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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 7136237" data-attributes="member: 40166">There's a key problem with this whole post. Elminster didn't do anything. NPCs don't get high-level by adventuring; they get high-level by someone writing a number in a field. I see nowhere it says they have to have an adventuring backstory, and one of the 20th level characters in ECS was 11 years old, so it's not something Wizards always followed.And the point of all this is that some people don't like settings that feel like they're all about other people's characters. Your perception that there must be a certain number of high-level characters in a setting is wrong; there are many settings that don't have them, whether or not you find that realistic.  Are you the author? You speak with amazing certainty about the text. As for me, I can only speak about what it implies to me, and I've never seen any other book start with a huge block of text explaining how the sage telling the story has this ridiculous set of abilities and magical items. Page 3 says that Elminister is the sage telling the story in the book; page 7 says that Elminister is totally badass and it's very important the book, right up front, needs to give you his stats.</blockquote>