The Legend of Keldin

This is a legend of a peasant who rose to great heights. He destroyed the Lich Drexl after the War of Creation.

The lower classes believe our hero, Keldin, really lived, while the upper classes believe it’s just a legend. Both sides of society have motives for believing what they do, and the truth is unknown.

Keldin’s village was on the side of the winter gods during the war. Clerics of Malkis came through the village looking for those gifted enough to join their cause. They found Arkara, Keldin’s mother, and took her away against her will under the premise that she could become a great and powerful sorcerer for their cause.

Keldin takes off at an early age hoping to bring her back.

He gets involved in the war on the side of the Summer Gods when the trail runs dry on finding his mother. He ends up on a quest to take out Drexl the Lich. Drexl was a sorcerer from another dimension. Keldin searches for Drexl's lair to obtain his Phylactery.

Keldin discovers the lair of Drexl, fights his way through, only to Arkara, find his mother, working for Drexl and the final guardian of his Phylactery. Arkara was trained by the clerics and sorcerers, learning to use and control the gifts she didn’t know she had. Soon Arkara forgot her family and children, and only thought for more power.

When confronted with the choice between betraying her master and killing her child, Arkara chose family. Knowing full well of the horrible fate she would meet for changing sides, and that the phylactery was trapped and couldn’t be removed without causing the death of the one to move it, she takes her own life to further her son Keldin’s cause.

Drexl caused a lava flow towards a major city. Keldin positions himself at the end of the lava flow and begins to divert its course.

Drexl, not knowing Keldin has his phylactery, comes down to put an end to this nuisance.

In the ensuing battle, Keldin surprises Drexl with his strength and skill, forcing the lich into the Lava flow. Drexl falls in laughing, thinking that he’ll just resurrect again and come back.

Keldin tosses in the Phylactery and Drexl dies.

When the war ends some years later, Keldin gives away his weapons and armor, and returns to his family's plot of land to live the life of a farmer. What happened to him and his final resting place are lost to the ages. �