We literally stumbled upon Agenar just as we began our recent adventures, seemingly just another drunk in a ditch. But the hooded man is more than he appears. Although painfully thin (and filthy) when he joined our party, and quite ragged still, he’s breathtakingly handsome for a human. So much so that I suspect he’s not just human. But Agenar reveals little of himself directly, and instead, tends to speak through actions and exploits.
A cleric who wears the symbol of Tiamat on his cloak, which automatically making him a rather suspicious character, Agenar’s magic is both divine and arcane – a rather unusual combination of studies, to be sure. After all, why would a disciple of Tiamat have learned divine magic? Nonetheless, he’s among the first to cast a healing spell, and has repeatedly made generous and compassionate gestures, albeit hidden beneath gruff words.
Agenar drinks much, brags much, wanders off and gets into trouble far too often, and yet continues to solidly contribute to our tribe’s adventures. I think we too easily dismiss the good that he does because of the noisy showmanship of his less desirable behaviors — eating psychoactive mushrooms, getting Val too drunk to stay awake through her watch, engaging Bob the skeleton in battle, causing injury to himself and deaths for others by telling stories that we all knew shouldn’t have been told, and on and on. But he has healed others at least as often as he’s been the recipient of healing and doesn’t waver from jumping into the fray when our tribe is attacked.
And yet Agenar alone did not agree to provide notice to the group before heading off on his own, because of course, he had already wandered off again when this topic was discussed. Agenar’s behavior became even more erratic as we approached and entered Dranseri, clearly a familiar place for him. He seems to have enemies in the Queen’s city, which comes as little surprise given his tendency to stir up trouble. He mentioned his family’s inn to us before vanishing into the busy city streets, yet when we went to patronize The Lucky Penny, we found it vacant. Teal broke the news to Agenar after our first round of combat in the arena — just after I took a swing at him in a fit of ill-placed irritation over his desertion of the tribe, but fortunately missed my mark — and Agenar vanished again, presumably in search of his family. We have no sense of when we might cross paths with him next, but I suspect he’ll turn up again, like a bad penny.
UNOMAHA D&D 