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10 years ago, when Cashmeric was 11 years old: His older siblings, cousin and freinds were:

(his brother) Kazallin 'Kaz' Magravi [18 year old male Varisian]

(his sister) Zeldana 'Zel' Magravi [16 year old female Varisian])

(his cousin) Andrezi 'Drezi' Kesk [16 year old male Varisian])

(Zeldana's best friend and Kazallin's partner) Khismia 'Mia' Bashir [16 year old Kelishite]

(Kazallin's best friend and Zeldana's partner) Ragnar Vargnarssen [18 year old male ulfen]

(Ragnar's younger half-sister and Cash's chiildhood crush) Kalizama 'Kali' Vargnarssdottir [16 year old])

Ten years ago, the six friends left to travel to the birthplace of Kalizama's mother, The Shackles.

Included are the the classes his siblings and friends had in life.

archmage spirit: Kalizama 'Kali' Vargnarsdottir (NG female Mwangi [wildblooded] sage bloodline sorcerer who reveres Gozreh) with living male seagull familiar familiar named Banipani

champion spirit: Kazallin 'Kaz' Magavi (NG male Varisian [courser] swashbuckler who reveres Desna)

guardian spirit: Zeldana 'Zel' Magavi (NG female Varisian [shielded fighter] fighter who reveres Shelyn) with living male varied thrush songbird named Warbler

hierophant spirit: Ragnar Vargnarssen (NG male Ulfen [spirit guide] oracle who reveres Erastil)

marshal spirit: Khismia 'Mia' Bashir (LG female Kelish [warrior of the holy light (&) chosen one] paladin who reveres Sarenrae) with living cassian angel with the change shape ability (dog and dove forms) named Sunrise (who might be currently locked in dove form).

trickster spirit: Andezi 'Drezi' Kesk (N male Varisian sanctified rogue of Abadar)

During their first adventure in The Shackles, while exploring some Ghol-Gan ruins, Ragnar called out to his deity for aid, and the spirits of the ruins cursed him with powerless prophecy).

They became successful adventurers during their time in The Shackles (reaching level 20) and were planning to return home after exploring another Ghol-Gan ruin. They fought some cyclopean brute wights on the surface (which resulted with each party member gaining some temporary negative levels).

They decided to push on instead of making camp on the surface - a decision that would prove to be unwise. Kalizama's and Veldana's familiars (male seagull named Banipani and a male varied thrush named Warbler) stayed on the surface while the group explored the ruins beneath. Khismia's familar (a cassian angel who answers to 'Sunrise' that can changeshape into a dog or a dove) stayed with Khismia. Though they were able to handle the dangers of the first few levels, that changed when they found a colossal chasm - the lair of a great wyrm! (an umbral dragon!!). They already had some temporary negative levels from the brute wights.

The dragon unleashed its shadow breath, causing some to take a bit of strength drain except for Kalizama, who took the full brunt of the shadow breath, taking 12 points of strength and becoming blinded for several seconds. The dragon then used its claws and teeth that inflicted more negative levels to the group, as it was having fun 'tenderizing' this foolish group of adventurers into its prefererred meal - shadows created from living creatures it kills.

By the time Kalizama had regained her vision each party member had 19 temporary negative levels (from the combined temporary negative levels from the brute wights and natural attacks of the dragon). Kalizama told them to surround her and hold onto her, for she had scribed a scroll to be prepared for such a tragic turn (a scroll of Greater Teleport she scribed with a 18th level caster level - enough to teleport herself and up to six others). They managed to reach her quickly as the dragon was about to unleash its breath weapon again, but Kalizama was able to successfully cast the spell from the scroll before the group was enveloped once again in the dragon's breath.

Meanwhile, at the same time of the fateful encounter with the umbral dragon, Cashmeric (now 16 years old) was laying on Junker's Edge, watching the goblins below. When suddenly out of thin air, his siblings and their friends appeared around him.

"Still watching goblins, little brother?"

"Kaz! Zel! You're home!" Cashmeric got off the ground and hugged his siblings, "You're all hurt! What happened?"

"There is time for that later, Cash, for now we need to go the chapel for some healing. Come with us and we will fill you in on our adventures. Is Sandpoint still the quiet town we left five years ago?"

Cashmeric's expression turns to one of sadness, "Dad's dead. That crazy bastard Stoot killed him."

"Did you say Stoot? That doesn't make sense, he was kind old man who loved birds," Kalizama pointed out.

"I did. He went crazy and killed several people in town," Cashmeric told her.

With tears starting to form from the news her father was dead, Zeldana spoke, "Is mom still alive?"

"Are my parents still alive?" Andrezi, Kalizama and Khismia asked simultaneously.

"Yes, they are alive, the only parent of ours that bastard killed was Dad, Zel."

Khismia's familiar, 'Sunrise', (a cassian angel who prefers to go by the name Mia named him when she thought he was just a dove, who can change shape into a dove or a dog), who had converted back to dove form during the fight with the dragon (possibly currently unable to change shape due to the temporary negative levels Khismia currently has) flew off to the docks on the west side of town.

"What about Warbler and Banipani?" Zeldana asked Kalizama.

"Banipani's a seagull so flying home will take time but he can do it. I am sure he will make sure Warbler males it home too, Zel."

"That's a relief. I think I've had my fill of The Shackles for a lifetime. No offense meant, Kali."

"Or six lifettimes," Ragnar added, not realizing his powerless prophecy added more weight to his words then he realized.

"None taken," Kalizama told Veldana, "Just have faith in our birds' ability to find their way home. Remember, they were with us for the journey south in the first place."

That last comment eased Zeldana's fear about leaving Warbler so far south of home.

Cash walked with his siblings and their friends to the chapel, while they started to tell him of their first (not last) adventure in The Shackles.

When they got to the chapel, Father Tobyn assessed their wounds, "You all need to stay at the chapel for at least a week while I and the other priests pray and request the power needed to heal the spiritial damage you have attained."

"Is it okay if Cash accompanies us, Father?" Ragnar asked Ezakien.

"Of course. I am sure he is eager to hear what his siblings and the rest of you have been doing during the years away from home,"

Once they got settled into a room of the chapel they would be spending the week in, Kazallin told Cashmeric they all had souvenirs for him.

"My first whip, the one you used to beg me to let you play with," Kazallin spoke.

"But you never go anywhere without your whip!"

"I have an enchanted whip I use now. This one is now yours," Kazallin placed the whip into his brother's hands. This whip is etched with a swallowtail butterfly (a sacred animal of Desna) on its handle.

"Thanks, Kaz. Will you teach me how to use it?"

"Of course."

"My first shield, the one that Ragnar made for me," Zeldana spoke as she handed the wooden small shield to Cashmeric. The front of this has a painting of Veldana's familiar, Warbler (a varied thrush songbird). (The songbird is the sacred animal of Shelyn.)

"But that is special to you, your boyfriend made it for you!"

"That he did, and I have an enchanted darkwood shield now. Ragnar made it for me to keep me safe. Now it will keep my little brother safe, eh?"

"Thank you, Zel. Will you teach me how to use it?"

"Of course."

"You are big enoug to take hunting now, little man," Ragnar tells Cashmeric as he hands him a longbow.

Cashmeric takes a look at the handle and sees the familiar etching of a stag (the sacred animal of Erastil) on it, "That's your bow! You keep it."

"I have an enchanted darkwood bow now that I prefer. I would rather this bow stay close to the wielder of the shield I crafted for the woman I love."

"Understood. Thank you, Ragnar."

Andrezi hands removes his sheathed rapier from his belt and hands the scabbard with the cold iron rapier inside to Cashmeric, "This is for you, cousin." - The pommel, handle and cross guard of the cold iron rapier was designed in the shape of a monkey (the sacred animal of Abadar) - the pommel being the head, the handle being the body and the cage crossguard being the monkey's tail.

Casmeric instantly recognizes this as the sword he used to play 'hero' with. Looks at his cousin's belt and sees he does not have another rapier, "I can't take your rapier. You love that thing!"

"Fear not, cousin, as I always have a rapier in hand when I need one," Andrezi tells him as a beautiful carved adamantine rapier with a simliar monkey design appears in his leather-gloved right hand
"Cool! Thanks for the sword. I was planning to get a rapier myself soon."

"Really? Did you decide to follow in my footsteps and choose Abadar as your patron god?"

"No, I was planning on getting a hound design, like my father's. He left his to you, Kaz."

"A Caydenite! I look forward to drinking alongside you, little man," Ragnar tells Cashmeric.

Khismia hands Cashmeric a bola with an etching of a dove (the sacred animal of Sarenrae) on its handle.

"Are you sure, Mia? I still remember how you loved tripping Kaz with it whenever he would flirt with another girl."

"He stopped flirting with other girls awhile back, little brother."

"Little brother? I'm Kaz's brother, not yours. Are you feeling okay, Mia?"

Khismia and Kazallin hold up their left hands, which each has a silver band on the ring finger with an etching of an angelic ankh flanked by etchings of a butterfly and dove.

"We couldn't bear to wait to come home to be joined in our gods' eyes. Can you forgive us for not having you at our wedding?"

Cash wraps his arms around Mia, "Welcome to the family, sis!"

Cashmeric takes a look at Vel's left hand and sees a ring there, "You're married too?"

"Just engaged. We figured at least two of us should wait to get back home so our families can attend our wedding. I didn't want Mom blaming both of us for robbing her of the joy of attending our weddings."

"Let's not get into this now, Zel," Kazallin implores of his sister.

"Just don't try to say I did not try to have you wait until we got back home."

"You know why we didn't wait!" Kazallin retorted back, as he wrapped his right arm around Mia and gently placed his hand over her stomach,"

"You're pregnant?" Cashmeric asked Khismia, who smiled and nodded in response.

"I'm going to be an uncle!"

"I guess that leaves me," Kalizama speaks up.

Cashmeric's voice cracks, "You're engaged too?"

"No, I meant my turn to give you a souvenir, silly."

Cashmeric blushes.

"You still have the same effect on my cousin after all these years, Kali," Andrezi teases his cousin, "He's grown up now, Kali. Now you don't have to let him down gently if he asks you to go on a date."

Kalizama blushes, "As I was saying, it is my time for you to receive a gift from me. Keeping with the theme of the gifts there is only one of my possessions that fits," as she unstraps her wooden scroll box from her belt and hands it to Cashmeric. The lid of this wooden scroll box has a painting of Kalizama's seagull familiar, Banipani, on it.

"Thank you, Kali," Cashmeric beams, "If you want, after you are feeling better we can go shopping for new scroll box for you."

Kalizama blushes, "That sounds lovely."

"No one has made her blush in five years and she just blushed twice," Andrezi commented quietly so neither Cashmeric or Kalizama heard him.

Father Tobyn enters the room, "It is time for you to head home, Cashmeric. Tell your mother and the rest of their parents they can come visit them tomorrow afternoon."

"Okay, Father Tobyn. Thank you."

"Wait, little brother. Don't go before you answer something for me."

"Okay, Kel. What do you want to know?"

"You're grown now. What profession did you decide on?"

"Auntie Risa says I have the family gift and is training me to become a medium."

"Cool. We lost a friend while we were in The Shackles. Maybe when you finish your training you can contact his spirit for us, eh?"

"Sure, Kaz."

Cashmeric walked home with his new possessions, and planned to stay up to tell his mother the good news when she got back from working the late shift at Risa's Place, but fell asleep before she got home.

Cashmeric woke up and excitedly woke his mother, Carmelizzia 'Carm' Magravi up, "Mom, they're back hiome!"

"Who are you talking about?"

"Kaz and Vel! Ragnar and Kali! Mia and Andrezi!"

"Where are they?"

"They were wounded pretty badly. Father Tobyn is having them stay at the chapel for a week to attend to their wounds."

Carmelizzia gets her shoes and jacket on and heads out the door.

"Mom, Father Tobyn said you have to wait until the afternoon to visit them."

"I am their mother and have not seen them in five years, young man. No one, not even Father Tobyn is going to prevent me from seeing my children."

Cashmeric quickly got his boots and jacket on and headed out with his mother.

They saw heavy smoke coming from Uptown.

"What is causing so much smoke?" Cashmerez queried aloud, just before they could see flickers of large flames just over the rooftoops of the downtown buildings blocking their view of the chapel.

"No!" his mother started to run as fast as she could, fearing the worst.

Kazallin, Veldana, Ragnar, Khismia, Andrezi and Kalizama all died in the Sandpoint Fire.

A month after the Sandpoint Fire, Risa Magravi (Cashmeric's great aunt) had Cashmeric try to channel her dead father-in-law, who is Cashmeric's great-grandfather, but he failed to do so.

"Hmm, I sense you have the gift. I am not sure why you cannot channel your great-grand father, when you should be able to. You might be a rare medium, Cashmeric, that can only summon specific spirits that have emotional ties to items in your possession," She looks over the gear that her great-nephew has been wearing for the past month, "Tomorrow I will have you try to channel your brother's spirit, your sister's the day after and your cousin Andrezi's the day after that."

"And Kali's, Mia's and Ragnar's spirits the days after those?" Cashmeric asked his family elder.

"Of course, child."

After confirming that Cashmeric was a relic channeler medium linked to the spirits of the group of six friends that died in the Sandpoint Fire, it was clear pursuing the career of a medium was not a feasible path, so Cashmeric got a job working where his father worked, The Hagfish, three days of the week (Toilday, Wealday and Fireday day shift). His father's name, Henric Magravi, is one of the 28 names carved in the ceiling beam for drinking a tankard of Norah's tank water)

Cashmeric's weekly routine typically consists of having a seance in the morning to channel one of the spirits linked to him, then go to work for the day, then head to the home of the spirit he is channeling that day for dinner and allowing the spirt to take control of his body so that the spirit can spend the evening with their family and Cashmeric wakes up in the bed of that spirit's childhood home.

His typical week consists of channeling is as follows:

Moonday: day off, Kalizama 'Kali' Vargnarsdottir
Toilday: work day, Ragnar Vargnarssen
Wealday: work day, Veldana 'Vel' Magravi
Oathday: day off, floating day to adjust other days for special days for the spirits (their birthdays or birthdays of family members, religious days of their deity, etc.)
Fireday: work day, Andrezi 'Drezi' Magravi
Starday: day off, Kazallin 'Kaz' Magravi
Sunday: day off, Khismia 'Mia' Magravi (nee Bashir)

As the Swallowtail Festival is a religious day for Desna, the spirit Cashmeric channels for the day is that of his brother, Kazallin 'Kaz' Magravi.