Maxedine Chadwin

**Maxedine Chadwin** was a human adventurer and pirate that sailed in the Aigean Seas. Maxedine, along with Tohnkh and Savina Grimsbane, was one of the founding members of the Weastern Pirates. Maxedine was a high-spirited man with an intense passion for life. He was married to a woman named 'Bellatrix' who lived in physical stones he would carry around with him, alas to many people around him, he was simply an eccentric that talked to objects.

## Background

### Life of Piracy

Maxedine was born in Faerun and came through the Aigora Portals sometime in 1490, where eventually he found himself captured by slavers and on the way to the slave settlement of **Campa'Doar**. After overtaking their captors, the young crew of Savina, Tonkh, and Maxedine formed the Weastern Pirates and set sail to the Commonwealth of Port Tormenta. Maxedine, during the fight with their captors, came into possession of a **mysterious and cursed medallion**, which he kept throughout the rest of his journey.

On an expedition to the **Tree of Storms** in **Storm Isle** with the Weastern Pirates, Maxedine lost one of his stones in a seafaring battle against a gigantic maw. Maxedine, in desperation to rescue and retrieve his 'stone-wife' Bellatrix, jumped into the ocean, but was lost to the sea and was presumed dead, the Weastern Pirates mourned his death but pressed on to the Tree of Storms.

### Eni'Dexam

Maxedine had died in the maw, but the medallion he carried bore a power that even he did not expect. In the cold abyss of the dark, ocean floor. A vile voice echoed through his head as he grasped the medallion with one hand, and the stone-wife he had retrieved with his dying breath, in the other. His heart stopped but his soul remained warm, with the abyssal voice driving him deeper into the ocean. The voice was that of the deity Nathair, for the medallion was a magical tool he used to control peoples' minds.

Maxedine awoke off the shores of Port Tormenta, tattered and beaten by the waves, his body shriveled, pruned and on the verge of starvation, but his soul pushed him forward. Over the next few days, his body began to erode and his skin decompose, for he realized he could no longer eat, sleep, or relish in the feasts of pleasures he once cherished. For all he carried was the stone-wife Bellatrix, that no longer spoke to him, and the cursed medallion, that now did speak to him.

His motivations and goals became foggy and not of his own, but he was determined to find his friends and restore his wife's voice, for he did not hear anymore. The medallion told him to get clothes, so he did, and it told him to clean up, so he did, but at this point, he was only bones, and surely this was not going to help him in the city.

Nathair, through the medallion, lead him down an ancient cistern, where Maxedine found an old mask that he was told to put on, there, he was told by the medallion to put on some robes of the **Ophigation of Nathair,** address himself as **Eni'Dexam**, charm the **Archbishop of the Ophigation**, **Leonard Whimsey**, and then poison him, so that he may assume his place as Archbishop. Maxedine kills the Archbishop, and is then tasked with charming the **Vice-Admiral of Port Tormenta Myslvia'Tchain** to gain political and religious influence. Myslivia'Tchain is smitten with Maxedine and allows him to assume the authority of the **Archbishop of the Ophigation of Nathair, Spiritual Authority to the Temple of Nathair**.

As soon as he assumes his new role of Archbishop, the Weastern Pirates return to Port Tormenta after a long voyage, it is there that Eni'Dexam recognizes his old friends immediately and allows him to stir a plan into motion against Nathar, who is controlling his mind, but also keeping him alive.

The Weastern Pirates, suspicious of Eni'Dexam, initiate an infiltration into the Temple of Nathair in Port Tormenta on Eni'Dexam's sermon night.

"The cold abyss embraced me when I awoke with the warmest touch: the gentle stillness of the depths enveloped my soul, nursing me, caressing, slithering around my turmoil, the things I loved were not lost... not gone, but rather found again. I clinged onto my faith, and I realized that this world was not an abyss, but a world brimming with life. An endless expanse of opportunity. The world of blue washed my Craving Sins away, the addictions of life, the materialism, the envy of a lover gone from our lives..." "Nathair... Oh draken of the free, you saved me from a torment of grounded servitude. A slave to the roots of life... I embrace the womb of the sea... To you, to me, for liberty..." - Eni'Dexam's Sermon 1490

When they arrive, Eni'Dexam reveals himself to them as Maxedine, but they regard him as an enemy. Maxedine assertively leaves clues as to what his situation is and the crew quickly pick up on it.

### Farewell

Maxedine leads the Weastern crew to the **Lost City of Magdreal** deep underneath the Temple of Nathair. He tells the crew about Nathair's plan that he is being used as a trap for them so that Nathair can obtain the relics the crew has found. Nathair quickly finds out about Maxedine's insurrection through the medallion and forces Maxedine's hand in desperation to kill one of his friends. Maxedine is quickly restrained and his friends decide to remove the medallion off him, allowing Maxedine's soul to be laid to rest. Maxedine's skeletal body withers away and the crew finally get in contact with Bellatrix, as Maxedine had always been holding onto her. The crew learn that Bellatrix was always real and the reason Maxedine could not contact her was due to the influence of the medallion.