Ri'Dorn

*"The easiest way to steal something is for it to be given to you."* -Ri'Dorn

## Summary

Ri'Dorn is the most infamous tabaxi in all of Elterwind's history, and is cited as a major reason for Kzhan Botis Nevereski's tabaxi genocide. His name is a blight upon the tabaxi people, and is not to be spoken in polite company. It has been revealed that Ri'Dorn was one of Gian-Gao's reincarnations.

## Appearance

Ri'Dorn was a sphynx tabaxi, and thus completely hairless. His skin was pale with some wrinkles, and these deeped and developed over time. In his later years, his skin was so wrinkly, it looked as if he had a brain-like pattern on his forehead. Unlike many tabaxi, he did not have heterochromatic, but was polydactyl, with six digits on each paw. His lovers and concubines note that his back had a tattoo of a ouroboros on it.

## History

### Two Suns, Two Miracles

Legend says Ri'Dorn was found unconscious in the desert outside Dwin Balesh. Some kind Baleshi people took him in, and waited for him to recover. It was a particularly nasty heatwave that summer: Both suns were high in the sky, and the rivers were dry. Then, only minutes after taking Ri'Dorn into the town, the same horrific heatwave manifested a magical flaming tornado in the city itself, causing chaos. The screams awoke Ri'Dorn, and seemingly with his full strength returned to him, he charged outside towards the screams. Everyone still talks about what came next, as Ri'Dorn, rounding the corner to see the burning cyclone, began casting powerful magics, and banished the whirlwind from the city. That was his first miracle. As the people came to see the man who had just saved them, he performed a second miracle, raising his arms slowly, as the banks of the Baleshi Delta were now filled with drinkable water as they once had been long ago. Ri'Dorn was praised like a god for this, showered with gifts and wealth from the royals and commoners alike. He told them that he was the anti-Noz'Ri'Dan, the anti-Artenzium, which the royals were suspicious of, but this small heresy could not outweigh a great miracle. The royals allowed him to practice his anti-sun faith, so as long as he protected the city from the wrath of the twin suns.

### The Price of the Messiah

Over time, however, Ri'Dorn's miracles were slowly being overtaken by his 'maintainence costs'. Each day, Ri'Dorn demanded fifty concubines, huge feasts, and lavish parties. These parties often caused much destruction of property, and involved many outright heresies. If the parties took to the streets, a drunken Ri'Dorn would often challenging Nozridian clerics to combat. These clerics never did once fight Ri'Dorn, but did not take kindly to the tabaxi's self-righteous messiah complex. Many sun clerics fled the city, but some did not. It was only when Ri'Dorn killed a fleeing cleric did the situation reach a boiling point. Sadan, brother of the deceased cleric, took his pleas to the royal court. The royals listened to Sadan's explanation in horror, and immediately sent guards to arrest the murderous messiah.

The guards arrived at Ri'Dorn's party mid-orgy. The lecherous catfolk was taken from his harem and put in cuffs. However, as he was being taken from his palace, he warned the guards that while his magic was bound, the city would no longer be safe.

### Assassination

Ri'Dorn was killed by one of his sons, Alek'sander. Legend says that the tabaxi dictator was more annoyed than he was saddened, his last words being: *"You have set back decades of progress for what? Personal disgust? Children, why is it always the children?"*