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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 3047547" data-attributes="member: 87">Ok, confusion abounding - let me step back and get everyone up to speed.The campaign's backstory starts in earnest 16 years before events in the campaign during a conflict known as the War of the Braids during which the neigboring kingdom of Milicsundria, under the leadership of King Salsis I, invaded Dalsundria in a bitter 4 year long conflict which devestated much of the kingdom. During the war Elgrel led the armies of his kingdom with aid from his son Valsil while Joel remained in the capital handling the logistics of the conflict while his father was away. Most of the player characters where born during this time so their knowledge of these events are passed down to them from their parents much like the memory of Vietnam was passed down to my generation.Anyhow, Dalsundria managed to repel Milicsundria's incursion. Valsil became a hero alongside his father. Triel, then a lowly but extremely ambitious count, befriended the young prince and played upon his ambitions. After all, he was the war hero - did not he deserve to become King? Hence, with time, Triel darkened the heart of Valsil and turned him against his elder brother.Together the two hatched a plan to quietly usurp the throne.  Triel convinced Ander, Valsil's twin, to get his Dabrinian allies to request the presence of the crown prince at a diplomatic meeting.  When Joel sailed for Dabrinia his ship was destroyed in a storm and all hands where lost.The two next turned their attention to Joel's children.  Nathan would be easy - the boy was a friend of Triel and regularly went on hunting expeditions with his uncle and the count.  It was a simple matter for an accident to occur, and Triel claimed they had been set upon by wolves and the boy slain.This was partially the truth.  Triel's schemes had ran afoul of his master - Alblasker.  Knowing what Triel was up to, but unwilling to become directly involved himself, the old mage enlisted the aid of the druids of the north forest to provide themselves rather than the wolves Triel had intended.  Tricked, Triel left the boy alive.  Fed up over the long years of countless Kings so caught up in the treacheries of court that they cared not for the people they where sworn to protect, Alblasker removed the boy's memory and placed it in a memory jar. The boy was then turned over the Kimberly Stahand - the Great Druid, and raised by her and later by Delnor Auros in the kingdom of Pildania far to the west.Meanwhile Alice Tuval - the wife of Joel and mother to Nathan and Nelaria, became afraid for her daughter's life.  Shortly after Nathan's dissappearance she managed to slip out of the city of Dalze and sailed for neighboring kingdom of Hone Rae.  Around a year after making this trip she fell to a plague of the Red Death. The now orphan princess was taken into the court of Queen Tiliansiasia, who had the child trained in the arts of wizardry at the Academy of Merryville.6 years passed.  The party came into their own looking into goblin raids that had suddenly began in the vicinity of Lochshire.  On one of their expeditions they happened across Triel and aided him in retaking Castle Maldanca's ruins from the Goblins.  The count then used ignorant country bumpkins to "escort" the princess - playing up their heroism and celbrity.  They travelled to Hone Rae and managed to convince the princess to return home on her Grandfather the King's bidding.  During the trip home agents from all sides attacked the group - and much to Triel's disappointment they successfully defended the princess from attack.Nelaria gave the party the mission of finding the prince since, as his twin, she could sense he was alive but could not tell where.  After a few detours they have done so, just in time to learn the king is dead.Clearer now?</blockquote>

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