i like hamanu myself, if anyone hasnt read "rise and fall of a dragon king" i strongly recommend it. hamanu is an anti-hero. i based a character of mine around hamanu. the parents of my character were good. they were seeking to become an avangion. hamanu found out and had them killed. his sister and he escaped but lost each other, dont know if the other is alive (they both are). she chose a path of virtue, my character chose a path of vengence. she became an avangion, he escaped the realm and became a dragon-king on another realm using Kalak's method (kalak's method would have worked i think, he just got disrupted). my character founded a city he named new-urik. his tower is in the center of town and looks like the book cover of "rise and fall of a dragon king" (if you dont know the cover it is the same as the cover of the "dragon kings" resource book). both his sister and him eventually want to return to urik and slay hamanu.
now that i got that out, sho is your favorite DS character. i will take my characters as a valid aswer.
Sadira would be a close second, but her back and forth attitude, pining over her two husbands, and holier than thou attitude got rather grating to me.
I think he was simpy too good for the world.
Kilamar
Rikus is like those Weeble toys from the 70s:
"You can smack 'em, you can whack 'em
You can knock 'em all around.
They wibble and they wobble
But they don't fall down..."
Gotta love that rubber-coated mul!!
He now holds Tyr captive by a giant army first led by Hamanu, and now captained by him.
A powerful sorcerer psion and a prophet, the insane Demetrius will soon rise to his proper place amongst the champions.
Sadira - flawed hero, with depth and complexities to her character. Non standard attitudes to love, power, and community.
or
Androponis - I don't know why he's my favorite SK, he just is. I was dissapointed when he was imprisoned, but he can come back. Maybe it's that Balic is so different niche-wise than the other cities, but the bad guy himself has a certain grace and dignity to him.
1. Nibenay
2. Hamanu
3. Wheelock
4. Tectuktitlay
5. Dhojakt
6. Dregoth
7. Agis of Asticles
8. Kael Stormseeker
9. Mon Adderath
10. Chao Chin
11. Desverendi
12. Thaxos Vordon
Top 5 Personal Campaign NPCs (since some of my players are reading this):
1. Daatu, mysterious brown elf
2. Talon, tyrian ex-templar/defiler
3. Kugrisht, gith wanderer
4. Master Fu, one-eyed nibenese criminal
5. Ra, raven familiar
Originally posted by Afghan
Nok. He's a halfling. They're like Ewoks, only cooler.
But Sorak is running a tight tie for first , i just love the idea of a tribe of one and would love to see what happened to him after the broken blade
was also wondering what books you where getting the info on dregoth taking out hamanu , i dont have alot of the DS source materials but am always looking for more info , love DS =p
Its a toss up between:
The Patchwork Man for being ruthlessly cool (killing off the halflings that were sent to guide the PCs one by one so the little buggers didn't turn around and eat the party). I liked playing him so much that I didn't kill him off in the Dragon's Crown adventure.
and
Wheelock, the master poisoner for being the most bizarre and cool NPC I have ever run in any game. The fact that he won't speak to any other males except Toth, his assistant, and that he is so far beyond insane that he converses with other voices . . . man, he gave my party the willies every time they had to deal with him.
[Edit]
Almost forgot my top pick of big bad nasties out there. The one and only Nibenay, the Shadow King. He's just a dity ol pervert with an enormous . . . errr . . . harem, yeah. Got to love a SK who knows the expression "Its good to be king." ;)
Originally posted by Cerberysumbralthane
was also wondering what books you where getting the info on dregoth taking out hamanu , i dont have alot of the DS source materials but am always looking for more info , love DS =p
Sounds like a homebrew campaign to me.
As for me, how about the Oba of Gulg? Shoot, she's got a bunch of druids convinced that she's the best thing for their forest, even though her own people have driven several species of predators to extinction...
the reason i like hamanu is because he was sort of redeemed from his evil ways.
now, here is my top 10 list of favorite characters.
1) hamanu
2) rajaat
3) dregoth
4) rikus
5) kalak
6) agis
7) k'kriq
8) tithian
9) sadira
10) borys
Well, this one`s my favourite - a shame he died!
Close after him is Aegis, but it`s good he died, because he wasn`t only a noble, but to noble to live in this world.....
.....and there are only DEAD heroes(at least in my campaign:-)=).
And normally I don`t like heroes, but this one....
Ah, and yes Hamanu!
And btw, as I said, there have been a few years since I read all those books...
....SPOILER for those who want to read that Hamnu-book(forgot the title - sigh!)
Wasn`t Hamanu replaced by a doppleganger or something like this - can`t remember correctly?
So there`s a Dragon, but not really and it`s not Hamanu...
...damn, I think I`m in the wrong thread, but what da hell...ahhh....Grey, Black, whatever!
The fact, that it is Hamnau and it`s not either is cool - excellent idea by Lynn Abbey.
Ah ja - Aehm....SPOILER-END
***SPOILER****
Manu was replaced by the Spirit of the Land of Urik.
Hamanu was killed in my campaign only (well, noone actually saw him die you see, the PCs just saw Dregoth breathing on him, and only molten stone remained...)
its not official or something...
Hamanu must be dead isnt he?
surely Dregoth killed him didnt he?
muhahahahahahhahhaaaaa
(I hope my PCs dont read this forum as I instructed them).
well anyway, Dregoth did killed Hamanu, and it was near Hamanu's vortex in the earth elemental plane where the party tried to kill the vortex using some artifacts given to them by Mon Adderath, now advisor to the throne in Tyr.
I forgot about wheelock though, he is the fostering father of a PC I once had. a nasty bard, and both of them are two of my favorites dark sunians.
1. Hamanu (RaFoaSK rocked)
2. Dregoth (Always liked Dracoliches, in any form or incarnation)
3. Oronis (the only good SK, and IMHO a troubled mind which has many regrets)
It's a toss up for the others.
I think he wasn`t planned originally, but in the revised edition a few news were needed to make the setting not a reproduction of the original one.
cya,
Geno
Originally posted by Cerberysumbralthane
I have seen several references to Oronis and how he is the one good SK , but he does not make any apearances in the books that i have read , what source material is he in and what is his current situation , ie why wasnt he part of the whole rajaat imprisoned thing.
The only time the attack on Rajaat was described in any detail was in RaFoaDK, and I guess Lynn Abbey hadn't access to the new material that the game department was coming up with. And anyway, in the congregation scene before the attack and for the attack itself, Abbey left the list of the Champions present in the vague. That way you can decide if Daskinor or Kalak or Keltis or a future Champion athas.org is going to come up with was actually present at these events or not.
To see why some info in RaFoaDK is the way it is and not the way it should be, see the explanation from Lynn Abbey herself...
http://oracle.wizards.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0002B&L=dark-sun-l&P=R3696