Thirsty

Thirsty was Marlin Stormserpent's pet stirge in the late 15 century DR.
==Personality==
Unlike other stirges, Thirsty liked to sample blood from many different people, instead of draining one target to death. The creature was quite affectionate with its master, letting itself be petted. It was not comfortable with magic, digging its claws deep and defecating copiously when it saw any.
==Abilities==
Marlin Stormserpent often painted Thirsty's beak with a paralyzing poison. He had also trained the stirge well enough to know it was to go for a selected target first.
==Relationships==
Thirsty was of course Marlin's pet. Unknown to him, the evil archmage Manshoon sometimes took direct mental control of the stirge. It didn't like blueflame ghosts.
==History==
Marlin Stormserpent brought Thirsty to Castle Obarskyr in Suzail, hidden within his jerkin, when he came with a retinue to steal the Wyverntongue Chalice under cover of darkness. During the one skirmish they had with Purple Dragon knights on patrol, Thirsty was instrumental in paralyzing the one who split out from the group to summon reinforcements. After retrieving the chalice, when Marlin found that Verrin, one of his henchmen, had betrayed him and shut a gate he meant to use to escape, he sent Thirsty through the gate to paralyze him and harry Marlazander, a bodyguard of his rival nobleman Rothglar Illance, also standing behind the gate. He also used Thirsty to kill his own men once safely at home, to prevent the secret of his seizing of the Chalice getting out.
Marlin again hid Thirsty in his jerkin when meeting the city watch later, the day he was informed of Gaskur's murder, though he did not ultimately call on it.
Thirsty was later eliminated by Mirt after it tried to attack him as the man entered the Royal Palace of Suzail. Before the killing, Mirt had been last seen escaping out of Stormserpent Towers, where he had an altercation with Marlin and his co-conspirators after Marlin had realized he was not a blueflame ghost.
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Category:Pets
Category:Stirges
Category:Inhabitants of Suzail
Category:Inhabitants of Cormyr
Category:Inhabitants of Interior Faerûn
Category:Inhabitants of Faerûn
Category:Inhabitants of Toril