The Oddball of the Underdark

[Darius]

My name is Darius Fellbane. I am what they call a Deep Imaskari. My ancestors were members of the great Empire of Imaskar, who descended to escape and preserve themselves ages ago.

Sure, I can see in the dark and navigate caverns pretty well, seeing as how I was born the a place the hells can only be worse than. You see, for one such as I, there is no place in Deep Imaskari society. You see, most of my "kin" if you want to call them that are masters of the Arcane. However, I found myself, somehow, gifted with the abilities more akin to surface dwellers. I am a druid. My companion, Caireidh, is a worg I found wounded when I was a child. My parents abandoned me to the Drow of Sshamath because I was not of arcane birth. You see, when someone with my abilities is born in the Underdark, we typically become slaves. Me, however, I managed to elude the Drow I was supposed to be turned over to by running to the caverns above Sshamath while in transit. I suppose the only reason I escaped was because Grumbar was watching over me and had a better plan for me.

SO, after escaping my captors I managed to survive on whatever I could find that I learned, via self-testing mind you, wouldn't kill me. So, I was wandering the caverns away from the city listening for Drow that sought to grab me and take me down to the city. Grumbar, watching me as he seems to like doing, made sure they never found me. He gave me all sorts of neat little places to hide. One of them is where I found Caireidh. You see, he was a Worg pup who had been wounded by something and left to die by his pack. So, I took care of him as best I could, and when the time came where I prepared to release him, he stared at me stupidly as if to say "You really think after what you've done for me, I'm just going to take off? No thank you." And he never left my side.

He still follows me around, and, now that I am an adult, I have since visited the city a few times. Apparently, no one recognized me as the missing child, so they seem to let me be, although I am pretty aware of the fact the guards are watching me in hopes that I may give myself away or otherwise screw up and get caught. I don't intend to. I have heard word of other Druids on the surface, and intend to eventually get out of this dank hole and find myself a circle or at least get out into the upper world and see it for myself.