Vijil Oriak

A human paladin of the Order of the Watching Eye, part of Nameless Soefra Party.

Joined the coastal defense militia/guard once out of school at 18. Spent a few years doing the usual on ships, islands, occasional skirmishes with smugglers and monsters.  Became a scout/spy due to a certain natural talent for it.  Came up river and met old friends from school based on a recommendation to my superiors by my mentor, Nestorious ...

Married Jenna (who he helped rescue from an alternate timeline) and became Lord of Morton's Thumb and booze dealer.

Personality

I would rather make a new friend than a new enemy. I now always have a plan for what to do when things go wrong.

Ideals: People. I’m loyal to my friends, not to any ideals, and everyone else can take a trip down the Styx for all I care.

Bonds: Someone I loved died because of a mistake I made - I trusted a fool. That will never happen again.

Flaw: I sat silent while someone was tried and imprisoned for something I know he did not do. My silence was my form of payback for the decision they made that got a friend  of ours killed, and me badly injured, during a scouting  mission...even though I also made a judgment error, I blamed him.

Koans

Vijil is known for his cryptic pronouncements relating to their adventures.

• How far into a song will you go to bring back a concept?
• If an evil one betrays evil allies, is that a good or a double evil?
• When you give someone named Mordred their parole, how long will it be before they turn foul again?
• When the verdict is known before the court convenes, must the kangaroo leap to conclusions, or simply laugh?
• If you can become immortal, should you?
• If it has a face that only a mother of monsters could love, can you kill it?
• When opposing chaotic corruption with an army of monsters, how does one tell the difference?
• When tempus machina rush in where angels fear to tread, are they fools or heroes? (Editor: Yes).
• By destroying despair, what happens to hope, the other side of the eternal coin?

Haiku

He's also known for his haikus based on his adventures.

Wedding Crashers

Disrupt fiend conspiracy

On the road Again

Radiant egg tomb

Tempus Machina fells fiends

Cabal's brooch in hand

Wytch storm warning flags

Fai's ward busting couch session

Jo'Raani still dotes

Silver dragon saved

Two Moon cataclysm foiled

Haughty elves bicker

Drowning trap despoiled

Flaming, Stinking attacks foiled

Cult betrayed, then slain

Trust betrayed by two

Ambush in Varanasi

Lysander eats fire

Offers of escape

Warned to duck when feline leaps

Imperial court farce

Court intrigues and guile

Emperor calls down firestorm

Gleaner reaps his soul

Angel's commission

Korv'al'zagan offers tips

Corruption down south

Gibberer falls far

We meet the monster mother

Magic airship ride

A stealthy approach

Mother of Battles Descends

Aberrants, begone!

Angels fall, mud slides

Fai floats up, chain skull thrown down

Into the portal

Three dark mirrors break

Charn's towers erupt, node destroyed

Awakened knights ascend

Adversary's dream

Dark words bind hope with despair

To the moon, Nameless!

Mommy dearest's shade

Jo'Vasha stunned in a maze

Awakened brand chutney

Knights of Solitude

By words enchained in crystal

Freed by blade and claw

In a nightmare the Nameless one made Tempus Machina fought beloved shades Crystal prison shells shatter

Charn's white towers now flatter

The accepted knights laid down their blades