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	There is a recurring pattern to the surrounding creatures about [[Foggy Valley]]. These are [[Moaning spirit#Behind the Scenes\|transformed hybrids]] of men with other living beings, which was to a large extent the theme of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. [[Vesperti]] were elf-bat hybrids designed to be anti-magical, like the [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], with later lore establishing their plane shifting talents. Their creator "Vespertinae" contains the [[Iruaric]] suffix for "past" and is the feminine plural of the Latin adjective "vespertinus, -a, -um," meaning "vespers [evening prayers]" or "evening." "Vesperti" probably derives from the Latin word "[https://www.online-latin-dictionary.com/latin-english-dictionary.php?lemma=VESPERTILIO100 vespertilio]"--which means "bat." [[Pra'eda]] is Latin for game taken in a hunt, or the plunder and spoils of war, and are wolf-men things. The [[Shan]] are also wolf-men, Gaelic for "[[The Broken Lands and ki-lin\|wise]]", or Chinese for "[[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind the Scenes\|mountain]]" (or "hill" next to the hillock.) [[Waern]] are undead canines with [[Greater vruul\|green eyes]], an old Scottish word for defense of a fortification. They also contain the Iruaric word for "thirsty", loosely meaning "one who acts as the thirst for souls" as a [[magru#Behind the Scenes\|composite glyph]], though this is probably coincidental. [[Dybbuk\|Dybbuks]] are soul transference possession [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk#History spirits] in Jewish mythology, which is paralleled by the [[The Temple of Darkness\|temporal premise]] of The Broken Lands. The inscription at the top of the tower door is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah mezuzah], which ward off dybbuks and roots the humanoid [[mezic\|mezics]], who are most likely Maleskari [[Spectral miner#Behind the Scenes\|cultists]].		There is a recurring pattern to the surrounding creatures about [[Foggy Valley]]. These are [[Moaning spirit#Behind the Scenes\|transformed hybrids]] of men with other living beings, which was to a large extent the theme of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. [[Vesperti]] were elf-bat hybrids designed to be anti-magical, like the [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], with later lore establishing their plane shifting talents. Their creator "Vespertinae" contains the [[Iruaric]] suffix for "past" and is the feminine plural of the Latin adjective "[https://www.online-latin-dictionary.com/latin-english-dictionary.php?lemma=VESPERTINUS100 vespertinus, -a, -um]," meaning "vespers [evening prayers]" or "evening." "Vesperti" probably derives from the Latin word "[https://www.online-latin-dictionary.com/latin-english-dictionary.php?lemma=VESPERTILIO100 vespertilio]"--which means "bat." [[Pra'eda]] is Latin for game taken in a hunt, or the plunder and spoils of war, and are wolf-men things. The [[Shan]] are also wolf-men, Gaelic for "[[The Broken Lands and ki-lin\|wise]]", or Chinese for "[[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind the Scenes\|mountain]]" (or "hill" next to the hillock.) [[Waern]] are undead canines with [[Greater vruul\|green eyes]], an old Scottish word for defense of a fortification. They also contain the Iruaric word for "thirsty", loosely meaning "one who acts as the thirst for souls" as a [[magru#Behind the Scenes\|composite glyph]], though this is probably coincidental. [[Dybbuk\|Dybbuks]] are soul transference possession [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk#History spirits] in Jewish mythology, which is paralleled by the [[The Temple of Darkness\|temporal premise]] of The Broken Lands. The inscription at the top of the tower door is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah mezuzah], which ward off dybbuks and roots the humanoid [[mezic\|mezics]], who are most likely Maleskari [[Spectral miner#Behind the Scenes\|cultists]].

	Bonespear said his students scattered and would try to help the demon unless they had come to their senses like him. Their cult presumably performed all of the [http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Ivo_Shandor unnecessary surgeries], and built the tower of bone to summon Maleskari, with Bonespear betraying them but coming to regret his folly. [[Fenghai]] are likely an allusion (if only by name) to the chimerical so-called "Chinese phoenix" fenghuang, the female analog of a dragon, which parallels the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|"spirit born of death"]] premise of The Broken Lands. It might also play off the "feng shui" of harmonizing things with their surroundings, involving the "qi" concept, which is relevant because of the [[ki-lin]] (the [[Greater kappa\|kappas]] being another eastern borrow.) In terms of their actual appearance they might refer to Native American "little people" myths who made rock art, where the story behind Shadow Valley had involved [[Selias Jodame\|reference]] to Native Americans. They might also refer to the idea that faeries were "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch-Cult_in_Western_Europe little people]" still living in the stone age that was [https://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Faerie taken up] by Lovecraft circle writers. Bonespear Tower is obviously based on "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/27/the-colossus-of-ylourgne The Colossus of Ylourgne]" by Clark Ashton Smith, whose [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averoigne Averoigne] stories clearly influenced the design of [[Castle Anwyn]]. This is in addition to horrific miscegenation and demonic cults making human sacrifices for forbidden knowledge. But [http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/4/4d/Dana_becomes_Zuul_04.png/revision/latest?cb=20120627015544 various aspects] of [http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/media/loc_ca_studio_real07.jpg the tower] can [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VWb1z6ZwUoY/maxresdefault.jpg be taken] as [http://www.runleiarun.com/ghostbusters/pictures/chapter5-picture-boom.jpg reminiscent] of Ghostbusters.		Bonespear said his students scattered and would try to help the demon unless they had come to their senses like him. Their cult presumably performed all of the [http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Ivo_Shandor unnecessary surgeries], and built the tower of bone to summon Maleskari, with Bonespear betraying them but coming to regret his folly. [[Fenghai]] are likely an allusion (if only by name) to the chimerical so-called "Chinese phoenix" fenghuang, the female analog of a dragon, which parallels the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|"spirit born of death"]] premise of The Broken Lands. It might also play off the "feng shui" of harmonizing things with their surroundings, involving the "qi" concept, which is relevant because of the [[ki-lin]] (the [[Greater kappa\|kappas]] being another eastern borrow.) In terms of their actual appearance they might refer to Native American "little people" myths who made rock art, where the story behind Shadow Valley had involved [[Selias Jodame\|reference]] to Native Americans. They might also refer to the idea that faeries were "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch-Cult_in_Western_Europe little people]" still living in the stone age that was [https://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Faerie taken up] by Lovecraft circle writers. Bonespear Tower is obviously based on "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/27/the-colossus-of-ylourgne The Colossus of Ylourgne]" by Clark Ashton Smith, whose [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averoigne Averoigne] stories clearly influenced the design of [[Castle Anwyn]]. This is in addition to horrific miscegenation and demonic cults making human sacrifices for forbidden knowledge. But [http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/4/4d/Dana_becomes_Zuul_04.png/revision/latest?cb=20120627015544 various aspects] of [http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/media/loc_ca_studio_real07.jpg the tower] can [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VWb1z6ZwUoY/maxresdefault.jpg be taken] as [http://www.runleiarun.com/ghostbusters/pictures/chapter5-picture-boom.jpg reminiscent] of Ghostbusters.

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	===(3) Easter Eggs===		===(3) Easter Eggs===
	There is a recurring pattern to the surrounding creatures about [[Foggy Valley]]. These are [[Moaning spirit#Behind the Scenes\|transformed hybrids]] of men with other living beings, which was to a large extent the theme of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. [[Vesperti]] were elf-bat hybrids designed to be anti-magical, like the [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], with later lore establishing their plane shifting talents. Their creator "Vespertinae" contains the [[Iruaric]] suffix for "past." ~~"Vesperti" itself~~ is Latin ~~for~~ "in ~~the~~ evening", ~~which~~ ~~would~~ ~~refer~~ to ~~their~~ ~~bat~~ ~~wings~~. [[Pra'eda]] is Latin for game taken in a hunt, or the plunder and spoils of war, and are wolf-men things. The [[Shan]] are also wolf-men, Gaelic for "[[The Broken Lands and ki-lin\|wise]]", or Chinese for "[[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind the Scenes\|mountain]]" (or "hill" next to the hillock.) [[Waern]] are undead canines with [[Greater vruul\|green eyes]], an old Scottish word for defense of a fortification. They also contain the Iruaric word for "thirsty", loosely meaning "one who acts as the thirst for souls" as a [[magru#Behind the Scenes\|composite glyph]], though this is probably coincidental. [[Dybbuk\|Dybbuks]] are soul transference possession [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk#History spirits] in Jewish mythology, which is paralleled by the [[The Temple of Darkness\|temporal premise]] of The Broken Lands. The inscription at the top of the tower door is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah mezuzah], which ward off dybbuks and roots the humanoid [[mezic\|mezics]], who are most likely Maleskari [[Spectral miner#Behind the Scenes\|cultists]].		There is a recurring pattern to the surrounding creatures about [[Foggy Valley]]. These are [[Moaning spirit#Behind the Scenes\|transformed hybrids]] of men with other living beings, which was to a large extent the theme of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. [[Vesperti]] were elf-bat hybrids designed to be anti-magical, like the [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], with later lore establishing their plane shifting talents. Their creator "Vespertinae" contains the [[Iruaric]] suffix for "past" and is the feminine plural of the Latin adjective "vespertinus, -a, -um," meaning "vespers [evening prayers]" or "evening." "Vesperti" probably derives from the Latin word "[https://www.online-latin-dictionary.com/latin-english-dictionary.php?lemma=VESPERTILIO100 vespertilio]"--which means "bat." [[Pra'eda]] is Latin for game taken in a hunt, or the plunder and spoils of war, and are wolf-men things. The [[Shan]] are also wolf-men, Gaelic for "[[The Broken Lands and ki-lin\|wise]]", or Chinese for "[[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind the Scenes\|mountain]]" (or "hill" next to the hillock.) [[Waern]] are undead canines with [[Greater vruul\|green eyes]], an old Scottish word for defense of a fortification. They also contain the Iruaric word for "thirsty", loosely meaning "one who acts as the thirst for souls" as a [[magru#Behind the Scenes\|composite glyph]], though this is probably coincidental. [[Dybbuk\|Dybbuks]] are soul transference possession [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk#History spirits] in Jewish mythology, which is paralleled by the [[The Temple of Darkness\|temporal premise]] of The Broken Lands. The inscription at the top of the tower door is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah mezuzah], which ward off dybbuks and roots the humanoid [[mezic\|mezics]], who are most likely Maleskari [[Spectral miner#Behind the Scenes\|cultists]].

	Bonespear said his students scattered and would try to help the demon unless they had come to their senses like him. Their cult presumably performed all of the [http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Ivo_Shandor unnecessary surgeries], and built the tower of bone to summon Maleskari, with Bonespear betraying them but coming to regret his folly. [[Fenghai]] are likely an allusion (if only by name) to the chimerical so-called "Chinese phoenix" fenghuang, the female analog of a dragon, which parallels the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|"spirit born of death"]] premise of The Broken Lands. It might also play off the "feng shui" of harmonizing things with their surroundings, involving the "qi" concept, which is relevant because of the [[ki-lin]] (the [[Greater kappa\|kappas]] being another eastern borrow.) In terms of their actual appearance they might refer to Native American "little people" myths who made rock art, where the story behind Shadow Valley had involved [[Selias Jodame\|reference]] to Native Americans. They might also refer to the idea that faeries were "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch-Cult_in_Western_Europe little people]" still living in the stone age that was [https://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Faerie taken up] by Lovecraft circle writers. Bonespear Tower is obviously based on "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/27/the-colossus-of-ylourgne The Colossus of Ylourgne]" by Clark Ashton Smith, whose [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averoigne Averoigne] stories clearly influenced the design of [[Castle Anwyn]]. This is in addition to horrific miscegenation and demonic cults making human sacrifices for forbidden knowledge. But [http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/4/4d/Dana_becomes_Zuul_04.png/revision/latest?cb=20120627015544 various aspects] of [http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/media/loc_ca_studio_real07.jpg the tower] can [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VWb1z6ZwUoY/maxresdefault.jpg be taken] as [http://www.runleiarun.com/ghostbusters/pictures/chapter5-picture-boom.jpg reminiscent] of Ghostbusters.		Bonespear said his students scattered and would try to help the demon unless they had come to their senses like him. Their cult presumably performed all of the [http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Ivo_Shandor unnecessary surgeries], and built the tower of bone to summon Maleskari, with Bonespear betraying them but coming to regret his folly. [[Fenghai]] are likely an allusion (if only by name) to the chimerical so-called "Chinese phoenix" fenghuang, the female analog of a dragon, which parallels the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|"spirit born of death"]] premise of The Broken Lands. It might also play off the "feng shui" of harmonizing things with their surroundings, involving the "qi" concept, which is relevant because of the [[ki-lin]] (the [[Greater kappa\|kappas]] being another eastern borrow.) In terms of their actual appearance they might refer to Native American "little people" myths who made rock art, where the story behind Shadow Valley had involved [[Selias Jodame\|reference]] to Native Americans. They might also refer to the idea that faeries were "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch-Cult_in_Western_Europe little people]" still living in the stone age that was [https://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Faerie taken up] by Lovecraft circle writers. Bonespear Tower is obviously based on "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/27/the-colossus-of-ylourgne The Colossus of Ylourgne]" by Clark Ashton Smith, whose [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averoigne Averoigne] stories clearly influenced the design of [[Castle Anwyn]]. This is in addition to horrific miscegenation and demonic cults making human sacrifices for forbidden knowledge. But [http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/4/4d/Dana_becomes_Zuul_04.png/revision/latest?cb=20120627015544 various aspects] of [http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/media/loc_ca_studio_real07.jpg the tower] can [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VWb1z6ZwUoY/maxresdefault.jpg be taken] as [http://www.runleiarun.com/ghostbusters/pictures/chapter5-picture-boom.jpg reminiscent] of Ghostbusters.

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	Bonespear has been heard arguing with a servant of Maleskari within the tower. This is most likely the huge misshapen greenish monstrosity that was locked up in the tower, which was seen flying around when the roof exploded and the hillock was blasted allowing a path up to the ruined courtyard. This servant has the apparent ability to produce highly corrosive acid, having melted the metal door from which food was presumably dropped to it. It was bound and kept unable to manifest by Bonespear as well.		Bonespear has been heard arguing with a servant of Maleskari within the tower. This is most likely the huge misshapen greenish monstrosity that was locked up in the tower, which was seen flying around when the roof exploded and the hillock was blasted allowing a path up to the ruined courtyard. This servant has the apparent ability to produce highly corrosive acid, having melted the metal door from which food was presumably dropped to it. It was bound and kept unable to manifest by Bonespear as well.

	==Behind ~~The~~ Scenes==		==Behind the Scenes==
	Bonespear Tower includes a number of subtle [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]] references, such as Maleskari and the [[eidolon]], which is a ghost from Greek mythology but also the archaic precursor of [[Idolone]]. The courtyard includes a [https://elanthipedia.play.net/mediawiki/index.php/Kygar%27s_Pub memorial] marker to GM Kygar, who passed away in 1998, whose character race was a Dwarf. He was the principal designer of [[The Broken Lands]], the [[Lysierian Hills]], [[Teras Isle]], among other things, and was the lead designer and product manager of Modus Operandi. [[Foggy Valley]] right outside the Bonespear Tower area originally had [[giant fog beetle\|giant fog beetles]] likely for the same reason. The height difference on the door writing could reflect a [[hoard\|recurring number.]] What it probably represents is the writing of something the height of an Ordainer, responded with writing at the height of a Dwarf. This would be alluding to the [[Uthex Kathiasas\|immortality]] premise [[Pales\|behind]] The Broken Lands, which involved the [[Lesser vruul#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|malevolent]] [[Vesperti\|transmogrification]] of lifeforms, and possibly the transference of spirit ("[[Lesser vruul#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|spirit born of death]]") into demonic [[avatar]]s as a form of high necromancy.		Bonespear Tower includes a number of subtle [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]] references, such as Maleskari and the [[eidolon]], which is a ghost from Greek mythology but also the archaic precursor of [[Idolone]]. The courtyard includes a [https://elanthipedia.play.net/mediawiki/index.php/Kygar%27s_Pub memorial] marker to GM Kygar, who passed away in 1998, whose character race was a Dwarf. He was the principal designer of [[The Broken Lands]], the [[Lysierian Hills]], [[Teras Isle]], among other things, and was the lead designer and product manager of Modus Operandi. [[Foggy Valley]] right outside the Bonespear Tower area originally had [[giant fog beetle\|giant fog beetles]] likely for the same reason. The height difference on the door writing could reflect a [[hoard\|recurring number.]] What it probably represents is the writing of something the height of an Ordainer, responded with writing at the height of a Dwarf. This would be alluding to the [[Uthex Kathiasas\|immortality]] premise [[Pales\|behind]] The Broken Lands, which involved the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|malevolent]] [[Vesperti\|transmogrification]] of lifeforms, and possibly the transference of spirit ("[[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|spirit born of death]]") into demonic [[avatar]]s as a form of high necromancy.
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	The mutual presence of pyrothags with [[fire sprite]]s and fog beetles on Teras Isle is probably not a coincidence, being implicitly related to [[Ur-Daemon\|the beast]] in the [[Glaes Caverns]]. Similar to other such areas, the tower was exposed to powerful corrosive acid, as evidenced by a melted door. Maleskari was an ice oriented Ordainer, who had the ability to immolate themselves in flames or cold, exploding the blast out from themselves in an unnatural wind. When a demon is summoned without being controlled or mastered fast enough in [[Rolemaster]] there is an "impact" backlash on the summoner scaled by the power of the demon. It is impossible under ordinary conditions to control an Ordainer.		The mutual presence of pyrothags with [[fire sprite]]s and fog beetles on Teras Isle is probably not a coincidence, being implicitly related to [[Ur-Daemon\|the beast]] in the [[Glaes Caverns]]. Similar to other such areas, the tower was exposed to powerful corrosive acid, as evidenced by a melted door. Maleskari was an ice oriented Ordainer, who had the ability to immolate themselves in flames or cold, exploding the blast out from themselves in an unnatural wind. When a demon is summoned without being controlled or mastered fast enough in [[Rolemaster]] there is an "impact" backlash on the summoner scaled by the power of the demon. It is impossible under ordinary conditions to control an Ordainer.

	The Bonespear Tower story brought the premise of binding demonic (or even gods) into weapons back with the idea that a badly warped "huge misshapen sword" was the key to Bonespear trapping Maleskari again in a more harmless way. The slayer demon scimitar from the [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]] had claimed to serve Maleskari. However, it was implicitly a servant of the dark goddess [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|Orgiana]], which gives it an [[Lesser vruul#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|unusual relationship]] with Ordainers. It is worth noting that the lost village of [[Jaron Galarn#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|"Velaskar"]] from the [[A Popular History of Shadow Valley\|Shadow Valley story]], which was next to a [[Muylari#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|dormant]] Terrorite demon, is strikingly similar to Maleskari with the suffix becoming an [[Iruaric]] pluralization. It is speculative but not implausible to point out that [[Bandur Etrevion]] represented himself symbolically, with the point of [[The Dark Path\|ascension]], as a demon lord of undeath and would have ruled over ruined Velaskar before [[Kharuugh\|the conquest]] of [[Lorgalis]].		The Bonespear Tower story brought the premise of binding demonic (or even gods) into weapons back with the idea that a badly warped "huge misshapen sword" was the key to Bonespear trapping Maleskari again in a more harmless way. The slayer demon scimitar from the [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]] had claimed to serve Maleskari. However, it was implicitly a servant of the dark goddess [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind the Scenes\|Orgiana]], which gives it an [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|unusual relationship]] with Ordainers. It is worth noting that the lost village of [[Jaron Galarn#Behind the Scenes\|"Velaskar"]] from the [[A Popular History of Shadow Valley\|Shadow Valley story]], which was next to a [[Muylari#Behind the Scenes\|dormant]] Terrorite demon, is strikingly similar to Maleskari with the suffix becoming an [[Iruaric]] pluralization. It is speculative but not implausible to point out that [[Bandur Etrevion]] represented himself symbolically, with the point of [[The Dark Path\|ascension]], as a demon lord of undeath and would have ruled over ruined Velaskar before [[Kharuugh\|the conquest]] of [[Lorgalis]].
	===(2) References===		===(2) References===
	This strange mural in [[Shadow Valley]] may be a dual reference to the Terrorite and Maleskari the more powerful enormous skeleton (there is also a [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|portentous]] [[Makiri#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|dragon mural]]):		This strange mural in [[Shadow Valley]] may be a dual reference to the Terrorite and Maleskari the more powerful enormous skeleton (there is also a [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind the Scenes\|portentous]] [[Makiri#Behind the Scenes\|dragon mural]]):
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	The symbol looks a little like a skeleton key, the top semi-circular with three dots for eyes and nose, below them a row of markings forming a mouth and a long jagged stroke downward representing the teeth of the key.		The symbol looks a little like a skeleton key, the top semi-circular with three dots for eyes and nose, below them a row of markings forming a mouth and a long jagged stroke downward representing the teeth of the key.
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	There is a room on Plane 1 of [[The Rift]] depicting a being strongly resembling Maleskari. It is one of the [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|few rooms]] appearing only once on planes one through four:		There is a room on Plane 1 of [[The Rift]] depicting a being strongly resembling Maleskari. It is one of the [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind the Scenes\|few rooms]] appearing only once on planes one through four:
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	===(3) Easter Eggs===		===(3) Easter Eggs===
	There is a recurring pattern to the surrounding creatures about [[Foggy Valley]]. These are [[Moaning spirit#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|transformed hybrids]] of men with other living beings, which was to a large extent the theme of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. [[Vesperti]] were elf-bat hybrids designed to be anti-magical, like the [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], with later lore establishing their plane shifting talents. Their creator "Vespertinae" contains the [[Iruaric]] suffix for "past." "Vesperti" itself is Latin for "in the evening", which would refer to their bat wings. [[Pra'eda]] is Latin for game taken in a hunt, or the plunder and spoils of war, and are wolf-men things. The [[Shan]] are also wolf-men, Gaelic for "[[The Broken Lands and ki-lin\|wise]]", or Chinese for "[[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|mountain]]" (or "hill" next to the hillock.) [[Waern]] are undead canines with [[Greater vruul\|green eyes]], an old Scottish word for defense of a fortification. They also contain the Iruaric word for "thirsty", loosely meaning "one who acts as the thirst for souls" as a [[magru#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|composite glyph]], though this is probably coincidental. [[Dybbuk\|Dybbuks]] are soul transference possession [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk#History spirits] in Jewish mythology, which is paralleled by the [[The Temple of Darkness\|temporal premise]] of The Broken Lands. The inscription at the top of the tower door is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah mezuzah], which ward off dybbuks and roots the humanoid [[mezic\|mezics]], who are most likely Maleskari [[Spectral miner#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|cultists]].		There is a recurring pattern to the surrounding creatures about [[Foggy Valley]]. These are [[Moaning spirit#Behind the Scenes\|transformed hybrids]] of men with other living beings, which was to a large extent the theme of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. [[Vesperti]] were elf-bat hybrids designed to be anti-magical, like the [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], with later lore establishing their plane shifting talents. Their creator "Vespertinae" contains the [[Iruaric]] suffix for "past." "Vesperti" itself is Latin for "in the evening", which would refer to their bat wings. [[Pra'eda]] is Latin for game taken in a hunt, or the plunder and spoils of war, and are wolf-men things. The [[Shan]] are also wolf-men, Gaelic for "[[The Broken Lands and ki-lin\|wise]]", or Chinese for "[[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind the Scenes\|mountain]]" (or "hill" next to the hillock.) [[Waern]] are undead canines with [[Greater vruul\|green eyes]], an old Scottish word for defense of a fortification. They also contain the Iruaric word for "thirsty", loosely meaning "one who acts as the thirst for souls" as a [[magru#Behind the Scenes\|composite glyph]], though this is probably coincidental. [[Dybbuk\|Dybbuks]] are soul transference possession [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk#History spirits] in Jewish mythology, which is paralleled by the [[The Temple of Darkness\|temporal premise]] of The Broken Lands. The inscription at the top of the tower door is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah mezuzah], which ward off dybbuks and roots the humanoid [[mezic\|mezics]], who are most likely Maleskari [[Spectral miner#Behind the Scenes\|cultists]].

	Bonespear said his students scattered and would try to help the demon unless they had come to their senses like him. Their cult presumably performed all of the [http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Ivo_Shandor unnecessary surgeries], and built the tower of bone to summon Maleskari, with Bonespear betraying them but coming to regret his folly. [[Fenghai]] are likely an allusion (if only by name) to the chimerical so-called "Chinese phoenix" fenghuang, the female analog of a dragon, which parallels the [[Lesser vruul#Behind ~~The~~ Scenes\|"spirit born of death"]] premise of The Broken Lands. It might also play off the "feng shui" of harmonizing things with their surroundings, involving the "qi" concept, which is relevant because of the [[ki-lin]] (the [[Greater kappa\|kappas]] being another eastern borrow.) In terms of their actual appearance they might refer to Native American "little people" myths who made rock art, where the story behind Shadow Valley had involved [[Selias Jodame\|reference]] to Native Americans. They might also refer to the idea that faeries were "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch-Cult_in_Western_Europe little people]" still living in the stone age that was [https://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Faerie taken up] by Lovecraft circle writers. Bonespear Tower is obviously based on "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/27/the-colossus-of-ylourgne The Colossus of Ylourgne]" by Clark Ashton Smith, whose [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averoigne Averoigne] stories clearly influenced the design of [[Castle Anwyn]]. This is in addition to horrific miscegenation and demonic cults making human sacrifices for forbidden knowledge. But [http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/4/4d/Dana_becomes_Zuul_04.png/revision/latest?cb=20120627015544 various aspects] of [http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/media/loc_ca_studio_real07.jpg the tower] can [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VWb1z6ZwUoY/maxresdefault.jpg be taken] as [http://www.runleiarun.com/ghostbusters/pictures/chapter5-picture-boom.jpg reminiscent] of Ghostbusters.		Bonespear said his students scattered and would try to help the demon unless they had come to their senses like him. Their cult presumably performed all of the [http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Ivo_Shandor unnecessary surgeries], and built the tower of bone to summon Maleskari, with Bonespear betraying them but coming to regret his folly. [[Fenghai]] are likely an allusion (if only by name) to the chimerical so-called "Chinese phoenix" fenghuang, the female analog of a dragon, which parallels the [[Lesser vruul#Behind the Scenes\|"spirit born of death"]] premise of The Broken Lands. It might also play off the "feng shui" of harmonizing things with their surroundings, involving the "qi" concept, which is relevant because of the [[ki-lin]] (the [[Greater kappa\|kappas]] being another eastern borrow.) In terms of their actual appearance they might refer to Native American "little people" myths who made rock art, where the story behind Shadow Valley had involved [[Selias Jodame\|reference]] to Native Americans. They might also refer to the idea that faeries were "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch-Cult_in_Western_Europe little people]" still living in the stone age that was [https://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Faerie taken up] by Lovecraft circle writers. Bonespear Tower is obviously based on "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/27/the-colossus-of-ylourgne The Colossus of Ylourgne]" by Clark Ashton Smith, whose [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averoigne Averoigne] stories clearly influenced the design of [[Castle Anwyn]]. This is in addition to horrific miscegenation and demonic cults making human sacrifices for forbidden knowledge. But [http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/4/4d/Dana_becomes_Zuul_04.png/revision/latest?cb=20120627015544 various aspects] of [http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/media/loc_ca_studio_real07.jpg the tower] can [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VWb1z6ZwUoY/maxresdefault.jpg be taken] as [http://www.runleiarun.com/ghostbusters/pictures/chapter5-picture-boom.jpg reminiscent] of Ghostbusters.

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INIQUITY: behind the scenes: cite the colossus of ylourgne by clark ashton smith

2017-04-27T14:15:07Z

behind the scenes: cite the colossus of ylourgne by clark ashton smith

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	There is a recurring pattern to the surrounding creatures about [[Foggy Valley]]. These are [[Moaning spirit#Behind The Scenes\|transformed hybrids]] of men with other living beings, which was to a large extent the theme of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. [[Vesperti]] were elf-bat hybrids designed to be anti-magical, like the [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], with later lore establishing their plane shifting talents. Their creator "Vespertinae" contains the [[Iruaric]] suffix for "past." "Vesperti" itself is Latin for "in the evening", which would refer to their bat wings. [[Pra'eda]] is Latin for game taken in a hunt, or the plunder and spoils of war, and are wolf-men things. The [[Shan]] are also wolf-men, Gaelic for "[[The Broken Lands and ki-lin\|wise]]", or Chinese for "[[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind The Scenes\|mountain]]" (or "hill" next to the hillock.) [[Waern]] are undead canines with [[Greater vruul\|green eyes]], an old Scottish word for defense of a fortification. They also contain the Iruaric word for "thirsty", loosely meaning "one who acts as the thirst for souls" as a [[magru#Behind The Scenes\|composite glyph]], though this is probably coincidental. [[Dybbuk\|Dybbuks]] are soul transference possession [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk#History spirits] in Jewish mythology, which is paralleled by the [[The Temple of Darkness\|temporal premise]] of The Broken Lands. The inscription at the top of the tower door is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah mezuzah], which ward off dybbuks and roots the humanoid [[mezic\|mezics]], who are most likely Maleskari [[Spectral miner#Behind The Scenes\|cultists]].		There is a recurring pattern to the surrounding creatures about [[Foggy Valley]]. These are [[Moaning spirit#Behind The Scenes\|transformed hybrids]] of men with other living beings, which was to a large extent the theme of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. [[Vesperti]] were elf-bat hybrids designed to be anti-magical, like the [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], with later lore establishing their plane shifting talents. Their creator "Vespertinae" contains the [[Iruaric]] suffix for "past." "Vesperti" itself is Latin for "in the evening", which would refer to their bat wings. [[Pra'eda]] is Latin for game taken in a hunt, or the plunder and spoils of war, and are wolf-men things. The [[Shan]] are also wolf-men, Gaelic for "[[The Broken Lands and ki-lin\|wise]]", or Chinese for "[[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind The Scenes\|mountain]]" (or "hill" next to the hillock.) [[Waern]] are undead canines with [[Greater vruul\|green eyes]], an old Scottish word for defense of a fortification. They also contain the Iruaric word for "thirsty", loosely meaning "one who acts as the thirst for souls" as a [[magru#Behind The Scenes\|composite glyph]], though this is probably coincidental. [[Dybbuk\|Dybbuks]] are soul transference possession [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk#History spirits] in Jewish mythology, which is paralleled by the [[The Temple of Darkness\|temporal premise]] of The Broken Lands. The inscription at the top of the tower door is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah mezuzah], which ward off dybbuks and roots the humanoid [[mezic\|mezics]], who are most likely Maleskari [[Spectral miner#Behind The Scenes\|cultists]].

	Bonespear said his students scattered and would try to help the demon unless they had come to their senses like him. Their cult presumably performed all of the [http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Ivo_Shandor unnecessary surgeries], and built the tower of bone to summon Maleskari, with Bonespear betraying them but coming to regret his folly. [[Fenghai]] are likely an allusion (if only by name) to the chimerical so-called "Chinese phoenix" fenghuang, the female analog of a dragon, which parallels the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|"spirit born of death"]] premise of The Broken Lands. It might also play off the "feng shui" of harmonizing things with their surroundings, involving the "qi" concept, which is relevant because of the [[ki-lin]] (the [[Greater kappa\|kappas]] being another eastern borrow.) In terms of their actual appearance they might refer to Native American "little people" myths who made rock art, where the story behind Shadow Valley had involved [[Selias Jodame\|reference]] to Native Americans. ~~Unlike~~ ~~Shadow~~ ~~Valley~~ ~~and~~ ~~The~~ ~~Broken~~ ~~Lands,~~ ~~there~~ is ~~seemingly~~ no ~~''specific''~~ ~~allegory~~ to a ~~whole~~ Lovecraft ~~story,~~ ~~other~~ ~~than~~ the ~~general~~ ~~theme~~ of horrific miscegenation and demonic cults making human sacrifices for forbidden knowledge. But [http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/4/4d/Dana_becomes_Zuul_04.png/revision/latest?cb=20120627015544 various aspects] of [http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/media/loc_ca_studio_real07.jpg the tower] can [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VWb1z6ZwUoY/maxresdefault.jpg be taken] as [http://www.runleiarun.com/ghostbusters/pictures/chapter5-picture-boom.jpg reminiscent] of Ghostbusters.		Bonespear said his students scattered and would try to help the demon unless they had come to their senses like him. Their cult presumably performed all of the [http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Ivo_Shandor unnecessary surgeries], and built the tower of bone to summon Maleskari, with Bonespear betraying them but coming to regret his folly. [[Fenghai]] are likely an allusion (if only by name) to the chimerical so-called "Chinese phoenix" fenghuang, the female analog of a dragon, which parallels the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|"spirit born of death"]] premise of The Broken Lands. It might also play off the "feng shui" of harmonizing things with their surroundings, involving the "qi" concept, which is relevant because of the [[ki-lin]] (the [[Greater kappa\|kappas]] being another eastern borrow.) In terms of their actual appearance they might refer to Native American "little people" myths who made rock art, where the story behind Shadow Valley had involved [[Selias Jodame\|reference]] to Native Americans. They might also refer to the idea that faeries were "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch-Cult_in_Western_Europe little people]" still living in the stone age that was [https://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Faerie taken up] by Lovecraft circle writers. Bonespear Tower is obviously based on "[http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/27/the-colossus-of-ylourgne The Colossus of Ylourgne]" by Clark Ashton Smith, whose [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averoigne Averoigne] stories clearly influenced the design of [[Castle Anwyn]]. This is in addition to horrific miscegenation and demonic cults making human sacrifices for forbidden knowledge. But [http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/4/4d/Dana_becomes_Zuul_04.png/revision/latest?cb=20120627015544 various aspects] of [http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/media/loc_ca_studio_real07.jpg the tower] can [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VWb1z6ZwUoY/maxresdefault.jpg be taken] as [http://www.runleiarun.com/ghostbusters/pictures/chapter5-picture-boom.jpg reminiscent] of Ghostbusters.

	==External Links==		==External Links==

INIQUITY: added a line about the fenghai

2017-03-01T10:54:36Z

added a line about the fenghai

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	'''Maleskari''' was the Demon Lord of Death and Undeath, an especially powerful [[Ordainers\|Ordainer]] who resembled an enormous armored skeleton. He wore a skeletal face mask which was identical to his own face. One of the most powerful Demon Lords known to exist in [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]] history, other demons often swore fealty to him without question, or ~~perhaps~~ impersonated him. He was a ~~mastery~~ of necromancy. Maleskari was reintroduced into [[Elanthia\|Elanthian]] history for [[Bonespear Tower]], which he supposedly rules, though the green blur witnesses reported bears no resemblance to him. The tower would presumably ''become'' his body if he was fully manifested. The tower door cryptically asks, "Who's he?"		'''Maleskari''' was the Demon Lord of Death and Undeath, an especially powerful [[Ordainers\|Ordainer]] who resembled an enormous armored skeleton. He wore a skeletal face mask which was identical to his own face. One of the most powerful Demon Lords known to exist in [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]] history, other demons often swore fealty to him without question, or possibly even impersonated him. He was a master of necromancy. Maleskari was reintroduced into [[Elanthia\|Elanthian]] history for [[Bonespear Tower]], which he supposedly rules, though the [http://img.cinemablend.com/cb/d/2/e/c/7/c/d2ec7c77557980d6e1b0399192e75343898cef53b7cc3fb719cdb4ba35daba74.jpg green blur] witnesses reported bears no resemblance to him. The tower would presumably ''become'' his body if he was fully manifested. The tower door cryptically asks, "Who's he?"

	[[Image:Bonespeardoor.jpg\|thumb\|upright=0.75\|right]]		[[Image:Bonespeardoor.jpg\|thumb\|upright=0.75\|right]]
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	There is a recurring pattern to the surrounding creatures about [[Foggy Valley]]. These are [[Moaning spirit#Behind The Scenes\|transformed hybrids]] of men with other living beings, which was to a large extent the theme of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. [[Vesperti]] were elf-bat hybrids designed to be anti-magical, like the [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], with later lore establishing their plane shifting talents. Their creator "Vespertinae" contains the [[Iruaric]] suffix for "past." "Vesperti" itself is Latin for "in the evening", which would refer to their bat wings. [[Pra'eda]] is Latin for game taken in a hunt, or the plunder and spoils of war, and are wolf-men things. The [[Shan]] are also wolf-men, Gaelic for "[[The Broken Lands and ki-lin\|wise]]", or Chinese for "[[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind The Scenes\|mountain]]" (or "hill" next to the hillock.) [[Waern]] are undead canines with [[Greater vruul\|green eyes]], an old Scottish word for defense of a fortification. They also contain the Iruaric word for "thirsty", loosely meaning "one who acts as the thirst for souls" as a [[magru#Behind The Scenes\|composite glyph]], though this is probably coincidental. [[Dybbuk\|Dybbuks]] are soul transference possession [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk#History spirits] in Jewish mythology, which is paralleled by the [[The Temple of Darkness\|temporal premise]] of The Broken Lands. The inscription at the top of the tower door is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah mezuzah], which ward off dybbuks and roots the humanoid [[mezic\|mezics]], who are most likely Maleskari [[Spectral miner#Behind The Scenes\|cultists]].		There is a recurring pattern to the surrounding creatures about [[Foggy Valley]]. These are [[Moaning spirit#Behind The Scenes\|transformed hybrids]] of men with other living beings, which was to a large extent the theme of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. [[Vesperti]] were elf-bat hybrids designed to be anti-magical, like the [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], with later lore establishing their plane shifting talents. Their creator "Vespertinae" contains the [[Iruaric]] suffix for "past." "Vesperti" itself is Latin for "in the evening", which would refer to their bat wings. [[Pra'eda]] is Latin for game taken in a hunt, or the plunder and spoils of war, and are wolf-men things. The [[Shan]] are also wolf-men, Gaelic for "[[The Broken Lands and ki-lin\|wise]]", or Chinese for "[[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind The Scenes\|mountain]]" (or "hill" next to the hillock.) [[Waern]] are undead canines with [[Greater vruul\|green eyes]], an old Scottish word for defense of a fortification. They also contain the Iruaric word for "thirsty", loosely meaning "one who acts as the thirst for souls" as a [[magru#Behind The Scenes\|composite glyph]], though this is probably coincidental. [[Dybbuk\|Dybbuks]] are soul transference possession [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk#History spirits] in Jewish mythology, which is paralleled by the [[The Temple of Darkness\|temporal premise]] of The Broken Lands. The inscription at the top of the tower door is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah mezuzah], which ward off dybbuks and roots the humanoid [[mezic\|mezics]], who are most likely Maleskari [[Spectral miner#Behind The Scenes\|cultists]].

	Bonespear said his students scattered and would try to help the demon unless they had come to their senses like him. Their cult presumably performed all of the [http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Ivo_Shandor unnecessary surgeries], and built the tower of bone to summon Maleskari, with Bonespear betraying them but coming to regret his folly. [[Fenghai]] are likely an allusion (if only by name) to the chimerical so-called "Chinese phoenix" fenghuang, the female analog of a dragon, which parallels the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|"spirit born of death"]] premise of The Broken Lands. It might also play off the "feng shui" of harmonizing things with their surroundings, involving the "qi" concept, which is relevant because of the [[ki-lin]] (the [[Greater kappa\|kappas]] being another eastern borrow.) Unlike Shadow Valley and The Broken Lands, there is seemingly no ''specific'' ~~Lovecraftian~~ allegory, ~~but~~ [http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/4/4d/Dana_becomes_Zuul_04.png/revision/latest?cb=20120627015544 various aspects] of [http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/media/loc_ca_studio_real07.jpg the tower] can [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VWb1z6ZwUoY/maxresdefault.jpg be taken] as [http://www.runleiarun.com/ghostbusters/pictures/chapter5-picture-boom.jpg reminiscent] of Ghostbusters.		Bonespear said his students scattered and would try to help the demon unless they had come to their senses like him. Their cult presumably performed all of the [http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Ivo_Shandor unnecessary surgeries], and built the tower of bone to summon Maleskari, with Bonespear betraying them but coming to regret his folly. [[Fenghai]] are likely an allusion (if only by name) to the chimerical so-called "Chinese phoenix" fenghuang, the female analog of a dragon, which parallels the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|"spirit born of death"]] premise of The Broken Lands. It might also play off the "feng shui" of harmonizing things with their surroundings, involving the "qi" concept, which is relevant because of the [[ki-lin]] (the [[Greater kappa\|kappas]] being another eastern borrow.) In terms of their actual appearance they might refer to Native American "little people" myths who made rock art, where the story behind Shadow Valley had involved [[Selias Jodame\|reference]] to Native Americans. Unlike Shadow Valley and The Broken Lands, there is seemingly no ''specific'' allegory to a whole Lovecraft story, other than the general theme of horrific miscegenation and demonic cults making human sacrifices for forbidden knowledge. But [http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/4/4d/Dana_becomes_Zuul_04.png/revision/latest?cb=20120627015544 various aspects] of [http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/media/loc_ca_studio_real07.jpg the tower] can [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VWb1z6ZwUoY/maxresdefault.jpg be taken] as [http://www.runleiarun.com/ghostbusters/pictures/chapter5-picture-boom.jpg reminiscent] of Ghostbusters.

	==External Links==		==External Links==

INIQUITY: rearranged, made his powers and nature its own section, added possible Rift depiction in behind the scenes

2017-03-01T10:36:24Z

rearranged, made his powers and nature its own section, added possible Rift depiction in behind the scenes

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INIQUITY: elaborate on Maleskari's powers and skeletal body

2017-02-21T03:00:16Z

elaborate on Maleskari's powers and skeletal body

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	'''Maleskari''' was the Demon Lord of Death and Undeath, an especially powerful [[Ordainers\|Ordainer]] who resembled an enormous armored skeleton. He wore a skeletal face mask which was identical to his own face. One of the most powerful Demon Lords known to exist in [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]] history, other demons often swore fealty to him without question, or perhaps impersonated him by ~~lying~~ ~~about~~ ~~their~~ ~~own~~ ~~identity~~. He was reintroduced into [[Elanthia\|Elanthian]] history for [[Bonespear Tower]], which he supposedly rules, though the ~~demon~~ ~~who~~ ~~haunts~~ it bears no resemblance to him. The tower cryptically asks, "Who's he?"		'''Maleskari''' was the Demon Lord of Death and Undeath, an especially powerful [[Ordainers\|Ordainer]] who resembled an enormous armored skeleton. He wore a skeletal face mask which was identical to his own face. One of the most powerful Demon Lords known to exist in [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]] history, other demons often swore fealty to him without question, or perhaps impersonated him. He was a mastery of necromancy. Maleskari was reintroduced into [[Elanthia\|Elanthian]] history for [[Bonespear Tower]], which he supposedly rules, though the green blur witnesses reported bears no resemblance to him. The tower would presumably ''become'' his body if he was fully manifested. The tower door cryptically asks, "Who's he?"

	[[Image:Bonespeardoor.jpg\|thumb\|upright=0.75\|right]]		[[Image:Bonespeardoor.jpg\|thumb\|upright=0.75\|right]]
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	==Behind The Scenes==		==Behind The Scenes==
	Bonespear Tower includes a number of subtle [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]] references, such as Maleskari and the [[eidolon]], which is the archaic precursor of [[Idolone]]. The courtyard includes a [https://elanthipedia.play.net/mediawiki/index.php/Kygar%27s_Pub memorial] marker to GM Kygar, who passed away in 1998, whose character race was a Dwarf. He was the principal designer of [[The Broken Lands]], the [[Lysierian Hills]], [[Teras Isle]], among other things, and was the lead designer and product manager of Modus Operandi. [[Foggy Valley]] right outside the Bonespear Tower area originally had [[giant fog beetle\|giant fog beetles]] likely for the same reason. The height difference on the door writing ~~may~~ reflect a [[hoard\|recurring number.]] What it probably represents is the writing of something the height of an Ordainer, responded with writing at the height of a Dwarf. This would be alluding to the [[Uthex Kathiasas\|immortality]] premise [[Pales\|behind]] The Broken Lands, which involved the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|malevolent]] [[Vesperti\|transmogrification]] of lifeforms. Maleskari had a [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|Terrorite]] demon lieutenant, as well as Demon Scourge retainers who rode [[night mare\|night mares]], and most demons would obey him.		Bonespear Tower includes a number of subtle [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]] references, such as Maleskari and the [[eidolon]], which is a ghost from Greek mythology but also the archaic precursor of [[Idolone]]. The courtyard includes a [https://elanthipedia.play.net/mediawiki/index.php/Kygar%27s_Pub memorial] marker to GM Kygar, who passed away in 1998, whose character race was a Dwarf. He was the principal designer of [[The Broken Lands]], the [[Lysierian Hills]], [[Teras Isle]], among other things, and was the lead designer and product manager of Modus Operandi. [[Foggy Valley]] right outside the Bonespear Tower area originally had [[giant fog beetle\|giant fog beetles]] likely for the same reason. The height difference on the door writing could reflect a [[hoard\|recurring number.]] What it probably represents is the writing of something the height of an Ordainer, responded with writing at the height of a Dwarf. This would be alluding to the [[Uthex Kathiasas\|immortality]] premise [[Pales\|behind]] The Broken Lands, which involved the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|malevolent]] [[Vesperti\|transmogrification]] of lifeforms. Maleskari had a [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|Terrorite]] demon lieutenant, as well as Demon Scourge retainers who rode [[night mare\|night mares]], and most demons would obey him.
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	The spectral image of a dwarven mage fades into view before you. The grim dwarf looks you straight in the eye and while his lips do not move at all, you know that he has just told you to turn back and leave this place, never to return...clearly not as a threat, but as a dire warning. Shedding a single tear, the mage turns from you as he slowly fades away.		The spectral image of a dwarven mage fades into view before you. The grim dwarf looks you straight in the eye and while his lips do not move at all, you know that he has just told you to turn back and leave this place, never to return...clearly not as a threat, but as a dire warning. Shedding a single tear, the mage turns from you as he slowly fades away.
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			When the explosion at the top of the tower happened, the way up the hill was finally cleared. Adventurers encountered servants of Maleskari, which included not only beasts like the [[waern]], but [[massive pyrothag]]s as well. The tower itself moved. Within the tower the demon was able to summon bursts of flames and ice spirits. Consequently, the mutual presence of pyrothags with [[fire sprite]]s and fog beetles on Teras Isle is probably not a coincidence, being implicitly related to [[Ur-Daemon\|the beast]] in the [[Glaes Caverns]]. Similar to other such areas, the tower was exposed to powerful corrosive acid, as evidenced by a melted door. Maleskari was an ice oriented Ordainer, who had the ability to immolate themselves in flames or cold, exploding the blast out from themselves in an unnatural wind. When a demon is summoned without being controlled or mastered fast enough in [[Rolemaster]] there is an "impact" backlash on the summoner scaled by the power of the demon. It is impossible under ordinary conditions to control an Ordainer. When Bonespear said he had trapped the demon in a barrier, what he would have really meant is that the tower ''is'' the demon, and the anti-magic field surrounding it has stopped it from moving.
⚫	The Bonespear Tower story brought the premise of binding demonic into weapons back with the idea that a badly warped "huge misshapen sword" was the key to Bonespear trapping Maleskari again in a more harmless way. The slayer demon scimitar had claimed to serve Maleskari. However, it was implicitly a servant of the dark goddess [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind The Scenes\|Orgiana]], which gives it an [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|unusual relationship]] with Ordainers. It is worth noting that the lost village of [[Jaron Galarn#Behind The Scenes\|"Velaskar"]] from the [[A Popular History of Shadow Valley\|Shadow Valley story]], which was next to a [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|dormant]] Terrorite demon, is strikingly similar to Maleskari with the suffix ~~being~~ an [[Iruaric]] pluralization. It is speculative but not implausible to ~~note~~ that [[Bandur Etrevion]] represented himself symbolically, with the point of [[The Dark Path\|ascension]], as a demon lord of undeath and would have ruled over destroyed Velaskar.

		⚫	The Bonespear Tower story brought the premise of binding demonic into weapons back with the idea that a badly warped "huge misshapen sword" was the key to Bonespear trapping Maleskari again in a more harmless way. The slayer demon scimitar from the [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]] had claimed to serve Maleskari. However, it was implicitly a servant of the dark goddess [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind The Scenes\|Orgiana]], which gives it an [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|unusual relationship]] with Ordainers. It is worth noting that the lost village of [[Jaron Galarn#Behind The Scenes\|"Velaskar"]] from the [[A Popular History of Shadow Valley\|Shadow Valley story]], which was next to a [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|dormant]] Terrorite demon, is strikingly similar to Maleskari with the suffix becoming an [[Iruaric]] pluralization. It is speculative but not implausible to point out that [[Bandur Etrevion]] represented himself symbolically, with the point of [[The Dark Path\|ascension]], as a demon lord of undeath and would have ruled over destroyed Velaskar.

	This strange mural in [[Shadow Valley]] may be a dual reference to the Terrorite, a serpent demon, and Maleskari the more powerful enormous skeleton (there is also a [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind The Scenes\|portentous]] [[Makiri#Behind The Scenes\|dragon mural]]):		This strange mural in [[Shadow Valley]] may be a dual reference to the Terrorite, a serpent demon, and Maleskari the more powerful enormous skeleton (there is also a [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind The Scenes\|portentous]] [[Makiri#Behind The Scenes\|dragon mural]]):
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	The symbol looks a little like a skeleton key, the top semi-circular with three dots for eyes and nose, below them a row of markings forming a mouth and a long jagged stroke downward representing the teeth of the key.		The symbol looks a little like a skeleton key, the top semi-circular with three dots for eyes and nose, below them a row of markings forming a mouth and a long jagged stroke downward representing the teeth of the key.
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	There is a recurring pattern to the surrounding creatures about [[Foggy Valley]]. These are [[Moaning spirit#Behind The Scenes\|transformed hybrids]] of men with other living beings, which was to a large extent the theme of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. [[Vesperti]] were elf-bat hybrids designed to be anti-magical, like the [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], with later lore establishing their plane shifting talents. Their creator "Vespertinae" contains the [[Iruaric]] suffix for "past." "Vesperti" itself is Latin for "in the evening", which would refer to their bat wings. [[Pra'eda]] is Latin for game taken in a hunt, or the plunder and spoils of war, and are wolf-men things. The [[Shan]] are also wolf-men, Gaelic for "[[The Broken Lands and ki-lin\|wise]]", or Chinese for "[[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind The Scenes\|mountain]]" (or "hill" next to the hillock.) [[Waern]] are undead canines with [[Greater vruul\|green eyes]], an old Scottish word for defense of a fortification. They also contain the Iruaric word for "thirsty", loosely meaning "one who acts as the thirst for souls" as a [[magru#Behind The Scenes\|composite glyph]], though this is probably coincidental. [[Dybbuk\|Dybbuks]] are soul transference possession [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk#History spirits] in Jewish mythology, which is paralleled by the [[The Temple of Darkness\|temporal premise]] of The Broken Lands. The inscription at the top of the tower door is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah mezuzah], which roots the humanoid [[mezic\|mezics]], ~~probably~~ Maleskari [[Spectral miner#Behind The Scenes\|cultists]]. [[Fenghai]] are likely an allusion (if only by name) to the chimerical so-called "Chinese phoenix" fenghuang, the female analog of a dragon, which parallels the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|"spirit born of death"]] premise of The Broken Lands. It might also play off the "feng shui" of harmonizing things with their surroundings, involving the "qi" concept, which is relevant because of the [[ki-lin]] (the [[Greater kappa\|kappas]] being another eastern borrow.)		There is a recurring pattern to the surrounding creatures about [[Foggy Valley]]. These are [[Moaning spirit#Behind The Scenes\|transformed hybrids]] of men with other living beings, which was to a large extent the theme of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. [[Vesperti]] were elf-bat hybrids designed to be anti-magical, like the [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], with later lore establishing their plane shifting talents. Their creator "Vespertinae" contains the [[Iruaric]] suffix for "past." "Vesperti" itself is Latin for "in the evening", which would refer to their bat wings. [[Pra'eda]] is Latin for game taken in a hunt, or the plunder and spoils of war, and are wolf-men things. The [[Shan]] are also wolf-men, Gaelic for "[[The Broken Lands and ki-lin\|wise]]", or Chinese for "[[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind The Scenes\|mountain]]" (or "hill" next to the hillock.) [[Waern]] are undead canines with [[Greater vruul\|green eyes]], an old Scottish word for defense of a fortification. They also contain the Iruaric word for "thirsty", loosely meaning "one who acts as the thirst for souls" as a [[magru#Behind The Scenes\|composite glyph]], though this is probably coincidental. [[Dybbuk\|Dybbuks]] are soul transference possession [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk#History spirits] in Jewish mythology, which is paralleled by the [[The Temple of Darkness\|temporal premise]] of The Broken Lands. The inscription at the top of the tower door is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah mezuzah], which roots the humanoid [[mezic\|mezics]], who are most likely Maleskari [[Spectral miner#Behind The Scenes\|cultists]]. (Bonespear said his student had scattered and would probably try to help the demon unless they had come to their senses like him.) [[Fenghai]] are likely an allusion (if only by name) to the chimerical so-called "Chinese phoenix" fenghuang, the female analog of a dragon, which parallels the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|"spirit born of death"]] premise of The Broken Lands. It might also play off the "feng shui" of harmonizing things with their surroundings, involving the "qi" concept, which is relevant because of the [[ki-lin]] (the [[Greater kappa\|kappas]] being another eastern borrow.) Unlike Shadow Valley and The Broken Lands, there does not appear to be a Lovecraftian allegory, but [http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/4/4d/Dana_becomes_Zuul_04.png/revision/latest?cb=20120627015544 various aspects] of [http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/media/loc_ca_studio_real07.jpg the tower] can [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VWb1z6ZwUoY/maxresdefault.jpg be taken] as [http://www.runleiarun.com/ghostbusters/pictures/chapter5-picture-boom.jpg reminiscent] of Ghostbusters.

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	==Behind The Scenes==		==Behind The Scenes==
	Bonespear Tower includes a number of subtle [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]] references, such as Maleskari and the [[eidolon]], which is the archaic precursor of [[Idolone]]. The courtyard includes a memorial marker to GM Kygar, who passed away in 1998, whose character race was a Dwarf. He was the principal designer of [[The Broken Lands]], the [[Lysierian Hills]], [[Teras Isle]], among other things, and was the lead designer and product manager of Modus Operandi. [[Foggy Valley]] right outside the Bonespear Tower area originally had [[giant fog beetle\|giant fog beetles]] likely for the same reason. The height difference on the door writing may reflect a [[hoard\|recurring number.]] What it probably represents is the writing of something the height of an Ordainer, responded with writing at the height of a Dwarf. This would be alluding to the [[Uthex Kathiasas\|immortality]] premise [[Pales\|behind]] The Broken Lands, which involved the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|malevolent]] [[Vesperti\|transmogrification]] of lifeforms. Maleskari had a [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|Terrorite]] demon lieutenant, as well as Demon Scourge retainers who rode [[night mare\|night mares]], and most demons would obey him.		Bonespear Tower includes a number of subtle [[ICE age\|I.C.E. Age]] references, such as Maleskari and the [[eidolon]], which is the archaic precursor of [[Idolone]]. The courtyard includes a [https://elanthipedia.play.net/mediawiki/index.php/Kygar%27s_Pub memorial] marker to GM Kygar, who passed away in 1998, whose character race was a Dwarf. He was the principal designer of [[The Broken Lands]], the [[Lysierian Hills]], [[Teras Isle]], among other things, and was the lead designer and product manager of Modus Operandi. [[Foggy Valley]] right outside the Bonespear Tower area originally had [[giant fog beetle\|giant fog beetles]] likely for the same reason. The height difference on the door writing may reflect a [[hoard\|recurring number.]] What it probably represents is the writing of something the height of an Ordainer, responded with writing at the height of a Dwarf. This would be alluding to the [[Uthex Kathiasas\|immortality]] premise [[Pales\|behind]] The Broken Lands, which involved the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|malevolent]] [[Vesperti\|transmogrification]] of lifeforms. Maleskari had a [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|Terrorite]] demon lieutenant, as well as Demon Scourge retainers who rode [[night mare\|night mares]], and most demons would obey him.
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	The spectral image of a dwarven mage fades into view before you. The grim dwarf looks you straight in the eye and while his lips do not move at all, you know that he has just told you to turn back and leave this place, never to return...clearly not as a threat, but as a dire warning. Shedding a single tear, the mage turns from you as he slowly fades away.		The spectral image of a dwarven mage fades into view before you. The grim dwarf looks you straight in the eye and while his lips do not move at all, you know that he has just told you to turn back and leave this place, never to return...clearly not as a threat, but as a dire warning. Shedding a single tear, the mage turns from you as he slowly fades away.
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	The Bonespear Tower story brought the premise of binding demonic into weapons back with the idea that a badly warped "huge misshapen sword" was the key to Bonespear trapping Maleskari again in a more harmless way. The slayer demon scimitar had claimed to serve Maleskari. However, it was implicitly a servant of the dark goddess [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind The Scenes\|Orgiana]], which gives it an [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|unusual relationship]] with Ordainers. It is worth noting that the lost village of "Velaskar" from the [[A Popular History of Shadow Valley\|Shadow Valley story]], which was next to a [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|dormant]] Terrorite demon, is strikingly similar to Maleskari with the suffix being an [[Iruaric]] pluralization. It is speculative but not implausible to note that [[Bandur Etrevion]] represented himself symbolically, with the point of [[The Dark Path\|ascension]], as a demon lord of undeath and would have ruled over destroyed Velaskar.		The Bonespear Tower story brought the premise of binding demonic into weapons back with the idea that a badly warped "huge misshapen sword" was the key to Bonespear trapping Maleskari again in a more harmless way. The slayer demon scimitar had claimed to serve Maleskari. However, it was implicitly a servant of the dark goddess [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind The Scenes\|Orgiana]], which gives it an [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|unusual relationship]] with Ordainers. It is worth noting that the lost village of [[Jaron Galarn#Behind The Scenes\|"Velaskar"]] from the [[A Popular History of Shadow Valley\|Shadow Valley story]], which was next to a [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|dormant]] Terrorite demon, is strikingly similar to Maleskari with the suffix being an [[Iruaric]] pluralization. It is speculative but not implausible to note that [[Bandur Etrevion]] represented himself symbolically, with the point of [[The Dark Path\|ascension]], as a demon lord of undeath and would have ruled over destroyed Velaskar.

	This strange mural in [[Shadow Valley]] may be a dual reference to the Terrorite, a serpent demon, and Maleskari the more powerful enormous skeleton (there is also a [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind The Scenes\|portentous]] [[Makiri#Behind The Scenes\|dragon mural]]):		This strange mural in [[Shadow Valley]] may be a dual reference to the Terrorite, a serpent demon, and Maleskari the more powerful enormous skeleton (there is also a [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind The Scenes\|portentous]] [[Makiri#Behind The Scenes\|dragon mural]]):
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	The symbol looks a little like a skeleton key, the top semi-circular with three dots for eyes and nose, below them a row of markings forming a mouth and a long jagged stroke downward representing the teeth of the key.		The symbol looks a little like a skeleton key, the top semi-circular with three dots for eyes and nose, below them a row of markings forming a mouth and a long jagged stroke downward representing the teeth of the key.
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	There is a recurring pattern to the surrounding creatures about [[Foggy Valley]]. These are transformed hybrids of men with other living beings, which was to a large extent the theme of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. [[Vesperti]] were elf-bat hybrids designed to be anti-magical, like the [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], with later lore establishing their plane shifting talents. Their creator "Vespertinae" contains the [[Iruaric]] suffix for "past." "Vesperti" itself is Latin for "in the evening", which would refer to their bat wings. [[Pra'eda]] is Latin for game taken in a hunt, or the plunder and spoils of war, and are wolf-men things. The [[Shan]] are also wolf-men, Gaelic for "[[The Broken Lands and ki-lin\|wise]]", or Chinese for "[[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind The Scenes\|mountain]]" (or "hill" next to the hillock.) [[Waern]] are undead canines with [[Greater vruul\|green eyes]], an old Scottish word for defense of a fortification. They also contain the Iruaric word for "thirsty", loosely meaning "one who acts as the thirst for souls" as a [[magru#Behind The Scenes\|composite glyph]], though this is probably coincidental. [[Dybbuk\|Dybbuks]] are soul transference possession [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk#History spirits] in Jewish mythology, which is paralleled by the [[The Temple of Darkness\|temporal premise]] of The Broken Lands. The inscription at the top of the tower door is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah mezuzah], which roots the humanoid [[mezic\|mezics]], probably Maleskari [[Spectral miner#Behind The Scenes\|cultists]]. [[Fenghai]] are likely an allusion (if only by name) to the chimerical so-called "Chinese phoenix" fenghuang, the female analog of a dragon, which parallels the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|"spirit born of death"]] premise of The Broken Lands. It might also play off the "feng shui" of harmonizing things with their surroundings, involving the "qi" concept, which is relevant because of the [[ki-lin]] (the [[Greater kappa\|kappas]] being another eastern borrow.)		There is a recurring pattern to the surrounding creatures about [[Foggy Valley]]. These are [[Moaning spirit#Behind The Scenes\|transformed hybrids]] of men with other living beings, which was to a large extent the theme of [[Uthex Kathiasas]]. [[Vesperti]] were elf-bat hybrids designed to be anti-magical, like the [[dark vortece\|dark vorteces]], with later lore establishing their plane shifting talents. Their creator "Vespertinae" contains the [[Iruaric]] suffix for "past." "Vesperti" itself is Latin for "in the evening", which would refer to their bat wings. [[Pra'eda]] is Latin for game taken in a hunt, or the plunder and spoils of war, and are wolf-men things. The [[Shan]] are also wolf-men, Gaelic for "[[The Broken Lands and ki-lin\|wise]]", or Chinese for "[[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind The Scenes\|mountain]]" (or "hill" next to the hillock.) [[Waern]] are undead canines with [[Greater vruul\|green eyes]], an old Scottish word for defense of a fortification. They also contain the Iruaric word for "thirsty", loosely meaning "one who acts as the thirst for souls" as a [[magru#Behind The Scenes\|composite glyph]], though this is probably coincidental. [[Dybbuk\|Dybbuks]] are soul transference possession [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk#History spirits] in Jewish mythology, which is paralleled by the [[The Temple of Darkness\|temporal premise]] of The Broken Lands. The inscription at the top of the tower door is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezuzah mezuzah], which roots the humanoid [[mezic\|mezics]], probably Maleskari [[Spectral miner#Behind The Scenes\|cultists]]. [[Fenghai]] are likely an allusion (if only by name) to the chimerical so-called "Chinese phoenix" fenghuang, the female analog of a dragon, which parallels the [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|"spirit born of death"]] premise of The Broken Lands. It might also play off the "feng shui" of harmonizing things with their surroundings, involving the "qi" concept, which is relevant because of the [[ki-lin]] (the [[Greater kappa\|kappas]] being another eastern borrow.)

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	The Bonespear Tower story brought the premise of binding demonic into weapons back with the idea that a badly warped "huge misshapen sword" was the key to Bonespear trapping Maleskari again in a more harmless way. The slayer demon scimitar had claimed to serve Maleskari. However, it was implicitly a servant of the dark goddess [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind The Scenes\|Orgiana]], which gives it an [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|unusual relationship]] with Ordainers. It is worth noting that the lost village of "Velaskar" from the [[A Popular History of Shadow Valley\|Shadow Valley story]], which was next to a [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|dormant]] Terrorite demon, is strikingly similar to Maleskari with the suffix being an [[Iruaric]] pluralization. It is speculative but not implausible to note that [[Bandur Etrevion]] represented himself symbolically, with the point of [[The Dark Path\|ascension]], as a demon lord of undeath and would have ruled over destroyed Velaskar.		The Bonespear Tower story brought the premise of binding demonic into weapons back with the idea that a badly warped "huge misshapen sword" was the key to Bonespear trapping Maleskari again in a more harmless way. The slayer demon scimitar had claimed to serve Maleskari. However, it was implicitly a servant of the dark goddess [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind The Scenes\|Orgiana]], which gives it an [[Lesser vruul#Behind The Scenes\|unusual relationship]] with Ordainers. It is worth noting that the lost village of "Velaskar" from the [[A Popular History of Shadow Valley\|Shadow Valley story]], which was next to a [[Muylari#Behind The Scenes\|dormant]] Terrorite demon, is strikingly similar to Maleskari with the suffix being an [[Iruaric]] pluralization. It is speculative but not implausible to note that [[Bandur Etrevion]] represented himself symbolically, with the point of [[The Dark Path\|ascension]], as a demon lord of undeath and would have ruled over destroyed Velaskar.

	This strange mural in [[Shadow Valley]] may be a dual reference to ~~the forms of~~ the Terrorite, a serpent demon, and Maleskari the more powerful enormous skeleton (there is also a dragon mural):		This strange mural in [[Shadow Valley]] may be a dual reference to the Terrorite, a serpent demon, and Maleskari the more powerful enormous skeleton (there is also a [[The Temple of Darkness#Behind The Scenes\|portentous]] [[Makiri#Behind The Scenes\|dragon mural]]):
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