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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nonamazing" data-source="post: 2848463" data-attributes="member: 12118">Yanhal gets along well with each of the others, for the most part.  He has a habit of pestering Uriel to teach him bits of the halfling language, and likewise tries to engage Jaqual in discussions about Dwarven runes (both of these are languages that Yanhal has not yet mastered, and he has an obsession about learning as many languages as possible).Yanhal finds Uriel's religious situation interesting, and gives the halfling advice that tends to be very different from what other people say.  In Yanhal's opinion, Uriel shouldn't try and defeat or purge the influence of Hextor, but instead find the balance in it.  In a similar vein, although Yanhal encourages Jaqual to explore his draconic heritage, he often chidingly reminds him not to ignore his human roots along the way.Yanhal tends to be more serious with Uriel, and more jovial and lighthearted with Jaqual.  He and Jaqual often trade jokes in Draconic (Yanhal has a surprisingly unending supply of 'dirty dragon' jokes), while with Uriel the conversation tends to be a bit more somber and often focused on moral and religious subjects.  Yanhal often acts as a devil's advocate in these conversations, arguing in favor of Hextor (not that Yanhal is evil or favors the god of tyranny--he just likes to expose people to differing viewpoints).Although Yanhal gets along well with Donnor, there is a bit of a rivalry between them.  What Yanhal worked so hard to achieve (his broad variety of skills) seems to come all too naturally to Donnor, who knows a little bit of almost everything.  On top of that, Donnor's mastery of complex and powerful magic makes Yanhal's own magical talents seem puny in comparison.  Because of this, Yanhal is often quick to 'borrow' spells from Donnor whenever the opportunity presents itself and frequently brags when his hard-earned skills acomplish something Donnor could not.The other characters would not know that Yanhal is not human--he keeps his Illumian heritage a closely guarded secret.  What isn't a secret is the fact that Yanhal fled to these lands rather than lead an army in the country he came from.  Although he travels far from there these days, a small degree of noteriety still follows him.  Occasionally he runs into people who know of his past and call him 'coward' or 'vowbreaker'.I like that idea.  But what if instead of bringing us closer, that 5th member actually caused us to distrust one another a little bit more?  Say, for example, we had been travelling for quite some time with an elven sorceress, only to discover that she was actually a doppleganger!  We drove her out of the party, but the fact that we could have trusted someone for so long without knowing their true nature might have cause some of us to re-think our relationships with one another...</blockquote>

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