This section of your background is SECRET. Do not share it with any other PC. Do your best to complete your goals without the other players realizing it.
This section of your background is SECRET. Do not share it with any other PC. Do your best to complete your goals without the other players realizing it.
After a recent plundering of the fabled White Plume Mountain dungeon, the adventurer known as Girard MonDialus has perished in Blackfall. However, his body was never recovered. Girard was known best, after his successful excursion to White Plume Mountain, for wielding the infamous sword Blackrazor—a cold iron blade capable of, quite literally, stealing the souls of those that it slayed.
While not a close friend, you had swapped stories with Girard several times over an eating- hall’s fire, and had grown to know him fairly well. The last time you had spoken to Girard, he mentioned a new experiment by a mage named Dorian. So far, that’s the only lead you have to go on…both to find your acquaintance and, barring that, finding his legendary blade.
Death! Chaos! Murder and mayhem!
The dread lord Tenebrous has gifted you with a sign of his visage—a blackened silver disc that bears his etching. There are those who say that Tenebrous does not exist—that he was only a false identity used by Orcus to return from life, following the death of the Modron Lord, Primus.
You, however, know better. You know of the dark power of Tenebrous firsthand, and have felt his caress. However the so-called “righteous” fools of this city think otherwise. Tenebrous demands blood and souls, and you seek his favor. There are surely numerous ways to destroy this foolish city—it’s just a matter of finding the easiest and most accessible. However, Tenebrous has gifted you with further knowledge. His true symbol—a circular design that can be used to call upon his true power—resides somewhere beneath the city. Find it, and you find Tenebrous’ true power.
Notes: You gain the Bind Vestige feat for free. See the DM for more info.