Damian
Lord Damian Blakros
Growing up on the streets of Egorian, Damian Kastner led a rough and combative childhood, seeking power over all who would oppress him. He joined the Hellknights as a youth and quickly accumulated accolades and victories in service of Cheliax, tracking down and killing more than two dozen criminals and enemies of Cheliax around the Inner Sea, fighting in important military campaigns in service to the empire, and engaging in urban enforcement in the homeland to keep the nation free from crime and corruption. Kastner’s accolades saw him promoted to the rank of field-maralictor of the Order of the Scourge, serving directly under the leader of the order, Toulon Vidoc. A calculating, intelligent man of great presence and purpose positioned at the elbow of power, Damian Kastner seemed poised for a great destiny within the Hellknights. Then one night he met the alluring Zarta Dralneen, Cheliax’s Grand Ambassador to Absalom, on one of her frequent visits to Egorian. After an uncharacteristic indiscretion in her private quarters, Kastner found himself exposed and at risk of expulsion from his Hellknight order, until a quickly constructed lie from Dralneen saved him from shame, embarrassment, and ruin. The rescue left him in debt to the ambassador, however, and some years later she called in the favor to use Kastner as a pawn by positioning him as a suitor for Lady Michellia Blakros. With Lictor Vidoc’s approval, Damian reluctantly renounced his membership in the Hellknights shortly before marrying Lady Michellia in the summer of 4712. He also renounced his old family name, becoming Lord Damian Blakros, the newest noble in one of Absalom’s wealthiest and most influential great houses.
Eight years later, Damian has worked his way into the structure of the Blakros family, and he’s even managed to nudge the family toward law by developing a strong relationship with Scion Lady Hamaria, his wife’s mother, by relying on the manners instilled in him as a Hellknight and putting his investigatory skills to use tracking down and eliminating the family’s enemies, both real and imagined. Hamaria has taken him into her close confidence—rare for a male member of the family—and considers him one of her most trusted advisors and most ruthless and effective agents. At the same time, Lord Damian’s relationship with Michellia has grown even more distant as the years go by. The couple has yet to conceive a child, and Michellia is beginning to worry that she may not contribute a daughter to the family’s next generation—at least not with her first husband.
Eight years later, Damian has worked his way into the structure of the Blakros family, and he’s even managed to nudge the family toward law by developing a strong relationship with Scion Lady Hamaria, his wife’s mother, by relying on the manners instilled in him as a Hellknight and putting his investigatory skills to use tracking down and eliminating the family’s enemies, both real and imagined. Hamaria has taken him into her close confidence—rare for a male member of the family—and considers him one of her most trusted advisors and most ruthless and effective agents. At the same time, Lord Damian’s relationship with Michellia has grown even more distant as the years go by. The couple has yet to conceive a child, and Michellia is beginning to worry that she may not contribute a daughter to the family’s next generation—at least not with her first husband.
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