Role

Chapter 6

What followed were months of chaotic terror. Sindrir began to
over compensate for the years of living like a slave. He took
on the role of his father (without the political aspirations)
and spent massive amounts of wealth on furthering his own image.
He even took his father's wives as his, including his own mother.
He eagerly betrayed the other Houses which conspired against the
King and found himself without any alliances. Even the Drows who
he foolishly envisioned a future with had left him to his current
vices.

While he was spending the House's vast wealth he was also neglecting
the source of that wealth. He wasn't the warrior his father had been
and he had no training to acquire new slaves. The other slave traders
had no desire to work with him as they simply desired his father's
territory which they took without a fight. He beat one of his wives
to death in a drunken rage when she took a familiar, condesending
tone with him and soon found that another of his harrem was pregnant
with a child.

Sindrir didn't notice his dwindling wealth and influence. For the
first time in his life his envy was sated by success. However much
like any addiction the cravings soon began to creep back in. The
first case was when he saw the other slave traders amassing even more
wealth, which just forced him to spend faster to keep pace. This was
pointless however as they saw as a weak traitor who only had
what he did because of the Drows. He didn't realize it but his
time was coming to an end in the Underdark.

After selling the last of his father's slaves, a pack of wild felar,
he met a man that would change his life forever: a powerful Blade
in the Imperial army and loyal servant of Destuvius. He appeared as
an imposing general with polished mithril armor and a masterful
tongue. Once again the pangs of envy began to ravage Sindrir's
soul. He became obsessed with commanding the respect that the Blade
had. He went home and took the last of his wealth and without a word
to "his" wives he left them in utter poverty and headed toward the
surface.