Zolis

Zolis was an Arakocran bard that lived during the 1470's AE. Zolis was a bard of the college of spirits and unlike most of his kin spent his immense energy and passion on the subject of death and the macabre. He travelled for some time with a party of adventurers who found him painting a crypt in an old cairn in Xosutan. Zolis was a powerful necromancer in his own right, but instead of raising the dead to serve him, he contacted their spirits to collect their stories before allowing them to pass back on to the afterlife, rarely ever holding a soul on the mortal plane with one exception. The only soul he ever trapped on the material plane was the soul of an elf, that Zolis thought so evil in the deeds and stories they told him in life, that he didn't want them tainting the afterlife, and so kept the soul bound to a skull they carried around and used the negative energy of the soul to empower his spells that he used the skull to cast through.
Before leaving Woodcrown to become a bard telling the stories for those who no longer have a voice to tell their own tales, he was in an arranged marriage in Woodcrown to a female Aarakocra who could not have cared less for Zolis. The two never got along and both took many seperate lovers, with neither of his children genetically being his. Zolis did manage to father a few children of his own in his village but when he left his wife merely took one of the women she was with as a partner and felt his leaving was a good thing to her life. Zolis found the world outside Woodcrown far more to his liking, and eventually was drawn to the ancient heart of the Xosutan Empire, where the souls of tens of thousands of years of mortal history lay thick, and the ancient ruins of cities destroyed in sudden cataclysms left the remnants of tortured souls, the perfect subjects for his studies.
Zolis roamed Xosutan for a few years before happening upon an ancient graveyard of a civilization he eventually determined predated the Xosutan, and so he spent many years studying these ancient souls and gathering their stories before a band of adventurers tempted him with the tale of a masqeurade haunted by a spirits. He joined them, determined to find the Undead responsible for such an austentatious haunting, eventually dissapearing at this very same event.

Current Location

Xosutan

Ethnicity

Aarakocran Culture

Age

7

Birthplace

Woodcrown

Pronouns

He/Him

Sex

Male

Gender

Man

Presentation

Masculine

Eyes

Dark Grey

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Black Feathers

Height

5'4"

Weight

130

Belief/Deity

Bas, Goddess of Death