A. Otto Volz

A. Otto Volz  is an 11th level Human Rogue, age 53 at the time of this campaign. He is a native of the tiny province of Bahndul Khai   on the continent of Ophaelon. Under his former name, Ajay O. Volztarch, h e is known throughout Ophaelon as a nefarious war criminal. This reputation extends to the more sinister organizations that operate on [Rok] as well.

In his teen years, Otto was a reknowned knife fighter and street hustler, a pair of careers that led him straight into the heart of Bahndul Khai's notroius Theives Guild. By his early thirties  he had become the head of the Thieves Guild and helped facilitate much of the smuggling that saw numerous arcane technologies make their way from Orphaleon to the nations of Rok, namely Nuerolux. He also oversaw large corners of the drug trade. It was during these years that he became heavily addicted to simikak.

It was during this time that the Bahndul Khai Uprising began. A band of escaped political prisoners formed a small army to overthrow Bahndul Khai's puppet government. In response, Ajay O. Volztarch was hired by a league of monied Far Realm occultists / industrialists to stomp out this rebellion and protect their vested interest in the puppet government. The war crimes Volztarch perpetrated during this time included the training of child solidiers and mass ritualistic mutilations in the many small villages that encircled Bahndul Khai.

(It's fine if other players know about his criminal past, but I'd prefer that most of their characters didn't. -Matt)

De spite the best efforts of his sinister benefactors and his child soldiers, the Bahndul Khai Uprising succeeded in toppling said puppet government and A. Otto Volz escaped into exile. While forsaken, penniless and barely surving crippling withdrawl from simikak in the uncivilized outskirts of Ophaelon, Volz was taken in by an order of peaceful monks. Nursing him back to health, these monks gradually shifted his alignment toward good and decency through their kindness, meditated perspective, and disciplined daily routines.

A. Otto Volz made his way to Lumenatal five years prior to the campaign.