Memory of Amoth, An Ashes of Xethia Tie-In

[Duvet de Mot]

Background: The planes are new worlds, alternate realities, and other realms of existence which may exist just next door.  These are places where rules and comforting assumptions can be taken for granted and no longer apply, for the safety of hearth and home are far away indeed.  The planes can also be the homes of powerful entities, both malevolent and benign.  Centered between the planes lays the metropolis of Sigil, the City of Doors, which acts as an axle around which the multiverse spins.  Ruled by the enigmatic Lady of Pain, Sigil is a gathering place for planar travelers and savvy adventurers.

It has been over five hundred years since the death of Amoth, god of justice and mercy.  His followers have since waned in number and mourned his passing, theocracies and temples have fallen, their power crumbling away; although the effects of his death have rippled throughout all of reality, the cause and location of his death remain a mystery.  What remains of his followers exist in either a cult-like fashion or theocracies which have kept his death a secret from their citizens.

The Party: Luxury Salvage Consultants is a group of adventurers with a reputation for being able to relieve individuals, museums, libraries, kingdoms, and treasuries of rare valuables.  Specializing in hunting down objects for the rich and powerful, they are headquartered at The Four Winds, a tavern which exists entirely on its own plane and connects via a gate spell to a back alley door off of Blackboot Walk in the Marble District of Sigil.  Here, the members of Luxury Salvage Consultants can be contacted and found enjoying time with beings of all races and realms.

The Scenario: A high priest of the dead god, Amoth, has requested a meeting with Luxury Salvage Consultants in order to beseech them for help.  As the head of a defunct theocracy which has survived by lying to its citizens and keeping the death of Amoth a secret, the council of Dikaios has long sought to explain Amoth's death (if only to understand it), but has long been unable.  Recently, their farce has begun to lose its intended effect and the citizens of Dikaios are beginning to suspect something is amiss.  What the council wants from the members of Luxury Salvage Consultants is a mystery.

The Build:

• Level 11
• 1 For 1 Point Buy
• 76 Points
• Planar Travel Appropriate Classes
  
• Adventuring Appropriate Classes
• Most Races Available
• Psionics Considered on Demand

[TragicAce]

Name: Binyo Taletracker
Race: Whisper Gnome
Class: Factotum 5 / Watch Detective 6



Attributes:
Str = 10, Con = 12, Dex = 16, Int = 20, Wis = 8, Cha = 8

Strength: Both surviving parents, 4 grandparents still alive, 3 siblings
Dexterity: Character has a +60% to climb walls
Constitution: Character is 6 inches shorter than normal.
Intelligence: Asthma (no running actions)
Wisdom: Familial ties are dependable

Gear:
Rapier of Banishing
Darkleaf Breastplate +3
Boots of swift passage
Handy Haversak
War Wizard Cloak
Ring of blinking
Masterwork Manacles
3,153gp

Backstory:
The Taletrackers are a renowned family of gnomish bards, master storytellers who could captivate even the most rowdy tavern. Tales of brilliant battles and forbidden romances, foreign kingdoms and demonic worshippers were all fair game. Binyo himself turned out to be a horrible storyteller, unable to prevent himself from going on and on about the most dull and minute details. Non-fiction was all that really attracted his attention, and Binyo held no desire greater than pursuing the truth behind each exaggerated tale. His parents promptly let him study at the Sigil Academy for Chroniclers, at which he excelled to put it mildly.

It was shortly before his 23rd birthday that he had his first paper published, 'Of the Stability of Pathways in Mirrored Planes'. Binyo would proceed to contribute to countless journals and periodicals, and was soon prompted for his conjectures more often than his professors. While Planes were his specialty, his interests also spanned from history to nature, religion and even dungeons as well. To hold such profound knowledge over such an array of subjects was almost supernatural, and caused more than a little academic jealousy. Worried for their tenure, the gnome's professors would spark rumors of Binyo falsely accrediting himself for others research.

So he was forced to leave the Academy in disgrace, but that did not dissuade him for long. Binyo Taletracker had already learned as much as he was able from the libraries there, and intellectual thought had grown rather stale in recent decades. Tired of relying on faulty secondhand accounts, the scholar decided to take to the planes himself and explore what he had studied so long for himself. There were some things one had to experience for himself, he supposed, and so he helped form the 'Luxury Salvage Consultants' primarily as an excuse to fund his academic notions.

Together with a roguish-like character and a summoner of uncertain rationality, Binyo hunts down all manner of artifacts and intrigue!

[greymon]

Name: Drema Aeraetheil
Race: Elf
Class: Wizard 11 (Conjurer variant)



Attributes:
Str = 8, Dex = 14, Con = 12, Int = 20, Wis = 10, Cha = 14

Strength: Both surviving parents, 4 surviving grandparents, 2 sibling (roll 1d5)
Dexterity: No appreciable effects
Con: Eczema
Int: +4 to any one skill or profession (Bluff)
Wis: Character is favorite of his/her family
Cha: Possesses one poor physical feature (big butt she's embarrassed about)

Gear:
14,000 : Ring of Mighty Summons - Max HP on summoned creatures, but reduced duration.
100 : Special Holy Symbol[Elhonna's Brooch] (CC): Gives your summons +1 hp/HD for 100gp, only works if you worship Elhonna.
11,000 : Metamagic Silent Rod 3/day "Silent Spell" on spell level 6 or lower
20,000 : Ring of invisibility
5,000 : Boots of swift passage - move action 20' x5 per day must have line of effect
9,000 : Bracers of Armor +3 AC
2,000 : Amulet of Natural Armor +1 AC
4,000 : Headband of Intellect +2 Int
= 900gp left


Backstory:
TODO

[Eva]

Name: Vaith
Race: Changeling
Class: Rogue 5/Thief-acrobat 5/Shadowdancer 1



Attributes:
Str = 16, Con = 10, Dex = 18, Int = 14, Wis = 8, Cha = 8

Strength: Both surviving parents, 1 grandparent still alive, 1 sister
Dexterity:
Constitution: Asthma.
Intelligence: Asthma (no running actions)
Wisdom: Wanted criminal in Gehenna.
Charisma: Facial scar.

Gear:
Short sword of Defending +3
Blackvale Armor +4
Handy Haversack
Belt of Hidden Pouches
Masterwork Thieves' tools.

16,208 gp

Backstory:

Vaith is a Changeling thief and burglar whose actions are renowned in some areas- which is not a good thing. The best thieves aren't known to anyone, so a thief whose name is common is hardly the best in the business. This has resulted in more than a few run-ins with the law, which manifested in an unsightly scar on her face that Vaith bears to this day. Her infamy is especially pronounced in Gehenna, where she is a wanted criminal.

Vaith has known Binyo Taletracker for many years, and considers him someone worthy of respect. Though his pipe-smoking habit has not done well for either of them. When the Luxury Salvage Consultants group was started, Vaith was happy to join as the entry expert. Vaith's considerable acrobatic and mechanical skills are some of the cornerstones to the team's item-procuring feats, though she knows the team is greater than the sum of its parts.

Vaith is very professional in her work, rarely straying from the primary goal. Even among great wealth, she will not pilfer for herself until the job is done.

Her shape-changing abilities greatly help in disguises, though she lacks the charm and wit for impersonation.