Description
As you look upon this wretched creature you can see he
bears a great resemblance to a rather large vulture. Feathers
of dull brown banded with streaks of bone white cover the
visible areas of his torso and wings. Back-jointed legs sprout
taloned feet of ruddy orange complexion. His lurching gait
and hunched posture thrusts his sinuous neck and skull-like
head before his body. His neck and head are devoid of any
meaningful plumage making both look disproportionately
thin compared to his body. Large yellow eyes peer out over a
slightly hooked beak the reddish yellow color of ill cleaned bone.
You can see that his arms, even while they remain nearly tucked
under his body, end in long claw tipped fingers that seem to hold
more joints than that of a man. While a weapon is visible upon
his person it can do little to offset the obvious trappings of one
of the arcane arts.
Role
Yagig must flee.
Added Fri Aug 12 00:50:53 2005 at level 51:
Yagig has learned that the former High Priest of the Talshidar that
kept him prisoner has shed his flesh and been accepted in the Hells. Not
only did Yagig escape his sacrifice in his early life but later returned
to the caves oft to punish him for his attempt to harm Yagig. It seems
that as a result of his dedication in life he has been awarded some
status in the Hells and holds a measure of power. Visions plague Yagig
now of the priest's return where he will capture Yagig and take him to
the Hells to torment him forever. Yagig feels that no God may help him
since the Hells are beyond their diminion. He has come up with a desperate
plan to offer himself premptivly to the Father of Devils as a servant to
be taken to the Hells. In doing so he thinks he may gain enough power
and staus himself to avoid the horrid fate that awaits him. This will
be the end of Yagig's mortal form.
Leadership, Inner Power, and the Lost Crown
Added Sun Jul 31 13:38:08 2005 at level 51:
Yagig now has much of the power he once sought but it has taken it with
great trepidation. After his plots involving Raheena came to fruition he
was called before the the gathered Gods and Goddess' of the Chasm. They
informed him that his talents would now be put to use in the role of
Advisor to the Chancellor's seat. He was torn for this was the means to
the kind of power he had always coveted but with it came the constant
attention of the powers he was so fearful of. When the gathered powers
sensed his fear they seemed to revel in it. They informed Yagig that he
could not avoid their eyes or attention however he tried. He was theirs to
do with as they pleased and he may as well accept it. Refusal to obey just
would just result in more pain drawn out over a longer period of time. With
these threats constantly upon him he has endevored to see the Chasm rise
in power under his leadership. He feels the only way to escape destruction
is to see great strides made in their intrests even moreso than his own.
A success in the long standing goal to free the great summoner from his
stasis has left Yagig infused with a new found power. After striking down
the summoner when he tried to gain the power of the sundered portal Maztriel
and Yagig stepped within the flow and let it fill them. Since such time the
power has rolled within him often making him sick or unable to function as
well as normal. Unsure how the power will manifest it'self he but hopes to
contain it till such time. He feels with both of the Chasm's leaders gaining
greater power the Fold may be in for a time of legend.
Yagig has recently been scouring Akan and surrounding lands for the Lost
crown of Akan he detected via his magics. He knows that both the dwarven
and duergar nations would covet it. To the dwarves it's return would rally
them to the memory of a time of greatness. To the duergar king it would be
a symbolic victory of his battle against the dwarves and would rally his
men to press the assult against Ludan. In either case Yagig feels he may
be able to barter the crown for information. The dwarves hold ancient secrets
of invocation magics from the tiem before the guilds were destroyed. The
duergar have long experimented in the cruel labs with transmutation magics.
The crown should bring him a boon in knowledge from one or the other.
On Leadership and The Deception.
Added Wed Jul 13 01:21:45 2005 at level 51:
Yagig desires the power that would come from the Chancellor's seat more
than near anything else. He covets the very idea of being Chancellor and
the impression that to hold the seat would make him important. The only
problem is he is too scared out of his wits of Dreaa and Eshval to even
think of expressing his desires to them. He thinks he cannot hold the seat
because he would have to interact with them. His thinking then is to try
to hold the power without the seat. He feels if he can have a hand in
who holds power then he brings himself some prestige. He will have to
overcome his fears to ever hold the power directly.
Yagig is going to try to pull a grand deception to help direct the course
of power in the Chasm. He feels Raheena will surely be given the Chancellor's
seat if she becomes a Lich. Too oft he has seen her try to exert her will
and knows if she gains the seat her control over him will be lenghty. His
only hope is to see her destroyed. He has gained her confidence and knows
what Lich items she seeks. He plans to try to gain the attention of Qaledus
and bribe him into making a forgery of one of her items. He has considered
this at length and has only decided to approach the god of theives after
speaking to one of his priests. The priest has convienced Yagig that Qaledus
is unlike other Gods and will not seek his harm if teh bribe is worthy. It
is a risk but one he feels he must take less he finds himself collered at
the heel of a Lich.
On covetousness and Gods.
Added Wed Jul 6 14:48:12 2005 at level 46:
When young Yagig coveted things, possessions, what was to be had and what
others had. Yagig equated those things with power and in so doing would
strive to gather all he could. This has changed as he has aged. He has
come to place a much higher value on position and associations than things.
He reasons that things will come when he has developed/bought the right
position and friends. Using things he pulls others to him and may aquire
in time the power he now covets.
Yagig fears the gods of light and dark more than anything else. They are
a force wholey beyond his control and in their fickleness may destroy him
at a whim. Dreaa appeared to him while speaking with the Chancellor and
mearly being in her presence nearly killed him. She confirmed his worry
by threatening to turn him into a frog so beasts could eat him. He has
known others to speak to such beings as nearly equals but that his beyond
his scope of thinking. He feels the Gods are angered at his worthlessness
and will surely one day be his end.
Yagig's last name.
Added Tue May 24 10:27:27 2005 at level 32:
Yagig has chosen the last name Arkavaul for himself. His tribe used
no last names but since breaking away he has decided to adopt one.
Arkavaul means "Survivor" or The Survivor" amongst his clan and
was often used to identify others who had entered the wastes and
lived or one who had broken clan and managed to stay alive.
Yagig's Traits
Added Wed May 11 00:04:37 2005 at level 19:
Yagig has an inferiority complex. Everyone is better than him in
all ways as he sees it. Others have more wealth, they are stronger
and hold more influence, they have nicer things, more friends, are
smarter, stronger, know more, etc, etc. The line between envy and
covetousness is thin but Yagig activly plots to gain what will make
him the equal of others in all regards.
If Yagig didn't have feathers he just may have been an orc. He
knows that appearing weak or worthless can gain him time to grow
strong himself. He takes what he can by any means able if it will
advance himself without bringing unwanted consequences. He is willing
to do whatever he can to stay alive long enough to get even with
the whole damned world.
His long captivity has resulted in a speach pattern often below
what his natural intelligence would have dictated. His speach is
brief and broken enough to not let others see he is smart. It
comes natural now.
Yagig's Background
Added Tue May 10 23:40:44 2005 at level 19:
Yagig hails from a tribe of scavangers barely surving on the fringes
of the Wastes of Nonviel. He traveled to Arkham in his youth with
two elders to barter for goods since the guards of Seantryn and the
jade elves were known to kill his people on sight. All three were
duped into going to Dra' Melkhur upon the inticing offer to find out
about eternal life. His two elder were slain but Yagig stayed alive by
month after month by one means or another. He convienced them he knew
things he did not and even agreed to write his clan and have them send
send others with the promise of a vast unclaimed land where food could
be found easily and no skyflashes would eat them in return. He did any
thing to stay alive. He survided mostly by learning to take abuse and
appearing totaly worthless and unthreatening. He learned much of their
lore and a smattering of their goals.
He lied saying he knew where an artifact was buried within the desert
of araile that he saw when flying nearby. This he thought his chance to
escape. He would have to go show them where he saw it, giving him the
chance in his terrain to flee. The caravan was attacked by the Talshidar
and all slaughtered but five others and himself. He found himself caged
again awaiting sacrifice to some demon or another. They all sounded much
the same to him and had the same result, that being him dead. He managed
to stay alive this time by trading information about the keep he had
just been a prisoner at. Yet again he was made to suffer as a slave and
worse as they doled out any abuse they wished upon him that did not end
in death. A dwarf also survided who could work steel and was kept a
prisoner near him. The dwarf was treated better as he had more value
and Yagig found himself even lower than another slave. All were better
than Yagig. All had more freedom, more food, more clothing, more water,
and less pain. His plight was ended when a trio of heros raided the
Talshidar caves. A warrior, bard and invoker fought their way to the
captives cages seeking some female as they kept yelling her name. They
broke his lock and asked if any others were held as well, to which he
replied that they had all been sacrificed the passing eve. The dwarf
that had for mocked him so long could stay and rot. They insisted that
he stay behind them as they fought their way to freedom and he obliged.
Offering to carry anything that would burden them in combat he managed
to gather several spare weapons and various sacks of provisions and
supplies. These he fled with out of the first tunnel out he could find.
In Hamsah he found the goods worth a heavy sack of coin. He retained
the minor spellbook of the invoker and understood enough of what he read
to think to seek refuge within the guildhall of invocation. Maybe if
he used the coin to buy an apprenticeship within the hall he could
learn enough to be strong himself, stronger than others and no slave
ever again.