Smart, resourceful renegade alchemist

Prax's Character Sheet

 
Born to a humble family, newly initiated into the mysteries of wizardry and tired of the country life, Prax moved to the capital city to make a name for himself and enter his clan into the ranks of nobility. With a promising speciality in alchemy, Prax was appointed a position in the miners' guild to apply his talents to experiments in transmuting metals. Prax made some great innovations in his field but the research was expensive and he made the mistake of falling for the wife of his financier, Lady Eubanks, the wife of Lord Eubanks, a powerful sorcerer.
One day, a shocked Prax was taken into custody by city guards and dragged to the castle where to his horror he discovered Lady Eubanks, perfectly frozen into a statue of what looked like solid silver. The guardsmen, led by Lord Eubanks judged Prax on the spot as the only practitioner of alchemy well-versed enough to rend such a curse. They made their intent clear to jail Prax for the crime but before any such action could be taken, Prax broke open a vial, releasing cloudy vapors into the room and made his escape. With his research and beloved both gone and now exiled from the city, Prax felt his life was over. He began to drink the days away at a traders' outpost in the country where he was laying low. Then one day fate intervened and a gust of wind blew a newspaper right into his hands at the tavern.