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About Kade Tichborne

Kade Tichborne was the happiest man in Sandpoint as he approached the altar to wed Tessalyn Tichborne. His life as a scholar, scribe, and sage was set; Tessalyn was beautiful; the future was as bright as the noon sun.

But Tessalyn was too beautiful, and Kade's star was rising too fast in the academy. Someone was jealous, and when Kade slipped the ring onto Tessa's finger, he realized too late that this ring wasn't the ring intended for his bride. In fact, it was a ring containing an efreet, who immediately granted Tessa's altar-side wish: to grow closer than ever to Kade, and to be bound to him forever. The efreet granted her wish but twisted it: he made Tessa Kade's familiar.

Now his bride is a scorpion and retains none of her original mind. They share an empathic bond, but this only serves to torment Kade. He left the academy and devoted himself to the study of transmutation magic in an effort to transform his wife back into herself. He left Sandpoint for a while as a caravan guard to escape the rumors, smothering pity, and painful jeers of his friends and enemies.

Recently he has decided that talking to the efreet who cursed his wife would be useful. Having heard of efreets roaming the lands to the East, he is eager to make haste in that direction.