Five foot, eleven with the muscular legs and trim body of a seasoned martial artist. Short, straight, dark brown hair and large brown eyes with boyish features. A well-cut brown leather jacket with a pressed dragon-head family crest on the left shoulder and a woolen, black, brown and gold kilt pinned to the other. No longer a boy and not quite a man, Tarquin Drake is an interesting collection.
Tarquin was born and raised in the Lowlands of the Northern Province, the son of the monk, Shang-lung Drake. Tarquin's mother, Anne, died in a boating accident when he was only four. Tarquin nearly died as well, were it not for the intervention of his Uncle, Alistair. Tarquin's father, unfortunately, believed the boy dead and left the region. Tarquin, therefore, was raised by his uncle and aunt in the conservative fishing village of Nookhaven.
Shortly after Tarquin turned 14 his father returned. Shang-lung had learned his son was alive and wanted to save him from the humanoid invasion sweeping the area. After an awkward reconciliation, the two joined the original Highland Freedom Fighters in their push Southward. Gnolls ambushed the group and nearly killed the boy. In response, Shang-lung began teaching Tarquin how to fight like a monk using the Raging Dragon martial arts style.
Once safely in Portown, Tarquin spent much time with his grandfather, Venturus. The two hit it right off and the merchant began to groom his grandson to take over the family business. Over the next four years, Tarquin had a few brief encounters with minor menaces as he worked along side Venturus and his business associates. Tarquin showed an interest in magic and was given some training from his cousin, Malok.
Shortly after the age of 17, however, Tarquin's adventuring career took an upswing. He joined a group of friends with whom he'd saved one of his grandfather's cargoes. Soon, they began exploring gnoll lairs ("I hate gnolls!") and taking the Test in Greyhawk. After a close brush with death, something snapped; Tarquin felt it was time to due his heroic part in the Highlands conflict. So with his best friend, the hobbit Arafael Rosefoot, he set off to help reclaim his homeland and find his aunt and uncle.
Tarquin soon met up with Colleen and Rowan MacLeod and the other defenders of the Highlands. After fighting their way through enemy troops and lines, the group turned the tide of battle and are now winning great stretches of land back into Scottish hands. They've also fought the demon, Jazzpaa, and the giant, Malog, son of the legendary formorian king, Balor. Tarquin has met stone age wizards and traveled through the Land of the Sidhe to other worlds. During this time his faith in St Cuthbert has strengthened (due in part to his interactions with Ian Northbrook and Edmund Fitzgerald) and his knowledge of magic has deepened. Tarquin has a collection of odd skills and magical items which keep him out of trouble.
Tarquin always tries to do what he thinks is right. He has a strong conscience and a deep regard for life. He has been chided by his adventuring partners many times for subduing his foes rather than killing them. When facing humans, Tarquin never strikes to kill without the best of reasons. To date, he has only intentionally killed one man, the evil summoner, Gallen.
Tetsuko is the third of seven daughters of Buntaro Kuwahara of Kozakura, a very highly respected 10th rank merchant and lord of his coastline. Buntaro had seven beautiful daughters, but wanted them to all be sucessful in their own right, and not just bask in his wealth. So, at the appropriate age, Buntaro sent all his daughters off into the world with instructions to succeed at their craft. Tetsuko's other sisters set out far and wide across the globe, and she came to the western Flanaes, to a city called Dyvers. In this city she found adventure, and met a sailor named Raitan Drake with whom she's done lots of adventuring with, including volunteering to help stop an orcish invasion of the northern Wild Coast.
After fighting orcs for weeks, the her small group and the second string Klarrians captured the orc leader, and she challenged him to a fair duel to the death. After battling the leader down to his last few gasps of breath, he got a lucky shot and nearly hacked her arm off. His best friend dead, Raitan Drake got himself polymorphed into an elf so he could travel in Greyhawk (Raitan had been banished from Greyhawk years before for unnecessary fighting) and found a cleric that was willing to raise Tetsuko from the dead. The cleric happened to be a high priest of Set, however, and made the newly raised Tetsuko swear to find the missing Staff of Law and return it only to him. Unfortunately, Raitan died from system shock as his polymorph was dispelled upon his return to Klarr, but Borlon the Mighty, cleric of Ra happened to be in town, and hearing they were off to recover the Staff, raised Raitan with the promise to return later and perform a quest. So, Raitan, Tetsuko and the rest of their friends including Rullo the hobbit archer, Asfaloth the Runner, Fadranth the Ranger, Yavin the Stargazer, Krell, Kara Drake and Kinsa the Witch of Garuda travelled first to Furyondi where the recently stolen staff was roumored to be held, then found the actual hiding place in the northern highlands.
Defeating the theives, Navroc MacCorval and Rhemba, the party returned to Greyhawk, ditched Kinsa (bent on returning the Staff to the lawful good clerics of St. Cuthbert in Greyhawk) and returned the Staff to the High Priest of Set. Returning to Borlon in Klarr and telling him they'd turned the Staff over to Set, Ra's Messenger on Oerth immediately charged them to travel with him to Neregan, recover the Staff from the temple of Set, and give it instead to the Nereganti high priest of Ptah, who would banish it from this world of men for all time. They were, of course, successful.
Having succeeded at her craft (kensai of the katana) and performing many great acts, Tetsuko commissioned an honor blade to be created by Rhom StrongArm of Klarr, and along with Raitan built a ship called 'The FarSpear' and sailed back to Kozakura and her father. Tetsuko rested there, having completed her mission, but after a few months, the Klarrian Witch of Bahamut, Rhanée Strongarm, used a magical mirror to open a portal back to the Wild Coast, where Tetsuko and Raitan had done lots of adventuring. Rhanée had a letter from the rightful princess of Furyondi asking Tetsuko to help her restore her throne. Tetsuko and Raitan returned to Furyondi and aided the restoration of the throne, and also found out about a plot of the Illithid's invasion of the planet. Tetsuko joined a suicide squad of Oerth's most powerful hand-to-hand fighters. The group teleported into the mind flayer's main base under the deserts of Neregan and killed the Beholders that were aiding the Illithid in their conquest of the planet. Their mission as part of the overall plan was successful, and the Illithid were thrown off the planet.
Tetsuko appears as a beautiful 5'5" japanese human female, with waist-length straight black hair, hazel eyes and arched expressive eyebrows. Like a figure skater, she is slim, muscular and graceful, and she dances through battle like a wave rushing up a rocky shore. She normally dresses in a kimono that's light blue or sea green, and wears a blue cloak. She also wears a set of silver bracers, a necklace with a small crystal ball on it, a necklace with a sliver of sparkly blue rock on it, a georgous pearl necklace and two katanas. Tetsuko is exceeding polite, and respectful to those that deserve it. When threatened, she has been known to deal extreme amounts of deadly force by whirling a blurred katana in each hand. She is a strong leader, full of wisdom and charisma, and her followers end up with great morale under her leadership
Treblo SkyMage has gone by many names and guises over the years. An orphan of unknown partentage, Treblo grew up on the streets of Greyhawk. He was taken in by the mage, Rothgar, who saw potential in the lad. Treblo the Boy Magician began his career as the party mage with Moorak Drake and rest of the original Portown Party. Then, a youth of barely fifteen years, Treblo shared the spell casting lime-light with Ingella Smokeshadow. The group as a whole had an impact on the waif and he slowly gave up his neutral ways for the teachings of Goodness (although every once and a while the greedy "SpongeMage" slips back).
Upon reaching the title, Theuragist, Treb recovered a staff of power from the Pit of the Oracle. Shortly after reaching the title, Magician (and the age of 16), Treblo started styling himself the Boy Wizard. With the title Wizard under his belt, Treblo began using the last name YoungMage. This lasted almost a dozen years, until he managed the intricacies of Limited Wish. Which brings us to Treblo SkyMage of SkyHaven.
Treblo is fairly well known in the Greyhawk region. He has been on numerous adventures in the area. He is known to be the head mage of the cloud castle, SkyHaven. He drives a hard bargain for magical aid. Treb is best known, however, as a (not justly named) "miracle" teacher of the magical arts. Treblo's students include Moorak Drake, Slee the Lizard-Wizard and Margo Prattnick the Goblin of Greyhawk.
Treblo has thick black hair and blue eyes. With the use of hairy cantrips, he has finally managed a decent beard. Treblo stands 6'3" and weighs about 170 lbs. Slim and wiry of build, Treblo is fairly strong for a wizard. He dresses in various shades of gray, usually patterened to different intensities on a given piece of cloth (like a cloud or fog bank). The only jewelry Treblo wears is magical (and extremely valuable) although as a paranoid mage, everything he owns is magic mouthed never to speak. Lacking in the social graces, Treblo is fascinated by magic and spends the majority of his time in arcane pursuits.
Tyris=Flare first appeared as a mysterious warrior sucked out of the deep ethereal plane by Brand and the Blade Seekers. The party was returning to Klarr from an adventure using Brand's cubic gate. Tyris=Flare accompanied the Blade Seekers on an adventure to seek Hannok of Fangoria and she aided in the recovery of the rod that restored Slee's dead lizard man body to life. After the adventure, she hung out with Brand for a while, then joined the Portown party in recovering the Book of the Dead from a mysterious cave in the Cairn Hlls. This adventure led all the Portowners into conflict with Death=Adder, Tyris Flare's Cambrian Devil grandfather, who had stolen Tyris=Flare's grandmother Miah=Flare and was using her to bind the Spine Tower directly to the valley of the four winds.
From his unassailable castle, Death=Adder attacked many of the surrounding towns, including Portown. Together, Tyris=Flare and the new Portown Party attacked the the Valley of the Four Winds through the mysterious Fiend's Path and attacked the Spine Tower, Death=Adder and his minions. Tyris=Flare, Daisy Hornblower (a hobbit fighter), and Chira (a 1/2 elf fighter) attempted to cause a diversion and escape while the rest of the party attacked elsewhere, but Tyris=Flare's ability to travel ethereally malfunctioned, and they were cast into an Ethereal Cyclone. The "Guerilla Girls" were seperated from the rest of the party for weeks, but the three of them continuously attacked the Spine Tower, killing the devils and other creatures Death=Adder had there protecting him. Finally, in a randomly combined effort, both parties attacked the tower within an hour of each other, and succeeded in finally killing the last manifestation of Death=Adder on this plane. His minions soon scattered. Mia=Flare was freed and returned to the Kazadi nation by Tyris=Flare.
Tyris=Flare has had many other adventures since then, not always on the side of the 'good guys.' In the war for the throne of Furyondi, for example, she was convinced that the Princess Damelia's appearance was a bad unstabilizing effect on the current power structure, and she, along with Andar of Oakmont, stole the princess out from under the noses of all the Klarrians and their friends and marooned her on a mysterious desert planet in another dimention. She, however, allied with all of them in the final fight to banish the Illithid off of Oerth.
Tyris=Flare appears as a 6ft tall well-shaped muscular human woman with tresses of curly red hair and well tanned skin. She is generally seen wearing black studded leather armor on top of red silk garments, and moccacin-like boots. She generally wears a steel helmet with a six inch spike poking out the top, with a turban wound around it in Calormine fashon. She is almost always seen carrying a large battle axe, a longsword, and a large crossbow. Her overall appearance is somewhat sinister looking, until it is noticed she has pupiless solid black eyes. Then it's really sinister looking. Those familiar with the desert nations of the Bright Desert would peg her as a Kazadi warrior right away. Tyris=Flare's general demeanor is somewhat like her hair - red and unpredictable in direction. She sometimes get in fights over silly misunderstandings, just after sitting and talking calmly for several hours. She can be found dressed in a long ballroom dress, hobnobbing with big mucky-mucks at a high-brow affair, and she can be found covered in thrown food, lip bloody, drunk, and beating the crap out of some braggart in a seedy wharf bar. Emotional outbursts aside, Tyris=Flare is an incredibily intelligent woman, and allies herself with powerful friends when adventuring.
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