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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 8965689" data-attributes="member: 5889">My best one is Kadim Sul.Thousands of years ago, the barrier that kept out the elemental chaos shattered, destroying the 3 empires. From their ashes formed Taranya, the greatest city in the multiverse (according to everyone that lives there). And from that city came the greatest special forces every known....the Ataridan.Kadim Sul lived in the time of the 3 empires, his entire family and people destroyed. But he was not, he was infused with the elemental power, and given the power to beat destiny itself. For Destiny requires that all things must have an end, and destiny is no exception to that rule. That rule infused Kadim Sul with the power to defeat destiny itself.Made Immortal by the change, he slowly worked his plans, to travel back in time. The party encountered him a few times out in the great desert, never directly, always far off in the distance. Eventually they learned of his plans... to go back in time and stop the barrier from ever breaking. The 3 empires would be saved....but Taranya would cease to exist. And Destiny would be broken, her will undone.Ultimately Kadim had no malice towards Taranya, nor its people, nor the PCs.....he just wanted his family and his home back. The PCs really felt for him, and if they were not so zealously in love with Taranya (culturally the citizen are so pro Taranya its pseudo brainwashing), they might have even agreed with him, for while they would save a million citizens in Taranya, they condemned the billions of the 3 empires to remain dead.So they traveled back in time with Kadim, fighting at the edge of the barrier, as it was slowly cracking. The fight was an epic 20th+ level 4e combat, for the party had also been granted by destiny a boon to help fight Kadim. Both sides literally got to "make up a rule" each round, changing reality as they fought. Eventually Kadim was defeated, providing some epic final words, tears falling from his eyes as he hoped to see his wife and children again. An epic end to the campaign.But.... the rules of destiny cannot so easily be undone, and ALL THINGs must have an end. I run a living universe, and each campaign flows from the last. And so Kadim Sul has reincarnated in many forms in my games, always working to undo destiny in his own way. He is not always the big bad in every campaign, but has been a few times.Now....the meer mention of Kadim Sul draws fear and excitement from my players.</blockquote>

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