Talien returned to the Welstarian role-playing game. I combined facets of my experiences on Ivory Towers, BatMUD, and AD&D to create the sordid romance story, "Lamech and Ashley" (in which Talien and Gabrielle are major characters). The novel ends with Talien's marriage to Gabrielle.

Talien continued to contribute to the Welstarian campaign as the Captain of the Guard. His father, Gilgal Radisgad, passed that title on to him once has passed away (Gilgal was a player from BatMUD who adopted Talien as his "son"). How Talien died is also relatively unknown, although by all accounts he died of old age. When his spirit passed into the next realm, it was discovered he was a Changeling satyr -- this neatly explains Talien's dual personalities (a human Captain of the Guard in Keystone City, and a satyr Paladin in Faerwon). His service in the afterlife was exceptional, whereupon he met his soulmate, Maleficent. This also explains how Talien came to be an immortal (see the Statistics section for inserting Talien in your campaign -- c'mon, you know you want to!).

The Welstarian role-playing campaign and events on the MUD are considered to be the same universe. However, the events on the MUD take place about 10 years after the original role-playing AD&D campaign. I've since started up a new role-playing campaign set in Welstar using the World of Darkness rules.

Talien makes a guest appearance in my novel, The Well of Stars. If it ever gets published, you can read all about it!