Ashok Argith

Ashok was named after one of the greatest Shadar-Kai that have ever walked the planes of existence. He has been trying to live up to that honour since he was a young boy living in the Shadowfell. Hour after hour he would practice his aim moving from throwing dagger at targets to shooting rats with a shortbow and finally being able to hit a pebble out of mid-air while on the run. When the raven came to him in the dark of night he knew what he was supposed to do. Slipping from his room in the heart of the Shadowfell into the Material Plane. Appearing inside the bedroom of a dwarven couple where a husband had discovered his wife was transforming into a vampire. Instead of losing her to the darkness he chose to put her out of her misery. As the light left her eyes and the blood pooled in the sheets, Ashok took hold of the husband’s sacrificial dagger and returned it to the Raven Queen for her menagerie of sorrows.

From that moment on he has been tracking down entities that are transforming into vampires, werewolves and the like to expose them to their loved ones, collecting morbid trinkets, regardless of which party loses their soul. He spent years perfecting his technique, tracking his prey without detection and finishing the deed if necessary. The raven Queen even granted him with access to arcane  abilities to aid him in his work. There seems to be no race or species that is immune to the corruption of these monsters and the multitudes of deaths has left Ashok emotionless and distrusting of everybody.

Eventually, the minions of Kas, the vampire, caught on to Ashok’s tactics and he was attacked. As they grabbed him and began to tear him apart he called upon the Raven Queen and his physical form became shadowy wisps allowing him to escape. Once safe, Ashok took stock. It was at that moment he felt a heart-wrenching, stomach-sinking lightness in his left pocket, his Blackstone had been stolen. His only means of returning to his home plane in the Shadowfell was gone. He rushed back frantically to the scene of the ambush, disregarding the danger he was putting himself in,  but, by the time he returned the assailants were gone, along with the one true thing he cared about. He is now on a mission to hunt down all vampires and retrieve his connection to the realm of the Raven Queen and no one will stand in his way.