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In the ''World of Greyhawk'' campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' roleplaying game, Rary of Ket is a powerful archmage and ruler of the Bright Lands, also known as ''Rary the Traitor''. In a storyline developed by TSR for a resetting of the Greyhawk campaign in 1991, Rary, a member of the Circle of Eight, betrayed the Circle at the end of the Greyhawk Wars and was responsible for the deaths of Circle members Otiluke and Tenser. After his betrayal, Rary fled with his ally Lord Robilar to the Bright Desert, where he established the Empire of the Bright Lands. ==Development== Gary Gygax, co-creator of the Dungeons & Dragon fantasy game, created a home campaign based in the World of Greyhawk in order to test new rules. His playtesters were friends and acquaintances, one of whom was Brian Blume, co-owner with Gygax of the nascent game company TSR. Rary was a low-level wizard created by Blume for play in Gygax's home campaign. However, Blume was not interested in developing the character into a high-powered wizard; he only played Rary until the wizard character reached 3rd-level and then retired him, having reached his objective, which was to be able to introduce the character as "Medium Rary".〔Gygax: "() was one that Brian Blume created early in the D&D cycle, a magic-user that Brian wanted to work up to 3rd level so as to introduce him as 'Medium Rary.' When he gained that level Brian quit playing that PC, pretty much dropped out of regularly playing D&D in fact."〕 Gygax borrowed the name "Rary" for the spells ''Rary's mnemonic enhancer'' and ''Rary's telepathic bond''. Ironically, the original Rary was never powerful enough to cast either of "his" spells. Rary was not a member of Gygax's original Circle of Eight, which was made up of eight of Gygax's own characters that he had developed during solo play, when his friend Rob Kuntz acted as Dungeon Master.〔Gygax: "The original (of Eight ) was composed of my PCs--Mordenkainen, Bigby, Yrag, Rigby, Felnorith, Zigby, Vram & Vin. In the novel version the Circle was expanded to encompass other PCs in my campaign such as Tenser. It came into being because Mordenkainen and Associates had a lot of wealth stored up from successful adventuring, located a place for a stronghold deep in enemy territory to assure plenty of action, and then went to work building the citadel." 〕 However, after Gygax was ousted from TSR in 1985, the company took over creative control of the published Greyhawk setting, and took it in directions Gygax had not envisioned,〔Gygax: "Later TSR and (of the Coast ) approaches to and treatment of the Greyhawk setting was quite contrary to the purpose for which I intended it when it was created."〕 including remaking Rary into a major Greyhawk personality. In 1988, Rary's spells were included in the hard-cover ''Greyhawk Adventures''. In 1989, in ''The City of Greyhawk'' boxed set, Carl Sargent and Douglas Niles took Gygax's original Circle of Eight and re-purposed the concept as a powerful collection of wizards dedicated to the proposition that no group or entity, no matter how good (or evil), should dominate the Flanaess. Gygax's own wizard, Mordenkainen, became the head of the Circle, while eight wizards from the Greyhawk campaign, made famous from their spells published in the original ''Players Handbook'', became the actual Circle.〔Niles, Douglas, and Carl Sargent. ''The City of Greyhawk'' (TSR, 1989)〕 Several of the wizards, including Rary, had not been particularly powerful characters in Gygax's home campaign, but in the new Greyhawk storyline, all of the Circle were dominant spell casters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rary」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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