Maxwell Dragoneye

Maxwell Dragoneye is a character played by Ryan Neenan. A half elf Warlock that is nothing but suave, he is a member of the Unsettled Debts campaign. He is a 4th Edition character in a 3rd Edition setting.

Description
Max has long black hair that is usually kept neat down or in a pony tail. He sports a well groomed beard, showing his human heritage. His eyes match his hair, and his ears give away his elven blood. Though he looks rather frail, his body is tone and has shown much endurance. The smirk is his usual facial expression.

Personality
Max is if nothing else usually calm, cool, and suave. He rarely shows his true emotions, and he is the constant charmer of the opposite sex – especially of the fey races. While he enjoys the thrill of combat, he also enjoys his life a lot more – as a result he is usually keen to stay in the back and wail away at his enemies from afar.

He enjoys a good party about as much as a good fight, and isn’t afraid to break the law when it benefits him. He tends to side with the good of Faerun though, just because they are a lot easier to get along with, and won't necessarily kill you if you back stab them. He loves games of chance, especially rigged ones, as long as he is on the good end of things.

Family & Relationships
Max's human father, Zenneth, is a burly man that works for the leader of the Theymarsh. His elven mother, Filana, was the former head of the town and an accomplished Sorceress. She was killed in early 1373 by the Zhentarim. Max is an only child. Max has had several relationships with the fairer sex, but nothing that lasted long or meant much to him.

Early Years
Maxwell was born in the Winter of 1359 in Theymarsh, a peaceful and prosperous small town on the east side of the Straits of Suldolphor. Dwarfed by the massive metropolis to its west, Theymarsh went relatively unnoticed and remained a safe haven for the well traveled and merchant alike. Likewise, Maxwell Dragoneye went relatively unnoticed for most of his early life. Things changed a bit in 1370, when his mother was elected leader of the town. At age 11, Max was extremely proud of his mother, and of his father who worked for the town's militia.

In was two years later, on a warm summer day on the coast of the Lake of Steam that Max narrowly escaped a patch of quicksand by seemingly moving across several feet in the blink of an eye. It was not long before the first glow of arcane energy flowed out of his hand. Max kept it a secret from his parents for some time, researching on his own about what he was and what his newly discovered powers could be trained to do.

Two Losses
Just when he was beginning to understand his place in life, 1373 brought about chaos and confusion. First, a wave of magical energy rippled through the city. Though Maxwell heard of rumors of where the wave came from, he didn't quite care - he and other magic users were losing their abilities. Max nearly went insane with the loss of his newly found power.

To make matters worse, his mother had been acting distant and odd for several months. Though Max was too preoccupied with his own magic failing, his father saw that Filana was not the woman he had married. The next few days were a blur to Max, but at the end his mother had been jailed, and his father had been there to close the lock.

He didn't listen to reason. He didn't even really believe his mother was dead, and that her assassin was the one sitting in a jail cell. By this time, the whole city was engulfed by the antimagic zone. Max had had enough, and knew that he needed to leave. His father, filled with rage at the Zhentarim for killing his wife, begged his son to stay, and help him seek revenge. Max said little but goodbye, and sailed on the next transport to Suldolphor, almost running over a very old elf in the process.

Growing Up
Max was only 14 when he entered the large city, and it is safe to say his life was never the same after he set foot off that transport. While he was smart enough to steal enough money to make his way to the city and find a very meager room at someplace called the Yellow Bellied Newt, he did not foresee the hardships of living on his own. It was not long before he was desperate and fell in with a local pickpocketing group.

Max spent the next 7 years in Suldolphor, growing up way too fast. He learned that he had a weakness for women, especially elven and fey, and spent most of his profits in that pursuit. He was incarcerated several times for theft, and once was beaten and threatened to be sold in slavery for breaking into the wrong noble's house. He scraped out a decent living however, honing his magical skills and selling his services as someone who can get most "inconvenient" jobs done. His tongue managed to get him out of most sticky situations - in more ways than one.

It was however a fateful day near Midsummer, 1380, when his tongue got him into trouble - specifically, getting too close to the elven wife of a very jealous and influential businessman. Out of places to hide and now much more than just a nuisance to the Suldolphan guard, he decided it was best to lay low awhile and leave the city. Besides, he figured, 7 years was far too long to stay in one spot.

Innarlith
He caught the next transfer bound for the city of Saelmur, however it was attacked on route by a group of sea elves. Not wanting to press his luck with the obvious aggressive - yet oh so attractive - elves, he managed to escape with a few other survivors on a life raft. Max and his fellow shipmates were picked up sometime later by a large warship - unfortunately, it was bound for Innarlith. With few options, Max boarded, and eventually landed in the large city on the eastern shore of the Lake of Steam.

Innarlith unnerved Max - the religious fanaticism to Cyric was rampant, and Max just didn't get their methods. Still, he saw a city with very shaky laws and an even shakier police system. He spent the next two years in the city, delicately balancing how much fun he could have and how not to be noticed by the Innarlith government. He caught on right away that if he wanted to live easily, he had to live quietly there.

Still, the city grew tiresome, and the absence of many elves annoyed Max. He decided to leave the city, and did so in the early spring of 1383. Not knowing which way to go, he decided to go south, mostly because a drunken companion told him not to go that way the night before.

Current Whereabouts / Activities
The trip south was extremely annoying and long. Max was quite relieved when he reached a semi-large settlement. He is currently in the city of Shaarmid, and he is not too happy about it. Finding himself in jail within 24 hours of arriving in the city didn't help his mood.