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Berem was a poor ranger in his younger days, and he spent a lot
of time hunting in the woods with his sister Jasla. One day, they found
a broken altar decorated with valuable gems. Berem, thinking to end his
family's poverty, tried to pry a large green gem loose from the altar.
When his sister tried to stop him, he shoved her aside, causing her to
bang her head on a rock, killing her. Berem, horrified at what he'd done,
took the gem and ran. The gem imbedded itself in his stomach. He was never
able to remove it. Because of the gem, Berem was immortal (to an extent)--no
matter how many times he died, he would come back to life. Berem lived
with constant fear that someone would discover his crimes. Unknown to him,
the altar from which he pried the gem was actually part of the cursed temple
of Neraka--The Dark Queen's gateway into Krynn. Rendered incomplete by
Berem's theft, Takhisis was unable to enter the world. She sought Berem
to make him pay for his crimes, but he was eventually found by the Heroes
of the Lance during the War of the Lance, and he was reunited with his
sister, whose spirit had been trapped in the altar ever since the day she
died. In reuniting Berem and Jasla, the temple of Neraka and the altar
was destroyed, forever blocking the Dark Queen's entrance into Krynn.
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