In my game it started in 6048, all the players were 3-4 years older than Kier and they were students of the Gryphon College. Kier had been in the College too until he was 14 when he came back to Cynar.
Kier flees and finds haven in Remiraith for 1 year, when he leaves the wood realm he's decided to recover the kingdom and goes to Gryphon College, but he has to cross a country torn by civil war and his trip is quite slow, when he arrives to the College he finds his friends and ask their help. In this point he was not aware of the artifacts but the Pendant that had been the symbol of Helyssa's rule, and he thinks the Pendant must be in the Tower of Yarth.
After a looonnnng trip to the Tower of Yarth, they enter and fail in their mission but they got some treasure anyway. Also they discover that Helyssa's army is being reinforced with man monsters coming from the other side of the isthmus. They go to Norek, because Helyssa is no longer safe and they know Boshkar of Vorn is not a better option.
They go to the city with a huge army behind (Lorgalis' forces) and after 2 days the siege starts, they left the city with a boat and entered Remiraith, a bard called Hernae joined them for a few days and told them that if the Pendant was not an option, maybe they could try to find the sword and the Crown, they had no idea of these artifacts so they told them to go to Nomikos to search.
And that's the poing where everything started going seriouus, the rest of the story follows more or less the plot as shown in Jaiman book plus a trip to Sel-Kai and a long stop in Wuliris white the Storm Wizard makes the winter a hell.
We retired the characters when Kier I was ruling U-Lyshak, with the characters being:
- The Duke of the Towers and constable of the kingdom, the third in the line after the King and the Chancellor.
- The Wizard of the King, Count of something
- The Royal Engineer and Architect, Lord of Pelyar
In my game I used Syrkara as a duchy, and the second family of the Kingdom, being also able to claim the Artifacts if Kier dies. The current Duke and Royal Chancellor is Lorant Syrkara, he's in his 200 and the duchy is managed by his son Pelyabon 'Pel' Syrkara, a magician of skill and close friend of Kier.
If I come back to this characters probably will be a diplomatic adventure, I was thinking that Kier needs a seaport in the Nea Bay and recover Norek is not realistic, so he wants to send a messenger to Plasidar and ask the Duke to leave piracy and accept the rule of U-Lyshak. The duke could accept because he knows that the Faslurin want to get rid of the Pirate Elves and now there is no rebellion that can hold the empire. But several dyar would not agree with Kalon.
One of my longest post, I think