Jhod Kakven

Level 6 Cleric

Jhod Kakven is a traveling cleric and the current priest of the forest-bound Temple of the Elk. Fleeing from a dark past and guided by a vision from Erastil, Jhod soon found himself in the Stolen Lands, and face to face with three adventurers who would help him find the peace he was seeking.

## Description

Jhod is an aging man, in his mid 50s when the adventure started. He is balding with a handlebar mustache and simple, brown robes. He wears a symbol of Erastil around his neck to show his faith.

## Personality

Jhod Kakven is an amicable and humble man; he is polite and calm, and rarely makes himself the center of attention. He is overall a soothing presence, and a fantastic listener to those who need to vent the difficulties and hardships they face or have faced in the past.

## Abilities

As a cleric, Jhod is an accomplished healer. Moreover, he's one of the most skilled preachers in Kilcela; he runs the Temple of the Elk in the Narlmarches, where he runs much of the day to day religious matters of the nation that Kaska Tanavin may find herself too busy or inexperienced to deal with.

## History

Prior to the events of Kingmaker, Jhod has been all but excommunicated from the priesthood after he helped form a mob against a traveler his home village in Galt thought was a werewolf responsible for several recent killings. Only a few hours after they hanged the man, the true killer was caught by a hunter and revealed to be nothing more sinister than a particularly wily worg. An investigation by the church of Erastil followed, and they found Jhod’s involvement in the village’s overly aggressive pursuit of the traveler’s lynching to be actionable. Only the fact that the traveler happened to be a bandit spy sent to town to look the place over (a fact that Jhod discovered only after the man was executed and his belongings were searched) kept the church from fully excommunicating the priest—and even then, only if he accepted exile.

And so Jhod traveled from his home in Galt up the Sellen and into Numeria. From there, his wanderings eventually brought him east into Brevoy, where he had a particularly vivid dream about an overgrown temple of Erastil guarded by a huge, angry bear. Upon waking from the dream, Jhod felt an irresistible tug to the south, and realized that Erastil had given him a chance to redeem himself. The tugging led Jhod to Oleg’s Trading Post in 4710 AR, but there it stopped—and soon after he learned about The Kingmakers and their charter from Svetlana. Jhod has also heard rumors of “lost temples” to Erastil in the Stolen Lands, and the first time The Kingmakers returned to the trading post after his arrival, he tracked them down and asked them to keep an eye out for anything of that nature—particularly an old temple guarded by an angry bear. The Kingmakers did indeed find the temple, and sanctified it. Jhod was extremely grateful for their work, and for the next year, he worked on rebuilding the Temple and restoring it to Erastil.

By 4713, Jhod had fully completed the temple's reconstruction, and it became the most popular church in the region. Churchgoers such as Brie Felstad flocked to the region, and Jhod took a part in the atonement of Akiros Ismort, returning him the status of a Paladin of Erastil. Jhod continued to aid the Kingmakers for the rest of the campaign, such as advising Kaska on the use of the Legend Lore ritual in search of answers about Count Ranalc.