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| ALI CR 12 Complete Warrior pages 11 and 25 Male human Ranger 2/Fighter 2/Swashbuckler 3/Dervish 5 CG Medium humanoid (human) Init +5; Senses Track; Listen +16, Spot +7 Languages Vashti, Ancient Morakki, Common, Dwarvish, Morakki AC 24, touch 17, flat-footed 19; AC bonus, Combat Expertise, Dodge, Elusive Target (diverting defense), Mobility hp 87 (12 HD); Elusive Target (negate power attack) Resist fire 10 Fort +9, Ref +12, Will +5; grace Spd 40 ft (8 squares); fast movement Melee Desert Wind +19/+14/+9 (1D6+7 plus 1 fire) Melee +1 flaming scimitar +18/+13/+8 (1D6+6 plus 1D6 fire/15) Melee +2 spiked chain +14/+9/+4 (2D4+8) Melee +1 shadow striking rapier +17/+12/+7 (1D6+6) Melee +1 flaming scimitar +16/+11/+6 (1D6+5 plus 1D6 fire/15) and Desert Wind +17/+12 (1D6+6 plus 1 fire/15) Ranged composite longbow +16/+11/+6 (1D8+2) Space 5 ft; Reach 5 ft Base Atk +12; Grp +15 Atk Options insightful strike, Mage Slayer Special Actions dance of death, dervish dance 3/day (6 rounds), Elusive Target (cause overreach), howling wind 3/day, Spring Attack, Quickdraw (with Desert Wind only) Combat Gear Desert Wind (+2 defending scimitar, +1 fire damage, endure elements, fiery slash 3/day [burning hands, 5D4 fire damage, DC 14], howling wind 2/day [gust of wind DC 15], Quickdraw feat with weapon), +1 flaming scimitar, Fate of the Undevoured (+1 undead bane scimitar), +1 jade ghost touch dagger, +2 spiked chain, +1 shadow striking rapier, composite longbow (+2 Str bonus), cold iron arrows (20), wand of cure light wounds (CL 1, 25 charges), potion of cure moderate wounds (CL 3), potion of cure light wounds (5) (CL 1), potion of resist energy (fire) (CL 3), potion of jump (CL 1), Hagistre's draught Abilities Str 15, Dex 20, Con 13, Int 17, Wis 12, Cha 17 SQ endure elements, favoured enemy (abberrations +2), movement mastery, slashing blades, Touch of Mergurr 2 Feats Combat Expertise, Dodge, Elusive Target, Improved Critical (scimitar), Improved Two-Weapon Fighting, Least Legacy (Desert Wind), Lesser Legacy (Desert Wind), Mage Slayer, Mobility, Spring Attack, Track, Two-Weapon Fighting, Weapon Finesse, Weapon Focus (scimitar) Skills Balance +8, Bluff +8, Escape Artist +19, Handle Animal +9, Hide +6, Jump +8, Knowledge (dungeoneering) +7, Knowledge (geography) +6, Knowledge (nature) +10, Listen +16, Move Silently +8, Perform (dance) +17, Ride +15, Sense Motive +5, Spellcraft +5 (+0.5 ranks), Spot +7, Survival +7 (+9 in aboveground natural environments), Swim +2, Tumble +19, Use Rope +5 (+7 to bind someone) Possessions combat gear, rod of splendour, +2 chain shirt, amulet of natural armour +1, ring of minor energy resistance (fire), slippers of spider climbing, eight diagram coins (minor), brooch of plenty talisman, ring of blurring, masterwork potion belt, animal call (desert cat), diamonds (11) (100 gp), pearls (25) (100 gp), mask of Thelyshki- Nar |
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Ring of Blurring Price (Item Level): 8,400 gp (12th) This silver ring is set with a large stone that seems to swirl with the colours of the prism. Its wearer may activate a blur spell on himself 3/day. Presrequisites: Forge Ring, blur |
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Hagistre's Draught This is a mixture of potent sleep poison and toxic ingested venom. There is a single DC 25 Fortitude save for the draught. Failure means sleep within 1 round and 3d6 Con damage 2 rounds thereafter. A minute later, a second DC 25 Fortitude save must be made or another 3d6 Con damage will be taken. There is enough draught within for 4 doses. Note that the initial save can be automatically failed by an imbiber, but the secondary save must be checked normally. |
Experience Points: 78,022.
Ali was born in 5516 to the nomads of the Wylag desert. As a child he studied the ways of the ultimate warriors and protectors of his people, the Dervishes. A nomadic people, his tribe and his family survived by hauling goods from Xydlont and Hamasha. The tribe controlled two of the key oases along the trade route and therefore held great power in the region. Their leader was a great man and a legendary Dervish, Ali Abzeed. Ali's father was his closest friend and led the peoples' council.
Ali was honored beyond words when Ali Abzeed took him as his first and only student. He was taken into the leader's home and raised as a son. Ali Abzeed had only his daughter whom he cherished above all else and she was allowed to train with Ali as an equal, something unheard of in most of the other desert tribes. The Wylag Desert is a brutal place and most tribes treat their women as chattel, but Ali Abzeed treated them as equals. Many tribes used this as a reason to hate Ali's tribe but most suspected greed and envy were the true motives. Ali's tribe thrived beyond all his neighbors and they became a unifiying force among all the tribes as they began to adopt the tribe's customs and trade practices. Only the Caliph of all the desert people held more power. And the Caliph was very firmly against Abzeed's customs and the treatment of women as equals
On the day of his 15th birthday, Ali's family's life was shattered when Angaralok the Blue (dragon) struck. The terrible beast razed his village at its primary oasis and destroyed a caravan resting there. The tribe drove it off eventually but they were devastated. The very next day, in something that can not be considered a coincidence, the Caliph arrived with his tribal warriors and those of several other lesser tribes.
The Caliph's arrogant son surprised everyone by demanding single combat against Abzeed. It was a laughable contest; the boy was a second rate wu-jen, or so all thought. Abzeed accepted since it would allow him to turn away the Caliph's forces until another day. As they began to discuss the rules of the combat the treacherous wizard threw three daggers. Not at Abzeed, but at his daughter Alia did he hurl them. As Abzeed moved to protect Alia, the wizard read the final word of a fell scroll of great power, instantly summoning some sort of demon which slew Abzeed from behind. With his dying breath Abzeed threw Ali his scimitar and looked to his family and said, "Protect them."
Abuela, Abzeed's wife, was also trained in the way and instantly killed the wizard. The irate Caliph ordered his bowmen to open fire. As Abuela hit the ground the Caliph ordered the bowmen to finish the last of Abzeed's line, Alia, a worthless waste of water as a lone girl. Ali felt he had to act the one way the Caliph would understand. He claimed Alia as his property, his wife. In accordance with the old ways the two were to be wed within two moons. The Caliph however did not subscribe to the old ways. Ali had to take her immediately or she was to be dealt with as any man in the camp saw fit.
Until then, Ali could not imagine such shame as he dragged his best friend and the daughter of his mentor past his horrified family, the bodies of her dead parents and howling desert warriors. He whispered my apologizes to Alia but she only sobbed hysterically beyond all reason. Afterwards the Caliph's priest inspected Alia and confirmed that she was no longer a virgin and then the Caliph ordered Ali's tribe off to their secondary oasis.
Ali was banished from the tribe when he returned home. As leader of the council, it fell to his father to exile him. Neither his parents nor Alia would speak to him. He joined a caravan and served as the bodyguard of a powerful wu-jen for a year in exchange for passage far from the pain he had caused. Eventually Ali crossed the Oto Sea, taking the name Neko, and served with House Riverine.
After Lord Marco became Trade Lord, Ali left Riverine to return to the east, to try to clear his name and to wreak vengeance upon those who had wronged him, up to and including the fearsome great wyrm Angaralok the Blue. He spent a couple of years in disguise learning the lay of the land before being contacted by none other than Angarlok himself.
The ancient wyrm blue dragon informed Ali that he was dying and wished to be taken to the blue dragon graveyard, which had been cursed by the Lord of Palliag such that no dragon could enter it. Placing his soul into a gem, Ali gathered his Riverine friends and together they made their way to the draconic graveyard, battling the lich of the Lord of Palliag himself. Once there, the dragon's soul was laid to rest. And as a promised reward, the dragon bequeathed to Ali the mask of Thelyshki- Nar, a non-magical heirloom of Angarlok's. This mask was definitive proof of the dragon's demise.
Armed with the mask, Ali confronted the Caliph who, with the dragon's demise, was now unarguably the leader of the tribes and could be challenged to a duel for that leadership. In the duel that followed, Ali defeated the Caliph and took the title as Caliph of the Wylag tribes as his own. He now seeks to consolidate his holdings and subjects, improve trade with the west, and possibly regain the love of his life.
Ali has as an advisor a djinni bard whom he defeated during his quest to bury Angaralok's soul.