Martimus

Martimus is the first NPC met in the Louinverse. It is understood that he was the one to offer the job to the Treacherous Trio to find his staff. All that is known about him is that he is an old and grumpy necromancer. After Klobgar began to annoy him, he would bonk him on the head with his replacement staff. It can be assumed that most of his power is granted from his signature white staff.

Early Life
Martimus early life is shrouded in mystery, part from his faint knowledge on it, alongside his irritation whenever his past is brought into question. However, from what he knows, the Kenku grew up poor, before finding his place in a Mage hall and studying the darker side of magic. Over the next few decades, his magical prowess grew, even being titled one of the greatest for his hall.

Attaining Immortality
Knowing that his life was merely growing shorter and shorter with each passing day, Martimus took to searching for ways to stop aging, from de-aging potions to altered healing spells. When none of that worked, he grew desperate, eventually plunging into the dark arts of Necromancy and life essence. With time, he discovered a way to convert nature's essences into life magic, allowing him to extend his life for the foreseeable future.

This did not go unnoticed, however, and the mage hall learned of his acts, and cast him from the home he had settled in, despite all his good intentions. Without the resources he once had, he traveled, offering to heal by literally reversing the damage of the wounds. Around his sixtieth year, Death came to claim his soul. Despite not having died, he had attempted to cheat his own death at the cost of the death of nature, and it was an act that was deemed unforgivable.

Before Death could come through with his promise, he forced Martimus to sign a pact trading the rest of his life over to Death. With the last of his resources, the mage rewrote the pact, tricking Death into giving Martimus his soul, allowing him to draw from the nigh-infinite life essence, at the expense of his own appearance.

The Curse
TBD

Stats
Strength: 8 (-1)

Dexterity: 10 (0)

Constitution: 17 (+3)

Intelligence: 15 (+2)

Wisdom: 19 (+4)

Charisma: 8 (-1)