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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mr_Spicoli" data-source="post: 3129741" data-attributes="member: 42038">Zadrius “Zade” KarrexHuman Divine Mage 3 Zadrius was raised by a family of "enlightened" free-thinkers who espoused all the   questionable moralities associated with deities of knowledge.  A merchant family of information seekers for sages, psions, & mages, they were well to do with a pleasant villa in the mountains outside of Sharn.  He immediately learned of the joy of exploration and discovery growing up in such a unique family.  He would traverse the local mountains with friends in search of herbs & minerals as well as documenting the flora & fauna for his studies.  As he grew up, this translated into a restlessness to seek out the greater world, and a lust for excitement and romance. When Zade was 19 he set out with his friends to find themselves and the world. He traveled all the way across Khorvaire by hitching rides on wagons and carts.  He became quite a good caravan healer as well as guard.  When his caravan was waylayed by bandits, they took all the merchants captive as slaves.  Here he was indoctrinated into the Cult of Odilammara, the old deity of Art, Revelry & Pleasure.  He found an unexpected secret of wisdom from this cult.  That knowledge was also pleasure instead of just power.  The secrets of knowledge were close to this cult and they hired their services to other orders, sages, and mages for recordkeeping and book copying.  The activities of the cult interwove with arcane pursuits as well.   He entered the Collegia Arcanus in Sharn where he learned the ways of arcane secret.It is there that he was introduced to a secret sect of the cult of Odilammara.  As an initiate he learned of the Mystic Thuerges who were priest mages that excelled in the combination of arcane & divine study to the attainment of their wishes. He met and briefly became engaged to a rogue cultist of Odilamarra who taught Zade about the back alleys and cutthroats of the city.  She took him on many adventures along shadowy walkways and rooftops. They had a romantic affair but her best friend decided to take Zade for herself and set up a redezvous in which he would be caught by his wife with her best friend.  Now he is an aspiring Odilammaran Mystic thuerge, awaiting his training to become a full member of the Order.   He is a streetwise man in his early 20's wearing battered leather armor and carrying his longbow on the dangerous streets of Sharn. He has seen his fair share of fights and been in many of them. He even considered joining the guard, but the uniforms, discipline, and constantly taking orders wouldn't be for him. But he has done the city a service many times, and when it hasn’t asked, nor known of it. He is a free-willed spirit who likes infiltrating the underbelly of parts of Sharn for the pure thrill of it. Loyal to those loyal to him, he can be trusted to the end. Screw him over once, or threaten his companions and you have yourself an enemy.   His schooling at the Collegia Arcanus in Sharn, friendships with bards and sages, and connections to the slums, underworld, as well as social elite put him in a unique situation in the city.  As an investigator for hire, he has plenty of offers from the wardens as well as the waylayers of the city.  He picks and chooses his clients carefully, with personal interests utmost, yet  the good of his friends not far behind.  But even when he takes a job on pure profit and/or pleasure, he always remembers the dark city nights and its streets are his home.     He is all about making connections through observation.  He connects his estranged wife’s relationship events with his personal obssessiveness.  He is emotionally restrained, up to a point.  When it gets to a boil he overdoes it with opium, drinking, and women.  He doesn’t like himself sober, and thinks he is a crass brute without the sweet leaf and drink to soften him around the edges.  It may be an excuse to rationalize his addiction.   He is obsessed with the muse.  He needs opium to fuel his imagination and persona.  He will spend 10-25 gp a week on opium.  When using opium he will play the violin to get inspiration.  The soothing music will give him ideas and help him make connections.  He finds harmonic enchindirons delineate logical paths through the maelstrom of the world.He has been involved in private and public investigations ranging from the mystical to the mundane, divine, arcane, and supernatural.  Of late he has been studying how warforged interact with organic beings. Hes seen a fair share of the warforged act very emotional, not unlike their creators.  Who says warforged don’t care, that their emotionless arcane machines?  Or when the servant becomes the master.</blockquote>

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