

He will find the children in those vases, and break their chains.Sweet, interesting idea. Once unbound by the past, untied with a family or pledged to a country, he has one bond now.

He will find the children in those vases, and break their chains.

Though his ideals of unwavering service-until-completion remain unchanged, they are now tempered with scrutiny. If he'd asked, simply, what was within the vases, those children would be free. He realized his flaws while he whiled away in a drow prison: he never asked questions. For the first time in their long trek, the merchant revealed what was within his vases: children.įurious that he wasn't told the merchant was a slaver, he attempted to save the last child to atone for the tens more that he unwittingly sold into servitude. The last stop was a drow outpost, where a slaver's market was ongoing. The merchant sold the vases one by one to duergar and drow as Ra warded off unsavory attackers. He was last hired by a merchant selling heavy vases, who was trading in the Underdark. He later sought out riskier jobs, venturing to far-off lands and exotic locales. It was a simple life at first, fending off goblins and bandits as they traveled through woods and hills. Ra Sunsteel was a sword-for-hire most of his life, and frequently found his sword-arm bought by wealthy travelers.
