Vault of the Wyrm Prince - Del-Kai the Melted (Genasi Wizard)

Del-Kai the Melted

"You want to know what I do, yes?" The small man in front of you takes a moment to push his face back into place where it had started to slide. "I endure where others falter. I survive where most would give up and die. I do not look it, yes?" The timid humanoid pushes up on his wired spectacles with a wheezing, gurgling laugh, small pieces of skin dripping off of his face.

"Let me tell you a story. I will try and be brief, yes? Once there was a small boy, a boy of immense power and intellect, but small in stature. The strong ones of the town feared what this boy might become should he continue on his path to unlock the mysteries of the universe. They called him a blasphemer for claiming his own power instead of the power of the gods." 

The man pauses to spit on the ground at the word - gods.

"Like they would with any blasphemer, they bound his hands and his feet and threw him into the sacred pit filled with an acid so foul that if you dipped in your sword you'd have nothing left but the hilt, yes? But the boy did not die. He was too clever, too powerful for such a mundane death. He took the acid into himself. He became the melted one, yes? And he returned to that town where the strong ones thought themselves so clever for dealing with the blasphemer, and the boy showed them what true power looked like. Now that village is gone, with nothing but a piece of blackened salted earth in its place."

The small man with a face like a melting candle leans forward. "I am Del-Kai the Melted. I survive, I endure, and I show the powerful their folly."