Jarlaxle
STATISTICS FROM "VILLAINS' LOREBOOK" AND "MENZOBERRANZAN"
Inherent spell-like abilities : dancing lights, faerie fire, darkness, levitate, know alignment, detect magic.
Weapons of proficiency : Hand crossbow, dagger ( melee and thrown, main-gauche ( damage as dagger, but +1 to parry and disarm attempts ), rapier ( 1d6+1 / 1d8+1, specialised ), long sword, short sword, two weapons fighting style
Nonweapon proficiencies : Dancing, direction sense, endurance,etiquette ( drow ), gaming, light fighting, riding : land based, rope use , set snares, singing, survival ( Underdark ), tracking
the text below is from the Menzoberranzan boxed set and may be outdated...
Perhaps no drow in Menzoberranzan cuts a more dapper picture than Jarlaxle.
" Jarlaxle, arrogant and brash, followed few of the customs of Menzoberranzan's inhabitants. He was most certainly not the norm of drow society and he flaunted the differences openly, brazenly. He wore not a cloak nor a robe , but a shimmering cape that showed every color of the spectrum, both in the glow of light and in the infra-red spectrum of heat sensing eyes. Jarlaxle's vest was sleeveless and cut so hight that his slender and tightly muscled stomach was open for all to view. He kept a patch over one eye, though careful observers would understand it as ornamental , for Jarlaxle often shifted it form one eye to the other."
His boots are hight and hard, his jewelry is abundant, and a wide-brimmed hat, overly plumed with the monstrous feathers of a giant dyatrima completes the swashbuckling image. Jarlaxle is not a large drow, slender, but finely-toned. Unlike other drow, he keep his head clean shaven.
By most accounts, Jarlaxle is covered head to toe with magical items. The specifics are vague, though his large, many stoned necklace might be a Necklace of Missiles, his eye patch reportedly gives him powers similar to those exhibited by a dreaded Eye of fear and flame ( 12 HD Fireball and Fear, as the wand ), his rings and bracelets seems to offer some armor like protection ( certainly he 's not an easy one to hit ) his boots can be silent as the best of Drow make, or as clunky as an hook horror in a tight passage. His cape, rumors say, acts much like a robe of Scintillating Colors, and he can pull more than a rabbit from that wondrous hat.
More is known about this odd drow weapons. Jarlaxle specializes ina two handed combat style, with a rapier of wounding +1 to hit as his primary weapon ( +1 to hit, +2 to damage ), 5/2 attacks due to specialization, and a main-gauche ( rumored to be a blade of life stealing ) + 2. Like his eye patch, he shifts these weapons from hand to hand, sometimes leading with his left, sometimes his right. Under the sleeve of his left wrist, he keeps a strange bracer, from which he can remove and hurl five throwing daggers ( + 4 = in a single round (once a turn ).
On his belt, Jarlaxle wears the most hated of all magical items in Menzoberranzan, a wand of illumination. He also keeps a Pouch of Holding on his jewelled belt, filled with light pellets and time bombs. ( it's believed he got the devious bombs from Gromph Baenre )
Always graceful, always calm, none in Menzoberranzan ever remembers seeing the crafty Jarlaxle angry. He is a lover of comfort, of pleasure and the finer things in life, and always seems to find a way to over indulge himself. Jarlaxle smiles and jokes more than a Drow ought to, but the results of his off-beat actions always seem to please Lloth, or at least, to please the priestesses of the Spider Queen - Jarlaxle openly reveals no religious calling.
More than anything else, the leader of Bregan D'aerthe is a survivor, and a thriver. His wealth is considerable, and official station seems totally unimportant, since every Matron Mother in Menzoberranzan affords him the deepest respect. The only place in the city where the mercenary is scorned is the Academy. Bladen Kerst Baenre cannot stand the male, but whenever Jarlaxle is asked about the eldest daughter of House Baenre, he only smiles and flash a devious wink from whichever eyes happens to be uncoveredat the time.
Little is known of Jarlaxle's past, but he has led Bregan D'aerthe for more than 70 years. Jarlaxle and his band played into the downfall of not one but two nobles houses during that time. When House Hunett attacked House Do'Urden, the attacking drow were supported by Bregan D'aerthe, even while Jarlaxle was in the presence of Matron Malice Do'Urden. She made the rogue drow a better offer, and in the middle of the battle, Bregan D'aerthe switched sides, ensuring the end of House Hunett. Jarlaxle and Bregan D'aerthe were also involved in the massive drow force that attacked Mithril Hall under the leadership of Matron Mother Baenre. While the matron mother and several other Baenre females were killed in the failed attack, Jarlaxle the ultimate survivor, came through unscathed.