Role

Chapter 11

Tomias' Hidden Story
Added Thu Jun 9 13:44:49 2022 at level 51:

Since being named Marshall of the Fortress, Tomias has struggled to be a
strong warrior and leader, but with the faith of the light firmly
filling his heart, he is determined to continue.

However, more distractions from his goal of strength await. Foremost, he
has not seen nor heard from his mysterious drow father since being named
Marshall of the Brigade.

Tomias finally wants to learn all he can about the house that hunted him,
House Vronzdir, and wants to know the truth about his discomfiting father.
Perhaps either has something to do with the failures of his mind he
has been experiencing.

But what Tomias does not know is that the man claiming to be his father,
is not.

* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *
- THE STORY TOMIAS WILL TRY TO UNCOVER -

In his quest to finally learn and face the answers he seeks (while
juggling the trials of being a new, not entirely qualified, Marshall)
Tomias may discover that the Matron of House Vronzdir, Mirzaxa, is his
true mother.

Mirzaxa Vronzdir was cursed by an opposing house to be barren to any
other drow, and in an effort to circumvent the curse and produce a
female heir, she seduced a male human. Her house then ritually sacrificed
the man, and to her joy, she successfully became pregnant.

But the baby was a boy. Still, she was not deterred, and dark ideas for
the child began to circulate. Perhaps he would be sacrificed. Perhaps he
could be changed. Perhaps in time he could be... used.

Yet, for some unknown reason, her most trusted consort, a powerful mage
in his own right, stole away with the boy. He brought the boy to his real
father's parents, and helped them hide in the Voralia outskirts. The
shifter then gave himself a new name and found a home as a reaver among
the Outlanders, and curiously, became a member of the goddess Joihe's Cadre.

Tomias went on to live a quiet but fearful upbringing, until the day the
general Ilzaza found his home and the shifter again saved him. Tomias
wanted to be a paladin: to be brave and strong and free himself and
others from fear, but the shapeshifter knew the boy would not make it far
in the guild, and instead bribed the Galadon shapeshifter's guild to
accept and graduate him.

The shapeshifter wanted Tomias to be forgotten, to be safe, but Tomias'
spirit is great... there is perhaps no stopping him from learning that he
is the sole heir to House Vronzdir, much less that he was born with none
of the wits or evil of his mother. The drow essence of his spirit was
barren.

* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -*