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[Voadam]

Alan Keep
Human Hexblade 1 / Soulknife 1
Str10
Dex16 (+3)
Con10
Int14 (+2)
Wis10
Cha16 (+3)
BaB: +1
HP: 10
AC: 19 (+4 armor, +4 dex, +1 dodge)
Fort: +0
Ref: +5
Will: +2
Attack: Mind Blade (+5, 1d6, 19-20/x2)
Grapple: +1
Feats: Dodge, Weapon Finesse, Weapon Focus (Mind Blade), Wild Talent
Special Abilities: Hexblade's Curse 1/Day, Mind Blade
Skills:
Autohypnosis: 4: +4
Bluff: 1+3: +4
Concentration: 4: +4
Knowledge (Arcana) 1+2: +3
Knowledge (Psionics) 1+2: +3
Hide: 1+3: +4
Intimidate: 2+3: +5
Listen: 1: +1
Move Silently: 1+3: +4
Speak Language (Dover): 1
Spellcraft: 1+2: +3
Spot: 1: +1
Psicraft: 1+2: +3
Use Magic Device: 4+3: +7
Use Psionic Device: 4+3: +7
Languages: Common, Orc, Gnoll, Dover
Equipment: Chain Shirt

Background:

Alan Keep is (was?) an officer in the Horned Society, the chief military force of the Empire of Iuz. As his father was a powerful Necromancer, rightly feared throughout the land, Alan gained access to some quite excellent training in an academy given to the research of darker things. This training revealed some innate sorcerous power, in addition to psionic aptitude. Given time, he could have become a potent Sorcerer and Wilder, but a great war was brewing, and officers were in high demand. Alan, 14 at the time, had already been slated for military service, and he was already involved in an officer training program. His formal training in magic and psionics was more practical then anything else; a furious training program to develop a combat-useful edge. And Alan did just that... he honed his mental focus to create a useful weapon, and discovered a trick of magic to curse his enemies. Thus armed, he paid relatively little attention to the scholarly 'book-learning' prevalent among his peers (although Alan didn't know any better, what he deemed 'book-learning' was in fact a comprehensive and darkly magnificent program of study into the mysteries of death, undeath, negative energy, and the lower planes... with the end result that Alan defines a 'scholar' as 'one obsessed with dead people and the names of demons'), preferring instead to focus on what he felt more useful; how to use the wands and dorjes churned out by Imperial itemcrafters (or, commonly enough, procured from Fiendish sources). Had Alan's training been deeper, or he more interested, he could have learned to use those items by thorough understanding of their workings... instead, he merely learned how to fake it. The latest war was already well underway, and Alan was certainly competent in a fight (if not the type of fight that his peers favored!), so he was given a commission, a uniform, and some reasonable armor (he could've had better, but he refused to wear anything heavier then a Chain Shirt). Thus equipped, he set off for war, and (though he did not know it), for his inevitable death, as his new posting had already been set p for ambush, and would be attacked and detroyed but a short time after his prospective arrival. As fate would have it, though, something intervened...