Darius Fengate, Tethyrian Echo Knight – D&D Character

An adventurous fighter with a noble background and accomplice to the notorious Thieflings I drew on commission!
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Character: Darius Fengate, Tethyrian Echo Knight
Darius Fengate’s birth was the last time Amanda Fengate was ever directly regarded by her birth family, a distant branch of the Von Kessels of Drakkenheim. Her brother, Mortimus Valthar Von Kessel, was said to have taken great joy in being the one to deliver the news to her as she lay recovering with her newborn son. His father, Ajax Fengate, tried his best to provide for his newborn son and distraught wife. However, his career as a merchant was never truly successful, and by the time of Darius’ adolescence, he had disappeared at sea, his ship lost in a vicious storm off the Sword Coast.
After his father’s passing, Darius took to helping his mother pick up the pieces of the business, and it was in this semi-official position that he met Reverie. As an exotic boy with strange eyes, no small amount of coin on his person, and a desperately well-kept outfit, Darius seemed the perfect mark for the ambitious and self-aware beauty with a devil’s horns and a god’s stolen power. Head-over-heels he fell for her and was filled with pride inflated by her advances. He lied about his position as a low-end merchant widow’s son and used his access to a patriar’s empty summer home to consummate their shotgun wedding.
Perhaps their connection would have ended soon after the dalliance and would-be robbery if not for their brief misadventure after being caught in the patriar’s bed by servants in the morning. All deceptions were soon laid bare, and affections were quickly turned into the trauma-bound start to a fast friendship. He was introduced to the twins Urrai and Katan, and he soon became complicit in so many of their cons and schemes. If not for his mother’s own simmering racism towards the Thieflings, all might have been considered ideal for a few years. However, despite the years of growing together, change was inevitable.
What began as a series of threats to the Thieflings from anti-Tiefling authorities within the city ended when Darius, identified as one of their accomplices, was captured. His mother was quick to turn on the Thieflings, landing Darius a forced position in the Flaming Fists and the Thieflings a swift exile from the City of Murder. Though it is likely the Thieflings themselves might not know why they were caught, Darius suspected his mother’s hand for some time, and recently had his beliefs confirmed to his disgust and guilt.
In the years that followed, Darius eventually left the guard and took up the life of a mercenary and occasional bandit, resenting in part the loss of his friends and the perceived betrayal of his mother. In a stroke of ironic luck, his “exile” proved his salvation in the purges of the Von Kessel family. Though his mother was spared for her distance and lack of would-be standing in Amn, the assassin’s efforts after him proved fruitless in Baldur’s Gate, and nearly fatal in the wilderness, stopped only by a mysterious mirage of Darius’ own form that came to his aid, a mirage that felt like Reverie’s magic.
Now on the hunt for the one who sent the assassin and driven to understand just how and why his essence seems bolstered by Rev’s magic, Darius travels south to find answers and enact revenge.
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