Schabraxas Evernight
Dean of the Dark Vûldunhain Evernight (a.k.a. The Dark Flame of Lost Faiths, Faitheater)
The grim Vûldunhain, as he is known in the folklore of many worlds was born from the shadows of The Plane of Shadows eons ago, though no tale tells how exactly. Or rather, too many do, all advertising their own way. One speaks of a ball of thick shadow collapsing in on itself to form a smoothe, onyx egg, from which the creature hatched, while others say Vûldunhain was the living shadow of Shar and grew more and more weary of his paranoid master, until he slipped away one night. Some scholars of the Third Tolarian Academy that belong to the faculty of mysteries believe that he was forged by the Council of Urpriests in an attempt to create an avatar of latent chaotic divine energies.
Whatever story is true, if any, he is, and has been a mysterious and influential character throughout at least the past five hundred years, roughly since 10860 GAL, when he quelled the Traxian holy wars with a group of extremely powerful ex-clerics. It is believed, that this was the first act of the rumored Council of Urpriests, which is currently believed to be under his control.
In 11355 GAL, he descendet onto the world Toril, climbing into the feared Underdark through a planar rift in order to visit a Tribe of Grimlock, the Rustbolg'ûn, long tied to the dead minor god Vazavay, patron of the sightless. In Vazavay's name, he came to collect a child, expected to be born within that year, for every few hundred years a legendary Grimlock is born to this tribe, infused with the energies of the Amber Flood, more beautiful and more powerful than all others. A waste of course, since Grimlock are blind. Vûldunhain took this child with him, and raised it on the Plane of Shadows with his peers. He named her Ôhvas, the "blind orphan", and she bought the name Tasmia for herself from a traveling demigod on her 12th birthday, and she conquered the title Duchnan, when she seized Baron Friedolin Duchnan's lands and holdings during the Tasmian Conquest of the Painted World of Rûgenwold, making her Tasmia Ôhvas Duchnan. It is not known when, but once he deemed her ready, Vûldunhain planted his seed in her, and with her created their odd spawn, called Kinvil, Grimlock for "the Ashen one", though in time she simply took up being called Ash, or Ashwind Duchnan, when acting for political interests.
Infused with wild divine energies by the council of urpriests, and the energies of the Amber Flood in her mothers womb, Ash became an incredibly powerful vessle, born to become powerful beyond measure. Such a creature should never be created, as the gods do not look kindly on mortals playing with powers that can rival them, which is why divine intervention in the birth of extraordinary children in the form of cursing or killing them, or barring them from ever using magic is common practise. No such fate befell Ash, for her father Vûldunhain, Dean of the Dark, dean of the Council of Urpriests has great divine power at his command, and he shielded his home, himself, and his daughter from all divine prying and influence. No, Vûldunhain has great plans for her, and divine intervention just won't do.
Once Ash was born, her superior intellect put her on near equal footing with her elders within less than a year of her birth, and Vûldunhain wasted no time utilizing her. He procured for her, vast storehouses of knowledge, and secured access to ancient libraries and lecture halls of the greatest universities of the Planescape, grooming her for leadership. Through her intelligence, Tasmias strength and force of personality, and his dark powers and connections, they drew in a great following, especially from amongst the Githzerai nomads of the Astral plane.
Initially offering the benefit of his home plane Hârbingal as a base, and creating an adventuring infrastructure, the Synod of Anarchy was born. This organization would serve as a cover and infrastructure for the plans and actions of the Concil of Urpriests, and Vûldunhain, who took up the name Schabraxas Evernight when becoming one of the ruling members of the Synod, always seemed to have the least active part in the day-to-day operations of the organization.
Physical Description
Body Features
Schabraxas appears as nothing more than a vaguely antropomorphic mass of shadows with piercing yellow eyes and a gaping dark maw, when speaking.
Apparel & Accessories
Around his shadowwreathed body he seems to carry a cloak of shadows as well. Wherever he goes he just seems to be living darkness gliding about.
Mental characteristics
Sexuality
Voice and vague shape make Schabraxas appear male-ish.
Accomplishments & Achievements
He is known as the Dark Flame of Lost Faiths, for his successful campaigns to take out organized religions on a minor scale. Many stories are told of his fight against the churches of a number of worlds, and people rightly believe, that the crumbling of religion feeds his power greatly, leading to some calling him Faitheater.
Intellectual Characteristics
Schabraxas is a thoughtful, intelligent creature, and tends to deal with threats using overwhelming force wherever they present themselves.
Personality Characteristics
Likes & Dislikes
Any who actually manage to spend a prolonged ammount of time with him, which are few, will realize, that he holds great pride for his daughter, but has ambivalent feelings about his mate Tasmia.
He seems to have a deep, unexplained mistrust of psionics.
Vices & Personality flaws
When he feels cornered, or finds that things important to him are in imminent danger, he tends to severely overreact, somtimes at personal cost.
Social
Religious Views
As an Urpriest, Schabraxas seeks divine power seperate from the gods, despising them greatly.
Speech
His voice has two faces: one sharp, high, and hissing, the other snorus and deep. Sometimes he switches between the two mid-sentence, sometimes he seems to deliberately use one or the other in order to create a certain impression.
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Master of the Synod, Dean of the Council of Urpriests
Children
Eyes
piercing, pupilless yellow
Hair
engulfed by evershifting shadows
Aligned Organization
Ruled Locations
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