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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(contact)" data-source="post: 872759" data-attributes="member: 41">Yes, I think if Taran were alive in our society, he would be considered a serial killer.  He relishes fighting, getting hurt and dominating his enemies.  That's part of the moral ambiguity of this campaign-- if Taran's pointed at the bad guys you love him, but . . . and when he isn't, who can deal with him?It's also sort of a way to come to grips with some of the baseline assumptions in D&D (characters fight all the time, characters get more powerful, characters get rich) in a way that makes sense to me without pretending that standing calf-deep in blood and risking your life on a regular basis is normal.Also, just because Thelbar is more reserved and less of a goon doesn't make him the soft-and-fuzzy one either.  Taran and Thelbar don't disagree about goals or methodologies very often.This would be retro-foreshadowing for you, but these "historical" events have all been played by us in the past.  There have been 3 seperate campaigns detailing the Great Delve:1) A classic game that ran in '92, and featured Indy's first incarnation as a tomb-raiding (ark-raiding?) thief.  Later, characters from that campaign (Alvodar Cursebreaker and Indy) joined Taran and Thelbar and eventually helped them prosecute their disatarous war against the Ishlokians (which we will learn more about soon).2) A brief foray into the Great Delve in this campaign (the Risen Goddess), and3) A full 3e Great Delve campaign that ran recently from levels 1 through 12, the logs of which will be part of this Story Hour in the form of "Fearless" 'Fernal's journal.  I will post the journal in about 3-5 updates over the next couple of weeks.  That will bring you guys up to speed with what we as players already know about Kor'En Eamor.When you read that journal, all will be made clear.  You will learn about Ceredain and Hepis the Great and why Kor'En Eamor is the dwarven Hell.-----(p.s.:  Merkatha is played by the woman who plays Gorquen in this game, Prisantha and Thrommel in the LoT, and Helene's mom in RL)</blockquote>

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