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------------------ Therans' Histories ------------------ The man behind the awful name - Dartheryn Bobolobo Obolob, a known and feared Shaman, holding the rank of 'Keeper of Faith' within his guild, recently granted the Heralds an interview and a fascinating insight into his fraught past. He has little memories of his early years, or his family the times before he joined his present guild seem to recede far into the cloudy half-memories of childhood. All that he does remember was that he was the second to youngest of five children, and that he only really got along with his younger sister. This was until one fateful day, when he found his sister strapped into an infernal machine, which was apparently drawing the very life from her body. Despite his best attempts, he could not prise her from its mechanical grasp, and she died before his very eyes. In reaction to this, he left his childhood home, seeking power in order to avenge himself on those who had slain his sister. He joined the guild of Shamans and progressed swiftly in its ranks. He returned to his childhood home, intent on destroying the machine and massacring those responsible for its invention, but found everything deserted. The machine still stood, its existence bearing mute testimony to the pain of his sister and the anguish of her loss. In his attempts to destroy the machine, he gleaned something of its power, its true purpose. It was not a machine solely designed for torture. It was a time machine. It allowed the user to manipulate the speed of the passage of time around him, slowing it down or speeding it up, but not reversing it. Thus, through the aid of this machine, Bobolobo has claimed to have seen the future, and gives dire warnings about what is facing the Realms. Only pain. Only suffering. Only...murder. While using this machine for the first time, he claims to have heard the voices of the Gods, telling him to keep the machine safe, to keep its existence secret, and to guard a secret about the future with his life. What this secret is, no one except the Shaman himself knows. In return for his services, he claims the Gods have enhanced his power to commune. Having seen evidence of this, I am inclined to agree. After twenty years of guarding this machine, and its terrible secret, he eventually heard word of other such machines existing, other time- manipulation machines, with other guardians. In order to preserve the ability to time travel, and to maintain his compact with the Gods, he has now come to Thera to investigate and, possibly, take control of these other devices. This story seems to strike a chord with other inhabitants of Thera, the old and venerable illusionist Dorimos, claiming that Bobolobo's description bears a remarkable similarity to a machine devised by the Mystics, in the previous era, which was subsequently stolen and cloned by their demon allies. Whether such revelations are true or not remains to be seen. What one cannot deny is that Bobolobo both believes in the existence of these devices, and is willing to fight with all his considerable power in order to achieve the ends dictated to him from on High. (Read the History of Jandor) |
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