Talon Dur'kell (PC)



Talon comes from a long line of accomplished Dragonborn warriors stretching back to the founding days of the Empire of Arkhosia. Until recently, the Dur’Kells were nobles with a fief in the Arkhosian borderlands and often served as officers in the Imperial Army. Talon himself was a decorated centurion of heavy infantry in the 9th Border Legion, having fought in many battles against ogre and goblin hordes. This all ended with the fall of the Flamebrow Clan, the overlords of the Dur’Kell, and so Talon’s family shared the disgrace of their masters. To add insult to injury, the Dur’Kells’ estates in the borderlands were overrun in the first years of the war with Bael Turath. Being reduced to penniless mercenaries was too much to bear for Talon’s father and he committed ritual suicide by leaping into the Sacred Flame of the Temple of Bahamut, leaving only his armor and weapons for his son. Talon lost himself in the mead cup and seemed destined to fade away as a sad drunk in seedy taverns. Fortunately, one of Talon’s former commanders in the army intervened and offered the warrior a second chance. Joining the elite Arkhosian Honor Guard, Talon became an operative with the mysterious Bahamut’s Breath unit just as the war between Arkhosia and Bael Turath was reaching its fiercest. Determined to regain his family’s lost honor and titles, Talon sees service to the empire as the best way to accomplish this and he has thrown himself into his new duties with Bahamut’s Breath with energy and enthusiasm. He would love to pay the Tiefling devils back for their part in the Dur’Kell’s fall and he never shies from a battle with the infernal forces of Bael Turath. If Talon has anything to say about it, the Dur’Kells will rise from the ashes of defeat to take their rightful place in history. Talon is a tall, heavily muscled Dragonborn with golden scales and scarlet eyes. He wears red plate armor and a shield emblazoned with his family’s crest, a horned dragon skull wreathed in flames.