Aartoc Umbragul

**Name:** Prince Aartoc Umbragul **Race:** Dragonborn (Draconblood) - White Dragon Ancestry **Age:** 35 **Alignment:** Lawful Evil **Class:** Wizard **Sub-Class/Archetype/Path:** Order of Scribes **Background:** (Noble) The Wraith of Winter came for civilisation, and so adventurers came for the Wraith of Winter. And yet its legacy lives on, for its blood had long existed in the flesh of more mundane creatures. Nonetheless, the Umbragul family see themselves as anything but mundane. Others would use the word pompous, the family instead consider themselves proud of their stature. Others whisper that their way of living was excessive and crass, the family would declare their lifestyle opulent as fitting a dynasty of such storied history and power. Others accused them of cruelty, the family shrugged off the comments as the lamentations of those lacking the ambition to do what was necessary. From the marble and crystal tower of Tectonicos Rise they elevated themselves upon high and sneered at the others that had the audacity to raise their gaze to meet their own. The purity of blood remained one of the tenants of focus for the family, as well as the furthering of the dynasty. As such all unisons and relationships were strongly regulated by more senior members of the noble house to ensure their suitability. Furthermore, such matches were made before hatching, with future partnerships being placed in the same hatchery, side-by-side, hoping to foster the pairing before each even drew their first breath. Upon reaching maturity, the pair was once again reunited - and from there arrangements made. As such, the uniformly pale egg that would hatch Aartoc would share its bassinet with an alabaster-grey egg from the noble Vornaar family, but when reintroduced as an adult, Aartoc rejected his pairing - finding them to be beneath his expectations and like to sully the purity that he had been brought up to prize above all else.

Dumbfounded at the elders' insistence that the pairing was appropriate, he refused their commands to continue with the arrangement before both the Umbraguls and Vornaars, accusing them of attempting to jeopardise the dynasty's future with such misplaced selection. When their resolve on the matter did not change, he continued to lambaste both families, before departing to start anew - with himself as the Patriarch Elder. Keen not to repeat the perceived mistakes of the past, Aartoc would dedicate himself to furthering his standing through the two things that resonated truest and strongest - accumulation of illimitable knowledge and its use for the consolidation of power inviolable. This thirst and zealotry has caught the eye of many that have noted his ever-growing talent for manipulation of the elemental configuration of spells common and seldom alike. After three decades refining his talent, though never lingering under a single archmage or master for long for sake of his own well-founded hubris, he sets forth for a new land - seeking to carve out a place for his new branch of the Umbragul Dynasty. **Common Magic Item:** Spellshard (A large rough-cut piece of Prasiolite, as per the FC) **Adventure Hook:** Disgusted at the audacity of his family's attempts of self-sabotage, Aartoc arrives in the liberty of the Freehold with one goal in mind - carving a territory from which to rule with might and mastery alike. **Relationship to other PCs:** On his journeying before his decision to head forth to the Freehold, Aartoc stumbled across the warforged wizard Blue Shield. Considering him naïve and therefore easily manipulable, he treats Blue as an apprentice of sorts, and as such has found himself travelling across the sea with both the Warforged and the human known as Ulrich the Mad in his company.