Bezoar

**Bezoar** is a korred child of the goddess Shiallia and Tythran, a dwarven druid in her service. This divine ancestry manifested in Bezoar's magical hair, which grew quickly (even in comparison to other korreds), and was capable of cloning creatures and magical effects instead of just becoming the material it was cut with. Bezoar lived in the High Forest in the 15th Century DR, making several visits to Silverymoon to get his hair cut by his friend Jooge Nopsmoth. This eventually led to him getting kidnapped by the annis hag Errevastica.

Bezoar was an NPC present in the completed two-shot *The Barber of Silverymoon*.

## Description

Bezoar is a male korred, with grey skin, an extremely hairy body, and the lower half of a goat. Owing to his dwarven and godly lineage, Bezoar is rather muscular and strong- even for a korred. Like most korreds, Bezor's hair is long and untamed- though during the events of *Barber of Silvermoon*, it had become long enough to fill the many tunnels of a cave system after a month of not being cut as well as being subjected to many hair-growing salves created by Jooge the Red. Bezoar stands tall at around 4 feet and 3 inches (1.3 meters), and weighs about 250 pounds (113.3 kilograms).

## Personality

Bezoar is a friendly and well-meaning fey, though quick to anger and annoyance. He inherited the stubbornness of his mortal dwarven father, as well as the jovial and occasionally lustful nature of his mother, the fertility goddess Shiallia. This was seen when he felt that his good friend Jooge had betrayed him, as even though it was proven that Jooge had merely been charmed and manipulated by the hag Errevastica, Bezoar could not forgive the human barber completely for playing a part in his capture. Bezoar has a love of crude and mean jokes, though he does not appreciate when he is subjected to the same mean jokes or roasts. As annoyed as he gets with the many mortals who inhabit the material plane, he has a love of the realm he was born in, which prevented him from trying to move on to the Feywild where a majority of his kind resides.

## History

Bezoar was born from the coupling of the goddess of fertility Shiallia and one of her loyal friends and followers, a shield dwarf druid named Tythran. Shiallia, already having a continued presence in multiple forests on the Sword Coast, nursed and raised Bezoar until he was old enough to be taken care of by his father and numerous dryads in Neverwinter Wood. When he was old enough to travel on his own Bezoar left for the High Forest to be with other korreds and to once again be with a manifestation of his godly mother- and he remained in the High Forest for the century that followed, taking part in korred revelries and being an occasional traveling companion to forest-dwelling elves, gnomes, and humans.

In the year 1490 DR, Bezoar visited the city of Silverymoon. During this visit he stopped by the barbershop of Jooge Nopsmoth, a renowned local barber who would be able to tame Bezoar's wild hair and style it in new fashions (at least for a time, as it would always become untamed as it grew). Jooge was all too willing to cut the hair of a mystical korred, as he had heard of how korred hair would turn into the material it was cut with. The two of them became quick friends, with Bezoar agreeing to come by every tenday to get a haircut, allowing Jooge to keep the hair that was left behind. Jooge was able to sell this hair (which had become fine steel), as his own 'sculptures'.

In 1491 DR, these regular visits to Silverymoon caught the attention of the annis hag Errevastica, who had discovered the mystical properties of Bezoar's hair and coveted its power. After Jooge found himself in severe debt to the Night Blades of Silverymoon, Errevastica bought that debt from the guild and used this to get close to the human and force Jooge to help her kidnap Bezoar during his weekly visit. Using her strange hag magic she pacified Bezoar, and she then used her *evil comb* to bring his long hair under her control. Jooge was then forced to tear out large chunks of Bezoar's hair, creating good and evil clones of the barber. In the two tendays that followed, Errevastica would imprison Bezoar in some caves under the barbershop- luring in xvarts to serve her by pretending to be a female xvart named Xvartette.

Bezoar, imprisoned in a magically reinforced cage, was made to watch as his rapidly growing and evil-influenced hair was used to create numerous clones of the Errevastica's xvart followers. Eventually, after a long string of disappearances and kidnappings were traced to the evil clone of Jooge Nopsmoth, adventurers were hired by a member of Silverymoon's guards to investigate the barber. After this party descended into the Evil Jooge's barbershop and Errevastica's caverns, the fire genasi abjurer Lucifer helped to free Bezoar by dispelling Errevastica's wards on his cage. After he was freed, an ornery Bezoar directed these adventurers to deal with the disguised hag, before eventually cutting his own hair to make an escape from the caverns. Despite being told of Errevastica's manipulations and of the real Jooge's imprisonment, the stubborn korred found it hard to forgive Jooge for playing a part in his capture.

After the adventurers freed the prisoners of Errevastica and killed the annis hag, Bezoar chewed out his friend Jooge, before returning to his nomadic life in the High Forest. Not wanting to experience being captured by evil creatures again, Bezoar did not resume his habit of visiting his barber friend for regular haircuts.