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<blockquote data-quote="Nightbreeze" data-source="post: 4018558" data-attributes="member: 46755"><p>Ederin Scatterlight</p><p>Human Cleric12//Druid12</p><p></p><p>[code]</p><p>Strength 7 -2</p><p>Dexterity 10 +0</p><p>Constitution 11 +0</p><p>Intelligence 18 +4</p><p>Wisdom 22 +6</p><p>Charisma 10 +0</p><p>[/code]</p><p></p><p>[sblock=Feats]</p><p>1st: Spell Focus: (evocation)</p><p>1st: Augment Summoning</p><p>3rd: Extend spell</p><p>6th: Hawk's eyes</p><p>9th: Leadership</p><p>12th: Sudden Maximize</p><p>[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>Hit points: 8+<a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1485406/" target="_blank">11d8</a> = 72</p><p></p><p>Fort: +8</p><p>Ref: +4</p><p>Will: +14 = +8+6</p><p></p><p>[code]</p><p>Skill points: (8+1+3)x6+(8+1+4)x9=189</p><p></p><p>Diplomacy: +26 [15 ranks, 3 item, 2 syn(bluff), 2 syn(sense motive), 2 syn(kn nobility), 2 domain]</p><p>Bluff: +18 [15 ranks, 3 item]</p><p>Sense Motive: +21 [15 ranks, 6 wis]</p><p></p><p>Spot: +19 [13 ranks, 6 wis]</p><p>Listen: +19 [13 ranks, 6 wis]</p><p></p><p>Knowledge(Architecture&Engineering): +17 [15 ranks, 4 int]</p><p>Knowledge(Nature): +19 [13 ranks, 4 int, 2 nature sense]</p><p>Knowledge(Religion): +14 [10 ranks, 4 int]</p><p>Knowledge(Ecclesiastic Law): +14 [10 ranks, 4 int]</p><p>Knowledge(History): +15 [11 ranks, 4 int]</p><p>Knowledge(Geography): +14 [10 ranks, 4 int]</p><p>Knowledge(Nobility&Royalty): + 9 [ 5 ranks, 4 int]</p><p>Profession(Urban developer): +19 [13 ranks, 6 wis]</p><p></p><p>Concentration: +13 [13 ranks]</p><p>Spellcraft: +17 [13 ranks, 4 int]</p><p>[/code]</p><p></p><p>[sblock=Special Abilities]</p><p>Turn Undead 3/day</p><p>Community domain (Complete Divine, +2 diplomacy, calm emotions 1/day)</p><p>Travel domain (PHB, acts 12rounds/day as if under a freedom of movements spell)</p><p></p><p>Wild empathy: 1d20+12 diplomacy checks with animals</p><p>Nature sense: +2 to checks of Survival and Knowledge(nature)</p><p>Spontaneous summoning</p><p>Wild Shape 4/day (Large, Tiny, Plant</p><p>Resist nature's lure</p><p>Venom immunity</p><p>[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>[sblock=spells]</p><p>[sblock=druidic spells]</p><p>LVL 0:</p><p>+Create water</p><p>+Guidance</p><p>+Know direction</p><p>+Light</p><p>LVL 1:</p><p>+Charm animal</p><p>+Endure elements</p><p>+Entangle</p><p>+Entangle</p><p>+Speak with animals</p><p>+Faerie fire</p><p>+Hawk's eye</p><p>LVL 2:</p><p>+Wood shape</p><p>+Resist energy</p><p>+Owl's wisdom</p><p>+Bear's endurance</p><p>+Animal trance</p><p>+Extended Vigor</p><p>LVL 3:</p><p>+Bottle of smoke</p><p>+Plant growth</p><p>+Diminish plants</p><p>+Protection from energy</p><p>+Bottle of smoke</p><p>LVL 4:</p><p>+Bottle of smoke [extended]</p><p>+Flame strike</p><p>+Flame strike</p><p>+Vigor, mass lesser [extended]</p><p>LVL 5:</p><p>+Control Winds</p><p>+Commune with nature</p><p>+Commune with nature</p><p>+Commune with nature</p><p>LVL 6:</p><p>+Antilife Shell</p><p>+Transport via Plants</p><p>+Fire Seeds</p><p>[/sblock]</p><p>[sblock=clerical spells]</p><p>LVL 0:</p><p>+Read magic</p><p>+Guidance</p><p>+Detect magic</p><p>+Detect poison</p><p>LVL 1:</p><p>+Divine favor</p><p>+Protection from law</p><p>+Protection from evil</p><p>+Shield of faith</p><p>+Remove fear</p><p>+Detect evil</p><p>+Command</p><p></p><p>+Bless</p><p>LVL 2:</p><p>+Align weapon</p><p>+Eagle's splendor</p><p>+Shatter</p><p>+Silence</p><p>+Zone of truth</p><p>+Insight of Good fortune</p><p></p><p>+Locate object</p><p>LVL 3:</p><p>+Bestow curse</p><p>+Remove curse</p><p>+Remove Blindness/Deafness</p><p>+Magic Vestment</p><p>+Remove desease</p><p></p><p>+Prayer</p><p>LVL 4:</p><p>+Tongues</p><p>+Sending</p><p>+Restoration</p><p>+Sending</p><p></p><p>+Dimension door</p><p>LVL 5:</p><p>+Righteous might</p><p>+Mark of justice</p><p>+Spell resistance</p><p>+True seeing</p><p></p><p>+Teleport</p><p>LVL 6:</p><p>+Heal</p><p>+Wind walk</p><p>+Quest</p><p></p><p>+Rary's telepathic bond, extended</p><p>[/sblock]</p><p>[/sblock]</p><p></p><p></p><p>[sblock=Equipment]</p><p>Pariapt of Wisdom +3 9000gp</p><p>Metamagic rod of extension, minor: 3000gp</p><p>Portable Hole: 20000gp</p><p>Clasp of wildlings: 4000gp (attached to an item, it allows me to gain its benefits while wildshaped)</p><p>Circlet of persuasion: 4500gp</p><p></p><p>Total on magic items: 40500gp</p><p>9500 gp spent on vests, tools and books.</p><p></p><p>15000gp kept in cash.</p><p>[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>[sblock=Appearance] Edering is a 6ft high and apparently calm and peaceful man with long black hair and brown eyes. He speaks with a perfectly controlled voice, and can use it as a tool to get any effect on his interlocutors. His words always ring true, and his calm eyes seem to pierce anyone's heart. He wears an exquisite brown robe with engraved green, silver and white decorations and little gems. He also has a feathered cap, and soft leather boots. Was he to dress something less expensive, he wouldn't seem particularly attractive, interesting or important. It would all change, of course, if one looked into his eyes, or heard him speak. [/sblock]</p><p></p><p>[sblock=Excerpts from the letters of Juririo Oscrenn, a noble-born cleric]</p><p></p><p>Dear Uncle,</p><p>I was thinking about your proposition on the book trade....(cut)</p><p>There was some new guy that arrived today. Edering Scatterlight, they call him, and he was assigned to this monastery for study and isolation. Frankly, I heard some pretty disturbing rumors: it seem that he is able to use foul and tainted magic, unblessed by the Light, may it protect us all. That is certainly impossible, because I have seen him personally bless some beggars right out of the monastery.</p><p></p><p>Dear Uncle,</p><p>One week has passed since that dangerous fellow, Scatterlight, came to us. And to my utter horror, I have to send you this awful message: the rumors were true!!! It seems that although he has the blessing of the Light, he has a control over the beasts and a power coming from the savage lands. It is disgusting, and made worse by the fact that he doesn't make any effort to hide this abomination: he has no problem in admitting it, casting spells, and it would seem that he doesn't understand the dreadful paradox of this situation!!! I am working hard to convince father Gilbert to send as many of the external workers away as possible...if one of them was to discover this fact, dangerous rumors would spread...</p><p></p><p>Dear Uncle,</p><p>Forgive me for speaking again about brother Scatterlight. It is a little bit funny for him to call him brother, and the name Scatterlight suddenly has some menacing sound in it. Since he came here, one month ago, he utterly ignored father Gilbert suggestions to hide and forget his savage powers. He retorted that he has Light's blessing, so his other powers cannot be but another effect of that. I almost chocked when I heard that blasfemy! Can you believe that? If that was to be true, it would be a short jump to the conclusion that the roaming savages and shamans to the north are blessed by the Light, too. What an heresy.</p><p></p><p>Dear Uncle,</p><p>Finally, I feel better and my mind is at ease. Ederin Scatterlight is still refusing to admit the heresy of his powers, but at least now he doesn't flaunt them under our eyes. He seemed to suddenly find great interest in our collection of books, and started absorbing them one after another. I can finally feel safe, and dedicate myself on impressing father Gilbert. I believe that the Light has a highest calling for me, and I am meant to do great things...but I need to hold the necessary position for that. I don't think that I fail in ambition, because it is only my call.</p><p></p><p>Dear Uncle,</p><p>I just got promoted!!! The Light being blessed for revealing to father Gilbert its wisdom. I am now the head librarian of the monastery. Mostly administrative duties, and certainly not the most prestigious charge, but certainly the best one. There is just...some minor draw back. Perhaps you remember that accursed heretic I wrote you about four of five years ago, named Ederin Scatterlight. He has gained some prestige among our brothers thanks to his sweet talking. They say that he has a great knowledge and thirst for further knowledge in many areas, but I don't really believe that is the case. Anyway, he gained the favor of a minor noble here around, projecting him first a fountain, and then some summer residences. Thanks to that, the count started giving him a lot of gold. Of course, as a member of this monastery, he can't hold all that gold, so he is flooding us with books bought and brought from the rest of the country, and even from the Valley. Can you believe it that no one of them regards the Holy Church, it's teachings and its law? All of them regard trees, constructions, buildings and so on. Useless stuff, but it seems that I am one of the few who didn't get enthusiast on this. I will try to hold it with every mean, and I am certain that I will manage to stop the corruption of my monastery.</p><p></p><p>Dear Uncle,</p><p>I feel that I am falling behind, one step after another. Although father gilbert is getting old, and I, in my wisdom and holiness, am his first counselor, Scatterlight is getting more and more powerful thanks to the favor of rich people all around: he builds for them houses, palaces, residences, fountains and so on. He is seldom seen in our monastery, and their donations (or the menace of stopping them) hold us from forcing his to stay in his cell.</p><p></p><p>Dear Uncle,</p><p>Light be praised!!! Father Gilbert passed out, and I am now the new Senior Father. Finally, because it was just in time to stop the madness of Edaring Scatterlight. He got a proposal from the Grand Duke of Sunbridge: the old fool noticed that heretic, and ignoring his unacceptable abilities, wanted to take him in his court. I tried to stop them, bu ultimately their money obfuscated the view of my superiors, at the Valley. I can't really see how aristocrats get so fuzzy about Scatterlight and his presumed skills. However, as a final, desperate action, I tried to expel him from our brotherhood: i didn't want him to taint the name of our monastery. Can you believe that he officially resigned of his position before I could expel him? What an arrogance!!! Anyway, I am sad to admit that he has a greater knowledge of our law than I thought, and he even managed to get away with a praise from my superiors, and an advancement. And now he roams free, rich and heretic among the faithful. I firmly believe however that he will be stricken down by the will of Light, when she deems it necessary. My task is accomplished: he is out of here now. This monastery is finally completely under my authority, to be directed as the Light wishes. [/sblock]</p><p></p><p>[sblock=Background]</p><p>Edarin Scatterlight was born the son of a hunter and a bard. He live his first 15 years on the borders of a forest, risen by his parents, and guided by a gentle druidess who used to hide her abilities and a blind local clergyman. When he was 15, Ethostos, the clergyman, discovered his potential for clerical career, and sent him to the nearest grand temple, to study under educated masters.</p><p></p><p>Edarin was an extremely intelligent and wise beyond his years, but his soul was still roaming in the forests of his home. And thus he was an unruly child, often ignoring the orders of his teachers, and teasing him with his exceptional memory.</p><p></p><p>The same day he for the first time manifested a minor curing spell upon a dying man, when his teacher was nearby and ready to intervene if necessary, he for the first time manifested a druical spell too: the first cure was unsuccessful, and the second one completed it. Tereno Ertuli, his teacher, simply lost speech, and deeply troubled, forbid him from casting spells, and spoke with his former teacher, a high prelate named Aarneviel. They came up with a solution: Edarin Scatterlight was to become a cloistered cleric, far from the eyes of the world.</p><p></p><p>They didn't make counts with his intelligence, however: Edarin passed his first 5 years at the monastery reading history books, and came up with a conclusion: the only way from stopping humankind destroy nature in it's advance was to control and educate that advance. He manged to discover a secret and forbidden book: the diary of Geren, a traveler who visited elven lands, centuries ago. His description of elven cities flared like burning suns in the eyes of Edarin, and finally he understood what he wanted to do: become the most important and influent city planner and builder on the four lands. </p><p></p><p>But to do that, he had to gain a name first. So he set out to help nobles, merchants and other rich man in building their homes and restructuring his cities. He manipulated both them and his fellow clergymans (even that poor fanatic, Juririon, until he found a position on the court of Sornos, Grand Duke of Sunbrige.</p><p></p><p>That was a gym both for his social and knowledge skills, and in time, his name was know in the entire Confederated states and even the other lands.</p><p></p><p>And thus, thanks to careful planning, persuasion and manipulation, both Church and the confederate government agreed into placing him in the ruling council of the newfound multiracial colony, on the distant land rumored to belong to the ancient Da'shais.</p><p></p><p>The Church just wanted him out of sight and out of mind: they were extremely bothered by his existance and his prestige. Besides, his casting prowess was starting to be borderline of that of the highest and most powerful priest, and they finally had to admit that they couldn't control him. Of course, if he wanted, he could have hidden this. But Ederin knew that if they deemed him of low danger, they wouldn't have bothered to send him away. So he carefully chose to manifest a lot of high-valency clerical spells in front of some church spies.</p><p></p><p>As for the duke of Sunbridge, he had other motives of sending him away. The Church was making haste on him to do that, but in the confederate states it had no power to force him at its bidding. However the duke of Sunbridge thought that the newfound colony would be ultimately under the control of the three states with the power of vetoe. And he was not the only duke of the Confederate States, so he wouldn't have great power. However, he know his favorite well enough and trusted him to gain a great influence in the colony. That would be his way of influencing the new colony.</p><p></p><p>Ederin had gathered a small fortune, in the last years: because saved commissions, and percentiles on the gain of merchant outposts he projected, he had coins, precious stones and notes worth more than 15 000 gold royals. With that fortune, he intended to start financing the new colony by himself...in his own way. A new project was born in his mind...The Honorable Company of Expanse and Growth. But first, he needed to be sure that Sunbridge would grant him political and monetary support, so he headed out to speak frankly with him [/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nightbreeze, post: 4018558, member: 46755"] Ederin Scatterlight Human Cleric12//Druid12 [code] Strength 7 -2 Dexterity 10 +0 Constitution 11 +0 Intelligence 18 +4 Wisdom 22 +6 Charisma 10 +0 [/code] [sblock=Feats] 1st: Spell Focus: (evocation) 1st: Augment Summoning 3rd: Extend spell 6th: Hawk's eyes 9th: Leadership 12th: Sudden Maximize [/sblock] Hit points: 8+[URL=http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1485406/]11d8[/URL] = 72 Fort: +8 Ref: +4 Will: +14 = +8+6 [code] Skill points: (8+1+3)x6+(8+1+4)x9=189 Diplomacy: +26 [15 ranks, 3 item, 2 syn(bluff), 2 syn(sense motive), 2 syn(kn nobility), 2 domain] Bluff: +18 [15 ranks, 3 item] Sense Motive: +21 [15 ranks, 6 wis] Spot: +19 [13 ranks, 6 wis] Listen: +19 [13 ranks, 6 wis] Knowledge(Architecture&Engineering): +17 [15 ranks, 4 int] Knowledge(Nature): +19 [13 ranks, 4 int, 2 nature sense] Knowledge(Religion): +14 [10 ranks, 4 int] Knowledge(Ecclesiastic Law): +14 [10 ranks, 4 int] Knowledge(History): +15 [11 ranks, 4 int] Knowledge(Geography): +14 [10 ranks, 4 int] Knowledge(Nobility&Royalty): + 9 [ 5 ranks, 4 int] Profession(Urban developer): +19 [13 ranks, 6 wis] Concentration: +13 [13 ranks] Spellcraft: +17 [13 ranks, 4 int] [/code] [sblock=Special Abilities] Turn Undead 3/day Community domain (Complete Divine, +2 diplomacy, calm emotions 1/day) Travel domain (PHB, acts 12rounds/day as if under a freedom of movements spell) Wild empathy: 1d20+12 diplomacy checks with animals Nature sense: +2 to checks of Survival and Knowledge(nature) Spontaneous summoning Wild Shape 4/day (Large, Tiny, Plant Resist nature's lure Venom immunity [/sblock] [sblock=spells] [sblock=druidic spells] LVL 0: +Create water +Guidance +Know direction +Light LVL 1: +Charm animal +Endure elements +Entangle +Entangle +Speak with animals +Faerie fire +Hawk's eye LVL 2: +Wood shape +Resist energy +Owl's wisdom +Bear's endurance +Animal trance +Extended Vigor LVL 3: +Bottle of smoke +Plant growth +Diminish plants +Protection from energy +Bottle of smoke LVL 4: +Bottle of smoke [extended] +Flame strike +Flame strike +Vigor, mass lesser [extended] LVL 5: +Control Winds +Commune with nature +Commune with nature +Commune with nature LVL 6: +Antilife Shell +Transport via Plants +Fire Seeds [/sblock] [sblock=clerical spells] LVL 0: +Read magic +Guidance +Detect magic +Detect poison LVL 1: +Divine favor +Protection from law +Protection from evil +Shield of faith +Remove fear +Detect evil +Command +Bless LVL 2: +Align weapon +Eagle's splendor +Shatter +Silence +Zone of truth +Insight of Good fortune +Locate object LVL 3: +Bestow curse +Remove curse +Remove Blindness/Deafness +Magic Vestment +Remove desease +Prayer LVL 4: +Tongues +Sending +Restoration +Sending +Dimension door LVL 5: +Righteous might +Mark of justice +Spell resistance +True seeing +Teleport LVL 6: +Heal +Wind walk +Quest +Rary's telepathic bond, extended [/sblock] [/sblock] [sblock=Equipment] Pariapt of Wisdom +3 9000gp Metamagic rod of extension, minor: 3000gp Portable Hole: 20000gp Clasp of wildlings: 4000gp (attached to an item, it allows me to gain its benefits while wildshaped) Circlet of persuasion: 4500gp Total on magic items: 40500gp 9500 gp spent on vests, tools and books. 15000gp kept in cash. [/sblock] [sblock=Appearance] Edering is a 6ft high and apparently calm and peaceful man with long black hair and brown eyes. He speaks with a perfectly controlled voice, and can use it as a tool to get any effect on his interlocutors. His words always ring true, and his calm eyes seem to pierce anyone's heart. He wears an exquisite brown robe with engraved green, silver and white decorations and little gems. He also has a feathered cap, and soft leather boots. Was he to dress something less expensive, he wouldn't seem particularly attractive, interesting or important. It would all change, of course, if one looked into his eyes, or heard him speak. [/sblock] [sblock=Excerpts from the letters of Juririo Oscrenn, a noble-born cleric] Dear Uncle, I was thinking about your proposition on the book trade....(cut) There was some new guy that arrived today. Edering Scatterlight, they call him, and he was assigned to this monastery for study and isolation. Frankly, I heard some pretty disturbing rumors: it seem that he is able to use foul and tainted magic, unblessed by the Light, may it protect us all. That is certainly impossible, because I have seen him personally bless some beggars right out of the monastery. Dear Uncle, One week has passed since that dangerous fellow, Scatterlight, came to us. And to my utter horror, I have to send you this awful message: the rumors were true!!! It seems that although he has the blessing of the Light, he has a control over the beasts and a power coming from the savage lands. It is disgusting, and made worse by the fact that he doesn't make any effort to hide this abomination: he has no problem in admitting it, casting spells, and it would seem that he doesn't understand the dreadful paradox of this situation!!! I am working hard to convince father Gilbert to send as many of the external workers away as possible...if one of them was to discover this fact, dangerous rumors would spread... Dear Uncle, Forgive me for speaking again about brother Scatterlight. It is a little bit funny for him to call him brother, and the name Scatterlight suddenly has some menacing sound in it. Since he came here, one month ago, he utterly ignored father Gilbert suggestions to hide and forget his savage powers. He retorted that he has Light's blessing, so his other powers cannot be but another effect of that. I almost chocked when I heard that blasfemy! Can you believe that? If that was to be true, it would be a short jump to the conclusion that the roaming savages and shamans to the north are blessed by the Light, too. What an heresy. Dear Uncle, Finally, I feel better and my mind is at ease. Ederin Scatterlight is still refusing to admit the heresy of his powers, but at least now he doesn't flaunt them under our eyes. He seemed to suddenly find great interest in our collection of books, and started absorbing them one after another. I can finally feel safe, and dedicate myself on impressing father Gilbert. I believe that the Light has a highest calling for me, and I am meant to do great things...but I need to hold the necessary position for that. I don't think that I fail in ambition, because it is only my call. Dear Uncle, I just got promoted!!! The Light being blessed for revealing to father Gilbert its wisdom. I am now the head librarian of the monastery. Mostly administrative duties, and certainly not the most prestigious charge, but certainly the best one. There is just...some minor draw back. Perhaps you remember that accursed heretic I wrote you about four of five years ago, named Ederin Scatterlight. He has gained some prestige among our brothers thanks to his sweet talking. They say that he has a great knowledge and thirst for further knowledge in many areas, but I don't really believe that is the case. Anyway, he gained the favor of a minor noble here around, projecting him first a fountain, and then some summer residences. Thanks to that, the count started giving him a lot of gold. Of course, as a member of this monastery, he can't hold all that gold, so he is flooding us with books bought and brought from the rest of the country, and even from the Valley. Can you believe it that no one of them regards the Holy Church, it's teachings and its law? All of them regard trees, constructions, buildings and so on. Useless stuff, but it seems that I am one of the few who didn't get enthusiast on this. I will try to hold it with every mean, and I am certain that I will manage to stop the corruption of my monastery. Dear Uncle, I feel that I am falling behind, one step after another. Although father gilbert is getting old, and I, in my wisdom and holiness, am his first counselor, Scatterlight is getting more and more powerful thanks to the favor of rich people all around: he builds for them houses, palaces, residences, fountains and so on. He is seldom seen in our monastery, and their donations (or the menace of stopping them) hold us from forcing his to stay in his cell. Dear Uncle, Light be praised!!! Father Gilbert passed out, and I am now the new Senior Father. Finally, because it was just in time to stop the madness of Edaring Scatterlight. He got a proposal from the Grand Duke of Sunbridge: the old fool noticed that heretic, and ignoring his unacceptable abilities, wanted to take him in his court. I tried to stop them, bu ultimately their money obfuscated the view of my superiors, at the Valley. I can't really see how aristocrats get so fuzzy about Scatterlight and his presumed skills. However, as a final, desperate action, I tried to expel him from our brotherhood: i didn't want him to taint the name of our monastery. Can you believe that he officially resigned of his position before I could expel him? What an arrogance!!! Anyway, I am sad to admit that he has a greater knowledge of our law than I thought, and he even managed to get away with a praise from my superiors, and an advancement. And now he roams free, rich and heretic among the faithful. I firmly believe however that he will be stricken down by the will of Light, when she deems it necessary. My task is accomplished: he is out of here now. This monastery is finally completely under my authority, to be directed as the Light wishes. [/sblock] [sblock=Background] Edarin Scatterlight was born the son of a hunter and a bard. He live his first 15 years on the borders of a forest, risen by his parents, and guided by a gentle druidess who used to hide her abilities and a blind local clergyman. When he was 15, Ethostos, the clergyman, discovered his potential for clerical career, and sent him to the nearest grand temple, to study under educated masters. Edarin was an extremely intelligent and wise beyond his years, but his soul was still roaming in the forests of his home. And thus he was an unruly child, often ignoring the orders of his teachers, and teasing him with his exceptional memory. The same day he for the first time manifested a minor curing spell upon a dying man, when his teacher was nearby and ready to intervene if necessary, he for the first time manifested a druical spell too: the first cure was unsuccessful, and the second one completed it. Tereno Ertuli, his teacher, simply lost speech, and deeply troubled, forbid him from casting spells, and spoke with his former teacher, a high prelate named Aarneviel. They came up with a solution: Edarin Scatterlight was to become a cloistered cleric, far from the eyes of the world. They didn't make counts with his intelligence, however: Edarin passed his first 5 years at the monastery reading history books, and came up with a conclusion: the only way from stopping humankind destroy nature in it's advance was to control and educate that advance. He manged to discover a secret and forbidden book: the diary of Geren, a traveler who visited elven lands, centuries ago. His description of elven cities flared like burning suns in the eyes of Edarin, and finally he understood what he wanted to do: become the most important and influent city planner and builder on the four lands. But to do that, he had to gain a name first. So he set out to help nobles, merchants and other rich man in building their homes and restructuring his cities. He manipulated both them and his fellow clergymans (even that poor fanatic, Juririon, until he found a position on the court of Sornos, Grand Duke of Sunbrige. That was a gym both for his social and knowledge skills, and in time, his name was know in the entire Confederated states and even the other lands. And thus, thanks to careful planning, persuasion and manipulation, both Church and the confederate government agreed into placing him in the ruling council of the newfound multiracial colony, on the distant land rumored to belong to the ancient Da'shais. The Church just wanted him out of sight and out of mind: they were extremely bothered by his existance and his prestige. Besides, his casting prowess was starting to be borderline of that of the highest and most powerful priest, and they finally had to admit that they couldn't control him. Of course, if he wanted, he could have hidden this. But Ederin knew that if they deemed him of low danger, they wouldn't have bothered to send him away. So he carefully chose to manifest a lot of high-valency clerical spells in front of some church spies. As for the duke of Sunbridge, he had other motives of sending him away. The Church was making haste on him to do that, but in the confederate states it had no power to force him at its bidding. However the duke of Sunbridge thought that the newfound colony would be ultimately under the control of the three states with the power of vetoe. And he was not the only duke of the Confederate States, so he wouldn't have great power. However, he know his favorite well enough and trusted him to gain a great influence in the colony. That would be his way of influencing the new colony. Ederin had gathered a small fortune, in the last years: because saved commissions, and percentiles on the gain of merchant outposts he projected, he had coins, precious stones and notes worth more than 15 000 gold royals. With that fortune, he intended to start financing the new colony by himself...in his own way. A new project was born in his mind...The Honorable Company of Expanse and Growth. But first, he needed to be sure that Sunbridge would grant him political and monetary support, so he headed out to speak frankly with him [/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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