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About Sojan Nanthiz

Childhood

Sojan was born to a Wise Woman to a Rhennee tribe of barge folk who ply their trade along the Ververdyva River. When Sojan reached puberty, he began to exhibit the gift of spontaneous spellcasting: sorcery. However, the Rhennee have a long tradition of training only their daughters along the path of sorcery; male sorcerers among full-blooded Rhennee are unheard of. Sojans height of 5'8", taller than average for the Rhennee, and his slightly more angular features had hinted at Baklunish blood in his veins; his sorcery proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Sojan realized that he was an outsider among his people, and felt abandoned by his mother. Determined to prove himself, he set out at 16 to gain experience and expand his magical ability.
Early adventures

Even from the beginning, Sojan has attractive and persuasive. His arcane ability and natural charisma quickly helped him to make a name for himself in Verbobonc, and soon he was adventuring regularly, frequently invited on missions by fellow adventurers. He was asked by some such adventurers to join them in a campaign south of Verbobonc to Homlet to fight Elemental Evil that was encroaching on the Verbobonc border. Sojan declined, going home instead to attend the wedding of his sister, eager to show off his expanded abilities and newfound wealth.

Unfortunately, all of his fellows, save one, lost their lives in the campaign. The news. Had a profound effect on Sojan, and he began to question why fate had stepped in and allowed his to live while others died. Fate, apparently, had other plans for him
Follower of Zagyg

After a year of successful adventuring, he came upon a small, secret shrine to the god Zagyg. The Mad God gave Sojan a vision of other possibilities.

Zagyg, indeed, seemed to be shaping Sojan for things to come. Sojan moved to Twilight Falls, an abandoned village in Twilight Falls which was to be resettled under the auspices of Sojans good friend, Valorek Greymantle, coincidentally, the one person to survive the ill-fated trip to Homlet that Sojan had failed to join. Sojan brought with him his consort, Samaris, cleric and Contemplative of Zagyg, and his celestial snowy owl familiar, Witan, along with hundreds of followers. The town boomed, and all seemed to be well.
Mayoral Office

Within the first year, Lord Mayor Greymantle was lost in Highfolk, and Sojan was recently elected to be his replacement. Although he felt no leanings toward law, he did feel that he owed it to Valorek to keep the town running until the Lord Mayor returned, something Sojan felt certain would occur eventually. Years of adventuring with Valorek had taught him that much.

During this time, Sojan found that he could change fate, nudging it here and there to alter reality in his favor, for example, improving the chances of his spells doing full damage, or, in rare cases, saving the lives of his companions by making lethal blows simply not happen. This power increased until Sojan ascended to the form of an Outsider, at which time he literally had the ability to cause a person to die. At the same time, he discovered that his arcane aptitude extends beyond sorcery to bardic music as well.
Fall from Grace

Sojan seemed to have it all. He saw his ascension to Outsider as the culmination of his being, and had built a huge, if bizarre, Cathedral to Zagyg in Twilight Falls to honor his deity in thanks for his blessings. Alas, this seemed no to be the end of the story for Sojan, for scant days had passed after his ascension before everything changed.

On the road, returning from Dyvers, Sojan woke to find that his silver skin and hair had returned to their mundane, if very handsome, former colors. His Fatespinner abilities were seriously curtailed; he could alter fate online in slight ways, and no longer had the power to Seal Fate. Returning home, Sojan was despondent to discover that Samaris, and, in fact, all of his hundreds of followers had abandoned him, leaving the tent city that had been dubbed Nanthiz Field a trampled field of forgotten remnants behind his luxurious manor home.

Sojans immediate response was to rail against Zagyg, blaming the god for granting him his greatest desires, only to take them away. Sojan threatened to destroy the Cathedral, but Zagyg seemed to be unaffected, not deigning to reply to intervene. In the end, it was Sojans good friend, Andrell Nomahead, who showed Sojan how he had gained tremendous magical prowess in return for what he had lost.
Current events

Since then, Sojan had invested most of his time into running Twilight Falls and his new hobby of crafting magic items, feeling, perhaps, that his adventuring career will soon draw to a close.
Return of Samaris

Recently, Samaris, Contemplative of Zagyg, has returned to Sojan and Twilight Falls, bringing with her even more followers for Sojan. When last seen, she was pregnant. Nanthiz Field has been re-established behind Sojan's manor home.