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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isklexi" data-source="post: 6110064" data-attributes="member: 6684948">Here was my plan for Cal's past; spoiler protected for Redbadge.[sblock=backstory]earlier you mentioned that you had no plans for the Dawn Wars, so I was gonna take that and run with it. Cal was originally one of many archangels assigned to Lanjyr as "guardian angels". There job was to generally guide and look after the fledgling mortals while the gods kicked back after creating life (each world got its own set of guardians). Things went pretty well until the primordials noticed the gods had fiddled with the planetoids they'd made, cue the dawn wars. The war was messy and quickly spilled over into the mortal worlds; some worlds fared better than others. Lanjyr ended up on the loosing end of that scale, and the majority of mortal life (along with most of the guardians) were wiped out.The Dawn Wars ended in a draw. The gods and primordials reached an agreement of a mutual "hands off" approach to mortal worlds. The guardians (what was left of them) were grandfathered in to the new system. Life was reseeded on many of the worlds ravaged during the war, Lanjyr included. The agreement doesn't make any provisions for mortals attacking other worlds, nor does it restrict "lesser immortals". It's a bit like the cold war; no one is technically at war (cause they're still nursing their recent bruises), but lots of smaller scale skirmishes continue.The remaining guardians of Lanjyr did their best to protect the world; their numbers slowly dwindled further as they got killed off. Cal was the last guardian standing. When some lesser angels stumbled upon Toteth's plan to create the Axis Seal they decried it as blasphemy (cutting the world off from the gods), demanding his death. Cal decided the seal was the only way to save Lanjyr and turned on the lesser angels under his command, butchering them to protect the seal's secrecy. The gods banished Cal to Hell believing he had gone mad (and he kind of has lost it). Cal is obsessed with Lanjyr; he still keeps a twisted adherence to his oath to guide and protect the mortals there. His original goal of simply making the mortals of Lanjyr stronger has evolved since Triegenes' apotheosis. Cal blames the gods for what happened to Lanjyr during the Dawn War and for the fall of the Ancients. Triegenes' ascendance proved for the first time that mortals could surpass their own mortality. Since then, Cal has periodically scoured Lanjyr for mortals with powerful potential; he encourages their growth in the hopes of elevating an other god. He ultimately wants to take vengeance against the gods by replacing them.I'm planning for him to actually know William Miller. Miller would have been one of the candidates he tried to encourage (especially as sedition against the Clergy); though Miller probably didn't know Cal was a devil (he would have been possessing a host at the time). Cal does not know that Miller is still "alive" or about the Ob. I'm planning for him to be as shocked as the players when Miller is revealed.As a general guideline of Cal's personality: He hates the gods and by extension the Clergy. He's incredibly ancient and knows more about Lanjyr than just about anyone else (Lanjyr specifically is his area of expertise). He has a strong honorable bent and keeps his word (like keeping secrets). He genuinely wants the mortals (and the PCs by extension) to succeed. He is a tragic figure, but he's still evil. He'll do whatever he thinks is best for the long term future of Lanjyr's mortals (emphasis on what he thinks). He believes in eugenics; he has used his influence to subtly encourage meritocratic societies on Lanjyr to encourage the most powerful to out-breed the weak, but he's not above snuffing out groups of people that have too many "undesirable" traits.Since he's been involved with Lanjyr for so long, I'm planning on giving him some mortal support that he's accumulated over the last ten thousand years; I'm planning on it being an order of neutral/evil druids to match his interest in encouraging the evolution of life.[/sblock]Well that's a lot of info dump, and it's really late where I am in the states. I'll try to check back again later this weekend. Thanks for the attention.</blockquote>

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