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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8821694" data-attributes="member: 50987">I'm not sure I'm the right person to help you, but I can tell you all about my hexblade.  His name was Malachi, and he wasn't really all that focused on the weapon.  More than anything else, he was a vampire hunter.[SPOILER=The Story of Malachi, my Hexblade]He was once a wealthy landowner, who controlled a huge collection of fields and vineyards outside of Yartar, in the Desserin River Valley.  He had a wife and three beautiful children, a spacious manor house, and a brewery that sold ale, wine, and mead from Waterdeep to Neverwinter.  He had an enviable life until his oldest child died suddenly of a strange illness.  Weeks later, his youngest child died as well, and whispers of plague began to spread among the workers.  And when his wife also fell ill, the whole estate was put under quarantine.Three nights after her funeral, he learned the truth about the illness:  a vampire had infiltrated his manor house, in the guise of one of the housekeepers.  That vampire had Turned all of his family and half his staff, and now it had come to claim him as well.  Bitten and dying, and terrified of what fate awaited him in the thrall of a vampire, he cried out to the gods for strength and mercy.  And the Raven Queen answered.She struck a bargain with Malachi:  in exchange for his soul, she would give him power over shadow and death, and he would use that power to destroy the vampires that had ruined his life.  With the Raven Queen's power, he could weave powerful weapons from wisps of shadow.  He could tear away the shadows of creatures he had slain and command them to fight for him.  Darkness no longer had power over him; he could see normally even in magical darkness.  (And so on.  We basically just reskinned everything to be all about shadow and mutual hatred of the undead.)Malachi used his new powers to destroy the vampires that had taken his family from him and ruined his fortune.  And when that grim task had been finished, he expected the bargain to be fulfilled and the Raven Queen would claim his soul.  But she had bigger plans in store for him...he would be her instrument on earth, to root out all vampires and destroy them.  And Malachi dared not to disobey her, for he knew what he would become if she withdrew her powers.[/SPOILER]My advice?  Ignore or change the lore as you wish.  I basically made mine into an Amish Van Helsing, with elements from Fullmetal Alchemist (except he used shadowstuff instead of metal).  He was the bane of vampires everywhere, but the Raven Queen made certain he understood that he was on her leash.</blockquote>

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