Schnektel the Victorious Champion

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Chapter 6

Schnektel had been intrigued with the religion of Ysaloerye since he had seen
Ruosti, his Drillmaster, shape stone with his bare hands. But while he
certainly had an affinity to the earth and had grown to know the ways of
combat, Schnektel was uncomfortable in approaching her, for he did not know
the rage that marked a path within her religion.

However, Schnektel's mind was reformed when he learned the rage of the
bloodthirst, the most advanced secret of the Village berserkers. In this
state, he knew the anger that had fueled hundreds of Villagers before him and
the way that rage could mold him into a greater warrior; the
focus-without-focus that made hatred into a weapon. While he still
maintained his genial nature outside of this bloodthirst, he found himself
finding more disgust in the practice of magecraft.

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Chapter 5

Schnektel Dibbledent grew up in a plush mansion in a svirfneblin city not far
from Cragstone.HeHe had been groomed to be a powerful conjurer, as is father
was, and bring in to the city through his arts.OnOn a mining expedition into
the Underdark, however, his father was driven insane by the spores of some
yellow fungus. The ensuing summoning was a disaster, and the entire mining
party but for Schnektel was slaughtered by the enraged elemental.

Schnektel's current state:
* He has sworn off the study and use of magic.
* He has committed to the guild of warriors.
* He has decided to study first the ways of the axe, being most familiar with
pickaxes due to his mining background.
* He has read about the BattleRagers in the Academy and strives to join their
cause.
* He harbors little in the way of true hatred for mages. However, his father
being the wisest and most intelligent figure in Schnektel's past, he sees no
way that there could be a "responsible" use of magic and is willing to kill
for the cause.
* He hopes to redeem the Dibbledent name by preventing further
magic-run-amok.
* He retains his taste for the finer things in life, e.g. sipping tea, which
he realizes may conflict with the barbaric ways of the Village.
* Schnektel still feels a profound connection to the earth, but is focused on
that of Thera rather than that of an otherworldly plane.

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Chapter 4

The young snirfneblin gasped as the huge elemental burst out of the ground,
and even Schnektel was impressed by the size and apparent strength of the
beast. His sense of dread only deepened, for his father had carefully
schooled him to avoid overextension. Finally glimpsing his father's face,
Schnektel's dread was confirmed. He saw lips that moved far too quickly, and
in the middle of the binding incantation, his father's face blanched. The
rest of the chant faded as he exclaimed, "The voices are shouting at me!"
But the next exclamation, this one from the huge elemental, struck at the
hearts of all gathered: "I will not bow down to you, mortal!"

With contemptuous ease, the elemental flowed out of the imperfect circle and
swatted Schnelteck with a massive hand, crushing his bones and sending him
flying into the cavern wall. A great cry went up from the mining party, and
the older svirfneblin rushed foward, trying to strike at the weak points of
the elemental with their pickaxes.

The battle was as fierce as it was swift. Fully thirty-two svirfneblin lay
dead in the cavern, their small bodies battered and bruised, by the time the
elemental flowed back into the earth. But of Schnektel, all that could be
seen was his mage's robes, lying in a pool on the ground.

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Chapter 3

A full thirty svirfneblin accompanied the Dibbledent duo that day, the
largest expedition into the newly-discovered branch of the Underdark so far.
Yet the band was calm, even eager, for they were far away from known dark-elf
territory and, even were it not so, they had confidence in the powerful magic
of Schnektel's father.

The Burrow-Warden leading the group stopped as the tunnel forked out before
him. He paused, pressed his ear against the stone, and listened to the
vibrations of the earth, but to no avail. He turned to the elder Dibbledent
and nodded.

Schnektel's father moved towards the widest part of the tunnel, looking for
space to draw his circle in preparation for summoning. His haste leading to
sloppiness, though, he did not notice his luxurious robes brushing against
the small patch of yellow fungus, nor the puff of spores that were released.
He bent down and began to scribe the circle.

Schnektel, who had been scouting near the front of the expedition, returned
to his father's side just as the summoning incantation began building to its
crescendo. He frowned as he looked at the circle, which had begun to glow
with light. He had never doubted his father, but wasn't that rune inverted,
and that one in the wrong place? And by the earth, what was that strange new
rune at the very center of the circle?

. ----- .
. / < > \ .
. / (.) (.) \ .
. | ^ | .
. \ ___ / .
. \ \_/ / .
. ----- .

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Chapter 2

"Ah, yes, just the thing," said Schnektel, accepting the proffered cup of
mushroom and chamomile tea. He nodded his thanks to his father and sipped
the soothing liquid. Schnektel, like most of the younger svirfneblin in the
expanded settlement near Cragstone, had spent much of his day helping the
mining shift. Yet he had studied studied his runic notes late into the
night, only to be tested by his father just before turning off to bed.

Schnelteck stared down at his son's journal, nodding. "You did well in
telling the purpose and placement of the runes," his father said, looking
down at the celestial circle inked on the parchment. Soon, he knew, he would
be able to send his son to the Academy, to be properly trained in the arts of
conjuration, just as he himself had been many years ago.

"Such only from your instruction, father, I quite think," Schnektel
responded, surveying the opulent house.One day such would be his, and more.
conditions were rather plush for beings so accustomed to hard work and
the stone, but such was the reward for the money his father's magic brought
to the settlement. Those who would ordinarily scoff at them for being "soft"
would never do so in the face of the Dibbledent family fortune; even the
svirfneblin could not match the powers of an earth elemental when it came to
sniffing out metal and protecting from dark-elven raids.

"Now remember, Schnektel, to rest well tonight.Tomorrow we host the Kings
of Cragstone and Evermoon, and I hear perhaps an emissary from the Sultan of
Hamsah Mu'tazz as well.It shall be quite the party, but politics and
culture mix here. It shall be crucial in formalizing the trade deal."

"Ah, more elvish wine and chamomile tea. How shall I ever cope?", smiled
Schnektel as he finished his tea and paddled off toward his room. He paddled
off towards his room, where tomes of adventure awaited.But heeding his
father's advice, he soon took to rest, the palatial feathered bed easing him
off to sleep.

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Chapter 1

Schnektel stared down at his journal, trying to memorize the runes his
father, Schnelteck, had helped him scribe. Surely the work was not the most
exciting, but if his father, the wisest and most intelligent of his people
Schnektel had ever met, said it was necessary, it was necessary. He had only
to look around to see the rewards that such study would eventually bestow...

...Schnektel's eyes snapped back to the journal as he suppressed a sigh in
exasperation. Like all svirfneblin, he felt the pull of the stone, of the
earth, and loved to delve into its deep recesses. But his father
Schnelteck's communion seemed even more profound, for he could pull beings
from the very plane of which the ground was made. And these runes were
crucial in the case of misstep. He looked again at his notes. To the
standard celestial circle, his father always added some secret runes directed
to the earth.

. > | . | < .
. --------- . equality of planes, to make the elemental feel at home
. > | . | < .

. /| /| .
. --------- . strength of earth, to aid in combat
. |/ |/ .


. || _ || .
. () (.) () . inversion, to belay the elemental's rage
. __ | | __ .

And the list continued...

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