Synopsis
Pariah for Strude's Game.
Description
Tall and lithe Azryleah is sheathed from head to toe in grey-blue scales. His underbelly is light cobalt ash, as is his angular face. Two snakes wind their way around his neck, Rumor has it that each whispers divine secrets into his ears, but as no one else can hear, much less understand their words,no one knows the truth of this claim. It still proves impossible to read their serpentine lips. He rarely wears an open smile, but on those occasions when he does he reveals two fangs in his otherwise human (albeit exotic) face.
Personality
Intelligent and practical, willing to take a risk if the odds are good, but rarely willing to gamble if the odds seem long. He is quick to anger if his authority or intelligence is questioned, but also easily mollified. He likes to know the secrets of the world, not curious so much as unwilling to be ignorant.
Equipment / Abilities
A long, jagged black blade seemingly made out of black iron, it's cold to the touch.
Flight: large dark gray feathered wings can bear him aloft for a short time.
Extremely persuasive, he has the silvered tongue of a snake.
History
He was inducted into the order by one of the original Pariah. For one of his age, he has served as Shepard to relatively few children. A disproportionate number of his Wards have chosen the path of the Pariah, and some whisper that he is exerting undo influence over the children. He values knowledge and measure and has gotten into trouble with other pariah on more than one occasion, refusing to take a risk the rest were willing to accept.
Part of this caution is because of the pariah who served as his guardian. Legend has it that after so many years seeing the forces of the lion sear the souls of children, something within the man broke. He picked up the sword of the Pariah and strode into the world, striking down people left and right, apparently under the impression that they would become an army strong enough to destroy Abhorrence itself. He was gravely mistaken. Indeed they rose, but not as pariah: murdered, the choice had been stolen from them, rather than rising as his friends and allies, they rose as monsters of darkness, anger, and fear and turned on him. Whether there is any truth to this legend has yet to be verified, and Azryleah has made it his personal goal to seek out the true story of his mentor's disappearance: a fact he keeps closely hidden.
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