Dinien, a Hounds Battlemage

Biographical information

Birthplace Zar'Ahal Born Died Age 171 Home Zar'ahal, in the Suulet'jabar barracks Sexuality Pronouns

Physical description

Race Drow Sub-Race Gender Male Height 5' 11" Mass 155 lbs Hair color Silver, waist length, usually pulled back or tied into a man-bun Eye color Scarlet Skin color Purplish gray

Political information

Affiliation(s) Occupation Battlemage-Healer Clan(s) Caste Domain Masters Apprentices Alias(es)

Out-of-character information

Writer Threecups the Caffeinated Created on 2/5/2026 Avatar Concocted with MS Copilot

Diniel is a battlemage healer who just left the service of House Suulet'jabar, "donated" to the newly formed Hounds unit after failing to timely appear for the matron's inspection after the Ashes showdown.

Diniel is tall, slim, and wiry. He wears standard issue battlemage armor, spidersilk mage robes, half-gauntlets, and boots, to which he adds bandoleers of various potions and elixirs, a weapons belt with a darksteel dagger and a hand crossbow, and a segmented bankers wallet for quickly counting change, as well as a well-stocked backpack and spidersilk satchel. He holds a darkwood short staff in his right hand.

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As a lower city houseless male, Diniel is streetwise and particularly skilled at finding good bargains, buying low and selling high. He is well aware of "the going rate" on both the open and black markets and is frugal enough with his wages and profiteering spoils to usually be ready to take the fullest advantage of the truly desperate in their time of need. He maintains connections with a number of "old friends" of dubious reputation and occupations.

As a battlemage healer, Diniel supports his unit with utility spells, evocations, transmutations, and healing spells. He is familiar with the species of fungi and fauna useful for brewing potions. He can brew healing potions, strength potions, farsight potions, and spider climb potions. He will have 1d4 of each type wrapped in his pack, and will usually admit to "maybe having one, let me see..."

Diniel has been in the army of Zara'hal long enough to know how soon the rations start to get repetitive. He always carries a sack of bluecap flour, a jug of bluecap oil, cooking supplies, and an assortment of seasonings, and keeps an eye out on the march for appropriate fillings for hand pies that he cooks in camp and sells for profit.

As a commoner drow, Diniel is resistant to poison and charms, and cannot be magically made to sleep. He can see 120 feet in total darkness, normally in dim light, and is sensitive to bright lights and sunlight.

Dinien is laconic, sardonic, and just filtered enough to still have all the parts of his body attached that he was assigned at birth. He is quick witted, pragmatic, and motivated chiefly by survival and secondarily by the desire for creature comforts. He is cursed with tastes beyond his means. He considers himself a bit of a gourmand and has developed a number of recipes for cheap, easy to carry food items that he sells to his comrades for "quite reasonable prices, considering the war." He also cooks up healing elixirs and sells extras, usually having "only realized I had a few extras but just a few - so it'll cost ya" between a skirmish ending and the unit returning to town.