Corian
Inspired by: Designed to place the 5E adventure The Wizard’s Amulet in the Shrouded Lands.
Corian is a troubled apprentice in the Necromantic Office of the Shuttered City, the greatest city in the Shrouded Lands. Despite his training, flame and heat come more naturally to him than the animation of the dead or the touch of the grave. Only the absent-mindedness of his master has kept him from being expelled or reassigned elsewhere.
A few weeks ago, Corian came across a letter from the mad necromancer turned vintner Ranmore meant for his master. The letter revealed that Corian was the child of an Ossery woman who had died giving birth to him. Accompanying the letter was an amulet - Corian’s birthright. It would prove his identity and allow him to discover his heritage among the Osseries.
Corian’s master’s other apprentice, Vortigern, came across the letter and has set his heart on the amulet. He wants to learn Ranmore’s forbidden necromantic techniques, and intends to pass as Corian in order to learn them. To do that, he needs the amulet. He is accompanied by an imp and has mastered the control of zombies, dark magic which suggest that Vortigern has made a pact with Baron Autumn and abandoned the faith of Alberon. Perhaps he can be redeemed; perhaps not.
Corian is currently in The Giant and the Gnome, seeking companions for the trip to the Ossery homelands:
- Bannor is a knight of Thring, called by the Green Lady to her service despite his roots in the Church of Alberon.
- Belfin is a grim ranger from the Kingswood, determined to hunt down Brigadier Kalas Montra-brey.
- Cedric is one of the didgeridoo-playing, whale-watching druids of the Bitter Coast.
- Drebb is a disgraced dwarf from Titan’s Skull who bravely presents as female.
- Drinnin is an initiate in the Stern Way. His master is a stone giant who rarely talks.
- Farkle Hurp is a gnome and born and bred resident of the City, angered by the discrimination his people face.
- Flarian is an elf of the Timberlode with an inexplicable connection to Trimueil.
- Galdar is a priest of Alberon, commanded to stick to Corian by his superiors in the Church.
- Helman is a halfling of Jar Town.
- Krel is a changeling, a full-blooded orc raised by the long-suffering humans of Northburn Holding.
- Marren is a wizard of Jahur. Her familiar, seemingly a raven, is actually an ifrit trapped in animal form.
- Phelps is a thief who has stolen something from the Doge and needs to get out of town while the goods are hot.
- Warrid is a citizen of Ninbolm and a practicing illusionist.