Name: Curumë Class: Rogue / Warlock (The Fiend) Race: Half-Elf Age: Approaching his thirties in human years Gender: Male (he/him) Height: Standing at 180cm Appearance: Golden eyes and hair that cascade down his shoulders in shades of light-blond to white, giving him a slender and otherworldly allure.
Patron: The Unmaking Flame (Fiend)
Motivation: Freedom and Control over his Destiny, saving his companions, Destruction of his Patron and Defiance of his Pact Conflict: A Pact with a Fiend, guaranteeing his freedom but also exacting a heavy price on his autonomy, as well as his friends Personality: A free spirit who thrives outside the confines of convention, Curume is known for his cocky, anti-authoritarian, opportunistic, hedonistic, and thrill-seeking nature. While he exudes an ambiguous optimism that draws others in, his temper often gets the better of him.
Before embracing his current life as a warlock, Curumë led a small criminal syndicate in Luskan (verse dependent). Most of his work involved low- to mid-level thefts and heists—enough to secure a life of comfort beyond rules and regulations. Why toil within society’s constraints when skirting them could be far more profitable?
Yet Curumë wasn’t entirely without morals. When he could, he shared his ill-gotten gains with his crew and with friends in the criminal underworld. One commission, however, stood out: a break-in at the home of a bizarre, reclusive wizard rumored to be obsessed with ancient history, cults, and arcane artifacts. To others, the man was just eccentric. To Curumë, he was an irresistible challenge.
The job went sideways in the wizard’s library—a labyrinth of cryptic documents, enigmatic relics, and ancient tomes. Curumë found what his client paid for, but something else caught his attention: a set of mysterious notes and a map lavishly adorned, both hinting at an ancient temple and a treasure said to grant freedom to all. He handed over most of the loot to his client and gang, but kept the map and the notes for himself.
Over the following months, Curumë obsessed over them. The script was unfamiliar, archaic—until he finally identified it as Abyssal, a fiendish tongue. The revelation only sharpened his fixation. If the notes were true, the map led to an ancient temple and riches vast enough to change everything.
Despite Caydranth’s warnings, Curumë led his gang into the wilderness in search of it, cutting through dense undergrowth as the map drew them deeper and deeper into ruin.
Inside the temple, the air turned wrong. Treasures glittered in the dark, but one object commanded Curumë’s attention: an abyssal dagger resting on a sinister altar. The moment he touched it, the doors sealed shut. A fiendish presence flooded the chamber, and his companions went rigid—paralyzed, unable to flee, speak, or fight.
The Unmaking Flame had come to claim her tribute.
Curumë watched in horror as she delighted in the thought of dragging them to a hellish prison for their audacity. In desperation, he fought for a single moment of speech and offered the only thing he had left to bargain with: his soul, in exchange for their freedom.
She accepted—on her terms.
Curumë was spared, bound by contract, while his gang was taken. It was not enough to save them, not enough to keep his found family from vanishing into the Hells. Left alone in the ruined silence with the taste of ash and failure in his mouth, Curumë swore he would bring down the Unmaking Flame and save the friends he had lost—only for her laughter to follow him into the dark: “Let’s see if you are clever enough to save your friends, my dear warlock. I will be waiting.”
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The ultimate goal of Curumë’s patron, the Unmaking Flame, is to be freed from her prison. Her demands are framed through subtle manipulation, guiding Curumë onto a path of destruction — of both the seals that bind her to her realm and of himself.
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