Talk:Phlan

Hello The part of this page that refers to Porphyrys Cadorna is slightly in error. All the information is good, right up to the end. That's when it gets something wrong. You see, I was there... I was much younger then, but I was one of the 6 men and women to clear out Phlan. Good memories... Anyway, your records are mostly right. He did indeed succumb to his compulsion to possess the Pool of Radiance. However, he never got the chance. Before we defeated Tyranthraxus, but AFTER Cadorna had run off, we managed to find him! It was sheer dumb luck more than anything, really, but as we were clearing out the outlying regions of Stojanow Castle, one of the gatehouses we raided contained no enemies and no treasures, but it DID have a man chained to the wall. He had been beaten savagely and left to die. When we went to free him, we discovered that it was Porphyrys Cadorna. That provoked an intensely heated discussion about whether we should kill him, since he had tried to have us killed, by sending us into a trap! Or whether we should free him. Alas, by a vote of four-to-two, Xenobia and myself were overruled and Cadorna was hog-tied and taken back to Phlan council chambers, carried on the shoulders of our strong friend Zarkov. He was arrested upon arrival and had no opportunity to reach the Pool of Radiance. Certainly NOT in his condition and certainly NOT before we reached it.

We had rested before making the decision to free Cadorna, so we didn't need to rest again and were back in Castle Stojanow within an hour after turning Cadorna over to the guards. There's no way he could have reached the castle before us, penetrated the castle gates, entered the inner castle, survived the enemies laying in wait, finding his way through the lethal maze, reaching the stairs to chamber with the pool and then sneaking past Tyranthraxus to try to use the pool behind his back. There's just no way possible!!

No, Cadorna was arrested and we were the ones who brought him back to face the music.