Fiction: "Gift" of the Arak
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:12 pm
I looked in Van Richten's Guide to the Shadow Fey, and found that Arak view making a mortal into a Changeling to be making said mortal into one of the Arak. Hypocritically, the Arak have been known to pit changelings in life-threatening situations, while the two Court Lords find sacrificing Changelings to be necessary in times of dire stress.
I thought of an idea for an adventure idea:
Olvaren, an Unseelie Sith, was onced asked by a young Falkovnian boy to rid him of his misery. The boy, Friedrich, lost his parents who were sent to be tortured to one of Drakov's banquets; they were not guilty of any crimes. Olvaren saw potential in the boy as a Changeling, and he granted the Falkovnian child the Arak's greatest gift.
Olvaren spent time teaching Friedrich everything he knows; Olvaren saw Friedrich as a way to make a more perfect vision of himself; one with no pesky emotions to get in the way of contemplation, one who could carry on Olvaren's lore in case the Arak loses interest in contemplating death and becomes another breed of Arak.
This all changed with the war against the minions of the Spider Queen. Loht needed Changeling troops to defend the land, and Friedrich was one of the unfortunates to be picked; he died in battle.
Olvaren saw Friedrich as more than a Changeling; he saw him as a fellow Arak, one who was a counterbalance to his weaknesses. Olvaren claimed that the Arak's willingness to have Changelings, supposedly fellow Arak, slaughtered, with no remorse, as breaking the Law of Arak. Of course, the Sith became shunned; this filled Olvaren with rage; his remained loyal to the Law, yet his fellow kin turned their backs on him, breaking the most inflexible tenet of the Shadow Fey. Olvaren formed his own political Court amongst fellow Arak who shared his sentiments, and seek nothing more than revenge against Maeve and Loht, for breaking the Law of Arak.
Edit: This is just the beginning of the idea. More to come soon, including stats!
I thought of an idea for an adventure idea:
Olvaren, an Unseelie Sith, was onced asked by a young Falkovnian boy to rid him of his misery. The boy, Friedrich, lost his parents who were sent to be tortured to one of Drakov's banquets; they were not guilty of any crimes. Olvaren saw potential in the boy as a Changeling, and he granted the Falkovnian child the Arak's greatest gift.
Olvaren spent time teaching Friedrich everything he knows; Olvaren saw Friedrich as a way to make a more perfect vision of himself; one with no pesky emotions to get in the way of contemplation, one who could carry on Olvaren's lore in case the Arak loses interest in contemplating death and becomes another breed of Arak.
This all changed with the war against the minions of the Spider Queen. Loht needed Changeling troops to defend the land, and Friedrich was one of the unfortunates to be picked; he died in battle.
Olvaren saw Friedrich as more than a Changeling; he saw him as a fellow Arak, one who was a counterbalance to his weaknesses. Olvaren claimed that the Arak's willingness to have Changelings, supposedly fellow Arak, slaughtered, with no remorse, as breaking the Law of Arak. Of course, the Sith became shunned; this filled Olvaren with rage; his remained loyal to the Law, yet his fellow kin turned their backs on him, breaking the most inflexible tenet of the Shadow Fey. Olvaren formed his own political Court amongst fellow Arak who shared his sentiments, and seek nothing more than revenge against Maeve and Loht, for breaking the Law of Arak.
Edit: This is just the beginning of the idea. More to come soon, including stats!