Dragonbait Dragonbait ( also referred to as Champion ) is the finhead saurial companion of the adventurer Alias . Dragonbait is a paladin of the God of Law from his world , with his spells currently provided by the god Tyr . He was brought over into this world by a cruel trick of Moander ( prior to the Rotting God ' s death at the hand of Finder Wyvernspur during the Godswar ) along with a small portion of his people . Dragonbait cannot speak Common and communication is difficult for him . He first appears in the 2E novel " Azure Bonds " by Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb . Appearance . Dragonbait stands roughly five feet in height , not counting the troglodyte - like head fin , though that is only in consequence to his posture , being canted forward at the hips , and balanced by a tail near long as his torso . His mouth is thinner and more rounded than the lizard - men of Faerûn , lipless to show sharp teeth to the fore and rounded molars to the rear . His scales are small and smooth , like beadwork . On his chest was a ring of symbols identical to those originally sported by Alias on her arm , which resolved themselves into a ring of blue ivy at the end of the events of " Azure Bonds " . He wields a strange sword named Hill Cleaver that features a small hilt sized to his small hands , whose blade ends in a wide wedge with serrated teeth on the hiltward side . The blade can negate magic on command . Biography . Dragonbait received his current name the night he assisted Alias in disposing of some thugs in the service of her creators . Alias warned him that if he made a single false move , he ' d be " dragon bait . " He immediately took it as his name , and is only referred to as " Champion " by Grypht ( and presumably other saurials ) . Dragonbait ' s near - abandonment of said previous name may have originated in the circumstances that brought him into the power of the creators of Alias . Dragonbait had served Tyr single - mindedly for many years , until he fell in love with another saurial who served Lady Luck ( likely Tymora ) . Believing that Luck ' s intrinsically fickle nature was in violation of the rigorous justice of Tyr , he demanded that his love leave her goddess ' service and come to serve his god . The argument ended with no resolution , and apparently fearing his love for her would eventually taint his pure service to his god , he left for Tarterus to serve his god . There , he was captured by the demon Phalse to be used for a dark purpose . While imprisoned , he had a vision , or perhaps only a dream , in which he was visited by Lady Luck . He was told that she would rather not see him ever again , but that her aid had been asked by the god of justice to save his servant . Wishing to live and not offend his god who had intervened on his behalf , he accepted the task she charged him with : to fulfill the service laid on him by the human sent to him . Freed from his imprisonment by the Nameless Bard , Dragonbait became Alias ' companion . He lives always to serve Tyr , but now he also pays homage to all other gods who can further the cause of justice . As he cannot speak human tongues ( at least , not audibly for most humanoids ) , after aiding Alias in destroying her evil creators , she taught him the thieves ' hand cant , a fact that thoroughly irritated their companion , halfling bard Olive Ruskettle , when she learned of it . In the third book , " Song of the Saurials " , Alias used the finder ' s stone to cast a permanent " tongues " spell on herself , enabling her to speak Dragonbait ' s own tongue , which is a combination of clicks and whistles pitched outside normal human hearing , and scents to express emotions . Dragonbait frequently refers to Alias as his sister , something that has been borne out as being true from the gods ' point of view when Alias becomes a soul singer , a saurial gift that apparently follows genealogical lines . Perhaps more importantly , however , her soul was created from half of his own , as was revealed near the end of " Azure Bonds " . Following the events of " Song of the Saurials " , Dragonbait and Alias apparently settled in the Lost Vale with the displaced saurials to aid them in their new settlement . A short time later , however , they started adventuring again .