Gourmet Gavlan

Gavlan T'rizz'ix'os, (Gav-Lan Tír-eez-eecks-us) often refered to as "The Gourmet" due to his exemplary culinary abilities is a Thel'Vrak Druidic Chef who spends the majority of his spare time wandering the wilds of Trea, or taking odd catering jobs every now and again, from high ranking Redweni nobles to street food stalls. He is often found being accompanied by his wildfire elemental named Spirragáin who takes the form of a flame wreathed fox.

## Early Life

Gavlan was born and raised in the country of Thel'Darrion. Over many years of intensive training in House Vaeldorne he learned to be one of the greatest chefs Trea had ever seen. However he at the time did not understand the true repercussions of what this training was for. Thel'Vrak have religious rituals dedicated to Zath, during which they ritualistic devour their own kinds. Gavlan was blissfully ignorant of this fact for a long time, upon realizing the talent which he had honed for his entire life was explicitly for the facilitation of ritualistic cannibalism of his people, Gavlan decided that he would take no part in this whatsoever. Gavlan forsook House Vaeldorne who he had served for many years and would no longer worship Zath.

Gavlan would go on to travel for many years, in part hiding from House Valedorne, but also in search of other cultures, Gavlan would move throughout every corner of Trea to see how each different culture would prepare their meals. In his eyes, anything and everything was better than eating his own.

## Spirragáin and Gavlan's Druidic Powers

One evening during his travels, Gavlan rested under the stars in a grove in the woods of Thimble. Without his knowledge, he was in reality sleeping in a long abandoned druidic grove. During the night he saw visions of the world being created by the eruptions of Tre'Ataat. He saw dreams which resembled flames as a means of creation, not destruction.

As he awoke he saw a small fox made out of flame sleeping on his chest as he reclined in his hammock. He would name this small fox Spirragáin, he shared a spiritual connection with it. Gavlan never found out why Spirragáin visisted him of all people in here of all places, but his working theory which he holds to this day is that Spirragáin was either the pet of a druid long since dead, or the alternative theory that Spirragáin is himself what remains of a druid or perhaps amalgamation of druids long dead. Either way Gavlan didn't really know the truth, but he also didnt really care. In his time spent in Thimble, Gavlan would become ennamoured with Meriala, his worship of her would substitute all of the Zath teachings he left behind.

Spirragáin would begin following him around in his travels. As time went on Gavlan would increasingly gain more and more druidic and flame-like powers. So naturally with all of this new power in his hand, Gavlan decided to use all of it to cook. This was the edge Gavlan needed for his career, as from now on more and more people would hear of the travelling gourmet chef from trea and his trusty "wildflambé" elemental fox, who Gavlan would emphatically refer to as his "sous-chef".

Gavlan would work at many functions, parties, pop up shops and restaurants for the love of cooking.

One day in Warrendeep, Gavlan would purchase an extendable rolling pin, which paired with his druidic powers would lead to a formidable bludgeon.

## The Mystery of Masson Manor

One day, Gavlan would be given an invite to make a celebrity chef appearance at Masson Manor in Redwain at a lavish party in which he would be both guest and employee. In this Manor he would attempt to survive the perils and solve the mystery of the manor alongside Zarthos, Verreaux Proudtalon, Diego De La Luna, Carlos Leclerc and Bill Klondike.

During this time 3 traumatic events would occur to gavlan. 1st he would lose his leg to a bear trap, which he would later replace with the rung of a ladder, acting as a peg leg, with the help of Verreuaux.

2nd, he would be the one to revive Bill Klondike after his untimely death by being crushed by a cannon, this would of course have disastrous implications on the well being of Trea.

3rd, he would meet the man who he only refers to as "Uncle", Mandrake the Mad, a fellow Thel'Vrak who has ascended to an almost godlike level of power. His unpredictability mixed with Gavlan's already quite prominent fear would be quite traumatic to Gavlan.

While Verreaux and Zarthos fell, Gavlan was among those who made it out and solved the mystery. Gavlan would go on to promise to cater for the inevitable duel between Diego and Bill. He would also travel with Carlos Leclerc for some years until Carlos would inexplicably go missing one day.

## Aftermath

Now since Carlos Leclerc has gone missing, Gavlan has lost his fate in Meriala due to her association with mazes. He now searches for a new god in which to sink his loyalty, due to trauma of the events of Masson Manor, he is currently considering putting all of his eggs into one basket and going all in on one god. Mandrake the Mad...