Name: Ist'aonar Barri'urden, translation: (language drow, masculine case) First name: Immortal Guardian, Surname: Spawn of the Darkeness (this is to mean he is a follower of Shar)
Race/Gender: Drow/male
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Profession: Currently First Sergeant of the School of Necromancy (a higher up trainer of meat shields)
Deity: Shar
Background Trait: Bully
Height: 66 inch (168cm), Upper limit tall for Drow
Weight: 180lbs (81.8kg)
Body Build: Wide, muscular, and bulky (for a Drow)
Hair: White
Skin Tone: Black
Eye color: Ice Blue
General Appearance: Wears the full plate armor of a Blackguard in the School of Necromancy and a black helmet covering the head and face, but the eyes are seen and maintain full view and peripheral vision. Weapons include a large blunt hammer for dealing with unruly undead, and a large great sword for those who may wish to steal, control undead, or practice Necromancy without the Schools sanction. He also has a nasty looking battle-axe to remove the heads of those that annoy him.
Background
He came to Sshamath as a young child with his mother, Vierarra, and sister, an infant at the time, Vierriina. They were religious refugees, worshipers of Shar, from Ched Nassad, or so that is what Vierarra told others. His father is unknown to him. Upon the death of his mother, the exact causes still unknown, he was forced into the streets of the ghetto of Sshamath, The Dark Woods, while Vierriina was "taken in" by the faern of The Tower of The Masked Mage. He grew up in the Ghetto of Sshamath, but with his large size, and a strange natural talent for a dark magic, he could get what he wanted, when he wanted, via brute force if need be, from the other denizens of the Dark Woods. Eventually his methods got out of hand, noticed, and consequentially he was apprehended by the city guard, he of course being unable to resist such a powerful hand of force, and charged with racketeering.
He was publicly given 50 lashes and given the choice of servitude under one of the Schools, or be used by one of the schools for experimental purposes until termination. Not at all ready to be taken in by the darkness he choose the former and given his size and strength was taken by the School of Necromancy into one of their blackguard brigades as an Initiate.
As such one of his primary duties was to collect bodies of drow or others, who may become undead from the tunnels, for internment; a back breaking and dangerous duty. He grudgingly went duty, using what pathetically little authority he had to profit from them, only doing the minimal amount to not end up an experiment for the Anatomy Instructor.
Over time his performance, and the fact that he has survived, has earned him a place in the higher ranks of the Blackguard. His strength has also increased greatly during his time carrying all the bodies from the tunnels. While he is still required to see to it that the tunnels are kept clean of the dead and undead, he can hire out others now to do most of the back breaking lifting. These cycles his duties are removing the undead, purging the area of undead, exterminating rogue necromancers, all the while listening to the whispers in the darkness.
Not very devout in his faith before his enlistment into servitude, be more or less an inherited faith, he has become more so in seeing the death and darkness take so many as he stands invisible waiting over them to breath their last. He prays to Shar for guidance during meditations, having no goals or distinct path to walk in his earlier days.
In the depths of the darkest tunnels he hears voices and whispers, and does his best to understand them thinking them to be the voice of Shar. All the while the strange dark magic he had weld as a youth has been becoming more focused, powerful, and dark; flowing through him as he ventures deeper into the darkness.
His time not spent in the tunnels is usually spent in the Gloura's Wings, getting drunk drinking bitter black. At times he falls into a drunken stupor and dreams, or experiences nightmares depending on your perspective, of the darkness and mysteries yet to be explained.
His Familiar:
Name: Daos
Creature: Bat
Alignment: True Neutral
Likes: Anything bloody for food, and funny creatures
Hates: Anything that attacks him, watching funny creatures die.
Background: Servant of Ist'aonar, he serves the useful function of finding corpses for him, and is very effective at it. However, he occasionally causes Ist'aonar much grief when he helps others in the cave survive as that doesn't help Ist'aonar much in meeting his quota. His screechy voice can also become very annoying. For this reason Ist'aonar keeps him muffled in a little bag most of the time.
