Lord of Sand (Sand)
About
Current Name and Known Aliases: Sand, Lord of Sand, L.O.S., The Crab
Pronouns: whatever works with the bit
Realm: Tolaria
Race: Syren, formerly Human
Familiar Bond: "Goober"
(Note that "Goober" is a horseshoe crab. As a servant to Yuvaros and a messenger of Dagon, Sand's mockery of him is ill-advised).
Eldar Affiliation: Yuvaros
Subject to Occasional Divine Interference from: Sammy, Dagon, Frogulus, Ziloroth
Patron Marine Creature: The Atlantic Ghost Crab
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Description: Sand is deathly pale, and the lower half of her body was replaced with the cephalothorax, abdomen, and legs of an enormous golden ghost crab. Her hair is knotted with kelp and the filth of the sea, crab eyes were shoved into her sockets, and her teeth were puzzle-pieced into her mouth from sea lions, frilled sharks, and the teeth of other souls lost to the depths.
Affiliations and Activities
- Started fighting in 2022, has since only become more aggressive
- Crafter of objects, Artificer Guild
- Member, Shadow wizard money gang
- Bardbarian (violent limerick creator)
Weapon Preference: Flail, Sword and Board (Halfbat and Buckler), Florentine (Max Blue, Halfbat, and Buckler — “The Claws” ), Dagger
Abilities:
- Able to arrange beads and hoard yarn. Easily distracted by dice and other shiny things, and thoroughly willing to gamble for them. (Who knew that living a past life as a paladin would make you an incredibly materialistic crustacean?)
- Staring, scuttling, lurking, and pinching.
- Can dodge with moderate success.
- Often in the begrudging company of Tolarian birds, Parakeet and Junco. Collector of scales (most often provided by Shields (fighter)).
- Is coarse, is rough, is irritating, and gets everywhere.
Events and Activities:
- Battle for the Ring in 2023
- War of Wrath in 2024
- BFTR in 2025
- War of Wrath in 2025
+ She completed all of the quests of the 12 Princes at WoW 2024, coming in 4th overall. Sand is a serial quester.
Identity Ownership Status
- Sand has full possession of his name at this time, although her soul was brief in possession of RedCrow. It has since been reclaimed. Her pronouns and letters are intact.
Known Lore
Once, Sand went by another name, worshiped another God, and only had two legs.
Upon failure to peacefully complete a mission for her God, Sand was assassinated by one of her colleagues, a fellow paladin affiliated with a mysterious enclave. Murdered and cast from a cliff into sea, Sand sank to the depths, viscera spilling into the dark brine. Her memories melted away and the face of the one who betrayed her vanished from her mind.
Sand's body sank so deep, in fact, that she entered the domain of the king of betrayal, Yuvaros. The eel Eldar was galvanized by the circumstances of Sand's death, and he recovered what remained of her: the torso of her corpse. Like a toymaker, Yuvaros replaced Sand's lost parts. He fused her torso to an enormous ghost crab, cleaving her once imposing height and stripping her of her humanity. Sand became a crustaceataur, a strange, malformed syren.
Once Sand's torso was reunited with a body and consciousness forced its way back into her, the ocean spat her onto the rocky substrate that would become her new name. The waves mocked her, and froth spewed onto her twisted form to the tune of Dagon's laugh:
"Those castles that might've housed you have crumbled, now all you are is the lord of sand."
Not content to serve another god, Sand began her quest for vengeance. But that's not too easy with a head full of salt water. Eventually, Sand found a pair of travelers, whom, through painstaking eavesdropping, she discovered were two of her conversion targets when she was a servant of the paladin enclave. She tracked the pair back to the coastal realm Tolaria. Its trees and bluffs looked strange, yet familiar. Sand began lurk around that realm as well, until she eventually joined to hone her skills under their banner (definitely not to eat unfortunate pinkie passersby and to hunt down the elusive paladin order).
Yuvaros, however, wasn't going to let one of his handmade syrens slip through his clutches. A pair of eyes were sent from his lair to follow Sand in the form of Vojhath the Harbinger, a horseshoe crab loyal only to the Eldar. Sand, still alert from her days behind a sword but not alert enough to decipher his intentions, scornfully nicknamed the little beast Goober.
Reborn from the murky depths of evil, Sand is a suspicious and dangerous individual by nature. Her main objective is to piece together the fragmented memories she has of her life before her resurrection. Her memory remains limited to the events following being transformed and fleeting images.
The reflection of a tall, white-haired human.
A strangely cold coin, engraved with an “M."
A scarlet quiver of barbed, black arrows.
A vial of viscous, dark fluid.
A condemnable smile.
The identity of the one who slaughtered Sand and the location of the enclave remains unknown to her ... but certain fae seem to have insider knowledge on the fate of Sand's killer.
Though only time will be able to tell, because dead crabs sure don't.
Statements:
- "YOU MESS WITH THE CRAB, YOU GET THE STAB!"
- "We're consenting adults, we can have a romantic knife fight under the pale moonlight if we want to."
- Sand is one of the few syrens with no singing magicks: the murder weapon was a poison-tipped arrow through her throat, rendering her tuneless and gravely. "I used to be a singer like you, then I took an arrow to the neck..."
- "It takes me five minutes to walk to the tavern and fifteen to walk back. The difference is staggering."
- "Oh, please. I'm full of love. And marine parasites. Mostly parasites. Brimming with parasites...actually, the love is definitely from the parasites. Get them out of me."
