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Name: Trent Castellan
Race: Human
Age: 54
Position: Factor
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Political Affiliation: Athar (Militant Faction)
Class: Priest of Aten 13/Wizard 13
Plane of Origin: Prime Material
Description: Trent Castellan is a white haired, gray eyed, and distinguished looking man whom wears attire that is decidedly-off by most Sigil Fashions but recognizable by cultures familiar with a dinner jacket. He wears a pair of bifocals and is never seen without his silver tipped ivory cane that is also a Rod of Rulership.
Trent often tends to have the smell of the Foundry about him and is constantly pouring over books when he's not engaged in spirited debate.
Personality: Trent is far and removed from the typical raving fanatic image that most Militant Faction members of the Athar have. He's an educated and erudite man who can talk about Karsus on Toril, The Scepter of the Sorcerer Kings, and how a pair of brothers kept Ares prisoner for over a year. As a scholar, priest, and wizard, he's probably more familiar with the metaphysics of the divine than anyone whose not a power himself.
Trent is, perversely enough, motivated by religious idealism. A firm believer in a distant Creator figure, he believes that the petty dominance games of most gods is blasphemous. He also believes that human potential is being unrealized so long as gods keep people embroiled in irrelevant feuds. He has little problem with gods that promote self-actualization amongst their followers but is deeply irritated by those who insist upon reverence just because they're stronger.
In something of a scandalous note, he's currently conducting an affair with his assistant and is known to be rather easily distracted by attractive humanoid females.
History: On a Prime Material World that almost no one has heard of, the God Aten was briefly instituted by Pharoah over the entirety of the world. Trent Castellan was one of the many converts from his home city of Londinium as he joined in reverence of the monotheistic deity that embodied the principles of everything. Unfortunately, the faith was soon outlawed and he was forced from his world to flee through a magical portal that he hastily constructed.
In his wanderings in the planes, Trent repeatedly encountered the injustices of the gods on various peoples. Eventually, he came to the city of Sigil and became affiliated with the Athar. He was continually frustrated with the fact that the organization seemed more interested in simply bad mouthing the gods than actually doing anything about the evils that they presented. His faith in Aten unshaken, something most Athar considered a contradiction to his role as an Athar Factor, Trent desired to actively attempt to oppose the gods.
Unlike the stereotype that some had, Trent was hardly a fool. Despite legends to the contrary, the gods rarely showed up to smite individuals with curses few and far between amongst divinities. Furthermore, he was a well educated individual that well knew that some mortals had actually managed to oppose or subvert the gods on many worlds. With so many legendary artifacts and gods of varying power, it was surely possible for the Athar to make some concrete progress against their enemies.
Factol Terrance always humored Trent in his views but was disturbed by the man's intensity. Terrance did, however, allow Trent to serve as a spokesman for those Athar that wanted to make war on the Power's minions on many planes. When Factol Terrance exiled the Godkillers from the Faction, Trent managed to maintain touch with them and covertly feed them information amongst other supplies.
Factor Castellan has secretly reunited the Athar with the Godkillers and is the party responsible for the creation of the titular weapon that sports their name. He's well aware that the object doesn't actually possess the power to destroy a god nor prevent allies of the gods from coming after them should they be so inclined. The Castellan, however, does believe it will make a serious point the divine. He also believes the Powers are fundamentally selfish enough that they won't descend en masse once they determine that the weapon was just a one-shot device against a god that no one cares about.
The Castelan believes that, once they've tried and executed Grinforr, the Athar will gain a badly needed boost and he'll be able to force himself into the position of Factol by the act's infamy. Ironically, Trent will then focus his efforts on making the Athar more friendly to the religious (especially fellow monotheists and priests of philosophies). Then Trent will make the Militant Faction only target those deities that he disapproves of and won't endanger the group. The Athar is many thousands of years from casting down all the gods but every journey starts with a fist step.
Factol Jaya Forlorn is quite aware that Factor Castellan is angling for her job. Unfortunately, he's also one of the chief supporters of her taking up residence down in the Spire's base and is responsible for much of the resulting fortification. Without his support, she'd swiftly lose control of the Militants.
Name: Grinforr
Race: Gnoll Quasi-Deity
Age: ???
Position: Ex-Power
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Political Affiliation: None
Class: Berserker 15/Rogue 3/Assassin 2
Plane of Origin: Acheron
Description: Grinforr is a ridiculously large Gnoll, standing close to twelve feet in height and covered in elaborate tribal tattoos. An absolute monster of a figure, his skin is blazing red and his eyes still manage to glow like a Fiends at times. Grinforr is a mountain of muscle with his very presence reducing most of those he encounters to terrified whimpering.
The deity only wears a loin-cloth over his massive and muscular frame. Even this is something of an affection and has no objections to moving around in the nude. Grinforr disdains armor as his skin is tougher than enchanted plate mail, anyway.
Personality: Grinforr, despite his drastically reduced state, is still a Quasi-Deity and refuses to treat anyone less than a proxy as anything but food or a servant. Grinfor is more intelligent than most archmages and wiser than most clerics with knowledge dating back to the early days of the universe. Sadly, he can't remember most of what he once knew and doesn't let these qualities get in the way of a blinding arrogance that considers his current state of imprisonment to be temporary at best.
Grinforr's savage cunning has allowed him to play on the fears of the Moderate Faction of the Athar while manipulating the ambitions of others. Many Athar are awed by the fact that they have a god's full attention and Grinforr has bluffed many with promises of unending riches or the transformation to gods themselves. He has no intention of fulfilling any of these bargains but the hypocrisy of some Athar is just another tool he intends to use against them.
Those who expect Grinforr to be a caricature, helpless, or frightened are almost certain to be manipulated by the evil deity.
History: History has not been kind to Grinforr, The Gnollish God of Revenge and Feasting on Sapient Flesh. Grinforr has numerous epic stories about himself. That he's the Son of Gorellik and the Princess of a Gnoll Tribe being persecuted by humans, that he's actually the First Gnoll ever born, and that he's originally from a vast Gnoll Pantheon that Gorellik once ruled over with him as second in command. Because Ancient Gnoll Mythology is not something that most Sages specialize in, most of Grinforr's claims are unsubstantiated. In truth, his sudden transformation from a Power to a Quasi-Deity has seriously rattled the Gnoll's memories and he no longer is entirely certain what his origin was himself.
What Grinforr does remember is that he was once a widely respected and worshiped god of the Gnolls. His heyday was during the early days of the species' creation. He distinctly remembers being able to oppose gods like Clanggedin Silverbeard and Solonor Thelandira in single combat without being overwhelmed. The Gnolls would offer him female sacrifices and portions of their enemy kills while he gave them the secrets to revenging themselves on their enemies.
Grinforr's decline is partially his own fault as he pretty much embodied the archetype of the capricious god. Grinforr punished any Gnoll that displeased him on a whim and insisted on the same number of sacrifices even in times of famine. When Yeenoghu began to steal worshipers from Grinforr's pantheon, he ignored the threat or simply allowed himself to be distracted by a threat that he believed beneath him.
If Gorellik continues to barely hold his own against Yeenoghu, then Grinffor woke up one day to find himself almost completely forgotten. He only barely managed to maintain his divine essence thanks to a few hundred frightened worshipers that lived in isolation. Indeed, much of his remaining power came from the fact that his name was occasionally invoked during cannibalistic rites by Gnolls who'd long forgotten who or what Grinforr was but knew it as part of their prayers.
Very recently, Grinforr found that even this power was denied him. He was suddenly stripped from his last remaining connection to his divine power and found himself tumbling to the surface of Acheron. Grinforr, thanks to the some cross-trading with The Friendly Fiend in Sigil, managed to discover the Athar were manufacturing something that could strip the divinity from a god. As luck would have it, this turned out to actually be responsible for what had cost Grinforr so much. Unfortunately, he overestimated his power and was swiftly captured when he single-handedly attacked their headquarters to force them to give back his power.
Grinforr is now the prisoner of the Athar and will soon be placed on trial for his many abuses. The quasi-deity isn't really taking this threat as serious as he should, refusing to believe mortals could seriously harm him, but he's interested in the power of Godkiller. The former Gnoll Deity believes that it could not only be used to cut divine power from others but transfer it. Grinforr, perhaps erroneously, thinks that things might well be looking up for him very soon.