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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 363442" data-attributes="member: 1210">Hey Rune!  About Dexter and Galador and PrayzoseHey there Rune, thanks for the compliments!  I love to get feedback, and it's really cool to know what folks like.The singing worm thingy is a garmorm, a 2e Planescape monster that I really liked and never had a chance to use until the game I detailed in the story hour there.  I'll post its stats in my rogues' gallery thread for ya.  I posted it months ago on the homebrew monsters forum, back when I was getting ready to use it on the poor bastards.  The earthgate is only one type of elemental gate.  The more common ones (since my campaign world is a water world type place) are seagates, which are mostly uncharted and have taken pcs on some pretty wild rides in the past.  You don't usually know when you go through one, so it's possible to end up thousands of miles from home without even knowing it.  Also, they aren't really easy to detect (there's a 5th level spell, Reveal Elemental Gate, that shows them, but things like detect magic don't usually except in cases where other magic's in play).I gave a few more details about the Galador/Dexter/Prayzose trilogy above, from the point of view of your average man on the street, but I'll give you a little more here.  And btw, the Galadorian religion's "Adversary" is Bleak, the Darkness, the Black Sun.  (I understand Cyric in FR is also called the Black Sun, but I only learned that about a year ago, and I've been calling Bleak that for years.  Eh.)Dexter was actually a pc.  He started out as a NE psionicist (2e) in a party of generally evil characters.  During one of his early adventures he gave his soul to Bleak.  The party pulled off a bunch of evil stuff that eventually brought them into conflict with the church, and he was captured by the Inquisition and tortured until he converted (changing to N align), at which point he had a big B (for Bleak) branded on his forehead.  While he was captured he had a strange fever dream where Galador came to him and said, "Forgive them, my son, they know not what they do."  He was then released and journeyed with Malford, one of the other pcs, leaving the rest of the party shortly.  They eventually both ended up good-aligned and Dexter dual-classed as a cleric of Galador.  But he wasn't a typical cleric; one of his granted powers was the Voice of God.  He'd speak in the Voice and, though people weren't compelled to obey or anything, they _knew_ he was speaking with the Voice of Galador.  So, if they were good Galadorians, they'd take his words to heart.  Dexter faced many moral trials and tribulations over the years, was excommunicated and declared a heretic for his accepting point of view of other religions, eventually was accepted by the mainstream and died in still-mysterious circumstances on Bleak's Maw, a terrible volcano on Forinthia (the center of the Galadorian religion).  Since he'd given his soul to Bleak he went straight to the Abyss, where his soul was tortured mercilessly.  (Trying to get his soul back had been a major quest for him the whole time.)About a century later he was raised from the dead along with the guy who'd killed him in the first place, Farenth, an npc who'd been responsible for the deaths of many pcs (mostly by manipulating two groups of pcs into fighting each other).  Their conflict continued until Farenth was finally defeated, and Dexter continued on his merry way until a big quest resulted in his assuming the mantle of an entity called the Harvester of Water, who is responsible for creativity and all the new ideas that occur to folks.  This made him functionally immortal but changed him so much that he was no longer even remotely human in his thinking, turning him forevermore into an npc.  (That bit is not known to anyone in the world except a very select few pcs and npcs.)Dexter started off as a pimply-faced 16-year-old kid full of insecurities.  He had sex once (when he was first alive) with an elf (after casting some divination type spells to make sure it was okay with Galador), and years later other pcs met up with his granddaughter, who was subsequently kidnapped by Dzaram the lich.  What happened to her is unknown, but Prayzose is her descendant.  He appeared during a low point in Forinthia's power and managed to become Emperor.  (He is an npc.)  He has subsequently disappeared and now the Empire is starting to undergo a massive civil war (although few of the pcs in the campaign have learned this yet; many know the Emperor has vanished, it had to do with a revolution on an elven island that a different group played a big part in).So it's all very complex, actually, and the truth isn't the same as what the man on the street thinks.  Malford, Dexter's companion, has since become a king in his own right and wrote the King Malford version of the Galadron (the Bible of Galadorianism, if you will).  He's also started a religion around himself, and has taken to calling himself God-King Malford.  Oh yeah- obviously, in my campaign religion is more complicated than simply "gods grant spells to clerics."  Dexter had clerics while he was alive, whose spells came from their faith.  Malford has a few clerics too, likewise granted spells via faith.  I've never statted out any gods imc, not sure I need to; religion is almost like a force or philosophy itself in my view.  Whew!  That's the gist of it.  I'll have to see if I can get Vic to post a follow up on the topic; he was Dexter's player (and Malford's first cleric, too...)Hope you enjoyed the background!  Most of my current players don't even know that much about it all!</blockquote>

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