#Luth Tallstag

[drizztbrightwood]

Luth Brightwood, fighter Aasimar

First Luth’s series of color drafts

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Session 4 | Fighting the False Hydra

The party woke up from their long rest, and headed to the Orhurst Archives. After searching the archives for a while, Luth found a book named 1984 M.E and was entranced by it. Amy found a book titled “Do Warforged Dream of Metal Sheep?”. However, Ailia was able to find a book titled “Myths of Wayrth” and found a section dog-eared, subtitled “the False Hydra”. The description of this entity matched the creature beneath Orhurst, and so the party discovered that this creature was a False Hydra. Reading the entry, the party learnt how to combat its song and gathered in the Long Respite, preparing to attack the creature in its lair, which Vincent discovered, with Luth’s help, that it was beneath the “abandoned” Tallstag Fermentary.

The party descended and battled with this creature, a hard fight with Luth being knocked unconscious and Amy nearly being killed. However, the party with the help of Immeral and Quelanna were able to slay the False Hydra, freeing the town from its clutches. Searching its lair, the party found a collection of coins on the bodies that the Hydra hadn’t bothered to fully eat or had just discarded of, along with a chest marked with the symbol of a secretive criminal syndicate known as the “Court of Whispers”. Within was a powerful skeleton key, which could grant its wielder the ability to move silently and to use it to pick nearly any lock. They also found a coin with the Giant word for Dragon, Wyrm, written on it, along with multiple potions and a set of mithral splint. Vincent took this coin, Isaac took the potions, Luth took the Key and Amy took the armour.

The party ascended and told the guards what was going on, offering to help clean up. Ailia wanted to help immediately, but the guard captain, Tim Washington, said they had done enough and the party forced Ailia to return to the Long Respite to rest. The party then spent the evening there, their drinks on the house for saving the town, and then rested.

[luthtallstag]

After the Death House

Dear G, 

I write these words with blood in my hands and smell of death in my cloths. Though my hands hurt from the battle I couldn’t hold myself from writting a few words. We made it. We actually survived the depths of that haunted house. There’s so much to tell, so I’ll go to the most important facts. Tiffany and the cleric (which I still don’t know the name of but seems kind of depravated so I’ll call him Pedo) took back the bones of the dead children and gave them an honorable bury. That gave peace to the spirits, which then left our bodies. I felt kind of empty inside after that but it didn’t last long. We saw the figure of a man holding an orbe and with a wolf at his feet. I’m not sure why but I have the feeling that we’ll meet him someday. 

Though we made it alive, I’m not sure Elias did so. During the final battle the beast killed him. I saw his dead body join the corpses of the dead. When he died... It’s hard for me to tell you this... I almost sacrified myself. The thought of my death having a meaning appealed me. Luckily in the last second I chose to fight and kill the monster. At one point we cornered him and that’s when it happened. The corpse of Elias emerged from the beast and attacked it. That body that looked like Elias helped us kill the monster. After we beat it the house started falling appart and we barely made it out alive. Thankfull Tiffany and me broke the main door and resisted the damage of the fog. 

We are now outside the demolished house and I wonder what comes next. I can not longer trust Elias, not until I know for sure that’s him. I can’t trust the other aasimars either, at least not for now, as I fear their angels might come for me if they find out about my race. I find myself in a position I’ve never been before. At the beggining of this mission I felt in need of a leader to follow and a cause to believe in. I still feel that no clear cause is there to follow, besides the one of having an organized world with justice to the law. But after what have happened in the house I see myself in a different way. I think I start to understand why you ever loved me, why you ever trusted me. I feel that now it’s the time for me to become my own leader. It’s time for me to grow. I don’t think the people I’m with and I are friends yet, but maybe with time I’ll be able to trust them. Hopefully so it will be as I’d like the last face I look upon to be that of a friend. 

Always yours, 

Luth Tallstag

[drizztbrightwood]

Luth’s mind

When Luth was ten years old he loved to get away from his house, sneak into the docks and explore. His parents were very protective of him and barely let him play with other kids so he loved to wander on the look for someone he could play with. One day he found a kid around a very shiny and glamorous ship. He was his age and though they didn’t speak the same language, they managed to understand each other and played fights with sticks. Later on he learnt that the boy was the son of a mechant that was very well known and had just arrived to the island. He felt excited about it and told his family during dinner time. But he didn’t got the reply he was expecting from his father. 

“That man is outrageous... you shall stay away from him and its people”

“But dad... it’s so much fun!”

“No! The morality of that man is corrupted and I don’t want you to be near him. End of the discussion.”

Turns out the merchant had an open relationship with another man and the gossips about it infunded that kind of reaction among many. Luth did not understand what his father meant by corrupted morality but he was obedient and decided to stay away from the docks until the ship had sailed. He did not get the chance to play again with that boy and that made him feel sad.  

The feeling he had at that moment came back to his mind when he was lying on the floor after Drizzt had punched him in his stomach. Rejection. Despise. Shame. All those words were going around in his head. He wasn’t crying. No tear had left his eyes though he felt defeated. He had forgotten about that story with the merchant until now. He had forgotten that the behaviour of a man loving another man was unnacceptable in the minds of most people. That thought made his chest hurt. He felt repressed. All his life he had focused on training and fights with the sword, he had not thought about relationships until he arrived to the camp. But even so he hadn’t thought about this until now. All those love stories he read were allways about princesses and knights, men and women falling in love. Never he read a story of two men falling in love. What’s that even possible in his time? 

He managed to stand up and while he did he felt a cold wall building up around his heart. “I must be more careful...” he thought. At that moment he made a promise to himself, that from now on he would focus on the battle only. Strategies, war, fights... those were things he was good at and things that kept him busy. Thought that was the promise he made to himself, he took no time in breaking it. The kisses he had shared with Drizzt and the desire to be close to him came back to his mind from time to time. 

[luthtallstag]

Contract to self

The following document stablish the rules I compromise with myself for the lenght of the campaign. 

I shall honor all oaths, including this one. 

I shall not harm my party members unless they request me to do so.

I shall not lie, not to myself or anyone.

I shall not betray others.

I shall not surender, unless it benefits the party. 

I shall refuse medical treatment for the good of the party.

I shall not kill the innocent.

I shall help the needed if such action advances law and order

I shall promote unlimited order in society. 

I shall assist my allies when they are in need.

I shall allow the enemy to remove their dead/wounded from the field. 

I shall not engage in improper social behaviour.

The previous mandaments shall become exceptions if the majority of the party agrees so in a determinate moment of time. On this day I command myself to strictly follow these commands, if I ever break them I must receive a punishment with lashes, the number of which will be calculates as 13-n, being "n" the number of the command.

With honor,

Luth Tallstag