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Message: <blockquote data-quote="markero" data-source="post: 1198174" data-attributes="member: 15018">There is an extremely ancient Linorrm  (near immortal) which in his arrogence is killing off dragons and making them into dracholiche's to serve under him.  He belives that all dragons are lesser than himself since he is the oldest form of dragonkind. Their imputence at not acknowledging his status and presence drives him into fits of rage sometimes (he’s chaotic evil) He is buried within an enourmous underground complex where there are dozens of different types of undead guarding the halls.  He is searching for an item that will allow him to control, and call dragons into his lair and currently controls hords of undead.,,,  underneath the desolate icy tundra and ruins of a northern civilization.The Linorrm resurrects the bodies of the party members in order to have them achieve a certain task.  He does a blood ritual that binds them to him and his cause.  However if the party members are out of the Linorrms presence (a distance thing maybe?, or time between being near him personally)  for an extended period of time (two years), or if a sever or similar spell is cast on them they will loose the bond becoming completely free.  The party members are all ancient members of the good races selected specifically for their former connections or skills (some were famous warriors or mages from battles eons ago).  The party members can regain their skills from the former life by using wish spells or other silimar ways, however any skills or abilities they regain which were based on a different alignment or diety will have a very low percentage chance to affect the members alignment. In their past lives they were all good aligned.  The powers they gain back also have a very small percentage chance to cause mental problems with each player, , making them have various forms of lesser to greater insanity depending on the level of the ability.  Players at the start have only very sporatic and near-impossible to recall memories of their past lives. The more abilities they gain from their former lives, the more they remember.  The memories haunt their dreams, seeing family and friends deaths, giant battles,etc.… most of their families have been gone for hundreds of years., and most of their past allies are now enemies or dead.The members were ultimately selected for their alliance with a specific gold or white dragon. They were selected to help bring the Dragon to the Linnorm so that he could suck it’s life-force , abilities into his own body. Killing them and creating another, very powerfull dracolich.  The Linnorm has to test the characters before he does this however. He needs to build up their abilities, and build up trust in them as well.  If they succeed he offers them command of an underground fortress etc, etc, etc they move up the ladder in his organization. The party members are left on their own quite a bit, and the Linnorm, or Litches only get involved with their doings if it either effects the Linnorm in a bad way, or they need a specific task done.  The party members in the beginning have no way of knowing that the Linnorm is not in fact a god and immortal.  The blood bond between the Linnorm and the party members allows him to have some mental aid with dealing with the party (as if a permanent charm spell is on them).  However each time the PC’s are in viewing distance of the Linnorm they have a chance for the charm to be negated (the charm re-rolled every time the pc’s are in the Linnorm’s presence… as they get more powerfull they have a greater chance of seeing through his magic… with that said he prefers to deal with them through minions and telepathy as to avoid this possibility). Also the party member maintain one new ability each from their creator, the Linnorm had to use components from himself in their creation, so they hold a very tiny bit of his power in themselves (don’t know what these are).  The game is designed so that they players can eventually either destroy, or leave the Linnorm’s influence and strike out on their own if they desire. Of course, there are plenty of other evil creatures in and under the world who are vying for the same power as the Linnorm.    The Linnorm is considered the ruler of the underworld, traveling only in caves and never going onto the surface where he is vulnerable. Those caves stretch under the entire continent and he has minions everywhere.  He has the ability to change his appearance and shape so that he can traverse the caves more easily and quickly,and to also make new ones.  He controls thieves dens under citys,, sometimes by force, but most times by taking over the will of the master thieves, or by promising them wealth, or helping to bring them power.  Every evil creature that lives underground at one time or another has had to pay tribute to him or run across his minions.., and some places have shrines worshiping him as a god, although they do not have his real name  (yes he belives himself to be the god of the underworld in this plane)….  Most do not know he is a Linnorm.</blockquote>

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