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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arravis" data-source="post: 2460377" data-attributes="member: 327">Request for a much loved character...I posted my character Mithras many months back, but unfortunately no one has given him a try, so I'm reposting him (along with a few changes to his appearance). I hope that someone will give it a try this time and I would be endlessly appreciative of anyone who did. The quality of work here has always amazed and impressed me and I'd love to see an interpretation of him. Well, here is his description ofMithras Talant the Bladesinger:This extremely tall (6’5”) elf has a thin and gangly body with very pale skin that has a slight silver hue. Framed in straight, long black hair is an angular and strikingly beautiful face. Sorrowful amethyst eyes stare out, as if lost in old memories. He wears a silk shirt underneath a thin leather coat; midnight-blue pants and knee-high elven boots. Hung over his left shoulder going across to his right hip is a small leather satchel (Handy Haversack). He has a large red scarf/drape with silver highlights, over his left shoulder. Lastly, hanging from his belt is a strange blade. It is a sharp and straight four-foot long sliver of ancient, pocked marked adamantine which has one end wrapped in leather to form a handle. I'm including an image of this blade that I made in Photoshop: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=21475" target="_blank">One Thousand Broken Dreams</a> Well, I really hope someone gives him a try. Thanks again (and for all the amazing work posted here).-ArravisP.S.:For those interested, here is the history my version of One Thousand Broken Dreams from Magic of Faerün... we've changed the actual abilities to be something like a kensai's sword, in that it gains powers as the wielder invests in it (through both permanent loss of xp and hp). The name of the sword was much too poetic and epic to be a simple blade.One Thousand Broken Dreams:Common History: This adamantine blade was created by the elven hero Datharian Mistwatcher, a worshiper of Sehanine Moombow, when the dark elves destroyed his home city thousands of years ago. He fell in battle to a host of driders shortly after the weapon was created, and the blade eventually reached the hands of another elven hero, known only in the ballads as Stargazer, who used it to slay hundreds of drow over the course of her life. The Stargazer died of grief after the Battle of Nine Arrows when she realized her sister had been slain, and a young elven archer left with the weapon before drow reinforcements could arrive and seize it. The sword has appeared in the hands of an elf at least once every few hundred years since that battle—only to disappear again each time.True History: Much of the true history of this item is lost to the aeons. What little is known may be found among the eldest of the elven races or spoken in whispers within the Seelie and Unseelie courts of the fae. One Thousand Broken Dreams first appeared before the elves left the realms of the Faerie, or before this world was known to them. King Mhesos and his two sisters ruled and protected the Faerie realm from the tyranny of the Titans, the Abominations and elder beings that sought to conquer all. The Sy-tel-quessir (green elves), the Ly-tel-quessir (lythari), the Aril-tel-quessir (avariel) and the Leshay, were to protect their realm and the life of the king from their enemies. The King’s two sisters became jealous and sought to oust him so that they might rule in his stead. Over time, the divide between them became known, and the elves squabbled amongst themselves as to what to do.Growing impatient, the two sisters betrayed their brother, leading him into a trap, where a Titan horde waited to slay Mhesos. As the enemy attacked, the Sy-tel-quessir, Ly-tel-quessir, and the Aril-tel-quessir guardians fled from the king’s side, seeing no hope in the battle. Only the Leshay remained; forsaken by their kin and left to die with their king.Mhesos and the Leshay guards, led by the hero Aiden, fought the Titans but to no avail. The last of the attacking titans, Non, split King’s Mhesos adamantine breastplate in twain with a blow from his powerful spear. Broken shards of adamantine rained down on Aiden and the last handful of Leshay. As Non pulled his spear from Mhesos’ corpse, a single drop of blood from Mhesos’ heart fell on a large sliver of armor that landed near Aiden. With a yell, the Leshay warrior picked up the adamantine sliver and attacked Non with it, slaying the titan.What happened to Aiden, the remaining Leshay guardians, or Mhesos’ adamantine sliver is unknown. The sliver is rumored to be cursed and brings doom to any that wield it, but if there is any truth to this, it is not known. Some whisper that Aiden himself still lives and guides the sliver to elven hands, perhaps as reward, perhaps as punishment. What is known is that the Queen of Air and Darkness of the Unseelie court has long searched for the sliver in order to finally destroy the last remaining memory of her brother.</blockquote>

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