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Gleaming Enchanted Pistol Lords

Among the Sorcelators there were just a tiny fraction who held true and deep understanding of the Elementials, to the degree that they could not only channel them through their Wands but also take normal artifacts and Imbue them with unnatural power. Such creators were rare, but their skills were so highly valued and so Extremely sought after that after a time, they grew weary of the endless requests for their services and retreated to Dangerous retreats and fortresses, hoping to keep out the unworthy while subjecting anyone who wanted their stuff Elementially Imbued to go through an Awesome journey and test.

This plan backfired for the Imbuers however, as all but a mere handful were killed by their own treacherous obstacle courses and the assorted horrorrs and monsters which were supposed to make them inacessible to the masses.

One very bright Sorcelator named Akimbo however, was determined to find an Imbuer to make his gun into a magical weapon. Nobody before him had thought to transform a weapon, for some reason. (In an open letter to fans, L.H. Franzibald joked that the most frequent requests to Imbuers involved Wang, and that this may have contributed to their desire to become hermits. Some fans have chosen to regard this as canon.)

After a Dangerously Extreme mission to achieve his goal, Akimbo succeeded in tracking down and confronting the Master Imbuer known as Doc Gat. Defeating him in a test of marksmanship, Doc Gat performed the Imbuing on his weapon. His sidearm became known as the first Gleaming Pistol, but it was not the last. Akimbo, now more Badass than ever, trudged into the wasteland and proclaimed himself the first Gleaming Enchanted Pistol Lords. He swore that he would safeguard the rights of Imbuing so that the world would not soon be overrun by Gleaming Enchanted Pistol Lords, and took Doc Gat with him out of his isolation.

For many years Lord Akimbo held dominion over human lands with Doc Gat alone as his friend and companion. Then the Jagwarrior tribes began their vicious raids into human territory, and Akimbo realized that alone he was not enough to stop them, Badass though he was. So Akimbo allowed any Sorcelator with a weapon to come and become a Gleaming Enchanted Pistol Lords and do battle with the Jagwarriors. Many did so, culminating in a totally radacious showdown between the Jagwarriors and the Gleaming Pistol Lords. For ninety-nine days the countryside echoed with gunfire and the sounds of flesh being torn on Jagwarrior claws; then all was suddenly silent.

The Jagwarrior tribes were utterly crushed, never to rise again as a united people. However, on the field lay the first and most awesome of them all, Akimbo - dead, along with most of the other Gleaming Enchanted Pistol Lords. A small number survived the battle, but most were scarred by the Extremeness they had witnessed. It was years before another one of the Gleaming Enchanted Pistol Lords would rise to become a leader of the people again.