Guide to the Immortals

his own reckon badge, deformed by the explosion to
resemble a mirror-shield. The mirror was found and
changed hands during the following generations, until
Benekander was finally freed from his prison by a group
of adventurers around AC 1001. He immediately
understood that his essence had been transformed into
something different, but only after experimenting with
his new powers and gathering some news about the
Multiverse did he understand he had become a true
Immortal thanks to the Radiance’s power.
Personality: Benekander's primary goal is to protect
humanity from immortals' interference. Since he is still
quite uncomfortable around other immortals and has not
yet accepted his new state of existence, he prefers the
company of mortals to his fellow immortals, and for now
has not revealed his presence to the hierarchs of the
Spheres. He spends most of his time on Mystara under
the mortal identity of Rheddrian, a well endowed
merchant and an expert of the arcane arts, and has used
his charisma and treasures to create a secret net of
informers and allies. After AC 1010, he will also appear
as Gareth to the Sindhi, using miracles to extend his base
of followers and preaching freedom and respect among
mortals.
Patron: None (Radiance)
Allies: None (nobody knows of his existence)
Enemies: None (potentially all the immortals that
manipulate the mortals)
Classic D&D Stats
Followers’ Alignment: Any; Clerics must be Lawful
or Neutral
Favoured weapon: None (allowed all bludgeoning
weapons)
Clerics’ skills and powers: Permanent Infravision 60
feet.
Paladins’ skills and powers: Lay on Hands
D&D 3E Stats
Domains: Energy, Good, Protection, Knowledge
Favoured weapon: Light mace
Source: WotI, PWA 1-3
BRANDAN EARTHSHAKER
Patron of the Snartan, Patron of Progress and
Conquest, Creator of the Earthshaker
Level, Alignment, Sphere: 3 rd (Initiate), LN, Matter
Symbol: A fire red cogwheel
Portfolio: Progress, invention, conquest, fire,
technomancy, snartan gnomes
Worshipped in: Davania (Vulcania)
Appearance: He is a gnome of martial bearing, with a
golden helmet on his head, protected by a cuirass of mesh
with a white P incised on the chest above the image of a red
cogwheel (the symbols of Snarta and Brandan).
History (PROBABLE THEORY): Brandan was a
gnome that lived in the Republic of the Similars (Vulcania)
around the III century AC. A great thinker and inventor, he
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was the first to willingly push into the Forbidden Lands, a
mountainous region near to the Republic that was believed
to be inhabited by terrifying creatures of fire. He studied the
proprieties of these creatures which he regarded as the highest
specimens of their kind. He also hoped to exploit them,
creating new weapons that could give the victory to his
compatriots in the war against the other gnomish clans.
During his exploration he discovered fire elemental pupae,
extremely docile but powerful elemental creatures. After
many experiments, he discovered that the energy produced by
them was able to power many of his devices. Later, he came
across an ancient Blackmoorian relic, a sort of enormous
self-propelled machine used by the Grunland elves as a
means of transport and excavation. Fascinated by the
magnitude and the complexity of the artefact, he spent the
following ten years studying it, but was unable to reproduce
the original construction plans. Additionally, the power
source of the machine was hopelessly corrupted, and Brandan
was not able to understand the original without knowledge
of Blackmoorian nuclear technology. With the ingenuity
typical of the gnomes, he exploited the discovery of the fire
elemental pupae and redesigned the machinery to make it
function powered by these creatures. After another five years
of toil, Brandan was able to repair the artefact and renamed
it Earthshaker for the incredible tremors that it generated.
The Immortal Garal admired his genius so much that he
appeared and proposed a challenge: if he was able to
reconstruct and recover all the pieces of his invention for at
least three times in three different incarnations, that would
help him to continue on the path to Immortality. Brandan
accepted and was successively reincarnated as a gnome mage,
fighter and cleric, and each time was able to again find the
artefact, redesign it and make it function in the same way.
At the end of his efforts, exploiting all the knowledge learned
to that point, Brandan decided that for completing the Path
of the Polymath he needed to do only one thing: create a
perennial monument to his genius. So he returned to his
people and, under the name of Dorfin, soon became a
powerful general of the republican army thanks to the
martial skills acquired in one of his past lives. Guiding an
expedition in the Forbidden Lands, Dorfin convinced his
men that an Immortal by the name Brandan had revealed
to him the location of a powerful weapon, and here he
revealed the Earthshaker that he had previously rebuilt.
Using his soldiers to recover more fire elemental pupae and
new materials, Dorfin was in a position to upgrade the
Earthshaker and finally make it move to his liking. After
placing his followers in the strategic points for operating the
machinery, Dorfin guided the Earthshaker to his homeland,
where after many victories it became the symbol of the hoi
gnomes and was renamed Proboscidaemon (the symbol of the
Snartan Empire is indeed a white “P” in memory of the
Proboscidaemon). The last act that consecrated Brandan to
Immortality was the abolition of the Republic and the
institution of the Empire of Snarta (from the gnomish word
for victory), proclaiming himself Emperor Dorfin I in the VI
century AC. After having destroyed the opposition of the old,
Dorfin concentrated the Snartan resources in the