Arklech

FORGER OF HIS OWN PATH
A scholar, traveler and survivor– all terms that accurately describe the life this tiefling has been able to find along the miles long fields, deep forests and dwarfing mountains of Faerun. Born within a cult that venerated all fiends and demons working beneath the archfiend Bel the Warlord, Arklech was primed to become a focal point within the cult – a creature to be bonded to the archfiend in exchange for greater powers for his followers. He had seen the result of this. He had seen how others had been transformed into sycophantic beings leeching power from a largely dismissive ruler– and that life would not be for him.

Through force of will he was able to cement his pact, not with Bel, but a higher fiend; one that granted the tiefling the power to free himself from the cult’s hands. Though unable to see this devil’s visage during the ritual, he knows their name well as it is seared into his soul: Zariel, archduchess of Avernus.

Arklech now spends his days traveling across the continent and maintaining a relatively low profile. However, his development as a warlock has forced him to occasionally surface – a city here, a town there – in order to gather supplies, knowledge and consult others who have become his peers. This has caused the occasional brush with followers of the cult, and most recently has forced him to travel northward in the hope of losing them.