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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sagiro" data-source="post: 6098761" data-attributes="member: 726">Sure thing!If you search on Swan's name in the "Complete Part One" of StevenAC's awesome PDF's, you'll see how she was involved early on.  Short version: she was once one of High Priestess Rhiavonne's most trusted advisers. She was an early advocate of what eventually became the Daywalker movement, the fact of which made her persona non grata with Rhiavonne for a time thereafter.  And she was present at Octesian's assault on Semek's Tower in Ava Dormo, concurrent with the Battle of Verdshane.  Oh, and Swan was the priestess who first learned how to cast dream anchor, the prayer that allows Dreamwalkers to bring non-Dreamwalkers into Ava Dormo.As for the party's history with Octesian: he was one of the three red-armored servants of Naradawk who were "squeezed through" the planar gate near the start of the campaign.  (Of the other two, Restimar was killed by the party early on, while Meledien has joined forces with Tarsos and Seven Dark Words and is currently on some fell mission beneath the surface.)  Morningstar first encountered Octesian in the Dreamscape while scouting out the ruins beneath Gohgan's rug shop; she didn't know who he was then, but he was clearly villainous.  Not long after, Morningstar was granted a vision by her avatar, of Octesian and Meledien meeting in the Dreamscape, a meeting which made it even more clear that Octesian was a powerful and proficient Dreamer.  The party's primary interaction with Octesian was, as mentioned above, when he and a small force of dream soldiers attacked the Tower of Semek during the Battle of Verdshane.  Though he was driven away and his assault cut short, he managed to kill fourteen Ellish Dreamwalkers in the battle, since he had the rare ability to deal real physical damage when attacking a person's dream persona. After that, the party has learned that Octesian eventually journeyed far afield in Ava Dormo, searching directly for the Adversary's prison in the Far Realms.  Alas for him, as he approached the boundary between Ava Dormo and the Far Realms, close enough in fact to hear the words of the Adversary, he went utterly insane.  And now he's back, be-tentacled from his close brush with the Starry Madness, and killing people, horribly, in their sleep.</blockquote>

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