Rautom Maol
Description
A brief gleam of light absorbing black shines from the stoic expression of Rautom Maol. Canted ears and crimson eyes combine to expose the warrior’s breeding: drow. Rautom’s gaze shifts left and right, the male dark elf prosaically focused on the cavernous world around him. He typically wears long, iron-white hair back in a bound ponytail, so that it offers less of a distraction. Paying attention is absolutely vital in the Lower Kingdom. Even his finely crafted shirt of mithral links could not save him from a serious ambush if he fails to see it coming. Rautom keeps a steady grip on a heavy war-pick in his right hand. Slung over his left shoulder is a triangle shield boasting the honorable blazon of House Inlindl. He is very much a man in a woman’s world, well aware of his place at all times.
History
Rautom Maol was birthed 107 years ago in the drow city of Valesril. Of humble origins, every breath was a struggle. Not because he had any lung disease, but because his low origins demanded he exert his will all the more forcefully. He sought opportunities as a young mercenary and bodyguard. Unfortunately, he overstepped his bounds when he lashed out and struck a noblewoman. He was immediately arrested and sentenced into slavery. Rautom was sent to the mines, there to be worked to death. He was one of the few drow in that fate, and his strength and endurance was put to constant test by the non-drow that hated his race. Eventually, he earned the orcs’ and humans’ and dwarves’ and goblins’ and others’ reluctant respect for his tenacity and wit.
Thus, Rautom spotted a new opportunity. Over the years of laboring in those ugly iron and copper mines, Rautom learned the patterns of the guards and overseers. Carefully, he began to plot escape. One by one, he lured his fellow prisoners into the plot. But the plot was a trap. He inspired the revolt and escape attempt, only to betray them all and feed “the ringleaders” to the elven lords. Rautom in turn was taken out of the mines at last and drawn into House Inlindl after demonstrating his sense of solidarity was, and always would be, to his own kind. Of course, he had better not ever return to those mines… Once out of the mines and training with the Inlindl, he eventually won a vital mission as a bodyguard. No longer was he a mercenary but a permanent retainer for a noble priestess.
Personality
Rautom was born with elite potential, but the low birth kept him down and out of luck for decades. The long wait never dulled his attention though, and he seized his opportunities with the willful intention of any proud son of Sivarnatta. His cunning is outmatched only by his calculated ferocity in battle. Today, he is a humble bodyguard, expected to lay down his life for his principal. But Rautom intends to climb the ranks higher, as high as any male drow can ever expect to reach, one day becoming a great general serving the matriarch.
Goals
Rautom will pursue primarily the fighter class though may take some wizard levels to capitalize on his natural elven arcane talents.
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