Socrates

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A high elf wild magic sorcerer and brief Lycan bloodhunter, in search of a cure for his lycanthropy.

## Physical Appearance

Socrates is a 5'9 high elf, He has brown hair and green eyes. Socrates has facial hair, which is unusual for elves, due to his lycanthropy. He wears a navy blazer, button up shirt, dress pants, tie, and glasses.

## Life Pre-Campaign

Socrates was born in Sanctuary, the capital of the Westwood, to Clark Enshoos and an unnamed mother. Unknown to Socrates, his family carried the lycanthropy curse, but due to the curse being dormant for generations, his parents didn't feel the need to tell Socks of this fact. During his time in Sanctuary, Socks made friends with a Wood-Elf called Petran, and another high elf called Halafina, who he had a crush on.

At some point, Socks was a missionary for the Westwood, traveling from country to country. Soon after, he stopped and became a professor at the Magic Academy in the StoneKeeper Empire, though the Council in Sanctuary was not happy with this decision. During his time as a teacher, he taught notable people like Fairemont, a fire genasi artificer, Gillian, a human magic user, and Finch, a half-elf Wild Magic Sorcerer like himself.

One night, while walking in the streets, Socks encountered someone in an alleyway. As Socks remembered it, he was mugged by someone which cause him to turn into a werewolf and attack his assailant. He assumed he killed and ate the mugger. In actuality it was Gillian who he encountered in the ally, and the attack was unprovoked. Gillian almost died but was saved by the Holdmaster Martin, and Gillian was infected with Lycanthropy. Socks, however, will never know this. Due to this incident, Socks was fired as a teacher, and had been on the run ever since, with a bounty on his head.

Eventually, Socks made his way to Raesti, when the Unreliables Law was being put into affect.

## Life During Campaign

In Raesti, Socks meets the party as Atranon and his forces arrive, They all escape to the boat 'The Gem of the Horizon', actually called 'The Fog Slip,' run by the captain, Harmon. As they leave Raesti however, Atranon and his forces follow suit on a row boat, with a cloaked individual on board as well. After a brief battle where Atranon's forces are defeated, Atranon and the cloaked individual board the ship, who is revealed to be Atranon's older brother, Archibald, a wood elf with an odd form of magic. Archibald is left in the care of the ships crew as Atranon leaves, and Socks offers to help Archibald learn to try to control his magic, while also studying it himself.

After a day though, the ship encounters Sea Serpents, and after the battle, where Socks turned into a werewolf, the ship begins to sink. Archibald, not wanting to let all the people on the ship die, used Kiran's Misty Step to get them closer to land for rescue, this went wrong however, as while it did get them closer to Enshassla, it also sent them a month forward in time. They find this out through Lorelei, who was a waitress at a bar in Raesti last time they saw her, she's a pirate captain of the ship 'The Bordelaise.' The party then board her ship.

On their first day on the ship, The party and the crew woke up to find they were surrounded by a fog. Upon investigation on trying to find the source, They get into a fight with sahuagain. The fights soon stops and the party find the source of the fog on a risen Sea Temple. They discover that Lagos, one of Socks ex-student, was causing the fog. After a fight, The Temple sank back to the bottom of the ocean, and the fog was lifted. Socks felt guilty for leaving his ex-student on the temple.

After the battle, where Lotes was also turned to stone. All the people who were turned to stone were unpetrified, including the three figures from the Shipwreck, One of these people was Maya, the Princess of Dragonlost, and the other was Mara, a druid Wood Elf, who joined the party. Eventually, the Crew make a stop on a lone island in the middle of the ocean, in an successful attempt to try and get into a conference that was being held in Shadesteppe, Twink claimed to be the ruler of the country 'Twinktania'. To further prove the then lie to Maya, Archibald claimed the island they were on was a part of Twinktania. While on the island, Socks, along with Dolus and Mara, participates in the boar massacre.

Soon, The ship finally made it to Shadesteppe, just in time for the conference. However, after one of the conference meetings, The representatives of each country were attacked by the Cult of the Starlost, where the party found out about their doubles, who were apart of the cult and had lived through the month they missed. Dolus' double, Illiac, was killed. One of these attacks was successful, and the Emperor Nolan was killed. After Lotes' double, known as The Nameless, distracted Lorelei to get her away from the ship, The Party's doubles attacked the ships in the harbour, and The party came across the aftermath. The double of Kiran and The Nameless then kidnapped Archibald, and The Bordelaise exploded. After this incident, Socks and Lotes talked with Arlashna, He found out that his lycanthropy is actually genetic, and a way to get better control of his curse is to become a blood hunter.

After dropping out of the conference with Eubuea, The Westwood, & Dragonlost once the Prime Minster, Sodin, announced the introduction of Shadesteppe's version of the Unreliable's law. The party and crew boarded the Westwood representative ship to head to Tiak, to find Wok. Upon arrival, they found the ship port completely empty, with a layer of silvery dust all over the ground. Upon inhaling the dust, Socks and Lotes saw a vision of a Doorway on the world tree, where they heard Archibald's voice but could not make out any words.

The party then started investigating Tiak, where they found the remaining citizens in the church, hiding for safety. They soon found a meta plane in a bar. Inside, they found an Astral Shade, and they fought with it, but the fight was too difficult and the party had to flee, and Lotes accidentally left her lighting rod behind. Soon though, they find Wok and his brother, and with small shenanigans of opening doors in the meta plane, the party go to leave and as they do it is revealed that Socks had died during the fight.

## Death

During the fight with the astral shade, Socks died in the battle, but due to them being in a meta plane, another version of him was made and continued in the fight, because Wok didn't want anyone to get hurt. The party didn't realize this until they went to leave the meta plane, and Socks couldn't join them. As he tried to leave, he found himself fading anytime he tried to exit the door. This meta-plane version of Socks was then vanished and the body of actual Socks appeared. He was taken back to the Westwood ship where he was then taken to the Westwood for his funeral.

## Notable Items

* Joke Notebook
* Research Notebook
* Bracers of Defence
* Cloak of Protection