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Navrid the Unscrupulously Heroic

As indicated by his title Navrid was heroic to a fault. Born in the town of Trembaloo, Navrid became something of a local celebrity and hero when he saved the mayor's daughter from a group of cloaked assailants. However it was a later action that earned him his title and his famous sword, Nhek'miggon'uil one of the fabled swords of Sepathok.

It was quite well known at the time that the Mountain of A'aa, which is nearby to Trembaloo, was the site of many an evil deed and creature. It was also well known that one of the favorite methods of making evil deals on the mountain was to sacrifice nubile virgins from the surrounding area, most notable from Trembaloo itself, to whatever dark power one was trying to make the deal with. Having heard of some recent kidnappings of women in the area, Navrid decided to go find these women and bring them back to safety thwarting this most recent attempt. After searching high and low on the mountain, he managed to get captured by members of the cult who worshiped Phgoorikus who was said to be sealed in the mountain. He was thrown in prison with the rest of the captured virgins. It was then that Navrid came up with his, some would say brilliant others would say indecent, idea. Realizing that the pattern in the past was to take nubile virgins, he concluded that a necessary part of the ritual must be that the women are virgins. He explained his logic to the women there and managed, some would say miraculously, to get all the captured women to sleep with him, thereby making them non-virgins. After accomplishing this deed, the cultists came back and took Navrid and one of the women, who they still presumed to be a virgin, to the altar for sacrifice. When the cultists attempted the sacrifice, it backfired, releasing the woman and freeing Navrid in the process who picked up the closest weapon to him and finished off the other cultists. When Navrid returned to town with the women, their parents were overjoyed but very upset about the method that Navrid had chosen to save their daughters. It was at this point that the official Title Bestower of Trembaloo bestowed the title of Unscrupulously Heroic, and identified the weapon that Navrid had recovered as Nhek'miggon'uil.

Navrid then went and engaged in many epic deeds, too many to recount here. Perhaps his most famous deeds were accomplished during the epic Siege of Trembaloo where Navrid and his companions establish the Trembaloo Fighting and Drinking Guild and then defeat Phgoorikus in epic combat as detailed in the ElemenstorLance book The Misplaced Givings. Sadly in the end Navrid was killed saving the people of Trembaloo when he was overrun by a group of Wutel trying to reach the fleeing citizens. After the siege ended his ghost returned to help his companions run a Spica Wars themed frozen yogurt stand but alas it was not to be as while Navrid was a great draw to people in life, he was not such in death. After the failure of the shop, Navrid faded away in to the afterlife.

It is interesting to note that after Navrid acquired his title attempts were made by one Verix the Thrice-Damned to discredit his name. It was later revealed by Welregar of Ebonshire and Lady B'gt'ts, long after Navrid's death, that Verix was the leader of the cult of Phgoorikus. Apparently he took the loss of the majority of the cult members quite personally and tried to defame Navrid in his book The Cowfall Prophecies. Fortunately for Navrid, everyone thought that Verix was crazy and dismissed his book. Verix's attempt to defame Navrid is described in the ElemenstorLance book Scriveners of Time's Last Moon.