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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brunswick" data-source="post: 5235294" data-attributes="member: 70189">Hiya folks, A player in my group has written a fantastic (and lengthy) character history/background and I have gotten great adventure ideas from a lot of what he has produced.  The only part of the 'background' I am having trouble with is "the book".... In his background, the character (a Priest of Ioun, in the generic 4th Edition world) accompanies a dwarven mercenary group to an old ruined fortress in the mountains, seeking "powerful magic" for the human Emperor (and the armies of the empire).  The group find a magnificent 'golden' book in the heart of the fortress.  When the group (the Cleric) open the book, there is a flash of light and a loud bang, and the room fills with poisonous gas - killing almost all the dwarven mercenaries but the cleric and a few dwarves survive.   The cleric regains consciousness back in the capital city, and he is told by the High Priest that he had to be subdued by the surviving mercenaries as he started swinging for them, screaming about "demons" and such... The player who wrote all of the above further writes that his character believes that he did indeed help the Emperor and the armies of the Empire grow stronger, as they now seek to advance to other lands, but that there will be a "terrible price" that must be paid for what he has done....he (the cleric) also suffers from bad headaches and terrible pains in his left leg since the incident and has to take herbs for the pain... So - I'm wondering, assuming he helped the Empire as much as he says/thinks he did, what should be the terrible price that must be paid (presumably by the Empire itself) for what he has done?  Presumably, whoever the creator/author of the book was would have something to do with the "price" that must be paid?  I think Ioun has "Fate" in her portfolio but I cant see her being involved in the scribing of such a book...but I cant think of an appropriate deity or powerful being that would be involved in something like this... As background, I suspect that the group the cleric is a part of will, in their careers, be coming across the forces of Tiamat, Orcus, the Winter Fey and an "elder evil" who has been about for millenia.... Any ideas? Thanks,  Bruns. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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