S1gma
11-12-2006, 05:48 PM
This is what I prepared for a bio, but is a little long in its entirety, which can be found on the MNGN Message Board (Link in Sig)...
Prologue
Reapent Calvin'efiver began life as Reaper Gem'efiver, the youngest of thirteen siblings of the Dwarven Clan Gem'efiver. There were his father and four brothers and their families, each with as many children in it as Reaper's own family. This clan was known for their uncanny ability to seemingly 'resurrect' fine gems from any stone. At one time, it was said, that a Gem'efiver could get more fine gems from another clans' refuse pile, than the original workers had gotten from the freshly mined stone!
The Clan's ancestors had moved from the Frostfell continent, hundreds of years ago, to the continent of Khorvaire, yet they still maintained a great reputation for the finest gems with House Kundarak, often called upon to provide 'special' services for them, as well as for clans in the Mror Holds.
The Event
The Gem'efivers began their new domain in Khorvaire, just after the War of the Mark, outside of the city of what would come to be known as Sharn. (Sharn, being linked with the plane of Syrania, had enhanced power of flight and levitation) While the humans that would come after them used this power to build great towers up, the Gem'efivers, used this power to delve deeper into the caves of the long dead Dhakaani empire. It was a profitable time for the clan.
At the uppermost level of their domicile (which was still deeper into the ground than most humans feared to tread) was a Great Hall, where the clan ate and drank and danced. Below were the living quarters, and lower still the unending mines. In the center of the Great Hall there was an enormous arch. The keystone of which was the largest single solid piece of granite any in the clan had ever seen. No one *ever* went through the arch.
One particularly festive evening, the clan was celebrating a very profitable fulfillment of a very important order from House Kundarak. Reaper's eldest brother, (Reap was the youngest of the 13) had single handedly hewn a gigantic piece of granite, and in doing so discovered nearly 50% of the gems needed for the order. Songs were sung about the deed, he was carried around like a hero... Reap was happy, but secretly seethed with anticipation and jealousy... He was not yet allowed to mine much more than a pebble. Most times he was left back with his other 'youngling' cousins to pan for nuggets in the granite dust. After the latest celebration, he could wait no more...
Once the rest of the clan had either gone to sleep or returned to work in the mines, Reaper crept back to the Great Hall. He approached the central arch with the Dwarven Axe of the Ancestors. It was this axe that had been used to cleave out the Great Hall some 400 years ago. He approached the giant Keystone with trepidation.... If he could hew that, surely there would be enough gems to fill a dozen Kundarak orders! Reap had been told to never go *thru* the arch, but he had never been told why. There was no way he could have known that it, in truth, was the very source of the clans' power; a coterminus with the plane of Syrania! He heaved the great Axe with both hands, paused momentarily with it over his head, then cleaved it into the center of the Great Keystone!
There was an immediate searing light emanating from the stone. The Axe shattered in his hands. Reaper then felt himself floating.. nay propelled, upward, accelerating as he neared the roof of the Great Hall! He was forced straight through the solid bedrock, into chambers above, through alternating layers of cave and rock, until he was shot like an arrow out into the azure blue sky.... a sky he did not see, as he stared directly into the ever growning, ever widening hole in the earth that used to be his home.... that used to hold his family!
Prologue
Reapent Calvin'efiver began life as Reaper Gem'efiver, the youngest of thirteen siblings of the Dwarven Clan Gem'efiver. There were his father and four brothers and their families, each with as many children in it as Reaper's own family. This clan was known for their uncanny ability to seemingly 'resurrect' fine gems from any stone. At one time, it was said, that a Gem'efiver could get more fine gems from another clans' refuse pile, than the original workers had gotten from the freshly mined stone!
The Clan's ancestors had moved from the Frostfell continent, hundreds of years ago, to the continent of Khorvaire, yet they still maintained a great reputation for the finest gems with House Kundarak, often called upon to provide 'special' services for them, as well as for clans in the Mror Holds.
The Event
The Gem'efivers began their new domain in Khorvaire, just after the War of the Mark, outside of the city of what would come to be known as Sharn. (Sharn, being linked with the plane of Syrania, had enhanced power of flight and levitation) While the humans that would come after them used this power to build great towers up, the Gem'efivers, used this power to delve deeper into the caves of the long dead Dhakaani empire. It was a profitable time for the clan.
At the uppermost level of their domicile (which was still deeper into the ground than most humans feared to tread) was a Great Hall, where the clan ate and drank and danced. Below were the living quarters, and lower still the unending mines. In the center of the Great Hall there was an enormous arch. The keystone of which was the largest single solid piece of granite any in the clan had ever seen. No one *ever* went through the arch.
One particularly festive evening, the clan was celebrating a very profitable fulfillment of a very important order from House Kundarak. Reaper's eldest brother, (Reap was the youngest of the 13) had single handedly hewn a gigantic piece of granite, and in doing so discovered nearly 50% of the gems needed for the order. Songs were sung about the deed, he was carried around like a hero... Reap was happy, but secretly seethed with anticipation and jealousy... He was not yet allowed to mine much more than a pebble. Most times he was left back with his other 'youngling' cousins to pan for nuggets in the granite dust. After the latest celebration, he could wait no more...
Once the rest of the clan had either gone to sleep or returned to work in the mines, Reaper crept back to the Great Hall. He approached the central arch with the Dwarven Axe of the Ancestors. It was this axe that had been used to cleave out the Great Hall some 400 years ago. He approached the giant Keystone with trepidation.... If he could hew that, surely there would be enough gems to fill a dozen Kundarak orders! Reap had been told to never go *thru* the arch, but he had never been told why. There was no way he could have known that it, in truth, was the very source of the clans' power; a coterminus with the plane of Syrania! He heaved the great Axe with both hands, paused momentarily with it over his head, then cleaved it into the center of the Great Keystone!
There was an immediate searing light emanating from the stone. The Axe shattered in his hands. Reaper then felt himself floating.. nay propelled, upward, accelerating as he neared the roof of the Great Hall! He was forced straight through the solid bedrock, into chambers above, through alternating layers of cave and rock, until he was shot like an arrow out into the azure blue sky.... a sky he did not see, as he stared directly into the ever growning, ever widening hole in the earth that used to be his home.... that used to hold his family!