Cale Riverdane

**Cale Riverdane** is a nobleman of Veriga. Stepbrother to Carine Summerwing, he is infamous for his involvement with demonic forces.

### Early Life

Cale was born in the year 276 A.M. His father was Lord Silas Riverdane and his mother was Lady Alice Whitgrove. In most respects he grew up as a spoiled child. When he was around 6 years old, his father died due to the political maneuvering of the young Duke Byron Summerwing. He had heavily mistreated his wife, and Alice wished to marry the widowed Byron. Cale moved into the Summerwing Manor to live with his new stepfather and stepsister.

### Growing up with Carine

When he met his new stepsister Carine, the two did not get along very well. They frequently fought, both yearning for parental attention, and often disagreed about everything under the sun. It took the next 10 years for things to improve until they more or less reconciled each other to their style of life. In this time, Cale would come to foster a burning crush on his stepsister, which he vehemently denied through consistently putting down Carine's looks. When he was old enough, he immediately stepped into the world of cards, drinking, riding, fighting, and fucking that takes up the time of an aristocrat without a sense of self control. He became best friends with Hector and Eliza Fletchborne, other aristocrats of the realm. He proceeded to have sexual relations with dozens of women to keep his mind off of his stepsister, even if many of them were redheads like she was. Eventually his dealings with the less savory elements of society led him to experiment with demonic magic and eventually even communed with the Succubus Lilith. It was from these experiments that Cale's mind would slowly start to warp his childish crush into something much more sinister.

### The Bathhouse

Cale procured a love potion, and proceeded to look for ways to slip it into her drink when she wouldn't notice. The perfect opportunity arose when the Veriga Bathhouse opened under patronage of his mother Alice. They were both invited to the opening group of hand selected nobles that would utilize the amenities of nude mixed bathing, just like their elven neighbors to the north commonly did. Cale managed to deal with her bodyguard Fern Firecreek by slapping a cursed bracelet on him that turned him into a woman, leaving him to go running off in horror at the results. He slipped the love potion into Carine's drink, and used the highly suggestible effects to convince his stepsister to have sex with him for the following six hours until the effects of the potion wore off. He had hoped that by giving her a pleasurable experience and telling her he loved her while she was under the effects, that she would see him as a potential romantic partner going forward. But Carine rightly saw this as rape, and forced him out of her bedroom. He fled into the night, taking only his most prized possessions and swearing that he'd make her love him someday.

### On the Run

Cale headed away from Veriga to escape the possible punishment from his assault. He delved deeper into demonic magic and found a way to summon the succubus he had once encountered. Lilith manifested before him, and began to infect Cale further with her own blood, giving him abyssal bloodline magic and turning his mind to greater evils and debauchery. They stayed for a short time at the Summerwing Chalet in the Jomor Mountains before they eventually made their way to an out of the way farming and logging community called Kasureta. They stayed in the Velvet Fang Brothel, where he discovered a lovely surprise, one of the prostitutes was a particularly attractive redhead who looked a hell of a lot like his stepsister, to the point he was afraid for a moment. But he realized Sally had no idea who Carine was when he asked, and then settled into a reclusive life of debauchery. He learned more demonic magic as he had sex more and more with the succubus, until he started pushing the boundaries of ethical human behavior with more violent sex and culminating in a case of necrophilia.

### Carine's Inquisition

Carine eventually found her way to Kasureta for a completely different mission than tracking down her stepbrother, instead looking for potential sabotage by the Dwarves of Jomor. Tracking down the lost Cale had been given over to an expert investigator from the Elven realm of Eludarin named Kuvyn Kelrel, but he arrived soon after Carine did following the trail. Carine's group learned that Cale was in town before he did, but his succubus patron found them out. Cale was instead surprised by the attack of Frank Hayes, a hotblooded inquisitor that thought he could capture Cale easily. Instead he was captured by Cale and held in the "pain room" of the brothel, and was just on the verge of getting executed by a jury-rigged guillotine when Carine and company stormed into the room. In an instant all of Cale's evil works came to an end when Kuvyn successfully banished the succubus back to the Deep, his blood tie to her was severed, and he lost a huge amount of his abyssal powers. His mind was still tainted, and after a sickening confession to his guilt on all charges maniacally laughed until Carine broke his leg in multiple places to keep him from running off on their return trip to Veriga.

### Imprisoned

Cale was handed over to Kuvyn to return to Veriga for secret trial. On the trip back, Kuvyn dealt with an almost madman without any concern for himself. But each day, the effects of the blood pact with the demon faded, and Cale retreated inwards. By the time he was deposited in the Cell out of Space in the palace, he was basically non-responsive and starting to not eat without feeding. The dark room in the pocket dimension did nothing to help with these symptoms.

Carine eventually returned to Veriga and went to see him, to which he finally spoke. He apologized for his actions, recognizing them as evil despite them coming from his sincere love for her, but now only wishing to die. Carine refused this request, and Cale was eventually moved to house arrest on the Summering estate.