Keeper

For other versions of the character, see Keeper (Disambiguation)

Keeper having a conversation with a wolf

### Aliases

The Twice Exiled, Sword of Giha, Bane of Kena, Purveyor of Tea, Riddhare of Lindholm

### Relatives

Seeker (Brother)
Chronicler (Sister)
 Elder (Grandfather)

## Physical description

### Eye color

Red-Brown

Keeper was born in the forest foothills of the Vulcan Mountains, he grew up in an average dwelling, his parents beings druids of the circle, with two siblings, his older sister and younger brother. Keeper had a few close friends and lived an ordinary childhood, learning the tricks of survival and the secrets of beast magic from his parents. Keeper was always gifted with the power to perceive the spirits of the land and manifest their powers as magic, a talent his siblings lacked. Both made up for this by studying the arcane together, though their studies would grow in different directions as they got older. As a result Keeper tended to be the odd one out among the three, learning the art of druidic magic from his parents, Cultivator and Warden. It was from Cultivator, his father, that Keeper developed his love of mushrooms and from Warden he developed his desire to help others. His affinity for fire spirits was all his own however, a gift of perception he received from childhood.

Keeper met several travellers to the forest in his time and had in fact left the forest a few times before his exile, travelling the world and returning with small sums of gold. He found the system of economic trade used outside the forests bewildering at first and enjoyed debating its lack of merits with those he met along the road, sometimes playing up his ignorance for his own amusement. In recent decades Keeper began to develop migraines, accompanied by visions of blinding white light. The elders said he had been chosen by Giha. Keeper had assumed being chosen by a deity would be less painful but he bore the weight, developing a special brand of mushroom tea to deal with the headaches.

Keeper was first exiled from the Great Forest of the Firbolgs after his accidental implication in the ritual of his brother, Seeker, which summoned the vestigial shade known as Mora. Keeper took this hard but ventured out into the world to seek a way to unbind himself from the dark spirits magic.

Keeper would eventually come into contact with the Party, taking up a role as a healer and expert of various forms of druidic magic, as well as being the source of the Prophecy the Party is currently attempting to fulfil in order to prevent the collapse of the Great Wheel. During this time he would develop his powers as a druid of Wildfire, gaining the ability to call upon an elemental spirit of flame which referred to itself in Ignan by a phrase which generally translated to Spark. Spark took the form of a cat and was a great source of companionship and joy to Keeper. However over time the dark nature of the events Keeper went through with the Party, as well as the deaths or disappearance of many of his fellow party members weighed heavily upon him. Keepers bond with Mora was broken by the hero deity Keisara, God Empress of the Kolshet Empire who also awakened a latent legacy of Fire Giant magic within his blood. Keeper's lack of respect towards her caused her to decree that should he knowingly speak within her presence again she would cave in his head with her mace.

With his unwilling pact broken Keeper was considering whether to leave the party and return home. First however he felt a responsibility towards the actions of the deceased party member Spira, who had summoned the god Darmica to the mortal plane. Recalling the old tales told to him by his grandfather Keeper performed the old rituals to summon Draeg Treespeaker, god of Firbolgs and Druids in the city of Kena to petition him to banish Darmica back to her extraplanar realm. This failed spectacularly, with Draeg first destroying the city of Kena and killing its inhabitants. Keeper begged him to spare the population and Draeg relented, instead transforming the residents into plants. Only the temples of the gods in the Acropolis were spared. Draeg then left to do battle with Darmica, leaving Keeper traumatised at the callous nature of his gods actions. Keeper would be smote by both Kenos and Thedun for the destruction of Kena, and earn the undying enmity of the former deity. A week later Keepers magical powers left him entirely, which he surmised to mean that Draeg had in fact perished in combat with Darmica. Mysteriously his powers would return a scant few days later, despite Keepers previous belief that it may take Draeg centuries to return to life due to his lack of allies among the other gods. This, in combination with the destruction of Kena and ire of Kenos being directed against the now defenseless Great Forest, resulted in Keeper once more being exiled from his home.

Keeper would summon up a number of spirits including Luvese, a powerful Archfey, to attempt to rectify the still extant issue of Darmica. Eventually his fumbling rituals drew the attention of Clerus, the god of Vengeance. Clerus stated he would destroy Darmica, forcing her return to her own primordial realm, but that if Keeper or any other member of the Party attempted to use these rituals again he would immediately end Keepers life.

Keeper would later reunite with his brother Seeker, who would explain the nature of Draeg's resurrection as Draeg Huntmaster and the division and current civil war between the New Forest of the Houndmaster and the Great Forest of the Elders. He stated that Keeper was honoured in the New Forest for his role in bringing about Draeg's transformation, something which the faction had been attempting to engineer for decades. Keeper was conflicted as victory for either side in the war would mean the likely death of at least some of his family. He postponed further discussion on the subject with Seeker on the subject and moved on to telling tales of his adventures with the Party.

Recently Keeper's prayers resulted in Giha annihilating an island, reducing it to a smoking husk of melted obsidian after Keeper began to panic about having facilitated the killing of a number of unarmed slavers by accidentally providing fellow party members Sagadina and Runfinn with a deadly undead assassin polymorphed into a rabbit. Keeper was subsequently gifted the Nature's Wrath, a powerful weapon of legacy and sacred druidic relic by Lord Giha. After this Keeper was recognised for his role in saving the town of Lindholm and made a Riddhare of Lindholm at the request of Princess Serra, despite his somewhat strained relationship with the King.

A week after this, soon after Keeper had sourced an Amulet of Proof against Detection and Location in order to block the source of some mysterious scrying spells being targeted at him, the raven Keeper had sent to check on Seeker (who at the last Keeper had seen him was being pursued by some unseen foe in a dream vision) returned empty handed. When Keeper attempted to use divinations to ascertain Seekers whereabouts they were blocked. A day or two later Keeper received a message from his sister Chronicler via a Sending spell "Keeper! They're coming for you! Help-"

Keeper would subsequently discover that Chronicler had been kidnapped by the Huldrefolk, an ancient race of fey who had recently awoken as a result of Seekers rituals. The nature of these rituals caused great offense to their people and thus they swore vengeance against Seekers bloodline. Chronicler was abducted and Keepers parents brutally killed. Keeper visited the Sea of Kenos through an obscure druidic ritual which allowed him to see Chronicler was still alive, though being held in some form of magical sleep. Keeper would then resurrect his parents via reincarnation and also attempt to restore the Huldrefolk of Light, whose death during the abduction of Chronicler had caused considerable distress to Lord Giha. Chronicler was subsequently rescued by Master Oolong using divine intervention to summon the Saints of the Way, though she would suffer the effects of some form of indoctrination which would later lead her to assassinate Elder, Keepers grandfather.

Keepers next interaction with the Huldrefolk took place a short time later when he returned to the Sea of Kenos, this time in physical form to resolve their continued attacks on his bloodline by standing trial for the crimes of Seeker. Keeper resolved this trial by allowing the wildfire of his elemental companion, Spark, to consume a forest after Spark was manifested in their natural unrestrained form. While Keeper, his siblings and his parents were forgiven Keeper forgot the Huldrefolk were also targeting his grandfather and thus did not act in time to prevent Chronicler from being forced to kill him.

Keeper would, while travelling within the Kolshet Empire, visit the New Forest, meeting Planter and Grower who were in the process of using druidic magic to create a suitable environment for a new Firbolg settlement. He and Master Oolong would soon after return to the isle of Aongorm to train further with her strange form of magic.

It was during this time Master Oolong, at Keepers behest, successfully invoked the Saints of the Way to fill the hearts of the Firbolg people with a desire for peace. While this almost brought the Firbolg factions to terms it caused Eshana, daughter of Giha, to panic at the prospect of losing access to her outlet for destructive impulses. She summoned a sun which annihilated the Great Forest, wiping out 75% of the Firbolg population. By a minor miracle the leader of the New Forest faction, the Houndmaster, survived, though he was gravely injured.

Draeg the Huntmaster has retreated to the New Forest and is currently in a state of extreme shock. Keeper felt the death of his people through the techniques taught to him by Aongorm and entered a period of extreme mental and physical stress. Regenerating his body via restorative magic after a span of several hours Keeper then recovered as many survivors as he could from the ruins of the Great Forest and subsequently rededicated himself to Aongorm's teachings, hoping to gain the power to save what remains of his once proud people.

Keeper would continue adventuring with the party for a time, meeting a number of new members as others retired due to various reasons. After a series of new visions Keeper decided it would be prudent to follow their example. He resolved to assist in a final mission before beginning his retirement, using the majority of gold he had remaining to hire a freelancer from the Kolshet Empire to take his place. However while on journeying to the location Keeper was thrown into an alternate reality, barely escaping the clutches of an angry dragon by the skin of his teeth. Keeper managed to make it to Kelvyn's Tavern, a place between worlds, seeking to return to his native reality. There he met Eshana, Destroyer of the Great Forest. The two had a conversation, during which Keeper came to realise her actions were not malevolent and that her control of her divine powers was minimal at best. The pair had a drink and parted on friendly terms. Keeper would return to Erah 1-2 and devote himself to further study as an Oracle, retiring from adventuring for a time.