Salthazar Talash

Born, in the small town of Wyheath, to Mother Cynthia Talash and no father. I was born to a human mother and I always wondered who
and what my father was because I was born with a snake like mouth, jaw, and
scales. People always thought I was a freak, so I just went along with all the
jabs and learned music from my mother who was a music teacher at the local
schoolhouse. I picked up on the flute and shawm pretty easily. I became a well
attuned musician and I also opened a hairdresser shop when I was 18. I used
this as a front to blackmail my fellow schoolmates’ parents. I listened to all
the gossip from the women in the town for three years and used it to my
advantage to secretly blackmail them. One day I heard whispers about a secret
cult under the town. Being the nosy person, I am I decided to investigate. I
waited till nightfall to scour the streets of anything suspicious and I saw a
person go down an opened sewer grate. I waited a couple minutes before I
followed suit. I followed the trail to and saw the person I was following stopped
to fix his boots. I guess I wasn’t quiet because he turned his head and saw me.
He charged me and he had what looked to be a blade; I had a pair of scissors in
my pocket from work. I did what I had to do, I stabbed him in the neck, and he
fell over. I fell down and looked at my hands covered in blood, I never thought
I could have killed someone. I looked over his body and found a letter and his
boots seemed special, so I grabbed those and threw his body in the sewer water.
I put the boots on and read the letter and I learned of the path I needed to
take to the find the meeting spot. I also learned the cult worshipped Ren-Yota
the God of hunger. I followed the path and found the door and knocked and a
large orcish figure let me in. I was led into a room with five chairs and a
desk. I was the only one not there. There the five of us were introduced to the
leader named Alistair Woodsworth. He told us to join the cult we had to prove
we are worthy. We had to kill a man and we were each given a crossbow. No one
stepped up to do it, but I did. Already killing a man my nerves were steeled to
the process. The leader saw promise and invited me to join the cult. I waited
around for 3 weeks until I got a letter which read of a meeting happening the
next day. I went the next day and saw a crowd of people. What I saw shocked me
to my core. I saw what looked to be a young Tiefling women strapped to a stone
slab. The only thoughts running through my mind were I need to get out of here
and I need to save her. I snuck to the front of the crowd and waited till no
one was looking and snuck up to the altar. When I got up there the girl looked
so scared, we made eye contact and I told her everything will be fine. She
nodded and I started to untie the knots and before I got her off the table Alistair
saw us and pointed us out. I grabbed her and started pulling her to the entrance.
He ordered for us to be killed but I found a way out from scouting the place
for weeks. We made it out and I took her back to my house. My mother was there,
and I told her that I had to leave, and someone is after me.  I said goodbye to my mom and told her to tell anybody
who asks that you don’t know where I am. I got my stuff together and got enough
supplies for me and, what I now know her as, Natalia. We traveled for a couple
weeks until we reached the town of Kuthall. According to Natalia, who I learned
to be quite the navigator, Kuthall is 5 towns over. We spent a couple weeks
figuring everything out about what to do. We decided to split up easier to hide
from the cult. We planned for her to head west and me to head south. On this
adventure I’m searching for my purpose and to find the true identity of my
father. My first attempts at adventuring went poorly. I travelled around for 3
years until I reached the town of Briarcliff where I found a task board in
front of the townhall, I was ecstatic to find jobs that I could do to earn
money. I was wrong to be happy because what I went through was horrible, I went
to clear the sewers of a creature causing a blockage and it nearly clawed me to
death. I got a scar to remember that experience forever. I am know searching
for a group to adventure with and to hide me from the people looking for me.