# Davax Redhide **Race:** Orc **Gender:** Male **Role:** Chronicler, Keeper of Ragivuh’s Memory **CR:** 17 --- ## Overview Davax Redhide is a legendary orcish chronicler whose life’s work is the preservation of history through soot-ink and bone scrolls. He is both a scholar and a wanderer, known for vanishing into tribal archives, war-lord tents, and the huts of scarred veterans for weeks at a time, gathering scraps of stories that others would discard. His ultimate purpose: to preserve the memory of Ragivuh—the great orcish past—and ensure it is never wholly lost. While he seems to be little more than a wandering historian, Davax Redhide is far more. He possesses mysterious abilities that allow him to find those who seek knowledge—appearing before them with answers no matter where in the world they might be. To [[Grumthar]], he becomes the voice of the past, bringing him what he has unearthed about his grandfather and his line. --- ## Appearance Davax is a towering orc with weathered red skin and hide-thick scars that gave him his name. His tusks are long but filed flat, stained black from years of soot-ink. His body is covered in ritual tattoos and memory-marks—each representing a story, battle, or clan he has recorded. He wears bone scroll-cases on a chain across his back, each filled with carefully inscribed accounts written in ash and blood-mixed ink. --- ## Personality - **Archivist’s Patience:** He values time, silence, and the slow work of history over all else. - **Unnerving Calm:** Unlike most orcs, Davax is quiet, deliberate, and eerily collected. - **Keeper of Secrets:** He knows more than he shares, often holding back truths until the right moment. - **Devotion to Memory:** To Davax, stories are sacred—they are the only true immortality. --- ## Lore & History Davax was born during the tail end of the Old Wars, raised not as a warrior but as a lore-keeper. His clan considered him weak, but shamans saw in him the gift of remembrance. He was trained to record battle-songs, dirges, and the names of the fallen. When his tribe was destroyed, he survived by carrying their stories, vowing never to let memory be erased by time. Over centuries, Davax honed a unique power: the ability to step between _echoes of history._ By tracing lines of memory, bone, and story, he can find anyone tied to the tales he is unraveling. This is how he always manages to appear before those who have hired him, no matter where they are. It is not teleportation in the arcane sense—it is a weaving of spirit, memory, and destiny, placing him on the same path as his client when the story demands it. --- ## Abilities & Traits - **CR 17 Chronicler:** Though not a warlord, Davax’s presence is mythic. He can command spirits of memory, reshape the battlefield through ancestral echoes, and call upon the wisdom of the past. - **Bone Scrolls:** His scrolls act as conduits, allowing him to summon visions of history or bind enemies in illusions of forgotten wars. - **Soot-Ink Glyphs:** The glyphs he paints can seal wards, uncover hidden truth, or burn with necrotic fire. - **Echo Step:** Davax can always find the one who has hired him. By following the resonance of their lineage and story, he arrives when needed. (DM Secret: This functions like _plane shift_ tied to narrative destiny. He cannot be tracked when he travels this way.) --- ## Role with [[Grumthar]] When hired by [[Grumthar]] to uncover his grandfather’s story, Davax spent three weeks buried in the fragmented archives of orcish memory. He walked through ruined camps, spoke to half-mad veterans, and consulted soot-ink records nearly lost to ash. From these, he assembled the tale of [[Grumthar]]’s grandfather: Whisperfang and Stormgouge, his turtle-fascination, and the legacy he left behind. When Davax finds [[Grumthar]], it will be as if he simply steps from shadow or mist, scroll in hand, to deliver what he has uncovered. --- ## Hooks & Story Potential - **Living Archive:** Davax knows stories long forgotten—he could reveal hidden truths of the Old Wars, the gods, or ancient artifacts. - **Beyond Mortal History:** His power suggests he is touched by something more—perhaps Ragivuh itself, the primal orcish memory. - **Dangerous Knowledge:** Not all stories should be remembered. Davax may carry truths that destabilize entire clans or kingdoms. - **Eternal Chronicler:** Some whisper that he does not age—that so long as orcs tell stories, Davax Redhide will walk among them.