Tamashi Kyuseishu (5e Story)
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This story can be used to create a campaign or background, feel free to use it as you wish.
Tamashi Kyuseishu (soul savior)
This story takes place in an oriental place such as Kara-Tur (hence, the Japanese name).
In the ancient Orient, a land of mystery, art, and honor, a great samurai hero weds a beautiful princess of talent and wisdom. After a month of celebration from the coupling, they decide to conceive a child. But in a moment of tragedy, a foreign fiend, a succubus, slips into the princess' chambers and murders the poor girl. Then, the vile devil disguises herself as the princess and meets with the hero, feigning as his wife. When the deed is done, she leaves the chambers and flies away, leaving the hero to a fit of nightmares. When he awakes, he sees his 'wife' is missing and conducts a search for her.
After a week of frantic searching, they locate his true wife's corpse and conduct spells upon it to determine the cause of her death. The truth is revealed, and as a samurai should, the hero vows to commit Seppuku, but only after the succubus is found and his wife's soul freed.
You may leave the story as it is to create an oriental adventure starter or you may continue reading as a backstory for a character.
He begins the quest, searching far and wide for the fiend and finally discovers her hidden in a mountain. He resists her spells and runs her through, rends her body, and throws the remains down the side of the mountain most disrespectfully. After that episode, he discovers a half-fiend in the back of the cave, the child of him and the succubus. He not only spares the infant, he takes it back to his castle and completes his vow. The child is raised in the castle with the knowledge of his/her heritage and came to know of his/her father and his wife through commune dead (or a similar spell) and determines that he/she must become a great person like his/her father.
Please realize that if the character attains a good alignment, they are not as much of an Alu-fiend as they are a tiefling. If they become neutral, they aren't a fiend either but look slightly more of a fiend than before-described tiefling.
