Ushar Skybreaker

NPC · Goliath · Druid (Circle of the Storm) · merchant

by Codex

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Class: Druid (Circle of the Storm)

Race: Goliath

Role: merchant

Stats Ac: 14

Stats Cr: 6

Stats Hp: 90

Description

Ushar Skybreaker is a wandering storm-caller who sells weather to those who can pay: rain for a dying farm, fog to cover a caravan, a squall to scatter a blockade. He is not a villain and not a hero, just a force that passes through, generous one day and gone the next. Drop him in as a colorful hireling, a wild-card ally, or the unwitting cause of the very drought the party was sent to solve.

Appearance

Nearly seven feet of weather-worn goliath, skin the grey of storm-cloud with pale branching scars where lightning has kissed him more than once. Wears a cloak of oiled feathers and a necklace of small brass bells that ring before he calls the wind.

Motives

Chase the biggest sky he can find and be remembered in the songs of the caravans — and never, ever let a single city put him on a leash or a payroll for good.

Personality

Booming, generous, and reckless — buys the whole tavern a round, then wagers the coin he needed for the road. Warm to strangers, but his temper turns as fast as the weather he calls. His quirk: he names every storm he raises and speaks to them like old dogs — “easy now, Grandmother Thunder, not yet.”

Voice

A rolling, thunderous laugh and a voice pitched to carry over wind. Tells long tangents, mid-sentence he'll glance skyward and mutter to the clouds, then snap back to you as if nothing happened.

For the Game Master Secrets and prep notes, spoilers for players. Open to read.

Secrets

The drought strangling the Duskmarrow valley is his doing. A rival water-guild paid him to “hold the rains” beyond the mountains for one season. He took the coin, spent it, and now watches the wells run dry — ashamed, but too proud and too broke to confess or reverse it.

storm · wilderness