Alvarusing

Alvarusing is a phenomenon in which the game's story seems to write itself, referencing events that have not yet happened and that nobody could have conceivably predicted due to the variables involved (e.g. dice rolls and left-field player actions). These references are done in such a way that if read as a congruent story, it would seem as though it was planned from the very start. However, the reality is that nobody -- least of all the DM -- knew it was coming.
==Origins of Term==
In an interim campaign between Ezwell and a disguised Alvarus the Netherlord, Alvarus cryptically told Ezwell, "Remember you will die, but if you die in my service, your unfinished business will be completed." The "unfinished business" referred to Isaak Dolzhikov's murder of Strisci Madrante, whom Ezwell sought to avenge. However, it is important to note that the DM's intentions in writing this line was to just make Alvarus seem suitably "death god-ish" by referring to death and essentially making Ezwell confident that he had nothing to lose by agreeing to Alvarus' bargain.
During the Dralvarus campaign, the players attracted the attention of thirty doeron slavers while on the road to Queetco. Outnumbered and outmatched, they were killed. When they awoke in Alvarus' underworld, Ezwell roared that Alvarus had tricked him, to which Alvarus responded, "I did not. I told you to remember you will die. And you did. I also said your unfinished business would be completed if you died in my service." Gesturing to Isaak, who had been disguised for much of his time with the party (to hide from the guilt of killing Strisci), Alvarus said, "He is dead, just like you."
Despite how it would seem planned, the players' deaths in Dralvarus were not part of the original campaign plans in any way, and it was only a freakish coincidence that Alvarus predicted exactly what would happen in a throwaway line. As such, any similar moment where something was unplanned and could not have been planned for but looked entirely planned is called "Alvarusing".
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