Starter Player Character — Ashkara Covenant
Name: Virex Malenth
Race: Tiefling
Class (Suggested): Warlock (Fiend or Great Old One), Wizard (Conjuration), or Sorcerer
Faction: Ashkara Covenant
Appearance:
Virex has ash-red skin etched with faint infernal sigils that glow when magic is invoked. Curved obsidian horns sweep back from his brow, and his eyes burn with ember-gold light. He wears layered robes stitched with protective runes and carries a grimoire bound in blackened leather, its pages whispering when opened.
Backstory:
Born within one of the Ashkara Covenant’s arcane enclaves, Virex was raised to see planar boundaries as weaknesses to be exploited. From an early age, he was taught demonology, summoning rites, and the cost of power. When a ritual meant to bind a lesser demon went awry, Virex survived where others did not—marking him as both promising and dangerous. Now dispatched beyond Covenant lands, he seeks forbidden knowledge, rare components, and leverage against rival faiths like the Luminara Concord, all while questioning how much of his will truly remains his own.
Important Characters of the Ashkara Covenant
1. Archmagus Zhal’kareth the Veiled Flame
Race: Tiefling
Class/Role: Warlock / Supreme Arcanist
Title: First Speaker of the Ashkara Covenant
Appearance & Backstory:
Zhal’kareth is tall and imposing, his form wreathed in flickering hellfire that never burns him. Once a mortal prodigy, he ascended through a pact with an archdemon, becoming the Covenant’s primary architect of planar breaches. He believes the future of Andorea belongs to those willing to command the abyss rather than fear it.
2. Matron Seris Vael
Race: Human
Class/Role: Wizard (Conjuration)
Title: Mistress of Summoning Circles
Appearance & Backstory:
Seris is pale and sharp-featured, her hands stained with ritual ink. A former scholar expelled from the Luminara Concord, she joined Ashkara after uncovering truths the Concord deemed heretical. She now oversees demon-binding rites and trains new warlocks, convinced the Covenant represents enlightenment through forbidden truth.
3. Inquisitor Threxus Bloodsigil
Race: Tiefling
Class/Role: Paladin (Oathbreaker) / Enforcer
Title: Hand of the Covenant
Appearance & Backstory:
Threxus wears spiked armor etched with glowing blood-runes. Once a devout knight of the Solarian Imperium, he fell after witnessing what he believed was celestial hypocrisy. Now Ashkara’s chief enforcer, he hunts defectors and enemies, believing only strength and truth—however dark—deserve survival.
4. Oracle Nyxara of the Shattered Veil
Race: Tiefling
Class/Role: Sorcerer / Seer
Title: Prophet of the Breach
Appearance & Backstory:
Nyxara’s eyes are solid black, reflecting stars that are not of this world. Born during a failed planar convergence, she sees visions of overlapping realms and possible futures. The Covenant relies on her prophecies to guide expansion and ritual timing, though many fear she is already more outsider than mortal.
5. Lord Kael Morvayne
Race: Human
Class/Role: Warlock / Political Envoy
Title: Covenant Diplomat and Shadow Broker
Appearance & Backstory:
Immaculately dressed and unnervingly calm, Kael once served as a noble courtier in Valecrown before embracing Ashkara’s promises of power. He now manipulates foreign courts, brokers secret alliances (including with Umbra Dominion), and ensures the Covenant’s influence spreads through intrigue rather than open war.