Saturday, March 14, 2015

Introspection with a vampire



.It has been over three hundred years since I saw my last sunrise. Oh, how I yearn for the days when I could bask in the noon day sun. Since I could lit my face and feel the warmth of a summer day... I remember with clarity the day my life changed forevermore. My companions and I had just finished clearing out an underground labarynth of caves and tunnels. It was was the lair of a beholder that had been the brains behind an evil organization that was terrorizing the neighbouring lands for years. We had emerged into the daylight somewhat the worse for wear but we had everyone alive and were looking forward to making camp and getting a good nights rest and recover our health and spells. In the middle of the night my watch ahd ended and I was in my bedroll sound asleep when our cleric Dravin cried out and raised the alarm. Before I knew what had happened we had a swarm of undead all around us. We did the best that we could do, but before too long we were falling one by one. I was using the last of my spells when i felt sharp teeth sink into my neck. The last words I remember hearing as a mortal was a dry rasp that said, "Orcus brings you his greetings."  I awoke the next sunset to the unholy embrace of vampiredom. At first I would only drink the blood of animals and continued to be a force for good. Alas, the dark embrace of undeath is pervasive and eventually all consuming. Over the generations my love for art and magic proved to be my undoing. Slowly I changed, became twisted by my desire to get the finest art, or the best magical secrets. Then one day Khelban Blackstaff himself sought me out for a piece of information that only I knew. Khelben knew he couldn’t force the information from me so he struck a deal. A boon of my asking in exchange for the knowledge I possessed. It took all of my might to dredge up the last kernel of good left in my heart to ask Khelben to make me permanently good again. Using a mighty Wish spell Khelban saw it done. His wish couldn't change me back, but what he did do was to channel his mighty energies to petition an audience with the god Lathander. Lathander looked into my heart and saw the good that I had done and still wished to do. A searing pain washed over me as I was bathed in the Light from the Morninglord. As the pain subsided I could feel that the evil that had come to reside in my heart had been cleansed from me never to return again. I was a new man. While still a vampire, my moral compass was restored, and I could continue being a force for good in the world. Orcus lost a powerful servant and I could continue my pursuit of art, knowledge, and magic without worrying about becoming evil again. 
-Finthrex Nevbur Vampire sage of Waterdeep

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