Pierrick Blackhair

Pierrick Blackhair was a Bregatian guard from the village of Blackbridge sent as a member of Father Tihomir's escort when the priest departed in the fall of 1521 to provide relief to the village of Newstone, where the plague had newly arrived after its return to Bregate in the spring. The assassin Markus Aldhard ambushed the caravan as it made its way through the Wosswood, slaying Father Tihomir, his curate, and three of the four guards escorting the wagon. Pierrick Blackhair was the sole survivor, and he delivered a mortal wound to Markus Aldhard. The assassin wandered south to the Lost Crypt of Lusalor, so Pierrick went north. Unfortunately for the hapless guard, he wandered, wounded and bleeding, into a kobold ambush. The kobolds captured him and brought him before their leader, Yiktaz, and thus he was made a prisoner of the Shambling Temple. Pierrick's capture inspired Yiktaz to attack Newstone; the kobolds' attack captured nine more sacrifices, just enough for Yiktaz's ritual. Pierrick Blackhair ultimately died along with the nine other captive humans, consumed by the power of the Circle of Ascension to fuel Yiktaz's ascension to a half-demonic form. Pierrick was avenged by the Heroes of Blackbridge when they slew Yiktaz and shattered the reign of the kobold kingdom over the Tripartite Temple.