Amar Scots

## Overview

Amar Scots is the youngest son of King Bannon Scots at 69 years old, and as such was trained in the Clan Scots combat training. After his training, he was accidentally teleported into Faerun, along the Sword Coast, specifically near the city of Waterdeep. He was also given magical power during the teleportation, although it was incredibly unstable. Here, he was involved in intercity politics, with several groups searching for "the vault" which held a massive hoard of gold. He successfully recovered the treasure and returned it its rightful owner, and also had become a co-owner of the Paper Crane tavern, co-owned by his adventuring partners, particularly a blind Kenku known as Shoveler, who was another entertainer for the establishment. During a solo journey to Baldur's Gate for brewing supplies, he was abducted by mindflayers, along with Sean, Navari, and Hunkey Dory IX. After the ship crashed, the group was freed, but left stranded somewhere near Baldur's Gate.

## Early Life

However, due to the pressure of being a Clan Scots member, Amar felt the need to embark on a quest to set him above the rest of the dwarves of Clan Scots. He and Nero Scots journeyed to Clan Halavar, as they had recently unearthed something surrounded by a magical field. Amar and Nero had found the source of the magic, but as they had approached, the magical field became volatile, and Amar and Nero bore the full force of the explosion. Nero, being a hardened veteran of many battles and having suffered many magical injuries already, was mostly unaffected, but Amar was struck so severely that he was teleported out of Vjirda, and into Faerun.

## Faerun

### Waterdeep

Amar found himself in the wilderness, and soon found out that some of the blast's magic had embedded itself in him. He could feel it, and could cast basic magics, but also felt that it was unstable. Conveniently, when arriving in Faerun, he had landed near a road. After asking a local, he found out that he was near the city of Waterdeep. Amar then made his way into the city, and into the Yawning Portal tavern. He worked as an entertainer for a time, slowly mastering his newfound magical abilities. Here, he found work to investigate a mysterious vault with a few others, in particular, a blind and mute kenku named Shoveler. During the investigation, Amar came into ownership of a tavern that was haunted, but successfully negotiated with the ghost to find out that the ghost simply wanted the place restored, and so Amar, with his brewing knowldege, and crew did. Eventually, after many skirmishes with local gangs and other powers of the city, the vault was discovered. It was guarded by a golden dragon who had been tricked into keeping the vault hidden while the true owner, the former lord of Waterdeep, had fled, taking much of the loot with. With no new quests to undertake, and with a stable source of income from the tavern, Amar and Shoveler jointly ran the Paper Crane Tavern together.

### Baldur's Gate

While journeying alone to Baldur's Gate to buy some new brewing supplies, an Illithid invasion occured, and Amar was one of the captured subjects, along with a blue dragonborn named Sean, a tiefling named Navari, and a human named Hunkey Dory IX. The group met with a circle of druids, looking for a method to clear their heads of the parasite. Also, HD IX seemed to already be afflicted with some type of disease, causing manic, bloodthirsty episodes, which initially put Amar on edge. Slowly, Hunkey Dory IX's tendency for violence made itself apparent, but Amar believed that he could still be helped, until the IX killed the woman that Amar had fallen for. In his rage, Amar lost control of his wild magic, causing an implosion with two major effects. Firstly, the tadpole in his head had been destroyed, but left him with powers, including immunity to psychic effects, along with the ability to freely spike the minds of his enemies. However, this did not come without a cost, as the mark of the tadpole still remained, causing nightmares, mood swings, appearance changes when using his power, along with pain, scars that would not heal, hearing whispers from the deceased tadpole, and animals seemingly knowing that something was wrong with him. Secondly, the implosion caused him to plane shift again, pulling Navari along with him, and their whereabouts unknown.