Below are the main points you get in between sentence-ending mumbling, chuckles of laughter, puffs on his pipe and a distracted scribbling in a notebook.
On the Faith of Tristin, I was thinking that Ogden lets in those worth of ‘heaven, nirvana, etc.” known as the Halls of Plenty where there is feasting, hunting, etc.
Ogden sends the less worthy to Splug and into the Accounting Rooms of Purgatory, where they have to ‘Balance the Ledger of their lives’ to earn their way into the Halls of Plenty.
Note from Craig's Player
- Born to a clan of Oxen sellers in the Hill Dwarf Clans to the North of Seaton and that he is 302 years old (average Dwarven lifespan is 350 years).
- Was always kind of a slow learner and never good at judging Oxen stock, but good with his hands and written plans and diagrams.
- Was Apprenticed to the Stonequipper Clan as a Shipwright and excelled at that for over 250 years.
- Was married to a Dwarven maid, Milly Stonequipper in his 123 year.
- He has two children;
- Draig Stonequipper that is an Ox Merchant in the countryside of Seaton.
- Tilly Stonequipper, a sailor on a crabbing ship out of Seaton.
- 10 years ago, Craig earned the nickname “Blunderbuss” after The Bluster Riveter 2000, a contraption he designed to drive nails into ships planks quicker with the use of ‘Dwarven Blackpowder’ backfired and blew him across the docks.
- As he lay stunned in the rubble of a stack of crab pots, he had a vision of an Church with the statue of an ancient stern faced dwarf.
- In the vision, Craig clearly and vividly remembers the ancient saint telling him:
- “Tristin and Splug were going to mess up everything…again…and the future of the Church of Tristin in Flanaess he was entrusting it into Craig’s hands”.
- And that;
- “If Tristin had any sense, he would have at least sent a Paladin to help protect his angelic son on his quest to establish the church. You don’t just drop him into a new plain of existence with no direction and expect him to wing it! (sigh).”
- So Ogden sent Craig on a quest to prove himself, to test his perseverance, strength of will and his willingness to sacrifice for others.
- So taking up his wood mallet and banding together several planks of ship hull into a shield, he set out on his quest.
- 10 years later his quest ended in Saltmarsh, where he finally found the statue and the Temple to Tristin.
- Following the orders of St. Ogden, he has started spreading the word of Tristin, God of Death and Winter.
- He also exults Tristin’s two Saints;
- Saint Ogden, Keeper of the Book, Guardian to the Halls of Plenty and Patron saint of Healers, Blacksmiths and, more recently, Dwarven sailors.
- Saint Splug, Keeper of the Ledgers, Punisher of the wicked and Patron saint of Merchants, Quartermasters and Bankers.
- Craig spends most of downtime smoking his pipe and drawing notes and diagrams in a notebook.
- One day, he hopes to build the first “Dwarven Stoneship” that uses steam and paddle wheels for movement instead of wind.
On the Faith of Tristin, I was thinking that Ogden lets in those worth of ‘heaven, nirvana, etc.” known as the Halls of Plenty where there is feasting, hunting, etc.
Ogden sends the less worthy to Splug and into the Accounting Rooms of Purgatory, where they have to ‘Balance the Ledger of their lives’ to earn their way into the Halls of Plenty.
Note from Craig's Player
This is open to more reworking, but I thought it was humorous.
“If you keep being naughty Dash Daring, you’ll end up in Splug’s Accounting Rooms chained to a ledger desk!” Typical mother’s threat to naughty children.
“If you keep being naughty Dash Daring, you’ll end up in Splug’s Accounting Rooms chained to a ledger desk!” Typical mother’s threat to naughty children.
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