Belroth Beacon
| Belroth Beacon | |
|---|---|
| Campaign 2 character | |
| First appearance | Campaign 2 - Episode 1 |
| Voiced by | Rob Mulligan |
| Information | |
| Full name | Belroth Beacon |
| Gender | Male |
| Affiliation | Black Scale, Adventure Incorporated |
| Title | Professor |
| Significant other(s) | Freya |
| Religion | Teachings of Diam |
| Nationality | Grey Woods |
Never thought I'd be an adventurer. I never realized I'd be good at anything other than research. My name is Belroth Beacon, and I was a professor at the University of Greywood in Prosperity. But now it is I who seeks truth.
I study the obscure academic discipline of Chimerology, better known as the study of the taxonomy of beasts with magic influences and mutations. I personally find it deeply fascinating to hunt rare creatures, and study their arcane properties. With my meager academic budget I would hire adventurers to capture such creatures so that I could study them. While my intention for these creatures to be captured alive was impeccably clear, I would often be given a half rotten corpse.
The unexplained phenomena that occurs deep in the Grey Woods is quite fascinating. Beasts mutating into never before seen hulking organisms. A giant fish with the face of a dragon! The firedogs as small as ants! Lightning gorillas! So many new creatures never before documented! I found my research deeply satisfying. It was also too grandiose to finish. For 10 long years I worked diligently to uncover this mystery but I never could quite determine the source of these phenomena.
Funding became tighter and tighter as my research turned up no leads. I was at a crossroads, I could stop my research or stop hiring adventurers and hunting the beasts myself. That's when my sister introduced me to an elven woman named Amelia Moonwake, an adventurer who was also fascinated by the phenomena in Grey Woods. She was the only person other than my family who seemed to care about my research. She truly cared about what it could have mean for the world. We were a team; I researched leads on potential beasts, she hunted these beasts with impressive skill and I studied the creatures in close detail. She even brought back an orphaned cat-like beast called a grimalkin. We adopted her, and named her Freya.
But one fateful mission Amelial didn't return. I was used to not seeing her for days and sometimes weeks, but not months. Not a year. I hired a group to track her down, and all they found was her notebook, filled with obscure and hard to decipher symbols. She was gone.
Financial pressure from the administration became a choke hold. My class was unpopular and my research was a dead end. The claws of the Black Scale determined that my position at the University of Greywood was no longer worth funding. I'm still a professor emeritus, which I’ve been told means "not technically terminated."
Now, I am without my research and without my partner. Before I was at a crossroads but now I am a ship without a sail in dark waters.
Traditionally when Tiefling comes of age, they are told to choose a virtue name. I chose “Beacon” to be a light others could follow. I wanted to embody a guiding light of truth and knowledge in the sea of darkness and obscurity. Now I find myself lost in that very darkness, searching for my own guiding light. And I search for her still.
