Sorrell Ilithaine was a wandering elven bard until the mid-13th century DR. He swore himself to Shevarash after the death of his wife and child, vowing to hunt drow unto death.[5]
Description[]
Personality[]
After the death of his family, Sorrell lost the will to sing, leaving only an ice-cold, all-consuming desire for revenge.[6] He still didn't enjoy killing,[7] and in extreme moments, wondered about the fate of his soul.[8]
Abilities[]
He had practiced thoroughly with the club for six months, becoming deftly proficient in it.[5] Before that, he'd been a bard, and was able to use some measure of magic, including a spell that could put creatures, even driders, to sleep, presumably deep slumber.[9]
Possessions[]
Sorrell had once had a lute.[4] He later acquired a club made of gnarlwood, enchanted with a haste spell, and additional kit when he joined the Silent Slayers warband.[5]
Close to his chest, he kept always a lock of auburn hair, almost certainly belonging to his late wife, Dalmara.[6]
Activities[]
Until the last two years of his life, Sorrell was a bard and wandering musician. After the death of his wife and child, he dedicated himself to searching for information on the Blackened Fist,[4] and practicing with the club, intending to join the drow hunters of Shevarash.[5]
Relationships[]
Sorrell was married to Dalmara, and they had a son, Remmie.[4] After their deaths, he joined the Silent Slayers warband under Pendaran.[5] He was also the nephew of Alcorn Relhthorn.[1]
History[]
Sorrell's travels together with Dalmara brought him to the Satyrwood around 1320 DR, where they'd learned some songs from a harpist of the Redleaf Clan, Bronwynn, after being guided there by a centaur on a detour from Arrabar at Dalmara's insistence.[10] He'd also been to Amrutlar, years before his death.[2] After the birth of Remmie, on or around Year of the Weeping Moon, 1339 DR, Sorrell composed the Day is Done lullaby to help soothe the infant to sleep.[9]
At some point in the Year of the Behir, 1342 DR, Sorrell and Dalmara stopped for an evening at the Old Skull Inn in Shadowdale, on the way to Tilverton, with their son Remmie. During a moment of distraction, their son wandered into the cellars, where drow were at the moment attempting an infiltration, to stage a kidnapping of a famous mage of the region. Though they were found and repelled before they could even emerge from the cellar, the drow had already slain the stray infant to silence him. Dalmara, aware that he was unpledged, decided to follow the child into the Fugue Plane, and took her own life. Sorrell then became single-mindedly driven towards revenge,[4] making an oath never to sing or laugh again.[9]
Through the following two years, he sought all the information he could on the drow (who had blackened their arms with pitch), discovering they were an order known as the Blackened Fist, though he could find out very little else.[4] For six months before Midwinter, he practiced with the club with what warriors he could until he was able enough with it.[5] Then on Midwinter of the Year of Moonfall, 1344 DR, he joined the Shevarashan faith at the Vault of Unquenched Vengeance, becoming sworn to him. The morning afterwards, there was an attack by more drow of the Blackened Fist on Cormanthor.[9]
He interrupted a council meeting to petition his uncle, Councilor Relhthorn, to join the Shevarashan warband that would be sent in response.[1] The priest that had taken his oath during the ceremony at the Vault, Pendaran, was also the leader of the band that was sent out; he allowed Sorrell in their ranks immediately.[5]
Sorrell joined them in their trip through a portal to the Yuirwood, and then to the Underdark; there, he was captured by a drider while scouting ahead of the group. The monster disabled him quickly, but still conscious, Sorrell had a flash of what he believed was divine inspiration, with Shevarash himself commanding him to sing a lullaby. Sorrell obeyed, despite his oath to never again laugh or sing, and disabled the drider in turn, putting it to sleep.[9]
The drider was magically charmed by Pendaran, who asked about the band of drow they were pursuing; the drider revealed the corpse of one of them, and was promptly slain by Nairen, a fellow member of the warband, despite Pendaran's protest it should've been his kill.[11] During the questioning of the corpse, Sorrell came up with the idea to ask the dead body what was the name of their destination, thus providing information that Koora, another member of the warband, was able to use to magically determine the location.[12]
Teleporting into the Monastery of the Black Fist, the warband quickly came across the other members of the drow scouting party, and slew them, earning Sorrell his first kill, and leading to the death of Nairen. Unfortunately, a drow infant came across them in the monastery. Sorrell quickly wrestled it, meaning to use a spell to lull the boy to sleep, which the rest of the band did not care for. They warned him to kill the child immediately to silence him, and when his objections (and magical singing) didn't stop, they killed him and the child too.[7]
Sorrell found himself accompanying the child in the Fugue Plane, unsurprised that no god had claimed his soul.[3]
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lisa Smedman (February 2006). “Necessary Sacrifices”. Realms of the Elves (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-7869-3980-X.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lisa Smedman (February 2006). “Necessary Sacrifices”. Realms of the Elves (Wizards of the Coast), p. 114. ISBN 0-7869-3980-X.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lisa Smedman (February 2006). “Necessary Sacrifices”. Realms of the Elves (Wizards of the Coast), p. 141. ISBN 0-7869-3980-X.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Lisa Smedman (February 2006). “Necessary Sacrifices”. Realms of the Elves (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 132–135. ISBN 0-7869-3980-X.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Lisa Smedman (February 2006). “Necessary Sacrifices”. Realms of the Elves (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 110–113. ISBN 0-7869-3980-X.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Lisa Smedman (February 2006). “Necessary Sacrifices”. Realms of the Elves (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 105–107. ISBN 0-7869-3980-X.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Lisa Smedman (February 2006). “Necessary Sacrifices”. Realms of the Elves (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 136–140. ISBN 0-7869-3980-X.
- ↑ Lisa Smedman (February 2006). “Necessary Sacrifices”. Realms of the Elves (Wizards of the Coast), p. 135. ISBN 0-7869-3980-X.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Lisa Smedman (February 2006). “Necessary Sacrifices”. Realms of the Elves (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 125–127. ISBN 0-7869-3980-X.
- ↑ Lisa Smedman (February 2006). “Necessary Sacrifices”. Realms of the Elves (Wizards of the Coast), p. 124. ISBN 0-7869-3980-X.
- ↑ Lisa Smedman (February 2006). “Necessary Sacrifices”. Realms of the Elves (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 128–129. ISBN 0-7869-3980-X.
- ↑ Lisa Smedman (February 2006). “Necessary Sacrifices”. Realms of the Elves (Wizards of the Coast), p. 131. ISBN 0-7869-3980-X.