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Biography
Character Name: Pailash Burnbronze
Character Level: 3
Race: Gnome (Rock)
Gender: Female
Alignment: CG
Deity: Ladies of the Golden Hills
Size: Small
Hair: Red
Eyes: Gold
Height: 3’6
Weight: 42 lbs
Age: 120
Appearance:
History:
Pailash was born in Songfarla, though she did not stay there long. She chafed under the secrecy and seclusion necessary in the Hidden Kingdom, and as soon as she was able, she scrapped together her savings and stole herself out into the wider world of Faerun.
Always an inventive and ingenious child, Pailash had a natural gift for the formulae and calculations which go into magic. Her parents encouraged this study, and it ensured that when she stepped out onto the road, she had a trade she could fall back on easily.
It didn’t take her long to learn that the outside world was very different to Songfarla. She was fascinated by all the different races, and the strange customs of the world at large. She learned how important money was, and all the many exotic delights it could purchase for her. Needless to say, this desire for money led to her falling in with a bad crowd.
The Zhentarim were eager to hire on a well-travelled gnome with a penchant for fire and flames, and she plied her trade with them for many years, happily using their resources to further her studies. The deeper she got in, however, the more she learned of their true and dark purpose. Never the most perceptive of people, it took her quite some time to realise that she had wound up working with and for some very unpleasant people.
Thankfully, the Zhentarim – whilst an incredibly large organisation – could also be quite a fractious one. Nor had they invested so much into her that letting her leave was an unacceptable proposition. She waited for the right opportunity, when her direct superiors were scheming against others within the organisation, and then she fed evidence of their plans to the people they were planning to betray.
In the midst of the internal purge, she stole away and headed to Waterdeep – intending, there, to set herself up as a free agent. Nobody has to know that she used to work for those guys, after all!
Personality:
Pailash could best be described as a bombastic soul. Loud, happy, and as inquisitive as all of her race are famously known to be.
What few people would probably guess, having looked at her, is that she is most fascinated by numbers and the way distributions of energy can be harnessed and put to purpose in magical formulae. Underneath the enthusiastic exterior, where she truly does enjoy using those magical talents to create explosive and devastating effects, she is primarily delighted by the elegance and simplicity of the calculations used in heat transfer and manipulation.
Whilst there are shadows and darkness in Pailash’s history, she is not one to be bound to the past. She doesn’t have much capacity for shame, and she doesn’t feel any particular guilt for the role she played in the Zhentarim prior to choosing to part their company. She considers the present to be the only thing which matters; nobody is bound by yesterday, and nobody can predict tomorrow, so it is only in the moment that meaning can be found.
If there is one overarching love in Pailash’s life beyond the mathematics of magic, it is money. Money has taken on a quality in her life not unlike magic; she sees it as the ‘energy’ which is expended to obtain outcomes she desires. She truly believes that there is no person or thing in the world which could not be bought for the right sum of money. The Zhentarim have reinforced this belief very strongly in her; with the right amount of gold, all things are possible.
So far, she has no reason to doubt that this is absolutely true.
Stats
Ability Scores
Using point buy or the standard array give us the following stats:
Strength: 8
Dexterity: 14
Constitution: 16
Intelligence: 16
Wisdom:10
Charisma: 10
Class
Wizard
Arcane Tradition: Evoker
Cantrips: Control Flames, Create Bonfire, Fire Bolt
Spells: Absorb Elements, Burning Hands, Detect Magic, Identify, Chromatic Orb, Tenser’s Floating Disk, Shield, Find Familiar
Aganazzar’s Scorcher, Scorching Ray,
Skills
Arcana, History, Athletics, Persuasion
Proficiencies & Languages
Dice, Land Vehicles
Background
Mercenary Veteran
Feats
None
Gear
Dagger
Arcane Focus (Staff)
Explorer’s Pack
Spellbook
Zhentarim Lieutenant’s Badge
Bone dice
Common clothes
50 gp Diamond
100 gp Pearl
Ember (weasel familiar)
Zhentarim Uniform
Fine Clothes
Character Name: Pailash Burnbronze
Character Level: 3
Race: Gnome (Rock)
Gender: Female
Alignment: CG
Deity: Ladies of the Golden Hills
Size: Small
Hair: Red
Eyes: Gold
Height: 3’6
Weight: 42 lbs
Age: 120
Appearance:
History:
Pailash was born in Songfarla, though she did not stay there long. She chafed under the secrecy and seclusion necessary in the Hidden Kingdom, and as soon as she was able, she scrapped together her savings and stole herself out into the wider world of Faerun.
Always an inventive and ingenious child, Pailash had a natural gift for the formulae and calculations which go into magic. Her parents encouraged this study, and it ensured that when she stepped out onto the road, she had a trade she could fall back on easily.
It didn’t take her long to learn that the outside world was very different to Songfarla. She was fascinated by all the different races, and the strange customs of the world at large. She learned how important money was, and all the many exotic delights it could purchase for her. Needless to say, this desire for money led to her falling in with a bad crowd.
The Zhentarim were eager to hire on a well-travelled gnome with a penchant for fire and flames, and she plied her trade with them for many years, happily using their resources to further her studies. The deeper she got in, however, the more she learned of their true and dark purpose. Never the most perceptive of people, it took her quite some time to realise that she had wound up working with and for some very unpleasant people.
Thankfully, the Zhentarim – whilst an incredibly large organisation – could also be quite a fractious one. Nor had they invested so much into her that letting her leave was an unacceptable proposition. She waited for the right opportunity, when her direct superiors were scheming against others within the organisation, and then she fed evidence of their plans to the people they were planning to betray.
In the midst of the internal purge, she stole away and headed to Waterdeep – intending, there, to set herself up as a free agent. Nobody has to know that she used to work for those guys, after all!
Personality:
Pailash could best be described as a bombastic soul. Loud, happy, and as inquisitive as all of her race are famously known to be.
What few people would probably guess, having looked at her, is that she is most fascinated by numbers and the way distributions of energy can be harnessed and put to purpose in magical formulae. Underneath the enthusiastic exterior, where she truly does enjoy using those magical talents to create explosive and devastating effects, she is primarily delighted by the elegance and simplicity of the calculations used in heat transfer and manipulation.
Whilst there are shadows and darkness in Pailash’s history, she is not one to be bound to the past. She doesn’t have much capacity for shame, and she doesn’t feel any particular guilt for the role she played in the Zhentarim prior to choosing to part their company. She considers the present to be the only thing which matters; nobody is bound by yesterday, and nobody can predict tomorrow, so it is only in the moment that meaning can be found.
If there is one overarching love in Pailash’s life beyond the mathematics of magic, it is money. Money has taken on a quality in her life not unlike magic; she sees it as the ‘energy’ which is expended to obtain outcomes she desires. She truly believes that there is no person or thing in the world which could not be bought for the right sum of money. The Zhentarim have reinforced this belief very strongly in her; with the right amount of gold, all things are possible.
So far, she has no reason to doubt that this is absolutely true.
Stats
Ability Scores
Using point buy or the standard array give us the following stats:
Strength: 8
Dexterity: 14
Constitution: 16
Intelligence: 16
Wisdom:10
Charisma: 10
Class
Wizard
Arcane Tradition: Evoker
Cantrips: Control Flames, Create Bonfire, Fire Bolt
Spells: Absorb Elements, Burning Hands, Detect Magic, Identify, Chromatic Orb, Tenser’s Floating Disk, Shield, Find Familiar
Aganazzar’s Scorcher, Scorching Ray,
Skills
Arcana, History, Athletics, Persuasion
Proficiencies & Languages
Dice, Land Vehicles
Background
Mercenary Veteran
Feats
None
Gear
Dagger
Arcane Focus (Staff)
Explorer’s Pack
Spellbook
Zhentarim Lieutenant’s Badge
Bone dice
Common clothes
50 gp Diamond
100 gp Pearl
Ember (weasel familiar)
Zhentarim Uniform
Fine Clothes
