Ksargol (Player Character)

Human War Cleric of the group, pledged to the service of Hoar.

**Description**:

Ksargol is human, medium-large height (say six feet), medium build. He has dark skin, unruly dark brown wavy hair that falls to his eyes in front and shoulders in back, and a short beard.

Ksargol wears chain mail and carries a round shield in one hand and his war hammer in the other (which is now somehow merged with the ‘Viclat’ snake staff with its three-clawed tip). He has his light crossbow and pack slung on his back. He also now has a Staff of the Python thanks to merging with Moa the Jakuli god.

Ksargol wears his holy symbol, which is a clenched upraised fist, on a chain. He wears leather boots and gloves, and some kind of padding under his chain mail. He also wears a plain surcoat over the chain mail.

Currently, Ksargol is possessed by Moa the Jakuli god and while this allows him to turn invisible, he also cannot tell a lie.

**Biography**:

Ksargol had a comfortable childhood as a member of a merchant family in the port city of Bezantur in the nation of Thay, but at a young age his parents, Ptathal and Nehalen, were tricked into a bad business deal. Their business partners, who turned out to be clients of the Red Wizards of Thay, cheated his parents and arranged for his parents to take the blame. Ksargol’s family were sent to debtors’ prison, but no one would post bail for them for fear of their evil business partners and the Red Wizards, and Ksargol’s parents gradually wasted away, dying within an hour of each other. Ksargol, his brothers Hanfal and Psenkal, and his sisters Chessiren and Tlilen, were sold into indenture.

Argan the Relentless, one of the debt collectors at the debtors’ prison, bailed out Ksargol and made him his indentured servant. The debt collector was initially disappointed because Ksargol was terrified of the Red Wizards and surprisingly bad at accounting, but soon discovered that Ksargol’s strength and anger were quite useful. Argan taught Ksargol that accounting was justice, and that those who failed to balance their accounts had to be brought to account. He had his bounty hunters help train Ksargol in weapons, and he introduced Ksargol to the cult of Hoar, the god of retribution and revenge.

Ksargol became a valuable and effective agent and soon paid off his indenture and then some. On that day, Argan explained to Ksargol how his innocent parents had been ensnared by a coven of evil and wealthy merchant families, bound together by intermarriage and shared participation in the forbidden rites of the Red Wizards. They were suspected of many crimes, but the evidence (when there was any) always pointed to others who took the blame. Ksargol told Argan that he wanted to avenge his parents, so Argan purchased for Ksargol an appointment as acolyte to a priest of Hoar and told Ksargol never to tell anyone of his goal until he was certain it was within reach.

Ksargol has now completed the first stage of his training. Ultimately he wants to destroy the evil coven of merchant princes and the Red Wizards that ruined his family, but he knows that he cannot take them on by himself and without more experience. In the meantime, he is devoted to the goals of his god Hoar, and he keeps an eye and an ear attuned for news of his siblings. He also is in need of money and is looking for opportunities to earn it using his skill set.