Haaman Khalten

Human Rogue/Monk

Spy

History

Haaman Khalten (HAH-man KOWL-TAYN) was a spy working for Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsen in the years before the Spellplague struck Faerun. His primary mission was to investigate and take whatever action seemed prudent in regards to the necromancer Haplo, who was proving an emerging threat from his fortress of Darkhold.

Skilled with a glib tongue and a razor sharp rapier, Haaman infiltrated Darkhold during the Bhaalspawn crisis. He befriended Avouz and Alandar and a number of other allies and confidants of Haplo, but proved unable to penetrate his deepest circles. Moric and others eluded his confidence. Frustrated by this, Haaman decided to infiltrate Haplo's private sanctum on his own to learn the truth.

In the chaos that followed the destruction of Alandar's wizardry school, Haaman slipped into the castle, hoping to confront Haplo and learn his schemes. He encountered instead Moric, who arrogantly revealed the whole scheme to him. Haplo intended to steal the divine essence of a Bhaalspawn and had used Moric to destroy the wizard school as a way to motivate Alandar into tracking one down. Moric then blasted Haaman with powerful magic, intending to kill him and very nearly did.

But the spy proved more resilient than Moric expected. He woke up days later in the care of Avouz's wife Allichia, who had found his broken but still breathing body floating in the moat outside Darkhold. But by now, it was too late. Avouz and others had already gone with Haplo to find the Bhaalspawn and complete the ritual. His mission had failed.

Haaman took some pleasure in spite, revealing to Alandar that it had been Moric that had slain his students. Once healed, Haaman departed Darkhold and was never seen or heard from again.

That was over 100 years ago. Now Haaman has returned and apparently has not aged a day.

He never returned to Khelben Blackstaff. Haaman wholeheartedly believed that Haplo's apotheosis led directly to Shar's attempt to unmake the Weave and nearly destroy the world (which led to the Spellplague and a whole host of disasters over the past century). Disasters he could have stopped had he not failed in his mission. Ashamed that his failure caused so much pain and calamity, he left the world entirely.

Haaman spent much of the last century in the Astral plane, where time does not flow normally. There, he studied under the githzerai, learning their monastic ways and finding in his meditations with them the means to forgive himself his failure. Now he has returned to the world, seeking to right the wrongs that he feels responsible for as means of atonement for his past mistakes.

Description
If Haaman has his say in it, he never looks the same way twice. His normal appearance is of a slightly built handsome man with dark hair and eyes. But catching him in this natural state is rare, as he is often masked, cloaked, or otherwise disguised.

His arsenal has not changed much. He still fights with his rapier and wears light leather armor in battle. His monastic training has given him skills in battle that are often hidden and he can be quite dangerous even unarmed or unarmored.

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