Name: Tezcatlipoca (Although after time in the demons armies he has learned that most won't refer to him by his full name, and has gotten used to being called Tez.)
Character: Tez is a Keaman shaman. Seemingly driven, but often quick to become distracted. Except for when it comes to those who he considers part of his 'tribe' he doesn't think of others as 'people' and places no value on their life or possessions. He prefers to fight with long ranged weapons or magic.
Background: Tezcatlipoca was born to a wandering tribe of Keamen thieves. From a very young age he showed a strong connection and interest in the various gods that his tribe worshiped, and so the aging shaman took him under his wings and taught him what he knew of the tribes history, religion, and magics. Eventually the old Shaman died, and Tez stepped into his role as religious leader to his tribe. At about this time the demons dark crusade had reached the isolated mountains that his tribe had lived in, and the tribal chieftain saw this as a chance for the tribe to become something greater then thieves and scavengers, and to burn his own name into the tribes history. And so the tribe of Keamen that Tez was part of (as well as many of the other local tribes) joined the goblin armies.
The Keas first worked as harassment or scouting forces, but eventually with contact with civilization they found in their hands proper weapons, crossbows or bows (stolen elvish bows were a rare favorite) became the weapon of choice for the keas, and Taz was no exception, he found that he delighted in battle, casting spells and shooting with his bow from on high. Despite many casualties among the Keamen from their inability to wear armor many of them felt that the war was the high point of their species existence, loot was in plentiful supply, and if one tribe got too depleted from the fighting it would simply be absorbed by another, stronger tribe.
Life went on like this for a while, but eventually the Keas numbers dwindled and the armies of darkness started to lose the war. Where Keas had originally owned the skies and struck at defenders in surprise attacks they now found ranks of marksmen ready and willing to fell them by the score as they attacked. The tribes withered and died, Tezs own tribe fairing slightly better because of his command over shamanistic magics, and soon found itself in a position of strength, and it absorbed all the other tribes, becoming the largest tribe in memory. Although Tez and a few others realized that their success might not be as complete as it appeared, a majority of the tribe, including the chieftain, were amazed by their own power and size, believing that the recent losses had been nothing but a temporary set back that would soon be rectified. This division in the tribe festered for days, as Tez and the chieftain argued in private about whether or not they should continue their service in the armies of the demon. Eventually Tez decided that for the good of the tribe that he should become the new leader, and thus hatched a plan with what followers he could find to assassinate the chieftain.
Disaster struck though, as one of confidants spilled the secret to the chieftain, and on the appointed day Tez and his followers were ambushed. Most were killed in the fight, but Tez was taken alive and tortured by the chieftain. Displaying Tezs clipped wings and broken body to his remaining followers the chieftain offered them the mercy of renouncing their alliance to Tez, or getting their wings clipped and cast out from the tribe. They all elected to remain in the tribe, and Tez was cast out, barely surviving. This happened to be salvation though, as the tribe of Keas was brutally destroyed by the forces of good over the next few months of fighting, their repeated suicidal attacks on the fortresses of dwarfs and men and elves killing them almost down to a man. Tez retreated back into the lands held by the darkness, over the next year tending to his wounds and regrowing his feathers, barely managing to eak out a living. Now that the armies of darkness are broken and the demon he once called master dead Tez is lost in the world. His tribe is dead, his kind is certainly going to be hunted to almost extinction like the other creatures of the darkness. He's since found his way to this last bastion of evil populated by other dregs of darkness, but from here he knows not what to do or where to go.
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