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Old adventurer that lost all friends, family, companions, home. Everything is gone or changed. Despaired and decided to live the rest of his life as a Wolf to forget about everything.

Memory is starting to fail, can no longer separate memories from the past, and keep forgetting small things. And his personality changes completely when he is in wolf form, and feels awkward when he has to return to elf form.

Kizac usually looks like a big grey wolf, with piercing eyes that seem almost green compared to the usual yellow of wolves. Though he sometimes changes the color of the pelt slightly to adapt to terrain.

As an elf he usually looks like a ragged mess of filthy worn clothes, long unkempt hair full of debris and leaves, and would be best described as a “forest-hobo”. If he actually cleans up he's a tall and muscular elf, hair has gone almost white, and green piercing eyes. His age is difficult to say, he almost has a timeless feel about him.

Suffering from depressions about memory loss and own history, as well as a short temper. He is usually sarcastic, snappy and snarky. And staying for too long in elf form makes him depressed, and prone to drink alcohol or sit moping.

As a wolf he is the opposite, and is playful and carefree. But several hundred years as a pack alpha he has become naturally assertive and protective.

Once upon a time a long long time ago, there was an adventurer, he traveled the world and fought monsters and foes together with other adventurers and friends. Over the years, many, many years, he had battled against armies, dragons, demons, beholders, crime syndicates, undead, and almost every other evil known to man. Together with his friends he had saved nations, damsels in distress, villages, people and even the world a few times.

But during all of these years he lost much, the friends he traveled with, family, the countries he fought for, the people he protected, every single person he cared about, they all perished to all the dangers and adventures or by the passing of time. He was left feeling nothing but sorrow for the passing of everything that mattered to him, while time even robbed him of the very victories they had sacrificed themselves for.

The world was changed, no one even knew what he had fought for, or even the name of the nations that died to save them. It was too cruel a fate for him, and he turned his back on the world.

He went deep into the wilderness, where he had always felt most home, there he decided he would try to forget about everything, and the way he would do that was to give up on himself and live out the rest of his life as a wolf.

…A few hundred years later…

“My memory is getting worse every day, I can no longer separate the memories from each others. Faces, names, friends, foes, victories, disasters, they all blend together. Was that me saving a friend from falling to death or was someone saving me? I can't even remember my friends and family any-longer, only the pain of losing them.”

“If this is how I'm going to forget about things, I'm even worse off than I would have been! I have no choice, for the sake of my sanity I have to try to remember again, at least enough that I can die remembering the people that made my life worth living!”

“But I have no idea how to restore my memory, and I've lost track of how long I've lived out here in the wilderness. I'm going to have to go back to civilization, and become an Elf again, I'm going to need people around me that can keep me sane. But I only know, and remember, how to survive in the wild, fight of beasts and a few spells, I guess my best chance is to find a group of adventurers and attach myself to them.”

“I wonder how many years since I last presented myself to anyone? Actually… what was my name again? Hmmm, I remember some names but not which one is mine, but this one feels a bit stronger than the others, Kizac, I guess that is my name. I'm going to miss my pack though…”

Kizac is largely ruled by habit, instinct, improvisation. He at times think more like an animal than an elf. Still he is creative and good at improvisation. Animal first, Elf second.

When thinking about things he tend to go through things for a long time, but usually ends up focusing on the negative impact his own mental state has on the situation.

Terrified of losing further memories, and that he won't even remember the things he loved. Not having any other idea how to solve that, he decided he had to become “social” again to try to delay further memory loss, until he can find a solution.

The ultimate goal would be to find some way to restore memories enough that he can at least die remembering the ones he loved. Even better if it allows him to forget some of the sorrow and despair. But he has no idea if any of that is even possible.

The only remaining persons he has any relations with is a pack of wolves that he has lead for the last couple of hundred years. Everyone else he knew has been dead many centuries, either to age or war.

Currently just started looking for some likely humanoids to attach himself to in order to get used to “socializing” again.

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• Session1

Kizac - The ancient demented druid that thinks he is a wolf

• Wood Elf
• Neutral
• Druid
• Shapeshift (phb2)
• Spontaneous Rejuvenation (phb2)
• Divine Spontaneous Casting (UA)
• (or) Spell Points (UA)

Stats:

• PB:32
  • Str (14+2) 16
  • Dex (14+2) 16
  • Con (14-2) 12
  • Int (14-2) 12
  • Wis (15 -) 15
  • Cha (8 -) 8

Skills: (5×4) 20

• 4 Spot (4+2+2=8)
• 4 Listen (4+2+2=8)
• 1 Concentration (1+1=2)
• 1 Heal (1+2=3)
• 3 Knowledge Nature (3+1+2=6)
• 4 Survival (4+2+2=8)
• 1 Handle Animal (1-1=0)
• 1 Swim (1+3=4*)
• 1 Profession (Hunter) (1+2=3)

Feats:

1. Toughness (op)
2. Track
3. Blind Fight

Likely order after level 6:

1. Ferocious Slayer Form (Shapeshift level 8 form)
2. Multiattack
3. Improved Natural Attack (1d6 → 1d8 → 2d6)

No order:

• Dodge
• Power Attack
• Weapon Focus (Bite)
• Improved Natural Armor (req con13)
• Improved Trip (req int13)

• Adapted Druid levels with Variants

• Estimated age: somewhere between 500-600 years. He gave up on the world at somewhere around 250-300 years, and has lived several hundred years as a wolf afterwards. His connection to nature and constant survival has kept his body strong and fit (similar to Druids Timeless Body) but not his mind (so no aging mental bonuses, basically no aging stats). He is the spriest 600 year old elf you'll ever see, and he doesn't even remember how old he is.
• Kizac has been a part of a lot of important battles and adventures in history of either this world or another world (he doesn't remember), but he was never a character that stood out much, he was always that last guy that always traveled with the heroes that no one quite remembered other than being gruff and not very social. So there are no stories about him and no one that would recognize him any-longer.
• His memory is getting really bad, he can't separate anything in his past from each others, and remembers everything as a random muddle of flashing glimpses of different things he can't put in context. He is an extremely unreliable history teacher, It is also starting to affect his short term memory and he often forget details. He is very sensitive about this, and tends to react with anger if someone points out his faulty memory.
• As a result of him trying to force himself to forget and live happy as a wolf, he has developed a split personality disorder. In short, his personality changes when he goes into his Wolf form.
  • In Elf form he tends to be Uncomfortable, Depressed, Sarcastic and Snarky. After a few hundred years in wolf form he finds it difficult to be an elf and civilized again. He is also dealing with his depression and not doing a good job out of it, and tend to take it out on others in the form of comments.
  • In Wolf form he has adapted several different memories of animals he remembers from his past (not sure if they where his pets/friends or those of people he knew), and come up with a different personality. So as a Wolf he is: Playful, carefree, and assertive (alpha). He is just as likely to chase a rabbit around for fun as to care where the goblins ran. But a few hundred years of being a Pack-Alpha has made it a force of habit.
• Another result of a few hundred years in wolf form, is that he is having trouble separating the forms. And keep doing weird things like:
  • Trying to talk in wolf form, face palm that they don't understand, and realize it's a paw and that he can't talk as a wolf.
  • Try to scratch his ears with his elf leg, and can do it.
  • Trying to stop himself from trying to “smell” new people to greet them.
  • Sleeps in Wolf form
  • Have to stop himself from bolting after cats and other creatures that starts running.
  • Might forget that elves doesn't lift their leg at trees to relieve themselves.
  • Doesn't mind fleas, used to them.
  • Meat is really good raw.
  • Might try to walk on 4 legs as an elf.
  • What are clothes for?

Some spells I'm looking at:

1. Endure Elements
2. Lesser Vigor
3. Entangle
4. Obscuring Mist
   • Longstrider
   • Faerie Fire

1. Warp Wood
2. Heat Metal
   • Barkskin
   • Restoration Lesser

1. Stone Shape
   • Call Lightning
   • Summon Natures Ally 3