Nashyim

Nashyim of the Desolated Wood was a volodni cleric and blightlord of Talona from the Rawlinswood in the Great Dale operating in Cormanthor in the late 14 century DR.

Description
Nashyim stood tall and weighed.

History
Born as Nashyim of the Glimmering Brook circa 1293 DR, he was raised a typical volodni and taught the typical degree of contempt for the warm-blooded flesh beings. All his kin thought he would become a warrior and fight to expand volodni holdings in the Rawlinswood. Yet he had an ingrained burning anger—the warm bloods, his parents, authority figures, life in general, and the world as a whole were all targets of his ire. Often, he lashed out in his anger and frustration, and often, he was disciplined, and this only made him angrier.

Then the Rotting Man appeared in the Rawlinswood in the Year of the Helm, 1362 DR, and spread his horrid blight there. Though the volodni were his first victims, and they were infected by the thousands and became blightspawned creatures, a few angry young volodni like Nashyim were attracted to this power and destruction, and hungered for it. By Talona's grace, Nashyim survived and was taken by the blightlords to the Rotting Man himself, and he devoted himself to the Mother of All Plagues.

Over the next decade in service to Talona, Nashyim learned self-discipline if nothing else and the Rotting Man directed his rage and retaliation at his foes. Becoming a blightlord himself, Nashyim put in charge of his former, now blightspawned kin, and felt a spiteful glee at the reversal of fortune and authority.

However, circa 1372 DR, Nashyim departed the Rawlinswood with a small troop of blightspawned beasts and went in search of a new woodland where he could spread Talona's blight. He considered the Forest of Lethyr, but avoided it and the greater powers there. Instead, he went further afield, to Cormanthor, being curious about elves and wanting to infect meet with them. That year, Nashyim invaded Cormanthor, established a small hold in an area of the forest held by the local drow, and set about transforming plants and animals into blightspawned creatures. But Vishara, the fierce half-elf warrior priestess of Mielikki, launched a campaign to oppose him.

Personality
Nashyim was eternally angry, at everyone and everything, and he hated being held back in any way, causing him to always retaliate in some way. However, over time he learned to target this impulse at his and the Rotting Man's enemies, until it became his standard practice. He was also restless and impatient, favoring direct action over delay, but he could make himself wait when he must and could act indirectly sometimes, especially when a foolish direct action would lead to defeat.

Having come to lead the infected volodni kin whom he'd once resented, Nashyim enjoyed the sense of irony and vindictiveness. It taught him a concept best described as 'what goes around comes around', reminding him that his own actions have consequences than can come back to bite him. While no less driven to act, he made sure to minimize consequences. For example, rather than kill some people and let survivors escape and potentially come back seeking justice, Nashyim was more likely simply kill everyone.

Nashyim's greatest love was creating and commanding blightspawned creatures, particularly turning a person into one and sending them to spread devastation, to both torture the victim and terrorize others, showing them none were safe from the blightlords.

Abilities
As a blightlord, with a touch, Nashyim could infect a living creature with Talona's blight, which inevitably either killed a victim or changed them into a blightspawned creature. He was immune to disease himself and would not be attacked by blightspawned, which he could mentally control.

As was standard for blightlords, Nashyim was also a skilled wielder of the glaive and could use it to inflict icy bursts and Talona's blight.

He commanded the Destruction, Suffering, and Blightbringer domains. Some distinct spells he used were bladebane and soul scour and he used metamagic to cast some at a distance.

Possessions
He wielded a +1 glaive and a masterwork light crossbow with a score of bolts. He wore +3 bluewood chainmail, a cloak of resistance +1, and an amulet of health +4. He also used wands of cure light wounds and cure moderate wounds for healing.