Ordaxon Shadowblade

Ordaxon Shadowblade Darneth

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 * Drow (Dark Elf)
 * Warlock (Hexblade)
 * Unaligned
 * 6' 0"
 * 165 lbs.
 * 80 years old

Origin
Ordaxon is the child of drow parents, and lived the first 70 years of his life in the Underdark's Upperdark area, which emerges in Dirkün, the westernmost province of Agrarnon. His father, Traroar Darneth, was exiled from Underdark before Ordaxon's birth for reasons unclear to Ordaxon. Rather than being exiled to the surface world, though, Traroar and his wife, Fhadiana Silvergleaning, were forced to serve as wards and commoners in the city of Drik Dardür. Ordaxon's older borther, Gradaxon Darneth, was born soon after their exile, and Ordaxon was born 15 years later.

As a young man (approximately 40 years old), Ordaxon's mother was killed by an tall, cloaked, unknown human wizard in a barfight. (Fhadiana was minding the bar in the Chimney Sweeps tavern when a stray bolt of lightning struck her.) While Gradaxon hid under a bar and tried to wait out the argument while tending to his mother, Ordaxon rushed at the wizard in anger but was casually tossed aside by a focused bolt of greenish energy. The wizard then teleported out of the bar, and Ordaxan has not seen him since.

While Traroar was largely sad and somewhat pitiful serving in Upperdark prior to this tragedy, his wife's death caused him to be even more sorrowful, eventually wasting away to little more than an empty shell. His brother Gradaxon saw his mother's death as an indictment against any interaction with humans in particular, and the surface in general. When he came of age, he begged his father to return with him to Middledark, the center of Drow existence.

Unlike his father and brother, Ordaxon grew to hate both the drow race which exiled his family, and the humans who he and his father were forced to serve. His scar serves as a constant reminder to him of the failure of his race to nurture him, his father to protect his mother, and his own lack of power to avenge her. Further, he began to hide his family name (Darneth) and going by the surname "Shadowblade."

As soon as Ordaxon came of age, he immediately fled his family for a life devoted to searching for and finding the mysterious wizard who killed his mother. Because of his hatred of the drow and his bitterness toward humans, he favors non-human companions, and strongly distrusts humans as well as most elves--although he cannot contain his spite toward the dark elves. He pooled all of his worldly goods to buy passage over the Pierced Mountains. Along the way, his guide also picked up a young dwarf set on adventure, Gragold Ironforged, and escorted the two headstrong adventurers to Tulgill in Dungannon Province. There, Ordaxon and Gragold begin their adventures as they head west in the early stages of Keep on the Shadowfell.