Chronicles of the World of DaoTyr

While Tim Tigeon was a happy farmer’s boy, Walder’s dad, the town’s tanner, was a violent drunk. The miserable tanner’s boy would routinely greet Tim by punching him in the face, although the future ranger never begrudged him for it, much. When Walder’s father beat his mother to death when he was was not much more than a boy, he ran from the town of Maeiah, swearing never to return. He spent his young adulthood in the shadow alleys of Femin surviving as a hood, thief and sometimes killer. He petitioned to join the Mice Eyes, a particularly nasty guild and made a small chest as a cutthroat. Figuring himself badass enough to make a future fortune as an adventurer, he left the Mice Eyes by running to the woods and eventually made it to Gavin Wel.

Walder became companion with Zarconus, the knight of the Platinum Dragon, by a dark path. Having arrived in the Emerald City with a heavy satchel of gold, Walder spent a few nights hanging out at the Glowing eye, a place known for society types and high rollers. Growing impatient after having found no work, he eavesdropped on Zarconus going over maps and a plan to open the Shadow Road with a duo of adventurers, including the knight’s younger brother Kaiel and a young boy, presumably rogue. While assigning all the scouting and thieving details to this one young rosy-cheeked kid, probably the son of one of the others, Zarconus does not notice Walder behind a lantern enrapt and waiting the wait of a predator. Holding until the kid made a pit stop in the privy to make his move, Walder silently dropped down on him and opened him from navel to neck with his sharp shank. When the tavern exploded in commotion and shouting twenty minutes after upon the discovery in the privy, Walder slid up next to Zarconis and whispered, “I don’t mean to pry, but it seems to me as though you may be in the need of a good sneak.”

(entry by Obi and Benjie Watterson)

Zarconus, before a audience of thousands eager for the spilled blood of a gladiator, bested the dragon Dardaripan with only minor help from his friend Walder. Armed only with an ancient short sword made of cathoid, the two fought for nearly an hour in the twilight radiance of the brass arena. It was there in the dragon’s blood upon the death of the young and furious beast, that the two were able to activate the gem known as the Eye of Bahamut and return, ultimately, to their own time and their own place.

Knowing that her lover face certain death at the clawing maw of the Black dragon in the arena, Mistalen the Shadar blessed Zarconus with the gift of the platinum heart. No longer would the half elf’s heart beat with mortal blood but rather the arcane tick of a beat inscrutible to contemporary scrutiny.

Summoning the Moduru outlanders, Riapaho and Zarconus to her court, the then mortal Raven Queen, sovereign monarch of Khepathis, bid them love and courage in times ahead. Infact, recognizing their discrepancy of time, informed Riapaho/Walder of how to get back to the right time, by their perspective. Riapaho is to steal the eye of the Platinum Dragon while Zarconus is to fight the Black Dragon Dardaripan in the Arena.

It was in a simple game of cards and dice that the outlander Moduru (an eladrin word for the clayborn, or those later to be called human) named Riapaho, or Walder, became the founding member of that the notorious and terrible guild of criminals and assassins, The Mice Eyes was founded. The Tielfing twins Arimen and Gelthspein were the other two in the game. It all was based on the token that Walder presented as a gambling piece that was made into a deal. Riapaho/Walder only made the equivalent of five gold pennies on the deal.

Walder and Zarconus found themselves in an ancient place beyond imaging: the exact spot they were at with their friends of the Shadow Road, but four hundred yard above in a tall spire and three thousand years before! The City of Khepathia flourishing before the coming of men, populated by nearly one million eladrin, tiefling, shadar and titan kind. The rogue and the paladin were then the only two humans in a sprawling and prosperous urban city that covered the whole of what would only become, much later, the City and Valley of Gavin Wel. The overwhellmingly tall spire they were in was part of a temple complex of Bahamut (then called Unonbate) that in ancient times had long ago collapsed to become the chamber of the Father Light.

In a sullen and dank corner of the underroad, the four now included in the Party of the Shadow Road found themselves in a dismal place. After the battle with the undead dragonborn, Tim Tigeon found the repositories of bodies. Stacked in a pyramid of litters, the fifteen ancient bodies lay stacked around chests filled with their worldly possessions. The walls, no longer made of the volcanic landscape that had previously defined the landscape, now were found to be coated with a thick layer of black wax. Walder the Rogue uncovered enough wax to reveal a small drawer and in there, a tiny crystal ring decorated with a tiny skull.
Gazing into the eye of the skull, Walder gasped in horror as he heard he name cried out in a clear voice: “Your name is Riapahoh!” then having looked up at Zarconus, the only one who was not enwrapped in a strange trance that seemed to hold the rest of his party, He stood agape. At that terrible moment, reality seemed to be made of huge and moving stone blocks that tore Avari and Tim apart with them, leavine Walder and Zarconus in a different place of void where time and space slipped away in a breath.

Awakening in the bright sun on the cold marble floor of an opulent bedroom, Tim and Zarconus found themselves in the company of two beautiful women. The first, who later became known as Tyrara, stood ten feet tall and with a greenish tint to her skin was identified as a titan. It was later learned that Riapahoh is an ancient derivation of a version of the Giant Language that later transformed into Orcish and translated, means “Titan Blood.”

Tyrar and Walder found a common tongue based on the magic ring Walder wore.

Zarconus found himself face to face with an elder race known as the Shadar…a term they later learned was an elder form of the Shadar Kai: an incarnation of the race before the coming of men. Mistalen was her name and great love immediately flourished between the two…across language and before destiny, these two brought themselves together across oceans of time.

A company of fire Minions, wielding ancient, flint weapons and hidden behind masks of volcanic glass attacked the company apparently after having dispatched a party of dark elves who then lay buried in a pond of cooling, molten earth. The Orc Captain Dezr proved a mighty ally with his totem club (see below) and although nearly incineratedif not for the healing prowess of Tim, the warrior Zarconus faught valiently against the creatures who did not easily fall. The thief Walder was a tru hero of the day as his sneak and sword waylaid more than two of the brutes. It was Avari who crushed one of the Minions by destroying a living spell in a column of earth sending it crashing down.

Down on the Obsidian Slopes into the great cavern known as the Electric Fields. Journeying south, The Party marched through razor wire and living spells encased in the rock and set loose furiously across the expanse towards a brilliant column of lightning that the Fay character Avari only calls “Father Light.” The paladin Zarconus recognizes that phrase as one his religion uses to describe Bahamut, or Unonbate, the father of all dragons.