Joe Gamer

With a fierce roar, the five headed beast melted from this reality, first its body and tail, then each of its five chromatic heads.  Quiet settled on the ruins of Drellin’s Ferry and the weight of their accomplishment fell on the party.  The two giants fell honorably against the Aspect of Tiamat but peace had finally come to the Elsir Vale.

Death, however, could not hold the Heroes of the Elsir Vale.  Trellara Goldenbrow prayed to the Sun God Pelor to revive the fallen heroes: Longstrider and Dustwalker.  The kind hearted god of compassion granted her request and returned the two to the material plane.  In reward for the adventurers’ accomplishment, the city of Brindol granted Vraath Keep to the Heroes, and several villagers agreed to help build a settlement around the keep to establish a guard for the Northern Pass.  Not content to settle down, however, most of the group split ways.  The bonds they developed while traveling were too powerful to keep them apart and therefore they never left each other for long.

Umon the psion stayed at Vraath Keep to rule the new settlement and continued to develop his mental abilities.  Aisha the Dragon Shaman returned to her Copper Dragon patron to bring him the heads of the dragons she’d slain and to continue to serve her liege.  Imzy the kobold druid, satisfied that killing the Aspect of Tiamat really had made her a ‘dragon’, accompanied Dustwalker to his desert home, marveling at nature as she went.  Dustwalker had found the psionic crown that had been stolen from his people.  He returned to his home in the far desert to wrest control from the weak leadership that had plagued his tribe for years.  Finally Longstrider, the contemplative goliath whose ever step worshiped the carefree god of travel, Fharlanghn, began to walk.  His steps took him to lands far and wide, and his fists protected the weak of world for as long as he could move, never sleeping under the same roof for long.

I hope you excuse this little aside here from me.  We just finished the module “The Red Hand of Doom” and I had an itch to write the epilogue on paper.  This is the most closure I have ever felt in a D&D game.  Though my character, Dustwalker, died during the final encounter, knowing he was able to be resurrected and finish his expressed goals meant a lot to me.  JoeGamer and I will be starting Pathfinder this week and it will be my first encounter with the system.  Look for thoughts on Pathfinder later this week.

Also, for those of you that will be playing 4e Darksun with me in the next few weeks, start thinking of a character concept.  Be wary of arcane classes, as magic is considered extremely taboo on Athas, but I will not ban them.  We will be rolling stats instead of using point-buy (since that’s what everybody is used to and likes) and I will only allow classes, races, feats, powers, and items from books I own.  So if you read a char-op thread somewhere that has something from a book I don’t own or an issue of Dungeon or Dragon magazines, it is not allowed.  Have a great week!

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