About Plamen the Ember
Plamen
Male Human (Varisian) Wizard 1
LN Medium Humanoid (human)
Init +2 (+6 when familiar is within arms reach); Senses Perception +1 (+3 when familiar is within arms reach)
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Defense
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AC 12, touch 12, flat-footed 10 (+2 Dex)
hp 8 (1d6+2)
Fort +1, Ref +2, Will +2
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Offense
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Speed 20 ft.
Melee Dagger +0 (1d4/19-20/x2)
Wizard Spells Prepared (CL 1):
1 (2/day) Burning Hands (DC 16), Burning Hands (DC 16), Burning Hands (DC 16)
0 (at will) Ray of Frost, Ghost Sound (DC 14), Prestidigitation (DC 14)
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Statistics
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Str 10, Dex 14, Con 12, Int 19, Wis 10, Cha 10
Base Atk +0; CMB +0; CMD 12
Feats Bloatmage Initiate (Evocation), Scribe Scroll, Spell Focus (Evocation)
Traits Avid Reader (Knowledge [arcana]), Magical Lineage (Fireball), Outlander - Lore Seeker
Skills Acrobatics -1 (-5 jump), Climb -3, Escape Artist -1, Fly -1, Knowledge (arcana) +9, Knowledge (history) +8, Knowledge (local) +8, Knowledge (planes) +8, Knowledge (religion) +8, Perception +1 (+3 when familiar is within arms reach), Ride -1, Sense Motive +0 (+2 when familiar is within arms reach), Spellcraft +8, Stealth -1, Swim -3
Languages Abyssal, Common, Infernal, Shoanti, Thassilonian, Varisian
SQ +4 to initiative checks, arcane bonds (Trix, rabbit), empathic link with familiar, intense spells +1, opposition schools (divination, enchantment), share spells with familiar, specialized schools (admixture), versatile evocation (7/day)
Combat Gear Scroll of Disguise Self, Scroll of Disguise Self, Scroll of Endure Elements, Scroll of Endure Elements, Scroll of Feather Fall, Scroll of Floating Disk; Other Gear Dagger, Backpack (empty), Ink, black, Inkpen, Spell component pouch, 2 GP, 9 SP
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Special Abilities
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+4 to Initiative checks You gain the Alertness feat while your familiar is within arm's reach.
Admixture Associated School: Evocation
Avid Reader (Knowledge [arcana]) You can always take 10 on the selected Knowledge skill.
Bloatmage Initiate (Evocation) +1 caster level with a specific school of spells. Always considered to have a medium load.
Divination You must spend 2 slots to cast spells from the Divination school.
Empathic Link with Familiar (Su) You have an empathic link with your Arcane Familiar.
Enchantment You must spend 2 slots to cast spells from the Enchantment school.
Intense Spells +1 (Su) Evocation spells deal listed extra damage.
Magical Lineage (Fireball) A chosen spell counts as 1 level lower when metamagic feats are applied to it.
Outlander - Lore Seeker +1 Knowledge (Arcana), it is a class skill. Three selected spells gain +1 CL and DC.
Scroll of Disguise Self Add this item to create a scroll with spells on it.
Scroll of Disguise Self Add this item to create a scroll with spells on it.
Scroll of Endure Elements Add this item to create a scroll with spells on it.
Scroll of Endure Elements Add this item to create a scroll with spells on it.
Scroll of Feather Fall Add this item to create a scroll with spells on it.
Scroll of Floating Disk Add this item to create a scroll with spells on it.
Share Spells with Familiar Can cast spells with a target of "You" on the familiar with a range of touch.
Spell Focus (Evocation) Spells from one school of magic have +1 to their save DC.
Versatile Evocation (7/day) (Su) Change the damage type and descriptor of a spell from acid, electricity, fire, or water to any other of those types.
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Story
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From the official Commerce League report concerning Plamen’s exile from Kaer Maga
14 Abadius, AR 4713
They say a vision of what the boy would become drove a Varisian witch to curse his mother while he was still in her womb. Probably a tall tale. Visions aren’t true anymore in the Age of Lost Omens are they? Not to mention that it would be a pretty impractical way to kill a child anyway. What, was she hoping she’d miscarry or something? Why not just put a pillow over the baby’s face or arrange for him to be run over by a wagon? Or kick over a lantern in the wagon where she’s giving birth? Of course, that is exactly what happened. Or so they say. I’m sure it was just an accident.
We do know that Plamen was one of the few survivors of a Varisian caravan that nearly burned to the ground outside Kaer Maga the night of his birth. Plamen. Flame. An fitting name and an auspicious one for a Bloatmage. But names don’t really carry power. Those are tall tales too. The Varisians are full of them. Instead of being raised in a caravan on the roads of Varisia, he grew up within the walls of Kaer Maga. Knowing how the Varisians feel about people living in towns, that was probably a curse too. Maybe they should call him the Thrice-cursed instead of the Ember. But wait, I’m getting ahead of myself. That would only be two curses, wouldn’t it. And Ember seems pretty appropriate too.
Once in Kaer Maga, Plamen was taken in by the Bloatmage Fifica. That fat cow. Dead fat cow. Leader of the Greens. She probably saw something in the boy. Otherwise, he would have wound up as a slave in The Warren. Or a Tallow Boy. Something worse than he became...or something better. Depends on your point of view. Life in Kaer Maga can be a b~~+* for the kids. Some of Fifica’s writings suggest she believes the boy’s lineage can be traced back to Runelord Krune. That his clan goes all the way back to ancient Thassilon. Rubbish. Thought that most scholars believed those people became Shoanti. But you know how arrogant the Greens are. Were. Lissalans. Looking to show how damned important they and their kids are. Real or adopted. Least they’re all as dead as their god now.
Nature or nurture, Plamen showed real promise. He certainly didn’t look the part. Fat, baby-faced. But, the Greens liked to test their initiates...against one another. Find out when they’re ready for the next secret. Most Bloatmages are loners. But the Greens felt that competition bred competence. Then mastery. And nowhere was competition said to be greater than among the evokers. So when a chubby ten-year old boy defeats initiates twice his age, it got attention. Mostly bad. The other initiates turned on him. Ostracized him. Refused to help him at all. Surprised he didn’t turn up as a burnt and blackened husk in a dark alley in The Warren like some of the others. Probably his demeanor. Boy looks harmless and he’s quick with a self-deprecating joke, but somewhere inside there is a steel soul.
They say he became a voracious reader. Determined to learn everything he could. To surpass them. To surpass all Greens. All Bloatmages. All wizards. Perhaps even the Runelords themselves. That’s when he met Quink. Brodert Quink. A cataloger at the Founder’s Archive in Magnimar. Fifica sent him to Magnimar to do some research for her at the Archive. Lucky for the boy. That’s when everything went to hell between the Greens and the Commerce League. Third curse. You know that story. Fifica dead and all the rest. Leaving us with what to do with the boy. Pretty simple actually. He wasn’t part of it. But, we can’t leave him to start things anew. Could make sure he quietly disappears. But, Quink written and he’s willing to take him in Sandpoint. Something about needing help with some old Thassilonian tower. End of the world. I say we let him go and never come back.
