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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kweezil" data-source="post: 250257" data-attributes="member: 681">My personal favorites are a pair known as the Wyrm and the Hawk, the major villains in a real world-shaker of a campaign a couple of years ago. Some background: when the world was made, the Elder Triad (the creators) created a nemesis, rather like the Shadows in Babylon 5. A force of opposition that would arise every few millenia to try and tear down creation, to test the mortal races and to temper them (not that anyone except the Elders know that this si its purpose). The last time this happened was over six millenia ago, just before the beginning of the golden age of humanity. The Nemesis was defeated by Iethyr, the warrior-king who had united the disparate nations and tribes of humanity, now in the twilight of his life. Fatally wounded in battle, Iethyr ascended to godhood . Over the years he was personified as the saviour of mankind and a synbol of valour and honour.The Present Day: the Nemesis is stirring once more and the PCs are caught up the battle against the rising darkness. In a race against time they rush to find the shards of Iethyr's sword, shattered in the last battle, to reforge it and fight the Nemesis. In the end they defeat it once more, but not before it had snuffed out the sun.The Wyrm and the Hawk were the Nemesis's chosen agents, both pale and feral-looking with jagged black fullplate. The Wyrm was a sadistic b*****d of an archmage who manipulated the party for half the campaign, goaded a major city-state to declare war on the PCs and almost tricked them into destroying the Sword.The Hawk was a hulking brute of a warrior who almost annihilated the party several times before he was finally defeated. Not a very subtle villain, but the fun part was his history: the Hawk was Iethyr. In his final battle with the Nemesis, 6 millennia ago, he had failed at the last moment and given himself to the darkness. His closest companions had been forced to kill him and the Nemesis to save the world. They then told the world that Iethyr had died, as his betrayal would have shattered the fragile peace he had built. The god Iethyr was the ideal of the man, nothing more.</blockquote>

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