Nazherreloth
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Nazzherreloth is a unique hybrid of fiendish, draconic, and human form. He possesses the strength of a dragon, and can take the form of one, but is also a powerful spellcaster, commanding both arcane magic and innate divine ability. He can summon demons and even take incorporeal form to possess mortals, as certain powerful demons can do.
He prefers his hybrid form, that of a massive half-dragon, half-man with pronounced fiendish traits. In this form, he stands almost 7 feet tall, with fiery red, scaled skin and blackened bat-like wings. His long, black hair hangs loosely down his back, behind his two great, reddish-white horns which emerge above his forehead and extend upward and back, in the manner of a red dragon. He usually wears loose, black pants for modesty's sake, but leaves his massive, clawed feet unshod. His hands are oversized, and each finger sports a sharp, wickedly-curved black claw. He has the fangs and gnashing teeth of a lion. His eyes are red with catlike, black pupils and only a hint of white. In this form, he often wields two "short swords", as heavy as long swords but small enough to be wielded with the quickness of daggers.
NarrWhen he was confronted in his country hideaway, and it was subsequently destroyed, he was left for dead. However, his is a powerful nature; he is the son of a quasi-divine being, and his other heritage is that of one of the mightiest creatures in the Realms. He was felled by shadows, but rose up as one of them. It should not have been possible for one such as he to become a shadow, or, if he did, to have retained his former personality and abilities, but this seems to be the case. Svetlana Marisova destroyed his home with the Orb of Storms, and he was well within the blast. It was assumed he perished there, but this has not yet been verified.
Nazzheroloth is the son of Gazzhakashz the balor and Maldariasellice the red dragon. His birth was arranged by the Cult of Eltab, partly to cement their alliance with Maldaria’s clan, but mostly to gain a servant more powerful and controllable than she.
And that he is. His power is arguable, but his loyalty is assured by his demonic blood. The cultists are expert demonbinders, and are able to control him through his connection with their demon-god. However, as a red dragon, he chafes under this command, and dreams of bloody, excruciating ways he could visit his contempt upon the humanlings who dare to direct his fate.
He has been tasked with bringing in the Orb of Storms. He was not told why its power was so significant—it is simply a tool for controlling weather, as they said—but with the loss of his four older siblings, he is deadly curious to know what justifies it.
After recovering the orb from Malhan Septim's house, he returned to a hideaway of his, one he believes to be unknown to his mother or the cult. He doesn’t want to face the former due to the death of his elder brothers and sisters, and the latter, he fears, will snatch from him what might be the instrument of his freedom.
Of course, it is only a matter of time before one of the two comes down on him, and exercises their myriad means of dominating his will. Meanwhile, the slayers of his kin now come after him, and he plots ways of using them to draw off the aggression of his tormentors.
He found for himself an abandoned keep. Well, if by “abandoned” you mean “everyone in it was slain by him”. Once the lair of a trifling Red Wizard, it became a home away from home, a place for him to brood on his dual natures, and make plans for his future.
Hoard
Like any self-respecting dragon, he keeps a hoard, though not in the keep. He found a cave belonging to a colony of basilisks in the foothills of the Second Escarpment. He infused the lizards with fiendish power and bade them to guard his treasure. The four lizards do so with all the zeal one can expect of lizards.
- 1,900 pp (38 lb)
- 12,000 gp (240 lb)
- 73,000 sp (1,460 lb)
- 26 gems
- 3 amethysts (300 gp)
- 2 moss agates (20 gp)
- 4 malachite (40 gp)
- 7 star rubies (7,000 gp)
- 6 freshwater pearls (60 gp)
- 4 golden pearls (400 gp)
- TOTAL VALUES: 7,820 gp
- 3 medium items
- +2 adamantine dagger of undead bane and ghost touch
- Immovable rod
- Potion of fire immunity
(to be increased by 4x CR 12 for the basilisks)