Ipakas

Character Summary
A deep gnome with a sad past and a vendetta.

Early Life
Ipakas came from an ordinary Svirfneblin mining family of the Gemcutter clan living in the heart of the underdark. The small knit family consist of his father Iwani, mother Beliss, his sister Banmiphi and him.

As a young boy (age 12), Ipakas was instilled with the idea that one day, he would follow his father's footstep and become another miner for the clan. Thus, he often ask to accompany his father on their excavations to be a helping hand. His cheery demeanor and the little tunes he sung often lifts the spirit of the miners. On one of these trip, the mining team was ambushed by a party of raiding Kuo-toas, and Ipakas was taken by the raiding party among the chaos. On their return, the Kuo-toas encountered a group of Drow survey party and was quickly dispatched by the leading wizard Sabal Duskryn.

Sabal brought the injured Ipakas back with the party and see to it that his wounds are treated. He offer to sent an escort party with the young gnome to sent him back to his village, but Ipakas refused as the Gemcutter clan has strict rules on revealing village location to outsiders. Seeing that Ipakas was adamant to return by himself, Sabal offered to teach Ipakas a basic cantrip to defend himself if he runs into any danger. It took the young Gnome several days to master the cantrip. At the end of the fourth day, Sabal sent Ipaka off with a parting gift, a doll that resembles Sabal. He told the young Gnome that he had a lot of spell potential, and can always come back asking for him by presenting the doll to any guards at the Drow city if the young Gnome is interested in furthering his spell casting ability.

Despite really liking the nice Drow wizard and thankful for all Sabal has done for him, Ipakas purposely took couple of detours on his way back to the village to shake off potential tails. His family and the mining crew were overjoyed when he showed back up at the village entrance. Unbeknownst to Ipaksa, the doll Sabal gave him works like a magical beacon that revealed the village's location along with the correct passage through the defending maze. Sabal worked hard to gain the young Gnome's trust so he can raid the village for their gems to fund his political agenda within the Drow society

That night, the Svirfneblin village was raided by multiple group of Drow spell caster and militia. In the midst of fire and death, Ipakas spotted Sabal and grabbed on to his robe demanding to know why this is happening. The Drow wizard looked at the young Gnome with cold eyes, cast a spell that blasted him away. Ipakas was holding on to the Drow so hard that he ripped a large chunk of the wizard's robe as he flew backwards into an underground river.

Instead of an underground sea, the river took Ipakas to the bank of an above ground lake. Where he woke up with nothing but the clothes on his back, the doll and a severely water damaged spell book. Apparently when he torn the wizard's robe, he took the book hidden in the robe with him. Ipaka's survive instinct kicked in and it took him over half a day to find a small cave to settle in, all kinds of emotions washed over him and it was another day before he realized he must look for food and try to survive.

Hermit Days
Maybe it was the fear of the wizard, or was it the guilt of getting his clan killed. Ipaka lived in self imposed exile in the forest cave, trying hard to learn spells with what he can salvage from Sabal's spell book.

Notable event throughout the years that have gone by:


 * Cast detect magic on the doll to see if it still have any magical property (shows up negative).
 * Files down stones into thin needles and stick them through the dolls for each person he saw Sabal killed.
 * Copied the spell on to stone walls in case the book deteriorates more
 * Encountered a corpse of an adventuring wizard, seems like an amateur with close to no spells in his book, but did salvage an arcane focus in the form of a Ring, 5 gold, a short sword and a scholar's pack. He also started transferring any spell knowledge he has into this new spell book he call his own.
 * During one of these long years, Ipakas nearly died to a black bear. Before he gave up all hope, he started singing, one last song that his father and the mining crew loves. The song gave him a sudden surge of swiftness and he was able to avoid all the attack the black bear threw at him, and was eventually able to take the bear down with his short sword. Through this near fatal encounter, he realized the futility of spell casting when your enemy is right in your face. He found information around bladesongs of the bladesinger tradition in Sabal's book, this was the moment where Ipakas chose to devote his life in mastering the bladesongs, in hopes of one day avenging his clan by slaying Sabal. He now wears a necklace made from the bear's claw and the arcane focus.
 * Met Min (Simon) & Max (River) on several occasions.

70 years has passed, Ipakas felt that his growth in power has grind to a halt. It was time for him to pack up everything, and go on a journey of self betterment. That journey brought him to the capital, where the story continues...

Notable posession

 * A doll full of stone needles
 * A pair of boartusk scimitars
 * Sabal's Head