The grizzled Pavis (CG male human renegade) serves as High King Arunak’s special attache in matters too sensitive to entrust to dwarven agents. Some time back, patrols found Pavis in tunnels outside Dongun Hold, half-dead from blood loss; apparently, the luckless (or lucky) human had survived being gunned down and thrown off Alkenstar’s towers and crawled into the city’s sewers to evade his assailants. Stabilized and brought before High King Arunak, he was offered sanctuary in Dongun Hold in return for serving as her special investigator. To sweeten the deal, Arunak also promised to assist Pavis in exacting vengeance upon his would-be murderers.
Pavis is the alias of Armand Meneley, former High Shieldmarshal of Alkenstar, victim of treachery from his former friend, Aredil Sultur. Sultur’s illicit influence on the shieldmarshals had been overlooked by Meneley, whose sentimentality blinded him to the roots of both his associates’ and organization’s misfeasance. When Sultur’s most transgressive schemes were exposed, Sultur slickly shifted blame onto Meneley, scapegoating and then assassinating him and his family through the aid of corrupt shieldmarshals. While Meneley survived, his name and spirit haven’t. Alkenstar remembers him as the shieldmarshals’ greatest shame, and impatience-tinged fury clouds Meneley’s heart. Arunak has reluctantly promised to consider his accounts settled when he completes his latest mission—the covert delivery of a coded missive to Overlord Ardax the White-Hair of Urgir. After this one last job, the betrayed lawman hopes to return to the Clockwork City and set things right in a blaze of glory.
