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About Ego Mortenson

Ego made a modest living producing and selling magical knick knacks in the port city of Matharyn. His best sellers were minor love potions and good luck charms, and he would have continued living in obscurity had the mayor not wandered into his shop one day. Ego pretended not to be able to see through the mayor's laughably thin disguise and simply provided him with the love potion he requested.
Over time, the mayor visited the shop more often. He and Ego struck up a rapport, and Ego learned that the mayor's marriage was a loveless sham. While he had originally purchased the love potion in the hopes of rekindling the romance in his relationship, he eventually began to use it to secure mistresses to warm his bed at night.

Several months after the mayor became a regular customer, Ego approached him with a proposition: several of Ego's "friends" were interested in purchasing a warehouse that had been built over the site of an old temple to Asmodeus and turning it to more "appropriate" uses. In exchange for the mayor turning a blind eye, Ego promised not to publicize any information that would destroy the mayor's personal life.

The mayor went along at first. Unfortunately the famed witch hunter Sir Balin of Karfield came to town, pursuing rumors of an Asmodean temple. When Sir Balin met with the mayor the man suffered from a crisis of conscience, confessing all of his sins to the public. The mayor was relieved of his post, and Ego was clapped in irons.

Investigating his workshop revealed an area more appropriate for a butcher than a wizard. Flayed animals dangled from the ceiling and the washbasin was filled with blood. The authorities couldn't prove that any of the carnage came from non-animal sources, though, so they had to content themselves with charges of extortion and a lifetime of hard labor for Ego.

The oddest thing was that all through the arrest and trial, Ego said nothing. No expression crossed his face but a confident smile. His unnatural composure was intimidating to those souls that lacked the fortitude of Sir Balin. Even now, clapped in irons and held in isolation, the guards find excuses to avoid lingering too long in his presence.

Familiar: Greensting Scorpion (currently unavailable)

Spells:
0: Light, Daze, Detect Magic
1: Charm Person, Sow Thoughts

Feats:
1: Improved Unarmed Strike
human: Enforcer

Skills:
Bluff 2
Craft (Alchemy) 2
Intimidate 2
Perception 2
Sense Motive 2
Spellcraft 2