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Details

Time Played: 1991
Historical Era: Lost Age
System: Dungeons and Dragons 1st and 2nd Editions
GM: Chris L
Players: Jason

Summary

It should be noted that the participants in this campaign were 14 when it began.

The game had a main thread following a human wizard protagonist named "Pendel Lum", and intentional in-world reference to the artifact "The Machine of Lum the Mad", as the campaign was meant to tell the backstory of the wizard who would eventually create that artifact. The geography for this campaign was a novel creation by the GM.

Pendel's primary achievements included wishing for a spell book containing every wizard spell, becoming a greater wolfwere, learning that his ancestor was "Lum the Mad", time travelling backward in time to become "Lum the Mad" (his own ancestor), creating the Machine of Lum the Mad, and eventually becoming a lich named Pendulum. In the end, he prevailed in the "Maze of Infinity" to achieve the station of Immortal, serving Ioun, the Lord of Necessity of Magic.

Canon

Pendulum is canonized as an Immortal of the Starling Grove. Most of his adventures have been heavily recontextualized to fit within the Contest Eternal. The "Machine of Lum the Mad" has been canonized as The Anomaly which caused The Shattering.