Savengriff

Savengriff (pronounced SAY-ven-griff) was an apprentice wizard of Khelben Arunsun before he helped to refound the Covenant.

Description
Savengriff was described as a gaunt man with pale skin and an unremarkable face. He possessed dark brown hair, a beard and hazel eyes.

Personality
Savengriff was loyal to Khelben and was always prepared to be attacked.

Biography
Savengriff was regarded as the weakest member of the Company of Crazed Venturers but was personally recruited by Khelben to be a member of that band in the hopes of grooming him for the Harpers. At one point, he and fellow Venturer Tzarrakyn were both killed in a fight with a beholder. Savengriff's body was left in the beholder's lair but Khelben used a necklace he had gifted to him to discover the body's location, then led a sortie into the lair with Durnan, Mirt, Kitten, Piergeiron, Shalar Simgulphin and several of Khelben's mage apprentices to retreive it, killing the beholder as well.

Khelben asked some cleric allies to bring Savengriff back from the dead, which earned him Savengriff's loyalty. Savengriff became Khelben's apprentice and a member of the Harpers under Khelben's sponsorship. As a Harper agent, he was wide-ranging in his duties, travelling all over the North on Harper business. Savengriff eventually started wandering the planes where he met Grimwald and Prespur, formerly of the Covenant. He discussed with them the reformation of that organization and in 1372 DR, he returned to Waterdeep and set their plans into motion, based out of his room at the Inn of the Dripping Dagger.

Activities
Although he still had friends in the Harpers and Moonstars, he ceased working for either. Instead, he began the process of recruiting wizards to join his resurgent Covenant.

Possessions
Savengriff was the creator of around a dozen staves of banishment. Although he made gifts of ten of them to fellow Harpers, he kept one for himself and was rumored to have hidden one away somewhere.