Henry the Shadow Master was the illusionist husband of Matilda the White Lady and one of the retired adventurers inhabiting the Nellie Thursday Home for Experienced Adventurers sometime in the mid-to-late 14th century DR.[1]
Description[]
Henry was a short man compared to his wife, reaching only 5 feet and 6 inches (1.7 meters) but stooped down to 5 feet and 3 inches (1.6 meters) and weighing 98 pounds (44 kilograms). He had gray hair and black eyes.[2]
Personality[]
Unlike his boisterous and domineering wife, Henry was a quiet and reserved man who liked to let Matilda take charge and make decisions.[2]
Possessions[]
Henry defended himself with magic items, such as cloak of protection and bracers of defense. He was armed with a wand of paralyzation.[1] The illusionist owned a unique multidimensional bag of holding, known as Henry's carpetbag of holding, which contained all of his possessions. However, his forgetfulness often led to the wizard pulling surprising new items from the bag.[3] Other items of note in his possession included orthopedic shoes of dexterity and a sling of seeking.[2]
Abilities[]
Henry was fluent in several languages: Common, Luiric, Elvish, Dwarvish, Gnomish, Orcish, and the pixie language. As a mage, he was proficient in handling slings and daggers. He was also knowledgeable in the arts of healing and herbalism and was a capable horseback rider. His smoking habit led Henry to learn tobacco curing and smoking in his fanciful ivory dolphin-shaped pipe.[2]
History[]
In his younger days, Henry worked with a hin rogue named Sagrais Bigelow, who emptied pockets while the mage performed spells and tricks as a distraction.[2]
Henry the Shadow Master and Matilda the White Lady, his wife of forty years, retired to the Nellie Thursday Home for Experienced Adventurers together.[2] After retirement, Matilda managed to achieve a great feat—convincing Henry to stop smoking.[4] However, the wizard enjoyed a good pipe too much and just ensorcelled himself with Henry's hide-a-smell to be unsmellable and continued to inhale pipeweed smoke in secret from his beloved wife.[1] The spouses enjoyed their thirty years at Nellie Thursday in its elegant lodgings, and Matilda found its training area helpful in maintaining her physique.[2]
At the age of eighty-eight winters, Henry, accompanied by his wife and several other geriatric adventurers, embarked on a quest to find Wemic the Wise's old missing roommate. The quest ended up dragging them across several worlds, including[2] Olympus, where they met the deity Hermes;[5] the jungles of Quorsit;[6] and the demi-plane of Kansas, where he faced Simon the Illusionist in a duel and survived.[7]
Appendix[]
Appearances[]
- Adventures
- Experience Preferred: Part One • Experience Preferred: Part Two • Experience Preferred: Part Three
- Card Games
- AD&D Trading Cards
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Thomas M. Reid (1993). AD&D Trading Cards 1993 series, #89, "Henry the Shadow Master". TSR, Inc..
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 Tom Prusa (June 1992). “Experience Preferred, Part One”. In Jean Rabe ed. Polyhedron #72 (TSR, Inc.), pp. 17–18.
- ↑ Thomas M. Reid (1993). AD&D Trading Cards 1993 series, #78, "Henry's Carpetbag of Holding". TSR, Inc..
- ↑ Thomas M. Reid (1993). AD&D Trading Cards 1993 series, #83, "Matilda the White Lady". TSR, Inc..
- ↑ Tom Prusa (June 1992). “Experience Preferred, Part One”. In Jean Rabe ed. Polyhedron #72 (TSR, Inc.), p. 11.
- ↑ Tom Prusa (July 1992). “Experience Preferred, Part Two”. In Jean Rabe ed. Polyhedron #73 (TSR, Inc.), p. 7.
- ↑ Tom Prusa (August 1992). “Experience Preferred, Part III”. In Jean Rabe ed. Polyhedron #74 (TSR, Inc.), p. 16.