Role

Chapter 5

Forax(ien) was a storm giant champion in the service of the Tribunal.
Crippled in active duty, he retired and took up a job in the Voralian bank.
His fall from grace started off with diverting the funds of the wicked to
serve good purposes and quickly moved into selfish ones, often resulting in
the deaths or distress of good people. For his betrayal of his paladin oath
and code, he found himself in Cocytus when he was slain by a Maran after
his aura turned red for his wicked actions.

Akkabal was slightly intrigued to have a storm giant paladin there (chose
Akkabal due to his relation to lightning), so offered him a deal every
hundred years or so to be reborn as a vessel of his purpose (will take
vessel of the pit fiends edge when it becomes available). Foraxien refused
the first eight times, but finally caved on the ninth to escape his torment,
and his spirit was reborn in the body of a recently murdered guard of the
Udgaardian Bank.

I've left the details of the pact intentionally vague, mostly because of
how I intend on handling it going forward (he'll receive new orders from
Akkabal in dreams or similar). The basic concept is it'll be an inverted
version of how Paladin's work, where he'll attempt to further his Patron's
goals. As a result, I don't foresee religion being a thing as of this time,
unless he thinks it can get him out of his deal somehow.

Sphere: victory. This was his sphere in life and the sphere of the
unfortunate bank guard whose corpse got acquired for his return. Influences
him in that he's very focussed at achieving his goals, even if the possible
implications for doing so aren't great in the longterm (and in fact may
come back to bite him).