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  • Flight: A Prologue

    4E 171The wolf trotted slowly along the ridge, tracking the scent of the filthy, sweat-streaked soldiers struggling across the sands below. There were only four left in the detachment now; six other stragglers had already succumbed to thirst, heat stroke, or battle wounds.  The men wasted no energy ...
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  • Character Sketch: Julian Nerio

    Character number two.  I'm sure you can guess his profession by the end of this piece. *** The Winking Skeever.  What a charming name, Julian thought.  The barest hint of a smirk crossed his handsome face before it was replaced by his habitual feigned expression of polite interest.  What will thes...
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  • Character Sketch: Drifa Skir, Ranger

    I'm not really sure where I'm going with this at the moment, but my vague plan is to put up a series of story sketches of the many characters that live in my brain.  Long-term, I'd like to have them interact, and maybe find some plot and conflict.  But for now, just a character set-piece, and eventu...
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  • Arabic Poetry Inspirations for a Character Build: Al Sha'ir

    So the D&D Sha'ir is a wizard subclass, when in actuality the historical pre-Islamic poets considered themselves nothing of the sort.  Okay, so they boasted extensively about dealings with the djinn.  Some of them even claimed to have visited alternate realities with them.  But they didn't have ...
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  • Lore for a Character Build: The Vala or Spaekona

    The Vala, Spaekona, or Völva (pl. Völur) is the Norse seeress or prophetess, priestess or witch, who narrates the magnum opus of the Poetic Edda, the famous Völuspá, or Prophecy of the Völva. The figure of the Vala, "the woman with the staff," turns up in a number of the works of the Poetic and Pros...
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