Nomos Afsolis

Official art by @toadscream

 —Nomos

Nomos Afsolis is the Fated Four's tiefling paladin. He is played by Ewan.

## Description

### Appearance

Nomos is the second tallest member of the Fated Four, and has a very muscular build. His skin is a light shade of grey, his eyes are a shade of near golden yellow, and his hair is naturally a shade of light grey, but due to his lack of cleaning it it often becomes a duller darker gray due to dust. His horns curve over his head, resembling those of a ram, tapering down then away from his neck rather than curling into a helix. He bears minor scarring on his face and chest as well as greater scarring along his back. His weapons and armor are heavily inspired by Mediterranean culture, his sword specifically is modeled after a Greek Kopis. Around his neck, he wears a pendant bearing the holy symbol of his deity, Elnet, displaying a sword and a set of scales resting on its cross guard.

### Personality

When in his element, Nomos is a succinct, well mannered, educated, and competent speaker, being well versed in his scripture and rules surrounding addressing figures of leadership, as well as swordplay. Beyond these things however, Nomos is very inexperienced at simply being a person, having not been to a restaurant until the beginning of the campaign, and being completely new or unfamiliar with emotions such as joy, serenity, and even love. Since the start of the campaign, he has made progress in expanding both his culinary and emotional repertoire.

## Biography

### Background

Nomos, born under the name Nomos, was raised in the island nation of Neas in the Northeastern hemisphere of Aldrithe. He was raised by his two parents until the age of 6 when his home was burned down, his parents and younger sibling Psyche still inside. Unable to help himself, he ran to get someone who could. He would find, and then be raised by Father Omiros Salleck, proprietor of the nearby Temple of the Divine Magistrate, a house of worship to Elnet, goddess of justice. Omiros promised to "fix everything" and instructed Nomos to get some rest, casting modify memory on him while he slept, removing his knowledge of much of the fire, as well as his younger sibling. Here he would lose the opportunity of having a normal childhood, instead being brought up as a warrior and mouthpiece in the name of the silent goddess. Before leaving for the city of Targrave at the start of this campaign to begin his life's work, he was given the title of Judice, High Inquisitor of Elnet.

### Present Day

Throughout the campaign, Nomos has become looser in his enforcement of his moral compass on the world around him as he has learned that said world is far less simple than he understood it to be. The main events that have influenced him as a person being his meeting Twister in Targrave (Session 2, pre-Twitch), seeing that the worship of Elnet in the continent of Taryas varies wildly from how he was raised, learning that Psyche worshiped The Lady of Thorns (Session 14, pre-Twitch), and killing his first person and worshiper of Caecina. (Session 27)

## Relationships

### The Fated Four

**Psyche Afsolis:**

 --Nomos to Psyche, upon discovery they are related

Nomos's relationship with Psyche is very polar, with him feeling both the closest and most distant from simultaneously. As it stands, although Nomos may not agree with Psyche at every decision or moral, he trusts them implicitly no matter how bad of an idea that may be. Their relationship has recently made a massive stride in the realization that they are in fact, siblings who had been separated and had their respective memories modified to forget one another, making Psyche the only real family Nomos has left.

**Flower of Ivory:**

Although Nomos thinks that Ivory's relentless curiosity has done more harm than good in some cases, Nomos regards Ivory as a close friend who he has gone through some of his worst experiences alongside, and a valuable source of life experience and advice. He is however, still not willing to take up any of their offers on fungal based activities.

**Armani Auxilium:**

As the two martial characters in the party, Nomos sees Armani as a kindred spirit and fellow warrior. Their friendship, although not as intimate, is strong, and there are few people that he would rather have at his back to fight off the rest of the world.

### Other:

**Family:**

Nomos up until recently had been under the affect of a modify memory spell, making him forget his family in near entirety, as well as everything before his time at the Temple of the Divine Magistrate. He has recently recovered from this however, and now distinctly remembers both his parents, Keio and Cassandra, as well as his younger sibling, Psyche.

**Twister:**

 —Nomos on their first date (before Twitch stream)

Twister is Nomos's romantic partner whom he met his first night in the capital city of Targrave. Nomos fell absolutely head over heels for them upon meeting, and although he had to leave, he has managed to stay in contact with them via sending stone calls every evening that he can. Their relationship, although rushed in its inception, is very much one of mutual romantic affection.

**Lasri Sanimir:**

Nomos's relationship with the princess Lasri is a close friendship. While at first their relationship was based mainly on Nomos teaching her how to sword fight, it has since progressed as Nomos has learned more about both his and Lasri's relationship with the goddess Elnet.

**Omiros Salleck:**

Despite the title of Father, Omiros Salleck was a teacher and mentor to Nomos growing up, and made it very clear that their relationship was, and would never be anything beyond professional. While Nomos's relationship with Omiros started fairly neutral, as he has learned more about the world at large and himself, he has begun to question and resent the circumstances of his upbringing and Omiros's role in it, acting indifferent towards the young Nomos at best and outwardly disappointed and condemning to him at worst, treating him more as an investment than a child. Recently, Nomos has made a discovery that Omiros was potentially involved in the death of his parents, and directly involved in his forgetting of his family and life prior to his time at the Temple of the Divine Magistrate, making his relationship towards Omiros now one of hostility.

**Sir Nicholas Davenport:**

While not considered by most to be a "main" npc, the castle guardsman Sir Nicholas Davenport is one of the most inept, frustrating, and irritating individuals Nomos has ever met in his life. He has been described as "the definition of ineptitude in any thesaurus", and while this relationship is mainly comedic, it would be incorrect to not list him as an important npc relationship.

**Fide:**

As Nomos's summoned steed, it would be hard for him to find a friend who could possibly understand him more. Fide is a celestial being in the form of a 6+ foot tall black labrador retriever with whom Nomos shares a psychic link up to one mile away. It has also been stated that Fide tends to reflect the emotions and memories of Nomos, with her treating people that Nomos is familiar with in a similar fashion of emotion that Nomos would.

**Elnet the Scalebearer:**

 --Nomos praying to Elnet (before Twitch stream)

As Nomos's patron deity, Nomos has spent most of his life in service to Elnet and all of the scripture written in her name. From the day he was taken into the Temple of the Divine Magistrate, he was told that he would serve as a "mouthpiece" for the silent goddess, with his internal monologue and moral compass being her way of acting through him to spread her will through the world. This preconception has been broken however, as Elnet actually spoke to him as of Session 17 (pre-Twitch), leading him to have a quickly growing list of questions surrounding his faith, upbringing, and relationship with The Scalebearer herself.

## Abilities

#### Feats

* **Charger**
	+ Move 10ft to add +5 to damage *or* push the target 10ft on bonus action.

#### Class Features

* Aura of Protection: Allies within 10ft of me gain my Cha (+2) bonus to any saving throws.
* Divine Sense: Find celestials, fiends, and undead within 60fts 3 times per long rest
* Lay on Hands: 35hp/35hp
* Divine Smite: Spend a spellslot to deal 2d8 radiant +1d8 per spellslot level, +1d8 to undead and fiends
* Divine Health: Immune to disease
* Channel Divinity: Abjure enemy (as an action wis save of 13, on fail creature is frightened and has 0ft movement for 1min or until damaged, fiends and undead have disadvantage on the save, on success speed is halved) or Vow of Emnity (as a bonus action pick a target within 10ft to gain advantage on attacks against it for 1 min)
* Relentless Avenger: If an enemy leaves zone of attack, Nomos can take an attack, as well as move up to half of his movement speed without prompting opportunity attacks

#### Background Features

* Legal Authority: As an inquisitor of the church, you have the authority to arrest criminals. In the absence of other authorities, you are authorized to pass judgment and even carry out sentencing. If you abuse this power, however, your superiors in the church might strip it from you.

#### Racial Traits

* Darkvison
* Hellish Resistance

## Trivia

* Nomos has a deathly allergy to peanuts, as was discovered when he was introduced to what peanut butter is, and rolled a natural one on the question of "can I roll to see if Nomos has a peanut allergy?"