Lord Shadowspawn
NE Shifter (Abberation) Male Wizard 10
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Appearance: A nightmarish serpent like man that doesn't remotely resemble the handsome figure that he once was. Vastly disfigured by the Mourning, he no longer resembles anything but the Abberation that he is. While capable of illusions that restore his beautiful appearance, Lord Shadowspawn spends most of his time in his vile form with his wizard robes covering up his face.
Personality: Cruel, twisted, and ambitious are his good qualities. Lord Shadowspawn is a man that delights in toying with his prey and plotting conspiracies within conspiracies. Caer Shadowfast is only the basis for a vast network of evil activities spreading throughout Breland and New Cyre. He has a special 'enjoyment' of tormenting young women that are beautiful.
History: Lord Shadowspawn was once known as Thanis and was an entertainer traveling throughout Cyre. A happy go'lucky and amusing young man, he discovered his talent for magic early but couldn't perform but the basic magic tricks that the Bards in his group had picked up. Frustrated with his lack of progress, he nevertheless was kept by his desire for one of his cousins whom was one of the great beauties of the Shifter race. Thanis arranged to have her married to him through his skillful manipulation of tongue and the fact that he'd gained great favor with the clan by playing them as spies for the various factions around them in the Last War.
Thanis, eventually, decided to run away and attend the Arcanix in Aundair with his new bride. For that, he needed money and murdered a Pyromancer of the Silver Flame before robbing his church. The brutal activity, he justified, was merely him doing his Cyrean duty of killing members of the foreign church. He believes the act drew down the wrath of the Silver Flame upon them, though it's entirely possible that the two events were just coincidental bad luck of being shifting gypsies in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Captured and taken back for interrogation by Inquisitors, Thanis was horribly brutalized by them in outrage over his actions that he freely admitted. Sentenced to die by burning at the stake, agents of the Emerald Claw that had been posted in the prison were quick to offer him a better deal. With a Feign Death spell, they spirited him away to Frostfell where he was enrolled as an apprentice of several Necromancers that he quickly surpassed one after another until he learned the Dark Arts directly from Erandis D'Vol herself.
The restyled Lord Shadowspawn now works at Caer Shadowfast in order to smuggle weapons to the Swords of Liberty while also encouraging Prince Oargev's Revolt against the Brelish Crown. It is Shadowspawn's hope that Oargev will agree to make the same deal with the Emerald Claw as King Kaius did, only Oargev's children will be beholden to the Dark Lady in order to prevent him from getting second thoughts. He also coordinates most of the Blood of Vol faith in the country. While not yet part of the Scarlet Court himself, he's just below them and hoping to fulfill the vacated seat of Gerard Schwartzvald.
