Go for it! The feat thing.
Do we remember anything of what the heroes were/are?
I'd like to have a basic idea of what they could/did do, in order to create cool backstory. I can make it a story, if you'd like. (I'd also need to figure out what ended up creating these blightlands; they're dramatic and shit but completely impractical; probably some experiment or another backfired)
Giant ball of negative energy sounds a little bit like a Sphere of Annihilation, which I can totally imagine the heroes turning against us when we try to kill them with it. "Yoink, that's mine now, now feel death on your face!"
Since there's seven of them, sounds like they'll end up being counterparts to each of us plus the Wizzerd. Counterparts in what way, though, I have to wonder.
But why wonder silently when I can share my thoughts with all of you?
Riki's hero is probably a ranger or a rogue more focused on tricks and traps, a tinker or artificer and UMDer.
Harmony's hero is a bard. Whether you had this planned or not, Nerjin, her hero is a bard, period. We will all treat it as a bard, and act as if it had done bardic things. Probably a badass bard, possibly a Dragonfire Wardancer, or perhaps a Sublime Chord, but all the same. It fits too well. Well, that or a Beguiler, I suppose.
Galia's counterpart is obviously a dragon-blooded sorceror or a really old wizard guy. Maybe a frighteningly competent Warmage.
Bill's counterpart is a cleric. Duh.
Or a paladin/Favored Soul, possibly.
Illandrinal's counterpart is probably a ranger, maybe a Swift Hunter, or possibly a Leap Attack Barbarian.
Dereth's counterpart is either a paladin, a crusader(ToB versus ToB), probably a Ruby Knight Vindicator if one, or some similar tanky melee class that can excel. He didn't bet Dereth, of course; Dereth was held off by foul magicks and trickery while his counterpart punched everyone else in the face. Or, possibly, a really badass monk, in the style of AD&D monks, unarmed attacking like a boss(anyone with a weapon cannot beat the Kung-Fu Master; it actually becomes a hindrance. Dereth is special in that it was only a minor hindrance, rather than an auto-lose signal).
The Halfling Wizard's counterpart was either a Druid, a really genre-savvy guy like a Good version of Tarkin from OotS, or the leader of their band and could thus be the odd one out. Maybe it's a dragon. We don't know. This guy'll be the one that manages to fuck us over, I promise you.
>High Level Magic exists
>Tiny continent the size of new york is the only place anyone knows of
>FUCK there's some sort of dimensional lock or prison keeping us all here
Also, why is there a desert adjacent to the sea?
Deserts form because water can't get over mountains on it's way
from the sea.
...
It's magic, isn't it?