Varys Farseeker – Psionic Dark Inquisitor

Varys was born to an Elven swordsmith and human barmaid almost a century past. His early life was turbulent, half breeds of any kind aren’t well liked in Baldur, and many residents still hold feelings of animosity towards Elves due to their association with Minera’s Breath and the minor wars Baldur fought against Nan Thalias over the years. So often they were forced to move, originally leaving the city of Arvere to Edimir, then to Grimgate and finally residing in Grimhelm after his father found steady work making commissions for the Marshal’s Armoury. There he fell into the military academy, though before long changed his path to instead be within the Inquisitors, hearing of the better pay and steadier lives they lead compared to the military, in exchange for seeing more action and enduring a stricter, gruelling training regiment.

Though Varys underestimated how severe the training might be, with initiates often accompanying their trainers and senior Inquisitors on real raids against dens of dark mages, warlocks or any other kind of illegal practitioners of Minera’s Breath. It was on Varys’ first raid that his vision was stripped away: a desperate and maniacal zealot of Glanion decided to end his life in a fantastical fashion amidst the raid on his home. His body erupted in blinding sunlight, burning many of the Inquisitors near him to ash, and blinding any who had sight of him at the time of the radiant explosion. Sight returned to some, but not to Varys. His eyes were left forever singed, and he was bedridden for weeks in the Inquisitor’s infirmary while he recovered from his wounds. In this time, strange senses came to him. He thought they were hallucinations brought on by his lost sight at first, yet they grew more vivid: strange outlines in purple hues, glimmering in the abyssal blackness that had overtaken his sight. Among them he could hear words and thoughts as though they were not there, but imagined in his mind, as though someone else was talking to him in place of his own internal voice.

When describing these sensations to the physician, he was originally dismissed, until he was able to discern the physician’s own internal thoughts back to him, word for word. This instead raised alarm bells in the doctor’s mind, and he quickly thought to seek out advice from a higher up, which Varys had foreseen happening. The young half-elf was assessed, and aptly concluded to be born with latent psionic abilities that only seemed to have manifested after his vision was lost. Psionic powers and Minera’s Breath are considered distinctly different, the former not being affected by Liturium or detectable by standard means, thus the High Inquisitor saw that instead of exiling or executing the boy, he be transferred to the Dark Inquisitors. This was the most secretive sect of the order, made up of spellcasters and those gifted with powerful attributes beyond what most mere men could muster. Varys eventually became one of the most instrumental beings of the Dark Inquisitors, becoming an agent used in interrogations, scouting and tracking owing to his psionic abilities, which also bolstered him into a formidable warrior in the rare times where he was forced into violence. Varys often attempts to avoid such conflict though, unless he truly sees that there is no other way.