Del Clavatus

Del Clavatus is a member of The Crew. Del has formed symbiosis with the mushroom spore Stool.

### Background

Del Clavatus, originally from a drow city within 50 miles of Velknyvelve, thrown out into the Underdark for being a male, taken in by friendly Myconids.

Del is approximately 275 years old, appears much older due to scarring and repeated exposure to the Myconid spores. Also due to keeping various fungi spores in his clothes. He wears the ragged remains of travelers clothes that his Myconid tribe take in. They're a hodgepodge of various styles, all covered with a fine dusting of dirt, grime, mold and spores. His totem is a newsboy hat he's made out of a mushroom cap, when he casts spells, tiny puffs of spores emit from the hat. He carries two tools that can be used as weapons, his mushroom harvesting sickle and a club he uses as a hammer. He's crafted a shield out of a very dense and dried out mushroom cap that he usually uses as a platter to carry food or game he's found back to his tribe's living area.

Del lives in a world that he crafted in his mind that's a sugar coated, dreamlike version of the real world. He usually is pretty serene and finds inappropriate things funny, but flies into a horrible rage when something finally breaks the illusion of his dreamworld.

His upbringing with Myconids means that he tries to do what he can to bring other people into the lifestyle of peaceful coexistance with nature. He has no idea that drow and duergar are universally hated and doesn't know about other cultures since his interactions with humanoids are very few and far between.

Neutral to CN, he is motivated to go back to his Myconid tribe or at the minimum, find another tribe to join. Flaws: He is utterly insane and has a very deep well of delusion on how the world works. He believes he will become a Myoconid when he dies, so he "washes" himself in fungi spores as much as he can.

His explusion from the drow city that he was born in set him on the path he's on today. He learned his languages from seriously injured above world travellers that escaped from the drow or escaped a drow ambush. His tribe found them and he mended their wounds in exchange for them teaching him the above world tongues.

He doesn't know his deepest fear, but it would be his fantasy world being permanently broken and him being forced to see the world as it is. He holds his tribe and the Myconid culture/values as his most cherished parts of his life.

He doesn't have secrets with his tribe due to the nature of their communication, so he's a pretty open book. It's likely very detrimental to him because he's killed lone drow, duergar and other humanoids that attacked him or broke his delusion. Their parts were used to fertilize the mushroom crops.

His tribe are the most important people in his life. They should be in around the same spot he left them unless the tribe is nomadic (I don't know if Myconids move around a lot, so I'll roll with whatever you feel is best)

He's a hunter/gatherer for his tribe, so he's usually foraging out in the Underdark or hunting very small game when he craves meat. When his tribe has a festival or gathering, he'll play a small drum (well) and sing (very poorly).

He doesn't have a concrete religion but tends to the balance of nature. He is trying to live a harmonious life like a Myconid, so he tries to bring situations into a peaceful balance. When his mind breaks, he brings overwhelming violence to bear, then silently harvests useful parts when they've died.

Del would probably love the Cloak of Invisibility since it would allow him to gather food easier, watch over the stirge nest nearby without disturbing them and avoid things like Umber hulks.

Del was ranging further than he normally does to see what's changed in the landscape over the past decade or two since he last visited. He stumbled on a drow slaver patrol, saw that they looked like him, waved and yelled to get their attention. They barely had to do anything to capture him, but poisoned him anyway because he kept talking in their minds and weirdly laughing using his voice.