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-==== Edric (man) ====
-Originally wizard to King Scardore of Backbone, later archmage
-of the council of wizards.  Helped the Good Party in their battles with the
-Dark Mage.  Killed by the Dark Mage in December, 1104.
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-==== The Story of Edric and Sardul ====
-Edric and Sardul were born and grew up in the kingdom of
-Backbone: Edric in the capital city and Sardul in the city of
-Thorfram.  Edric was the seventh out of nine children in a lower
-middle-class family.  Sardul was the fourth out of five children
-in an upper lower-class family.
-Edric met and married his wife Tacey at the age of fifteen.
-The following year (1008), they had their first child: a boy.  By
-early 1015, they had another son and two daughters, but in
-February of that year, their eldest son died.  Edric vowed that
-he would learn the arts of magic so that he would never again
-lose a child.  So it was that in October of 1015, Edric sought
-out the archmage Elsa and asked to be taught the ways of magic.
-Seeing Edric, his wife (who was now again very pregnant with what
-would be their last child), and their three toddlers, Elsa
-immediately accepted them in.  In the following years, Edric
-studied hard and slowly learned the art of dweomercraft.
-Meanwhile, Sardul was still a teenager leading a free-loader's
-life in Thorfram.  Having no true skills, he left at the
-age of nineteen and took an apprenticeship with the current Mage
-of Earth.  Faster than any of his other students, Sardul learned
-the ways of spellcasting so that one year later (November of
-), he was given to Elsa to be trained.  Elsa was skeptical at
-first because Sardul seemed to have an attitude problem.  Soon,
-however, Elsa realized that Sardul was truly born to be a wizard.
-Edric, meanwhile, had lost his second son at the age of nine
-years.  This, coupled with a lack of interest in him from Elsa,
-made Edric a rather morose person and his studied suffered.
-By early 1023, Edric and Sardul were fast becoming enemies.
-When Sardul married in February of 1024, Edric and he parted
-permanently.  Edric, his training still not complete, left for
-his home and lived a lower class life for next fourteen years,
-trying to practice his magic without Elsa.
-Sardul, meanwhile, graduated from Elsa's training in July of
-and immediately gained employment with the royal guard in
-Backbone.  As the years went by, Sardul began gaining influence
-and friends in high places.  In July of 1029, he was promoted to
-the rank of King's Wizard.
-In August of 1033 and again the following March, Edric was
-dealt severe blows when two of his surviving children died.  The
-first was his youngest daughter, who died giving birth to Edric's
-first grandchild.  The next was his youngest daughter, who was
-killed by bandits at the age of twenty-one.  So it was that in
-March of 1034, Edric returned to Elsa with his wife to finish his
-schooling.  His remaining son had married in 1033 and had a son
-in February of 1034.  By 1035, Edric (who had learned quite a bit
-on his own) had finished his schooling and, in February,
-graduated.
-Meanwhile, Sardul was taking advantage of the neutral king
-in power and had fairly well taken over the city for himself.
-When Edric graduated in 1035, Sardul learned that Elsa had taught
-him the Longlife spell.  Sardul wanted this spell strongly and
-was prepared to do anything to get it.  Since he had recently
-lost all memories of where he hid the ten artifacts of Aur‚n Ilay
-(see The Ten Artifacts of Aur‚n Ilay), he was very frustrated and
-upset.  However, Edric did not return to Backbone for some time
-and thus Sardul had no opportunity to get the spell.
-In March of 1038, Edric finally returned to his home city
-and found it in the iron grip of Sardul.  He was greeted with
-news that his youngest grandson had been kidnapped by Sardul's
-guards.  Sardul made it clear to Edric that to ransom the child,
-all he need do is hand over a spell book with Longlife in it.
-Edric consented, but an over-zealous kidnapper killed the child
-never-the-less.  Edric was infuriated and unleashed on Sardul a
-fiery barrage of spells.  In the end, Sardul was forced to flee,
-badly wounded, but eight innocent city guards had been killed in
-the crossfire.  When Sardul recovered from his wounds, he found
-that a list of criminal charges had been filed against him and
-that his job had been given to Edric.
-Edric had graciously accepted the King's offer of the
-position of King's Wizard, but had vowed never again to use his
-spells' destructive potential as he had against Sardul.  His
-grandson and eight guards were dead because of him, so he taught
-himself the patience that he is so remebered for now.
-Sardul, meanwhile, retired to a castle of his own
-construction in the mountains near Bearly.  Edric and he would
-not meet again for twelve years, when, in November of 1050,
-Sardul tried to kill Edric, but failed when Edric fled.  In June
-of 1068, the king of Backbone died and one of Edric's true
-friends, Prince Armin assumed the throne, choosing the name
-Scardore VI.  Two years later, in April of 1070, Sardul ambushed
-Edric as he travelled, but again he made his way free.  This
-time, though, he was gravely wounded and only his wife's skill as
-a healer brought him back to health.
-The fued between Edric and Sardul slowly faded away after
-then and little was heard of Sardul.  Edric, meanwhile, was
-appointed the Mage of Fire when the previous mage, Almroth, was
-killed by assassins in April of 1080.  All this time, Sardul was
-fortifying his castle and making friends throughout the world.
-By 1090, he had amassed an enormous army of orcs and on December
-th, this army successfully attacked and took over the city of
-Bearly.  By now, Sardul was dreaming revenge and his army
-continued downriver until, on January 27th, 1091, the capital
-city was attacked.  One of Sardul's new friends, the two-headed
-dragon, Kragnor, at this point attacked Edric's castle.  Knowing
-full well that Sardul's attacks were entirely because of him,
-Edric was outraged and decided that he should attack.  Edric used
-a great portion of his power and spells in battling Kragnor, and
-succeeded in wounding the enormous beast, sending it fleeing
-south out of town, after crashing into his tower.  Edric then
-used his psionics to transform himself into a bird and he flew
-out to the battlefield seeking Sardul.  In bird form, he swooped
-down on Sardul and landed nearby.  The spell battle was swift,
-simultaneous, and still largely unknown, for Edric never divulged
-what curses were said.  All that is known is that both wizards
-cast powerful spells and the result was that Edric dropped dead
-and Sardul dropped unconcious.  Actually, though, Edric had
-performed a complete soul transfer and this had so surprised
-Sardul that Edric's soul became the more powerful.
-With Sardul gone, his army lost morale and scattered within
-two days.  However, four months later, on April 15th, Sardul's
-soul fought up from inside and took control for eight minutes.
-Finding himself with access to fragments to Sardul's memory,
-Edric was able to piece together enough information about Aur‚n
-Ilay's artifacts to devise a method of extracting Sardul's soul
-from his own.
-On July 23, 1091, Thalna tried to kill Edric, but failed and
-so Edric told her all about the soul transfer.  Thalna made her
-escape, and began to work on her own way to retrieve her husband
-alive.
-By September 9, Thalna had learned of the ten artifacts and
-had communed that a group of adventurers (Sorgul, Sly, Ozzie, and
-Rana) were tracking them down.  On December 15, Thalna's son,
-Congal, was met and killed by the adventurers.  Edric witnessed
-the battle and appeared.  He explained to them most of what he
-knew and they agreed to help him.
-On April 17, 1093, the group returned to Edric's castle with
-nine of the ten artifacts.  Karelia then appeared with the tenth
-and Tacey performed the ceremony to free Edric of his extra soul.
-In the end, though, Sardul's soul became housed in the artifacts,
-Edric'ssoul went into a special recptacle he had created for this
-purpose, and Melchar (a wizard housed in the artifacts, unknown
-to all participants) fled in Edric's body, with all ten
-artifacts.  Edric was able to create a new body for himself, but
-he vowed that he would retrieve all ten of the artifacts and
-destroy them while Sardul was still within them.  The next day, a
-shadow of evil descended over the Lowland kingdom, which would
-later prove to be a threat far worse than Sardul.
-The following June 16th, Ozzie, it was found, had been
-geased by Pelham, the quiet wizard, to kill Edric.  Ozzie,
-however chose death rather than carry out the geas.  The will of
-Hades, however, was what had placed the geas on Ozzie and when it
-failed, the god made a small appearance in the form of a swirling
-storm within Edric's castle.  Sorgul, knowing not who he was
-dealing with, attempted to dominate the manifestation and
-succeeded.  Sorgul immediately ordered Hades to release Ozzie's
-geas and then Hades appeared in person.  Tacey, fearing for all
-of their safety, summoned her deity: Aphrodite.  Thus, it was
-that two greater deities confronted each other in the city of
-Backbone on June 16, 1093.  Immediately, a storm cloud rolled
-overhead and a bolt of lightning pierced Edric's castle
-dispersing both deities.  Later attempts to fix the holes from
-this bolt have all failed.
-On July 21, Hades trapped Sorgul with a Deck of Many Things
-and corrupted him into the thirteenth demonwraith.  Sly,
-meanwhile, returned to Edric with three of the ten (having gone
-to Melchar's castle) and gave him the sword of Dana.  On December
-, 1093, Edric destroyed the sword, which due to the effect on
-the seven artifacts that Melchar still had, alerted Thalna to his
-intentions.
-Thalna, on December 22, 1093 had made a deal with Solgar
-(the converted Sorgul) to ambush Melchar.  The plan worked and on
-December 24, Melchar was turned to stone.  Solgar then retrieved
-the pieces of Melchar's statue which Thalna had smashed and had
-Pelham return them to their natural form.  On September 2, 1094,
-Edric enlisted the aid of a Ki-Rin and confronted Solgar.
-Thalna, meanwhile, had been watching Edric very carefully and
-took advantage of the moment to retrieve as many of the artifacts
-as she could.  Edric convinced Solgar to hand over several while
-Thalna, unknown even to Edric, stealthily removed the Dagger of
-Larinday from Solgar's belt.  She then tried to kill Edric and
-failed.  The Ki-Rin told her to surrender and when she didn't, he
-killed her with a bolt of lightning.  Edric then let the Ki-Rin
-destroy the dagger (as being crushed under its hoof was the only
-way to destroy it).
-For the next several months, Edric used his most powerful
-magic to find the means of destroying the five artifacts he had.
-By April 6, 1095, the cloak, the robe, the clasp, and both rings
-had been destroyed.  For the next three years, Edric use his
-magic as best he could to hold his kingdom outside the
-encroaching shadow of evil from Lowland.  On November 22, 1098,
-though, his liege and best friend, King Scardore VI, fell in
-battle with the Dark Mage's demonwraiths.  Edric and Tacey fled
-the fallen kingdom while their comrade, Lamar, saved their lives
-by preventing the demonwraiths from reaching the two.  Lamar also
-was killed in the battle.
-For the next several years, Edric and Tacey lived in a small
-castle given to them by King Galin, the boy king successor to
-Queen Carina II.  The queen had been killed on June 14, 1097 by
-Solgar and her husband, Vyner, had ruled as Galin's guardian.  On
-December 29, 1103, Vyner was assassinated and the king's trust
-was given to the Baron Clipster Gylian.  Clipster was power-
-hungry to the extreme and the rapid decline of Rota from monarchy
-to dictatorship followed.
-On May 28, 1104, Edric was approached by a young woman named
-Rathwyn who had been a pupil and adopted daughter of Sorgul's
-before his demise.  Rathwyn had learned that Solgar had been
-imprisoned by the Dark Mage and had a plan to restore life to him
-and return him to Sorgul.  The following day, Edric went to Sly's
-castle on Lendore Island and cast a freedom spell to release
-Solgar.  Then, in a quick battle, Rathwyn resurrected him, and
-Sly placed the helm of Demarest on his head to convert him to
-good.  The shock of the resurrection incapacitated Solgar and the
-two easily subdued him.  Within a day, Solgar's alignment was
-forced back to good and Sorgul again lived.  Edric then took the
-Helm back with him to his castle, feeling that it would be best
-to separate the remaining three artifacts.
-The rest you know.
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-==== Edric And Tacey's family ====
-Edric was the seventh of nine children, social class 25%
-Tacey was the youngest of six children
-| Edric | b. Dec 992 | d. 23 Dec 1104 |
-| Tacey | b. Oct 992 | d. 5 Aug 1104 |
-| 1. | Male | b. Feb 1008 | d. Feb 1015 | //unmarried// |
-| 2. | Male | b. Feb 1011 | d. Mar 1020 | //unmarried// |
-| 3. | Female | b. July 1012 | d. Mar 1034 | //unmarried// |
-| 4. | Female | b. May 1014 | d. Aug 1033 in childbirth |
-|  | husband | b. Nov 1013 | d. June 1064 |
-|  | Male child | b. Aug 1033 | d. April 1052 | //unmarried// |
-| 5. | Male | b. Dec 1015 | d. Aug 1069 |
-|  | wife | b. Jan 1017 | d. Sep 1034 |
-|  | Male child | b. Feb 1034 | d. Mar 1038 |
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