Ezekiel T'nepress

Ezekiel was a young Warlock and one of the first explorers of Eskarya.

## **Backstory**

Ezekiel grew up in a wealthy family as the only child of an influential landlord and his wife. He didn’t venture outside the estate much and was homeschooled for much of his life. He would be thaught swordsmanship,He was considered strange by other kids, never laughing at jokes and mishaps or crying when he got hurt and as such the other kids of the village stayed away from him. He would try to follow them but they would throw rocks at him and call him names and as such he would spend much time alone without friends or people to talk to. His mother was a woman of unknown birth that had met his father while he was travelling the sword coast. Ezekiel would over the years grow to fear his mother. She always smiled when she saw him but it was one holding no real emotion or kindness. His father was always heads over heels trying to please her with all manner of gifts and she would store in a chest out the back of the house. Ezekiel would sneak around the estate and find his mother meeting with strange people he didn’t know. It wasn’t until Ezekiel was in his teens that he would learn the truth, his mother was a Yuan-ti and so was he, an emotionless manipulative monster. His mother was a yuan ti spy that had seduced his father in order to eventually assassinate him and take over the estate. That night he went to his room and found a snake sitting on the floor, and as it slithered out the door his mother suddenly stood there staring down at him with a smile.

Ezekiel told his father about his mother was but he called him a liar and a bastard. He was locked in his room for days. Eventually he heard that his father had met his end by an unfortunate accident on the road and had entrusted all their families belongings and status to his wife. Fearing he was next Ezekiel prayed to every god he knew, even the ones he didn’t. When he went to sleep he would always find a snake watching him from outside the window. One night a mysterious voice would whisper to him in his dreams. Surrounded by a dark mist it spoke to him in a soft voice. It would tell him how he didn’t deserve this fate and that he should take his fate in his own hands. It told Ezekiel it would lend him the power he needed to escape and in exchange he would become a conduit for it’s power on the material plane. Ezekiel accepted the entity’s bargain and it showed him how to use it’s powers. when he woke up an obsidian black rapier had appeared in his lap. Rapier in hand Ezekiel blasted open the window and climbed out. He found himself hounded by assassins sent by his mother and her benefactor for weeks. He eventually heard about the expedition to the west and joined up in the hopes of escaping his mother. In this new land he would have a chance to start anew and make allies and friends, depsite the risks he looked forward to the prospect of not being confined and constricted anymore.

His first days in Eskarya were very strange to Ezekiel. The first people he went on a mission with accepted him with open arms despite what he was. He found comfort in that Eskarya and the people in it were perhaps more strange than he was.