Post by Dungeon Master on Oct 27, 2007 20:41:24 GMT -5
Gilthas Pathfinder
Article written by Kranar Drogin
Gilthas Pathfinder (Born: 366 AC) was born the only son of two of the greatest people in Krynn's history, Heroes of the Lance Tanis Half-Elven and Laurana Kanan. He was named after Laurana's brother Gilthanas Kanan. Due to his parent's heritages, Gilthas gained one-quarter Human blood from his father Tanis and was three-quarters Qualinesti Elf. In a secret ceremony, Gilthas married Kerianseray in 421 AC.
In his younger years, Gilthas looked frail, sickly, tall and slender, fair hair, and almond-shaped blue eyes and has an impatient streak in him from his human side. Tanis and Laurana always would call him 'Gil' as a nickname. He was known to be able to speak both elven and Common. He took up poetry in 418 AC and became very good at composing and reading it.
By 426 AC Gilthas looked totally different than what he used to look like. He was now lean, brown, and serious, and would rise up early in the morning, work all day, and live as frugally as possible. Gilthas hadn't even reached his middle years yet and already was showing faint lines that track the skin between his eyes and bracketed his mouth. His hair was lighter with some silver-gray strands visible in it here and there.
Early Years
When Gilthas was a young elf living with his parents, he grew up a sheltered life due to his sickness. In 372 AC at the age of six, Gilthas almost died from an illness and this caused his parents to be so protective of him. They also wanted to shield him from the politics of Qualinesti because they thought he would be ridiculed for not being fully elven. The one thing his father allowed him out of the house to do was ride a horse, and for this he became known as being a skilled horseman. He was never allowed to learn how to use any weapon, be it sword, axe, or even bow and arrow. When a Kender named Tasslehoff Burrfoot would come and visit his friends, Gilthas would call him 'Uncle Tas'.
In 382 AC, an elven senator by the name of Rashas conspired to ousted both his uncle Porthios Kanan and aunt Alhana Starbreeze. Gilthas was forced to take the title of Speaker of the Sun and the Medallion of the Sun or Rashas' people would have killed Alhana. Then both Alhana and Porthios were both branded dark elves and expelled from both nations, much to Gilthas' sadness. Rashas then told Gilthas that he would be his 'advisor', but what he meant was that he would pull Gilthas' strings. So Gilthas became a puppet of the Thalas-Enthia and the most influential senators, especially Rashas.
Chaos War
When the Knights of Takhisis invaded Qualinesti, Rashas told Gilthas to accept them into the nation and he did so. The Dark Knights quickly took advantage of the situation and took control over on pulling Gilthas' strings. During this time, Gilthas found a young Kagonesti Elf handmaiden named Kerianseray who was a spy for the Kagonesti of Southern Ergoth. Gilthas tried setting up an alliance with Porthios and his followers to fight the Dark Knights, but before all that could be hammered out the Chaos War broke over Krynn.
Shadow wights, Daemon Warriors, and Fire Dragons, all born of Chaos, attacked Qualinost in an attempt to annihilate the defenders there. Porthios', Gilthas', Green Dragons, and the Dark Knight's forces all allied to fight the Chaos creatures. During this, Gilthas led his forces bravely and won the admiration of his people. The battle was won, but at the cost of the presumed death of Porthios.
Age of Mortals
With the people of Krynn winning the war against Chaos, the gods departed from the world and ushered in a new Age of Mortals. Gilthas secretly wanted to pass his speakership to his cousin Silvanoshei Caladon, but he watched as the Dark Knights continued to control his nation and control him. Eventually a large Dragon Overlord named Beryllinthranox who was a Green Dragon not born of Krynn, came in and claimed the Forest of Qualinesti in 388 AC which included all elves. Her agents quickly took over the reigns over Gilthas, and he continued to serve as a puppet.
At this time, Gilthas secretly saw Kerianseray wander out into the woods to find herself again in 419 AC. For the next two years, she began to gain the reputation as 'the Lioness' and would report only to Gilthas. Over these two years their love would grow stronger for each other, and Kerianseray would broker a deal on Gilthas' behalf with the Dwarves of Thorbardin to dig tunnels out of the city so the elves could flee it. In a secret marriage, witnessed only by Laurana and Gilthas' new friend Stanach Hammerfell, Gilthas and Kerianseray exchanged their wedding vows to each other and were married.
War of Souls
War came to Ansalon again in the form of the War of Souls. As Gilthas was saving his people, Beryl decided that now was the time to destroy the elven nation. Gilthas' mother Laurana made him flee with his people into exile, while she stayed behind to lead the soldiers in battle against the Green. Thanks to the tunnels of the dwarves, they were able to get safely away from the doomed city. Gilthas waited behind to see if their army would return, but he got word quickly of their victory and their defeat. The entire elven army along with his mother in Qualinost was destroyed, but the Green was finally killed.
Gilthas then took his people first to Thorbardin and continued along east across the Plains of Dust to the lands of the Silvanesti in the hopes that their cousins would take them in for the time being. Upon arriving in Silvanesti he found the nation in the control of the Dark Knights, but Alhana was leading her army north towards Sanction where her son had run off to. So, both peoples joined up to push onto attack the Dark Knights there and save the young prince. While enroute a huge army of Ogres attacked their army while the elves were in a valley. Luckily, the Metallic Dragons were freed and returned to Krynn in time to save the elves.
Following the battle with the ogres, they continued their march until they joined in the Battle of Sanction. Gilthas led his people into battle, and the One God ended up being the Dark God Takhisis. Gilthas assigned his loyal bodyguard named Planchet as the general of his army, and the combined armies were able to defeat Takhisis's armies. Just before this win though, Gilthas was magically brought to the arena in the Temple of Duerghast to watch Takhisis ascend to ruler of Krynn. When the rest of the gods returned, he was magically removed from the arena and back out with his army. He found out from Valthonis, who was the mortal god Paladine, about the death of his cousin. Valthonis then persuades Gilthas to accept leadership of the Silvanesti elves, thus becoming Speaker of the Sun and Stars. His aunt Alhana, still in grief over the death of her son, personally crowned him as Speaker before she left the elven people. The Silvanesti had to swallow their tongues on an non-pure elf leading them, but they wanted one of Silvanos Goldeneye's blood to rule the elven nations.
Post War of Souls
Following the war, only about one thousand elves were all that followed Gilthas out of Sanction. He then led his people into exile into Khur and was granted the land outside the walls of Khuri-Khan in exchange for paying a tribute of one thousand steel every twenty days. Over the next five years, more and more elves came to this temporary home for them until there was about one hundred thousand elves living outside the human city. All these elves were made up of high officials, warriors, and nobles of the three clans of elves: the Qualinesti, Silvanesti, and the Kagonesti.
Following the last disastrous foray into Silvanesti in 426 AC, Gilthas declared that they would no longer throw elven lives away by trying to take back the elven nation. Instead his people would try and find a new temporary sanctuary for his people. He found a valley called the Inath-Wakenti and he had his wife lead a contingent of scouts to investigate it.
While his wife was gone, an assassin tried to kill him when he was hit by an arrow on the right side in the hollow of his neck and it also cut his jaw. When his servant Planchet pulled the arrow from his body, he did not pass out from the pain of it ripping out of his body. He life was attempted on by the Khurish Prince Shobbat who shot an arrow from three miles away with the aid of magic. Gilthas wouldn't allow his people to go to war over this and held them in check.
Eventually, when his wife came back from her scouting trip, she did some things that were detrimental against the elves living in Khur against the people of Khur. Gilthas had to do the hardest thing of his speakership and that was to strip her of her command. When the Khur Nomads showed up following this, she took control of most of the army in a rebellion to attack the nomads. Before this could happen, Gilthas' people were able to talk things out with the nomads, and when Kerianseray was going to give herself up, the Khan's soldiers crushed the nomads and Kerianseray disappeared. Gilthas was heartbroken, but he decided to march his people to Inath-Wakenti.
Article written by Kranar Drogin
Gilthas Pathfinder (Born: 366 AC) was born the only son of two of the greatest people in Krynn's history, Heroes of the Lance Tanis Half-Elven and Laurana Kanan. He was named after Laurana's brother Gilthanas Kanan. Due to his parent's heritages, Gilthas gained one-quarter Human blood from his father Tanis and was three-quarters Qualinesti Elf. In a secret ceremony, Gilthas married Kerianseray in 421 AC.
In his younger years, Gilthas looked frail, sickly, tall and slender, fair hair, and almond-shaped blue eyes and has an impatient streak in him from his human side. Tanis and Laurana always would call him 'Gil' as a nickname. He was known to be able to speak both elven and Common. He took up poetry in 418 AC and became very good at composing and reading it.
By 426 AC Gilthas looked totally different than what he used to look like. He was now lean, brown, and serious, and would rise up early in the morning, work all day, and live as frugally as possible. Gilthas hadn't even reached his middle years yet and already was showing faint lines that track the skin between his eyes and bracketed his mouth. His hair was lighter with some silver-gray strands visible in it here and there.
Early Years
When Gilthas was a young elf living with his parents, he grew up a sheltered life due to his sickness. In 372 AC at the age of six, Gilthas almost died from an illness and this caused his parents to be so protective of him. They also wanted to shield him from the politics of Qualinesti because they thought he would be ridiculed for not being fully elven. The one thing his father allowed him out of the house to do was ride a horse, and for this he became known as being a skilled horseman. He was never allowed to learn how to use any weapon, be it sword, axe, or even bow and arrow. When a Kender named Tasslehoff Burrfoot would come and visit his friends, Gilthas would call him 'Uncle Tas'.
In 382 AC, an elven senator by the name of Rashas conspired to ousted both his uncle Porthios Kanan and aunt Alhana Starbreeze. Gilthas was forced to take the title of Speaker of the Sun and the Medallion of the Sun or Rashas' people would have killed Alhana. Then both Alhana and Porthios were both branded dark elves and expelled from both nations, much to Gilthas' sadness. Rashas then told Gilthas that he would be his 'advisor', but what he meant was that he would pull Gilthas' strings. So Gilthas became a puppet of the Thalas-Enthia and the most influential senators, especially Rashas.
Chaos War
When the Knights of Takhisis invaded Qualinesti, Rashas told Gilthas to accept them into the nation and he did so. The Dark Knights quickly took advantage of the situation and took control over on pulling Gilthas' strings. During this time, Gilthas found a young Kagonesti Elf handmaiden named Kerianseray who was a spy for the Kagonesti of Southern Ergoth. Gilthas tried setting up an alliance with Porthios and his followers to fight the Dark Knights, but before all that could be hammered out the Chaos War broke over Krynn.
Shadow wights, Daemon Warriors, and Fire Dragons, all born of Chaos, attacked Qualinost in an attempt to annihilate the defenders there. Porthios', Gilthas', Green Dragons, and the Dark Knight's forces all allied to fight the Chaos creatures. During this, Gilthas led his forces bravely and won the admiration of his people. The battle was won, but at the cost of the presumed death of Porthios.
Age of Mortals
With the people of Krynn winning the war against Chaos, the gods departed from the world and ushered in a new Age of Mortals. Gilthas secretly wanted to pass his speakership to his cousin Silvanoshei Caladon, but he watched as the Dark Knights continued to control his nation and control him. Eventually a large Dragon Overlord named Beryllinthranox who was a Green Dragon not born of Krynn, came in and claimed the Forest of Qualinesti in 388 AC which included all elves. Her agents quickly took over the reigns over Gilthas, and he continued to serve as a puppet.
At this time, Gilthas secretly saw Kerianseray wander out into the woods to find herself again in 419 AC. For the next two years, she began to gain the reputation as 'the Lioness' and would report only to Gilthas. Over these two years their love would grow stronger for each other, and Kerianseray would broker a deal on Gilthas' behalf with the Dwarves of Thorbardin to dig tunnels out of the city so the elves could flee it. In a secret marriage, witnessed only by Laurana and Gilthas' new friend Stanach Hammerfell, Gilthas and Kerianseray exchanged their wedding vows to each other and were married.
War of Souls
War came to Ansalon again in the form of the War of Souls. As Gilthas was saving his people, Beryl decided that now was the time to destroy the elven nation. Gilthas' mother Laurana made him flee with his people into exile, while she stayed behind to lead the soldiers in battle against the Green. Thanks to the tunnels of the dwarves, they were able to get safely away from the doomed city. Gilthas waited behind to see if their army would return, but he got word quickly of their victory and their defeat. The entire elven army along with his mother in Qualinost was destroyed, but the Green was finally killed.
Gilthas then took his people first to Thorbardin and continued along east across the Plains of Dust to the lands of the Silvanesti in the hopes that their cousins would take them in for the time being. Upon arriving in Silvanesti he found the nation in the control of the Dark Knights, but Alhana was leading her army north towards Sanction where her son had run off to. So, both peoples joined up to push onto attack the Dark Knights there and save the young prince. While enroute a huge army of Ogres attacked their army while the elves were in a valley. Luckily, the Metallic Dragons were freed and returned to Krynn in time to save the elves.
Following the battle with the ogres, they continued their march until they joined in the Battle of Sanction. Gilthas led his people into battle, and the One God ended up being the Dark God Takhisis. Gilthas assigned his loyal bodyguard named Planchet as the general of his army, and the combined armies were able to defeat Takhisis's armies. Just before this win though, Gilthas was magically brought to the arena in the Temple of Duerghast to watch Takhisis ascend to ruler of Krynn. When the rest of the gods returned, he was magically removed from the arena and back out with his army. He found out from Valthonis, who was the mortal god Paladine, about the death of his cousin. Valthonis then persuades Gilthas to accept leadership of the Silvanesti elves, thus becoming Speaker of the Sun and Stars. His aunt Alhana, still in grief over the death of her son, personally crowned him as Speaker before she left the elven people. The Silvanesti had to swallow their tongues on an non-pure elf leading them, but they wanted one of Silvanos Goldeneye's blood to rule the elven nations.
Post War of Souls
Following the war, only about one thousand elves were all that followed Gilthas out of Sanction. He then led his people into exile into Khur and was granted the land outside the walls of Khuri-Khan in exchange for paying a tribute of one thousand steel every twenty days. Over the next five years, more and more elves came to this temporary home for them until there was about one hundred thousand elves living outside the human city. All these elves were made up of high officials, warriors, and nobles of the three clans of elves: the Qualinesti, Silvanesti, and the Kagonesti.
Following the last disastrous foray into Silvanesti in 426 AC, Gilthas declared that they would no longer throw elven lives away by trying to take back the elven nation. Instead his people would try and find a new temporary sanctuary for his people. He found a valley called the Inath-Wakenti and he had his wife lead a contingent of scouts to investigate it.
While his wife was gone, an assassin tried to kill him when he was hit by an arrow on the right side in the hollow of his neck and it also cut his jaw. When his servant Planchet pulled the arrow from his body, he did not pass out from the pain of it ripping out of his body. He life was attempted on by the Khurish Prince Shobbat who shot an arrow from three miles away with the aid of magic. Gilthas wouldn't allow his people to go to war over this and held them in check.
Eventually, when his wife came back from her scouting trip, she did some things that were detrimental against the elves living in Khur against the people of Khur. Gilthas had to do the hardest thing of his speakership and that was to strip her of her command. When the Khur Nomads showed up following this, she took control of most of the army in a rebellion to attack the nomads. Before this could happen, Gilthas' people were able to talk things out with the nomads, and when Kerianseray was going to give herself up, the Khan's soldiers crushed the nomads and Kerianseray disappeared. Gilthas was heartbroken, but he decided to march his people to Inath-Wakenti.