Name: Isi Natombe
Birthdate: DR 1326
Sex: Female
Age: 33
Ht: 5'10"
Wt: 130
Hair: Black
Eyes: Hazel Brown
Race: Human
Profession: Scholar
Languages: Common, Chultan, Elven, Undercommon, Abyssal, Infernal, Shadow Cant
Home: The hidden city of Mezro on the Chultan Peninsula
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Ability Stats:
Str: 14
Dex: 10
Con: 10
Wiz: 10
Int: 16
Chr: 26
Deity Worshipped:
Class/Classes: Sorcerer (LV 6), Eldritch Knight (LV 6), Arcane Scholar of Candlekeep (LV 10), Assassin (LV 8)
Physical Appearance: Isi is tall and has an athletic build. The sorceress usually keeps her hair in many fine braids and wears well-made, practical clothing fit for an explorer and arcanist. Isi's skin has a dark tan like many of her people in the Chultan Peninsula and she carries a magical staff made of teakwood with an emerald embedded at its head. On Isi's brow is a snake-shaped circlet colored green - Isi's armbands and belt are also green and she wears black leather trousers. Isi carries two daggers, one on each leg strap. The scholar has several pouches woven into her belt for holding spell components and carries an assortment of scrolls.
Phycological Description: Isi usually displays a calm easy-going personality making it easy for her to befriend even paladins. However, when provoked she can lash out with a terrible and vengeful passion. Having been an explorer of many of Chult's jungles and abandoned ruins, this sorcerer has no issues getting her hands dirty if it means finding some meaningful artifact or lost knowledge that could be useful. Isi is well-educated and charismatic, but ultimately she is only concerned with growing her knowledge of arcane secrets and securing a place of personal security for herself and anyone in her immediate orbit. Isi considers all forbidden knowledge useful and shuns those who do not understand its utility. However, Isi would rather keep her more nefarious plans secret and keep an outward appearance of propriety - order is preferred as long as it works in her and her allies' favor.
Religious Views: Isi is going through a religious existential crisis by the time she reaches the shores of Baldur's Gate. The Chultan soon abandons Obtao to embrace Eshowdow in a short-sighted rebellious spell but questions even this decision after nearly dying at the hands of Cyric cultists. Broken, battered, and feeling alone in lands far from her own, Isi starts to really question the futility of worship. The explorer's study of the planes has further opened her eyes to this revelation. Seeing the universe in a more nuanced light, Isi has long abandoned any "goodly" notions of morality in favor of a more utilitarian and contractual model for her own personal behavior. More recently Isi has become very interested in the Archduchess of the 6th layer, Fierna. Isi admires The Mistress of Phlegethos's lively spirit and rebellious nature despite herself having to face the nihilistic nature of the cosmos for untold millennia.
Pact: Devil line of sorcery known as Infernal Sorcery
Ancestor: Mzolu, The Dishonored made a pact for easy access to sorcery with Fierna many generations ago.
Family: Father is Alive - Yapa Natombe; Mother is Alive - Azuil Natombe
History and Origin:
Isi was born in the Residential Quarter of the "mythical" city of Mezro, DR 1326, which is currently still hidden to most outsiders of the city. The young prodigy, at the age of fifteen, shocked her parents when she accidentally blasted open the door to her family's one-story adobe house with a magic missile. Although Isi's family feared their child's unnatural and untrained gifts were a curse, they decided to take her to the Scholar's Quarter of the city, where the famed Library of Mezro and the College of Mages were located. Isi was eventually accepted after a year from her initial meeting with the headmasters of the college, which was a great honor, but the young sorceress soon found out the academy wasn't for her. It wasn't a total loss; Isi learned many skills even though she eventually left after only two years at the academy. Isi always felt like her studies were being heavily monitored and restricted which didn't sit well with the young upstart. So Isi went rogue to conduct her own experiments and do her own studies, using her access to the great library to satiate her appetite for knowledge.
After a full decade of research and various fieldwork adventures diving into lost ruins for tomes of hidden knowledge, this Chultan sorceress had mastered the highest arcane spells, but she wasn't satisfied. Something nagged at Isi's consciousness, and she wanted to know why she was able to so easily and innately cast spells. Most of her research into sorcerer bloodlines revealed the usual origins of fey or draconic influences, but Isi felt like neither of these described her condition. Coming upon a rare Tabaxi tome, Isi found a blood strain of sorcery that described more closely what her arcane energies felt like when she engaged them, but it left the now more seasoned scholar with even more unease and questions. The Tabaxi tome described an Infernal Sorcerer bloodline and a familiar name, Mzolu the Dishonored, a long-dead descendant of Isi's family. Mzolu was almost never spoken of in Isi's household unless it was to frighten naughty children. Isi found that her parents only stubbornly engaged in the topic of Mzolu and even when information was forthcoming, it wasn't much to go on. Isi knew the Library of Mezro would have something archived there that might shed light on this long-dead predecessor of hers, but all she found was an empty shelf where the information should have been.
Isi poured her energies into this convoluted family research project and spared no expense in trying to dig up some of her several generations removed great grandfather's notes and journals. Finally, Isi came up with a lead that pointed to the strangest place: the collection of Mzolu's work was rumored to be locked up tight in some place called Candlekeep off the Swordcoast, which felt like another world away to Isi. A magical barrier surrounded her city that kept meddlesome adventurers and, more importantly, the Batiri out. If Isi were to leave the city of Mezro, it might be a trial to get back in, which weighed heavily on her. However, this mystery of her family's sorcery bloodline consumed Isi's attention, and she needed to know. Preparations were made to head to a northern port and set sail for Baldur's Gate. The voyage went smoothly until the final stretch when disaster struck as a storm sank the ship Isi was on. Much of the Chultan Explorer's belongings, a lifetime of accumulation, were left at the bottom of the sea but luckily much of the sorceress's coin and a personal bejeweled lockbox were secured and brought to shore with her. A rough start for sure, but this was just one more challenge that needed to be overcome on Isi's road to self-discovery.
Future Goals:
#1. Isi's primary goal is to locate Mzolu, the Dishonored's work which is locked up in Candlekeep and ultimately find the source of her family's sorcery blood.
#2. Study the dead magic zone located at Boarskry's Bridge.
#3. Seek vengeance on the Cyricists and Isi's attackers.
#4. Grow the power and influence of the Black Abbey with the purpose of creating order within Soubar that benefits her own goals and passions.
#5. Grow her connection with the Archduchess of Phlegethos, Fierna
Heirloom:
Mzolu's Ring of Defiance, Mzolu's Helm of Defiance, some artifact of sorts beyond rings, amulets, wands, etc.