Gorion

Ever beleaguered, the stalwart sage Gorion with an aspect of a kind father masking a frazzled old man, despite only being forty five years old. Gorion was born in 1333, as a bastard to an indiscrete seeker. He was raised in Candlekeep until he was 15 years of age, at which point he was given the choice of swearing oaths to become a monk...or leave with nothing but the clothes on his back and a stave. He chose the latter.

Thus began the short career of Gorion, the mage who would join the harpers in Waterdeep, wound mighty dragons, and hound the cult of the dead god Bhaal. It was twenty years ago that he went on the fateful raid that would come to dominate his life. Outside Daggerford, a small temple of Ilmater stood. Gorion tracked down the cult of Bhaal to the basement of this temple by triangulating kidnappings of infants.

What he saw down there was seared into his memory. The bodies of infants strewn on the floor, their blood pooled in a basin where another child was about to be sacrificed. He saved only two children. Without parents, Gorion chose to give them the childhood he was given and returned to Candlekeep to take vows. His research led him to a horrific conclusion: His new ward potentially is the vessel by which Bhaal will rise from his grave.