The Story So Far

Nan

Nan was hired in Traevar by a wealthy merchant widow to mete the punishment deserved to Black Paw, Moonblade, and Klar for their tyrannical actions.  Black Paw and his thugs had been directly responsible for the gruesome and unjust execution of both of the woman's children.  Nan agreed with both the money offered for the job and the request which had been pretty simple, "Make them regret their cruelty and make it personal."...

Nan traveled to Jaolakavi under the pretense of being a representative of the merchant's guild in Traevar looking to evaluate trade agreements in Jaolakavi.  He was given a room in the palace.

As a standard practice, Nan set up a city-wide information net and started gathering information.  He has elaborate dead-drops, anonymous signaling protocols, and a bank account funding valuable information.  He also has infiltrated the palace staff with the assistance of chemicals.  One of the staff proved immune to his chemicals but still supported his efforts.  That staff member was Vilditha, the taster for Black Paw.  Vilditha became Nan's friend and was subsequently infected with a specter.  Nan's first encounter with the specters was with Vilditha whom he "cured" narrowly avoiding enspecterfication himself.  Nan has been keeping Vilditha's secrets and aiding in her return to health while harboring her at Athaldrim, a mysterious location and resource that he obtained access to in a reversal of a trap set for him by an unknown entity.

Used to this sort of situation, Nan has hand picked a member of the Scorpion Guard, Ecard and has assisted his rise through the ranks with his customary chemical supplements, political incentives, and other forms of back-stabbing as necessary.  Ecard was recently promoted to Black Paw's personal body guard and also recently experienced Nan being correct in his prediction that Black Paw had sent all Ecard's friends to their death on a whim.

Klar was the first take-down effort.  Nan poisoned him with heavy metals which had the desired effect leaving him weak and in failing health.  Klar brutally murdered a prostitute in this process which Nan has not forgotten.  Klar was sent into the tower with the majority of the Scorpion Guard which were all the elite of them except Ecard.  Klar emerged apparently healed of his poisoning.  Nan is ready to take the effort up a notch.  His goal is to permanently take Klar's strength leaving him helpless to the mercies of those he has shown no mercy to.

Nan retrieved genetic material from the prostitute Klar murdered and used that in his second take-down.  He started with a pheromone enhancer that brought Moonblade into heat making her unreliable, inconsistent, and unable to do anything but chase anything male.  He followed that with a contact impregnation mixture that left her pregnant with Klar's offspring.  As is normal for were-canines, Moonblade knew when she was pregnant and did not think anyone else did.  Nan sent her a letter and package ensuring the untraceability of the missive.  The letter instructed Moonblade to prove her commitment to saving her and her unborn child's life by delivering a shrunken body of a specter victim that Nan had preserved from an early near miss with the Scorpion Guard when he had been investigating a mysterious adviser named Salaul.  The shrunken body was that of the Salaul Nan found in a setup obviously designed to trap him.  Nan had avoided the trap and managed to turn it to his favor gaining access to the mysterious Athaldrim in the process.  Moonblade was instructed to deliver another creepy body to the caravan and from there was promised funded escape to Traevar with her child where Nan had ensured she would be at the mercy of his employer.  Nan's plan for Moonblade is to give her a child to worry about permanently taking away her ability to act with concern only for herself.

Nan had arranged to obtain goods he understood to be of high value to Black Paw that were being carried in the caravan.  Meanwhile, he managed to insinuate himself as adviser to Black Paw and get the catling hooked on a hair treatment that will ultimately make him schizophrenic in addition to the fact that it is highly addictive to catlings.  He has also set the catling up with beverages that contribute to his paranoia.  Ultimately Nan's plan for the catling is to make him afraid and make him lose his confidence so he removes himself from power and flees from his unfounded fears living as a bum moving from city to city.  Nan also arranged for a Kingmaker to be produced and given to whoever came out of the tower while also starting a movement in the city to support the Dawnscar as the next ruler of Jaolakavi as part of his effort to undermine Black Paw's confidence in his influence.

Many of these efforts have been supported by the Khars.  Nan met with Derlis Khar at a party and then at the Ennurium establishing an uneasy alliance with the half orc based on the removal of Black Paw from power in Jaolakavi.  Also during his stay, Nan has attempted to leverage the tower to his gain in several ways with little success.  While researching the tower, Nan met with the Boulder Brothers befriending the dwarven siamese brothers and trading a few secrets and resources with them.  The brothers left Nan with a sculpture of them and a pouch of dirt which was presumably a pouch of gold won by Nan in a gambling game.

During the incident at dinner where Black Paw found the body of his adviser Salaul Nan met Rhanna Queval the female leader of the largest caravan to ever cross the desert.  Rhanna was enspecterfecated and came to Nan in need of assistance.  Nan did his best to draw the specter from Rhanna without killing her as he had with Vilditha.  Rhanna pulled through apparently without benefit of the intervention from Nan.  Later that day Nan found that he had indeed trapped a specter in his spectertrap though which appears to have come from Rhanna.  Nan now has a trapped specter which he has tested and hopes to develop some treatments to exorcise from other victims.  He has set up a triage in the old dining room of the palace and is gathering specter victims there to determine how to control the spread and treat the affected.  Nan does know, from the Boulder Brothers, that the specters appear to be coming out of the tower in particular at night and in large numbers.




The Story So Far
The Cast - PCs and NPCs
The Places and Races of Vaneria
The Current Quests and Objectives
The Timeline - Chronicles of the Past and Present
The Found Treasure, Uncovered Artifacts and Discovered Lore



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