Noxaroh Jackor

**Noxaroh "Nox" Jackor** was a renowned conqueror and warrior from Kushan, a city in the Persandra Desert, best known for his campaign to overthrow the gods and his later exploits as a Hexblade Patron.

# Biography

## Before Campaign 1

### Early Life

Noxaroh Jackor was born in 418 AE to an impoverished Human couple, and suffered greatly for his socioeconomic circumstances. He learned to fight through being the target of his peers, who violently beat him and mocked him incessantly. At the age of 9, one of his tormentors pushed him through a glass window. Noxaroh armed himself with a shard and stabbed the boy, earning him his first sentient kill.

### War

The very same day, the neighboring city of Niwtimnt invaded Kushan, prompting the people of Kushan to conscript their male citizens into a ramshackle army. The newly-founded nation of Gadallah took political interest in unifying the Persandra Desert under one banner, and so secretly backed Kushan, hoping that Kushan would conquer the region. Sardis backed Niwtimnt for a similar reason, and the Orcs of Salamandastron supplied both armies with devastating weapons. Ut remained neutral during the war, as Thoth had no interest in stoking conflict and potentially damaging the library. As a young male of Kushan, Noxaroh was conscripted into the Fifth Kushali Battalion. Noxaroh was trained as a scout over the next two years, specializing in the use of small blades such as daggers and shortswords, as well as improving his survival skills.

### Capture and Rescue

As an advance soldier, Nox would sneak into enemy and mercenary encampments and steal supplies, victuals, and munitions for the army. It was on one of these missions that he was discovered by the thieves he was robbing. After beating him soundly and torturing him, the thieves conspired to enslave the boy and eventually sell him to the Dwarves, but the camp was eventually ransacked by a Half-Elf mercenary and her crew. Nox stole a dagger and entered his first bloodlust, hacking twelve thieves to death. The mercenaries took Nox back to the Battalion, where he was reprimanded but spared any other humiliation.

### Infernal Deal

At some point during his service, Nox summoned a devil to make a deal with for more power.

### Carnage

After many years passed, Nox had risen through the Kushali Army, eventually attaining the rank of Spirit General. Bitter from his rough childhood and the horrors of war, Nox became an atheist and refused to offer fealty to any deity. Some of the pettier gods sent archangels to rein him in, all of whom he sent back to Mount Celestia in disgrace. These gods, infuriated at his audacity, challenged the man to face them and die. Through his pact with the devil, Nox acquired enough power to wage war against the gods. Though it is unknown exactly what these battles entailed, Nox finally saw his demise on the shore of Niwtimnt. He had consumed an unholy amouht of the devil's blood, giving him strength enough to withstand blows that would normally outright destroy a H uman's body. Hades incinerated the champion's body and sealed his soul with a curse to never be able to inhabit a body or mind ever again. Nox's soul escaped annihilation by binding himself to the only thing he could reach in time: the dagger he had committed his first massacre with.

### Patron

Nox would be passed from hand to hand for many years, taking on the weapon's many owners as Warlocks, and his power burned through their bodies quickly as few could handle him for long.

## Campaign 1: Godless Lands

In the spring of 1047 AE, Nox's current form, a different dagger than the first, fell into the hands of Rashuwar Zherize while in Tormsdadt. Rashuward used Nox to kill a gang of thugs who were harassing him and his Zharina Zherize for their Tiefling blood. In exchange for sating Nox's thirst, Rashuwar was promised that no harm would come to his sister so long as they both lived. Nox inhabited a wooden quarterstaff for a few months after that point.

Later that summer, Rashuwar joined The Party, bringing Nox with him. After impressing Nox with his bloodthirstiness, Nox granted him the Pact of the Blade, allowing him to summon any bladed weapon, which Nox could inhabit and continue his rampage across the Northern Isles.