My blog posts are riddled with spoilers on a regular basis
so I don’t usually feel a need to put any sort of spoiler warning, but I will
mention it this time: SPOILER WARNING FOR TOMB OF ANNIHILATION.
Jergalath is another character I made based on an NPC from
DMing a campaign. In Tomb of Annihilation, in the final area before the big
boss battle at the end of the campaign, there are these weird hags that have
created a magical copy of one of the player characters and left it naked in a
cage like an animal. It’s a weird part of the story meant to add to the creepy
vibe of the place and give the players another decision to make. How do they
deal with this frightened, childlike magical clone of one of them?
When I ran a Tomb of Annihilation campaign for AL Season 7
one of the player characters was a red dragonborn paladin of Tiamat and the
weird NPC clone ended up being of him. The characters decided to basically just
free the person and ignore it while they went about preparing for the final
battle. As weird as it sounds, that inspired me to turn that NPC into a
character. Thus I made a red dragonborn – but I decided that since he was
raised by these weird hags in a room next to Acererak’s soulmonger that it
would make sense he was obsessed with death. I used my DM Reward to make a
death cleric!
Jergal is the retired Forgotten Realms death god so I named
the character Jergalath. His Tier 1 adventures included: Parts 1 and 4 of a
Lost Mine of Phandelver campaign (without parts 2 & 3, unfortunately; in
part 4 one of the other PCs died battling the undead); DDAL05-2 The Black Road
(with some fun ranged attacks); DDEX2-10 Cloaks and Shadows (in which another
PC was killed, yet again); CCC-CIC-08 The Last Voyage of the Woolgathering
Tidsoptimist (in which we shockingly all survived, despite the module being
written with some forced failure in it); DDEX1-4 Dues for the Dead (which
seemed easy for once); DDHC-HotDQ Hoard of the Dragon Queen Ch 7 (with the
other players not wanting to take much loot because of magic item count).
I haven’t actually played him at level 5 yet, so I am still
looking at my leveling up and potential multiclass options. I was going to
build it as mostly death cleric with at least one level of wizard necromancer
in there, but I still have some time to decide on the final build before he
enters Tier 2 and is locked in. For now though, I think it’ll be death cleric 4
and necromancer 1. The full caster multiclass of cleric-wizard or wizard-cleric works out in a
way that, as long as the main class gets 17 levels, it ends up with 9th
level spell options. That means the secondary class could get up to 3 levels
(eventually), but I think I’m happy with just a 1-level dip.
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