🕯️ Emir Vargan Delacroix
Curator of the Bonehallow, Warden of the Silent Flame
Necromancer of the Twelfth Circle, Custodian of the Duke’s Ledger
🧑🎓 Race: Human (Mark of Death Lineage)
A rare and long-hidden ancestral gift. The Mark manifests as faint black veining under the skin and a supernatural sensitivity to soul-resonance.
Lineage Boon:
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Can detect undead within 60 feet as a constant effect (like detect undead, no concentration).
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Once per long rest, may stabilize an undead creature at 1 HP instead of it being destroyed.
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Has a spiritual “echo” that undead instinctively acknowledge, granting advantage on reaction rolls with intelligent undead.
🦴 Personality and Goals
Vargan is:
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Coldly reverent to the Duke of Bones. Believes undeath is a necessary function, not a curse.
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Uninterested in domination, conquest, or cruelty. Seeks efficiency, understanding, and divine alignment of death.
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Loyal to the Ashkarin Council, but will defy them if they ever breach the Duke’s tenets.
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Obsessed with naming the unknown dead—each unlabeled skeleton is a failure to him.
🧟♂️ Undead Retinue
Typically commands:
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6 skeleton porters (2 HD each, silent and robed)
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1 Bone Knight (5 HD elite skeleton in plated funerary armor)
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3 zombies (from preserved plague victims, reinforced bones)