![]() As he comes to the aid of wood elves captured by the orcs, a half- drow, half-elf named Zhai and a sorcerer named Illius join the battle. Salvatore wrote the game's script, which begins with Rannek, a human fighter, stumbling across a battle between two orc armies. The three heroes must undo their mistake by joining forces to right the wrong they caused. Once there, they unwittingly release Ygorl and Cireka from the Demon Stone and into the world. A great red dragon, sent by Ygorl, leads the group to these mines. The story develops as the three heroes battle two orc armies near the jewel-rich Gemspark Mines. Fearing that the realm would be at the mercy of whichever villain was victorious, the great mage Khelben Blackstaff sealed them both within a Demon Stone. The game's introduction explains that the only thing keeping each of them from taking over the realm is their hatred of each other. Cireka, general of the Githyanki, is the second. The first villain- Ygorl-is the leader of the Slaad army. The two villains are equally enemies of the heroes and of each other. However, Ygorl succeeded in killing Cireka before the two could be imprisoned again, thus rendering the demon stone useless to the three heroes and forcing them to fight the slaad lord directly.There are three playable characters in Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone, each with his or her own unique abilities: the fighter Rannek, is a master of melee combat the sorcerer Illius, can cast spells over long range and a half- drow, half-wood-elf rogue named Zhai easily vanishes into the shadows before sneaking up on her enemy for the kill. This demon stone was taken from the temple by Illius, Rannek, and Zhai, who sought to use it to once again trap Cireka and Ygorl. They used it to open a portal through which a demonic aspect of their god could enter the Prime Material plane and gorge himself on living sacrifices. In the mid-to-late 14 th century DR, a yuan-ti temple to Merrshaulk in Chult incorporated a demon stone into their ritual sacrifices. They were freed thanks to the machinations of Ygorl, who managed to reach out from the prison and lure three adventurers- Illius, Rannek, and Zhai-to the mines and trick them into breaking the wards around the demon stone. ![]() The two were trapped inside the stone, with their bodies safely hidden behind magical barriers within the Gemspark Mine in Damara, for nearly a century. History Īt some point in the mid-to-late 13 th century DR, a demon stone was used by Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun to trap the githyanki general Cireka and the slaad lord Ygorl when the two's extraplanar armies clashed in the Rawlinswood and threatened to overrun all of Faerûn. However, powerful outsiders were still able to reach out and manipulate mortals while imprisoned. The stone could then be warded or protected to keep the outsiders trapped. The essences of these outsiders would then be trapped inside the demon stone in an endless battle while skeletal placeholders of their physical bodies remained in stasis outside with the demon stone hovering above them. At least two such beings had to be trapped simultaneously, and these beings had to be hostile toward each other. Ī demon stone was capable of imprisoning even extraordinarily powerful extraplanar creatures, but only under strict conditions. ![]() While the full extent and utility of a demon stone is unclear, they were broadly useful in the binding and summoning of powerful beings from outside the Prime Material plane. When being used as part of a spell or ritual, a demon stone would glow prismatically. A demon stone was a large cut crystal or gemstone, approximately 1 foot (30.5 centimeters) long and 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) in diameter.
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