First Name: Ramon
Last Name: Manaq´ara
Appearance: Palelike skin, wears a leather cap on shaved head and a normal robe on his body. Has his left arm covered with an illusion and carries a staff. (More detailed infos ingame)
Race: Deep Imaskari
Age: 35
Height: 180 cm
Weight: 65 kg
Eyes: Blue, an sideeffect of his affination to cold (Beckon the Frozen)
Hair: no hair
Facial Hair Style: shaved head
Personality Profile: smiles often, speaks diplomatically, likes to see new things, follows the rules and uses them intelligently to his advantage. respects others until he decides that they make good undeads.
General Health: very well (14 Con) but his noise tends to ignore any smell
Deity: Shar
Initial Alignment: Lawful Evil
Profession: Undead Crafting
Base Class & Proposed Development: Wizard/Palemaster/Shadow Adept
Habits/Hobbies:
- hides his left arm with a permanent disguise self spell (Spellcraft DC 20)
- doesnt like priestress of Loth and grey dwarfs
- somtimes smells like an undead....when he didnt clean himself correctly after zombification
- Shandria, his vampire cohort is always on his side or somewhere close, watching out for danger.
- exited to meet individuals of new races exept drow and other imaskari
Languages: Common, Undercommon, Arcane, Imaskar, Dragonic, Gnome, Dwarf, Mulhorandi (was needed to read an old imaskari book)
Weapon of Choice: Staff, Dagger for Zombie minion modifications like second head, tail, wings (but didnt success yet on a flying dwarf zombie)
Background:
Ramon lived the biggest part of his life in the hidden Imaskari City. He was once a talented tutor in the school of arcane magic and secretly experimented with necromancy in one of their pocked planes.
Some day three students approuched and lured him into an experiment which infuses undeads with Faerzress - an forbidden art in the City of Great Seal.
The experiment went wrong and two students died. Shandria, the only surviving student blamed him and he was imprisoned. Later Shandria went mad and slaugtered her best friends family with ....an unnatural ease. Ten people died befure Shandria was magically bounded.
Something seemed to be wrong with her. Something changed her.
While this happened Ramon convinced the magistrate that he really got lured into the experiment. He got called to investigate Shandrias status and he discovered that the experiment has worked in a different way. The life force and parts of the other students souls were trapped in her body. The ritual magic did not only fail...it changed greatly.
It took Ramon and the librarians of the school several days to figure out how to Cure her. but with a price.
Responsible for so many deads they were cast out of the City into the wilderness of the underdark.
Soon after cast out and a conflict later they went different ways. The first days were hard, but with illusion magic he managed to evade derros and kuo-toas but eventually got sick from some mushrooms.
Sick and weakened he was no match for a band of duergars. They didnt even need magic to find his trace. Enslaved by a band of dueargars. What a fate...
His last hope was that Shandria condition would change in time and bring her back to him. He prayed....it was his only chance. Mages arent actually "liked slaves". They would sentence him to dead in their city.
Now that he had Shandria for protection he settled down into a waterfall cave and continued to experiment with undeads. Shandria became his cohort and a part of him became like her.
If he asks her why she came back she answers "It was Shars Will to come back to you...to guide you and to hide you".
"After all...what is power worth when it attracts too many eyes?"
So they concealed the waterfall cave...
Sometimes Ramon is missing something. But what it? Hes now outside of the great Imaskari city. In his earlier years he dreamed about it. How would it be? How are the other races?
Sometimes an trading caravan comes close which he used to get his ingredients. They also told him of the great drow city close, where necromancy is not forbidden and different races live together...Different Races, do they make good undead servants?
Goals:
to create intelligent Shadowed Undead Creatures (Shadow Creature Template).
to research new species he finds. Considering them for transforming into undead servants
to get in contact with the school of necromancy
to find a new research labour at Sshamath or at any other base. Eventually buying one.
Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts:
Hes not that long in Sshamath. He knows the areas, but not all buildings and factions. He recently did a task for the school of necromancy and hopes to expand it.
Some day while getting blood samples from Illithids for his next line of experiments in Sshamath he meet Murick Shadowblade, the slayer of Coven, he calls himself. Another one who uses illusion and darkness spells to blurr himself from his enemies. Shandria was secretly exited about that..he might be useful for showing Ramon the way of Shar.
He is curious about the recently jailed woman in Sshamath and tries to find out more about it.
"The Hunters are coming"