From: David Gadbois (gadbois@cs.utexas.edu)
Date: Wed 15 Sep 1993 - 18:39:33 EEST
Ken McKinney and I did some work on Delecti's history a while back,
and much of the info appears in an issue of the RQ Digest from a
couple of years ago.
Delecti started out as a high official in the Empire of the Wyrms Friends and led the experiments that created the pain centaurs and other half-beast. I suspect that Delecti gained most of his abilities in a HeroQuest involving the event where Vivamort gave up most of his powers to the Devil -- Delecti managed to take a path where he survived his wounds without making concessions. So, he is a cult hero of Vivamort but is not a vampire himself. The quest accounts for the ability to transfer his soul into a corpse and to control undead critters. The ability to stitch together pieces of different bodies is a natural (!) extension of his sorcerous experiments.
It remains to be explained exactly what he did that led to the creation of the Upland Marsh. We know that it was physically created when the Earth recoiled from some heinous crime, but I do not know just what crime it was.
I also do not know how Delecti got the ability that allowed him to survive the Dragonkill War. According to Stafford, the whole swamp "does not show up on the dragon's screens." Somehow, Delecti and crew are beyond the perceptions of the dragons.
--David Gadbois
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