Pavel Shemov

Pavel Shemov was a cleric of Lathander who traveled with Dorn Graybrook, the song dragon Karasendrieth, and the vampiric smoke drake Brimstone during the Year of Rogue Dragons, 1373 DR. He fought against Sammaster and died freeing the Dracorage mythal from the lich's influence.

Equipment
Pavel fought with a mace and divine spells.

Relationships
During their shared journey, Pavel and Brimstone often butted heads because of the former's distaste and distrust for the latter's status as an undead thing.

History
Pavel Shemov was once a novice at the Temple of Dawn in Heliogabalus. He made an acquaintance of Kosef Demsk one summer night while playing cards at Rat's End; the gangster interceded in his behalf after the novice was accused of cheating. Before two summers had passed, he witnessed the seizing of Kosef Demsk from his residence at the Boot and Whistle tavern, and he became involved in the investigation after Tara Darag, an associate of Kosef, asked him to look into it. Kosef stood accused of the murder of Mivar Greyman, a jeweler; his signature blade was found still struck inside the corpser.

Encouraged by Tana darag, he briefly interviewed Quendar Horn and dor Stavask, both of them companions of Kosef, then impersonated a priest to talk to Kosef himself. When talking to the gangster, he learned that the blade he thought he kept evaporated just as the guards arrived. From there, he reasoned that one of the guards had spoken the words to end the spell; quickly, he honed in on Iref Marsk, a guard who had taken part of the raid, after noticing that he had been spending lavishly recently. Before they could interrogate him, Iref Marsk was slain by a barghest that attempted to kill Pavel and Tana too. He reasoned the barghest meant that the summoner could only be dor Stavask, as a barghest would not have answered Quendar's summoning.

Tana and he slew Stavask and accidentally burned down his home while sneaking inside, destroying all the evidence; however, when Glar only threatened him instead of indicting him, he realized Glar was a co-conspirator, and threatened to call upon his superiors in the temple to ask him point-blank with truth-detecting spells during the trial. Glar relented of killing Kosef once so-threatened.

Appearances

 * Novels
 * The Year of Rogue Dragons (The Rage, The Rite, The Ruin)
 * Short Stories
 * Realms of the Dragons: The Prisoner of Hulburg, The Silverfish