industrygothica said:
I'd like to see more about this character. How long has he been on the run? For what crimes is he accused? Is he out to clear his name, or does he just want to run as far away as he can?
I envision him as having been on the run for about 4 months after having spent 2 years in a prison.
Crimes? Murder and/or Treason are always good ones... but treason kind of implies that he was more important on a national level that I envisioned him.
Something like: he was once the trusted/childhood/best friend of a local landowner and is now accused of having brutally butchered and raped the wealthy landowner's daughter, his god-daughter. Evidence would have been found for some other, deeply personal to the landowner, betrayal as well.
Wanting the man who he'd once called 'brother' to suffer for what he'd done, he sent the pc (nameless as of yet) to a rather brutal hard-labor prison.
By making distastful alliances with the criminals in there, he managed to slay a guard, whom he knew was corrupt (the pc will forever be trying to assauge a guilty conscience) and escaped in a outgoing shipment of materials.
The PC wants to:
1) Find out who set him up.
2) Find out what REALLY happened.
3) Prove his innocence to the one person left in the world who truely matters to him, the landownder.
Wrinkles:
1) Lawful Good alignment and a deep, abiding respect for the law... as a criminal.
2) Haunting dreams filled with blood, butchery, and laughter... sometimes it's his god-daughter, other times it's someone else; Always young women though.
3) Was tattooed upon incarceration (on chest, left breast)... is the tattoo magical? Can it be used to track him down? In any case, it's easily identifiable.