Valrin

*"I've seen the worst humanity has to offer. I've DEALT that worst with an Iron fist. I've taken much and I've lost much. Time is a strange doctor; It doesn't truly heal by itself. But it does bring about change. And change? change can be good."*

*- Valrin*

**Valrin** is a silver dragon. He was orphaned by the Gnoll warband combated by Volkair N Co. After his rescue by Volkair N Co, Valrin began following the party, learning from Volkair and joining the Knights of Tyr after its formation. He served the knights during the Red Crusades, and came into a vicious rivalry with Robin Banks during this time. After disserting the knights due to unknown circumstances, Valrin became a powerful warrior of The Gray One, receiving considerable power from the 26th incarnation of the deity after making a pact with him, seemingly finding a form of self-redemption in the act.

## The Red Crusades

Due to the influence of Volkair from a young age, Valrin was a devout member of the early Knights of Tyr, believing in their mission of purging evil from the world. He was a very potent weapon that Volkair used to great effect to intimidate and destroy his enemies during this time period. He quickly proved to be one of the Knights of Tyr's most agile and powerful aces, and was commonly dispatched to counter another one of Volkair's most agile and infamous enemies: Robin Banks. The two came into conflict enough times to begin a major and bloody rivalry between the two of them as Valrin attempted to stop the legendary thief from unintentionally raising morale among Volkair's enemies and stop his campaign of stealing a ludicrous amount of supplies from the Knights of Tyr's War effort.

He quickly became infamous for his tempter and utter ruthlessness when it came to enemies of the order. Any hint of the presence of an enemy was immediately descended upon and annihilated with overwhelming force.

in 5AP, Valrin set a trap for Robin Banks in the manor of the late Edward Linch on the Helion Isles using some more expendable members of the Knights of Tyr. This failed in spectacular fashion, when Robin was able to strip the entire manor of utterly everything inside and convinced some of the guards present to defect from the knights. These defectors formed the Castle Crashers, and were pursued by Valrin for their part in the heist. This pursuit lead with the decimation of three separate towns around Ruthwalker and only concluded after a "prophetic" dream sent by Estoshan betrayed the location of the group. Valrin hunted down and slaughtered them with two whole battalions of Knights, including siege weaponry, at his back.

However, after multiple crises of conscious combined with considerable personal losses at the hands of Robin during their feud, Valrin became disillusioned with the Knights of Tyr, disserting the order out of the blue roughly a decade after the crusades.

## The Mad Menagerie

Some time between the events of The Red Crusade and The Mad Menagerie, Valrin became trapped by the Children of Malice in the caverns underneath during one of their fortresses. While investigating the Children of Malice's attempt to create a dracolich, the group came across Valrin and helped him escape. He reveled that the children were attempting to use him for the ritual.

Valrin was revealed to have received some power from The Gray One, using a powerful spore-based breath weapon to decimate the hobgoblin army that had been attempting to hunt him. His pact with The Gray One is largely undefined, although it drastically altered his appearance, and granted him a terrifying arsenals of powers; many of them based around spores and deadly necrotic fungi.

He later appeared later, when Volkair returned to the mortal world in a personal quest for redemption. The two exchanged words before Valrin took him to meet The Mad Menagerie.

Throughout his appearances in this campaign, it was implied that he is largely remorseful of his actions while apart of the Knights of Tyr.