During his youth, if there is anyone Turcanor Everlighted loved more than anything else, it was his father. His proud father was a model wielder of the light, Champion of Tyr and defender of everything that was good and just and pure in Faerun. He also was a loving father who tended to Turcanor's every needs, taught him the letters and the sword. But one day, his father had gone and never again did he see him... alive.
The young Turcanor was them raised by the Church and taken into his vows of paladinhood at the age of 14. He was then given the only thing the church had found of his loved father: The Everlighted Family Claymore. Holding his father's sword, Turcanor knew that day that although he was serving his god Tyr in every things, he would never rest until he avenged his father.
Years of adventuring have taken Turcanor across the realms, and his tale would not be a short one, along with the stout dwarven warrior Abubu and many other companions. His travels and adventures had one day given him words of a Death Knight, a vile undead creature, traitor to his god and minion of Bane, was terrorizing the people and dwelling in the Bone Hills, a battlefield of old, close to Anaurochs, the Sea of Sand. But there Turcanor did find the Death Knight. Battling the undead, they found a weakness in the Circlet the creature wore. Once parted from it though, instead of being vanquished, the undead took of his helm, revealing the a rotting face that Turcanor recognized. Freed from the control of his corrupted masters, his Father was now recovering some memory. Turcanor had come to lay a monster to rest. But instead, he had brought back his old wounds and had his dearest wish granted!
Or so he thought. Long lost was his Father's humanity and years of vile deeds had corrupted what little was left of his mind. Without a soul, without sanity, the freed Death Knight could barely control his evil. They set out on a quest to try and free him of the grasp of evil. To get Tyr's Pardon for the fallen paladin. It was the only purpose of Turcanor's life.
But what great betrayal had caused his father's to fall from grace and be abandoned by Tyr, Turcanor never knew, for while they were deep in the underdark, undertaking a great quest as present to Tyr, his comrade turned on him and destroyed his father.
What madness had taken them? Did they not understand Turcanor's mission. Or was it madness that blinded Turcanor and they did him a favor? His dream destroyed, Turcanor lost his senses and killed his traitorous companion, leaving the wounded Abubu as food for the Xorns and never looking back as he left.
On that day, he was cursed. Tyr did not forgive his impulses, yet Turcanor did not accept that his god let his Father be destroyed, so close to redemption. Cursing Tyr and cursing life, no tale speak of what happened of him afterward.
Until a century later. Now a Death Knight, Turcanor still wields the sword of his father. The Everlighted Claymore, a sentient blade, was also hurt by the loss and shunted the light as well. Now renamed Tearslayer, the claymore serves his undead master with a burning fury.
Without purpose, he mourned the loss of his father a long time, sometimes associating with evil gods to assault Tyr's church.
He nows answer to another power. His call was heard not long ago and his voice was commands to him. Angry at the loss of his freewill, but welcoming the purpose to his existence, Turcanor answered the necrotic call of Qual Danas, an ancient evil now awakening along the Sword Coast.
