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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9739142" data-attributes="member: 907">Back in 2e (I think this was as early as Dragon Kings, but I could be misremembering and can't be hedgehogged to check), the notion was that at some point some kind of weird beings had created some kind of metaphysical connection between the elemental planes and the sorcerer-monarchs which was used to empower their templars. The beings themselves had died out at this point (so no, becoming a level 20/20 defiler/psionicist and then starting on the path to dragonhood won't let you make your own templars), but the elemental energy kept flowing. This was an explanation for why the magic wielded by templars (clerical/elemental) was different from that of the sorcerer-monarchs empowering them.This could easily be extrapolated to sorcerer-monarchs forging links to their templars that they can't affect once forged. But I do think that should the sorcerer-monarch in question die, the energy should stop flowing unless they can find a new sugar parent. This was a huge plot point back in the day – the templars of Tyr only had their political and martial power to rely on once Kalak died, and the same applied to the templars of Draj, Raam, and Balic in the revised boxed set.</blockquote>