Carrick Eben

**Carrick Eben**, possibly also known as **Rikkard** or **Stanley**, is an Earth Genasi Sorcerer and Fighter and member of the party.

## Description

Carrick is a muscular man of average height. His earthen brown skin looks somewhat cracked and dusted, as if it is part organic and part stone. Along his entire body run lines of golden magical energy (a common genasi trait known as Szuldar) that are most prominent on his bald head. His irises are the same golden color. He commonly dresses in a fashion that tends to hide most of these features though, wearing clothes that sport large hoods and mouth coverings, leaving little visible besides his eyes.

## History

Carrick has not divulged much about his life before meeting the rest of the party, though it is clear he has been heavily involved in criminal activities in the past. He also seems to know his way around the city of Montfort, suggesting he's spent a great deal of time there. He claims to have developed his magical abilities only recently and was trained in their use at the Temple of Ur.

## Synopsis

Carrick was present during the festival in Sjöloch, where he took part in and won a wrestling match. This display impressed Sylas, who approached him and convinced him to join a team he was putting together to take on an assignment from the city's Baron. He reconvened with Sylas, as well as the other people he had gathered, at the Baron's manor that evening, where they were served poisoned food and abducted.

Carrick was the first to awaken again, finding himself naked and chained to a stone bed along with the others, still unconcious. He tried to use his earthen magic to break free, but he was noticed by some people dressed in brown robes, who knocked him out again. He later awoke along with the rest, discovering they had all received a strange mark. They broke out and met others who had been held in different rooms in a seemingly abandoned temple of Ur, and they made their way back to Sjöloch together. His racist remarks, despite being non-human himself, quickly led him to be disliked by most of the other people in the group.

Returning to the Baron's manor, the party found it boobytrapped and two cultists masquerading as servants staying behind in one of the rooms. During the ensuing fight, Carrick grabbed a loose floor tile and turned it into a glob of magma that he threw at one of the cultists, during which he felt his Mark burn deeper into his chest. The glob of magma was exceptionally effective at obliterating the cultist's head, killing her in an instant.

Trailing the Baron's kidnappers, the party came upon the small town of Bennerton, where Carrick was immediately interested but wary of the local temple of Ur and its priestess Salys. After discovering she was also trained at the primary temple of Ur in Montfort, he began to trust her more, and he went to her for help when Ara was wounded in a fight. Carrick was initially disappointed when he discovered Salys was behind the town's ongoing disappearances, and took up mayor Bennert's job offer of performing the execution so he could give her her last rites as a fellow follower of the God of Earth.

When the party encountered Garren and his group in Yantra, Carrick was curious about them and opted to try and approach them rather than avoid them. Although there was some initial hostility, Carrick quickly mingled and even started to somewhat get along with some members of the group, displaying a certain familiarity with rough-and-tumble folk like them. He engaged in excessive alcohol consumption with Gorff. Carrick also made multiple attempts to win over Garren's favor, including beating the tied-up Baron and throwing him down one of Yantra's chasm to kill him. He did remain untrusting of Garren however.

When the party and Garren's group were on the road to Montfort together and encountered another marked individual, Carrick noticed Garren's attempts to win the stranger over to his side, and Carrick made subtle attempts to dissuade the monk from doing so. When Garren and Marc engaged in a duel the next day, leading to the latter's death, Carrick did not display any signs of grief, looting his former companion's remains and burying him in a shallow grave on the side of the road. He did however begin to make plans for the party to sneak away from Garren's group the following night, having clearly seen that the pros of being close to Garren did not outweigh the cons. He began to take up somewhat of a leadership position within the party from this point onward.

In Montfort, Carrick visited his old business colleague Maverick in the Downpour District. He had Lian tag along to stand behind him and look intimidating. Carrick's and Maverick's reunion was somewhat hostile, seemingly over a failed job from some time ago. Carrick asked the artificer for his knowledge about the Nameless One's Mark, but he could not offer up much. Carrick told Maverick he had put together "a new crew" and that they could run a job for him in exchange for his help.

## Powers and Abilities

Carrick's unique brand of Stone Sorcery allows him to command the earth and stone around him. His most prominent skill is the ability to turn his skin as hard as stone, making it almost as durable as a set of metal armor. He can also turn stone and metal into magma with the touch of his hand, as well as altering the properties of metal in a multitude of ways which he uses to great effect in combination with his natural skill with the sword and shield.

His magical abilities seem to be related to crystals associated with the God Ur.

Carrick's Mark has expanded enough to the point where he has unlocked the power of the Glyph of Rallar.