Mordred Midwinter, the Vizier of Selatine, known by some as the Blue Knight for his azure Avalonian complexion, has fallen in battle with an undead ice-breathing hydra on the 9th level of Stonehell Dungeon. A blood-splattered Bright Star, catfolk scout & adventurer of Selatine, returns his remains to Selatine, where they are cremated next day (2/9/48) with great honour and interred with the glorious dead. Bright Star's other fallen comrades Sandro & Danor are still able to be Raised, and are sent to Thusia with diamonds.
Mordred's decorously appointed villa is empty & available again (5000 gp & swear allegiance to Lady Vex as a Knight of Selatine).
They inter the Sword of Omens with Mordred's ashes in the Vex ancestral crypt, until such time as another pure hearted knight should arise to claim it.
Epilogue 3/9/48:
Rooting through Mordred's personal effects the day after the cremation ceremony, Bright Star finds the Luck Blade taken from the lair of the Stone Snake. It still has one last Wish.
Bright Star has given up her precious shinies repeatedly for her companions. She will gladly use the wish to bring Mordred back to life and health. She will cling to the blade and pour her full will to the wish.
As Bright Star holds the Luck Blade in Mordred's chamber and Wishes Mordred restored to full life and health, next door in the ancestral Vex crypt beneath the Temple of Apollo-Mitra, the funeral ashes swirl up from the urn... A moment later Mordred Midwinter finds himself standing there, alone, in almost total darkness, and quite naked.
Mordred is a little surprised. He summons the Sword of Omens to his hand to illuminate his morbid surroundings.
Mordred gets his sword, finds his way out of the crypt and interrupts Lady Vex preaching a sermon to a crowd of Selatine matrons. Everyone is very happy.
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