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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 2963281" data-attributes="member: 2">Technically, it's Velendo - and he's a cleric!I'll toss this in spoiler text, as there's some stuff my players shouldn't see.[sblock]By all rights, the 'Gandalf' should be Congenio Ioun, inventor of the Ioun stone, a 27th lvl archmage from a previous age of the world. The 20th-22nd lvl group of PCs is a little annoyed that Ioun is studiously not getting involved in troublesome world events. They figure he's just neutral.  In truth, the real Ioun permanently died last year when magic briefly failed world-wide. This is a 16th lvl clone that was stored off-plane, desperately conspiring with the real Ioun's 20th lvl secretary and cohort to maintain the illusion that he's the same person - in the hopes that his empire doesn't crumble out from underneath him.  The players don't know this.Meanwhile, the PCs have far more of an inkling about the upcoming catastrophe than anyone else. The cleric, Velendo, is organizing groups of adventurers and contacting the most powerful people in the world, in the hopes of both gaining knowledge and of gaining powerful allies. He's going to have some trouble; in the same way that ruleers disliked Gandalf's gloomy advice, an ill wind blows no good. [/sblock]In addition, a former cohort of the PCs (Stavros the half-orc inn-keeper) hires another former PC (Arcade) to dress up in his High Mage's robes, sweep into his tavern, and send low-lvl groups of adventurers out on missions. Then Stavros gets a cut of any treasure they bring back. It's a nice racket.</blockquote>

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