The Ghosts of Avernus is the first in a planned series of novels about the adventures of the cleric Eleazaar Oman. He originated while I was in college in 1988 as a fantasy role-playing character whose success was so unprecedented and phenomenal he took on a life and voice all his own. Like the character in these stories, his remarkable luck and sometimes inadvertently great decisions led him to great achievements and long life, when all others were felled around him.