In dreams I walk with you
Geedor the Bird-King
D&D NPC. Gnoll Druid, Geedor the Bird-King.
The creature who's true name is Geedor, is known through out the civilized world as by the epithet "The Bird-King", and is one of the most reviled and wanted criminal mercenaries in the known world.
Geedor hails from the frozen wastes of Karak (www.regentum.org/page/karak), a barren place where packs of Gnolls where driven off to ages ago and over the centuries evolved into a distinct ethnic culture amongst Gnolls as a whole.
Geedor was born with an innate magical ability that was left undeveloped for many years, and like the majority of the young males in his tribe he was trained to hunt, to fight and to craft the items his people needed to survive(Born with Sorcerer class).
His tribal Elder's took note however to his degree of physical prowess, natural cunning and unique talents and groomed him to become a highly skilled hunter, warrior, and tracker (Trained to have the ranger class).
Towards his approach of adulthood a conflict broke out between Geedor's tribe and a scouting band from a clan of Frost Giants'. Although the Gnolls' managed to kill the Giants, one of the Giants managed to spoil a whale carcass that they had been living off of. So instead the Gnolls' opted to eat the Giant remains. Unknown to the Gnolls' however the Giants were incubating a disease that quickly spread through most of the tribe, including the Druid-Shaman who advised the Chieftain and provided magical protection.
Geedor was chosen by the Druid to be his successor. Geedor was given a crash course in Gnoll oral traditions, various cultural practices, sacred lore, and off alone by himself on an initiatory journey. The Druid sent Geedor off to a lonely ravine that cracked open into a knot of tunnels held sacred by the Gnolls. The place was called "Er-Ghu" and was said to be a place where the Gnolls' Demon-God Yeenoghu sent a material extension of himself to breed a line of Gnoll-Lords in the early days of the Gnolls' arrival to Karak.
Deep with in the bowels of "Er-Ghu" Geedor came upon a crevasse that he managed to clear away, and he found himself with in a hot spring lined with phosphorescent moss the glowed a vibrant purple, and he quickly found out had potent hallucinatory properties.
Geedor spent weeks with in the earth, under the ice, inside of himself, and with in the steaming waters living off of blind cave fish and communing and fornicating with semi-real illusions of multi-limbed horned Gnoll women who indulged him in arcane secrets and base pleasure. When he departed Geedor emerged from the tunnels a Druid (Making him at this point sorcerer/ranger/druid- 1/1/1/).
Geedor expected to return home and use his new found powers to exert control and influence over his tribe members, but instead returned to find them all dead and village destroyed. The Frost had returned in full force and made short order of the Gnolls, most of whom were ill. Salvaging what he could he left his area in south western Karak and headed eastward hoping to find a place with another a Gnoll tribe he could slowly take over.
After a few months of isolation and mastering his new skills, Geedor wandered along the southern coast at the on set of spring and met a band of Gnoll raiders who were gathering to ride the seasons melting ice floats with their kayaks in order to sneak into other lands in the cover of the floating ice.
Geedor quickly won their confidence and with in a few days was off along the ice flow with them. After a week at open sea the Gnolls spotted a ship that they were drifting close to. When they saw that the ship was turning to avoid smacking into the ice, the Gnolls made off in pursuit with their Kayaks, and raided the ship, a human merchant vessel.
Geedor and this band of Gnolls lived as pirates for the next few years, and it was during this period that Geedor made his initial criminal, pirate, and mercenary contacts. His power as a druid grew and would take the form of either killer whales or polar bears in his increasingly daring raids.
Then one day his raiding band was attacked by privateers and forced to crashed into the very northern most coast of the Regentum land mass. Geedor survived by transforming into an Albatross and left his cohorts for dead. Though he found that he was being still hunted, so he he flew, and flew, until he came upon the ruins of Caahigon which lay to the immediate north of Guidane.
Hidden amongst the ruins for several days Geedor discovered an unusual broken object that while he could sense was magic in nature, he could not figure out for the life of him what it was. But he picked up a piece of it, a portion that was made from a large bird skull, and wore it upon his head. He found over time that bird skull could allow him to fly sporadically, control birds, see through their eyes and even summon one of the colossal Roc from time to time. He then fashioned the skull into a head dress and his life took a drastically different turn. He escaped the ruins on the back of a Roc and flew into his new future.
Although in years to come his exploits would dub him the "Bird-King", it was inadvertently humorous to him for he doesn't have any particular affinity for birds, he merely was lucky to find the magic bird skull. The Bird-King does however play up the mystique of this false pretense to throw people off from genuinely gaining insights into his real intentions. He has on many occasions gone as far as to hire Kenku agents to perform tasks on his behalf, though a great deal of Kenku, particularly those along the east coast of Regentum do not like him and take him to be persona non grata.
The Bird-King has the unique distinction of being the only one to have destroyed a Regentum military airship, which showed them just how vulnerable the new ships were to aerial attack. This feat was assumed by Regentum to part of the Druid campaign of eco-terrorism and religious warfare, but unknown to them the Bird-King really has no part of the Druid culture at large. He sees himself as a lone predator who seeks to maintain his position in the food chain and nothing else.
This act and his later act of helping a former Regentum Ranger who turned into a criminal drug trafficker escape the country has made the Bird-King one of top most wanted criminals in the world. Over the years he has managed to rack up bounties from the Dwarves of Rolheim, Regentum, the Elven Lands, Yallaam, Sorgal, Guidane, and Nijiro.
He his unwelcome in any civilized territory, and spends his time in various hide outs between Karak, the mountains of Brennendale, and the mountains between Hados and Lu' Hadej.
(His current levels would be sorcerer/ranger/druid 3/1/10)
Geedor the Bird-King
D&D NPC. Gnoll Druid, Geedor the Bird-King.
The creature who's true name is Geedor, is known through out the civilized world as by the epithet "The Bird-King", and is one of the most reviled and wanted criminal mercenaries in the known world.
Geedor hails from the frozen wastes of Karak (www.regentum.org/page/karak), a barren place where packs of Gnolls where driven off to ages ago and over the centuries evolved into a distinct ethnic culture amongst Gnolls as a whole.
Geedor was born with an innate magical ability that was left undeveloped for many years, and like the majority of the young males in his tribe he was trained to hunt, to fight and to craft the items his people needed to survive(Born with Sorcerer class).
His tribal Elder's took note however to his degree of physical prowess, natural cunning and unique talents and groomed him to become a highly skilled hunter, warrior, and tracker (Trained to have the ranger class).
Towards his approach of adulthood a conflict broke out between Geedor's tribe and a scouting band from a clan of Frost Giants'. Although the Gnolls' managed to kill the Giants, one of the Giants managed to spoil a whale carcass that they had been living off of. So instead the Gnolls' opted to eat the Giant remains. Unknown to the Gnolls' however the Giants were incubating a disease that quickly spread through most of the tribe, including the Druid-Shaman who advised the Chieftain and provided magical protection.
Geedor was chosen by the Druid to be his successor. Geedor was given a crash course in Gnoll oral traditions, various cultural practices, sacred lore, and off alone by himself on an initiatory journey. The Druid sent Geedor off to a lonely ravine that cracked open into a knot of tunnels held sacred by the Gnolls. The place was called "Er-Ghu" and was said to be a place where the Gnolls' Demon-God Yeenoghu sent a material extension of himself to breed a line of Gnoll-Lords in the early days of the Gnolls' arrival to Karak.
Deep with in the bowels of "Er-Ghu" Geedor came upon a crevasse that he managed to clear away, and he found himself with in a hot spring lined with phosphorescent moss the glowed a vibrant purple, and he quickly found out had potent hallucinatory properties.
Geedor spent weeks with in the earth, under the ice, inside of himself, and with in the steaming waters living off of blind cave fish and communing and fornicating with semi-real illusions of multi-limbed horned Gnoll women who indulged him in arcane secrets and base pleasure. When he departed Geedor emerged from the tunnels a Druid (Making him at this point sorcerer/ranger/druid- 1/1/1/).
Geedor expected to return home and use his new found powers to exert control and influence over his tribe members, but instead returned to find them all dead and village destroyed. The Frost had returned in full force and made short order of the Gnolls, most of whom were ill. Salvaging what he could he left his area in south western Karak and headed eastward hoping to find a place with another a Gnoll tribe he could slowly take over.
After a few months of isolation and mastering his new skills, Geedor wandered along the southern coast at the on set of spring and met a band of Gnoll raiders who were gathering to ride the seasons melting ice floats with their kayaks in order to sneak into other lands in the cover of the floating ice.
Geedor quickly won their confidence and with in a few days was off along the ice flow with them. After a week at open sea the Gnolls spotted a ship that they were drifting close to. When they saw that the ship was turning to avoid smacking into the ice, the Gnolls made off in pursuit with their Kayaks, and raided the ship, a human merchant vessel.
Geedor and this band of Gnolls lived as pirates for the next few years, and it was during this period that Geedor made his initial criminal, pirate, and mercenary contacts. His power as a druid grew and would take the form of either killer whales or polar bears in his increasingly daring raids.
Then one day his raiding band was attacked by privateers and forced to crashed into the very northern most coast of the Regentum land mass. Geedor survived by transforming into an Albatross and left his cohorts for dead. Though he found that he was being still hunted, so he he flew, and flew, until he came upon the ruins of Caahigon which lay to the immediate north of Guidane.
Hidden amongst the ruins for several days Geedor discovered an unusual broken object that while he could sense was magic in nature, he could not figure out for the life of him what it was. But he picked up a piece of it, a portion that was made from a large bird skull, and wore it upon his head. He found over time that bird skull could allow him to fly sporadically, control birds, see through their eyes and even summon one of the colossal Roc from time to time. He then fashioned the skull into a head dress and his life took a drastically different turn. He escaped the ruins on the back of a Roc and flew into his new future.
Although in years to come his exploits would dub him the "Bird-King", it was inadvertently humorous to him for he doesn't have any particular affinity for birds, he merely was lucky to find the magic bird skull. The Bird-King does however play up the mystique of this false pretense to throw people off from genuinely gaining insights into his real intentions. He has on many occasions gone as far as to hire Kenku agents to perform tasks on his behalf, though a great deal of Kenku, particularly those along the east coast of Regentum do not like him and take him to be persona non grata.
The Bird-King has the unique distinction of being the only one to have destroyed a Regentum military airship, which showed them just how vulnerable the new ships were to aerial attack. This feat was assumed by Regentum to part of the Druid campaign of eco-terrorism and religious warfare, but unknown to them the Bird-King really has no part of the Druid culture at large. He sees himself as a lone predator who seeks to maintain his position in the food chain and nothing else.
This act and his later act of helping a former Regentum Ranger who turned into a criminal drug trafficker escape the country has made the Bird-King one of top most wanted criminals in the world. Over the years he has managed to rack up bounties from the Dwarves of Rolheim, Regentum, the Elven Lands, Yallaam, Sorgal, Guidane, and Nijiro.
He his unwelcome in any civilized territory, and spends his time in various hide outs between Karak, the mountains of Brennendale, and the mountains between Hados and Lu' Hadej.
(His current levels would be sorcerer/ranger/druid 3/1/10)