I was just trying to be fashionably late so as to make an entrance.
Here's the summary from Character builder and the full .pdf of the sheet is attached. I still have to write the description and history, but I have it in my head. I ended up going Human rather than Tiefling. I know I could likely be a bit more powerful that way, but I just couldn't come up with a concept that I was excited about playing.
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====== Created Using Wizards of the Coast D&D Character Builder ======
Rydan, level 1
Human, Wizard (Arcanist)
Arcane Implement Mastery Option: Wand of Accuracy
Human Power Selection Option: Heroic Effort
Early Life - Test Subject (+2 to Arcana)
Theme: Wizard's Apprentice
FINAL ABILITY SCORES
STR 11, CON 14, DEX 14, INT 18, WIS 10, CHA 10
STARTING ABILITY SCORES
STR 11, CON 14, DEX 14, INT 16, WIS 10, CHA 10
AC: 14 Fort: 13 Ref: 15 Will: 13
HP: 24 Surges: 8 Surge Value: 6
TRAINED SKILLS
Arcana +11, History +9, Insight +5, Nature +5, Religion +9
UNTRAINED SKILLS
Acrobatics +2, Athletics +0, Bluff +0, Diplomacy +0, Dungeoneering +0, Endurance +2, Heal +0, Intimidate +0, Perception +0, Stealth +2, Streetwise +0, Thievery +2
POWERS
Basic Attack: Melee Basic Attack
Basic Attack: Ranged Basic Attack
Wizard's Apprentice Attack: Color Orb
Human Racial Power: Heroic Effort
Wand of Accuracy Power: Wand of Accuracy
Wizard Utility: Light
Wizard Utility: Prestidigitation
Wizard Utility: Mage Hand
Wizard Utility: Suggestion
Wizard Attack 1: Sleep
Wizard Attack 1: Magic Missile
Wizard Attack 1: Rotting Doom
Wizard Attack 1: Grasping Shadows
Wizard Attack 1: Summon Fire Warrior
FEATS
Level 1: Destructive Wizardry
Level 1: Ritual Caster
Level 1: Human Perseverance
ITEMS
Spellbook
Brew Potion
Tenser's Floating Disk
Alarm
Wand Implement x1
Cloth Armor (Basic Clothing) x1
Adventurer's Kit
Dagger
Quarterstaff
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[sblock=Description]
Rydan is a tall somewhat bookish lad with dark hair in need a trim that tends to fall over his eyes, which have a somewhat blue tinge to the whites and tend to dart about nervously. He jumps a noises and sudden movements and tends to rock slightly when standing as if about to break into a run at any moment. There is a slight tic in his left cheek that tugs that side of his mouth up into a half smile every couple of minutes. On his hands and arms can be seen old pale scars perhaps from chemical burns of some sort. He wears robes in muted dark colors and carries a quarterstaff in a style which one might expect of an old wizard rather than a youth. He absently fingers the haft of a wand protruding from a pocket.
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[sblock=History/Background]
Rydan Braithwaite is the only child of renowned wizards and heroes of Encastulum, Roland and Ismerelda Braithwaite. A bright and inquisitive child the Braithwaites did what they could to train and raise their young son, but the calls to action took them away for long periods of time saving the kingdom. So they intrusted young Rydan to a fellow wizard, Urigoode Greycauldron. Greycauldron preferred the life of a stay at home researcher wizard to that of the roving adventurer. At his tower near an arm of the Lake of Twilight Mists Greycauldron was constantly looking for new and improved formulas and innovations. His preoccupation with this research often left young Rydan largely ignored until a test subject was needed. He dosed the lad with all manor of new concoctions and zapped him with experimental spells regularly and sometimes fell prey to explosions when alchemical experiments went wrong. As the wars went on and the nearby Sunken Lands of Sulch became wilder Greycauldron became frustrated with the interruptions of roving bands of monstrous humanoids and other creatures living in the Sunken Lands. So he began to put more effort into training Rydan with enough magic to fend off such pests. Being frequently subject to strange magical effects and constantly on vigil for attacks against the wizard's tower has left Rydan nervous and a little paranoid. His natural talent and what teaching he has received have provided him with the tools he needs to follow in his heroic parents' footsteps.
In the last few months attacks on Greycauldron's tower have become so frequent that the wizard has given up getting any work done until hostilities have ceased between Encastulum and Trosellin. He and Rydan locked down the tower with various wards and traps and went on the road. Greycauldron's research continues and he has been attaching himself and his apprentice to various caravans and war parties in order to study the monstrous humanoids used by the army in hopes of developing a replant that would keep such creatures away from his tower. Rydan has enjoyed the chance to get out of the tower and see some of the kingdom and meet new and interesting people. Recently, Greycauldron's attempt to collect a sample of Troll tissue was unsuccessful and the old researcher was slain. Finding himself at loose ends Rydan traveled to the capital to inquire after his parents and now finds himself attending a memorial service in their honor.
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