Artan - Revision history

The Lich: Changed protection level for "Artan" ([Edit=Allow only administrators] (expires 09:09, 25 June 2018 (UTC)) [Move=Allow only administrators] (expires 09:09, 25 June 2018 (UTC)))

2018-06-25T08:09:32Z

Changed protection level for "Artan" ([Edit=Allow only administrators] (expires 09:09, 25 June 2018 (UTC)) [Move=Allow only administrators] (expires 09:09, 25 June 2018 (UTC)))

The Lich at 08:07, 25 June 2018

2018-06-25T08:07:37Z

The Lich: /* Chief Ar'Nievel's Monstrous Steel Shield */

2017-02-20T03:00:41Z

‎Chief Ar'Nievel's Monstrous Steel Shield

The Lich: /* Chief Ar'Nievel's Monstrous Steel Shield */

2017-02-20T03:00:25Z

‎Chief Ar'Nievel's Monstrous Steel Shield

The Lich: /* The Crimson Atoll */

2016-06-05T21:41:34Z

‎The Crimson Atoll

Brasidas at 20:49, 29 May 2016

2016-05-29T20:49:38Z

Brasidas: Protected "Artan": Excessive vandalism ([Edit=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite))

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Protected "Artan": Excessive vandalism ([Edit=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite))

Brasidas: Reverted edits by The Lich (talk) to last revision by Brasidas

2016-05-23T20:36:00Z

Reverted edits by The Lich (talk) to last revision by Brasidas

The Lich at 19:40, 22 May 2016

2016-05-22T19:40:11Z

The Lich: /* Associates of Artan */

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‎Associates of Artan

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 :'''Lore''':  The dwarfess fire cleric Zendola mentioned that the shield drains life.
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	:'''Lore''': The dwarfess fire cleric Zendola mentioned that the shield drains life.		:'''Lore''': The dwarfess fire cleric Zendola mentioned that the shield drains life.
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	[[File:Candle in dark by jaro2.jpg\|thumb\|right\|400px\|Candlelight was essential to Artan's sanity and well-being while living up the Crimson Atoll. Artan's elder sister Norda, the silt priestess who betrayed her clan and joined the Randor dwarves, held a long-standing soft spot for Artan, for she too was castigated and nearly killed in her youth, although in her case it was for her unforgiving belief and devotion to the silt and the Gray Death of the world. Whatever her personal reasons, Norda became the most diligent supplier of Artan's candles, making them from silt horror oils and the fats of other creatures of the Deep Silt.]]		[[File:Candle in dark by jaro2.jpg\|thumb\|right\|400px\|Candlelight was essential to Artan's sanity and well-being while living up the Crimson Atoll. Artan's elder sister Norda, the silt priestess who betrayed her clan and joined the Randor dwarves, held a long-standing soft spot for Artan, for she too was castigated and nearly killed in her youth, although in her case it was for her unforgiving belief and devotion to the silt and the Gray Death of the world. Whatever her personal reasons, Norda became the most diligent supplier of Artan's candles, making them from silt horror oils and the fats of other creatures of the Deep Silt.]]
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		+	===Norda, The Elder Sister, Contacts Artan from the Crimson Atoll===
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		+	12 Thaumast, FY 19: Amidst a silt sea storm, a whirlwind of silt finds its way to Artan, and with it is carried the voice of his elder sister, Norda, the sibling that was apparently the first to discover the nature of Artan's extreme fear of the dark in his youth, and the first to keep a candle lit for the young Artan throughout the night.
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		+	Cast out by the Mrenbar clan for abandoning their worship of pure stone and earth in preference for the "abomination" of silt worshiped by the Randor dwarves, Norda was the lover and pupil of Gornehric, an evil but charismatic silt cleric with awesome powers, being able to dive to the bottom of the sea and return with wonders. Norda was exiled from the Crimson Atoll for increasing hostilities between the two dwarf clans upon the atoll, and eloped with Gornehric to distant parts of the Deep Silt Sea. Although unable to actually set foot upon the Crimson Atoll, she returned from time to time over the years, ever increasing in her power over the silt, and giving aid and wealth to the Randor dwarves.
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		+	Although distant due to her exile, Norda has maintained an almost maternal relationship with Artan over the years. Indeed, part of the reason why Artan was not thrown into the silt after the pirate attack by Alteric on the Crimson Atoll was because it was known by the atoll council that should they throw Artan into the silt, the entire atoll might suffer the wrath of his powerful elder sister.
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		+	The whirlwind message, in the peculiar dwarven dialect of the Mrenbar dwarves, is as follows:
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		+	''Little brother, I've sent the silt winds twice now, but they cannot find you. I fear the Silt has taken you into its bosom before your time, but perhaps not yet. I call upon the Heart of the Storm for my voice to find you now.''
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		+	''Mother says you left the Atoll with Zhor's man Mranen, sailing for hardland. I wish you hadn't. I could have given you a home among the Randor dwarves, in the Sea Purple Reeds. I would have taught you the secrets of the Silt, and with your powers with the Way of the Unseen, you could have become powerful enough so that no one would dare question you about your Shadow again.''
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		+	''It is as I have told you before: Zhor only wants you for your Shadow brother. He has always wanted to control it. I wish you had not gone. There will only be disaster for you upon the blasphemous hardland brother. Your Shadow was not meant for the apostasy of open earth. I pray to the Silt Wind that you have already left, and that you are on your way back to us.''
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		+	''But brother, now on this third attempt to reach you, I do not only call to save your soul from the impurity of hardland. Mranen came back to the Crimson Atoll, but now he is piloting the'' Black Sail'', that great three-master captained by that elf sorcerer Blacksilt. Blacksilt forced all the strong warriors left from all the clans of the atoll to board the dhows and sail with his squadron. He promised them new floater domes and corrupting riches from hardland for their aid, and threatened them with magic if they refused. Some of the mindbenders tried to kill him, but he killed them instead brother... Mother said he turned them all to ash. Now there are hardly enough minbbenders to keep the atoll afloat, and the'' uhrnius ''says it will sink if even just one more mindbender dies.''
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		+	''I came too late brother to try and stop this elf sorcerer, and I fear the worse. They are sailing right for the Heart of the Sea and the Great Ash Storm Artan! Nado is with them, and I think Blacksilt means to use him as a guide to the Forbidden Lands, but even Nado has declared he would never dare to cross the Great Ash Storm again, much less set foot upon the accursed Forbidden Lands at the Heart of the Sea. May the Silt swallow and destroy it!''
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		+	''I am gathering supplies and heroes little brother, and just as soon as I am ready, I mean to sail after them. If the Silt is with me, maybe I can reach them before they attempt to breach the Storm Wall. If not I'll have to go through the Storm and kill the Blacksilt and turn the little fleet around. I pray that you are alive brother, and that you can help me. I have precious few mindbenders, and I could use you. But more than that I need my little brother. Come back to me Artan. Do not leave me and your family for the ways of hardland.''
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		+	''Artan, they took father. He was as harsh and distant to me as he was to you, but he was always loyal, even to you. I have no wish to see him beneath the Silt, before his time. Grandfather is coming with me Artan, and mother, and your brother Norgod. I hope to bring you too.''
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		+	''May my prayers find you Artan. Use the Way, and tell me at least that you still live. If Zhor has taken you, at least know that the sister who lit your candle when you were little still keeps a candle lit in her heart even now, after all these years. Even if the atoll cast me out, I do not wish to see it sink because of some hardland sorcerer's scheme, and I do not wish to see our family sink with it. Help me now keep our family-clan live, and not sink beneath the Silt forever.''
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		+	''May the Silt cleanse and keep you little brother.''
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		+	''Your sister, -Norda''

	==Artan's Past==		==Artan's Past==

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 ==Character Summary==
-[[File:DragonArticles Page 004 Image 0001a zps20ebb016.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Conceived at the borders between two realities, a traveler of worlds both within himself and beyond the bounds of Athas, Artan of the Crimson Atoll is already a warrior and psionicist with few peers under the Dark Sun, despite his short career.  A friend of Zhor, Artan has used his unique abilities and recently returned from beyond the planar boundaries of Athas with magic and enchanted steel that might elicit the envy of a sorcerer-king.  Re-united by his return with the darker part of his nature, Artan's future remains unclear, and the question remains of whether or not he will ever return to the Astral Plane to help free his fallen friend Ktandeo, or if he will remain on Athas, and use his powers and his magic to make himself a power to be reckoned with on that world.]]
+[[File:Serveimage.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Conceived at the borders between two realities, a traveler of worlds both within himself and beyond the bounds of Athas, Artan of the Crimson Atoll is already a warrior and psionicist with few peers under the Dark Sun, despite his short career.  A friend of Zhor, Artan has used his unique abilities and recently returned from beyond the planar boundaries of Athas with magic and enchanted steel that might elicit the envy of a sorcerer-king.  Re-united by his return with the darker part of his nature, Artan's future remains unclear, and the question remains of whether or not he will ever return to the Astral Plane to help free his fallen friend Ktandeo, or if he will remain on Athas, and use his powers and his magic to make himself a power to be reckoned with on that world.]]
 Class: Warrior/Psionicist
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 ===Friends, hirelings and followers===
 -Brantheon of the Arxestayn: Lost his eye to Kasom, "the Beast of House Tomblador". Artan paid him some funds to help recuperate the immense financial losses he incurred to restore his eye. Sold his estate in Balic to Artan.

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	===Friends, hirelings and followers===		===Friends, hirelings and followers===
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		+	-Kerthon, the mul fire cleric: Kerthon is a mul fire cleric associated with the Chorsh. Lost through misadventures in the Gray, Kerthon sought sanctuary from the enervating emptiness of that plane by entering upon Artan's mindscape, a paradisaical landscape which had grown bleak and frozen under the influence of the undead psionicist known as the Pilgrim, who had shortly before seized control of that private realm. His soul weakening under the tides of the Gray, Kerthon soon encountered Artan, and together they fought the Pilgrim. During this great psychic battle, Kerthon proved himself most efficacious, and was vital in Artan's reconquest of his own mindscape. As reward, Artan allowed Kerthon to remain in his mindscape, protected from the doom he would have otherwise suffered in the Gray. Thankful for Kerthon's assistance, Artan even allowed Kerthon to hold the Ashen Hammer, the strange weapon the dwarf had taken from the slain fire cleric/psionicist/thief Kar'Nathem. Trapped in Artan's mindscape, lost in the Gray, Kerthon is unable to return to the Prime Material Plane until Artan or some other gains the power to open a spiritual doorway from the Gray and into the Material Plane.
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		+	[[File:Astral temple.jpg\|thumb\|left\|450px\|Although having found sanctuary within the mindscape of Artan, Kerthon is also trapped in this idyllic realm, unable to leave for fear of being drained of his life force by the Gray. Because of this, Kerthon remains a wanderer in Artan's mind, influencing his dreams and perhaps even the dwarf's waking thoughts. Kerthon spends much of his time praying to his sacred element, and his kindly fires both warm and influence Artan's moods. Recently, Kerthon has begun to wander in deeper parts of Artan's mindscape, and may be discovering parts Artan's spiritual nature that he has long kept warded and sealed from his waking consciousness. Kerthon also holds the Ashen Hammer, a powerful relic associated with the element of Fire, and formerly the most powerful weapon of Obsidian Runner fire shaman Kar'Nathem.]]

	-Brantheon of the Arxestayn: Lost his eye to Kasom, "the Beast of House Tomblador". Artan paid him some funds to help recuperate the immense financial losses he incurred to restore his eye. Sold his estate in Balic to Artan.		-Brantheon of the Arxestayn: Lost his eye to Kasom, "the Beast of House Tomblador". Artan paid him some funds to help recuperate the immense financial losses he incurred to restore his eye. Sold his estate in Balic to Artan.