Topic: panthiis and other things

[yipman17]

there  is mention of a human race named the panthiis in gethaena, "a dwindling people possessing lifespans of 1000 years or more". but i haven't heard of any of these folks in every other book. is there someone who have informations around? in addition, about the lord of malice, i haven't found any trace of whom is responsible of his death and how his empire crumbled? help...

[yammahoper]

I like that module a lot.  However, gethaena was not made by Terry and most don't consider it SW cannon.

I had a successful campaign wraped around the idea of taming the Ishru and freeing them as allies against the unlife in the next war of dominion...point being, the answers to your questions are within your own imagination or advice of SW fans who like that module.  Some don't like it.

[yipman17]

thanks for your answer; i like it much too, cause i have my most vivids player souvenirs from this campaign module. about the lord of malice story, though, any leads?

[egdcltd]

Is it Master of Malice rather than Lord of Malice?

I found a reference in SWMA4 p19

Dænkú faces his old foe the Master of Malice and slays his fellow Essænce Lord. But his mind is damaged and he wanders into the East.

[yammahoper]

Been a few years since I ran it, but here was my take.

The Ishru were embodyments of psychic energy, feeding and fueled by the emotions of sentient life.  They were accidently created by an Althan scientist who was experimenting with psychic limits and capacities of the various slave races.  Originally a single entity of psychic energy, the battle to contain/destro the creature fragmented it into numerous aspects, embodying the best and worse of emotions.  When fragmented, they fled, their minds broken and primal, into the wilds of Kulthea..

Eons pass, and the origin of these elemental psychic beings is long forgotton.  This leads to the story presented in the adventure.  The lord of malice and what not were the forms the ishru took when free in the world, before being trapped by the kirzawhachamacallit.  When free, they assumed forms fitting their focus, which I had as a family or racial line.  I picked the Kuluku and Anzeti to create legends around regarding the mostly monstrous feats of the ishru when free.

Upon their release the Loremasters did not get an army like they imagined, but the Ishru merged with the races they use to haunt.  The result was the emergence of psychic powers across Kulthea and a Hero that would stand against the Unlife and kill its Avatar...and unite the dragons...and ressurrect a dead god...but those are seperate adventures.

[yipman17]

thanks a lot for your quick answers, really. but to speak from the cannon books, was the master of malice a k'thaviiri or an altan? i thought having read that somewhere (but nothing detailing his empire and the circumstances of his struggle with the empire of the silver dragon south of kelestia, in gethanen if my  memory is not failing me)...

[yammahoper]

my SW doent resemble the cannon much, other than the NPC names and places.  to little material released throughout the 90's to keep up with my game playing.

[egdcltd]

thanks a lot for your quick answers, really. but to speak from the cannon books, was the master of malice a k'thaviiri or an altan? i thought having read that somewhere (but nothing detailing his empire and the circumstances of his struggle with the empire of the silver dragon south of kelestia, in gethanen if my  memory is not failing me)...

He was both actually. The K'ta'viir are a clan of Althans.

You might want to take a look at this I made for searching for references.

http://www.ironcrown.com/ICEforums/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=item686

Only currently has canon, near canon and maybe canon works in it though.

[yipman17]

yes, i knew that the k'taviiri were a clan from the althan race, but i wanted to know if the master of malice was a member of the k'taviiri clan or just a "normal" althan (if normal can be employed concerning the althan)...

[egdcltd]

He was a Lord of Essence, so that would make him a K'ta'viiri.

[yammahoper]

Many other Althans possessed great talent with esseance, at least until the K'ta'viiri began the purges.  No one talks about those terrible nights of murder, after all, the victors write the history...

A snipet from a memory crystal.