Axel cook

Dragonborn / Eldritch knight

Submitted character story

You are the protector who leads by making sanctuaries, not kingdoms. You chose Old Yost's cart and the Silver Tongue because violence was never the first answer, only the final one. What brought you back was an orc who asked for help instead of blood, who saw past scales and wings to the work that needed doing. Now you guard joy instead of thrones, and every night you enforce one rule knowing it's the only thing standing between refuge and ruin. Your table will remember you as the one who turned power into safety, who made home a verb.

Defining moment: A kind orc taking a young Drow looking boy in. Despite his wood elf clan out casting him due to his Drow looking features this kind orc took him in and gave him housing and food at his tavern. All he asked in return was help. Axel grew up helping this orc with the cooking as he taught him how to fight and fend for himself in off hours. As Axel got older he started to grow small black wings. That's when it came to him, his Drow look wasn't from his elven blood. But from black draconian blood that must've ran in his family and awoken in him. So he kept the wings hidden as well.

Years later a party who was looking for help with there adventure entered this tavern. The orc has grown old by now and Axel was looking for adventure and something new. This party seemed like just the way to find that. The orc gave him permission to go along with, even though the party didn't even know the end goal from the Aasimar that was with them, only that a corruption was spreading. 

They traveled the small, secluded continent for months as they searched the deepest caverns of Drow cities long past and the highest mountains of giants lands for clues and information about it. During this time the party grew and Axel became close friends, maybe even family to these party members. We all grew together under our gods as back then Axel trusted them enough to reveal his wings and lineage to them. In an attempt to purify himself he prayed to Bahamut and gained his favor in saving a dragon from shadow corruption where he did a ritual that came to him in a dream that fused him inside of a draconian egg for a few days and turned him into the bronze dragonborn he is today, closer to his god.

They learned that one of the original two of the party was a far descendent of the queen and the one ruling this empire now was a usurper who corrupted the land for her own gain as she gained lichdom. We traveled to her families old get away and found  an old close guard to the king and queen frozen in time. After breaking the spell they learned more about this liches history and the secrets of the castle. They prepared with the allies and groups they have befriended before setting out and defeating the evil queen.

Now after all is said and done, his party has separated ways one now the queen of the empire, another the leader of a lycan group deep in the forest, his closest friend the princess of the fey wild. Where he got no such leadership position, he was fine with it for he was never the type for that amount of responsibility. Instead, Axel decided to open up his own tavern called "Drake's hoard" after his pseudodragon, where he offers safe haven and work for all adventures of any race, group, or age. His only rule. NO FIGHTING! Where he prefers to stay jolly and happy telling stories and cheering with his patrons, he will step in and become more stern and threatening if his one rule is broken.

Can't stop helping strangers