Pathfinder: Saga of Fate/Helvar

 Difficulty Rating:  **

 Role:  Ranged/Healer

Backstory
In the year 4611 AR, a vampire lord by the name of Draven used his magic to seduce a maiden from a small village in the province of Caliphas, Ustalav named Diona. This encounter led to Diona becoming pregnant. When word across the village spread that Diona was with a half-vampire child, the priest of Iomedae in the village named Sergil, who knew a lot about vampires since he used to hunt them, was asked to lend his wisdom to the situation.

His answer bore both good and bad news. The bad news was that Diona would most likely not survive giving birth to her child. The good news was that he knew a ritual that he could perform during the child's birth that would ensure he would never have to avoid the sun, a trait that most other half-vampires inherit from their vampire fathers.

Diona decided that if her death was almost inevitable either way, she might as well do what was best for her child, so she agreed to go through with the ritual.

Diona gave birth to her child at noon when the sun was at it's highest point, while Sergil repeated prayers to Iomedae. As expected, Diona did not survive her child's birth, and the whole village mourned her loss.

Sergil decided to adopt this child in honor of Diona and named him Helvar, an ancient Azlanti word meaning "Child of the Sun". Sergil wanted to make clear that the sun would not be his weakness, but his strength.

As Helvar grew up, Sergil taught him the words of Iomedae in the hopes that Helvar would follow in his footsteps and become a priest. Sergil also decided to not tell Helvar about the circumstances of his birth, that both of his parents succumbed to illness when he was very young.

Helvar believed this for some time before he started to notice that he was aging at a slower rate than the other children. It reached the point where Helvar knew that something was wrong and that it wasn't just that he was taking a longer time to grow. He asked Sergil for the truth, which Sergil wasn't willing to do. Determined to learn his past, Helvar started to ask people around the village who were old enough to know what happened.

The mayor of the village, who had spoken with Sergil and Diona as this was happening, decided he would be the one to tell Helvar about his past. He told Helvar everything, about how his real father was a vampire and his mother died during childbirth. He also told Helvar about how wonderful of a person his mother was, and how much the village grieved for her death. In explaining all of this, he accidentally told Helvar about Sergil's past as a vampire hunter.

After this, Helvar approached Sergil and told him that he knew everything, and told him that he didn't want to be a priest anymore. He wanted to hunt vampires, just like Sergil used to, so he could find and kill his real father for taking his mother from him. Sergil tried to sway Helvar from his path, but realizing Helvar was insistent, he decided to begin Helvar's training.