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Full name: Solnin Toxinspike (formerly Solnin Rumoro)
Age: 193
Race: Moon elf
Sex: Male
Date of birth: 11th of Hammer, 1166 DR
Place of birth: Silverymoon
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Patron deity: Talona
Profession: Mercenary, field medic
Classes: Fighter 12 / Blackguard 8 / Warrior of Darkness 10
Primary language: Illuskan (formerly elven)
Secondary languages:
Common
Elven (though barely ever speaks it)
Abyssal
Physical description:
Silver-white, mid-length hair and pale skin with a very slight hint of blue. Healthy and muscular. His elven beauty is marred by many scars, though several of these almost seem like ritual scars - magical symbols. He wears dark armour, as befits his place as a blackguard, and carries both a tower shield and a spiked flail.
Psychological description:
Solnin is defeatist and sour. Not a lot brings a smile to his face - indeed he doesn't even really take pleasure in his work: He's not a sadist. He is a zealot to some degree, however. And, perhaps more importantly, extremely vengeful and spiteful. Any insult is to be repaid multiple times over. From his own perverted sense of justice, any injustice he percieves must be disproportionately punished.
He absolutely despises elven culture. It's not a hatred against his fellow elves just for being elves, but the culture he left behind. Of course since most elves tend to favour that culture, they tend to be subject to his hatred either way. He considers the culture backwards, weak and self-righteous and he wants nothing more than to poison any proponent of it.
Religious views:
As a blackguard of Talona, he considers it his duty to poison the enemies of Talona (conveniently usually also the subject of his vengefulness). He's not opposed to casting a contagion spell, or otherwise ensuring diseases spread, but he prefers poison as it is more easily used as a weapon - indeed, he coats his flail with poison often.
He is trained as a healer too, as many Talontar, though he uses this skill reluctantly on those diseased or poisoned. Even if they are willing to praise Talona, he often feels like he deserves some personal praise or apology for their transgressions (often transgressions wholly imagined by Solnin) before he heals anyone.
Biography
Family
Father: Corael Rumoro, Chaotic Good, wizard (abjurer)
Mother: Tahlana Rumoro (formerly Tahlana Ilira), Chaotic Good, painter and sculptor.
Elder brother: Ruaspar Rumoro, Lawful Good, soldier of Silverymoon, died to orcs in 1317 DR
Elder brother: Yahar Rumoro, Chaotic Good, priest of Sehanine Moonbow
Younger brother: Rail'Maiean Rumoro, Neutral Good, soldier of Silverymoon
Younger sister: Zytria Rumoro, Chaotic Good, dancer and actor
History
Born and raised in Silverymoon, Solnin lived for a long while a fairly normal life for an elf of that city. Together with his elder brother, he joined the Silvermoon army, though they were in different companies, and served it for several years, though always had slight troubles with authority and command. He felt personally bullied, both by officers and fellow soldiers, but also he noticed his brother, whose devotion and dutifulness was practically flawless, received even more bullying.
His brother wasn't a great soldier. He had not the talent, essentially. He was clumsy and not particularly strong, and while he wasn't a direct liability, he sometimes was accused of slowing down his company. It never hurt Ruaspar's morale, however: He was always just as faithful a soldier, and did his duty with fervent devotion, both to Corellon and Silverymoon.
One fateful day, however, Ruaspar's company was ambushed by orcs. Outnumbered and unprepared, the company began to retreat. Ruaspar had seemed to clumsily drop his pack and lose track of his company, running in the opposite direction, screaming something incoherent - or so the sergeant of the company reported when they returned to Silverymoon. The sergeant and the captain both derided Ruaspar for his clumsiness, and in the barracks, his fellow soldiers spoke about how it had just been a question of time before he got himself killed.
As opposed to his older brother, Solnin was an excellent warrior. And once he heard his brother had been killed by orcs and even left behind by his company, he disregarded all orders to stay in Silverymoon and went out alone to slaughter the orcs. And slaughter them he did. Into their camps and cave-lair where eventually, he found his brother. Mangled and dying, Ruaspar smiled at Solnin and asked "Did my company get home safe?". Before Solnin could reply, life faded from Ruaspar's eyes. He hadn't clumsily mistaken the direction of his company. He had heroically dropped his gear to lead the orcs away, realising that the faster orcs would run down the company and kill them all.
Solnin's anguished cry echoed through the dead orcish caverns. He cursed the orcs. He cursed his fellow soldiers. And in this darkness, he cursed Corellon. In an almost catatonic state of rage and sorrow, he wandered aimlessly through the orc lair, eventually stumbling upon the supplies of the orcish shamans. Something spoke to him then. Not with words or any sound, but a sensation. His mind cleared as he stared upon a vial of wyvern poison. He had wanted vengeance, and here a path had been presented to him. He took the flask and with deterimation strode back to Silverymoon.
Confronting the captain and sergeant about what he had realised of his brother's actions, they retorted that he had disobeyed orders and derided him for not even bringing the body of his brother back. But by now, the darkness of Talona had settled in Solnin, and his rage had become unstoppable. Before meeting the captain and sergeant, he had already coated his dagger with the wyvern poison. Now, in his fury, he slashed at the captain's throat, cutting the skin, but not causing fatal injury before stabbing the sergeant in the heart. The sergeant died almost immediately, and the captain got the brunt of the wyvern poison - his stamina failing, he collapsed upon the floor, where he died moments later - after Solnin had left.
Realising what he had just done, Solnin ran away. He gathered his gear and fled the city without word to his remaining family, friends or any collegues. He was a murderer, a traitor and a deserter. And by now, the darkness had so consumed him that he didn't care. It was justice. For whom? For himself. He didn't realise yet, but this had been the design of a chasme in service of Talona, having kept an eye an the young elf as a great warrior for some time, and seeking to corrupt him. Now that he was all alone, it was time for the chasme to reveal itself.
At first, Solnin was understandably hostile towards the disgusting, fly-like demon that appeared before him. However as the demon spun its tale, lies and truth mixed together cleverly to convince the enraged elf that his people were fools, the Seldarine held elves back, and that he should accept the gift he had already been offered by Talona once - justice through poison - he slowly began to cave. Everything fell into place in Solnin's mind. All of it made sense. The lies and truths of the demon had been successful, and Solnin eventually accepted. And so the chasme bid the young elf travel to Luskan, to meet with a priest of Talona, to learn of Talona and be the priest's shield and weapon.
Over the following years, Solnin learned much of Talona from this priest, an elderly human woman named Ugreti Mallow. He served Talona and her priest faithfully until the latter eventually succumbed to to the short life of a human. But now he was a blackguard, a true servant of Talona. He had purpose. Direction for his rage, spite and vengefulness. And in poison, he had a weapon that was lethal even if the injury was not. All of his former life was cast out, as if it hadn't even been his life. Talona's truth was his truth. Curse Corellon and the Seldarine. Curse Evermeet, curse Myth Drannor. He hated all of it.
Future
He seeks to turn more people to Talona's faith, especially elves. Related to this, he wants to spread the fear of poison and disease. He also wishes to disabuse any non-elves of any positive opinions of elven culture and moralisms.
Plot hooks
- Mission from Talona to poison someone or spread a certain disease.
- Contact from anyone his family, whom he has had literally no contact with since the death of Ruaspar.
- Mercenary work, on the evil side of the scale.
