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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(contact)" data-source="post: 553289" data-attributes="member: 41">She cast raise dead on the Banshee.Isn't he, though?  Seriously, I feel lucky.  He really is the ish, particularly when he gets a large, epic storyline in mind.  Remember, this is the guy who ran our <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25093" target="_blank">Temple of Elemental Evil 2</a> campaign.  So, yeah, he rocks.As a point of note, my last tour behind the screen was the Heart of Nightfang Spire run, where I took his Risen Goddess plotline and threw in this wrench-- It was Corellon Larethian who killed Palatin Eremath, not Lolth, and several other more minor elvish gods (including an elvish god of evil!) were killed or banished along with her.As you can see, he took my 'tweak' and ran with it.  I imagine we'll keep him behind the screen until we play out the current plot-arc.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />From Chapter 8: Left adrift, Fine Manners are proved to be a function of a full belly.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(Taran's) second dream is reoccurring and much more pleasant.   In that one he recalls the friendship of a silver dragon, a being who—he is sure— was a boon companion in this misty half-remembered life. As his dreams intensify, he seems to undergo a subtle physical alteration. He finds that through concentration he can enhance his speed and stamina, or cause a faint shimmering of silver dragon scales to rise on his skin, toughening his hide.  The dragon’s name is Galathonriel, and their souls, it seems, are intertwined.</li> </ul>(Meta-game note:  those are the 1st levels sorcerer spells expeditious retreat and shield.)From Chapter 11—Bidding farewell to a life of crime.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Galathonriel (as that was the sword’s name) was the soul of a silver dragon, placed into a weapon that he might continue to oppose his enemies after death.  Many fighters will tell you that their sword is their best friend, or that they trust only their blade.  In Taran’s case, this was literally so. It burned at Taran, and hurt him, that Galathonriel could not have a body to fly free, and live the life he so fondly remembered.  Through a series of elaborate adventures, Taran managed to find a way ‘between the worlds’, and speak with the powerful spirits charged with shepherding the souls of the dead.  A bargain was struck, and Galathonriel was given a new body, and a new life. Somehow, through that process, part of Taran’s soul remained with the dragon, and part of a dragon’s soul was left in the man.  In this life, as Taran grows in stature, elements of Galathonriel’s primal magical gift are bubbling to the surface, reflected in Taran sorcerous abilities. If Galathonriel was still alive when the remnants of Taran's army was dashed upon the rocks of the Ishlokian Imperial Guard, Taran cannot recall. The Lord of Rethmiir (called The Dragonslayer, called Scion of the Blade), Taran Tar-Ilou was executed as a war criminal by the High Justicar of Her Glorious and Most Radiant Goddess Ishlok, Protector of Her Holy Empire, in the Fall of the year 1122 Founding. He was reborn of whole cloth in Greyhawk City, a world away from his home, charged with a great and terrible purpose.  Galathonriel, it seems, is still with him, integrated into the new whole.</li> </ul>These are references to Taran's previous-life adventures, and Galathonriel was a core NPC and one of the great joy/tragedies of Taran's adventuring career.  Taran did manage to free his one true friend and return him to dragonkind, but in so doing lost Galathonriel's companionship.  Dragons fly as they will, they do not spend their days hanging from the hip of surly fighters.  So it played out as sort of an inverse Puff the Magic Dragon scenario.  Puff grew up.</blockquote>

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