About Nuggle BlackfangStats:
Nuggle
Male half-orc necromancer 2 N Medium humanoid (human, orc) Init +3; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +0 -------------------- Defense -------------------- AC 11, touch 11, flat-footed 10 (+1 Dex) hp 16 (2d6+6) Fort +2, Ref +1, Will +2 Defensive Abilities orc ferocity -------------------- Offense -------------------- Speed 30 ft. Arcane School Spell-Like Abilities (CL 2nd; concentration +5) 6/day—grave touch (1 round) Necromancer Spells Prepared (CL 2nd; concentration +5) 1st—enlarge person (DC 14), infernal healing[ISWG], mage armor, ray of enfeeblement (DC 15) 0 (at will)—acid splash, daze (DC 13), detect magic, flare (DC 13) Opposition Schools Abjuration, Illusion -------------------- Statistics -------------------- Str 10, Dex 13, Con 14, Int 16, Wis 9, Cha 13 Base Atk +1; CMB +1; CMD 12 Feats Scribe Scroll, Spell Focus (necromancy), Turn Undead Traits magical lineage, reactionary Skills Appraise +7, Heal +0, Intimidate +4, Knowledge (geography) +7, Knowledge (local) +8, Linguistics +7, Perception +0, Spellcraft +8; Racial Modifiers +2 Intimidate Languages Common, Draconic, Giant, Goblin, Orc, Tien SQ arcane bond (familiar), orc blood, power over undead Other Gear wizard starting spellbook, 150 gp -------------------- Special Abilities -------------------- Abjuration You must spend 2 slots to cast spells from the Abjuration school. Arcane Familiar Nearby You gain the Alertness feat while your familiar is within arm's reach. Darkvision (60 feet) You can see in the dark (black and white only). Empathic Link with Familiar (Su) You have an empathic link with your Arcane Familiar. Grave Touch (1 round, 6/day) (Sp) As a standard action, touch shakes living foe 1 rds (frighten 1 rd if already shaken). Illusion You must spend 2 slots to cast spells from the Illusion school. Necromancy The dread and feared necromancer commands undead and uses the foul power of unlife against his enemies. Orc Blood Half-orcs count as both humans and orcs for any effect related to race. Orc Ferocity (1/day) If brought below 0 Hp, can act as though disabled for 1 rd. Share Spells with Familiar Can cast spells with a target of "You" on the familiar with a range of touch. Spell Focus (Necromancy) Spells from one school of magic have +1 to their save DC. Turn Undead (DC 12) (Su) Receive Command Undead or Turn Undead as a bonus feat. Story:
Nuggle is one of four sons born of the Tian woman known as Meal among the orc tribe of the Blackfangs that captured her. Her name was Meilin, but the brutish orcs were not interested in learning her name, they were only interested in her as a slave. Meilin was a young wizard traveling with a well guarded caravan on her first real journey since completing her training when she was captured. The caravan, despite being well equipped and guarded was ambushed and destroyed by a raiding party of Blackfangs led by a pair of ogres. Very few prisoners were taken. The ogres were only interested in humans as food and the orcs really only wanted the younger females as slaves. The day she was taken was the last day she heard another living being say her name. Needless to say Meal's lot was not a happy one. For the next five years she was almost constantly pregnant and excepting only the latest stages of each pregnancy she was kept working almost the entire time. Nuggle was the last child she bore as the stress of bearing large half-orc babies year after year took its toll. His birth was hard and she could not conceive again after and eventually became just another slave. Nuggle himself was something of a disappointment, clearly not being as strong as his half brothers and sisters. Seeing him as being weak and thus of lesser value, the tribe left Nuggle in Meal's care which they had not done before. As a result his mother had a great deal more involvement in his upbringing than she did in any of her other children. Smaller and weaker than even the other half-orcs of the tribe, Nuggle was relentlessly bullied as a child but as he grew older, his mother saw that he took after her far more than any of her other children and was thus a great deal more intelligent than almost anyone else in the tribe. At first she tried to teach him to hide his gifts and to not draw attention to himself, but although he took after her a lot he still had orc blood in him and he often got into fights because he couldn't back down even when over-matched. Eventually she started teaching him the rudiments of wizardry in the hope that the discipline would help him control himself. Lacking any proper environment for teaching or even any spell books she was very limited in what she could teach him, mostly just the theory and a few cantrips, but he took to it with a passion as it filled an intellectual need in his mind. Being weaker than most of his tribe he tended to favor the spells that might weaken whoever he ended up fighting, although his mother was always very insistent that he keep his spellcasting a secret. She hoped that when he was old enough an opportunity might present itself for escape. Weak though they both were, she saw his skill growing and had come to hope that together they might be able to find a way to leave the Blackfangs and flee to civilization. Few though their spells were without access to a spellbook, she dared to dream that with two of them working together that they might find a way. Sadly, when they finally made their bid for freedom it proved a very unwise choice. Their plans, although well laid out, were undone by simple bad luck when a drunk orc wandered off from his post and stumbled across them and raised the alarm. Although they fought as hard as they could their few spells were not enough and they were captured and dragged back to the centre of the camp. There, Nuggle was forced to watch as his mother, deemed a traitor for trying to escape her slavery was brutally beaten and then fed to the dogs. Then his own punishment began. Beaten and tortured he was left chained to a post for days with the ravaged remains of his mother at his feet. After days of sitting there he grabbed up what was left of her hand and bit a finger off, swiftly stripping the flesh away with his teeth. The watching orcs took this as a sign that he had renounced his human connection and become more fully orc and dragged him before Togark, the chief of the tribe. Now Togark had heard enough about the fight to realise that Nuggle could do more than the average orc could. So while keeping him chained up he set him to work. The orcs had over the course of years of raiding, acquired numerous books and scrolls which Togark hoped might be valuable but had no way to evaluate. So Nuggle was set to work going through them and reporting back to the chief as to their contents and possible value. 10 Minute Background:
Five Things 1. Nuggle wears the finger bone of his mother on a cord around his neck. 2. 3. 4. 5. Two Goals
Two Secrets
Three People
Three Memories
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