Caelun Amrist: Master Transmogrifier, animancer, cryptozoologist, and survivor has finally met his end. He died as he lived, arguing about Mystryl and the virtues of mutation and adaptation.
I tremendously enjoyed playing this PC over the long months of his existence, especially across two chapters. He was originally intended to be a foppish Polymorph-oriented mage and whose personality was fractured across his different shapes. I had 'some' success at promoting that, though not as much as I'd hoped. I'm thrilled to say the PC hasn't ended up at all where I expected to him to, thanks to stellar interactions with so many PCs and DMs. Special thanks to to the players of...
Edit: I don't wanna single anyone out! Forgotten Circle, Ascensionists, Stewards, you've all been great as friends and rivals.
Escaping from Undeath
Caelun Amrist was a war-wizard aspirant from Cormyr who was rejected for his reckless and dangerous experimentation. He found solace in a Mystrylan cult, and volunteered to travel to Ymph to secure relics of the Conclave and bring about the new Golden Age of Magic. When he arrived on the isle he found Mystryl despised, and her followers openly hunted. Caelun joined the Convocation of Galants vowing to cure the Withering, restore the name of his goddess, and reclaim the ruins of Netheril.
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He scoured the isle and underdark, investigating creatures and plantlife adapted to the curse: sandworms, veneroidan cultists, faeries and shrieker mushrooms. He was on the verge of developing a treatment when the Convocation of Gallants fell to pieces. The paladin Englerose was slain by the Withered Druid Zaltauro, and its new leader Drabo Twigfook fell under the sway of Old Netheril. The Caermyn, Aberdenn, Stewards and Ordersmen went their separate ways and so did he...
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Then he found the Forgotten Circle, radical druids and wyrm watchers, willing to create strange new creatures to see to see life on the isle endure at all costs. They taught him Animancy, the art of creating life and holy grail of his craft.
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[hide="He never could decide what to become"]
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[hide="And he never said he wouldn't make tentacle monsters"]
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Caelun was entrusted with the last of the Diluvian Mythkeepers, and was formulating plans help bring about their race’s rebirth (and save the remnants of Mistlocke). This pitted him against his former friends, now Mortals of Sanq, and he lost the Pocket Plane on the way to meet a friend in Old Port. Before he could return to Ymph the sun was eaten.
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[hide="While the Bloodstallion Bravos had cockfights, Caelun and Barry held the line"]
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Escaping from Uncertainty
With no choice Caelun and a rag tag band of refugees lead by Morebrew Murderbeard, the Shit Shallions, cleaved their way through Traensyr and into the safety of the underdark. Following up on old Conclave missives, suggesting Dunwarren’s Spellguard still-lived, they found their way to Dunwarren.
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After the betrayals and cruelties of Ymph Caelun grew disillusioned with humanity and rejected the Spellguard and their shield. He took up with the Archaeological Society and Ascensionists of Lower trying to make sense of the machine and apocalypse. He became increasingly obsessed with the writings and prophecies of Belpharon and Qadima. The rest of humanity could rot, he decided, but through his craft the worthy would Ascend to the next evolutionary plateau, and live free of the dread empire and their frail human forms...
And so ends Caelun Amrist!
Had good fun playing with you in the Convocation :)
Great character - just wish our play times had been more in sync
What a journey he had ! I just wish I had seen more of him.
This is the end of the Ymphian Saga, as Caelun was the last of us. To delve into Cryptozoology, Animancy and metamorphosis to transcend the weaknesses of human form was something of which I was eager to see the results, and a very interesting goal to characterize your wizard.
Kudos, and I look forward to what comes next.
Never did get to interact with him as much as I might have liked with two of my characters. I liked him from what I saw of him, even though I suspected he was always holding a little back...
Looking forward to seeing you in-game, man.
Good character cut short :/
Alas,
He and Irith's friendship was cut far too short. Eager to see where you go next.
I'm currently on my 4th 'main' PC, and of the four, three have had a blast interacting with Caelun. He brought my second PC, Grimmig Mithrilkite, into some of the deeper plots involving the forgotten circle transformations. Prior to that, my involvement in anything had only really been surface deep. I greatly enjoyed his suave manner - definitely the most charming Wizard I've seen in my short history on EFU.
My third PC enjoyed antagonizing Caelun from afar, and plotting to steal his pocket plane :twisted:
Caelun was missed during his absence. He will be missed again.
Throughout most of my time EFU, on all my different characters on this server, almost always Caelun was around sticking it out in both EFU;M and EFU:R, and every single time I had a great time speaking with him. Definitely one of my favorite characters, and it's sad to finally see him go.
Good luck on your next one, and can't wait to see what you make next!
I very much enjoyed Caelun, especially since he was one of the only truly active and insightful PCs who focused on the lore of this newest chapter. He'll be missed.
He was a bro
That Shitstallion's Ride. So awesome.
Respect for the Caelun
Awesome character.
My interactions with him were always pretty surface level across both chapters, unfortunately. I wish we could have interacted as closely as some of our previous characters (well... maybe not -that- closely) have.
Anyway, I always liked what I saw from Caelun - as Cap said, you were always really pushing to learn more of the setting. This is something you seem to excel at, and I'd love to see more of it in future characters.
I've long missed the talks Caelun and Kendra used to have.
Really well done. You made him feel human.
Quote from: Ryan;366028My interactions with him were always pretty surface level across both chapters, unfortunately. I wish we could have interacted as closely as some of our previous characters (well... maybe not -that- closely) have.
Anyway, I always liked what I saw from Caelun - as Cap said, you were always really pushing to learn more of the setting. This is something you seem to excel at, and I'd love to see more of it in future characters.
Its unfortunate Caelun and Kendon only spoke on a few occasions, both had such a passion for the study of aberrants for strikingly different and conflicting reasons.
Caelun! Awesome PC on both EFU:M and EFU:R. Sorry he had to end so abruptly, but what can you do, it's EFU. We hung out more in EFU:M than the current chapter, but it was always fun. Good luck on your next PC! I'll see your next IG. :)
I seem to combine both Avery Hawkins and Caelun Amrist when I reflect upon this character - probably because Apocryphan knew them both and Avery was becoming - late in life - what Caelun was.
Both were excellent characters in their own regard and I am certain Caelun's contributions to uncovering the lore will leave a lasting legacy.
It was a pleasure.