Dashiell+Kaplan

=Dashiell Kaplan=

A rising star in the Church of Boldrei operating out of Sharn, Dashiell Kaplan is something of a celebrity. A Cyran orphan raised by House Jorasco until he went to seminary to be a priest of Boldrei, he was profiled in 995 by the //Korranberg Chronicle// because of something unique: Dashiell was the only known Human ever to manifest the **Mark of Healing** (a Halfling-only Dragonmark linked to House Jorasco). The story drove the young priest-in-training to lie low, working in a small Jorasco clinic in the Callestan District of Lower Sharn while completing his seminary work.

//As it happens, Dashiell was not the only, or first, Human with the Jorasco mark....//

//While in seminary at Sovereign Tower in Sharn, Kaplan's roommate was a quiet man known only as "**Brother Gerard**." Gerard took a liking to Dashiell because of his Cyran heritage, and told him a tale of how, as a Brelish soldier, he had been among the first to enter the Mournland, just one day after the catastrophe that destroyed Cyre. Gerard has since visited Dashiell at his current job site.//

In 997 YK, Kaplan was drawn into several adventures that took him from Sharn to The Mournland and back. During this time he retrieved two historically-significant Sovereign Host artifacts to the Church in Sharn, including the legendary //Cauldron of Boldrei//, a supposedly immovable artifact presumed lost when the Host Temple in the Fallen District was abandoned a century ago after the fall of the Glass Tower. This act has led some scholars to think Dashiell is a figure in the Draconic Prophecy known as "The Caducean."

//A fragment of the Prophecy that was apparently a 7,500-year-old hoax.//

As Dashiell grew in power and confidence, the Church and House Jorasco, which had jointly sheltered him, stepped back and let him make his own choices. As the liberator of the Temple site in Fallen, Kaplan was offered the high-profile job of overseeing a massive reconstruction effort, involving hundreds of workers and guards. He accepted, thinking he was retired from adventuring.

After a month or so of this, Kaplan received several dreams in Vult 997 YK, which compelled him to come to New Cyre in hopes of catching the Slayer of Cyre's Children. He took a sabbatical from the project (he was really more a figurehead than the day-to-day operations guy), and traveled via Lightning Rail and Orien caravan, arriving in New Cyre late on Zarantyr 13, 998 YK.

Kaplan took part in operations against the Dark Hand Goblinoids, and later in the month returned to Sharn, traveling by fast Orien caravan to Starilaskur, then by Lightning Rail to Sharn via Wroat. As Faye Dwarfhammer began her plan to fool the firm that hired Kostas Knyarri into allowing her to make the //byeshk// head of the Dhakaani spear Guurgaal, Dashiell found himself back at the Temple rebuilding site. Late in Zarantyr, several laborers turned up missing. Rounding up the party, Kaplan led them down below Fallen District, into the Cogs, where they encountered a band of Roach Thralls that had taken the laborers. The insect spirits were defeated, but no explanation was found for their attacks.

In early Olarune, Draco contacted Dashiell, asking the Cleric about a "Cult of The Three Below," and the Church sent a Spear of Boldrei (member of an order of Paladins) to take over the security aspects of Dashiell's project management job.

In the evening on 4 Olarune, a day after the announcement of King Boranel's death, Dashiell was seen at a Daask-run fighting ring in the Callestan District of Lower Sharn. He may have been responsible for a last-second healing that saved the life of Nina Moondown in her deathmatch duel with Alfred Meldrum.

On 7 Olarune, Dashiell's superiors "volunteered" him to perform ceremonial launching duties for the brand-new airship //Golden Dragon//. When the airship was attacked by a force of domestic terrorists and criminals, Dashiell was impaled by a harpoon and nearly killed.

A month later, his services were again required when some of his old companions needed him to cast //Speak With Dead// on the murderous Changeling, Muraco. After that, a thoroughly disgusted and world-weary Dashiell returned to the Temple construction site and sent the Spear of Boldrei on his way.

Chok'ma
During his time in New Cyre, Dashiell made the acquaintance of Chok'ma, a Kobold miner who had led a small protest of other Kobolds against their Dark Hands captors in the Eberron Dragonshard mine underneath Monument Hill. The Kobold became his traveling companion for a time, and Dashiell introduced him to the faith of Boldrei and the other Sovereigns. Chok'ma seemed to have taken the young cleric's teachings to heart, right up until he grew wings and went off on his own to find a tribe of Kobolds to lead.