter. The point of the story where the duergar (who is lawful neutral in alignment, not evil) joins a full party of dwarves who are passing through a dwarven town that borders the underdark, took place a few years ago. The duergar was imprisoned on sight and was going to be tried and exectuted by the next day. However, the highest ranking dwarven priest in the party took a special interest in the opportunity presented by this non-evil duergar. Knowing the duergar came out of the part of the underdark which the dwarves had to travel next, the priest pulled rank on the local cleric who was presiding over the duergar case. Taking responsibility for the duergar after having a good long enlightening discussion with the grey dwarf about his unique outlook on dwarven religion, he realized what an asset the duergar could be. Also, this particular high priest of Moradin who had never been fully in touch with Moradin (he had been sleeping for decades). Adrigar, the grey dwarf had a firm belief that any dwarf (gold, grey, shield) could be accepted by any dwarven diety so long as you perform and sincerely worshiped said diety. He had proven it himself by learning the prayers of the core pantheon himself by studying on his own. The dwarves, prior to meeting the duergar cleric, were trying to get back to the capital city of the dwarves to report their findings that the nearby duergar nation (were actively trying to force their dwarven clan to move, abandoning their silver and iron mines to the duergar nation forever!). Being one of three dwarven high priests in his area he had a feeling that one or both of his own peers had cut an under the table deal to bring down their own nation if they could profit from the plunder, with the duergar. Remember one of the biggest flaws in dwarven kind is their lust for wealth....all dwarves grey or not. So, enemy of the enemy is my friend kind of thing...works out. The high priest of Moradin tries to retry the duergar nation for the crimes commited to his people. Now convinced because of the response of the highest dwarven priest in the realm that the idea to sabotage his home was a terrible one contrived by the 2 other greedy, disillusioned dwarven high priests along with the duergar. High crimes these were because innocent dwarves had died in the flooding, cave-ins and plague which were orchestrated by the duergar to drive the dwarves away. Through the next few years the party got whitled down to just the 2 characters mentioned in the opening sentence. A year ago, on a simple retrieval from the underdark job, to bring back the body of a famous hero that died in this part of the underdark recently. They find the body and liberate it from a troglodyte tribe only to get hit by an earthquake that blocks their only way back to the surface. When Adrigar was first allowed to travel with the dwarves, Shaemus was the biggest hater in the party. You will be suprised at how quickly and tightly 2 people that hate each other can bond and even become friends when trapped hundreds of miles from home in a strange part of the underdark. Today they finally made it out to the surface. Both of them know they could not have done it without the other. Sometimes the duergar saved the dwarf (like when having to bluff their way past his own evil relatives) and now it is the Shaemus's turn to return the favor by returning Adrigar back to the underdark. (The place where they fought their way to the surface ended up being in an old dwarven stronghold that was being overrun by orcs and the cave they exited had to be collapsed to block the horde from slaughtering them and the other dwarves.) [/QUOTE]
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