Its A Mad World Epic4E:Dr Shivareth

Dr. Shivareth, a character played by OldKentuckyShark in the "Its a Mad Word" campaign by Tedster

iPLAY4e LINK "That's 'Doctor' Shivareth. I didn't spend five cumulative decades at medical school to get called 'Mister'."

Dr. Shivareth, The Clockwork Lich

Curriculum vitae:

• Doctor of Thaumaturgy
• Doctor of Arcanic Theory
• Master of Engineering, Arcanum
• Speaker Emeritus of the Arcane Congress of Arkhosia (defunct)
• Fellow of the Royal Arcane Society of Nerath (defunct)
• Ordo Clericorum Regularium Erathis (Mendicant Brother of Erathis, excommunicated)
• Visiting Instructor-at-Arms of the White Lotus Academy (current)
• Mage of the Seventh Circle

Height: 6'3"
Weight: 175
Age: Old. Very, very old.
Alignment: Unaligned
Deity: Erathis

History

• Shivareth was an impatient youth. Born in Astrazalian, the City of Starlight, to minor summer nobles, he attended and graduated from one of the foremost magical academies in the Feywild; growing bored, he waited until the shining city was coterminous with the mortal realm and departed for other lands. His ship made port in Arkhosia, during the early years of the Arkhosia/Bael Turath war. There he set up shop as a magical smith, selling strange and potent fey-crafted weapons to the Dragonborn soldiers of the Empire.

• And then he fell in love. Her name was Sivastrix, and she had scales of shining quicksilver. Even in those decadent days, as an empire was ending, it was unusual for a dragon to fall in love with a lesser creature, but they were both young -- less than a hundred -- and cared not for the opinions of their peers. Sivastrix was a wyrm-knight; an officer in the Imperial army, whose job it was to lead a cohort of dragonborn aerial cavalry, and it was Shivareth who designed and crafted the draconic barding she would wear into battle.

• And then she died. Sivastrix fell at the Seige of Razrotear, in what was to be one of the final battles of the war. Worse, she was slain with a Soulcatch Dagger, one of a handful of powerful profane artifacts wielded by the Hell-Lords of Bael-Turath. Her soul became imprisoned in the ruby hilt of the obsidian dagger. But before the ruby could be used as a component in a blasphemous rite, the Turathan army fell to infighting, and the jewel was lost.

• Shivareth spent centuries hunting down the jewel.

Combat Block

Shivareth, level 21

STR 13, CON 22, DEX 15, INT 26, WIS 14, CHA 10

AC: 36 Fort: 35 Ref: 33 Will: 32
HP: 134 Surges: 12 Surge Value: 33

TRAINED SKILLS
Arcana +32, Dungeoneering +17, History +25, Insight +21, Perception +17, Religion +23, Stealth +17, Thievery +20

UNTRAINED SKILLS
Acrobatics +12, Athletics +11, Bluff +10, Diplomacy +10, Endurance +16, Heal +12, Intimidate +10, Nature +12, Streetwise +10