Name: Rina Wyvern
Race: Human
Class: Paladin 11/Beloved of Valarian 2
Age: 182
Description: Rina stands at five foot seven inches, with long, brown hair. She has green eyes, and usually wears a suit of dragonhide plate mail. She generally wears a longsword at her said that glows with a brilliant inner light, and
Background: Rina grew up in Baldur's Gate, the daughter of a noble family. She rarely saw eye to eye with them, while growing up. They were ruthless merchants, and despite their upbringing, she was more interested in religion and the divine. This lead to any number of confrontations between her and her parents, and eventually resulted in her leaving her family on her seventeenth birthday, and joining the Church of Helm.
She joined the church partially because of her disagreements with her family, but also because she had felt the call, and wished to become a paladin. For fourteen years she served as a squire, then a Paladin, fighting evil in three separate adventuring groups over a decade and a half.
It was on her 32nd birthday, that a plea for help came to her from an old comrade who was part of her first adventuring party. A druid, by the name of Flarn, had retired to a forest deep inland, to protect it. His cry for help came because an army of undead, lead by a necromancer in search of an ancient artifact buried within the forest, was besieging the forest.
Rina rode out immediately, making arrangements to be teleported to the forest.
For three days and nights, she and Flarn and half a dozen other adventurers fought the undead army, finally attacking the Necromancer himself, after breaking through his army. He had a surprise waiting for them, however. Half a dozen vampires that had sworn loyalty to him.
All the adventurers perished, except for Rina. She held him as he died in her hands, and he begged of her to protect the forest until a replacement for him arrived. She agreed.
In the forest, away from the city and civilization, Rina began to find the tranquility different and relaxing.
The replacement druid never arrived, having been killed in an ambush on his way from another druid grove. Rina never found out about this, as she had chosen to stay. She dedicated herself to the forest and its protection, and was rewarded by a divine source for this. She was taken under the guidance of Valarian, and granted a unicorn companion. Striker.
That was a hundred and fifty years ago. Valarian had given her the gift of timelessness, slowing her aging to a virtual halt. She hasn’t done much adventuring since then, choosing to remain in the forest and contemplate nature. She’s only ridden out a few times to protect the forest when necessary, or when her god has told her that her presence is required elsewhere.
Character sheet to come shortly
(My knowledge of the locations of forests in the realm is slightly less than my knowledge of subatomic physics. If anybody has a suggestion as to a forest for Rina to have adopted for guardianship, I’d be happy to hear it.)
