dreicunan

Hi Lucy.
First off thanks for all the input on her class and how she got formed up. I'm familiar with the author, but not with the Renshai series. As for a name, Yr'kai Blade or even just a Yr'kai might have been two other viable options (although, since the voice acting is already done, it would probably be too late to change the name of the class). It was the Kensai aspect of the name that gave me quite a bit of pause. The actual source material clears that up. Same with the dual-wielding thing. Oh, and jsut to be clear, I didn't mean to "limit" the character by the picture. I just looked at it as a source of inspiration for one example of how to address somehting that at the time I saw as off (which is no longer the case completely).

That her tribe might be devoted to Lathander I could buy. It is Lathander giving her a weapon as a gift that gives me pause. I already mentioned some of them. For example, Lathander encourages idealistic altruism, an agressive righting of wrongs. Outside of the tent in Athkala where you find Aerie, she is recommending you to not get involved. That doesn't mesh with Lathander at all. Regardless of what she might think of him, unless she underwent a RADICAL personality change before this story began but after she received the gift, I just don't see Lathander giving her a gift. I can see how this connection would add "something", but what is this "thing" that it adds?

There are also some story considerations to take in here. Being a daughter of Akadi, she is the daughter of a Greater Power. She also was given a weapon that is a gift from a greater power, a might potent one that will get better with time. Now on top of that she has meritted the attention of Lathander, another Greater Power, to the point of getting a sword form him, too. Meanwhile, the main character of the entire game is just a lowly Bhaalspawn, merely the son of an Intermediate Deity. He hasn't even been given a gift by ONE deity. Chloe is, by all rights, more powerful than the main character (that dex shows this pretty well), and when you throw in her meriting the attention not just of her mother but of Lathander, who apparently likes her so much that he is willing to give her a gift even though she is nowhere close to his ideals, how do you justify keeping the focus of the story on MAINCHAR? Chloe should be the focus now, given the set-up. If Irenicus thought that a Bhaalspawn was a tempting treat, I have to imagine that he would move mountains to steal Chloe's essence.

So anyways, I just think that there is a better option for who gives her the second sword. Of all the settings in D&D, the Forgotten Realms will provide you with an alternative choice of deity.

Humbly submitted for your consideration this 30th day of March in the Year 2005.