Survivors and prisoners are taken back to Karningul. While these forces typically consist of guardsmen led by a priestess, recently battle-spiders have become more common, using their strength-draining venom to disable the drow's opponents. In face, their only relation with any other being is undertaken by force, and drow combat units are a common threat in the southern Merrovian Empire or the Landspine mountains. The drow do not have cordial relations with any other race or country. Its majesty is a fitting example of the devotion of the drow to their deity. The Citadel is carved out of the rock, and enough space created around it to place the vast building in its own cavern. The temple of Lolth, the Citadel, is the single largest structure in Karningul, although applying the word "structure" hardly does it justice. Merely mentioning another god is a serious offence - practising any other religion is punishable by summary execution. The priestesses of Lolth oversee every aspect of drow life, and their authority derives directly from Lolth herself. Her word is law, enforced mercilessly by the lesser priestesses and the temple guardsmen. The unquestioned ruler of the city is Lilleth, the High Priestess of Lolth. Karningul, as the capital of the drow, follows their typical governmental patterns. Even then, however, Karningul was the home of the drow, and when Lolth rebelled against Larethian and the other elven deities, the drow fell upon their elven brethren in a slaughter still remembered today. The elves insist that Karningul wwas once an elven city, before the drow seperated themselves from the elves. Indeed, two decades before Kirby's Destiny first appeared, a similar figure called “Fate” was used for the same purpose of “horror host” in an anthology title, by Ace Comics' The Hand of Fate this character, unlike DC's later “Destiny”, is in the public domain.Elven scholars provide the only generally accessible history of Karningul - while the drow certainly have their own, they refuse to share it with the world. ( PROSE: Psychopomp)ĭC's Destiny of the Endless, as depicted in his first-ever appearance in the 1971 comic story Horoscope Phenomenon.Īs Psychopomp is a fanfiction crossing over Jenny Everywhere with the characters and world of The Sandman, the version of Destiny it heavily mentions is that featured in The Sandman, originally created in 1971 by Jack Kirby as the central figure and narrator of DC Comics' horror anthology comic series, Weird Mystery Tales, and retconned by Neil Gaiman as one of his creations the Endless.Īlthough this particular depiction of Destiny is copyrighted, the notion of an embodiment of destiny, often depicted as a prophet-like robed figure holding a book, is a public domain artistic motif. After the passage of time led to all sentient beings slowly dying out, and with them, the other Endless, Destiny became the second-to-last Endless and was finally taken by his sister Death, who was left as the last sentient being in the dead universe. Don't be fooled by its decidedly run of the mill beginnings though. You take control of Stahn and Rutee's son Kyle in his quest to become a 'real hero'. He held a Book which was in fact a part of his own being, and recorded every event that would ever take place in the Endless's dominion (which was suggested to include not a single universe but an entire multiversal cluster branching out of it, including all extant alternate histories of this universe). Game description: Tales of Destiny 2 is a direct sequel to Tales of Destiny and takes place 18 years after the exploits of Stahn and Co. In one universe, Destiny was one of the Endless - in fact, he was the oldest of the seven Endless, predating even Death.