Randis

Randis the Deathsinger

Race: Half-Elf, Class: Cleric (Death Domain) Background: Entertainer, Alignment: Lawful Evil Patron Deity: Shar Factions: None • Associations: The Twice-Born, The Smiling Siren, Church of Shar

Ability Scores

Strength 8 (-1), Dexterity 14 (+2), Constitution 12 (+1); Intelligence 10 (+0), Wisdom 17 (+3), Charisma 14 (+2)

Proficiencies

Bonus: +3 Saving Throws: Wisdom & Charisma Skills: Acrobatics, Insight, Performance, Persuasion, Stealth Tools: Disguise kit, lute Languages: Common, Espruar (Elvish), Chondothan, Undercommon Armor: Light, Medium Weapons: All simple weapons, martial weapons

Traits

Darkvision, Fey Ancestry, Skill Versatility

Feats

Observant

Combat

Attacks: • Scimitar: +5, 1d6+2, Dagger: +5, 1d4+2, Longbow: +5, 1d8+2 Armor Class: 18, Initiative: +2, Speed: 30 ft Hit Points: 37, Hit Dice: 5d8

Social

Personality Traits: • I always have a plan for what to do when things go wrong. • I am always calm, no matter what the situation. I never raise my voice or let my emotions control me. • Whenever I come to a new place, I collect local rumors and spread gossip. • I’ll settle for nothing less than perfection. • If you do me an injury, I will crush you and seek revenge. Ideals: • Retribution • Aspiration • Honesty • Faith • Greed Bonds: • I will someday get revenge on my mother for abandoning me and the grey-cloaked elves that killed my father. • I come from a noble family, and one day I’ll reclaim my rightful title. • I feel a kinship to other Half-Elves Flaws: • I will never fully trust anyone other than myself. • I do not trust elves and strongly dislike most I meet. • I killed a fellow cleric of Shar as an act of revenge for a friend. If this secret were to be revealed it would make life difficult for me within Shar’s church. • I judge others harshly.

Useful Links

• Running a Business • House Rules
• Lazy Dragon Inn (Old Temple) • Smiling Siren (Northern Street of Silver) • Castle Ward
• The Watch • Nobility
• The Gangs • Current Target Research

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? -A famous bard.

Appearance

Chain shirt

Short mohawk

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Fine clothing

Coat of Protection

Ice blue eyes

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Having some ale

Age: 22
Gender: Cisgender Male
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 170 lbs
Hair: White, sometimes dyed other colors. Often has a mohawk.
Eyes: Ice blue

Randis appears outwardly as a young, beautiful boy. Smooth skin covered in tattoos. Slightly pointed ears. White hair that is always worn short, sometimes as a mohawk, often colored. Brilliant ice blue eyes that hide a deep well of anger laying just beneath the surface. When acting as a dirgest or soft trader, he will frequently wear fine clothes, often all black, that give the air of nobility. When acting as Shar's Spirit of Vengeance or when heading into a fight it's all black leather and chain mail. He will wear a a black chain shirt, leather breeches, and his black leather coat of protection.

Traits

Personality Traits

• I always have a plan for what to do when things go wrong.
• I am always calm, no matter what the situation. I never raise my voice or let my emotions control me.
• Whenever I come to a new place, I collect local rumors and spread gossip.
• I’ll settle for nothing less than perfection
• If you do me an injury, I will crush you and seek revenge.

Ideals:

• Retribution: Those who betray or do harm to others deserve to be punished.
• Aspiration: I seek to prove myself worthy of Shar’s favor by being her Spirit of Vengeance.
• Honesty: Art should reflect the soul; it should come from within and reveal who we really are.
• Faith: I trust that Shar will guide my actions. If I am faithful to her she will give me power.
• Greed: I will do whatever it takes to become wealthy and accepted as nobility.

Bonds:

• I will someday get revenge on my mother for abandoning me and the grey-cloaked elves that killed my father.
• I come from a noble family, and one day I’ll reclaim my rightful title.
• I feel a kinship to other Half-Elves

Flaws:

• I will never fully trust anyone other than myself.
• I do not trust elves and strongly dislike most I meet.
• I killed a fellow cleric of Shar as an act of revenge for a friend. If this secret were to be revealed it would make life difficult for me within Shar’s church.
• I judge others harshly.

Sexuality: Romantically I am gay. I seek relationships with and fall in love with other males. Sexually, I am hetero/homo-flexible. Seeking and providing pleasure is what brings in the coin. I will bottom for coin, but I am a passionate top when the situation warrants it. Nothing is too kinky or taboo for my patrons, but in a relationship I am surprisingly vanilla.

Half-Elf Traits

• Charisma increased by 2 and two other traits increased by 1 (Dexterity, Wisdom)
• Darkvision 60'
• Fey Ancestry:

- Advantage on saving throws against being charmed - Magic can't put me to sleep

• Skill Versatility: Proficiency in 2 skills (Persuasion, Stealth)

Cleric Features

Starting Cleric

Armor: light armor, medium armor, shields

Weapons: Simple weapons

Skills: Insight, Persuasion

Spellcasting

Cantrips: 4

Prepared Spells: 8

Spell save DC: 14

Spell attack modifier: +6

Spellcasting focus: Holy symbol (Amulet of black disk with purple border)

Channel Divinity

Turn Undead

Destroy Undead: CR 1/2 or lower

Death Domain Features

Death Domain Spells (always prepared, in addition to cleric spells):

False Life, ray of sickness, blindness/deafness, ray of enfeeblement, animate dead, vampiric touch

Bonus Proficiency: Proficiency with martial weapons

Reaper:

• Chill touch cantrip
• Necromancy cantrip that targets one creature can target two creatures within range and within 5 feet of each other

Channel Divinity - Touch of Death: When hits with a meleee attack, deals extra +10 necrotic damage.

Background: Entertainer

Skills: Acrobatics, Performance

Tools: Disguise kits, lute

By Popular Demand: Can always find a place to perform. Free lodging and food of modest or comfortable standard as long as I perform each night. Strangers more friendly if they recognize me.

Feats

Observant

Quick to notice details of my environment, I gain the following benefits:

- Increase Intelligence or Wisdom by 1 (Wisdom)

- If I can see a creature's mouth while it is speaking a language I can understand, I can interpret what it's saying by reading its lips.

- I have a +5 bonus to my passive Wisdom (Perception) and passive Intelligence (Investigation) scores.

Resources

• Coins: 3pp, 394gp, 10 sp
• Gems:

Magic Items

• Coat of Protection: +1 bonus to AC and saving throws

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Randis the Deathsinger, Soft Trader

Service • 2 days and 12 gp to establish (Business)

• Lifestyle Provided: None (0 gp per month)
• Employees Cost: 0 gp per month
  • Skilled: 0 (60 gp per month each)
  • Unskilled: 0 (6 gp per month each)
• Building Cost: None •  gp per mo
• Goods Cost: 25 gpgp per mo

Total Business Cost: 25gp per mo

• Business Quality: Comfortable
  • Base Cost: +50%
  • Running a Business Roll: -5%
  • Profit: +50%
• Running a Business Rolls

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Nobility Information Network • Small

• Establishment Time Invested: 9 days • 30 days to next level
• Establishment Coin Invested: 11 gp • 50 gp to next level
• Utilize Information Network

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Nightlife Information Network • Unestablished

• Establishment Time Invested: 0 days • 14 days to next level
• Establishment Coin Invested: 0 gp • 13 gp to next level
• Utilize Information Network

Equipment

Carried Equipment: Scimitar, dagger, longbow and arrows, shield, chain shirt, coat of protection, amulet of Shar, component pouch

• On the Job (Soft Trader, Dirgest, Entertainer): 4x fine clothes, lute, 4x candles, amethyst and silver ear rings (20gp), pectoral (30gp), pinky ring (25gp)
• On the Job (Gang): Black travel clothes, waterskin, mess kit, backpack, bedroll, flask, 4x rations, extra suit of leather armor, vial of serpent venom (3 doses)

Stored Equipment

• Smiling Siren: this is where I store the gear I'm not actively carrying around (listed above).

Lifestyle

• Comfortable: 2 gp/day (unless I perform)

Downtime

1354 DR

• Mirtul:
  • 1st-10th: Establishing a Business (Soft Trade; 10/10 days)
  • 11th-13th: Establish Information Network (Nobility; 3/14 days)
  • 14th -15th: Sowing Rumors
  • "16th-21st:" Establishing Information Network (Nobility; 9/14 days - 5 days for occupation bonus)
  • 22nd-26th: Utilizing an Information Network (Nobility)
  • 27th-30th: Establishing Information Network (Nightlife; 9/14 days - 5 days for occupation bonus)
• Kythorn:
  • 1st - 5th: Establishing Information Network (Nightlife; 14/14 days)
  • 6th - 10th: Running a Business
  • 11th - 20th: Establishing Medium Information Network (Nightlife; 0/10 days)
  • 21st - 25th: Running a Business
  • 26th - 30th: Establishing Medium Information Network (Nobility; 0/30 days)

Projects, Goals and/or Downtime

• Establish information base among patrons (14 days of "Establishing Information Network - Nobility" downtime action. Cost 11g - 2 days invested)
• Find a permanent residence/room.
• Make contact with the city mortuaries and death chapels and establish reputation as a dirgest.
• Make contact with Church of Shar in Waterdeep and begin taking assignments as Shar's Spirit of Vengeance.
• Find ways to get access to noble/powerful personages.
• Long term: own/run a festhall with a network of soft-traders who funnel information to me.
• Find out who the grey-cloaked elves are.
• Find where my mother's green gem is hidden.
• Acquire a bag of holding.

Origin

• The Moon Elf Anaiya was a diplomat who had booked passage aboard one of the Elven ships that regularly sailed past and docked in Neverwinter as they ferried elves to Evermeet. She often had short stays in the cities she visited, and such was the case in Neverwinter. During one of those short stays she met a local noble, Paradorn Aromdee. They immediately hit it off and had a short, albeit passionate affair. But her duty was to the elves and she soon left Neverwinter. One year later, on Deadwinter Day, during the festival of Midwinter, Anaiya suddenly appeared on Paradorn's doorstep. In her arms was an infant with ice blue eyes and a shock of white hair. The child's name was Randis, born of the union of Anaiya and Paradorn. With fear in her voice she pleaded with Paradorn to keep their son safe. In her hand was a brilliant green gem. "Hide this. Don't let anyone find it. If elves appear wearing grey cloaks, run!" And then she was gone, leaving Randis and the green gem.

• Paradorn was far from overjoyed to suddenly find himself in the role of father. More than that, he was embarrassed to have a bastard half-breed son. Still, he wasn't without total compassion. He did manage to find foster parents for the boy. Peg and Uni Halfquiver owned a modest potter's shop located behind a one of Neverwinter's theaters. Unfortunately, the Halfquivers were not kind and as Randis grew, treated him as an employee and source of slave labor for their trade. As Randis worked in the potter's shop he would hear the music from the theater and sing along and dream of leaving his foster parents and joining his father as a true noble.

• Shortly after his 14th birthday, Randis' father burst through the the front door of the Halfquiver home. He was bleeding and badly injured. As he lay dying in Randis' arms he whispered, "The gem. It's under the dragon's wing." No more was said. Paradorn had died. At that moment, 3 elves in grey cloaks entered the home also. They immediately killed Mr. Halfquiver and leveled their gazes at Randis. "Are you the child? Where's the gem?" In the ensuing fight, both Randis and Mrs. Halfquiver attempted to flee. They found themselves in a storeroom with one small window. Only one of them would have been able to squeeze through it before the elves managed to break through the door that was protecting them. Mrs. Highquiver attempteded to be that one person, but a dagger across the throat ensured that Randis escaped instead. He fled into the night and left Neverwinter.

• Randis fled as far from Neverwinter as he could, finding his way with merchants and other travelers going city to city and town to town. His hauntingly beautiful singing voice and the songs he had learned while listening outside the theater in Neverwinter kept him fed and usually with a roof over his head. While singing on the corner for some coin, a woman approached him. She identified herself as Lady Ilsa, the owner and manager of Lady Ilsa’s Travelling Curiosity Show, which she claimed was a famous band of entertainers. Randis had never heard of them but he accepted Lady Ilsa's offer to join them. Lady Ilsa took Randis under her wing and began to train him as an entertainer. From the swordmaster he learned the use of finesse weapons. The acrobats taught him to be nimble. He learned archery. Disguise. Performace. Lady Ilsa herself oversaw his training in acting and also in another skill. She began to teach him what she knew of the art of love and seduction. But Lady Ilsa's Travelling Curiosity Show was more than just a troupe of entertainers. They were a rather unscrupulous bunch. In addition to performance, troupe members engaged in theft and scams, and were even hired out to help in situations that required some special skills and often, violence. Regardless, Randis considered the troupe as family. And it was with the Curiosity Show that Randis met Branly the Bard. Branly trained him in the art of song and taught him to play the lute. Randis fell deeply in love with Branly and the two began an intense affair. Branly even promised to train Randis to be an actual bard.

• On the evening of the Festival of Greengrass after Randis had turned 17, Randis returned back from an evening out with Branly to news that Lady Ilsa wanted to speak with him. She met Randis in one of the tents and before he had time to react, several of the troupe members fell on him and captured him. He awoke to find that he was the prisoner of 3 elves in grey cloaks. He could hear them talking about what to do with him and wondering if he knews where the gem is. But Randis was no longer a boy. He was able to escape the elves years earlier, and he was able to escape them once more and flee into the hills. With his enemies in pursuit, Randis found the entrance to a small cave. He could hear the shouts of the elves as he wound his way down through dark passages, unsure of which way he was headed. And then suddenly he found himself in an open chamber. Through the dark, he was able to make out.. something. A dias? No, an altar! And a symbol. It was difficult to see, but it appeared to be a black circle with a purple border. Shar stepped out of the darkness. "I am Shar. I am the Nightsinger. You have been betrayed and suffered much loss. You deserve vengeance. You will be my Spirit of Vengeance. You will be my Deathsinger" Randis felt the power of the goddess fill him to overflowing.

• When the grey-cloaked elves found him they had no idea what they were dealing with. Randis made short work of them, using Shar's power to kill them quickly in his rage. But the elves only suffered half the rage that he poured out on Lady Ilsa's Travelling Curiosity Show. He stepped into the encampment and saw the wide eyed surprise of his betrayers as he mercilessly killed them one by one. With dead bodies and carnage around him, he entered Lady Ilsa's tent. Amazingly, she was still unaware of what was going on in the encampment and was lost in the throes of pure, raw, primal sex... with Branly. Lady Ilsa began to beg for her life, pleading with Randis and assuring him this was all a mistake. Randis coldly snapped her neck and then turned to Branly. The bard had tears streaming down his cheeks and his eyes were wide with pure fear. "Go!" said Randis. Branly fled naked into the night. Shar's extra power left Randis' body like air leaving a balloon. He could still feel her presence. He was now her cleric. But the extra boon of pure power had left him, and he collapsed onto the ground.

• Randis was unable to locate the cave where he found the altar to Shar, but through some careful asking around he eventually found her local church. They took him in and began his training as a cleric. However, he soon learned that Shar had further plans for him. He was instructed to return to Neverwinter, where he had fled years before, and set up residence there. While he kept his role as a cleric secret, in Neverwinter he quickly found that several of his skills would help him in another profession too. It was in Neverwinter where he first found employment as a soft trader, first as a street walker, then as a turncoin, and eventually a laugh-lad with permanent employ at a respected festhall. His haunting singing voice also earned him some recognition and he even began to get hired as a dirgest at funerals and death ceremonies. And then there was the contracts that came to him as the Deathsinger, Shar's Spirit of Vengeance.

• While working as a soft trader in Neverwinter, Randis came into contact with Tyrannus Adarbrent. Tyrannus' family is in the shipping business and Tyrannus would find himself spending time in the city. Having a "thing" for elves, Tyrannus decided to hire Randis. During their time together, Tyrannus became interested in procuring some drugs for the two of them to explore together, and because he didn't have any of those sorts of connections so far away from his home city, he asked Randis if he could find a local dealer. Randis asked around, found someone that would be able to help them, and set up a meeting to get things settled. When Tyrannus and Randis showed up for the meeting, they weren't met by fun-loving drug dealers, but by secret slave traders. Unfortunately, a few members of House Zulpair (the House of Tyrannus' late mother's, who dislike Tyrannus for his mixed blood and wish him and his house nothing but ill will) got wind of Tyrannus' arrival in Neverwinter, and set about to ambush him and sell him to slave-traders--by any means necessary. The two boys fought their way out of the situation and bonded through surviving. Randis showed Tyrannus his "delicious darkness" by commanding the very powers of death--something that Tyrannus aspires to; also Randis was able to stomach the the twisted and sadistic things that Tyrannus loves to indulge in. Because of this, he invited Randis to come to see Waterdeep so he could show his new friend the city. The Church of Shar advised Randis to go and make contact with the Church in Waterdeep.

• On the way to Waterdeep,the ship Tyrannus and Randis were passengers on discovered Ruithondor Birlond in the water after being betrayed by his pirate crew and cast overboard. After some debate, the crew of the ship decided to save Ruithondor, but while they were distracted the ship was attacked by a number of locathah. Tyrannus, Ruithondor, and Randis worked together to beat back the attack. During the trip and the fighting Randis also made the acquaintance of Euras Berncar, a sellsword. After a night of drinking, Randis had taken a liking to the foul mouthed and violent man, and the two spent the night sharing a bunk.

• Once in Waterdeep, Tyrannus set Randis up with some temporary lodging. Having few friends in Waterdeep, Randis continued his contact with the sellsword. It didn't hurt that Randis enjoyed flirting with the man. After a night of drinking and sex, Euras told Randis about his situation. Her name was Chuseya, and she was blackmailing Euras. There was nothing he could do about it, of course, and Randis felt Euras' call for revenge as though it were his own. Randis immediately knew that Shar's Spirit of vengeance was needed. It was a bitter irony that Chuseya was also a cleric of Shar. When he had been instructed to make contact with the Church of Shar in Waterdeep, he didn't think this was exactly what they had in mind. But when the pull of vengeance calls, Randis had no choice but to answer. So Randis followed his calling and did the deed. Now both Randis and Euras are sworn to secrecy, and Euras promised to be there if Randis needs him.

• Randis wasn't in Waterdeep for very long, however, before Tyrannus' uncle, the Head of his House, got word of his associating with an Half-Elf, and in a fit of frustration, shipped Tyrannus off to Yartar to see to the family's holdings there, take on some responsibility, and grow up. After a glorious welcome party for Tyrannus which resulted in a couple new criminal contacts, he sent word to Randis of a growing opportunity in Yartar. Randis had been instructed to make contact with Shar's church in Waterdeep, but wanting some time and distance from his act of vengeance on the cleric Chuseya, Randis decided to join Tyrannus in Yartar.

• In Yartar, Tyrannus and Randis connected with Ruithondor, along with other new acquaintances, and started on a new business venture together.

• One of the first people Randis met in Yartar was Arageth, the mander (or "mother") of the Beckoning Maid festhall. Seeing Randis' talents she immediately brought him under her employ. Soon after, Randis discovered Arageth's secret: she is a succubus. Despite her infernal nature, the two got along excellently, so much so that when the local temple of Torm revealed her nature to her human staff and got them out of the building so they could attack her, Randis slipped away to warn her and help get her out of Yartar. She mentioned intending on venturing to Waterdeep, and that was the last Randis saw of her.

• Business ventures of the sort that Randis, Tyrannus, and the others were involved in often come with their own dangers. Not long after starting their business venture, a rival gang tried to poison them. The rivals thought Randis and his associates had died, but they didn't know about Randis' unique set of skills as a Death Domain cleric of Shar. Randis used his spells as a necromancer to bring his compatriots back to life. And after that, revenge. Randis and the others took care of the competition, enlarged their employee base, and gained the name The Twice-Born.

• The Twice-Born little by little took total control over the criminal underworld in the small city. But after a while? It just wasn't enough. Instead of resting on their laurels, The Twice-Born have turned their sights toward a new and grander target, a challenge worth their mettle. According to Tyrannus it is impossible to form large criminal enterprises in the City of Splendors. Many have tried, and all have failed. But those losers? They're not the Twice-Born. The Twice-Born are headed to Waterdeep.

Important Individuals

	Anaiya Diplomat • Mother The Moon Elf Anaiya was a diplomat who had booked passage aboard one of the Elven ships that regularly sailed past and docked in Neverwinter as they ferried elves to Evermeet. She often had short stays in the cities she visited, and such was the case in Neverwinter. During one of those short stays she met a local noble, Paradorn Aromdee. They immediately hit it off and had a short, but passionate affair. But her duty was to the elves and she soon left Neverwinter. One year later, on Deadwinter Day, during the festival of Midwinter, Anaiya suddenly appeared on Paradorn's doorstep. In her arms was an infant with ice blue eyes and a shock of white hair. The child's name was Randis, born of the union of Anaiya and Paradorn. With fear in her voice she pleaded with Paradorn to keep their son safe. In her hand was a brilliant green gem. "Hide this. Don't let anyone find it. If elves appear wearing grey cloaks, run!" And then she was gone, leaving Randis and the green gem. She has not been seen since
	Paradorn Aromdee Noble • Father Paradorn Aromdee was a minor noble in Neverwinter. He met the Moon Elf Anaiya and the two had a brief and passionate affair. One year later, Anaiya returned with and infant named Randis and a green gem. She instructed Paradorn to keep Randis safe and to hide the gem. Paradorn hid the gem but was ashamed to have a bastard half-breed son and found foster parents for the child. He would periodically check in on Randis, but he was largely absent during the boys childhood. One day 3 grey-cloaked elves showed up looking for the gem. Paradorn fought them and fled, injured. He led the elves to Randis and died in his son's arms before revealing the exact location of the gem.
	Peg and Uni Halfquiver Potters • Adoptive Parents Peg and Uni Halfquiver were potters who had served Lord Aromdee and sold pottery to him. He called on them to foster his child, Randis. Peg and Uni took Randis in, but they were cruel foster parents and treated him like slave labor. Mr. Halfquiver was killed by the grey-cloaked elves, while Mrs. Halfquiver was killed by Randis when attempting to escape the same elves.
	Lady Ilsa • Mentor Lady Ilsa's Travelling Curiosity Show Lady Ilsa discovered Randis singing for coin on a street corner. She immediately recognized his talent and recruited him into her troupe. She took personal oversight of his training and taught him much of what he knows about performance and lovemaking. Her love of coin and her self, however, led her to betray Randis and she sold him to the grey-cloaked elves who were seeking him. Filled with the power of Shar, he sought his revenge and she died when he snapped her neck.
	Branly Bard • First Love Branly was one of the troupe members of Lady Ilsa's Travelling Curiosity Show. There was instant attraction between him and Randis and Randis fell in love with him. He taught Randis how to play the lute and coached him in his singing skills. He promised to train Randis as a bard. After Randis was betrayed by Lady Ilsa's troupe he found Branly in bed with Lady Ilsa. Randis killed Lady Ilsa, but told Branly to go. Branly fled and Randis has not seen him since.
	Eruras Berncar Sellsword • Contact Her name was Chuseya, and she was blackmailing him. There was nothing he could do about it, of course, and Randis felt his call for revenge as though it were his own. The fact that Chuseya was another cleric of Shar did nothing to change the fact that she deserved retribution. So Randis followed his calling calling, and did the deed. Now both Eruras and Randis are sworn to secrecy, and he's promised to be there if Randis needs him.
	Arageth Succubus • Contact Once the mander (or "mother") of the Beckoning Maid festhall in Yartar, Randis discovered Arageth's secret when she took him in to work for her: she is a succubus. Despite her infernal nature, the two got along excellently, so much so that when the local temple of Torm revealed her nature to her human staff and got them out of the building so they could attack her, Randis slipped away to warn her and help get her out of Yartar. She mentioned intending on venturing to Waterdeep, and that was the last he saw of her.
	Aeryk Moonstar Patriarch's Cousin (Rank 5) • 31 years A skilled cartographer and architect in good standing with the Surveyors', Map, and Chartmakers' Guild. Aeryk is a handsome man and a very eligible bachelor, though seems to prefer to take uncomplicated lovers from the soft trade, with a marked weakness for elven blooded men.