Samuel Slater

### Relatives

Elder God of Madness (Father), Synthia Veikur (Mother, Deceased), Taza (Foster Mother, Deceased), Taza's Descendants (Foster Family)

### Occupation

Fateweaver of Knowledge (Former), Resident of Binturian Hall

## Common Knowledge

Denizens of Ivoran might have heard of “The Tall One”, a figure of mythic proportions who occasionally appears to help out and defend its people.

Visitors to Will’s Tavern, or more recently the Binturian Hall in Adria, might meet a Pionus man named Samuel Slater.

## Further Description

Samuel Slater (usually just “Sammy”) is a former Fateweaver of Knowledge, a Pionus child of the Elder God of Madness, and a friend of the Binturian Party. He has extreme power over Celestial and Phantasmal magic, as well as potent martial proficiency.

As a child of Madness and a Fateweaver of Knowledge, Sammy was once blessed with agelessness but his defiance of Knowledge has likely cost this boon. Sammy sided with the Binturians during the Battle of Binturia, against Knowledge’s wishes.

## Early Life

### Birth and Upbringing (??,??? B.B. - > 0 A.B.)

Samuel Slater was conceived when the Elder God of Madness took a mortal form and joined with a peasant woman named Synthia Veikur, in the old days of the Pionus. Shortly after Syntha’s death, the king of Binturia merged with the Elder God of Life to form the Beast (no relation) and Madness was trapped in the Phantasmal plane with his son. Madness raised Samuel for thousands of years to the best of his abilities, but the latent magic and chaos of both the plane itself and his father weakened the young Samuel’s grasp on his very being.

In desperation, Samuel created a hole into the Material Plane and escaped his father, and was not pursued. Madness does not hold this abandonment against Samuel, and is still very protective of him. Samuel wandered Orelisle for years, before being adopted by a group of gnomes in Ivoran (especially by a person named Taza). Over time, he would grow amongst the gnomes and take the nickname “The Tall One”.

### William Wilson and Becoming a Fateweaver (> 0 A.B. - ?,??? A.B.)

At some point while staying with Taza in Ivoran, Samuel reunited with his technical-cousin William Wilson. Though he still spent time with his adoptive gnomish family, he began to leave more and more often to travel and study with Will. Will, for his part, wanted Sammy to have a fresh start in his life with a godly connection he could actually trust. To that end, he set Samuel on the path to being a Fateweaver of Knowledge. William convinced the other Fateweavers of the day to take Samuel’s side, and though they begrudgingly accepted him at the time they would later warm up to him (especially Soul Weather). Sammy made a point to keep his true identity a secret, fearing it would make his new friends distrust him.

Sammy’s years spent studying with William in Binturia would make him more introverted, but in exchange he became more proficient in magic, more knowledgeable in general, and even somewhat able to influence the Unseen of the world. He also reunited with Saniel Sinbad, a childhood friend who sustained himself with Old Binturian magic and alchemy for thousands of years. Sammy would still visit his family in Ivoran, and Taza’s descendents welcomed him just as Taza had all those years ago.

## Time with the Binturian Party

### Planar War (10,015 A.B.)

During the Planar War, Samuel went to the Elemental Plane with Sinbad to keep it from crashing into the Material Plane.

### Capture by Belladonna (10,016 A.B.)

In an attempt to kill Belladonna himself, Sammy was defeated and imprisoned in Ivoran. He was then saved by the Binturians, though Belladonna was teleported elsewhere by Madness. It is probable that this incident led to his research into how to kill Belladonna for good.

### Banishment of the Elder Gods (10,017 A.B.)

William Wilson put plans into motion that would permanently kill Belladonna (and banish the Elder Gods from the Material Plane and keep them from influencing it (except through Fateweavers), though he tried to keep that part secret as it would involve his own demise). Those plans, unfortunately, required the death of Samuel Slater, and so he asked that the Binturians prepare themselves to do so. It did not take long for Sammy to catch wind of Will’s plan, and in desperation he fled to Ivoran. There, the emotional shock of Will’s betrayal and his own panic unshackled his Phantasmal powers, driving many of the forest’s gnomes to violence against outsiders to “protect the Tall One”.

The Binturian Party caught up to Sammy, with a few casualties along the way, and made it clear that they had no intentions of killing him. That out of the way, Sammy explained that there was another way to kill Belladonna, by performing a different ritual than the one Will wanted and instead make one of the Binturians a Prophet of Life. Over the course of the next few days the Binturians completed Sammy’s ritual, making then-Binturian Morgan the Prophet of Life, and finding a loophole to complete William’s ritual without permanently killing Samuel or William.

### Battle of Binturia (10,019 A.B.)

Samuel Slater joined the Binturians during the Battle of Binturia at the end of the Deathless Days, despite Knowledge’s goals. This betrayal cost him his status as a Fateweaver, but he still is on good terms with the other Fateweavers of Knowledge.

## Current Life

Samuel Slater still lives with Will, though has moved from the old tavern to the Binturian Hall in Adria, and sometimes travels to Ivoran to visit his gnomish family.

## Further Information

* Banishment of the Elder Gods
* Belladonna
* The Binturian Party
* Deathless Days
* Fateweavers
* Ivoran
* Madness
* Old Binturia
* Planar War
* Soul Weather
* William Wilson