Voadam listens to Chev, occasionally asking questions to get a sense of the god Narn and possible interactions with the current situation. As Voadam listens he is interested in Narn's war aspect as Father of Battle, the minor law aspect, the universality of the Maerymedra gods for all races and Narn's traditional connection to dwarves, his family connection to the Father of Stone and ascendancy in this age as his sire wanes, and the antipathy between Narn and Lodi the exiled dwarf god. He listens about the champions duty to be in the forefront of battles and to pardon those they are about to kill.
"I will relate what we have learned and what I think might have happened here.
"First the Wand is a segment of an artefact, a Rod of Law. It was crafted by a race of Law, the Vaati, also called the Wind Dukes, to defend against an invasion by the Queen of All Chaos. Her servant is known as Miska the Wolf spider and he commands lesser beings such as the spider wolf fiends we defeated earlier. Miska stole the rod but it shattered into many parts when he tried to spirit it away. The parts were scattered and lost.
"Recently the first segment was found and agents of both Chaos and Law began to search for it. Though essentially an item of Law, many of the parts have been tainted by Chaos and the Queen has a connection to it. She is able to sense its location under certain circumstances such as when possession is transferred from one to another. The Queen covets the wand for herself as does the returned demon lord Xiphid who also has used spider wolf minions. Whether he is temporarily allied with the Queen or has suborned some of the spider wolves is unknown. The Vaati also want it returned to them.
"The portion we hold, the First, holds the power to heal and its wielder can sense another segment when wielding it and focusing on doing so. Even as a fragment it is an item of Law and seeks to assert influence over its wielder. The prior wielder, Forsythe, claimed he found it washed up on the riverbank and was able to ferret out how to use its power. When the spider wolves attacked, you took possession Gamad. I talked with Forsythe and he disclaimed all interest now that forces such as the spider wolves are after it and willing to kill people to get it. He bid me take it. Through him we met someone he had healed with it, a woman who claims to be a Vaati cursed by a rival Vaati wizard into human form over a dispute about the Rod. She has been our greatest source of information so far.
"Now then, the appearance of Chev here is unexpected. Our Vaati said she believed the First segment was not tainted by Chaos as some of the others are. I see a number of possibilities here.
"One. She could be mistaken and it is tainted by Chaos, causing the event between Gamad, Dter, and Chev.
"Two. As an artefact of law it may have held the power of a wish that was activated by Gamad. Though I know of another such Rod of Power that could grant its wielders spoken wishes, I find this unlikely given that Gamad did not state his wish as that other rod required. It is conceiveable though and our Vaati may have had her own reasons to conceal the fact that the segment held such a power. Possibly each segment can grant one wish.
"Three. When Forsythe relinquished claim on the wand to me that might have been the actual transfer under Law instead of when Gamad came into possession of it and became its wielder. As the Queen can sense a transfer she might have sent a blast of raw Chaos that manifested in conjunction with Gamad's desire as the wand's wielder and physical possessor in the arrival of Chev.
"Four. Narn might have sent Chev here to join us. I do not want the Rod to fall into the hands of the Demon Lord Xiphid, and a battle priest questing on the same cause would be helpful. I don't know enough of how Narn actually works or communicates with his clerics to say.
"Dter might have been transposed with Chev, both of them swapping physical places. Replacing Dter with a mirror opposite, a cleric of an opposed god.
"Dter might have been obliterated and Chev summoned or created in his place.
"Dter might have been transformed down to his True Pattern into Chev, a new entity created on the spot by the effect."
"Chev, if you are a wanderer with no connections to any remaining person who knew you, if for instance you are the sole survivor of an isolated village, and after the battle that killed everyone you knew you took up a wandering pilgrimage, then this is a possibility. The question that remains with this possible theory though would be your connection to your god. I do not know enough of the relationships of clerics and their gods to say if such would be possible, or how your god would react to the creation of a dedicated cleric devoted to him."
"So do you have connections to living people Chev?"
