Jarkus

Jarkus was a half-elf thief and scout in the late 14 century DR who died while on an expedition in the Shining Sea.
==History==
In the , sometime around the month of Flamerule, a group of eccentric entertainers, entrepreneurs, and scientists embarked upon a colonizing expedition to an island they discovered in the Shining Sea off the coast of Chult, which they dubbed the "Forgotten Island". Jarkus was among the members of this group, alongside his thief wife Periscot. Led by a charismatic Waukeenar priest named Devlin, the group sought to create a tourist attraction on the isle that would attract wealthy people from all across the Realms. Three months later, things began to go awry for the expedition.
On Marpenoth 11, five velociraptors attacked the expedition's campsite and the team managed to slay them with minimal casualties. The next day Jarkus left with the Chultan Wedonai and the mage Briella Farthing to check on the Sacred Heart of the Beast, an ancient Sunite relic the expedition had brought with them that was supposed to have tamed and made docile all of the animals on the island. By Marpenoth 15 they reached the summit of the volcano where the relic had been set up, encountering the hierophant druid Baerwald, who engaged them in a conversation about how their group was threatening the balance of nature on the island and should depart. The discussion went on to take a violent turn and both Jarkus and Wedonai tried to attack the druid, but were ultimately immobilized and left trapped within a cavern beneath the island that was home to a colony of olive slimes.
Sometime between then and Marpenoth 23, the two men died from the olive slimes and metamorphosed into slime creatures. Their prone bodies were later discovered by a group of adventurers hired by Briella's father Maskin. The two bodies sprung to life as the adventurers got close to them and had to be fought off, finally ending their existence.
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Category:Half-elves
Category:Thieves (2e)
Category:Thieves
Category:Scouts
Category:Inhabitants of the Forgotten Island
Category:Inhabitants of Toril