Laetitia
(female preserver/psionicist)
AL: lawful good
Laetitia is quite a character. A long time ago, she was a talented human wizard who was looking for a mentor. She found
Rajaat, but did not get on with him, his students or his magic. So she left.
Laetitia then concentrated her efforts on uncovering magic tomes and artefacts in order to teach herself. She found a number
of interesting works and leads to powerful metamorphoses. She was so busy that she did not notice what was going on in the outside
world. The Champions had begun to take over. Laetitia was shocked and tried to reason with the only person she had vaguely got on:
Keltis. But he was completely brainwashed by Rajaat. A person who was more susceptible was the man now known as Hamanu. Laetitia
at first pitied him, then realised his strength and tried to make him stronger so that he could overturn Rajaat. They even became
lovers and had a son (he is long dead). But then Hamanu succumbed, too, and, again, Laetitia left. This time, to find an alternative to the dragon metamorphosis. She
badly wanted more power to be able to bring about change on Athas.
Laetitia looked into becoming an Avagnion. But there was a problem: she was very fond of her human appearance. In fact, Laetitia
is quite vain! So she looked for other ways of achieving a similar thing. So far, she has managed to prolong her life through
magic and psionics, but soon she will have to make a decision about starting to become an avagnion or not. What she has tried out
on her 'student' Oronis so far does not seem to be going too badly...
Laetitia is an eccentric lady. She has relatively short dark hair, dark eyes and is highly charismatic. In public she has
to dampen her charisma to not cause too much commotion. Laetitia has expensive tastes. She is a former Tyrian noblewoman and has
amassed enough wealth over the last few centuries to be able to afford only the best clothes, jewellery and foods. In fact, she
loves this life-style so much that is not gets in the way of her dream to become the most powerful wizard on Athas.
Laetitia supports the Veiled Alliance wherever she can. Unfortunately she finds it difficult to stay unnoticed for long in
any city state, and she does not want any of the Champions to know (apart from Oronis and maybe Hamanu) that she is still alive
and working against them. Thus, she will most likely be found in either Kurn or Tyr.
How to use Laetitia:
STR |
14 |
DEX |
19 |
CON |
20 |
INT |
24 |
WIS |
24 |
CHA |
26 |
WEAPONS |
various concealed magical weapons |
ARMOUR |
various magical |
NOTES |
- |
Tecalis
(male wizard/trader)
AL: neutral good
Tecalis is a Balician nobleman. His parents were assassinated when he was young, so he was raised mainly by his parents'
servants with occasional visits by relatives and friends of the family. Tecalis was a curious child who loved exploring the
outside as well as his parents' library. When he was a teenager he found a hidden compartment in the library which contained
a couple of blood-stained scrolls inscribed with outlandish-looking symbols. Had there been wizards in the family? Or had these
scrolls forcibly been taken off a wizard by his family? Either way, Tecalis was fascinated by them and tried to find out more.
Eventually, Tecalis began teaching himself magic. He had managed to find out that there are two ways of doing magic: one that
was damaging to life and one that preserved life. Of course, Tecalis wanted to preserve life - in fact, he loved plants and animals
so much that his dream was to create a pocket dimension of the kind that would allow endangered flora and fauna to flourish in.
A kind of sanctuary.
Three decades later, Tecalis is still pursuing his dream. He has become a capable wizard and puts every effort into maintaining
his 'sanctuary'.
Tecalis is a quiet man in his forties. He spends only as much time as necessary conduction business to keep his
formerly quite influential house at the lower and quiet end of the 'noble scene'. He does not want to attract attention to himself
more than he needs to. Most noblemen have accepted that Tecalis is just an overeducated bookworm who poses no threat to them, especially
as he has no children. His house will die with him. Some, however, suspect that Tecalis is doing something strange on his premises
and would love to find out what it is to use it against him or for their own purposes...
How to use Tecalis:
STR |
14 |
DEX |
17 |
CON |
16 |
INT |
17 |
WIS |
16 |
CHA |
17 |
WEAPONS |
various assassin daggers, magical ancient elven steel scimitar (+3) |
ARMOUR |
magic bracelets +4 |
NOTES |
There is hardly anything left in Tyr where Silak Telsi does not have his hands in... |
Silak Telsi
(male trader/necromancer/templar)
AL: lawful evil
Silak Telsi used to be a templar under Kalak with a slightly unusual hobby: he
liked to spend his pastime with dead people - or rather: undead.
Now Silak is a trader with the same unusual "hobby". An additional characteristic of
Silak Telsi is his ambition. It is by no small part fuelled by the knowledge that
he is a son of his former employer, the late Sorcererking of Tyr.
Currently, the middle-aged Ex-Templar is the head of a new trade house in Tyr which,
maybe thanks to the use of certain "cheap labour", is doing extremely well. And what
more could a successful businessman cum necromancer want in Tyr? Uhm yes: power!
How to use Silak Telsi:
Silak Telsi can be used both as a hero and a villain. He is the assassin and the
charitable sponsor of orphanages. The honourable trader and the commander of a secret
undead army...
STR |
14 |
DEX |
17 |
CON |
16 |
INT |
17 |
WIS |
16 |
CHA |
17 |
WEAPONS |
various assassin daggers, magical ancient elven steel scimitar (+3) |
ARMOUR |
magic bracelets +4 |
NOTES |
There is hardly anything left in Tyr where Silak Telsi does not have his hands in... |
Stel (male fighter/psionicist/preserver)
AL: lawful good
Stel is the son of a dwarven psionicist and an elven preserver.
As a result he looks
like a cross between a half-elf and a mul. He can pass as either of them.
Although he was born to loving understanding parents and in isolation from others,
he has been in a severe identity crisis for most of his life.
That began to change when Nibenay's Veiled Alliance sent the charismatic half-elf
Tiora to his parents for tuition.
The two outsiders were fascinated by each other at once and after a long period of
misunderstandings and inhibitions the two started an intense relationship.
But still, Stel's inner quarrels remained. He decided to leave Tiora and his family for
a while and set out into the desert where he came upon agents of the Veil.
Stel ended up working for the Veiled Alliance in Nibenay, Tioras birthplace. Because of
his immense talent and cunning, he slowly became the Alliance's "special agent".
In Nibenay, a feeling stronger than his unease with himself developed: his love for
Tiora. Whenever he had the time, he visited her at his parent's isolated hut in the mountains.
Soon, Tiora was ready to go back to Nibenay herself. Although, she is a capable psionicist/preserver,
Stel is in constant fear of her and would do anything to protect her, including sacrificing his own life.
How to use Stel:
STR |
17 |
DEX |
17 |
CON |
17 |
INT |
16 |
WIS |
15 |
CHA |
19 |
WEAPONS |
daggers, metal scimitar, obsidian shuriken |
ARMOUR |
enchanted leather |
NOTES |
immune to mind-reading |
Tiora Ka'lai (female psionicist/preserver/healer)
AL: lawful good
Tiora is a calm, dark-skinned half-elf with warm black eyes. She wears her thick dark hair
in a plait and is always clothed in brown, black or purple robes.
Tiora's parents were part of a slave tribe. Her father, a human ex-gladiator, and her
mother, an elven Earth-cleric/psionicist, had agreed to help the tribe survive in the hostile
region they had chosen to settle in.
Since the tribe did not solely want to depend on agri-culture, they often raided
passing caravans. Eventually they raided an important caravan of the Shadowking and the whole tribe
was wiped out as a result. Tiora was saved by an earth-elemental conjured by her mother and brought to
a fellow (human Earth) cleric in Nibenay.
Tiora grew up in Nibenay in the home of a preserver of the Veiled Alliance masking
as a healer. This way she became aware of magic and the difficult life preservers lived.
With mixed feelings her guardian observed that Tiora displayed a talent for magic
herself (as well as a talent for psionics). Tiora also became eager to learn. So her
guardian decided to send her to Stel's parents for tutelage in addition to the tutelage
she could give. (see Stel Torren)
Being a true Nibenese, Tiora is an accomplished dancer and musician. She also has the
typical mysterious aura that outsiders associate with the people of Nibenay.
How to use Tiora:
STR |
13 |
DEX |
19 |
CON |
16 |
INT |
15 |
WIS |
16 |
CHA |
19 |
WEAPONS |
bone knife, magic obsidian dagger |
ARMOUR |
mag. bracelets +2 |
NOTES |
her spells leave a faint scent of musk |
Thedes (male Chasseur)
AL: lawful neutral
Thedes can be played as
1. A defiler who chases renegade defilers for a
Sorcererking/-queen (e. g. Lalai Pui)
2. As a templar/preserver chasing Veiled
Alliance preservers
3. A defiler with a tragic past who hates defilers because
they ruined his home/killed his family while pulling energy for a spell
4. Somebody who bears a strong hatred for chaotic defilers/preservers
5. A preserver who chases preservers who are close to becoming defilers.
Either way Thedes is a brooding human, most probably on a crusade against chaos.
Law and the keeping of law is everything to him. His aim is always to be just
himself: Thedes will never cheat or backstab anybody. He will try to avoid
violence during his inquisitions and he kills his victims in a fair duel.
If he knows someone to be weaker than him he will find an equal opponent.
He simply lives by his own complex principles.
Thedes is a big broad shouldered human with a rather dark atmosphere around him.
His dark hair shows streaks of grey and his face more wrinkles than normal at his
age (though he is 39 he looks like at least 50).
How the PCs could meet Thedes:
STR |
15 |
DEX |
14 |
CON |
16 |
INT |
14 |
WIS |
11 |
CHA |
16 |
WEAPONS |
long-sword, knife, shuriken |
ARMOUR |
scale armour |
NOTES |
Thedes carries magic items with him
|
Briok (male Exterminator)
AL: chaotic neutral
Briok hates druids and plants and seeks to destroy them wherever he can. That
has not always been this way.
Briok used to travel around as a mercenary before he joined a group of entertainers as their protector.
When the party stopped
at a big oasis the young man fell in love with Daari, the beautiful daughter of the
local druid. The party moved on, but Briok stayed although he did not have any sign
that his affections were returned. The girl was shy and insincere and her mother
wanted her to become her successor, so she told Briok to leave.
Briok violently refused to give Daari up and managed to secretly meet her.
To his disgrace the loyal Daari told him to leave: She would soon have her initiation.
But Briok still had the feeling that Daari would return his love and promised to meet her after her initiation to ask
her once more.
Then the traumatic thing happend: Daari died during her initiation. When Briok
learned of it he was consumed by such anger that he killed the druid with his own
hands and burned down the oasis. After that he fled into the where he met a
defiler. The defiler listened carefully to Briok's story and tried to "help" him.
He confirmed and norished the Mul's prejudices against heartless druids and
cruel nature with lies and horrible stories.
Now Briok blames plants who consumed his love and druids, like her mother, who allow
such things to happen.
How the PCs could meet Briok:
STR |
17 |
DEX |
14 |
CON |
16 |
INT |
12 |
WIS |
9 |
CHA |
14 |
WEAPONS |
short obsidian sword |
ARMOUR |
kank armour |
NOTES |
Briok's aura has significantly darkened
|
Sarouk (male half-elf necromancer/historian)
AL: true neutral
Sarouk is not a necromancer. He is a historian. At least this is how he sees himself. Sarouk questions the dead about
history and writes down what he hears. The more powerful he gets, the more powerful the people he can 'interview'.
Sarouk is a middle-aged half-elf with chin-length grey hair and grey eyes. He dresses in simple, usually quite dusty and dirty
sand-coloured kaftans. He is so immersed in his hobby that he lacks vital social skills and comes across as very eccentric and
a bit clumsy. People make fun of him, but also value him as a good source of information. This is why their poking fun at him
remains good-natured. And this is how Sarouk supports himself: he trades in information, although he hates doing it. Sometimes,
he also works as an illegal scribe.
How to use Sarouk:
STR |
13 |
DEX |
14 |
CON |
14 |
INT |
17 |
WIS |
10 |
CHA |
9 |
WEAPONS |
A bone dagger and a metal scalpel |
ARMOUR |
protection from undead
|
NOTES |
- |
Galeth (male half-elf necromancer)
AL: chaotic evil
A dark gaunt figure with leathery skin and strangely patterned
green eyes, Galeth stalks the sands of Athas for trophies. Parts of unusual creatures he can use in spells or that he can
create spells for. The hands of a vampirical being? The ears of a magical beast? Galeth collects them all - especially hands and
claws.
How to use Galeth:
STR |
13 |
DEX |
20 |
CON |
16 |
INT |
16 |
WIS |
18 |
CHA |
4 |
WEAPONS |
lots of hands and other smaller
|
ARMOUR |
magical necklace, made from guess what... |
NOTES |
- |