A bounty hunter who struck a deal with the devil, signed without reading.
I first found you at a tavern in the lost city, drinking away your problems. One of many such dreams, I have come to learn. You find such peace in solitude, alone with your ruinous thoughts. But your fears creep up your back until it’s too late. Friends, partners, lovers, and rivals each walk through that door until the tavern is filled with everything you’ve ever fled from.
Sometimes it breaks out into a brawl. Sometimes a cathartic confession. And rarely, well, everyone in the dream gets along a little too nicely, and you sneak away amidst the displays of affection.
Somehow, despite the dreary colors of your soul, you always seem to get away with it.
Your patron is a patient being, bugbear. As skilled as you may be at deception and stealth, giving yourself every advantage that a surprise attack can grant, patience always wins out.
This is not to say he has no fondness for you, nor that you have no fondness for him. There are many paths you could walk that secure a beautiful future for you two — always built upon the ashes of thousands.
But that meddling tiefling complicates so much. He talks of redemption and you feel the tug of morality at your chest. Your patron tempts him through your tongue, and you feel the magnetism of your words.
Torn between worlds, between lovers, between philosophies. You dream of running away from it all.
It worked once before, did it not? That horrible weight in your gut upon seeing what your gang’s looting and destruction brings to innocent lives. Disappearing from sight and covering your tracks.
The urge is strong again. But you can’t run from an evil as great as your patron. And you can’t hide from the blinding light of your oath-sworn partner.
The only way out is through, Greggurr Dwarvesbane.
How unfortunate that such opposing paths would lead to the same destination: Condemnation.
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