Kelvyn

Kelvyn is a hero deity who has retired to run their tavern that serves as a nexus point for many material planes.

## Biography

Kelvyn was initially a mercenary who enjoyed killing others. He sold his services and took part in many conflicts, particularly in Saugland. On one of his jobs, he met a druid from Yemas who taught him some druidic arts to try to curb his bloodlust.

Growing old, Kelvyn sought out and made a deal with Himbo, offering her his loyalty in return for no longer aging. To accomplish this, Himbo turned Kelvyn's body into living wax. Soon afterwards, he met a drow warlock who he eventually married, although Kelvyn refused to settle down yet.

Eventually, after a particularly brutal battle, Kelvyn swore off the mercenary life and settled down with his husband to work on his druidic arts. He also took to brewing as a hobby, and this is when he first had the idea of opening his own tavern eventually.

Kelvyn eventually started suffering from wanderlust, and so set out to look for more adventures. Often causing more harm than good, Kelvyn's arrival was never looked forward to.

After a number of adventures, he found himself meeting with a drow alchemist. Kelvyn requested that he perform fleshwarping on him to increase his innate druidic abilities. The procedure was done, but it resulted in Kelvyn's face being lost. Kelvyn went on more adventures, and eventually ascended to the status of hero deity.

After becoming a hero deity, Kelvyn decided to set up his tavern. Using some of the knowledge he learned throughout his adventures, he was able to attempt to build an entire plane of existence to serve as the tavern, drastically reducing the time taken to construct the whole thing. Kelvyn was successful but doing so upset the natural order of the spheres, leading to Sith creating a new pseudo-sphere for this plane. Kelvyn had learned about other planes of existence through his adventures and used his planar magics to create access points to his tavern on them, allowing more customers to enter. Kelvyn then settled down to run the tavern with his husband. After a couple of centuries, Kelvyn's husband passed away peacefully, leaving Kelvyn to run the place alone.

Due to his lack of a face unsettling people, Kelvyn rarely interacts with his patrons directly, preferring to use his employees to do so. When a customer wracks up too much of a tab and cannot pay it off, Kelvyn forces them to work for him until the debt is repaid. One such adventurer was Devan. Kelvyn's tavern is renowned throughout the planes, and knowledge of the access points is generally considered very valuable information. The tavern is known to be frequented by a number of deities, and Devan, now a Great Old One, lives in one of the basements.

One of the problems Kelvyn's tavern faced was, since it was a nexus between different material planes, it was not properly tied to any one cosmology anymore, resulting in it being disconnected from the Plane of Dreams. To rectify this, Kelvyn decided to attempt to create a plane of dreams specifically for the tavern. To do this, he threw a party and invited a number of hero deities from other planes of existence, and, with their consent, gave them special alcoholic drinks that guaranteed dreaming. The presence of people dreaming would therefore force a plane of dreams for the tavern to come into existence.