Editing Maverick

<blockquote>Look, world ending scenarios are terrifying. If the Staff of Earth or Crown of Fire fall into the wrong hands, the realm might be destroyed. Some people want to save the Crown, some want to save the Staff. But at the end of the day, these weapons are apocalyptic, and if these weapons endanger the realm, and the many children in it, then it’s the job of heroes like Maverick the Social Worker to make sure these doomsday weapons are destroyed properly. - '''A note given to Maverick prior to entering the Grumbar Temple.'''</blockquote>{{Infobox character|name = Maverick Tabernacle|image = Maverick.png|aliases = |languages = Common, Elvish, Halfling, Infernal|species = Tiefling|gender = Male (he/him)|relatives = |affilliation = [[The Ellipses]], Stealth Squad!|caption = "Tieflings don't have wings…do they?"|marital = |birthDate = 442 [[PR]]|birthPlace = [[Radarap]], [[Pteris]]|playerName=Jeff|height=5' 10"|weight=165 lbs|eyes=Yellow}}'''Maverick Tabernacle''' is a Tiefling [[Cleric]] of the Trickery Domain and a Social Worker by trade. He was part of a team tasked with destroying the [[Tools of the Primordial Ancients]] to stop them from falling into selfish hands. He also served on the crew of [[The Ellipses]] prior to the ship's sinking.

He is the founder of the [[House of Tenorixion]] and the adoptive father of [[Ancients Alive/NPCs#Nim|Nim]], a winged Tiefling child he met during a mission in [[Jewelspar]].

They traveled together in exile, wandering across the continent until at last she birthed a daughter. It was immediately clear, however, that the [[Devil]] blood had warped their daughter in the womb. Cursed with reddish skin and a long, serpent-like tail. She was a Tiefling. It was not long afterwards that the father left them for another woman, leaving the [[Human]] girl to raise a Tiefling child on her own.

The Tiefling girl grew up wandering the [[Human]] enclaves of [[Pteris]] with her mother before being swept away by the first Tiefling man she'd ever met. This man, too, would abandon her just before the birth of their son, who she named Maverick. Ashamed she had made the same mistake as her mother and too proud to return to her, she traveled with her infant son to the continent of [[Amusa]] to start life anew.

Maverick was born in [[Pteris]], but his mother relocated them to [[Amusa]] when he was just an infant. His earliest memories are of being raised by his mother in the rural region of Amusa. She did her best to entertain the young boy's curiosity, humoring him with stories of her family's lineage whilst always skirting around the subject of his father (or any Tieflings, for that matter). He loved and revered his mother, but couldn't help but feel deprived of any connection to his Tiefling roots.

Despite his newfound freedom, he seemed to face hostility wherever he went as a lone Tiefling with no impressive titles to speak of. Other Tieflings were few and far between, and he began to feel truly alone for the first time in his life. He briefly abandoned his aspirations, making ends meat doing various odd jobs and eventually falling into bounty hunting. This job would land him in the port city of [[Warukami]], where he was intercepted by a ragtag crew who invited him to join aboard [[The Ellipses]] on a most peculiar adventure. Eager to break his cycle of perpetual struggle and forge an identity for himself, he takes off with his newfound family for new and exciting horizons.

Like his mother, Maverick can access magical abilities thanks to his Tiefling heritage. He is particularly fond of disguising spells, as they grant him the brief pleasure of blending into a location and not being judged for his appearance. In battle, he favors duplication spells which allow him to appease his trickster tendencies.

Maverick's training as a social worker was incredibly imperfect, but it at least taught him the value of listening. Giving others the space to talk had always been the best tactic for uncovering truth. He found children to be exceptional arbiters of truth, as they have not yet been taught by the world to lie. He observed that, of all the [[Quelmar Dieties]], children seemed to most gravitate towards [[Garl Glittergold]] without any prodding. Something appealed to them about this peculiar little gnome with the funny name. Garl was more true to them than any other deity. Consequently, Maverick began to accept Garl as his truest deity, as well. Perhaps an unconventional god for a Tiefling to follow, but Maverick would urge other Tieflings to not be fooled by appearances, as they could stand to learn a thing or two from Garl's trickster nature.