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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Christopher Lambert" data-source="post: 1956708" data-attributes="member: 25412">[sblock]Rajaat created the sorcerer kings. He was a pyreen, an "uber-race" (think Chosen of Mystra, but without stealing the player's thunder) which combines the best aspects of halflings, humans, elves, dwarves and maybe some other races. They're all druid/psions and very beautiful... except Rajaat. They're also immortal, or close to it.Rajaat was twisted and ugly, and if he was a druid I've never heard of it. As the first sorcerer, he invented arcane magic, both preserving and defiling. He seemed to be particularly fond of Transmutation and water magic.He wanted to undo the disaster that ended the Blue Age (it was now the Green Age... instead of being covered with water, Athas was covered with forests) and wipe out all the races except the halflings (they and the kreen were the original inhabitants of the Blue Age). Rajaat didn't seem to notice the existence of the kreen; he didn't like or hate them, probably not even realizing they were sentient.His plans were foiled, however, when his attempts to teach halflings arcane magic utterly failed. Maybe they couldn't handle it, or they weren't good at it. Indeed, most halflings who saw him simply ran from his face.So he tested the other races and found out that humans made really good defilers. He trained at least 14 Champions in arcane magic and psionics. He also taught them the secrets of dragon metamorphosis, a process which changed the color of the sun to a bloated red and started the hellish transformatioin of Athas.Each Champion was assigned a race to wipe out. Rajaat said he would kill off the halflings but hid them instead; his job was to kill the humans (but of course that was a secret). During this time at least one Champion (Myron) was turned against him and was killed. Rajaat's new Champion was the warlike Hamanu. Wiping out the other races, their defiling magic destroyed most of the planet, turning it into a desert.Eventually his secret was leaked, and Rajaat tried to kill his Champions. He failed, and got locked up in another dimension. However, he was so strong it took a lot of life force to keep Rajaat in; the life force of thousands of sentient beings.Borys, the leader of the revolt, was given enough power to become a high-level dragon. Unfortunately, dragons of 25th to 28th level go insane, and since Borys got all this power all at once... he went insane. Calming him was a difficult, long process that involved a lot of running away by the other Champions. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Eventually, Borys calmed down, but by then his defiling magic had destroyed much of the world (well, what was left of it). Each sorcerer king took a city of their own, and their numbers were slowly whittled down.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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