Darian Inn Vathfarli

## **Biography**

* Played By: Drakeheart
* Name: Darian Inn Vathfarli
* Class: Mystic Theurge (Wizard/Cleric)
* Deity: Chauntea; formally Ilmater, renounced.
* Race: Half-Elf
* Age: 34
* Height: 5'8"
* Gender: Male
* Status: Alive (Retired)

## Before the Sacred Kingdoms

Darian Inn Vathfarli was a sibling to a younger sister and son to Tawnya and Aevarr Inn Vathfarli. Born in Waterdeep, his parents were both ex-adverturers who had decided to settle down. Neither of his parents were idle hands, however. In addition to raising their children, Aevarr worked as an engineer for the city of Waterdeep, fixing infastructure and equipment in some of the more dangerous areas of the city. Tawnya worked as an auditor and money checker for businesses both legitamate and questionably so.

This lifestyle fit well for the family, permitting the children time to pursue what interested them. Darian spent his youngest of years among the friends of his parents, other adventurers who had not yet retired. There he began his training with martial weapons, and the art of war. His sister perused other crafts, painting and the arts of beauty. But as lovely as this life was, it was not to last. You see, while Aevarr and Tawya were loving parents, there was trouble between them. after settling down, complacency got the better of them, and they soon grew to distrust each other.

If you have not witnessed for yourself how distrust builds upon itself and reestablishes the status quo, then you will understand when I say it cannot be explained. It is a wound one nurtures, a parasite. Insidious and intoxicating, fueled by pride and self-righteous hate. This too, served as a background for the children, and coloured their formative years as teenagers, when they were old enough to understand, and their parents were beginning to lose themselves entirely.
I have been unable to find any information that wasn't speculation or second-hand on what exactly these fights were about. Darian himself was quite lipped on the matter, private an individual as he was. What is known, is what these fights resulted in.

The parents never struck their children; however, the heavens did. By Darian's own accounting, there was one night when the fighting between his parents grew, nearing some kind of a crescendo. And just at it's peak, the voices died off. When Darian went to investigate, he was struck, repeatedly, by a "whip of molten gold". Apparently, this whip sapped him of his vitality, and left him as he has been known as today: gaunt and frail-seeming.

According to records, Darian's parents official divorced then, going their seperate ways. Once more, by Darian's accounting, his sister left with his mother to the frozen north of Icewind Dale and Ten-Towns. His father remained behind in Waterdeep, where Darian had to relearn how to move and act about the world on his own.

At some point during this endeavor, Darian appeared to have picked up the arcane crafts. With a mind as keen as his, it's easy to understand how he might have taken to it so quickly and in leiu of his strength, fortified himself with it's power, but the man himself was quite tight-lipped on the matter. What is not fully understood, is when he officially took on the strange and esoteric path of "Mystic Theurge" and began picking up the magic of the gods. While Darian was known to carry at least a few symbols of the divine, and was a private worshiper of Ilmater, I have been unable to find any clear timeline for when he learned these skills.

However, Darian himself mentioned it was during this time that his father taught him statecraft and politics. Apparently, this training went so well that I found snippets of reports and papers of investigations that call out Darian, specifically, as "the Silver-Tongued" or "the Two-Tongued".

(The following is pure specualtion on the part of the author: With a body as freshly scarred as Darian's, it would make sense he would have much free time on his hands to pursue all such of these path. What this fails to demonstrate is how this may have happened. Perhaps his limitations gained him some kind of advantage in social settings, that he was able to leverage effectively. As I said, speculation.)

Whatever the case, and however it all happened, Darian found his way out of Waterdeep. According to dockmaster's logs and ledgers, a ship was chartered out of the city and directly towards the lands known as the Sacred Kingdoms.

## **Within the Isles**

* The last king of Eladramere.
* Author of The Contemplation of Pain.
* Abducted by a Cyricist insurrection and tortured for months. He was later freed by Eladramere's defenders.
* Following his terrifying ordeal with the Mad God's cultists, he abdicated his throne.
* Shortly thereafter, Darian set sail to the Moonshae Isles.
* He has not been seen nor heard from since.