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ᖴOᖇGOTTEᑎ ᖇEᗩᒪᗰᔕ 🌙 The Ring of Aduzahir

ALTONAS THE GRAY

𝔸𝕝𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕪

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RACE

HALF-DROW

AGE

SEVENTY

GENDER

MALE

HEIGHT

5’10” | 177.8 cm

CLASS

WARRIOR

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SHORT HISTORY

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Altonas the Gray is a man with a “colored” life. His hardship starting at birth one could say. He was born in 1425 DR, his mother a drow woman who had fled from Gallidurth for unknown reasons. During her flight two years earlier she had been captured by marauders and taken north to Memnon where she was sold into slavery.

She would be bought by a wealthy pasha of Memnon who kept her as a entertainer and concubine, having her taught to play various musical instruments and to dance. The day the young drow learned she was pregnant the thought terrified her as her master already had various heirs to his fortune and title and she and her newborn would be perceived as threats. With the help of various house servants she had befriended she escaped one night and fled to the beggars guild where she would spend the next year after her son’s birth. Eventually she scraped together enough coin to buy passage aboard a ship heading for Waterdeep.

The final fate of Altonas’ mother would be left unknown to him. For it was a priest of The Pantheon Temple of the Seldarine - an elven temple in Waterdeep - that found the infant half-drow bawling and hungry outside of their doors one morning. The priests took him in and he would spend his childhood among them, they educated him to great length and a paladin of the temple taught him swordplay.

At the age of twenty Altonas would leave the temple, the priests allowing him to find his own way while assuring him their doors were always open to him. He would spend the next six years (1445-1451 DR) traveling the Northern Sword Coast as a sellsword. While always under suspicion for being a half-drow his growing reputation as a fierce fighter and honoring his commitments earned him better reception as the years passed. He was particularly known in Waterdeep for his escort and bodyguard services and also frequented Thornhold as a rest stop after traveling and contracts.

In 1451 - when Mount Hotenow erupted - Altonas was in Neverwinter. He witnessed the destruction of much of the city and barely escaped with his life. Altonas headed further south after and would spend the next several years in Baldurs Gate continuing his work as a blade for hire and allowing himself the luxuries his coin brought. Around ten years later he left the city and headed east in search of adventure, finding his sword arm growing dull and himself growing bored with the life of a free lance mercenary.

He found himself in Berdusk amid his travels and befriended a member of the College of Doss, a bardic school. A brazen human man named Suhen Mamaig who gave to Altonas his title “the Gray”, due to his skin color paired with the fact that he had no ties or loyalties. “You have no family, no house loyalties, you bare no crest or banner, you are but a mercenary. A gray blade fighting for the most attractive liege” the bard had said. The two became close as they spent more time together, but things would go for the worse when Suhen was murdered the day Altonas prepared to leave the city. Altonas learned that Suhen and various other people in the recent weeks had been viciously killed and their bodies mutilated by a cult of Bane that had taken up residence in the city. Joining with a pair of Harpers who were investigating the cult, Altonas and his companions managed to find the cultists and wipe them out with the help of the city watch, the cult leader committing suicide rather than be taken prisoner. The Harpers attempted to recruit him but Altonas turned them down and left Berdusk to continue wandering.

Altonas eventually journeyed to Westgate on the Dragon Coast where he would run afoul of the vampire lord Rhodanthe of the Dusk after killing several of her best men in an alleyway exchange. This would lead to a long feud of three years between Altonas and the vampire after several attempts on his life caused him to vow not to leave Westgate until she was destroyed. Eventually things would come to a head when Altonas and a handful of sellswords he had hired attacked Rhodanthe aboard her ship The Harpies Call, killing her minions and setting the ship ablaze and watching as it sank into the sea.

After leaving Westgate alone Altonas continued to travel as the years passed by. Going as far south as the Deepwing Mountains where he aided the Lizardfolk in defeating a red dragon that plagued them. And as far north as The Plain of Standing Stones gazing upon the sites it held. In all his journeys Altonas found little wealth or friends to be made. Few ruins he crossed that he dared enter by himself had little in regards to treasure or relics and while mercenary work on the side did keep his pockets full he certainly hadn’t made himself rich off of it. He made the occasional companion on contracts or on the road but for the most part he would always be a loner with no real friends to call on or spend evenings with.

In 1485 DR Altonas would return to Waterdeep for the first time in decades at the age of sixty finding himself road weary. Using the money he had summed together he bought himself a small house to retire to though he imagined this would not be permanent. In his spare time he visited the elves of the temple where he had grown up and frequented libraries and scriptoriums, deciding to take to writing so he could capture his adventures on paper. Though never publishing anything he has written entire volumes of his adventures across Faerûn that he keeps, seeing them less as works of literature and more so as journals.

And now, years later, Altonas the Gray has found his blood stirring for adventure once again. At the age of seventy he is still in his prime for a half-breed drow and while not discontent with life at current he longs to travel the lands again seeking both his fortune and excitement. So he leaves - his home left to a caretaker, his armor and blades polished, and his eyes filled with a fire. Eager to see the lands beyond the north he boards a ship bound for Calimport, the capital of Calimshan. Raised on stories of this ancient realm by the elven priests he can only imagine the things waiting for him in the City of Glory. On his arrival he heard tell of a Calimshite noble - “pashas” as they are called - seeking adventurers to embark on a dangerous expedition into the desert. Seeing this as a golden opportunity, Altonas the Gray makes his way for the estate of this Jakeem Kalil.

PERSONALITY DESCRIPTION

hider +

Altonas the Gray in his youth was a man of brash vigor, undaunted courage, and aspiration to be something greater than just a man. He bore his swords with a fierce smirk as his foe approached, his eyes twinkling with both bloodlust typical of a warrior and determination not to relent or fall.

As he aged his fire while tempered remained hot and undying. His imperious smirk replaced by a flat expression of unwavering determination and nothing more. The look of a man who has seen much violence and been coated in blood while unfazed to a point of cowardice by such. His desire for more while still present is now laced with a pessimistic cynicism, though a sort of hope remains. Encrusted as it is.

A man who follows his own code, who heeds no gods or lords, a man who makes his own judgments about the world and those that he shares it with. Lawful and just if bleak and unfeeling at times. He does what must be done and relishes the results or mulls over the consequences later when the job is done.

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WEAPONS AND ARMOR

hider +

STEEL PLATE ARMOR

Full plate & mail crafted of steel. Altonas acquired this in West Gate after raiding a warehouse belonging to Rhodanthe of the Dusk. Sturdy, comfortable, and effective it’s the finest armor he’s heavy worn.

DUAL STAR METAL SWORDS

While not enchanted these blades have served Altonas well since they were given two him the day he turned twenty. Sharp, flexible, and resilient these twin blades have spilled the blood of bandits, orcs, and even a dragon. Altonas would part with them for nothing.

ACCESSORIES AND MISCELLANEOUS

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• Journal (Volume Three)
• Amulet of Mental Fortitude
• Ring of Regeneration
• Coin Purse - one hundred gold pieces.
• Canteen
• Tunic - casual clothing.

SKILLS AND ABILITY

hider +

Trained since a young age by a temple paladin, Altonas is an adept swordsman. While trained in sword and shield combat he has a preference for dual wielding blades. His fighting style is based around counter attacking and wearing down his opponent. Maintaining a steely defense and deflecting and dodging enemy strikes and awaiting an opening.

When he sees an opening he launches a flurry of fast attacks. Even if no connection is made the speed and ferocity of his assault will tire out his opponent thus making them sloppy on both their own counter attack and their defense.

Fighting form aside, Altonas has a chiseled physique from years of training and combat as well as heightened stamina from miles of traveling on foot. His drow blood gives him a natural resistance to magic as well as the drow’s dark vision.

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ACT ONE;
THE SANCTUARY

Jakeem Kalil considered himself to be a patient man. After all he had spent months combing through libraries and scriptoriums in search of a single thing, a location to be precise. And before that nearly a year gathering names, historical recordings, and even mythological works. Patience was a virtue that had carried him through this tedious pursuit. Patience that was further tested when he finally found what he was looking for, an ancient ruin nestled in the great desert far north, only to discover it was ridden with traps and dangerous predators. His own men stood no chance in such a place and he knew then he would have to resort to hiring more able help to uncover what he sought within.

So he had his agents spread word through the inns and brothels across the city of a wealthy pasha seeking able bodied adventurers. Jakeem did not particularly care for wanderers and vagabonds and preferred to rely on his own well trained and loyal men. He supposed he could send a small army into the ruins and secure them, but that carried too many risks he even bothered to consider. Aside from the fact that his men were soldiers and guardians and not treasure hunters. No, he needed a small group of brave and able individuals.

A week had passed and even as his uncomfortable eagerness grew he kept his forbearance. He knew he had little to worry over, his men had secured the outside of the ruins and set up a fortified camp keeping it safe. He resigned to his lingering angst being the revelation of how close he was, having waited for an opportunity like this for years now. But it seemed that his long wait was now over.

It was mid morning and the brooding pasha sat on his small padded throne in the reception hall of his estate, sipping away at a chalice of spiced wine as his mind swirled in a vortex of thought. The voice of his steward breaking him from his thought trance.

“Master Kalil…”

“What?” Jakeem asked flatly.

“There are several people here to see you, they look to be mercenaries or the lot.”

Jakeem snapped his finger at a nearby servant who briskly approached as the pasha drained the last of the wine from his cup. The servant departed chalice in hand as the wealthy Calishite sat up properly in his seat. “Have they come together? In a group?” Jakeem queried.

“I do not think so,” the steward shook his head modestly, “they seemed to keep a distance from each other in the courtyard.”

“Send them all in now, together.”

The steward did not question but nodded and scuttled away as Jakeem twisted at his goatee. It was a bit of odd but very welcome luck that several people had all come at once, most likely having just heard the “news” in the last day or two. Regardless of wether or not they were a group, Jakeem knew how to play a crowd and certainly a small bunch of loyal-less vagabonds. Besides no one person could hope to dive into the ruins alone and come out alive, so he imagined it wouldn’t be difficult to convince them to cooperate.

The great doors of his estate swung open, the guards stepping aside as shadows etched along the marble floor of the reception hall, the newly arrived making their way inside out of the hot Calimshan sun. Jakeem stood from his throne as the heavy doors slammed shut and the guards began filing the length of the wall and taking up positions as was expected of them, especially with such types as these approaching their master.

“Welcome,” Jakeem annunciated loudly, “I am Jakeem Kalil of the Guild Arcane and I welcome you brave seekers to my estate. I would ask you tell me who you are, each by self please.”

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RESERVED

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PLOT

Calimport - also known as the City of Slaves and the City of Glory. Resting upon the southern shores of the desert this sprawling megapolis is a hive of both commerce and wonder, with a history richer than the elite pashas lounging in the comfort of their estates wielding their privilege and power like a scepter. In Calimport everything has a price - goods, exotics, loyalty, even flesh. It is not a place for the feint of heart or dull of wit as one’s folly could see them dead or in chains at the slave market. If not worse.

Cheating, blackmail, and usurpation is part of daily life among the wealthy as much as the shadowy underworld of Calimport. Each pasha looks to better his stature in society, increasing his power and wealth with little regard other than to himself.

One such man is Jakeem Kalil, a merchant and member of the Guild Arcane in Calimport. Dissatisfied with his mediocre position in life, unheard or mocked by his superiors, he has long searched for a way to ascend to the greatness he deserves. That he may surpass his rivals and allies alike. And now after years of searching and scheming he believes he has found his token to real power. Something that will bend the knee of even the Syl-pasha, ruler of Calimshan.

You are a traveler come to Calimport. Are you seeking wealth, adventure, a game of intrigue, or merely starting anew? Regardless of your reasons for coming to the City of Slaves, you have caught word of a nobleman seeking to hire able travelers for an expedition. The danger is high but the pay well it was said. Despite any possible personal confliction you ultimately set out for the nobleman’s estate, to meet this pasha named Jakeem Kalil.

GAMEPLAY AND GUIDELINES

• General guild rules and expectations apply.
• Discord availability will be mandatory and part of this RP.
• While not tabletop, this RP is set in the current edition timeline. (5E, Current Year 1495 DR)
• Players begin with a single character. An additional character may be created later. Players will have a maximum of two characters allowed.
• Players are expected to notify OP of any extensive absence so that we may work something feasible out. If players wish to drop out I consider it a courtesy to let me know.
• Responses are typically expected within a five to seven day range.
• Godmodding, flaming, metagaming, bullying, and general harassment and poor conduct will not be tolerated.
• Typical post length expectation will range from three to four paragraphs - five to eight sentences - although I do realize that certain circumstances will mandate less content than others. That said, one liners and low effort posts will not be acceptable.
• Graphic violence is permitted though I would prefer we not go full Michael Bay, please.
• Character intimacy/relationships are permitted but any sexual content must fade to black. NSFW content and graphic sexual descriptions will not be tolerated.

RESOURCES

To be further updated.

•Calimport

•Calimshan

•Syl-pasha of Calimshan

•Pashas

•The Guild Arcane

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𝔸𝕝𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕪

ALTONAS THE GRAY

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RACE

HALF-DROW

AGE

SEVENTY

GENDER

MALE

HEIGHT

5’10” | 177.8 cm

CLASS

WARRIOR

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SHORT HISTORY

hider +

Altonas the Gray is a man with a “colored” life. His hardship starting at birth one could say. He was born in 1425 DR, his mother a drow woman who had fled from Gallidurth for unknown reasons. During her flight two years earlier she had been captured by marauders and taken north to Memnon where she was sold into slavery.

She would be bought by a wealthy pasha of Memnon who kept her as a entertainer and concubine having her taught to play various musical instruments and to dance. The day the young drow learned she was pregnant the thought terrified her as her master already had various heirs to his fortune and title and she and her newborn would be perceived as threats. With the help of various house servants she had befriended she escaped one night and fled to the beggars guild where she would spend the next year after her son’s birth. Eventually she scraped together enough coin to buy passage aboard a ship heading for Waterdeep.

The final fate of Altonas’ mother would be left unknown to him for it was a priest of The Pantheon Temple of the Seldarine - an elven temple in Waterdeep - that found the infant half-drow bawling and hungry outside of their doors one morning. The priests took him in and he would spend his childhood among them. They educated him to great length and a paladin of the temple taught him swordplay.

At the age of twenty Altonas would leave the temple, the priests allowing him to find his own way while assuring him their doors were always open to him. He would spend the next six years (1445-1451 DR) traveling the Northern Sword Coast as a sellsword. While always under suspicion for being a half-drow his growing reputation as a fierce fighter and honoring his commitments earned him better reception as the years passed. He was particularly known in Waterdeep for his escort and bodyguard services and also frequented Thornhold as a rest stop after traveling and contracts.

In 1451 when Mount Hotenow erupted Altonas was in Neverwinter. He witnessed the destruction of much of the city and barely escaped with his life. Altonas headed further south after and would spend the next several years in Baldurs Gate continuing his work as a blade for hire and allowing himself the luxuries his coin brought. Around ten years later he left the city and headed east in search of adventure, finding his sword arm growing dull and himself growing bored with the life of a free lance mercenary.

He found himself in Berdusk amid his travels and befriended a member of the College of Doss, a bardic school. A brazen human man named Suhen Mamaig who gave to Altonas his title “the Gray”, due to his skin color paired with the fact that he had no ties or allegiance. “You have no family, no house loyalties, you bare no crest or banner, you are but a mercenary. A gray blade fighting for the most attractive liege” the bard had said. The two became close as they spent more time together, but things would go for the worse when Suhen was murdered the day Altonas prepared to leave the city. Altonas learned that Suhen and various other people in the recent weeks had been viciously killed and their bodies mutilated by a cult of Bane that had taken up residence in the city. Joining with a pair of Harpers who were investigating the cult Altonas and the two managed to find the cultists and wipe them out with the help of the city watch, the cult leader committing suicide rather than be taken prisoner. The Harpers attempted to recruit him but Altonas politely declined and left Berdusk to continue wandering.

Altonas eventually journeyed to Westgate on the Dragon Coast where he would run afoul of the vampire lord Rhodanthe of the Dusk after killing several of her best men in an alleyway exchange. This would lead to a long feud of three years between Altonas and the vampire after several attempts on his life caused him to vow not to leave Westgate until she was destroyed. Eventually things would come to a head when Altonas and a handful of sellswords he had hired attacked Rhodanthe aboard her ship The Harpies Call, killing her minions and setting the ship ablaze and watching as it sank into the depths of the sea.

After leaving Westgate alone Altonas continued to travel as the years passed by. Going as far south as the Deepwing Mountains and as far north as The Plain of Standing Stones. In all his journeys Altonas found little wealth or friends to be made. Few ruins he crossed that he dared enter by himself had little in regards to treasure or relics and while mercenary work on the side did keep his pockets full he certainly hadn’t made himself rich off it. He made the occasional companion on contracts or on the road but for the most part he would always be a loner with no real friends to call on or spend evenings with.

In 1485 DR Altonas would return to Waterdeep for the first time in decades at the age of sixty finding himself road weary. Using the money he had summed together he bought himself a small house to retire to though he imagined this would not be permanent. In his spare time he visited the elves of the temple where he had grown up and frequented libraries and scriptoriums, deciding to take to writing so he could capture his adventures on paper. Though never publishing anything he has written entire volumes of his adventures across Faerûn that he keeps, seeing them less as works of literature and more so as journals.

And now years later Altonas the Gray has found his blood stirring for adventure once again. At the age of seventy he is still in his prime for a half-breed drow and while not discontent with life at current he longs to travel the lands again seeking both his fortune and excitement. So he leaves - his home left to a caretaker, his armor and blades polished and his eyes filled with a fire. Eager to see the lands beyond the north he boards a ship bound for Calimport the capital of Calimshan. Raised on stories of this ancient realm by the elven priests he can only imagine the things waiting for him in the City of Glory. On his arrival he heard tell of a Calimshite noble - “pashas” as they are called - seeking adventurers to embark on a dangerous expedition into the desert. Seeing this as a golden opportunity, Altonas the Gray makes his way for the estate of this Jakeem Kalil.

PERSONALITY DESCRIPTION

hider +

Altonas the Gray in his youth was a man of brash vigor, undaunted courage, and aspiration to be something greater than just a man. He bore his swords with a fierce smirk as his foe approached, his eyes twinkling with both bloodlust typical of a warrior and determination not to relent or fall.

As he aged his fire while tempered remained hot and undying. His imperious smirk replaced by a flat expression of unwavering determination and nothing more. The look of a man who has seen much violence and been coated in blood while unfazed to a point of cowardice by such. His desire for more while still present is now laced with a pessimistic cynicism, though a sort of hope remains. Encrusted as it is.

A man who follows his own code who heeds no gods or lords, a man who makes his own judgments about the world and those that he shares it with. Lawful and just if bleak and unfeeling at times. He does what must be done and relishes the results or mulls over the consequences later when the job is done.

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WEAPONS AND ARMOR

hider +

STEEL PLATE ARMOR

Full plate & mail crafted of steel. Altonas acquired this in West Gate after raiding a warehouse belonging to Rhodanthe of the Dusk. Sturdy, comfortable, and effective it’s the finest armor he’s heavy worn.

DUAL STAR METAL SWORDS

While not enchanted these blades have served Altonas well since they were given two him the day he turned twenty. Sharp, flexible, and resilient these twin blades have spilled the blood of bandits, orcs, and even a dragon. Altonas would part with them for nothing.

ACCESSORIES AND MISCELLANEOUS

hider +

• Journal (Volume Three)
• Amulet of Mental Fortitude
• Ring of Regeneration
• Coin Purse - one hundred gold pieces.
• Canteen
• Tunic - casual clothing.

SKILLS AND ABILITY

hider +

Trained since a young age by a temple paladin Altonas is an adept swordsman. While trained in sword and shield combat he has a preference for dual wielding blades. His fighting style is based around counter attacking and wearing down his opponent. Maintaining a steely defense and deflecting and dodging enemy strikes and awaiting an opening.

When he sees an opening he launches a flurry of fast attacks. Even if no connection is made the speed and ferocity of his assault will tire out his opponent thus making them sloppy on both their own counter attack and their defense.

Fighting form aside, Altonas has a chiseled physique from years of training and combat as well as heightened stamina from miles of traveling on foot. His drow blood gives him a natural resistance to magic.