![[Wade_Aandrisk.png]] # Wade Aandrisk *Dragonborn Warlock/Genie (Efreeti) (Level 11) | Dave Haines* ## Quick Stats **AC:** 15 | **HP:** 88 | **Speed:** 30 ft **Initiative:** +3 | **Passive Perception:** 9 | **Spell Save DC:** 20 ## Character Summary Meet the bronze dragonborn who accidentally stumbled into cosmic significance and has been making questionable decisions ever since. Wade Aandrisk is a simple miner from [[Kessel]] who found a mysterious ring in an ancient chamber and thought "this looks valuable, I'll keep it." That ring connected him to [[Ashur Ban]], a deposed Sultan of the City of Brass whose ego is matched only by his insanity, and Wade's life has been a series of increasingly poor choices masked as good intentions ever since. Armed with powerful warlock magic, a portable hole he uses for both storage and body disposal, Wade approaches every situation with the confidence of someone who's "pretty sure this will work out fine." His heart is absolutely in the right place—he just wants to help his family and make things better for everyone—but his brain operates on a frequency that often bypasses common sense entirely. Whether he's promising impossible things to his megalomaniacal patron, casually executing prisoners despite giving his word, or wielding artifacts that could reshape reality while worrying about sending money home to mom, Wade embodies the dangerous combination of good intentions and spectacularly poor judgment that somehow keeps saving the world. %% ## Goals and Ambitions - Send money back to [[Kessel]] so his family can live comfortably - Eventually make conditions in his home village "fair and just" - Fulfill his patron's increasingly grandiose demands for glory and recognition - Keep his friends alive (despite his own decision-making) - Rescue his brother [[Garth]] from the [[Gilded Gallows]] ## Family, Friends, and Foes ### Family - [[Cassandra]] - Mother, cook at the mining camp kitchen (recently saved by Harpers) - [[Garth]] - Younger brother, copper miner (captured by [[Gilded Gallows]]) - [[Wayne]] - Younger brother, copper miner - Father - Died in a mining accident when Wade was young ### Allies - [[Ashur Ban]] - Deposed Sultan patron who grants power in exchange for impossible expectations - [[Khalida]] - Genie companion housed in his [[Iron Flask]] - The party - His chosen family who literally brought him back from the dead ### Enemies - [[Gilded Gallows]] - Professional assassins holding his brother hostage - [[Garin Rockharvest]] - Evil sorcerer who controls [[Kessel]] and exploits the miners - His own impulsive decision-making ## Quirks and Whims - Carves small, translucent stone vessels as gifts for friends (takes him ages to finish one) - Wears a beaten leather cap that can hold a candle for mining - Goes barefoot despite wearing armor - Tends to solve problems by putting them in his portable hole - Genuinely believes "things are fixable" despite mounting evidence to the contrary ## Magic Items - **Iron Flask** - Contains his genie companion [[Khalida]] - **Portable Hole** - Multipurpose storage and problem-solving device - **Rod of the Pact Keeper +3** - Enhances his warlock abilities - **Ring of Protection** - Keeps him slightly less dead than he'd otherwise be - ## Adventure Ideas - [[Ashur Ban and the City of Brass]] ## DM Notes - **Death and Resurrection**: Killed by succubus, [[Nyxara]], working for [[Cassius Nightwhisper]], chose party's resurrection over patron's wishes - **Ring Discovery**: Found the original ring in ancient chamber while mining, beginning his warlock pact - **Patron Relationship**: [[Ashur Ban]] grows increasingly demanding and unstable, wants armies and glory - **Family Leverage**: [[Gilded Gallows]] specifically targeted his family as pressure point - **Moral Flexibility**: Despite good intentions, will kill prisoners and make ruthless decisions "for the greater good" - **Cosmic Artifacts**: Possesses world-shaking power but thinks of it in terms of helping his mining village - **Low Wisdom**: Makes impulsive decisions, poor threat assessment, easily manipulated by appeals to help others %%