Description and Background
Description:
Tobias is a grayish black, slightly larger than normal, housecat that can shapechange.
Background:
Tobias was once the pet of a Cleric named Lareth the Beautiful. Lareth kept Tobias caged deep beneath the earth in an abandoned dungeon within an old crumbled tower in the Underdark beneath the the Seamyst Plains, north of Dragons Belch where him and several others were experimenting with strange gasses and plotting nefarious deeds. Tobias was rescued by Zirus and has now pledged to follow him dutifully into the ashes of whatever fire he chooses.
Tobias’ dialog with Zirus at the time of their meeting in the Lonely Tower in the Underdark:
'I cannot tell you much, I was never allowed out of that tiny crypt where you found me. My former master was a very unkind man. He left me here to dye when they left. I only know they were planning something big called the Elemental Temple. He used this facility to experiment on humanoids-s-s. He has some grand vision or something. I chose not to listen mostly.'
'I was more a s-s-slave than anything else. A wizard trapped me when I was but a wee kitten. He sold me to this-s-s master who has a wizard of hiss own. I feared for my life and therefore bided my time in this hell. I do not know their full plan, only that it involves something called the Elemental Temple.'
“Lareth the Stupid, a self appointed cleric of some order or other, don’t care from where, my former master, takes his orders from a man named Calmert, a priest, or so he calls himself, never met him, has some grand scheme to take over this world and turn it into his private hell, or rather ours I should think. I heard tidbits here and there. Black pearls from the Groo, not sure what or who they are, I believe we saw some of their handy work in the dungeon, that smoke I should think, the living turned to grotesque forms of the non-living,. The Elemental Temple, some place out west, is where they were headed. The village most likely their handiwork. I think this is just the beginning of their traitorous plans, foreplay if you will. I believe nothing good will come from their deeds, nothing at all.†|
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