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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BLACKDIRGE" data-source="post: 646133" data-attributes="member: 1953">Here are the stats and the tragic tale of Azakai Tormtor, former weapon master of house Tormtor and Grummok's latest victim.***************************************************Azakai Tormtor: Male Drow Rog5/Ftr8; CR 14; Medium Humanoid; HD 5d6+8d10+13; hp 92; Init +5; Spd 30 ft.; AC 31 (+7 Dex, +8 chainmail, +4 buckler, +2 ring); Atk +22/+17/+12 melee (1d8+7/15-20 x2, +3 keen wounding drow bane saber); SA sneak attack +3d6, death attack; SQ Drow traits, darkvision 60 ft., uncanny dodge (Dex to AC), evasion, SR 24; AL N; SV Fort +10, Ref +13, Will +6; Str 14, Dex 24, Con 12, Int 14, Wis 13, Cha 14.Skills (112 pts): Bluff +12, Climb +14, Hide +17, Intimidate +10, Jump +14, Listen +11, Move Silently +27, Search +14, Spot +11, Tumble +19Feats: Weapon Focus (saber), Weapon Finesse (saber), Weapon Specialization (saber), Quick Draw, Flick of the Wrist, Expertise, Improved Disarm, Dash, Improved Critical (saber), Combat ReflexesLanguages: Undercommon, Drow, Abyssal, GnomePossessions: Bitterbite (+3 keen wounding drow bane saber)*, +3 elven chain of silent moves, +3 mithral buckler, +4 gloves of dexterity, cloak of resistance +2, ring of minor elemental protection (fire), ring of protection +2 Drow Traits: Azakai Tormtor is immune to magic sleep spells and effects. He has a +2 racial bonus on saves against Enchantment spells or effects and a +2 racial bonus on Will saves against spells or spell-like abilities. He also has darkvision (120-foot range) and is entitled to a Search check when within 5 feet of a secret or concealed door as though actively looking for it, but she also has light blindness (blinded for 1 round by abrupt exposure to bright light, -1 circumstance penalty on all attack rolls, saves, and checks while operating in bright light). Azakai Tormtor also has a +2 racial bonus on Listen, Spot, and Search checks (already figured into the statistics given above).Evasion (Ex): If exposed to any effect that normally allows a character to attempt a Reflex saving throw for half damage, Azakai Tormtor takes no damage with a successful saving throw.Azakai Tormtor was the eldest son of Matron Verdaeth Tormtor, and served his mother ably as house weapon master. His skill with a blade was unmatched by any warrior in the remaining seven noble families and his death was seen as a blessing from Lolth by his many rivals. In fact it truly was Lolth herself who demanded the life of Azakai Tormtor for he had committed a sin completely abhorrent to the vicious spider queen, he had shown kindness and mercy.Azakai’s debauchery was well documented and his exploits with various noble drow women were the subject of much gossip and jealousy. But the drow weapon master did not reserve his affections for those of noble birth alone and many beautiful commoners found themselves the subject of Azakai’s lust as well. It was one of these low born women that led to the weapon master’s descent in to addiction and eventually his demise.Threnessa Harrowheart was the daughter of a successful sword merchant in the Ghetto of Artisan’s, her beauty was breathtaking and her heart was unspoiled by the darkness and despair of the terrible city of Erelhei Cinlu. Azakai first caught sight of the stunning young drow elf when browsing the weapon smith’s stalls in the bazaar. He was instantly smitten and the two began a passionate love affair. Azakai visited Threnessa whenever he could and soon she was the only woman in his life and he was happier than he had ever been.Threnessa had an outlook on life that Azakai found intriguing, she was not driven by ambition or station and seemed to enjoy helping the less fortunate around her. Azakai had been taught from birth that mercy and kindness were hallmarks of the weak and that any drow displaying these traits deserved nothing more than disgust and death. But despite this the battle hardened weapon master found himself inexplicably drawn to Threnessa’s guileless charm and open generosity and soon Azakai’s own, rather bleak, outlook began to change. When Threnessa told Azakai that she had conceived a child by him he was overjoyed and vowed that once the child was born that he and Threnessa would leave Erelhei-Cinlu and raise the infant away from the corruption and evil of the drow city.Unfortunately Azakai’s hopeful future was not to be. His mother the vindictive Verdaeth Tormtor, matron of house Tormtor had learned of her sons transgressions with the low born Threnessa Harrowheart. Enraged, the drow matron ordered the death of the Threnessa and her family. The death sentence was carried out through a group of Duergar arms dealers who masked the matron mother’s machinations with fabricated reasons of their own. The duergar contacted the feared Jen Kedar Everhate, guild master of assassins, and contracted for the Threnessa’s and her family’s death on the grounds that her father, a successful sword merchant was biting into their profits.Jen Kedar chose one of his best, the gargoyle Grummok, to carry out the contract and within three days Threnessa along with her family and her unborn child were dead. Azakai learned of his lover’s death the next day and flew into a berserk rage, slaying the unfortunate drow servant who had been forced to deliver the news. When he had calmed his mother, Verdaeth warned him that Lolth was very displeased with his actions and that if he wanted to avoid a gruesome death on the sacrificial altar he had best behave in the fashion a drow noble was expected to. With no outlet to vent his grief the heart broken Azakai turned to the numbing comfort of drink and soon there was little in his life that mattered beyond the bottle.Over the years that followed Azakai began a rapid descent into drunken uselessness and quickly became an embarrassment to his mother and his house. Lolth knew that Azakai still harbored grief and love for his lost Threnessa and she demanded the death of the broken weapon master. Verdaeth Tormtor turned once again to Jen Kedar Everhate to carry out the will of Lolth and Grummok, now his best assassin was assigned to facilitate Azakai’s demise. On that fateful night in the Blighted Behir as Azakai turned to face Grummok he knew that he looked into the eyes of his Threnessa’s murderer and just before the assassin’s blade plunged into his flesh he hoped that at least in death he might be able to see his love once more before Lolth claimed his soul.Moments after of his death, as Azakai’s soul spiraled into the void he could feel the looming presence of the Lolth hungrily awaiting to consume him, but the life of the former weapon master had been monitored by beings other than the loathsome spider queen. With a blinding flash of light Azakai’s soul was suddenly snatched away from the slavering maw of Lolth and he suddenly found himself in a clear forest glade with a star filled sky stretching overhead. There were two drow women in the glade with him, one was a vision so lovely that he could scarcely stand to look at her and the other was Threnessa.Azakai sank to his knees his eyes pleading for an explanation and the first drow women spoke to him in a voice that resounded with mercy and power. She was incredibly tall and clad only in her own white silken locks, she carried a naked bastard sword and her eyes were filled with sympathy. She explained that he was in Arborea the ancestral home of the elves and that she was Eliastree the goddess of drow who had turned away from Lolth. The goddess had taken an interest in the two doomed lovers long ago and refused see them denied the happiness they so justly deserved.  Weeping with grief and fear, Azakai begged Eliastree to torment him no longer, thinking this was only a cruel illusion concocted by Lolth. Her eyes brimming with pity Eliastree bent down to the grieving weapon master and lightly kissed his forehead. Azakai’s mind suddenly cleared and his sorrow melted away, the power of the goddess had instantly conveyed her truth to his mind. Azakai rose to his feet and walked the short space to his love who awaited him with open arms and the promise of eternity.***************************************************Bitterbite, +3 keen wounding drow bane saber: The feared saber of the former weapon master Azakai Tormtor has a long an ugly history. Forged by the surface elves to combat their dark skinned brethren long ago when Lolth and her followers first seceded from the Seldarine, it has changed hands many times in the millennia that followed.  The blade is attuned to elvish blood and functions only as a simple +1 saber for any non elf, surprisingly the saber allows drow elves access to all of its powers just as it would a surface elf. Bitterbite is a thing of lethal beauty, its adamantine blade is long and gracefully curved and has been shined to a mirror sheen catching the tiniest fraction of illumination to glow like a firebrand when it is unsheathed. The hilt of the weapon is rather plain featuring a full basket hilt of plain adamantine with its only adornment, a large black gem in the weapon’s pommel. Bitterbite was created to combat drow and to that end has been enchanted to wreak havoc on the dark skinned elves. In the wars that saw Lolth banished from the court of the elves the blade took many drow lives and was wielded by the legendary elf hero Kinthanin Lenathane. After Kinthanin’s death the saber was passed on to his sons and handed down through the generations to the first born son of the Lenethane family line. Bitterbite made its way into the underdark during a daring raid on Erelhei-Cinlu by a band of brave and foolish elven adventurers led by its then wielder the rash and chaotic Jivendex Lenethane. Jivendex and his men were captured, tortured and slain and Bitterbite was claimed by house Tormtor and eventually gifted to the house weapon master Azakai. Azakai Tormtor made quite a name for himself with Bitterbite, slaying many rivals with its silvery blade. When the weapon master was slain in the chaotic battle at the Blighted Behir the priceless saber was left where it had fallen after Azakai met his end at the hands of Grummok, a gargoyle assassin. The blade was claimed by the bugbear mercenary Thagmot who had been working with Grummok and nearly lost his life in the battle with Azakai and the ensuing bedlam that followed the weapon master's demise. Thagmot managed to escape the throngs of infuriated gamblers who had been placing bets on the battle between the bugbear and the drow weapon master and were less than pleased when Grummok slew Azakai from the cover of an invisibility spell. Bitterbite’s fate is uncertain for Thagmot can not fully use the blade and will likely sell it to the highest bidder. But regardless of who wields the saber it is certain the Bitterbite will continue to fulfill its purpose in the evil and tumultuous drow city of Erelehei-Cinlu.</blockquote>

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