Nhyris D'Hothek

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Nhyris D'Hotek
Home	Formerly Skullport
Gender	Male
Race	Yuan-ti
Class 3rd ed. rules	Fighter 3 Horned Harbinger 1 {{{5}}} {{{6}}} {{{7}}} {{{8}}} {{{9}}} {{{10}}} {{{11}}} {{{12}}} {{{13}}} {{{14}}} {{{15}}} {{{16}}} {{{17}}} {{{18}}} {{{19}}} {{{20}}}
Alignment	Chaotic evil
Patron deity	Unknown
Source: SK, p. 143

Nhyris D'Hothek is a nephew of Zstulkk Ssarmn. He has served as a sullen, lazy, but ruthlessly capable jailer in his uncle's organization, the Iron Ring Consortium. Eventually, he happened upon the powerful artifact known as the Crown of Horns, which was imbued with the essence of the fallen god Myrkul. Realizing that it was an object of great power, he wore it for a time.

The crown transformed Nhyris into a lichlike creature. The changes it wrought drove him into an open split with Zstulkk Ssarmn and his organization, and his uncle immediately set about hunting him down.

Contents 1 Physical description 2 Biography 3 Character 4 References

[edit] Physical description

Nhyris D'Hothek progressed a significant part of the way toward undeath while the Crown of Horns was in his possession. His skin has become black, his limbs have grown thin, and his hands and feet have withered into black, bony claws. His red, slitted eyes have gone dull. Six bone horns grow from his skull, and he wears long, cowled robes to conceal his appearance in public. He also employs powerful perfumes to quell the odor of decomposition that wafts from him.

[edit] Biography

Zstulkk hired many powerful mages to destroy his nephew since his fled from the Iron Ring consortium with the Crown of Horns. Nhyris escaped each time and was eventually forced to flee into Undermountain and thence into the wider Underdark. From there, he reached the surface world of Faerûn, wherein he has traveled widely.

Somewhere along the way, Nhyris lost the Crown of Horns, but he retains the mental and physical changes it wrought upon him. Secretive, brooding, and power-hungry, he is unwilling to accept commands from others but eager to wield power in a far less subtle way than the yuan-ti who follow the Sacred Way of Sseth. Nhyris delights in manipulations, malicious destruction, slave-dealing, and slaughter. He is always eager to seize magic items, and he doesn't hesitate to lurk in tombs, using undead to keep his foes from seeking him.

[edit] Character

Nhyris always shifts into snake form and flees when seriously threatened. He would rather take his revenge another day than fight fairly and openly, thereby risking destruction. He delights in forming short-lived organizations of humans and renegade yuan-ti, slaying or framing those who betray him, and treating all underlings as disposable.

[edit] References

• Ed Greenwood, Eric L. Boyd, Darrin Drader (July 2004). Serpent Kingdoms, p. 143. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-3277-5.