Interviews with Ember

[Ember]

Shoot away

[RaistlinMajere]

I bow to your majesty, O great and powerful Garthag. So tell me - why did Kalma choose you over your brethren? Simply because he thought you an easily manipulated puppet, or did he see your potential from the beginning?

[Ember]

Stop with the patronizing and let`s get to the point shall we?

Why did Kalma pick me? Hmh, I wondered that for a long time and even asked him, once. Perhaps it was both, I was the youngest and I had a promise about me. The others could have easily rebelled and killed Kalma with careful planning, but I was perhaps the least ambitious of us all in a way. But then again my ambitions grew as I aged, but that was only natural and a clash with Kalma was inevitable.

To say it clearly I was foolish and thought that the dragon could be a powerful ally, but as it revealed to me I was only to be kept as long as I didn`t cause any trouble.

[RaistlinMajere]

It always surprised me how a character of your independence would ever resort to dragonrider bondage. At first I thought it to be mutual gain, but it appears in reality mutual underestimation.

So you've elaborated fully on Kalma's history, but what about yours? How is your relationship with your so-called brothers?

[Ember]

Different situations require different methods, I remain independent and only make alliances where I am required to do them or where there is no harm at the time.

And what about my relations to my brothers? None of us have ever planned to kill each others all tough it might not be a surprise, if any of us ever got into a fight with each others. Yet in the end the most strongest and resourceful calls the shots, I respect them and they respect me for what he we know and can do. As long as there is no reason to kill them I won`t, but if there is something more dear to me than my brothers then I would gladly depose of them.

Yet in the end I believe that they would understand me, we all work together in order to gain power, but we are still all rivals in the end and that is our nature.

[RaistlinMajere]

You were the youngest. Did your brothers ever take advantage of this? And by the way, who are your parents?

[Ember]

You mean by putting me up to the dirty jobs that they did not wish to do? Yes at first it was so, but as my talents became apparent and my skills developed I was given a higher standing....

And my parents..... well not a subject people ask me about and I don`t wonder. I can`t remember my mother at all, probably because we parted ways when I was young and my father, well he must be dead like my mother. Truth be told I am thankful to them for bringing me into this world, but really that was it, they both died of a disease and abandoned me.

Yet I had been able to learn some magic and was able to become an apprentice to a local wizard, not much of a spellcaster, but he did know a thing or two about alchemy. From there on I was sent to the brotherhood by my former master.

[RaistlinMajere]

You have sacrificed much for power already. How far will you go? How many innocents are you willing to kill? Do you consider conscience and compassion weaknesses?

[Ember]

I am a human being not a monster, but as far as I am concerned, the weak perish and the strong survive. It`s the survival of the fittest, I will go as far as my own morales allow me to in my quest for power yet there is something I despise...

Liches, a gruesome price for power... it wouldn`t be a `life` worth living for me