Calthel

General Information

Full Name: Calthel Lorvarax

Age: 21

Background: Sage

When you attempt to learn or recall a piece of lore, if you do not know that information, you often know where and from whom you can obtain it. Usually, this information comes from a library, scriptorium, university, or a sage or other learned person or creature. Your DM might rule that the knowledge you seek is secreted away in an almost inaccessible place, or that it simply cannot be found. Unearthing the deepest secrets of the multiverse can require an adventure or even a whole campaign.

Appearance

Height: 5’8”

Age: 21

Eyes: Dark green

Hair Tendril Style: Fins, also long and goes back

Scale Color: Black, with a turquoise glint due to his patron

Build: Muscular in a working way

He no longer wears leathers, preferring instead to wear traveling clothes that are lightweight and allow for ease of movement. His longsword is also gone, replaced with the spellbook that is shown. His book was previously Honoria’s own spellbook, which he took and performed the appropriate ritual to convert into his book of shadow from his patron.

His raven is a celestial raven that carries with it the faint smell of incense. It is normally a black bird with golden tipped feathers to mark it a familiar. Its name is Siobahn. It has also taken the form of a fish, where appropriate.

Art by Amelia!

Class Information

Warlock, Great Old One, Pact of the Tome

Languages: Common, Draconic, Celeviran Elvish, Orc

Patron: Fayruz, the Unshackled Star

Fayruz is the patron of forgotten secrets and the unknowable. His followers are typically outcasts.

• Eldritch Invocations

  • Armor of Shadows
    • Cast Mage Armor at will without any spell components or spell slots.
  • Eyes of the Runekeeper
    • Read any and all writing.
  • Book of Ancient Spells
    • Choose ritual spells. They do not count against known spells. You can only cast these as rituals unless you’ve learned them some other way, such as being a wizard. You can also cast warlock spells that you know as rituals if they have the ritual tag. You can add more ritual spells as long as they are less than half your level (rounded up) for 2 hours/spell level + 50gp/spell level.
    • Known Spells:
      • Detect Magic
      • Find Familiar
      • Identify
      • Water Breathing

• Pact Boon: Tome Your patron gives you a grimoire called a Book of Shadows. When you gain this feature, choose three cantrips from any class’s cantrips (the three needn’t be from the same list). While this book is on your person, you can cast those cantrips at will. They don’t count against your number of cantrips known. If they don’t appear on the warlock spell list, they are nonetheless warlock spells for you.

  Chosen spells:

  • Vicious Mockery
  • Friends
  • Dancing Lights

• Feats

  • War Caster
    • Advantage on CON saves to maintain concentration.
    • As a reaction, you may cast a spell instead of taking an opportunity attack.

Personality

Trait: I’m used to helping out those who aren’t as smart as I am, and I patiently explain anything and everything to others. There’s nothing I like more than a good mystery.

Ideal: Knowledge. The path to power and self-improvement is through knowledge.

Bond: I sold my soul for knowledge. I hope to do great deeds to win it back.

Flaw: I am easily distracted by the promise of information.

History

Grew up in Compass Tor, the second-largest of the islands and most pleasant due to the highland meadow climate. It is known for its sheep as well as lodestone and iron mining operations. My family was into iron mining and, growing up, I was also in on this business. I spent my spare time reading as many books as I could and studying magic, however, as dragonborn were supposed to have a natural aptitude for it.

Studying hard, I eventually managed to catch the eye of the Marquis Petra of Stepstone, who was known for sponsoring young and aspiring mages. She paid form e to go to the school of Divination magic. I excelled in ritual casting but that was about it, eventually dropping out. As far as Petra knows I am taking private lessons. She is suspicious, but none the wiser that I managed to contact Fayruz and make a deal with the slumbering old god.

I must pay off my debt, however, which is where the adventure starts.

You begin on a boat ferrying you to Skerry Yayek, a small, rocky island with a village of about a hundred. Duchess Bellicent Le Bruin called you together to investigate why the island is incommunicado and what happened to her three tax collectors. If possible, collect the taxes as well, but find the tax collectors is the big one. Skerry Yayek is best known for its guano mine, which supplies almost 30% of the fireball reagents in the kingdom.

Compass Tor Info

NOT ALL OF THIS IS RELIABLE INFORMATION, IT IS BASED ON WHAT CALTHEL KNEW BEFORE HE LEFT

From: Nodwydd Twll

• Lodestone mines - most prestigious of the mines here.
• Father -
• Mother -
• Younger Brother - 16

Grimskoll - Black Dragonborn Tricker Cleric 2

• Parson Vinboreas, second cousin to Calthel

Isolde’s family is also here on Compass Tor.

Local Nobility

• Countess Clarafama was the patroness of the school, you know she died two years ago & her son, Clerban, 28, inherited
• Fidias, a jester-poet at the Countess’s court, spent a lot of time at the school teaching history & literature in his spare time

Headmistress Valdinac

• Diviner and graduate of Grammary of Divination.
• Oversaw the most promising students, but had no dorm in her tower.
  • Calthel dormed in Hex Tower under Lady Elspeth Glamis.
• Human. No noble background. Child of a fisherman.
• Chatty, unfailingly kind, always had dubious stories to tell.
• Level of envy her apprentices attracted was harsh.

Navigator’s School

• Man, academic politics suck.
• Professors are paid by number of apprentices.
  • Students transfer often.
• Students without magical talent are trained as navigators & cartographers.
  • This is still pretty contentious when the ports were closed (until 9 years ago) (Calthel was here 5-13 years ago)
• Always squabbles between the Temples & the school, except for the temple of Sannoska

Teachers

• Lady Elspeth Glamis, Hexhire
  • Midmirish/Mouldweir human
  • Diviner & Navigator
  • Things Calthel Knows:
    • Apprentice, daughter, Rosgary, 19, troublemaker
    • Apprentice, daughter, Malcai, 15, young & precocious
    • Elspeth started teaching after I left, promoted after previous teacher died, Elspeth oversaw dorms & assisted him.
    • Likely to have fewer students because new teacher.
    • Very pious, devoted to Sannoska, goddess of knowledge
    • Grammary of Divination graduate
    • Husband is a navigator on a ship (not around)
• Lady Alarch Ap Gwyn, Tierceshire
  • Wethryni Elf
  • Bard, Enchanter, Illusionist
  • Things Calthel Knows:
    • Both a College of Lore & Grammary of Enchantment graduate
    • Most prestigious teacher
    • 140s, has taught here 61 years (human equiv she’s in 70s)
    • Husband, lore bard, Mabon ap Lleu, also Lindradean Elf
      • Doesn’t teach, but helps oversee
    • No student-age children
    • Apprentices:
      • Manawydan Rigfoss, Celeviran elf M, 19, two years behind Cal, ambitious go-getter
      • Bloduwen of Cainock, Lindradean elf F, 20, prettiest student
      • Ceridwen of Cainock, F Lindradean elf, younger sister
      • Olwen of Cainock F Lindradean elf, youngest sister
      • Llefelys Dunair, NB Drow elf
      • Rhunia Garanhyr, F Wethryni elf
• Lady Cawdria O’Bannock, Matinshire
  • Human
  • Druid, Abjurer
  • Things Calthel Knows:
    • Scandalously divorced, she has an illegitimate child
    • Heir, 15, student, Lochavon O’Bannock, M human
    • Heir, 20, student, Tayforth O’Bannock, NB human
    • Illegit, striking resemblance, student, Antilgarah, 17, half-Lindradean elf
    • Taught here for 15 years
    • Taught at a druidic convent but left before taking her vows
    • Not very outgoing
• Lady Rose of PenningChase, Vespershire
  • Evoker, Eldritch Knight
  • What Calthel Knows:
    • Courtier, Count of Penning Chase’s daughter, was noble before she cam here
    • No official Grammary education but served in the Order of the Fruit & Stones
      • Knightly order headed by the Duchess who guard the druids
    • Widowed 9 years ago
    • Taught here for 8 years
    • Half-elven
    • Hier, Primula, F, 17, half-elf
    • Husband died on Queen Alianora’s first expedition to Midmire at the start of her reign, Rose then retired from active service in the Knights after her year of mourning, retired to here
    • Has a reputation for being the harshest of the teachers
    • Students tend to become battlemages to the nobility (she has the highest job placement)
    • Apprentices:
      • 2 orcish underclassmen, ~16 now, only orcs in the school the whole time i was there
      • Penmythia, F Lindradean elf