Ooru

At a glance

An older, olive-skinned, heavily traveled spice merchant from Har’Akir who has sincerely pledged himself to the party and joined its journey.

Portrait

• Primary reference: Ooru Portrait
• Canonical status: Visual baseline for Ooru’s age, features, Har’Akiri clothing, and spice-merchant presentation.

Known facts

• Sold beautiful spices.
• Agreed to let Rage keep sixty percent of his sales.
• Rage sold 200 gp in merchandise and returned 80 gp to him.
• Appeared symbolically in Erasmus’s vision as a representative of Har’Akir and the domains beyond Darkon, not as one of Darkon’s regional rulers.
• Was assaulted and robbed in Rivalis, losing his trunk of merchandise.
• Serves Ankhtepot, the god-king of Har’Akir, and searches for the pharaoh’s missing ka.
• Believes the missing portion of Ankhtepot’s soul may be somewhere in Darkon.
• Carries a lapis-lazuli scarab Mist talisman leading to Har’Akir.
• Sincerely pledged his service to Rage and the party out of gratitude and respect.
• Joined the group as a long-term companion and received a spear from Ignatius.
• Remained on the spiral stairs while the party became trapped in a fifth-floor room.
• Opened the locked trapdoor from below just before the party detonated a Boom Stick.
• Rejoined the party for its continued exploration of Castle Avernus.
• Accompanied the party through the upper castle, menagerie, treasury, and elemental laboratory without taking an active role in combat.
• Confirmed that a hidden Castle Avernus record accurately described Har’Akir and Ankhtepot’s mortal past.
• Recognized the seven gods described in the record but knew them under different names and could not explain the discrepancy.
• Carried Carver’s torch during the descent into the crypts.
• Waited with Siv and Voss in a safe antechamber during the battle in the Bone Chambers.
• Remained in the protected antechamber while the party escaped the Bone Chambers and entered the lower laboratory.
• Rejoined the party after its work in the lower chambers and returned with it to Martira Bay.
• Recognized Har’Akir when the River Dancer passed through its shallow desert sea.
• Returned home after giving the party his lapis-lazuli scarab talisman and inviting them to find him in Muhar.

Current status

Returned to Har’Akir. He told the party they can find him in Muhar if they follow.

Related sessions

• Session 4
• Session 10
• Session 12
• Session 13
• Session 14
• Session 15
• Session 16
• Session 17
• Session 19
• Session 20
• Session 23

Gallery

• A Merchant Takes Up the Spear — Ooru accepts Ignatius’s spear and joins the adventurers in Rivalis.
• What Spilled upon Hook Road — Ooru witnesses the party’s horrific discovery beside the diseased elf.
• Beneath the Broken Spire — Ooru reaches Castle Avernus as the newest member of the company.
• Ooru Says What? — Ooru opens the trapped room’s hatch just before Carver resorts to explosives.
• Slippery Siv Steps Free — Ooru watches cautiously as Carver frees the menagerie’s dog-like prisoner.
• Rage Loots the Treasury — Ooru regards Rage’s gold-shoveling enthusiasm with experienced amusement.
• The Portrait Cape — Ooru considers the anonymous investigators now decorating Rage’s shoulders.
• Slippery Siv Is Back — Ooru watches the restoration return Siv to his original human body.
• Ooru’s Farewell at Har’Akir — Ooru leaves the River Dancer for the sandy shore of his Har’Akiri homeland.