Zaroth

Zaroth is a 19 year old half elf Fighter played by Rudy Basso. He is a proud member of the Gray Manacle, and is the chief supply officer. His main reason for joining the Gray Manacle is to kill the Beast God Varahara.

## Appearance & Personality

Zaroth is a male half elf with a wirey frame, grey eyes and soft, shoulder length blue hair that is tied up in a pony-tail. He fights with a dagger and rapier.

He is excitable, quick to trust, and eager to look cool. He cannot stand for injustice and excessive violence against the innocent, which conflicts with the "the ends justify means" approach of the Gray Manacle.

## In The Gray Manacle

### Errand Gone Wrong

Zaroth is sent by Su-Mi to question Corbin and pick up a shipment at the Docks. Excited to hear that Corbin is interested in joining the Gray Manacle, he returns to Su-Mi to request that Corbin become his assistant. Su-Mi begrudgingly allows this, but tells him to kill Corbin if he steps out of line. Impressed by Corbin's sense of fashion, he cuts out his own boob-window. Trusting the guardian, Zaroth takes off Corbin's manacles and together they head towards the docks to meet with Meela's (Meela), the Gray Manacle Supplier. Meela gives Zaroth the goods, and taking him to the side, tells him to distrust Corbin. Heeding her warning, as they walk away from the docks, he unsuccessfully tries to place the manacles back on to Corbin's wrists. The rest of the party finds Zaroth and Corbin, and engages in battle. As he is losing the fight, his amulet breaks, a fireball is set loose, and he disappears. Zaroth wakes up safe in Meela's ship, where she chastises him for attempting to fight the guardians.

### Reunion in the Castle

Finding about his failure and his unwillingness to cooperate with the Grey Manacle's plan of stopping the city's water supply, Su-Mi locks Zaroth into the King's apartments to keep him out of the way. When the King of Danmar and the party finds their way into the King's Apartment to retrieve a key, Zaroth decides to switch sides and help out.

### Rescue Prep

After seeing his bestie Melava taken by Falen, Zaroth tries to chase after her The guardians are able to persuade him to take the time to heal and strengthen his magical skills while traveling with the Estran refugees before he goes off to rescue Melava.

## In "The Survivors' Ballad"

### Outside the Broken Tower

Zaroth's plan is to search the entirety of Torva's prisons until he finds Meela. He starts his journey to find his friend at the Broken Tower. Finding him climbing up the side of the building, Corbin and Slake decides to join him on his rescue mission

### Infiltrating the Tower

While fighting inside the tower, Slake and he gets stuck in the floor. While waiting for Corbin to find a way to free them, he asks Slake how they got involved with the guardians. Slake asks the half-elf what happened with him and the other Estran refugees, but refused to answer.

Once freed from the stone floor, they head to a hallway with statues of Torva. Zaroth notices that everyone's shadows are moving oddly and attempts to attack his own. He questions the shadow, but the shadow just taunts him and runs away into the darkness of the hall with the shadows of his companions.

After examining the statues, Slake notices that their shadows flit up into the room above them. Together, everyone chases the shadows up the wall (after Corbin destroys the ceiling). In this new pitch-black room, Zaroth attempts to light it up, but finds himself only able to light up a small section around himself and the rest of the guardians. As they move forwards, they find themselves upon an edge, looking out across the ocean. Suddenly, he starts hearing the voice of Meela in his head, begging him to save her. As he attempts to run from the darkness, the collection of shadows lunges at him. Zaroth is able to pull away and attempts to assist Corbin up on the column along with him. Although he is able to help the crow guardian, the shadows eventually pry everyone's hands off the column and they fall through the darkness into a pool of water.

Finding themselves within Torva's prison, Zaroth decides to climb up a statue of Torva and a Khastra. He finds a staircase, follows it up until he reaches the mouth. The statue that holds an axe and sword notices the half-elf and starts towards him. They are able to defeat the statue, letting Slake borrow his "Rapier of Wounding".

### Saving Meelava

Climbing up out of the dungeon, back into the fresh ocean air, they find Meelava shackled to the floor, with opalescent tears falling uncontrollably down her gaunt face. Zaroth undo's his friend's shackles and discovers from the guardians that her condition is due to the fact she remains unnamed. As Meela contemplates taking on the name of the "Forgotten", Zaroth encourages her to take on the name, hoping that she'd be the guidance that they wish they had when they were once as children. Meelava is successfully swayed and takes on the new name with a flash of opalescent light. As the tears stop and starts bickering with Zaroth like old times.

### Another Farewell

Escaping the Broken tower, they join the Guardians back onto their boat. Once they arrive at the port of Nakama, they decide to part ways. Meelava plans their next steps, Zaroth says his final goodbyes by praising Corbin's sense of fashion and handing over his rapier to Slake. Then, he heads off into the sunset with Melava, towards the next set of their own adventures.