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Miscellany

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Timeline:T-106:  Born in outskirts of Ralas to Melaios and Donnal of the Gravelfoot clan, a  low-class family among a community slightly separated from most of Ralas,  socially and economically.T-90:  Begin education as a cleric of Cuthbert, patron deity of many Gravelfoots.T-83:  Dwarven death clans start becoming common in Ralas.T-79:  Got fed up with ridiculousness in Ralas, left for Sigil in search of more  practical matters. Found a job escorting trade expeditions to the Great  Dismal Delve, and elsewhere. Begin taking crusader levels.T-66:  Encountered the Order of the Sanctified Mind while on an interplanar  expedition to the City of Brass: a neighbourhood-wide fight between devils,  aided by other outsiders, and cityfolk, with Sanctified Minds standing out  in the front lines of combat (~1000 people).T-62:  After a few years of training, became ordained as a Sanctified Mind. The  Order of the Sanctified Mind, based in Union, believes that people should be  cautious of overusing magic. A being's mind must remain pure and untainted,  regardless of the amount of magic they exercise in pursuing their goals.  Over the years, Lesanchus grows to become one of the most well-respected,  and sometimes feared, hands of the Order.T-39:  The presence of aberrations in the material plane and inner planes becomes  more widespread. Sanctified Mind efforts prove insufficient at preventing  their influence, so St. Cuthbert ordains ~200 of the more elite warriors  among the Order as Iron Knight Enforcers. The head Enforcer, one Armand  Griswold, wields Cuthbert's Reckoning, an artifact crafted by St. Cuthbert  to combat chaotic influences. It is said that Cuthbert's Reckoning will  choose a wielder, and while Armand wields the waraxe well, it seems nothing  spectacular.T-32:  A band of demons and chaos beasts sack and siege one of the market districts  of union, and carry several prisoners back to the Abyss. The Iron Knight  Enforcers organize a crusade, free many of the prisoners, lose several  members and the Reckoning, but gain more quest leads.T-31:  After much planning, the crusade sets out again. Travelling among the Abyss  and several other planes, many Enforcers are lost (~40), and many demonic  plans are undone and much of existence in the lower planes is laid straight.T-28:  Most of the Order's elite warriors have been slain by now, and those who  have not find themselves imprisoned in the third layer of Carceri (~25).T-10:  Escape from Carceri is underway. In the middle stages, Lesanchus manages to  locate where the Reckoning was imprisoned. It is immediately obvious when he  picks it up that the artifact has chosen him to be its wielder.T-4:  After many years of planning, bargaining, and manipulation - but never  underhanded - those few remaining Enforcers (8) find themselves atop the  tallest foothills of Mount Orthrys, overlooking the Bastion of last hope,  with bodies of demons, devils, and miscellaneous petitioners strewn about  the battlefield, as a shining portal opens in the sky to take the survivors  individually to the destination that suits them best. Lesanchus finds  himself in Mechanus.T-3:  A year in Mechanus taught Lesanchus of the beauties and perfections that can  be attained through a combination of following law and figuring out for  oneself what the best law would be, as opposed to blindly following orders.  He returns to Union and reunites with the other Sanctified Minds to find  himself the second most powerful member remaining (Armand survived).T-0:  As the wielder of Cuthbert's Reckoning, Lesanchus is sent to the material  plane to set things straight.