Zavanix
Male Pixie Sorcerer 12 (aberrant bloodline)
Description:
The pixies of the Verduran Forest are generally benevolent, but sometimes they can be too curious for their own good. A few have delved into secrets better left alone, and tainted their bloodlines by contact with strange and alien realities. One pixie, Zavanix, in whom this taint ran particularly strong, decided to explore the possibilities offered by association with these realities, embracing and strengthening his ties to them. Over time, this uncanny influence twisted his very soul, turning him from his natural goodness toward chaos and evil.
At first glance, Zavanix looks like an ordinary pixie, with a snub nose and tousled red hair. But there’s something about him that seems somehow off. Maybe it’s that his body isn’t quite symmetrical, maybe it’s that his features seem to shift slightly when you’re not looking directly at him, but whatever it is, there’s something hard to put your finger on that's subtly wrong.
Motivations/Goals:
On the surface, Zavanix’s actions seem purposeless and nonsensical. One day he might slaughter an entire household and leave their corpses splayed in grotesque positions among symbols painted with their blood; another day he might break into a stronghold just to rearrange the furniture. It would be tempting to call him insane, but that’s not really accurate—there is a logic behind Zavanix’s actions, but it’s a kind of logic utterly foreign to normal minds. Everything he does fits into a design that only he understands. At times, Zavanix may do something that seems wholly altruistic, but it’s still a part of the incomprehensible pattern. Ultimately, Zavanix’s actions, as random and unconnected as they appear, are weaving an intricate incantation that’s forging a connection to another level of existence. Already it’s started to open gates and bring bizarre monsters into the world, many unlike any sages are familiar with. If Zavanix continues much longer, eventually all Golarion could be subsumed into an alien reality.
Zavanix isn’t working completely alone. He’s allied with cults of Lamashtu that approve of his goals. He’s also not above recruiting children to carry out some tasks—they’re easily persuaded to do what he wants, and to keep him a secret. Of course, the children are ignorant of his real goals—they just think their fey friend is asking them to play innocent tricks on adults.
Schemes/Plots/Adventure Hooks:
A young girl begs the PCs to rescue her father, who is being held captive in a nearby dungeon. She’s been put up to this lie by Zavanix, who’s setting a trap for the PCs for his own reasons.
A local charity turns out to be an unwitting part of Zavanix’s machination. Do the PCs shut down the charity despite the good it does, or let it continue and risk the apocalyptic consequences?
In the center of Carpenden, a dangerous portal has opened to a nameless world. Divination suggests that only Zavanix would know how to close the portal—but how could he be persuaded to help?
