Jarrak - A Drow's Tale

A Drow's Tale: Jarrack's Escape and Arrival

Jarrak has not seen his home of Menzoberranzan, or the Underdark, in over a decade. As a child, he showed innate talent for magic, and his parents sold him to house Fey-Branche. He was put under the tutalage of Alarak, Fifth Sorcerer of the house. Alarak secretly opposed the teachings of Lolth, and molded the young drow into a more compassionate and peaceful person.

After spurning the advances of a particularly sadistic initiate of Lloth's clergy, an order was sent to Alarak to give him over for execution as a sacrifice to Lolth. Instead, Alarak packed up some of his more valuable research and gave it to Jarrak, and gave him directions on how to safely exit the city and make his way to the surface. As he made his way through the streets, he heard the commotion as his former master was taken in his place. After a few weeks of evading capture by drow hunters, derro slavers, and even a lone illithid wizard, he finally made it to the surface, where he began a brutal and almost fatal regimen of exposure to sunlight, gradually becoming adapted to the light but losing all of his natural-born drow magics. After this, he has traveled the Realms, looking for a place that he could belong.

For a while, Jarrak was rarely seen in populated areas, preferring to camp outside city walls and make his way through civilized regions under an Invisibility spell; after an accidental exposure in the markets of Daggerford, he was saved by an encounter with the sisters Alanyia and Zara Jaden Leylan, who helped him escape. After they brought him along on thier journey to the Islands and being introduced to the city of Helzbelt, he no longer feels the looming threat of death just for his race, and he has willingly indebted himself to them.

Upon close inspection, it is seen that he leaves no foot, hand, or finger prints, nor is he detectable through magical scrying and divination. Whenever he moves his arms, a glimpse of arcane symbols, tattooed onto his flesh, can be seen on his forearms, along with a bracelet of elven silver on his right wrist with a pinkish gemstone set into it. He portrays himself as a humble and servile companion to the Leylan sisters, greatly reserved and calm for a dark elf; however, at times one can see looks of intense restraint on his face, especially when he is around the sisters.