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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Necropolitan" data-source="post: 9295616" data-attributes="member: 6669245">Name:  Izek LurecPronouns: He/HimRace: HumanClass: Fiend-Patron Warlock (Pact of the Tome)Lost Soul: The Infinite Treasure (Greed)Appearance:[ATTACH=full]352806[/ATTACH]Sheet Link: <a href="https://dicecloud.com/character/2LaSYwa7spggdQ7wQ" target="_blank">https://dicecloud.com/character/2LaSYwa7spggdQ7wQ</a>Backstory: Izek Lurec would be the first person to tell you he's not greedy. He'd also be the only person.Born to a pair of barristers in Baldur’s Gate Izek Lurec could have easily lived a comfortable life following their trade or honing his natural talent with the viol to become a performer. Instead, his life was changed by a single evening.Izek’s parents were invited to the birthday party of House Vanthampur’s head Duke Thalamra and brought their teenage son along. Izek was first struck by the opulence of the Patriar’s mansion and then disgusted when he met Amrik Vanthampur. heir to the House and a spoiled brat who treated Izek with disdain solely for lacking noble blood. Izek came to the conclusion that the real difference between them was money and power. Noble blood gave the latter and often ensured the former.Stealing a book from the Vanthampur’s library out of spite, the second defining event of Izek’s life happened. Hidden inside it was a tome on diabolic pacts, including one made by the Vanthampurs that Izek was able to claim, gaining the powers of a Warlock without selling his soul.Seeing a path to the wealth that would bring him luxury and power Izek became an adventurer. But no matter how much gold filled his pockets Izek was never satisfied. Still, he followed the teachings of Waukeen the Goddess of merchants and traders and charged a fair price for his services while faithfully fulfilling his deals.Izek took part in putting an end to the lycanthropic serial killer The Maned Wolf’s murder spree, threw down the Diabolist Baron Mistdal, slew the Whispering Sphinx of Myrkul’s Canyon, alongside a host of other heroic deeds.Then came another defining event of Izek’s life. Izek and his party defeated Roium Lar the Mind-Milling Enchanter and freed his brainwashed slaves. But in a hidden room in Roium’s lair Izek came upon the evil wizard’s succubus cohort Orysa. Rather than attempt to seduce him physically, the fiend instead played on Izek’s greed, pretending to surrender in order to corrupt him.With honeyed words Orysa pointed out that while adventuring brought riches quickly the lord who had hired the party to deal with Roium need do nothing except sit on his throne to accumulate gold in his vaults. Izek and his party had risked their lives and freedom but all they’d get for it was a one-time payment. They weren’t even supposed to loot the tower because the wealth inside it had been plundered from the locals. Didn’t they deserve more, didn’t Izek deserve more? Izek walked out of the tower loaded down with loot, not even trying to stop Orysa from escaping.From there Izek had no more limitations. He’d take any job if it paid well, but even as he made more money than he ever had it wasn’t enough for him. Izek wanted to be royalty, and even that likely wouldn’t satisfy him. Make him a lord and he’d want to be king, make him a king and he’d want to be an emperor.Then came the events leading to Izek’s death and the loss of his soul. Izek had temporarily left his party for his newest employer. King Nevik of Oayne was an impulsive waste of space, but he was rich. However, what Izek was really after though was the King’s throne. He had joined a conspiracy to overthrow Nevik, claiming to merely want to become the new archmage, but plotting to take the crown for himself after killing his co-conspirators.Even though the conspiracy fell apart after being betrayed by King Nevik’s chief guardsman Rylak Mitter, Izek believed he would be safe from any fallout from his scheme thanks to the contract he’d signed with Asmodeus. But he realized his folly when an assassin’s knife ended his life. Bleeding out, Izek realized he hadn’t spoken to his parents in years, that his party members were his only friends, and his gold wouldn't mourn him.Finding himself damned to Hell rather than Waukeen’s divine domain the Marketplace Eternal Izek fell into despair. Now temporarily resurrected by the Conclave of Halruaa, Izek seeks to free his soul from Hell alongside his former party.</blockquote>

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