Deriq





When the pestilence came to the dwarven kingdom where Deriq Embershard made his livings, the Mountain Elder Council made the choice to close and seal the stone gates for the first time in four hundred years. Deriq had been traveling when the order was given and a message sent from his homeland informed him that he would have a fortnight to return before the gates would be closed. Having seen the pestilence effecting people he met on his travels, Deriq decided that he would not return to the safety of the mountains as long as there were people in the world who were helpless against the wrath of the plague.

Deriq also had his own, more personal reasons why he chose to stay away from the mountain kingdom he called home, but he never told anybody these closely kept secrets.

On his continued travels, Deriq met several people who shared his interests, and they banded together to form a class of alchemists. As a party, their primary goal was to use their alchemic powers to find a cure for the pestilence, but helping people in any way possible was also on their minds. It was this second idea that prompted them to adopt a young human sorcerer, named Akkos Rin, into their group.

Akkos and Deriq worked well together in the lab, and soon they were as close as thieves. It became official that Akkos would become Deriq's apprentice. Their group of alchemists never succeeded in forming a cure for the plague though, and when the pestilence died off, so did their party. Unsatisfied with the work he had done, Deriq chose once again to leave the place where he had spent so long working. With his apprentice Akkos, Deriq set off into the world to see what he could do to help the remaining people.