So! I think I already mentioned that Zachriel’s story is coming to an end. I’m really proud of my boy he’s come so far! His friends have encrouaged him to stop stealing things impulsively and he genuinely wants to try doing the right thing. He doesn’t want to be a hero but he’s *willing* to be one now and when the party needs him he’ll be there for them even if he’s afraid.
And he’s even managed to seek the forgiveness of his goddess! Pre-campaign Zachriel hadn’t been the best person. He was a criminal, a thief, and he was a little more selfish than his present self. Back when he had connections with a local thieves guild he and some friends were using the back room of Boldrei’s temple as their base of operations. On one of the last nights Zachriel spent in town, they accidentally started a fire that burnt the temple to the ground and Boldrei took vengeance on the group by cursing them with terrible luck wherever they may go. It was a mistake that tormented Zachriel, both out of guilt and in a very literal sense by making it hard to find any form of pernament comfort. Running seemed to help but eventually the party’s path took them back to Snowhaven and Zachriel was forced to face his mistakes head on. He went back to the temple of Boldrei, still blackened and in ruins and it was there that he had a vision.
Zachriel saw a fire in the center of the building, and he saw himself as a child running though, back when the temple was in its finer glory. Then he saw it with his friends, sneaking through to the back, then he saw the fire and even himself as he was just moments before, wandering though the ruins looking lost. The visions then showed him coming back later, a little older. And it showed him the temple repaired and full of people again. In the soot the word “promise” appeared and Zachriel saw what he needed to do.
After promising to return and rebuild the temple, Zachriel took a level in cleric, choosing the peace domain.
Another weird aspect of the vision though was that he saw the tail of a Mercury dragon winding its way around the building and he saw the statue of Solomon, a Mercury dragon the party has recently met, standing in the temple when it was still standing. He doesn’t know what this means and never got the chance to figure that out but I guess we’ll discover that when we see Solomon again!