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About Ratnasambhava

Ratnasambhava lived in an orphanage until he ran away at the age of 19 to travel the world and master the arcane arts.

Before his life in the orphanage he lived with his father and an elf maiden with whom his father had fallen in love. They lived not far from a popular trade route near the edge of a forest. His father, though he dabbled in magic, spent most of his time woodworking and selling his wares to travelers on the road.

One night a band of brigands fell upon the lonely house intent on stealing anything of value. Unfortunately for Ratna's father this included the elf maiden. Ratnasambhava, only 12 at the time, cowered in the basement while his father used what feeble magic he had acquired in an attempt to defend his family. In the end he failed and was brutally murdered, however, not before he witnessed the thieves passing the elf maiden around one to another in turn. After which the thieves had no further use for the elf maiden and killed her as well.

If one could muster the courage to ask the sometimes terrifying wizard Ratnasambhava what he remembered of this night he would tell them of the piercing screams of the elf woman or the tortured howl that his father emitted and the blood that dripped through the floorboards and pooled at his feet in the basement.

When the attackers came to loot the basement Ratnasambhava barely avoided detection by hiding in one of the dark corners behind a dusty old wine rack.

This event was probably the single largest driving factor in his ambition to master the arcane arts. Weakness is something Ratnasamhbava will not abide as he has witnessed first hand the consequences of ineptitude. He is even willing to delve into darker forms of magic usually left untouched by elves and half-elves to obtain the power he seeks.