Gul-ik-Garak-Po'Dar

**Gul-ik-Garak-Po'Dar** or **Po'Dar** for short is a Thri-kreen, artificer and a member of Placeholder\_Party\_Name. The life of the party, the charismatic centre piece and overall great fun guy. Known to imbue problems in humanoids due to the way the speak. Can bake a mad lit Madeira cake. Known all across a vineyard for making bloodied wine. Doesn't like wine.

## Early life

A mysterious traveller from the depths of the Astral Plane, little is known about Gul-ik-Garak-Po'Dar's early life, apart from the extracts of the captain's logs that were recovered from their crashed Thorn Ship (Available below in "Journal Extracts".

## Journal Extracts

### One

Whilst flying through the cosmos, I encountered a strange moon like satellite in orbit of some smaller forest moon. The realtively large, but small for a planetoid, not moon had a strange concave chunk taken out of it. The forest moon below was populated with strange little bear like friends. I decided to land on the more fragrant and luscious of planetoids first. The little creatures of the forest seemed weary at first, but calmed at my non mammalian features. Their villages were amongst tree tops and their food mainly consisted of humanoids. The soup was amazing!

Their culture is a strange one. They seem to worship some strange golden humanoid with rigid features. They were also incredibly well skilled in music, playing drums on humanoid skulls and whatnot! They even played me a strange "pop song" called "toto africa". Very strange. I enjoyed the planet a good bit. At some point sadly, the lesser moon exploded in some fantastical light and explosion. The village I was staying at was then visited the next morning by a fellow from another village. I believe I deciphered the name to be Wicket, but alas, my astrolinguistics are rusty.

### Two

I have encountered a most strange sight out in free soup space. An almost graveyard of sorts, where mighty titans lay in ruin. Skeletons of what seemed to be almost gods. I was once told of similar things by my old mentor, God Isles, groupings of dead gods who float and clump together. Naturally I couldn't pass up a chance like this! Without the air envelope of a planet, maneuvering around was simple enough. The skeletons seemed to be in a mix of orbit and sinkhole around a strange central islet. A sharp rock with a flat face on top, almost featureless save for some outcrops and strange monoliths, duoliths and triliths, on top. When disembarked the area was clearer to understand and take in. A crystalline mosaic of a trilobite, imbued with strange minerals and metals. In the center, the skeletons and cadavers floating around seemed to align ,as if a giant puzzle with here as the central point of origin. 6 pillars surrounded the mosaic in seemingly no clear pattern. The area and sights perplexed me enough to remain a while and observe.

After some days of watching the area exist, I did spot some pattern to the order and shape of the contorted cadavers. The misaligned pillars turned out to be more aligned than I though mathematically possible. This graveyard lay in between multiple systems, of which all but one is inhabited by sapient life. The one dead system has a more peculiar pillar aligned with its direction. It featured tendrils and otherworldly horrors consuming themselves and the surroundings. I took a quick trace of it with some paper and charcoal. I headed to the mast for better observations of the titanic shapes.

They aligned in some strange symbol, one that I have only ever seen once prior. Twas an old, forgotten symbol, the one from my most precious of possessions. Could these things be connected? They must be! These things aren't coincidences. I returned to my office to examine some notes and the tracing. The tracing was not what was on the pillar. No more did it show tendrils and horrors beyond comprehension, but now just a face. A face that radiated power, with that symbol imbued upon its forehead, its face even. At that point I decided it was in my best interest of staying alive to leave quickly. I marked the location on my astrolabe and scarpered.

### 3

The beach episode.

Found some radical beach babes and had some fun playing volleyball.

I lost the volleyball :((

### Four

Encountered space amoeba.

They were really nice.

I fed them some worms.

## Another Happy Landing

Po'Dar crash landed their spelljammer ship on Faeia when they became distracted at the helm by a hologram call from their adoptive mother, Placeholder\_Name.

Upon arrival on Faeia, Po'Dar had a hostile encounter with some native goblins in the Abandoned Vineyard within which their crash-site was located. After fighting their way out of the vineyard, Po'Dar found themself face to face with scouts from the Thessian Freedom Fighter Camp. Impressed by the alien's skills and eager to recruit them, the scouts brought Po'Dar back to the camp to meet their leader Achilles of Thessia.

Upon reaching the camp, Achilles briefed Po'Dar on the dogmatic and tyrannical Parthian Imperium that was taking over the continent there on Faeia. Po'dar learned that this dragon worshipping society of warriors was enforcing a strict world order with iron fist and steel sword, and how it was invading villages in the area and bending their people to its will. Reminding Po'Dar of the Githyanki with whom they and their people were at war in the far reaches of Wild Space, they agreed to join the ragtag Freedom Fighters and help to recruit an elite squad of warriors to take back the region of Popularis from the Parthians.

## Personality, Ideals, Flaws and Bonds

**Personality traits:** Gul-Ik-Garak-Po'Dar is a curious and inquisitive soul. Slight hatred against the Githyanki, kinda oki with the githzerai. I love me some dragons. Red dragons being the least favourite. I tell people i visited avernus, but i only had a flight through there once by accident.

**Ideals:** Po'Dar's ideals are amazing and great! so great we need not mention them!

**Flaws:** Will pursue knowledge to Death's door.

**Bonds:** Adoptive mother, Placeholder\_Name, Insurance paperwork, Mysterious Artefact, my ship (destroyed) :((.