Helshan grew up impoverished an impressed into slavery to wealthy Chelexians in his youth like so many of his kind before him. One day he happened upon an ancient Thassilonian relic whilst exploring a forbidden section of his masters study. The forbidden section doesn't clean itself you know!
He found an ancient tablet and what did the tablet do? Well it began to speak to him. It asked to be fed it hungered for blood. So what did Helshan do? Well he pricked his finger and wiped some blood on the creepy tablet that's what he did, because Helshan is like that partially insane, insatiably curious, and quite possibly mildly retarded.
In any case the ominous ancient tablet of unfathomable dark and mysterious power's hunger sated for the time being offered Helshan his freedom. Curious Helshan decided to fetch his master as all issues regarding the relinquishing of rightful property rights must have the consent of properties holder.
Upon retrieving his master the Chelish Noble was enraged that the mere halfling servant had been poking around in the forbidden section of his study and drove into a long angry tirade about the word forbidden and how when it's combined with the word section holds a particularly easy to grasp connotation.
Around hour 3 into his berating the horrible ancient tablet of unfathomable arcane power suddenly crumbled to dust and Helshan heard the words echo through t his mind "I set you free" as a strange rune was suddenly inscribed upon his head.
What Helshan found even more peculiar than the strange new rune that adorned a top his forehead was the sudden appearance of a extra-planar beast that can only really be described as a giant rainbow colored platypus.
Helshan was even more astounded when the Strange platypus suddenly inexplicably attacked his master slaying him with a few vicious snap of is deadly bill and sharpened claws.
Helshan was however not at all surprised when he discovered shortly after as his masters blood pooled on the ground that the odd new creature could talk. They soon introduced each other and became fast friends.
Languishing over his masters death stricken with the devastating grief of freedom from a lifetime of toil and oppression Helshan decided to leave Imperial Cheliax firstly to travel the countryside with his new friend and secondly because he was also quite likely wanted for murder and the possible thievery of his former masters incredibly fine hat.
Over time he discovered his new inherent power to call forth a multitude of creatures as if out of thin air and put his skills to use teaching his rainbow platypus to preform exciting stage tricks as he pulled birds and various other animals out creatures out of his own fine hat.
