Taroth of Varngol

Taroth was an Ilithid from Varngol. He was exiled for his obsession with the arcane, leading him to make a pact with an unknown creature to gain the powers of a warlock.

Description
Taroth was tall and gaunt with mucous-slicked flesh of a light blue pallor. His face was octopoid with four tentacles wreathing his mouth, later becoming three after one was amputated by a traveling assassin hired to kill him. When fully-extended, the tentacles are approximately four feet long

Pre-exile, he wore standard illithid dresses. Post-exile, he was often seen in a dark, hooded robe overlaying leather armor. The hood was deep so to hide his face in towns. He kept his tentacles furled up within the robe. Compared to surface-dwellers, he was physically frail.

Personality
While he outwardly appeared icy and dispassionate, inwardly Taroth was a roiling sea of negative emotions, as was typical for his kind. Ever doubting his psionic abilities, it was these self-doubts that led him to obsessively pursue his magical studies, which in turn led to him being barred from joining the elder brain upon death. Despite this, he remand haughty and condescending towards surface-dwellers, seeing himself as above them. However, he would happily accommodate and work with them if their needs synergized with his own.

Due to his alien nature, Taroth struggled to emphasize with non-illithids, though he often appeared charismatic due to his innate ability to manipulate others. However, surface-dwellers who could see through any persuasive attempts of his would typically view him as socially odd, as he did not shy away from uncomfortable inquiries that others viewed as inappropriate, and was rather blunt. He often ignored the emotional aspects of a situation to focus strictly on the logical, leading him to sometimes interact with others using a sort of 'logical tunnel vision'.

Like many illithids, Taroth was innately a coward and would often abandon a situation if the odds were no longer tipped in his favor. Oddly enough, he would still often go out of his way to help his allies, Gripgup, Justice, and Khero. When consuming alcohol, Taroth would often become friendlier and more daring, leading some to wonder just how much of his cruel personality was innate, and how much was a facade to maintain illthid values.