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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Branding Opportunity" data-source="post: 2548935" data-attributes="member: 31812">In a (hopefully) continuing effort to more deeply integrate your characters into this campaign setting, I will try and write little private messages to each of you.  These storylines/suggestions/questions can be incorporated as you see fit.BrOpAzten/Raging Epistaxis:[sblock]So where did our Mr. Azten actually come from?  Is he from one of the neighboring dwarven communities, or did he come from a more integrated background, such as the Free City of Greyhawk?  Or is he from a distant dwarven community?  I don't know how familiar you are with the Greyhawk setting, but I could certainly help you some in this regard.The wasting disease that disfigured Azten and almost took his life was called the Grey Death.  It is a disease which comes around every few decades and sweeps through mining communities affecting almost any type of humanoid.  In fact, it briefly swept through Diamond Lake about 20 years ago and even though Azten did his best, there were many locals he could not save.  Because of it is so easily communicable it is difficult to effectively identify and quarantine those affected by it.  It always begins with intense weariness followed by dark-grey splotches which appear in a sick person's armpits or in their groin area.The dwarven healer who tended to Azten gave him a special talisman to help him through the most difficult part of the illness.  It is a well-made if simple leather strap, adorned with a cluster of tiny, transparent glass globes, each filled with a mix of colored powders.  A dwarven rune symbolizing healing or restoration marks each sphere and emits a distinctive, soothing aroma.  Well, at least to a dwarf it smells soothing.Azten kept this token with him all throughout his life and discovered something interesting a few years back.  It was during a mine fire in which many of his fellow mine employees were severly hurt.  He had absent-mindedly wrapped the talisman around his hand as he ran to the mine to help the injured.  No one had ended up dying as a result of the smoke inhalation or from their burns and he attributes this partially to the dwarven healer's gift.  Now, whenever Azten attempts to administer first aid to stabilize an ally and the token is wrapped around his hand, he receives a +1 sacred bonus to your Heal check.  Having it with him gives him a sense of calm and focuses the dwarf on the life or death task in front of him.In the last few months Azten has noticed that Ragnolin Dourstone has been on edge.  Something is bothering him, and not just a little bit.  Non-dwarves may not be able to detect this, but since Azten have known him for almost forty years now it is quite clear to him.  Dourstone does his best to hide it, but the dwarven cleric can see through him fairly easily.  He has not broached the subject with the mine manager, as that is generally considered extremely rude among dwarves.  They are not big on "talking about feelings" especially feelings that make them seem weak or incompenant.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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