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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 4899652" data-attributes="member: 63">Actually Eric, unless you guys changed the timeline a bit, it's kinda hard for kalashtar and trillith to be 'old enemies.'[sblock]The trillith only appeared on the scene 40 or 50 years ago (a century tops; I don't have my book with me), unless you want to change their backstory a bit.Now, the kalashtar could be similar to characters like Kathor and Crystin, both of whom have a trillith living inside them. The trick is that the trillith are supposed to be a bit of a mystery in the series, so optimally you want a set-up that gives the PC an 'in' without giving away the secret.Perhaps 40 years ago a group of human psions captured a trillith and trapped pieces of its essence in each of them, or they befriended a trillith who had turned against its kin, and it shared its boon with them. They became kalashtar, gaining psychic powers, and they passed down stories about the trillith to the PC without really knowing what it was that they encountered.Alternately, you could rewrite the setting a bit and say that the trillith were always around in a dream realm, and that Trilla (the dragon) just provided them a gateway into our world. In the original idea of the setting, the trillith are like the children of Trilla, but here they might be prisoners, sucked into the physical world through Trilla's nightmares, and seeking a way back home, even if that means killing millions.[/sblock]But yeah, lots of ways you could go about it. In the original campaign that inspired WotBS, one of the PCs was Kathor, so I'm fully supportive of you giving one of the players a connection to the trillith.</blockquote>

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