Darius Lonewalker

**Darius Lonewalker** was a human paladin and one of the members of the Leaves, an adventuring party on the Sword Coast active during the events of the Calamity of Memories.

# Early Life

Darius grew up in a shady part of Waterdeep with his mother Dalia Lonewalker. He inherited from her a strong sense of justice, which made him and his childhood friend Coster Dawnseeker join the Waterdeep town guards. Growing up in the shady part of town, he was often tempted by a life of crime, which he never persued.

## Joining the City Guards of Waterdeep

Darius joined the City Guards of Waterdeep when he was 16 years old. After a year of training, he honed his fighting abilities, but realized that they weren't enough.

Thanks to Klija, an old dragonborn from Waterdeep, Darius and his troop were able to bring down a cult which was abducting children for years. The final confrontation with the cult ended in a bloodbath, never seen in the streets of Waterdeep.

During this battle, Darius and the other guards were on the brink of defeat. Darius as furious, but not with the cult members as he was with himself, not being more aggressive and powerful. Suddenly, a silhouette of a warrior came in a vision to him. He looked him straight into the eyes and uttered the word: "Fight!"

Darius' weakness suddenly turned into strength, and the surrounding enemies were paralyzed by fear. After the battle, Darius, surprising himself by his abilities, cured the wounds of his friend Coster.

## Waterdeep's War Academy and The Promotion

After establishing law and order in the city of Waterdeep, Darius and Coster joined Waterdeep's War Academy. There he met a high elf tactician named Even, who would later become Darius' wife.

After finishing the Academy, Darius was promoted to captain of the guards in the Dock Ward part of Waterdeep where he grew up. With the help of his friend Coster he managed to restore order in this part of town.

Darius, however, realized that the world was not black and white. He worked with the Thieves' Guild of Waterdeep to turn a blind eye to things while being provided intel about other dealings by the guild members.

## Moving to Neverwinter

Even worked for the Lionshield Coster and was offered a position at Helm's Hold when Armandine Wanderfoot took over the settlement. When Neverember, the lord of Neverwinter, saw what she is capable of, he offered her a position in the Neverwinter Castle to be a tactician.

Darius decided to move with her to Neverwinter and become a patroling guard. He decided to exchange his intense life in Waterdeep, for this coyz job in Neverwinter.

During one of his rounds through a shady part of time, Darius used his locate object spell and found the location of a missing kid. The kid was kidnapped by the alchemist Duthi Strope. When he found Duthi, Darius tortured him and found out that he was working on behalf of Trox Slimheart, the necromancer at Neverwinter Castle.

Darius cut Duthi wide open in his shop and immediately made his way to Trox in the castle. He was led in by the guards under the pretence that he was visiting Even. When Darius found Trox, he activated his old switch-flail and smashed Trox's skull from her spine.

Even found him in Trox's blood and told him to go home and to never mention to anyone what he did.

## Even and Gambino

One day after work, Darius visited Even at the Neverwinter Castle and found her being taken hostage by Gambino Marino, a former members of the Leaves. He jumped on him and started beating him with his flail. However, Gambino escaped.

Darius run home to his mother's house and opened the cellar full of his magic items he confiscated over the years. He equipped himself with the items and paid a local wizard to teleport him to Candlekeep, since his only lead to Gambino's whereabouts were the Leaves.

# Joining the Leaves

Once Darius arrived at Candlekeep, he started to interogate everyone in front of the library about the whereabouts of the Leaves. After getting in a tiny fight with Mali Gnorr, a merchant from Baldur's Gate, the Leaves arrived at the scene and met with Darius for the first time.

# Travelling with the Leaves

For a list of events that happened after Bambara joined the Leaves see Legend of the Leaves.