The Red Devil

Opharin Chari Kothar - Opharin The Red Devil, a dragon born bred within the walls of The City of Stairs of Scholantis has been in captivity for the majority of his life. He was apprehended many years before the construction of the Allura by a specialist group known as the Darkwood Company. A large bounty (not the first or last) was placed upon his head after a string of murders in the Old World which were seemingly committed by a group of individuals who would feed on their victims while the blood was still warm. A ritual known within many communities as an act of servitude to the blood god Orcus. The reality was far more disturbing than originally perceived. The Red Devil suffers from a rare magically disorder of the mind and body determined by Sir Morden Darkwood in his studying the murders complied with his experimental research preformed after the Capture of the dragonborn. Though a name was never officially recorded for the disorder its explanation has been recorded in several hundred classified logs filed by Darkwood over the course of many years. The experiments were brutal, but confirmed Darkwwods suspicion that Opharin was in fact not a single mind or body, but potentially hundreds of unique personalities held within a single vessel. These personalities when buried would remain silent, but upon them surfacing the powers, awareness, and even physical appearance of the dragon would change, granting the consciousness a vast range of abilities. Some of these individuals were savage, others supremely intelligent, and rarer still some were innocent of the crimes committed by the others, some where of a legitimate peaceful mind, demonstrating kindness and good intent. But the truth of the matter is that his crimes were great, and ultimately his freedom was forfeit until the time Sir Morden Darkwood's research yielded no new results, and his life would be forfeit too.

The fear of the people was that The Cube would fail and the Red Devil would be loosed upon the world once more. A fear that was not un warranted for during the massive attack on The City of Stairs in Scholantis, home to the Cube, and cell of the Devil, an airship crashed. Its frame crumbling into the walls crushing The Cube's defence and freeing the Red Devil. Taking on one of his less intimidating forms Opharin paired with a man called Pippy a top an Allenko acid rider, allowing his quick departure from the city as the authorities dealt with the Glass Cult's attack upon the city. The allegiance with Pippy lasted as long as the rider has fuel, which was as far as the closest Allenko outpost flotilla. The Research station held no chance against the Red Devil of which he tore through in a matter of hours, killing everyone aboard.

Another bounty was placed upon his head after his escape from the Cube, a bounty taken up by the crew of the Allura. They were able to track the Devil to the flotilla outside of Ven Derberg, and make their way to the control room where they were forced to kill a number of his personas before subduing him to the point of capture.

He spent the next several weeks in the brig of the Alllura were he seemed to reserve his interactions with the crew to a tepid civility, revealing only his kinder side. Wether this was a tactic in order to illicit trust from his captures, or if these personas were simple unaware fully of their actions was unclear. Eventually the Allura delivered the Red Devil to a second Cube in the Silkl Sand Stretch into the hands of Sir Morden Darkwood himself, for the reward of 50000 gp.

Mere months past before the word came down from the top. Darkwood had called for the execution of Opharin Chari Kothar and all subsequent personas by incineration... but unfortunately for the Darkwood facility, one of his personas was not willing to go down without a fight to the death. Once again the dragonborn utilized a dormant ability in order to plow through the Cube and eventually lock claws with Sir Morden himself, a fate of which saw the Devil Escape, and Sir Morden missing.