verse info. jon
the offense of jon's birth only increased as he got older. born to a devil and lord stark while he was away at war, jon was raised as an unwanted addition to a large family. he was loved by his half siblings and father, but his stepmother was less than thrilled he existed. catelyn didn't try to hide her dislike for him, but jon did his best to please her. he worked hard, he fought harder, he studied and learned to read.
things changed when he was coming into his teenage years, and he started to grow the tell-tale horns of a tiefling. it was decided eventually that jon would be sent away to stay at a temple of helm near elturel.
it was there he stayed for the next few years, until elturel fell. he was there when the city was dragged into avernus. he tried his best to protect all he could, but it was a disaster. chaos consumed that time, and that part of his life, desperately trying to get whoever he could out of avernus before diving into the filth and battle once again.
it's all that life will be with him. that is, until a nautiloid comes crashing through avernus. what happens next is the stuff of legends....
JON AS TAV
jon follows the classic path of the tav in the campaign as the primary non-origin companion.
JON AS A RECRUITABLE COMPANION
jon is thrown off the nautiloid and is found and collected by the tieflings from the rubble. many of them recognize him, and they take him to the emerald grove. tav or one of their companions has to pass a DC 15 medicine check to bring him back to consciousness. he shares his story of what happened on the ship, and reveals that he was not tadpoled but overheard a lot of things while he was on the ship. jon will part with the party after the goblins are defeated so that he can lead the tieflings to baldur's gate.
in act 2, jon is found in the cells in moonrise tower. once rescued, he vows to join the party, and becomes a recruitable companion for the rest of act 2 and act 3. he is a beastmaster ranger-oath of the crown paladin multiclass, originally leveling up as a ranger before shifting to a paladin in his later years taking care of the survivors of elturel.
JON'S COMPANION QUEST
jon's companion quest starts earlier than a lot of other companions, with his happening in act 2. dealing with the retrieving thaniel quest, the party discovers that jon is a shadar kai-- an envoy of the raven queen, blessed with a second life for his service saving those who needed it the most during the fall of elturel. jon confesses he didn't share this detail about himself because he didn't want his family to find out he was undead if he ever saw them again. more tba.










