If so, then that halfling from Dragon’s Crown is also on the right path to gain arcane magic
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Nice point.
Reminds me of the Kreen origin I wrote for my headcanon.
- The Nature Masters transformed the Nature Benders, or those of them who commited the crime of killing other halflings, into Zik-Chil, thus rendering them unable to life shape ever again.
Banished to the hinterlands they waited. - When the last Nature Masters
left Athas with the Messenger (just in case the world couldn’t be saved and a repopulate option was needed),
went to sleep under the split rock (to awaken when the sun becomes blue again) and
another location in the south (with a life shaping device, the mother brain, that was kind of a life shaped factory which malfunctioned when the Dark Lens was stolen and due to the corrupt proximity of the Dead Lands, thus merging the sleeping Nature Masters with life shaped devices that were supposed to save them, into Illithids, who onced awakened created Githzerei, Githyanki, Beholders as minions),
the greatest of them stayed, triggered the Rebirth, transformed the Halflings so they could adapt to the new world and transformed themselves into Pyreen, to oversee the rebirth and give up the power of life shaping. - When this happened, the Zik-Chil started to experiment, unable to shape or create, they still could change life. So they took small insektoids and created, after decades, the large Trin.
- Unable to increase the intelligence of Trin over a certain point, with few mutated and rare exceptions, the dream of conquest and revenge was almost gone,
- till some hundreds years ago the Wanderer started to explore the Hinterlands, for he became the first counter-Dragon, a almost full grown Avangion and couldn’t hide from the Dragon and the Sorcerer Monarchs in the Tablellands anymore.
- Here he met the Zik-Chil, unable to probe their minds and too trustful, he helped them unintentionally to create the first Kreen, Ka’Cha, by donating some parts of his regenerating flesh.
- Ka’Cha and the Great On, as he was called by the Zik-Chil, traveled together both trusting each other and the Zik-Chil, who helped him finish his transformation.
- Once he finished the final step, in the moment of weakness, the Zik-Chil trapped the Great One and Ka’Cha, in a suspended animation.
- Now they could harvest as much flesh as they needed to create a powerful army.
- The process, though, leaves a mark on the Tohr-Kreen and Three-Kreen, a racial memory of the Great One, that can be triggered by other Avangions.
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Not after my Preserver/Psionicist avenged Korgunard he isn’t! 
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I disregarded PP when it came out; really? It had SK dying like Star-Trek extras in red-shirts.
When I run Dark Sun, I like the original box-set '91. (And 3.5 is awesome too), and so it 4e*, but I tend to only run AD&D2e)).
*4e is great, I picked up the PG and DMG in SLC, but I don’t have the MM, so, monsters are really part of the game; I guess the real monsters are the PCs!
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Its a cool scenario. There should have been a time jump of say 20 years between Amber Enchantress and the remaining 2 novels. That would give the heroes time to level up, for Sadira to become an advanced being, and make the battles in the Cerulean Storm more realistic and fair to the Sorcerer Monarchs.
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I disregarded PP when it came out; really? It had SK dying like Star-Trek extras in red-shirts.
In my campaign, now set some 300 years after PP, most of the killed SK have proven to survive. Abalach Re faked her death against Rkard and Sadira as a way to avoid facing Rajaat again. Tectuktitlay regenerated from having his body crushed and simply returned to his city to depose his “son” while Andropinis is actually trapped in the black for another 700 years but his shadow reaches out to rule Balic. Even with most of his powers locked away he is still a powerful being though a shadow of what he once was.
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Pun intentional? I think I see what you did there (20char post min)
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Sun wizardry answer is a simple one to me, I think the implication from Kaidar is that Sadira’s power is only active during the day, thus at night she will always be vulnerable whereas SK always have their power. Which happened in the books, though I don’t recall which exactly or the context. Sadira is also not immortal and I don’t believe has any implication of granting spells but perhaps that is merely memory failing it’s been a busy few years since reading
The others I must ruminate on further
In the novel RafoaDK Hamanu just kind of yanks all the sun magic off of Sadira and plays with it in his palm. He reads her mind and she’s basically panicked. She even worries he might rape her which according to Hamanu he was well past the desire to force himself on any woman by that point in his life.
Also Sadira can’t grant any spells whatsoever.
I have a magic system in my campaign based on spell points. There’s a chart based on terrain and caster level to see how many spell points you get if your defiling or preserving. During the day Sadira pretty much has unlimited spell points to fuel her magic.
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