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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8328344" data-attributes="member: 5948">Yeah, Daskinor is a tough one. There’s a fan write up (I think on athas.org) that basically makes Eldaarich into Dark Sun North Korea, but it never quite worked for me.I’d almost be tempted to make Daskinor a sorcerer-king who is under subtle attack, and who is losing. His paranoia is rooted in reality - he DOES have enemies - but it’s gotten out of control amd is now self-defeating. A suitably powerful psionic enemy maybe, a circle of elder psurlons, or some horrendous incorporeal undead thing he found in the obsidian wastes.The other thing i’d do is introduce more sorcerer-kings. The world is big and the Tyr valley is small. We don’t have any canonical champions who Rajaat tasked with exterminating the minotaurs, or centaurs, or hobgoblins, or sahuagin, or tabaxi, or aaracokra - not to mention kreen. Sure there’s  long-doomed Pennarin but he’s only known from two lines in a novel before dying, surely there’s others. Hell, I once spent a chunk of time Athas-ifying the Rise of the Runelords adventure path, focusing on the reawakening of the forgotten champion Karzoug Gnoll-Eater.This gives us more space and variety to play with in Athas. We can expand the world, we can have more representation without retconning. Not all of rajaat’s champions even have to be rulers. While some siezed or built cities, others may have retired to isolated towers for arcane experimentation, or wandered the world in disguise, or delved deep into the under dark, or slept beneath the sand like more conventional d&d dragons. Want a justification for monks in Athas? A champion who gains followers and spreads his philosophy through posing as a cryptic itinerant martial arts master. He/she promotes the teaching of martial arts to slaves - the oppressed are loyal to those who help them, and more potent slave revolts can only weaken those sorcerer-kings who rule cities. Maybe one who obsessively tracks down lore or clues about the early life of Rajaat, hoping to find the secret to finally destroying him. A crippled, stumbling, mendicant champion, struck by a lingering spell or psionic curse in the rebellion against Rajaat and who has been slowly consumed by it ever since, horrifyingly powerful to confront but erratic, agonised, incapable of ruling.Athas could stand to be bigger. I’d definitely be looking at some of these directions to expand it.</blockquote>

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