Quintalius vas Antian the Spectre, Magistrate of Hamsah Mu'tazz

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Chapter 9

Quintalius has been a constant presence in the Spire yet
he feels like he is being intentionally held back by the
Provost, a Paladin of a hostile faith. He currently schemes
ways to obtain the power he believes he deserves (both in
action and in terms of birthright) without declaring open
hostilities to the present leadership of the Spire. In this
quest he has aligned himself with the other dark elements
of the Spire, most notably Velenkoth who like himself was
born under the stars of Reason and seeks a similar, stronger
Blood Tribunal.

In addition to Velenkoth he has made (or in many cases:
bought) numerous other allies in the Empire. He feels that
the thief Tanith, the Priestess Decima, the Priests Selszar
and Iarphine, both men of Reason themselves are all prime
candidates to join the Brimstone Society and he will begin
approaching them individually. He maintains a strong alliance
with the Empire as a whole as he fears he may be pushing his
luck in the Spire in his moves against Selionar. He sees the
oath as secondary means to accomplishing his goals should he
push too far.

To this aim he is very vocal about praising the Emperor and his
council as being the cornerstone of civilization. But deep down
he sees the Empire as subservient to the Spire. He sees the Law
as the true force of Order in the lands. His promises to bring
the Spire under the Imperial Banner are mostly hollow as he
envisions a world in which the Emperor will bend knee to the
Provost. A world in which the Provost is more than just a civil
servant but rather a King.

He has mastered every spell taught to him in his guild as he
pushes through toward his Becoming. This thought consumes him
night and day. He wil not let anything come between him and
his destiny: to rule Thera for eternity.

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Chapter 8

Dearest Mother,

It has been many years. Word reached me of father's illness and
subsequent passing. I meant to make it home for the funeral pyre
but duty can be a very strict mistress. Even stricter than you.

I've moved my post from Seantryn Modan to the Sultanate of
Hamsah Mu'tazz. I find the desert kingdom to be far more fitting
for a man of my birth. I believe our beloved Provost, a Knight
of the Jaguar, sought to keep me as far away from the upper rungs
of the Spire as possible for I rotted in the South for many years.
Perhaps he sees in me the same darkness that you did. Perhaps he
fears me in the same way you do. Perhaps he attempted to send me
away. Just as you did?

I am not bitter, Mother. In many ways you've set me free. Our
small, mountain kingdom was never suitable for a man of my
amibitions. While it and it's rich lumber supply may be appealing
for the fifth born cast away of a lesser House of Teth Azeleth,
to me it is nothing more than an after thought. For we are much
alike, Mother. But we are also very different. You needn't fear
me for you have nothing I desire.

Now with that being said I will part with a word of warning: I
have seen your assassins lurking in the South and now here in
the Sultanate. If they should make an attempt upon my life you
may rest assured I will come home. I will bring with me an army of
your undead assassins. I will bring with me soldiers from the
mighty Empire, who could surely use your crop. I will bring with
me representatives of the Twin Honors and civilization as a
whole. And then, Mother, I will flay you and my sisters on the very
redwood that built our name. I will do this to the cheers and
adorations of your subjects.

As I said, Mother: we are very much alike. Do not test me. I
remember the Three V's as well as any vas Antian.


*stamped with the sigil of an Owl perched on a branch*
*stamped with the seal of the Blood Tribunal*
Eternally yours,
Quintalius vas Antian
Magistrate of Hamsah Mu'tazz

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Chapter 7

Quintalius has the following immediate and long term goals:

I) To join the Spire as instructed by his father. To learn
their ways and to find a means by which to manipulate them
in order to help him obtain greatness.

II) To master all forms of necromancy so that he might better
understand the dark arts to aid him in his Becoming which is
his highest aspiration. He saw how his father fought his whole
life for a Throne that he is now too old and frail to enjoy.
Quintalius will conquer death first and then he will claim
his lands and titles for all time.

III) Quintalius has created a secret order he refers to as
The Brimstone Society. This society is a pan-orderly group
of Thera's elite. He seeks to find Dark and Orderly members
from the Theran cabals to initiate into his Order. From this
secret society they will seek to bring the pillars of the
civilized world closer together. Quintalius foresees a day
when it will be the Brimstone Society, not the Imperial
Council, who chooses will be Emperor. When the council
members are nothing more than Societal puppets. When it
will be the Society who writes the songs sung in the Inn
and not the woodland bards. When the Spire will choose it's
Provost based on the Society's nominations.

The name of this group extends from the fact that they will
meet near the Hells. For Quintalius sees them as the ideal
model: a top-down, tiered, strict society led by a single
Master. This location is so close that the scent of sulphur
lingered in the air and stuck to Quintalius when he returned
to mainlands. This scent will be the only clue to the collusion
of the Society and it's members for anyone who speaks of the
club to non-members will be culled until they dwell within
the hells and not just near them.

IV) Quintalius seeks to earn the favor of Lord Destuvius and
intends to write about many of the above principles in order
to demonstrate his abilities as both a leader and a supplicant.

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Chapter 6

VII) Everything he has he learned from his parents. While he
respects his father he sees weakness in him. For example he
was not smart enough to see that the forest fire that ruined
the vas Antian family in Kartalius' youth was obviously started
by the Drows and not the other famillies who needed that lumber
as much as the outside world. He was played by Vexesia and
played well. Quintalius knew this for even though they did not
get along he was very much like his mother and it is what
he would have done in that situation. He has inherited many
skills from her that are sure to aid him on his path to
greatness.

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Chapter 5

Psychological traits of note:

I) Quintalius was born under the sphere of Reason. It governs
and shapes every aspect of his life. He is devoid of a normal
range of human emotions and instead relies purely on what is
advantangeous. If he were to be defined in simple terms they
would be: cold, calculating and ambitious.

II) Quintalius is an evil and orderly soul. He feels anything
less is outside the realm of Reason. He feels that civilization
is a magical evolution. It's why savages, like the other houses
of his homeland, shun magic. They fear the progress of civilization
and the creation of a world where Reason and it's raw cunning
governs over savagery and mindless, brute strength.

III) Quintalius abides by the motto of his family: VIGILIANCE -
VENGEANCE - VICTORY. The "Three V's" are quite simple to him, in
line with his views on Reason and the foundation of his own
sense of superiority: Vigilance because great men watch all
things. Much like the owl they see what happens even out of
sight. They see the whole board, not just the moving peice.
Vengeance because a vas Antian never forgets his enemies nor
forgives their trespasses. Victory because adherence to these
laws results in dominance. This obsession has made him obsessed
with war and his approach to it may make him seem more like a
General than a mage. He defers to no one when it comes to battle
or political tactics. This arrogance could get him in trouble
as his plans become more complicated and situations more
convoluted.

IV) It is this lust for dominance that has brought Quintalius
to the worship of Lord Destuvius and the Twin Honors. He was
first introduced to the faith from a Drow solider serving his
mother and then again after settling in Galadon. He desires
to prove himself to the Lord and to become the ideal Destuvian.

V) He conducts himself as a noble with little respect for the
peasants of the realm. He carries himself with authority, even
when he lacks it, and views a potential post within the Spire
as coming with the correct amount of influence over civilization.
He writes well and speaks eloquently. He will never allow
himself to be lowered to the standards of the rest of the
realm. He will do everything within his power to be a feared
as his ancestors were.

VI) Quintalius admires all things magical. Since coming to
the mainlands he has taken up the trade of the necromancer as
he finds the power over the dead to be as appealing as power
over the willing. Within the dead he finds the ideal slaves.
Those who are eternally loyal. Those who would never betray
their betters. He loathes the Village of BattleRagers and
Fortress of Light and will do anything to ensure their
destruction. He has a kinship with the Empire and while
he is destined for the Spire he will seek to craft a close
series of alliances with the worthy of the Imperial ranks.

(Continued)

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Chapter 4

What followed was a great feast in the Redwood Hall, the home
of the vas Antian family. The new noble houses toasted their
victory and then choked on their wine. Each poisoned by their
host. Those who did not drink were easily cut down by a mix
of Antian bannermen and Drow warriors. Over the next many
days there were public displays of execution. Men were hung
from the trees on every path, one on each side, spaced dozens
of feet apart. Each had a sign around their neck with their
crime. Each signed by the House of vas Antian. The forest
and mountain trails stunk of rotting flesh weeks. A scent
that Quintalius remembers fondly. The smell of Victory.

There would be no council vote. There would be no council.
Kartalius became King of Westallia. Now an old and feeble
man, his wife waiting patiently to inherit his place. Perched
on a tree not like the vas Antian owl but rather like a vulture.
She loved her daughters but feared her own son. For as in Drow
culture it was the man's place behind the women but she
knew Quintalius had the same drive and ambition as his father.
So she did the next best thing. She manipulated Kartalius
into sending the boy away. To the mainlands where he would
represent the Western Kingdoms as it's official emissary.
He was told to seek the Blood Tribunal, to learn the ways
of Order and to bring civilization back to the West.

With her son on his way to a life long service to foreign
cities Vexesia felt comfortable in her plans. More and more
Drow began to move into the mountains of the kingdom. The
humans realized what had happened but it was too late. Their
representative republic had been replaced with a cruel
dictatorship. They now understood why their ancestors had
feared the House of vas Antian.

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Chapter 3

Kartalius' wife, the Drow known as Vexesia, was no stranger
to politics. She had seen how her mother and sisters did
"business" and understood the patience that was necessary.
While Kartalius was a stern and calculating man he had
nothing on his bride. Her plan was simple: push the man
to conquer and then simply out live him. Human life was
not even a season for the Drow. She'd just help him plant
the seeds and then reap the harvest long after he turned
to ash. So she taught him as well, how to scheme and to
deceive. She convinced him of her love and bore him a
series of children. One boy and three girls whom she
taught as well.

Our story centers around their son named Quintalius. He
was a young boy when the Westallian civil war began. He
would be a young man before it was through. As he aged
and was educated everything in his life was shaped by this war.
He saw brothers killing brothers. Cousins killing cousins.
Each sworn to different noble families. But it would not
be this brutal warfare that would end the struggle. But
rather the shrewd political prowess of Vexesia.

In each quarter of the Kingdom she dispatched her Drowish
spies to assassinate figures of note and also to spy on
the culture of the Kingdom. What they found was that each
had peasant-born families of wealth and prominence who were
fighting the war as bannermen for the other "vas" clans.
Each were approached and promised nobility if they would
turn on the governing families of their district. And so
vas Tendall family fell first, not to the vas Antian's
but to the Thorwell's, their own bannermen, who moved into
their great oak hall and became the House of vas Thorwell.

The new nobility joined in the conquest against the mountains
and soon the vas Elrick family fell to their own bannermen
as well. And then the last of the mountain holdouts, the
vas Kamplin's met their bloody end. But not due to treachery,
their bannermen died bravely at their sides, they were simply
undone by finding that honor comes with a heavy cost when no
one else obeys the tenets of loyalty.

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Chapter 2

Historically speaking the House of vas Antian was the
most profitable. During the last Age the Antian's supplied
the mainlands with some of the most sought after redwood
and wooden charms. For you see, the Antians were and are
the only family willing to dabble in magic. This led to
them being the outsiders, often with the other three
families voting against them. It also made them the most
feared. Their sigil was of an Owl, much like the one's
found in their woods, perched on a tree limb with the
words "Vigilance, Vengeance, Victory" beneath it. This
was symbolic of the family's dedication to the political
dance of crowns. It is said they were the first family to
to develop a distinctly red aura.

The influence of the vas Antian family has been threatened
in this Age due to a series of forest fires that Kartalius,
Patron of the House, believed had been started by one if
not all of the other families. With their forests charred
and many of their subjects dead from fighting the flames
Kartalius feared it would be a several more generations
before the vas Antian family was returned to prominence.

Unwilling to simply accept this reality Kartalius did
something that would forever change Westallia. The
desperate Kartalius accepted an offer he had declined
just a year prior. An offer to marry an outsider. A
purely political marriage. An arrangement with the Drow.

This was seen as heresy by the other noble families. But
Kartalius did not care. He was married to the fifth daughter
of one of the Matron's of a lesser-yet-noble House and in
exchange for gold and the Drowish trade routes through the
western Underdark he promised a healthy percentage of his
lumber once the forest returned to vibrancy.

While the House of vas Antian was restored to prominence
it was also more exposed than it had ever been before.
There was a war coming to the Western Kingdom.

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Chapter 1

At the furthest western reaches, just beyond the explored
world there exists a Kingdom known as Westallia. This
Kingdom has long been home to xenophobic, mountain and
valley dwelling humans. Largely sheltered from the politics
and warfare of the mainlands Westallia became rich through
both the trade of lumber and ore. Splitting it's cultural
catalysts almost equally between miners and lumberjacks.
As Westallia passed through the Ages an organic sort of
nobility began to arise. Four families, two from the high
mountains and two from the deep forests would emerge. Each
taking the prefix of "vas" to their name to denote their
noble standing.

From the mountains came the House of vas Elrick and the
House of vas Kamplin. From the valley came the Houses of
vas Tendall and vas Antian. The above shared the Kingdom
in quarters with each sending representatives to a council.
These representatives would "elect" a King but his title
was largely ceremonial. Nothing moved forward in Westallia
without the council's approval.

This led to underhanded politics that steadily moved the
noble family's bloodline further and further toward red
auras as the Ages went. By the Fifth Age all four clans
were bloodthirsty and vile. Driven only by varying degrees
of greed and a lust for power.

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