Wartle

Wartle was a self-centered slaad lord that could physically drain his enemies and was mentally draining to deal with.

Description
Wartle appeared as a bloated, slaad with dry, leathery, grayish-brown skin with sickly green spots. A row of small, backward pointing horns on the top of his head gave the appearance of a crest. When taking on human form, he typically appeared as short and pudgy with a whiny, raspy-sounding voice. In either form, however, he was covered in warts.

Personality
Wartle came off as weak, cowardly, and incompetent, but in truth he was highly intelligent, a frequent and proficient liar, and a more than capable combatant. While not exactly evil, Wartle's unrepentantly chaotic ways could boggle the minds of most. Normally he didn't take slaves, if only because it was often more trouble than it was worth, but he might pretend not to know acquaintances while selling them to other slaadi. On the other hand, especially if they might be useful to him, he might treat those same acquaintances with some kindness. More than anything he was crude, and that was in addition to him being whimsical, flippant, and inconsistent.

Abilities
Wartle possessed a number of magical abilities he could use at will or once per day, depending on the ability. For instance, at will he could shift between his slaad and human forms and could also attempt to summon green slaad to aid him; he could also replicate the spells advanced illusion, darkness, 15' radius, flaming sphere, fireball, teleport without error, and true seeing. Once per day, he could replicate the effects of the spells power word, stun, transmute rock to mud, and wall of stone or iron

In combat, Wartle could utilize his claws and fangs, and his bite not only did physical damage, but also drained the vitality of victims.

Possessions
Wartle's favored weapon was an enchanted, dancing morning star. Typically he began battle in his human form before letting his weapon fight on its own and then transforming into his slaad form.

Relationships
Wartle was typically looked down on in Limbo, though a few lesser slaadi took a liking to him. He had met the violent wrath of the other slaad lords more than once for his frequent insults and rudeness, though he was would happily trade them slaves for favors.

History
Wartle was a slaad lord living in Limbo until a conflict with another slaad lord, Ygorl, resulted in Ygorl imprisoning him in a meteor. Ygorl then hurled the meteor at Mount Celestia, where it landed in the ocean of Lunia. Being an artifact of extreme chaos, the rock was repulsed by the holy water and landed upon an island. The island housed a citadel, whose astral deva commander ordered the rock brought into his fortress for further study. Unfortunately, while the commander was away on urgent business in Solania, the chaotic radiation from the transformed Wartle drove the other celestials completely insane.

It was unknown what the celestials did with the meteor after containing him. It was possible that Wartle, encased in the metorite, was brought to Chronias to be completely destroyed; or that the lords of Celestia sent him back to Limbo to continue annoying the other slaad lords and to teach them that Mount Celestia was not to be used as the slaad lords' dumping ground.