Radz

Radz Delanio is one of the few clerics of Kord in the world of Voltunt. He was the man who saved Tarthurac from death and convinced him to become a paladin. He was also the creator of the spell: Greater Meditation.

## History

Radz Delanio was born in the eastern lands of the mainland to a cotton farmer father and mother. Their people put a great emphasis on the value of inner peace and meditation, which Radz learned to respect from a young age.

When he was in his late teens, his village began to be unfairly taxed by a new dynasty that had come to inherit the small kingdom they resided in. The small town began to lose money and their quality of life fell sharply as a result. They had no defenders, and no weapons of their own to resist the taxation, so those who couldn't pay were taken away by the new dynasty's soldiers. Over the course of a few short years, the town shrunk, until those who remained could no longer sustain the community. With no other choice, the residents picked up their roots and left.

Radz's family sold what cotton they had left to buy passage to a distant land where they set up roots again and started anew. It wasn't until Radz was in his mid twenties and ready to strike out unto the world on his own that he went back to his old village and saw what remained of it. Overgrown, ransacked and dilapidated, it was in the ruins of that town that Radz saw a single black wolf guarding the entrance, waiting for his return. Radz knew a call when he saw one, and he was willing to serve Kord as a devoted cleric to inspire others to rise up and face their oppressors.

In his travels, inspiring the downtrodden to rise up, he joined an adventuring group known as the Eyes of Fyre. They were a motley group of individuals with special and strange gifts, and together they traveled the world, trying to make it a better place.

### The Dragonborn

In the year 176, the Eyes of Fyre traveled to the land of Thal'Thaxia to collect the venom of a Nethin hydra. After battling and defeating the beast, they loaded back onto their ship and began to sail back for the mainland. But as they were moving, Radz heard the cry of a wolf off on the shores. Wolves did not live in Thal'Thaxia, so he knew it was a call from Kord. Radz made his way to the shore and followed the sound of the wolf. He finally reached the source of the sound. It was a black dragonborn, lying motionless in the mud, in a pool of his own blood. Radz didn't know why Kord wanted this dragonborn saved, but he was not one to resist an order from his patron. Radz cast the revivify spell on the dragonborn and took him to his ship to recover.

When he awoke, the Dragonborn said his name was Tarthurac and that he was cursed with a plague no spell could halt. Tarthurac seemed resigned to his fate to die at the hands of this curse, but Radz convinced him that by taking a paladin's oath he could resist the dark powers and heal himself. The dragonborn was full of hatred and resentment, and Radz was not sure he would be able to save himself even with a paladin's oath, but there was no harm in trying. Radz dropped the dragonborn off at a monastery of Kord to be trained and left him, thinking his business with the dragonborn was done.

### Final Fyre

Radz and the eyes of fyre continued to adventure for nearly a decade after that. But they entered into one battle against cultists of an Aboleth that was too much for them. During that fight, 11 of their 13 members were killed and their bodies were pulled into the astral plane as the portal the battle was over was destroyed. This was Radz's last battle, and he retired to his home country to live a life of meditation and reflection, offering wisdom to the young. It was during this time that he developed the greater meditation spell to help himself and others heal from the traumas of their pasts.

In the Year 198, Radz received a vision from Kord, directing him to travel to the wild continent of Flouna, and to seek out a temple run by a tortle master and his varana students. Radz is old and tired, his adventures having worn on him over the years, but he is always willing to take on one final request from his god.