Ezlo Schedel

Content Warning: Drug Use and Abuse
Ezlo Schedel is a patron of magic and devout servant of Sod Daerlethoth.
== Description ==
== History ==
=== Early Life ===
Ezlo was born Asher Crookleg in the slums of Aryenia. He was an unwanted child of a nameless mother who cared not for her misbegotten child and the only thing she desired was to feel the euphoria from another injection of black glass, a foul substance when crushed and burned into a liquid and dripped over an open wound or sore elevates the user to a euphoric place temporarily. His childhood was keeping his addled mother high enough that she wouldn't give him the lash or curse his existence. He got the silver for the foul substance anyway he knew, whether it was begging, theft, or deception. As the boy grew he learned the fastest way into another's coin purse was not with one's fingers but with false promises. He took on the name "Ezlo" as it was a name and identity stolen for himself. With this name, he was the proud son of a successful but reclusive alchemical family from the nearby wilds outside the city. In stained glass vials or hollowed rat's skulls, he peddled his "potions of fame and grandeur" and made the coin needed to feed his mother's addiction.
One day, he came home to his mother's lifeless cadaver slumped over a chair with a pure shard of black glass impaled in her scared and bloodied arm. He ran until his leg's gave out and he fell in a dark alleyway, his vials and skulls cracking as he hit the concrete. Asher wept for what felt like an eternity. As he sat there in the cold wet alley with no one, wishing his life were anyone else's, he heard a peculiar voice. The voice was not around him but in his head, it wasn't clear like a person but gargled like spoken with a mouth full of marbles. "Join with us and be free of pain and sorrow. Know power and greatness. Be part of something more." As the words filled his head, Asher looked up and saw a small ugly figure with a giant head and one glazed-over eye. Small sharp and pointy fangs sat inside its tiny circular mouth with slimy tentacles wreathed around it. "Embrace us and we will care for you, we will love you." The small creature held out a tentacle and made what Asher felt was a look of kindness. Asher reached out and grabbed the slimy thing as to shake it. As their limbs met the tentacle snapped around the boy's arm and up his neck. As he went to scream, the tentacle went down his throat. In that moment, the boy known as Asher Crookleg was no more. He died in that alley.
=== Hero of Hilton ===
Fourteen years after Asher's death later a man in a black leather robe with slick black hair and a greased forked goatee waits patiently in line to enter the town of Hilton, he brings with him a stock of colorful vials and liquids which promise health and power to those that consume them. One might call him a merchant those that know him would say hes a charlatan, but all that cross his path never forget, "The Eel" Ezlo Schedel.
== Trivia ==