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« on: July 08, 2010, 01:25:39 AM » |
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Hey I was looking through the new article that was put out on the wizards website. It gives idea for different backgrounds that could make for good storytelling. The five wraiths background caught my eye for my invoker. Here is an origin story I have come up with tell me what you think. It tries to give a reason for my character to be a shadar-kai as well.
Eli was a well respected and well liked farmer in a little known village before an wandering mage showed up and changed everything. The mage bragged to Eli's closest friends that he had in his possession a ritual that would grant all the participants youth and vitality for years to come and could perhaps through repeated use grant them eternal life. The mage needed only five more participants and the coin to purchase the proper materials. Eli, who was afflicted by a rare and debilitating disease reluctantly agreed on the condition that they all swore to only use their gift to help and protect those around them. They all quickly agreed and began preparations for the ritual. But all was not well. The primary ritualist was in experienced and overconfident, and assured the participants that all was well even as they felt searing pain flowing through their bodies. Eli who had some arcane training knew that this was wrong and he attempted to pull away from the ritual. As the ritual reached its crescendo Eli looked up to see the corporeal forms of his companions fading away, leaving behind mere shades of their existence. Eli felt the corruption flowing into his body, but through shear force of will he managed to stave off the effects of the ritual and maintain his physical form, but despite his best efforts he was still heavily effected by the ritual. His skin had turned deathly pale, his hair had fallen out, and his once blue eyes turned into bottomless black pools. His sense of touch seamed muted, but his sight and hearing had sharpened. In the aftermath of the ritual he stood and looked at his former friends as they marveled at their new forms. He could see the look in their eyes as a malicious hunger grew in them. As they each succumb to the hunger within they took new names appropriate to their new roles:Strife, War, Hatred, Doom, and Terror. The five new wraiths turned to their former companion and dubbed him death. Eli too felt the hunger rising in his subconscious, the need to spread death to all around him and consume their essence to fuel his unatural existence. Eli fought these dark thoughts and ran from the dark room the laughter of the wraiths echoing in his mind. He did not know how long or far he ran, as he seemed to jaunt in and out of the physical world. Eventually he found the ruins of an ancient temple. He stumbled inside and fell in front of a moss covered statue. Looking up he recognized it as the deity known only as the Raven Queen, goddess of death and fate. The irony of his situation was not lost on Eli. He cried out for a merciful end to his existence, and to his great he got a response. The eyes of the statue began to glow a pale blue and Eli heard a voice echo in his mind. It told him that he could not find peace until he put a stop to what he helped create. A moment he was given the mark of his new deity and was infused with the power to destroy the abominations he once called friends. He stood up and immediately went back to his village to confront the wraiths, but when he arrived all he found was death and devastation. Eli now travels the world searching for the wraiths, always arriving too late to stop the destruction.
Well that's the rough back story I came up with. To be honest i got more into it when I started writing. Anyway tell me what you think, and it would be cool if he received the boons related to the back story from the article, but that's not that important.
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