Tyranthrax Shadowheart
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:21 pm
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First Name: Tyranthrax
Last Name: Shadowheart
Appearance: A Gruff beard, gaunt form, and a lazy eye. The very epitome of "Desheveled."
Race: Human
Age: 36
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 140
Eyes: Grey
Hair: Grey
Facial Hair Style: A gruff beard that looks like it may have a bird living in it.
Personality Profile: See Below.
General Health: Physically fit as a fiddle. Mentally he's utterly FUBAR'ed.
Deity: Oghma
Initial Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Profession: Unemployed Bum.
Base Class & Proposed Development: Warlock, going Daggerspell Mage
Habits/Hobbies: Sleeping, drinking ale to "quieten the voices."
Languages: Common, Elven
Weapon of Choice: Dagger
Background: Tyranthrax is a Warlock pacted to a being from the Far Realm. He does not know the Old One's name, and likely couldn't pronounce it if he did. The Old One provides him with Knowledge and Power in exchange for being able to "linger" inside of his brain and experience what it is like to exist as a physical being. As such Tyranthrax will oftentimes seem to speak to SOMETHING that is not there, which is actually the Entity (as he calls it) that is along for the ride in his brain.
Goals: Tyranthrax seeks to obtain knowledge and recoup what he has lost of his sanity. This is very difficult.
Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts: The Old One that exists inside of Tyranthrax' Brain is tied to the Plane of Thought. As such The Old One is nigh-Omniscient. The amount of knowledge that he can bestow to Tyranthrax, however, is quite limited, and is limited by what Tyranthrax' feeble Human brain is capable of processing. His insanity is due to the strain placed upon his brain by quite literally having his brain connected to a source of nigh-infinite knowledge. Potential plot-hooks might be that someone else learns of Tyranthrax' connection to this old one and wishes to exploit that connection to gain forbidden knowledge. The Entity exists entirely inside the Plane of Thought, linked to Tyranthrax' mind through a psychic connection. As such: only Tyranthrax can perceive the entity. Reading Tyranthrax' mind could reveal the Entity to others....much to their dismay. The Entity keeps Tyranthrax's mind in a sort of "shark cage", protecting his mind (faintly) from the trauma of perceiving the Entity. The Entity would not be so kind to others.
Personality: Tyranthrax is the very epitome of Chaotic Neutral. He does what he wishes, when he wishes, at a whim that seems completely random. But this is for a reason: The Old One inside of Tyranthrax's mind is an Omni-dimensional being that exists outside of the bounds of normal time and space. As such the "Entity" can predict the outcomes of events as if he were watching the fall of Dominoes. The Entity might compel Tyranthrax, for example, to throw his drink on someone. This results in the man taking time to clean himself, give Tyranthrax a proper thrashing....but also be ten minutes late in coming home. Too late to stop the Orcs that would slaughter his family. This adventurer would then take up a crusade to stop Orcs and in the process change history. All because of a spilled drink. Tyranthrax essentially serves as an "Engine of Causality." A tool used by the Old One to set events into motion. The initial push of the dominoes. (This also gives DMs quite literally infinite plot hooks with which to set events into motion, via the Entity's communion with Tyranthrax.) Tyranthrax will oftentimes babble things that seem completely odd or insane. Most of the time they are. Sometimes, however, he receives certain "insights" into things that others may not get. The result of his link with a, quite literally, nigh-Omniscient being.
To Verify: Tyranthrax is not Omniscient. His link to the Entity, however, allows the Entity to give him tidbits of information into different things. The Entity cannot reveal too much to him, however, or risk breaking Tyranthrax's mind permanently.
First Name: Tyranthrax
Last Name: Shadowheart
Appearance: A Gruff beard, gaunt form, and a lazy eye. The very epitome of "Desheveled."
Race: Human
Age: 36
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 140
Eyes: Grey
Hair: Grey
Facial Hair Style: A gruff beard that looks like it may have a bird living in it.
Personality Profile: See Below.
General Health: Physically fit as a fiddle. Mentally he's utterly FUBAR'ed.
Deity: Oghma
Initial Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Profession: Unemployed Bum.
Base Class & Proposed Development: Warlock, going Daggerspell Mage
Habits/Hobbies: Sleeping, drinking ale to "quieten the voices."
Languages: Common, Elven
Weapon of Choice: Dagger
Background: Tyranthrax is a Warlock pacted to a being from the Far Realm. He does not know the Old One's name, and likely couldn't pronounce it if he did. The Old One provides him with Knowledge and Power in exchange for being able to "linger" inside of his brain and experience what it is like to exist as a physical being. As such Tyranthrax will oftentimes seem to speak to SOMETHING that is not there, which is actually the Entity (as he calls it) that is along for the ride in his brain.
Goals: Tyranthrax seeks to obtain knowledge and recoup what he has lost of his sanity. This is very difficult.
Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts: The Old One that exists inside of Tyranthrax' Brain is tied to the Plane of Thought. As such The Old One is nigh-Omniscient. The amount of knowledge that he can bestow to Tyranthrax, however, is quite limited, and is limited by what Tyranthrax' feeble Human brain is capable of processing. His insanity is due to the strain placed upon his brain by quite literally having his brain connected to a source of nigh-infinite knowledge. Potential plot-hooks might be that someone else learns of Tyranthrax' connection to this old one and wishes to exploit that connection to gain forbidden knowledge. The Entity exists entirely inside the Plane of Thought, linked to Tyranthrax' mind through a psychic connection. As such: only Tyranthrax can perceive the entity. Reading Tyranthrax' mind could reveal the Entity to others....much to their dismay. The Entity keeps Tyranthrax's mind in a sort of "shark cage", protecting his mind (faintly) from the trauma of perceiving the Entity. The Entity would not be so kind to others.
Personality: Tyranthrax is the very epitome of Chaotic Neutral. He does what he wishes, when he wishes, at a whim that seems completely random. But this is for a reason: The Old One inside of Tyranthrax's mind is an Omni-dimensional being that exists outside of the bounds of normal time and space. As such the "Entity" can predict the outcomes of events as if he were watching the fall of Dominoes. The Entity might compel Tyranthrax, for example, to throw his drink on someone. This results in the man taking time to clean himself, give Tyranthrax a proper thrashing....but also be ten minutes late in coming home. Too late to stop the Orcs that would slaughter his family. This adventurer would then take up a crusade to stop Orcs and in the process change history. All because of a spilled drink. Tyranthrax essentially serves as an "Engine of Causality." A tool used by the Old One to set events into motion. The initial push of the dominoes. (This also gives DMs quite literally infinite plot hooks with which to set events into motion, via the Entity's communion with Tyranthrax.) Tyranthrax will oftentimes babble things that seem completely odd or insane. Most of the time they are. Sometimes, however, he receives certain "insights" into things that others may not get. The result of his link with a, quite literally, nigh-Omniscient being.
To Verify: Tyranthrax is not Omniscient. His link to the Entity, however, allows the Entity to give him tidbits of information into different things. The Entity cannot reveal too much to him, however, or risk breaking Tyranthrax's mind permanently.