Editing Darklord (section)

===Jinx===
Darklord of the Lost Wizard's Tower. This male black cat was once the [[familiar]] of a [[transmuter]] named Margaret Landsdale, a caring and heroic individual, but a slightly neglectful owner, and also too hubristic for her own good. Jinx's journey into damnation began when she decided to use the cat as the test subject for an experiment in increasing the intelligence of animals.

It worked... but it also made Jinx smart enough to realize just how much more there was to Margaret's life than him. He became convinced that she had chosen him as her test subject because she simply didn't ''care'' if he lived or died, developing a burning resentment for it. Worse, he became mentally human enough to become convinced that he was in love with Margaret, and to be consumed with jealousy that she had other interests in her life.

When the region where they lived was attacked by [[barbarian]]s, Jinx went out of his way to assist Margaret, hoping to prove his worth in the hopes that she would come to reciprocate his jealous, obsessive love. She did not. Instead, she fell in love with a young warrior under her command. When she announced their upcoming marriage, he devised and enacted a plan to lead the man Margaret had fallen for to his death in battle. With no spellcasters in the region powerful enough to revive the fallen, Jinx was sure that this would be the end of his "competition".

To Jinx's fury, the death of her betrothed only filled Margaret with rage and suicidal grief. She prepared a super-powerful alchemical explosive, and made a personal assault on the horde's camp. Blind with fury, she waded through the ranks of the enemy, surviving many attacks only because Jinx fought like a hellcat to save her - to the familiar's growing rage as he realized she didn't even notice her efforts. Finally, Margaret planted the explosive, only to be attacked by the horde's leader. Though she defeated him, she was badly hurt in the process, leaving her helpless in the face of the coming explosion.

Jinx tried to pull her to safety, but was too weak to do so. Margaret told him to flee to safety, and expressed her happiness that in dying, she would meet her beloved fiancee in the afterlife. At that, the cat flew into a rage and revealed how ''he'' had arranged the warrior's death, blaming his actions on Margaret's decision to give him the curse of reason. Finally, he vowed that Margaret would neither see Jinx's death nor her beloved, raking her eyes with his claws and then fleeing his master, whose screams of pain were swiftly cut off by the explosion.

Unrepentant, yet fearful, Jinx fled all the way back to the tower where he and Margaret once lived, only to find it mysteriously deserted. He has remained there ever since.

Jinx waits endlessly now for people to visit the lost tower, hoping to claim a new master. His first preference is a female [[wizard]], then a female [[sorcerer]], then a female [[bard]] or any other arcane spellcasting clas, and then finally a male arcanist. He will do whatever he can to first persuade them to accept his presence, and then separate his chosen master from their former companions. His curse, of course, is that he will always destroy any relationship he establishes - if nothing else, he will end up killing the would-be master when they fail to meet his standards for loving and doting upon him. He prefers to use his retained spells ability, which allows him to cast Flesh to Stone one per day, to "immortalize" failed masters by petrifying them.

Jinx has no specific powers keeping him alive, so if you can kill the little beast, he's done for. He can't even close the borders properly, but instead just summons the Mists; those who flee will find themselves emerging from the mist elsewhere in the [[Demiplane of Dread]].