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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 3339401" data-attributes="member: 11697">Some additional flavor text regarding his reasons for being there, and his view of his own existance got cut. Plus, if you want some more background on the character, I can provide it. He's in the gatetown of Ecstasy in his current role as something of pennance, not that he truly requires it to be accepted by Elysium, but because he desires it. Eventually when he feels enough time has passed and he has done enough good, he'll take that step into Elysium and fully shed the last vestiges of his former existance.Consider him an abberation, an abomination to his own kind who turned away from evil because of a single flaw, a single fragment of good that survived intact somehow within his metaphysical being through all of his various forms and tenures in each caste in the 'loth heirarchy. When he was first created as a mezzoloth, belched forth from the Gray Waste, there was the tiniest fragment of something that wasn't evil that had been present in the melting pot of rendered down soulstuff and Evil that the 'loths form from. It might have been chance, it might have been a bit of a repentant soul, a tattered shred of a guardinal's essence devoured by the Waste, or something else that wasn't quite absolute Evil, but that chance of redemption survived his transitions and "purifications" and eventually he noticed it himself, and something changed in the end. Ultimately it was a choice, and before he got to Elysium's gatetown he suffered for it, hideously so. He's perched on the cusp of becoming something else, but like his decision to turn away from Evil, he'll make that stride on his own, in his own time.FWIW, the character shows up in my 1st storyhour as a pitiable figure, locked away in the astral prison of Pitiless by his own kind who routinely mock and torment him for what he represents. The 'loths wouldn't let him go to find redemption, nor would they kill him to spare him the agony of being locked inside a form that was by that point anathema to him. Eventually he ends up being released, his freedom being purchased in exchange for something else of apparently equal value to the Keeper of the Tower Arcane, and he makes his way to Elysium. There's a point where he walks through the portal to that plane and as the sunlight on the other side washes over him, his previous form ripples and washes away, leaving him appearing as a cervidal, but with the unique, color-shifting eyes of an ultroloth to mark him as having arrived there by a different path than most. From that point on he never left Elysium, because the 'loths would hunt him down and kill him, but he shows up several times later to give advice from his perspective of having been a 'loth, and having been privy to so many of their secrets, albeit his "fall" from them happened to long ago those secrets are worth less now than if he'd been part of the current power structure in Gehenna, the Waste, or Carceri. He has some poignant moments, and while his history and development in the Storyhour isn't the same as the version of him that appears in Dragon 351, you might assume the same backhistory for the character in most respects.</blockquote>

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