TechnOkami
2010-11-19, 11:18 PM
So, I'm stuck on a certain place of my background for this character so far. I know where he's supposed to go and what he's supposed to do, but not persay a reason for why certain events take place. Here's what I've got so far.
The name of this Illithid in question is Maninder Hayes. He, like any ordinary Illithid was Lawful Evil. Simply another pawn of the Elder Brain… until a certain item came into his possession. It looked simple enough, but it’s the simple things in life we need to keep most aware of. What Maninder had in front of him was a leather bound tome with a pen built into the book. The front of the book said, “Taketh pen in thy hand and write what thou will.” He sensed no power emanating from the tome, but disregarded it as nothing. Taking the pen, he wrote his name. Maninder Hayes. As soon as he finished writing, the very ink he had written with moved across the page, changing shape and forming a new set of words. Well, this is unexpected. I knew this book was bad news. I swear, never receive “gifts” from old wizards, they’ll get you every time. But anyways, since you have given your name, I shall give mine. I am Reina. Glad to me- well, write to you, Mr. Hayes. It is here where the story of Maninder takes a most interesting turn, for with his own name, he has started on a path that only time can know. These two characters wrote to each other, at first out of sheer interest for the point and purpose of this book (where it was learned that two such books existed, hence why they could write to each other), but later developed into an intellectual conversation across the very universe. Illithids are of a cold and hard mindset, wishing to dominate all with their vastly superior intelligence and psionic prowess: such was the demeanor that passed along into his writing. [name] however, was a different kind of intellectual, writing with a distinct and passionate voice. Over time, their intellectual discussions evolved into more meaningful discussions, and the icy mind of our Illithid was melting, steadily drifting from his evil character to a more neutral mindset. Their intelligence, coupled with verbose infatuation, bloomed into a love. They shared their most intimate thoughts with each other, and grew deeper and stronger in their relationship.
Desperately they wanted to meet each other, yet had no idea where each other was. Maninder decided to use an Illithid tracking device to locate the other book, and effectively her. What he found was staggering even to his intellect: she was quite literally billions of miles across the universe. Unfortunately, his actions had not gone unviewed, and his change in personality started to attract suspicion from the other Illithids. He soon caught on though, and devised a daring plan to reach her location. And all went according to plan. He boarded a Nautilus, a flying Illithid ship in the shape of the animal itself, filled with cargo intended for the voyage of several dozen Illithids. What came next though took the other Illithids by surprise. As he flew off into space, several other ships came on his tail. He flew the ship through a pre-set ring of teleportation, set for the planet that his love inhabited: Krynn. As soon as he passed through, he and the ship teleported directly to Krynn, and the ring transformed into a portal to the plane of Neth. Specially designed so the contents of the plain would spill out onto the other plane, vast writhing tentacles spewed forth from the gate’s mouth and consumed every Illithid and Elder Brain in sight, leaving naught but dust once it recoiled and forcibly shut the portal.
Using a smaller, short range tracking device built into the ship itself, he soon located her location and set the ship down.
Basically what happens next is their relationship really blooms (for clarification purposes, he is an Erudite and she is a Swordsage, who uses a really big scythe). Meanwhile, the Illithid empire has discovered this treachery and has sent an invasion force to the newly unconquered planet to a. kill Maninder, and b. enslave Krynn. The dragons don't take too kindly to this once they figure out what's going on, hence the dragons wiping the invasion force out and later turning them over to the kobolds to deal with.
THE ISSUE is that I need a reason that would make Reina dead, where Maninder will reason that because he has nothing to heal her with, has no resurrective powers, and is more or less caught between the epic battle between the dragons and the Illithids, he will instead consume her mind to preserve it (where he can get her wished out of him), but gains her swordsage powers as a side effect of doing so. He then applies his psicrystal to her scythe and makes it a much more powerful weapon than before. Coming out from where he was with Reina at her end, incredibly pissed off and angry, and slaughters every Illithid in sight. ...then a dragon mage mistakes him for being part of the invasion force, doesn't want to deal with him, and uses the Imprisonment spell. (what happens next is he remains underground for several centuries, his mind degrading with extreme amnesia, which is then where the party stumbles upon him while searching for the BBEG in his underground lair. All he remembers is his name, his classes, and that he uses a really big scythe that holds significance for him, but can't remember why.)
Sorry this is so big, but thoughts? Ideas?
The name of this Illithid in question is Maninder Hayes. He, like any ordinary Illithid was Lawful Evil. Simply another pawn of the Elder Brain… until a certain item came into his possession. It looked simple enough, but it’s the simple things in life we need to keep most aware of. What Maninder had in front of him was a leather bound tome with a pen built into the book. The front of the book said, “Taketh pen in thy hand and write what thou will.” He sensed no power emanating from the tome, but disregarded it as nothing. Taking the pen, he wrote his name. Maninder Hayes. As soon as he finished writing, the very ink he had written with moved across the page, changing shape and forming a new set of words. Well, this is unexpected. I knew this book was bad news. I swear, never receive “gifts” from old wizards, they’ll get you every time. But anyways, since you have given your name, I shall give mine. I am Reina. Glad to me- well, write to you, Mr. Hayes. It is here where the story of Maninder takes a most interesting turn, for with his own name, he has started on a path that only time can know. These two characters wrote to each other, at first out of sheer interest for the point and purpose of this book (where it was learned that two such books existed, hence why they could write to each other), but later developed into an intellectual conversation across the very universe. Illithids are of a cold and hard mindset, wishing to dominate all with their vastly superior intelligence and psionic prowess: such was the demeanor that passed along into his writing. [name] however, was a different kind of intellectual, writing with a distinct and passionate voice. Over time, their intellectual discussions evolved into more meaningful discussions, and the icy mind of our Illithid was melting, steadily drifting from his evil character to a more neutral mindset. Their intelligence, coupled with verbose infatuation, bloomed into a love. They shared their most intimate thoughts with each other, and grew deeper and stronger in their relationship.
Desperately they wanted to meet each other, yet had no idea where each other was. Maninder decided to use an Illithid tracking device to locate the other book, and effectively her. What he found was staggering even to his intellect: she was quite literally billions of miles across the universe. Unfortunately, his actions had not gone unviewed, and his change in personality started to attract suspicion from the other Illithids. He soon caught on though, and devised a daring plan to reach her location. And all went according to plan. He boarded a Nautilus, a flying Illithid ship in the shape of the animal itself, filled with cargo intended for the voyage of several dozen Illithids. What came next though took the other Illithids by surprise. As he flew off into space, several other ships came on his tail. He flew the ship through a pre-set ring of teleportation, set for the planet that his love inhabited: Krynn. As soon as he passed through, he and the ship teleported directly to Krynn, and the ring transformed into a portal to the plane of Neth. Specially designed so the contents of the plain would spill out onto the other plane, vast writhing tentacles spewed forth from the gate’s mouth and consumed every Illithid and Elder Brain in sight, leaving naught but dust once it recoiled and forcibly shut the portal.
Using a smaller, short range tracking device built into the ship itself, he soon located her location and set the ship down.
Basically what happens next is their relationship really blooms (for clarification purposes, he is an Erudite and she is a Swordsage, who uses a really big scythe). Meanwhile, the Illithid empire has discovered this treachery and has sent an invasion force to the newly unconquered planet to a. kill Maninder, and b. enslave Krynn. The dragons don't take too kindly to this once they figure out what's going on, hence the dragons wiping the invasion force out and later turning them over to the kobolds to deal with.
THE ISSUE is that I need a reason that would make Reina dead, where Maninder will reason that because he has nothing to heal her with, has no resurrective powers, and is more or less caught between the epic battle between the dragons and the Illithids, he will instead consume her mind to preserve it (where he can get her wished out of him), but gains her swordsage powers as a side effect of doing so. He then applies his psicrystal to her scythe and makes it a much more powerful weapon than before. Coming out from where he was with Reina at her end, incredibly pissed off and angry, and slaughters every Illithid in sight. ...then a dragon mage mistakes him for being part of the invasion force, doesn't want to deal with him, and uses the Imprisonment spell. (what happens next is he remains underground for several centuries, his mind degrading with extreme amnesia, which is then where the party stumbles upon him while searching for the BBEG in his underground lair. All he remembers is his name, his classes, and that he uses a really big scythe that holds significance for him, but can't remember why.)
Sorry this is so big, but thoughts? Ideas?