Manyn Runda

Manya Runda was an aasimar sorcerer that was among the first to explore the frontiers of Eskarya.

Background
Born to two magical parents with a taste for the anomalous, it was no wonder that Manyn ended up...bizarre. Unlike the bronze tone of his parents’ skin - Manyn’s was like ash. Unlike their eyes of gold, his were crimson.

If there were others in that village, they would also wonder why the famous ‘Runda phoenix’ disappeared with Manyn’s birth, but there were no others for miles, and Manyn was raised largely secluded from the outside world. He grew and grew, and his near-divine mystical powers developed, eventually to the point where he couldn’t go without his golden mask without releasing some power into the world (though he has since learned to remove his mask for a time without releasing power).

Shortly after his parents died in combat, battling some monster he didn’t bother to learn the name of, Manyn set out into the world to make a name for himself and grow his power - ever wishing to expand that divine spark inside of him.

Runda hopes to slay monsters and purge the land of evil, hopefully grabbing some divine sparks in the process and stealing some God’s domain (or forging a new domain for himself). He isn't open about this goal to commoners, and was merely hired for being a brave fool with arcane knowledge.

Death
During the month of Kythorn, an exploration revisiting the Chapel of Kaarin found the entrance-way to be inhabited by twig blights which Manyn set ablaze, garnering the ire of a number of needle blights. Once they were destroyed, primarily by the burning hands of Manyn, Halvar discovered a dryad warning them in Elvish of disrupting the Tree of Life, the Tree of Kaarin. Alton, after explaining the party's intention attempts to deceive the dryad, only to turn to threats when this fails. Alton, Halvar and Jamaal are restrained by magical vines that bind their feet, prompting Maryn to set the tree in the central courtyard ablaze with a firebolt. The tree animated, revealing itself to be a Treant that promptly flattens Maryn with a single strike.

His body was offered up in the courtyard in the Chapel by Alton, after which a vine blight with golden tendrils grows in his place. It did not respond to Alton's attempts to communicate, instead journeying further into the ruined church.