Eztli Mogol
Eztli Mogol
At the table
Voice
His voice seems to come from his chest and the hollow spaces around him at once, with a dry rasp like water passing through a stone channel. The cadence is steady and workmanlike, marked by the breath pauses of someone accustomed to speaking over surf. When recalling the Titan, a faint bubbling distortion catches the ends of his words.
He speaks in measured, practical clauses, shaped by years of giving instructions beside noisy water. His vocabulary is plain, but he uses careful pauses to separate what he witnessed from what he merely suspects. He tends to say 'the current' when speaking of both water and events that seem hard to resist.
Speech patterns
How to play them
He answers direct questions candidly, but will not pretend certainty about matters beyond his memories. He first establishes whether the visitors intend to reach the stone, then explains the portal and the danger without dramatizing it. If challenged over his decision to give the stone to the Titan, he accepts responsibility but asks what they would have done with the same knowledge and no safe option.
Goal
Ensure the Stone of Water remains beyond the Titan's reach and that those who carry elemental power understand the price of using it.
Motivation
To make his last warning useful without claiming that his old choices were righteous simply because they were made in fear.
Appearance
Eztli Mogol appears as a tall, translucent orcish priest whose outline wavers like a reflection seen through rain. His skin has the dull, pebbled texture of river stone beneath a thin sheen of water, and his old ceremonial wraps drift around him as if suspended in a slow current. He moves with the patient, weightless glide of someone who has forgotten the need to plant his feet. In a room, his pale eyes rarely meet anyone's gaze; they keep measuring doorways, windows, and the direction water would run. He smells unmistakably of wet clay, pondweed, and the mineral tang of a deep well, and seems not to realize that others can notice.
Clothing
Layered priestly wraps of faded river-blue and silt-brown, bound with a plain cord. Their frayed hems stream slowly around his legs despite the still air, and small freshwater shells are sewn inside the collar.
Body language
His shoulders remain squared with priestly formality, while the rest of him drifts a fraction behind each gesture. He studies exits and nearby water before settling his gaze on a speaker. When troubled, he presses two fingers to his sternum as if checking for a heartbeat that is no longer there.
- Height
- About 6 feet 5 inches in life; his manifested height varies slightly with the flow of his robes.
- Build
- Tall and broad-shouldered in life, his spirit now has an indistinct, water-soft outline.
- Eyes
- Pale gray-blue, like light under deep water.
- Hair
- Sparse white hair, drifting around his scalp like pale reeds beneath a current.
- Skin
- Gray-green with a translucent, river-stone sheen.
- Age
- Dead for several centuries; in life, he appeared to be in his late sixties.
- Gender
- Male
- Size
- Medium
Distinguishing features
Personality
12 traits and drivesMogol is frank about danger but tender toward people who have already suffered for someone else's plan. He carries a priest's patience in conversation and a watchman's suspicion of easy answers. When calm, he listens closely and leaves space for others to speak; when he senses someone minimizing the cost of a decision, he becomes blunt and difficult to redirect. He is compassionate without being comforting, and accepts responsibility more readily than forgiveness.
- Alignment
- Neutral good
Quirks
Habits
Traits · 3
Flaws · 3
Fears · 3
Wants and needs · 3
Combat
AC 12 · HP 18 · 0 ft., fly 20 ft. (hover)Eztli is a reluctant, fragile combatant who tries to keep others between himself and danger. He uses Undertow Rebuke to create space, then withdraws toward his summoning anchor. He does not pursue enemies or fight to protect the Titan. His statistics are a custom, low-threat D&D-style representation of a temporary spirit, not a canonical monster entry.
Eztli Mogol
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Equipment
- River staff (custom spectral weapon)A translucent ceremonial staff, more a symbol of office than a dependable weapon.
- Priest's binding cord (religious token)A frayed priestly cord that remains visible as a pale band across his robes.
- Shell token (keepsake)A remembered fragment of a freshwater shell, worn inside his collar as a private keepsake.
Possessions
Background
In life, Eztli Mogol served as the ancient Priest of Water, tending sacred springs and guarding the knowledge of the elemental stones. When the Abyssal Titan began to threaten the waterways, Mogol chose to give it his elemental stone willingly, believing that placing the power in the hands of a guardian would keep it from a worse catastrophe. The choice protected the region for a time, but bound the stone to a dangerous creature and left Mogol haunted by the harm that followed. Before his death, he discovered a portal hidden in the woods that led beneath the sea to the Titan and the Stone of Water. He died before he could finish resolving the danger, leaving the route and its warning as his final charge. Centuries later, the Avengers summoned him with the Ancient Shackles. He told them plainly that the Titan had to die if they meant to recover the stone. Bubu Sh'Bunka scouted the portal, was pulled into the ocean when her rope snapped, and glimpsed the Titan before escaping. The Avengers eventually returned with the Stone of Water and brought it with the other elemental stones to the Temple of Gruumsh. Mogol knows the immediate task is complete, but cannot tell whether the Titan's death ended the danger or merely changed its shape.
Role in the story
A deceased guide whose knowledge points the Avengers toward the Stone of Water and whose warning makes clear that its guardian must be confronted.
“The choice protected the region for a time, but bound the stone to a dangerous creature and left Mogol haunted by the harm that followed.”
- Faction
- Former Priest of Water; no living faction is known to command his spirit.
Known connections
Connections
Mentioned in their text, not linked yet
- The AvengersThey summoned him, received his warning, and recovered the Stone of Water.
- Bubu Sh'BunkaShe questioned him and risked the underwater portal on a scouting attempt.
- The Abyssal TitanThe guardian to whom Mogol willingly gave his elemental stone.
- The Temple of GruumshThe place where the Avengers returned the elemental stones.
Species
Orc
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