Who is Mordenkainen?

Mordenkainen has a rich history, a bevy of spells, and a tome of foes. But what do we really know about him? who is monkian he has so many spells
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which are all very useful but he’s very

obsessed with the balance

so yes Morten came in warden Kenan would

tell you look somebody has to look after

the cosmic inner workings of everything

to keep it all running right Adventures

devil Ozma Deus Orcas Saint Cuthbert all

these people I use are always trying to

kick things off the axis where they’re

all very carefully balanced right like

you know you have God give the dead 3

showing up and screwing around with

things your mind flares popping in and

trying to like destroy the entire worlds

you have the gift doing who knows what

you know Morden Canaan would tell you

someone has to keep track of all this

crap and when things are about to go

horribly sideways show up and keep it

all in line that’s what he would tell

you he would say I and my associates are

essentially the cosmic police force that

keeps everything running right we keep

everything in balance because if

anything if the balance is thrown off

everything falls over you know fall down

and go boom bye-bye

that’s what he would tell you what

everyone else in the cosmos would tell

you is that Morden came in as a

self-interested very powerful at times

new small individual but at the end of

the day he’s in it for Morden Kanan

right and that’s like no one ever then

who knows right like I don’t know who’s

right like we know the cosmos is still

around it hasn’t fallen over and he

would say look I’ve done it but someone

like Saint Cuthbert might tell you like

no it’s because this fool is using the

sphere of everything going out of

balance like do you really think that

demons and devils and Davis and everyone

just fighting endlessly is how things

are supposed to be you think that if

lawful good if the hosts about Celestia

where’s scour the other plains of evil

how would that be bad right we know evil

is self-centered it’s all gone you know

where’s to be great how could that

possibly be a bad thing right this guy

clearly he’s got this some long Connie’s

point so that’s what definitely that

that’s what someone like Cuthbert would

tell you and you run him quite often I

have I played two or three games with

Maureen Kanan I am NOT fan Brinke

neither is a bird

this is that big fan of order to begin

with so I would argue that Morgan Keenan

is the opposite of my personal character

what do you enjoy like using him it’s a

character for like the beginning of an

adventure I love using Morgan came in

because the ambiguity because D&D

players are programmed to just go like

here’s a person to give you a quest

please do this they go okay I will do

that for you and what I love is when

players go wait a second

should we be doing this like I’ve never

questioned we had our Ark on the cruel

traveled to this the weird Demi realm of

shadow yeah and alongside milf and all

these other notable characters and at

the end they found these weird gems

straight from this bizarre what might be

the edge of the negative Material Plane

they brought it back in more games like

oh you should give those to me and they

said sure in mourning canyons like I’ll

take it right that’s that now if Joe is

watching this or an else on the players

taking crushing this perhaps morning

cannons goose is cooked but we’ll see

right because people just oh that’s the

quest giver that’s not sorry it’s ER we

can trust them they’re giving us a quest

right and mortar you can it says maybe

not right I am probably not evil because

I’m not just you know disintegrating

dudes left and right but when I talk

with the balance my a true believer or

is that just my cover story morning

Kanan will always tell you know I know

more yeah more I would explain but

there’s I don’t have time to go into the

full details you just have to trust me

and didn’t this venture go so well and

you’ve walked away with magic and power

and gold and treasure which I have no

interest in just this one piece let me

just take that for safekeeping you know

I’ll get in touch with Big B and he’ll

take care of this don’t worry about it

you know things like that

cuz that’s the other thing we haven’t

really seen the rest of the members of

morning canyons koduri yet but they’re

out there

he has many agents right other secret

are we aware of oh you should always

everything assume anything weird in

Canaan he also has some sort of secret

shadowy version of it somewhere right I

mean yes

like you know plots within plans and I’m

sure there been instances where morning

canons agents have unwittingly fought

each other for something like where you

just a collateral damage I’m willing to

let that happen keep my organization

intact so ultimately he pretends like he

wants balanced

but that’s thing is he but is he wrong

we don’t know because everything’s still

running so maybe there’s something there

again morning Katie would say only i

fount Liske eons of study have figured

this out

others could attempt to replicate what I

do but lacking my wit in my cunning and

my boundless knowledge and matchless

experience they click they surely would

make a mistake right and then every the

balance is thrown off everything falls

over see almost demigods use incredibly

far I mean you don’t get spells named

after you in The Player’s Handbook just

by being a contemptible wizard you like

I like to think of it as if you’ve a

spell named after you The Player’s

Handbook yeah you have messed with the

weave to such a deep level right that

like you would like altered the kernel

you know if your computer person you

know the kernel like the sort of Roo the

operating system your any changes there

so even like mistre you know it has to

look at that and do like oh that was

actually kind of clever

and then that spell ends up like not

only is that spell echo across all these

worlds I’m sure there are spell casters

in Eberron

or whose warden came in and they don’t

know they’ve never met this person he’s

never visited everyone or maybe he has

but right he doesn’t walk around corvair

and be like hello I am warden kitty nice

to meet you have I told you about can I

interest you in this pamphlet on the

balance but they know there’s this they

probably have like stories about more

didn’t came and they just know this

spell when someone discovered it it was

also bound up with the entity of this

mortem came in person who knows who that

is right I’m saying the Big B you with

Mary’s hand spells right right

these are Wizards who you know hacked

into such a deep level of magic that

they left their fingerprints on that can

in a way that can’t be erased that

transcends world and that is spread

across all the planes almost all the

world’s oldest ends like a black hole or

a planetoid where the gravity itself as

now come interwoven into that entity but

it’s a pretty convenient party trick

right if you show up in a world you’re

amended before cuz you have to go there

for the

purpose is the balance now to speak on

behalf of our friend Morgan but if our

good friend morning Keenan has to go to

another world let’s really go to the

world than Intervale maybe haven’t been

do before right Morgan came and wait

I’ve heard of you I’ve heard of you I’ve

heard of your spell’s but we know our

myth is that morning can improve it well

any any number of nominations in real

I’m not lying I am Morton Canaan it’s a

nice way to get some instant credit at

like the local Wizards guild I am more

than Canaan you’ve been casting my

spells for untold generations right

that’s a pretty handy calling card to

wave in people’s under people’s noses

like you should probably be taking me

seriously because I invented magic

you’re welcome now I need some help

super humble dude yes magic more did

came in might tell you that humility is

not a luxury he can afford wow I thought

all my characters were incredibly

arrogant but I think that was the most

arrogant thing I’ve ever heard in D&D

yeah when you consider morning can do

you have these other Wizards like Big B

and they kind of worked maybe for him

and they have equally yet they have

spells too that are found on every world

and the people have been visited yet but

there they go their fingerprint is like

so deep I’ll like to almost invent like

like mister was creating the weave and

Morden Canaan like snuck in it’s like

you know the cement hasn’t set and he

write their name in it and she comes

back and is like well played guys right

so you know what I could try to erase

this but I don’t want to deal with it

and otherwise I’m pretty happy with the

weed where it stands so I’m just gonna

fine fine you got to write your name in

the cement

you

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