Eldingar Toreros
Eldingar Toreros is one of the Crows elite thugs, serving in their security division under Calindor. He is a powerful martial specialist who bolsters his melee combat skills with command over lightning magic. Eldingar is a proud warrior and seeks a rematch against Elycia Mirais after she insulted him and fled, intending to fight her to the finish this time.
Welcome to Haven City Arc
Eldingar was one of the heavy hitters called in to reinforce security at a Crow hideout after several street thugs were beaten up and potentially followed by their attackers. This indeed turned out to be the case when a group of adventurers attacked two nights later and Eldingar led the Crows counterattack. His battle prowess was enough to break Vinnie Vice's magical echo nearly instantly and scare the half-orc off. He then confronted Elycia Mirais and managed to wound her before she was able to flee. The bard mocked Eldingar as she retreated and he noted that she mentioned being part of a group of four, which he informed his superiors of after the adventurers escaped. Though he lost the adventurers, Eldingar had the foresight to keep the cloth he used to wipe Elycia's blood from his blade. This rag made it much easier for the Crows to scry the adventurers and learn more about them. After the adventurers managed to elude the Crows and escape Haven City, Marchioness Eve pointed out that Eldingar was the one member of the Crows that hadn't slipped up during this debacle. She rewarded him with a magic sword and ring for his efforts, and assigned him to assist "Black Hand" Kelly in pursuing the adventurers as the Crows representative.Journey Into the Underdark Arc
The Hunt Begins
Before leaving Haven City, Eldingar made sure he was as well prepared as he could be for the quest that followed. "Black Hand" Kelly introduced him to a second bounty hunter named Vex and the group set off, using a ██████████ to track their targets. They made their way into the Underdark but were slowed down by cave-ins the adventurers had left behind them specifically to slow down any Crow (or in this case, Crow sponsored) pursuers. But eventually, their targets made enough stops that the bounty hunters were able to gain ground and arrive at the same place the adventurers had been hanging their hats: the Deep Spire.Misdirection at the Deep Spire
Eldingar spent most of his time at the Deep Spire hid away, knowing they would stand out as the only minotaur and tiefling (respectively) present. While they walked in ██████████████████, thanks to Kelly's █████████, Vex used her skills as a master of disguise to search the city more openly. After a bit of scouting made them aware of the adventurers activities, Kelly and Vex came up with a plan to put a tracker on Leh'ct. Eldingar viewed this as a waste of time, especially at the cost of revealing themselves, as they already had a way to track the adventurers. Kelly reminded Eldingar they had a way to track one of them and this would allow them to keep tracking the group if something happened to that person. The plan worked successfully, Vex posing as a guard that "arrested" Kelly after the tiefling accosted Leh'ct. She slipped a magical coin into Leh'ct's shadow in the process and brought Kelly to the apartment they'd rented fully aware Leh'ct was following them. After Vex shoved Kelly inside, Eldingar repeatedly hit a slab of meat they'd bought beforehand while Kelly faked grunts of pain to give the young drow the false impression Kelly was being interrogated. By the time Leh'ct returned with his allies to investigate further, Eldingar and the bounty hunters were long gone.Bounty Hunter Ambush
Through their various tracking methods, Eldingar and his allies became aware that their targets were somehow moving across the Black Loch at incredible speeds. Far too quickly for the bounty hunters to be able to simply run them down. If they were going to catch their targets, they needed to bait a trap and let the adventurers come to them. As they were pondering a way to do this, Kelly discovered that one of the adventurers had become a target for waterkleddes. Familiar with this type of demon, Kelly made contact with some of them and offered to assist in their goal of killing Elycia Mirais provided the bounty hunters could take some part of her body as proof of death. Eldingar objected to the idea of working with demons, stating the waterkleddes would betray them, but Kelly assured Eldingar he was already aware of this and that they would be ready for that betrayal. The waterkleddes agreed to Kelly's proposition and the bounty hunters prepared their ambushes, one for the adventurers and another for the waterkleddes. Continuing to spy within the Deep Spire in various disguises, Vex heard about an elven warship from the surface that had gone down in the Loch after someone or something attacked it. Knowing something of Elycia's military history thanks to information provided by Marchioness Eve, she figured their targets were likely to check it out. Vex informed the waterkleddes of this and they made a plan for the demons to lure the adventurers to a cave not too far from the shipwreck where the bounty hunters would be waiting. The plan worked quite well, from Eldingar's perspective. Only one of the two waterkleddes survived long enough to get back to the bounty hunters and that one was heavily injured. The adventurers rushed in to finish it, not noticing Eldingar and his allies until Kelly dropped the invisibility spell he had concealing them. Eldingar moved a bit slower than the bounty hunters but managed to strike the adventurer Jake with one of two lightning bolts fired from his horns. He was also there to greet Elycia when she emerged from a solid wall via magic, though she quickly retreated at the sight of the ambush. This was much to Eldingar's ire, as he very dearly wanted a rematch against the rabbit-eared elf. Before he could advance further on the adventurers, the surviving waterkledde caused a small cave-in when it ran into a landmine set by the adventurer Sunny that blocked the tunnel between him and his targets. Shortly thereafter, the waterkledde killed Sunny and set off his self-destruct mechanism on the farm side of the rocks. The blast blew away the rocks and set off an explosive Vex was putting in place to clear the rubble before the bounty hunters could retreat to a safe distance. With the warforged dead, they moved forward to finish the others but were unable to prevent Elycia from fleeing with Jake. Kelly made a point of finishing off the injured adventurer left behind via an eldritch blast to the head, despite this man not being one of their targets. Shortly thereafter, Kelly used the sending stone provided by Marchioness Eve to update her on Sunny's death with the assurance the other adventurers would soon follow. The bounty hunters started to discuss what they'd learned about their targets abilities as they began to formulate their next plan.
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