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Turin Deathstalker
Assassins Guild Master -- Free City of Greyhawk

AC = 5 (elfin chain mail)
MV = 12"
Class = F15
hp = 79
#AT = 1
Dmg = by weapon type (bastard sword, long bow, short bow, short sword, dagger, sling)
 

S: 15	I: 14	W: 10
D: 13	C: 14	CH: 16
Com: -	-	-

THACO = 6
AL = LE (strong LN tendencies)

Turin Deathstalker, Master of the Guild of Assassins, is a
man feared and respected far beyond the the city of
Greyhawk. He is possibly the highest-ranking assassin in
all Oerth, and exercises informal control over assassins
nearly everywhere. Due to other political influences, this
control is nominal at best, but no assassin willingly defies
Turin Deathstalker’s known wishes.

Turin was born in the Shield Lands, on the border of the
Horned Society lands. His father, a low-ranking soldier in
the armies of the local ruler, hoped that his son would get
an education, but fate intervened. When Turin Birdstalker
(his given name) was ten years old, a great force from the
Horned Society struck the Shield Lands. Turin was but one
of many prisoners who were marched into the lands of the
Horned Society. To his knowledge, the rest of his family
was killed.

When the prisoners were divided, Turin found himself
the slave of a half-orcish fighter, the chief of an important
orc tribe. For the next several years, he was forced to do all
manner of foul tasks for the tribe, until his master decided
that the youth showed promise, and began tutoring him in
the arts of assassination.

Turin was very bright, and learned quickly. His mentor
was pleased and amazed that the young human bore him
no grudge for his years of servitude, and he passed along
every bit of knowledge he possessed. Turin’s first assignment
as a full-fledged assassin was the elimination of a
hobgoblin, the chief of a rival tribe. He performed the job
with relish, since he had heard that hobgoblin soldiers of
the Horned Society were responsible for the death of his
family.

Turin seemed to have adapted well to life among the orcs,
but he never let his true feelings show-in fact, he hated
the orcs. They came to take him for granted, however, and
he spent several years with his mentor, absorbing everything
the scarred old half-orc could teach him. When he
reached the orcish rank of Waghalter, he decided that the
time was ripe for his revenge. One fine, sunny day, he systematically
assassinated every orc in the tribe, saving his
mentor for last. With this pleasant task completed, Turin
Deathstalker (as his mentor had renamed him) walked off,
with the tribe’s wealth over his shoulder, to accept an offer
he had received from a high-ranking member of the
Horned Society at Molag. Turin Deathstalker never forgets
a grudge.

At Molag, Turin Deathstalker proved to be an excellent
weapon for his new patron. He soon learned of intrigue
among the leaders of the Horned Society, a society of
incredible complexity, laced with betrayal and doublecross.
Young Turin gained greatly in skill, eliminating anyone
his patron saw as an enemy. He learned the finer points of
disguise, poison, and espionage, and when his patron was
assassinated, young Turin had already reached the status
of Senior Assassin, known to many Guilds as a worthy
recruit. Of the Guilds that bid for his service, Turin chose
Greyhawk‘s, and he has resided in the city ever since.

Turin Deathstalker was a valuable recruit to
Greyhawk’s Assassins Guild, and he rose swiftly within
the Guild. As all members are required, he submitted to an
oath against killing another Assassins Guild Member or
any person under Guild protection.
He was soon commissioned by the Directing Oligarchy to
undertake several extremely dangerous and delicate missions.
When the upper ranks of the Guild were decimated
by a mezzodaemon conjured by a mad mage, Turin Deathstalker
became Guildmaster.

As Guildmaster, his goals are to keep the Guild active,
attract promising young recruits, provide the best training
possible, and to distance the Guild from quarrels with other
guilds or powerful groups in Greyhawk. As a member of
the Directing Oligarchy, he is the head of Greyhawk’s
intelligence network, and his knowledge of events in places
such as Iuz, the Great Kingdom, and even the Scarlet
Brotherhood is unequaled.

Turin Deathstalker has the appearance of a typical
Shield Lander, with olive skin, red-brown hair, and pale
grey eyes. He practices his skills regularly. He can disguise
himself in a hundred ways, from an orcish soldier to a wise
old sage. He has been known to collect magical items to
sustain these deceptions. He commonly uses three disguises
in Greyhawk, and using them, keeps up three businesses:
a locksmith shop, a servant agency, and a
pawnshop. These fronts provide numerous services to his
Guildsmen, and also provide him with income. He has
three mistresses, one for each of his disguises, and none of
them suspect his true identity.

Turin owns a cloak of invisibility, a dagger of venom, a
short sword +2 (+5 against humanoids), boots of striding
and springing, a ring of regeneration, and a quiver of
arrows of humanoid slaying that he commissioned from a
mage.

If Turin Deathstalker has a fault, it is his bitterness. He
did not choose to become an assassin, and although assassination
has brought him wealth and power, he often wishes
that the hobgoblins had killed him with the rest of his family.
He sometimes disappears from Greyhawk for days at a
time, and returns tired and filthy, but undeniably satisfied.
On these expeditions, he takes a one-man carpet offlying to
the Pomarj or other humanoid-infested area, and goes on a
killing spree. He has slaughtered whole tribes of hobgoblins,
goblins, and orcs, and he intends to continue. His
guild is unique in Greyhawk, in that half-orcs are excluded
from membership.

Except for his obsession with killing humanoids (a special
form of homicidal mania), Turin Deathstalker is not a
bad man. He is fond of relaxing with the higher level assassins
and talking shop over a mug of mead until the wee
hours, or attending to city business with the rest of the
Directing Oligarchy. Despite his alignment (which is leaning
toward lawful neutral), and his profession, Turin
Deathstalker is quite fond of children, and remembers his
own days as a helpless slave of the orcs vividly. When cruel
treatment of children comes to his attention, he has been
known to unleash the Assassins Guild against those
responsible. At first, these persons will be warned, but if
they do not change their behavior, the assassins will put an
end to their cruelty permanently.