Dr Midnight
Explorer
Well, I do have both... I just prefer the epic goodness vs. villainous evil. It's the whole theme of my campaign- heroic characters coping in a world where bad things happen.
Adventuring is a dangerous business, and what Gorgoldand knew the public didn’t see was the absolute despair in defeat- the result of an epic quest gone horribly wrong, the adventurers dead, the evil threat fulfilled. Whenever possible Gorgoldand avoided using people he cared about, and made sure he kept those he trained at arm’s reach emotionally.
-KotSQ, the beginning
Dartan sat beside Menerous, weighing what his life had become. His mind kept returning to that first day in the Silver Quill, when Gorgoldand had told them that he had to send them into the world, as the world needed heroes. Jamison had often told him afterwards that Gorgoldand's greatest fear was in seeing his son's party fall to the evils of the real world. The golden dragon had wanted to shelter his adopted son from becoming jaded by the world's cruelties. High adventure doesn't always lead to the treasure chest, some epic quests are left unfinished, and the good guys don't always win. Tenchi hadn't gotten the chance to avenge his master. Jamison and Hannah never got to explore the growing sentiment they shared for each other. Dekker couldn't save Bree. Angelique, it seemed, wouldn't complete her quest for the Glaring Sun.
Of the six bright-eyed youngsters sent forth on that day, only Dartan and Jamison still lived. Jamison was now a heartless and evil servant of whatever foul forces had taken him, and Dartan- well- he'd never found that the people around him had faith in him at all. The others viewed Dartan with distaste. They found him to be dark and heartless, which hurt him and only drove him further into his shell. Finding the dead griffon at the end of the rainbow had shattered his faith, and he felt himself plummeting- no, pulled- toward some unknown black fate. With nothing filling him, he was empty.
-KotSQ, much later in the campaign
Adventuring is a dangerous business, and what Gorgoldand knew the public didn’t see was the absolute despair in defeat- the result of an epic quest gone horribly wrong, the adventurers dead, the evil threat fulfilled. Whenever possible Gorgoldand avoided using people he cared about, and made sure he kept those he trained at arm’s reach emotionally.
-KotSQ, the beginning
Dartan sat beside Menerous, weighing what his life had become. His mind kept returning to that first day in the Silver Quill, when Gorgoldand had told them that he had to send them into the world, as the world needed heroes. Jamison had often told him afterwards that Gorgoldand's greatest fear was in seeing his son's party fall to the evils of the real world. The golden dragon had wanted to shelter his adopted son from becoming jaded by the world's cruelties. High adventure doesn't always lead to the treasure chest, some epic quests are left unfinished, and the good guys don't always win. Tenchi hadn't gotten the chance to avenge his master. Jamison and Hannah never got to explore the growing sentiment they shared for each other. Dekker couldn't save Bree. Angelique, it seemed, wouldn't complete her quest for the Glaring Sun.
Of the six bright-eyed youngsters sent forth on that day, only Dartan and Jamison still lived. Jamison was now a heartless and evil servant of whatever foul forces had taken him, and Dartan- well- he'd never found that the people around him had faith in him at all. The others viewed Dartan with distaste. They found him to be dark and heartless, which hurt him and only drove him further into his shell. Finding the dead griffon at the end of the rainbow had shattered his faith, and he felt himself plummeting- no, pulled- toward some unknown black fate. With nothing filling him, he was empty.
-KotSQ, much later in the campaign
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