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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DistractingFlare" data-source="post: 5128648" data-attributes="member: 86189">"This world is choked with evil. I will forge my own destiny."[sblock=Asterion's Tale]Asterion never knew his parents, nor another of his kind. As a child, when the horns on his head were still prepubescent stumps, the young minotaur was kidnapped and sold into indentured servitude aboard a wealthy nobleman's sailing vessel. The nobleman's servants raised Asterion into adulthood, and the minotaur eventually grew into a strong bull, hulking and tough from the years of manual labor he was subject to. His master was not a kind one, but Asterion was generally treated fairly. He never tried to escape or fight back; instead, he worked hard, trying perhaps to convince his master of his worth as a person.One day, however, everything changed for Asterion. The nobleman's ship was hijacked by the dread captain Kumar, and Asterion's master was murdered by the pirate-king himself. The master's family was slaughtered by Kumar's crew, and the ship was looted of all goods. The servants, including Aterion, however, were loaded onto Kumar's ship to be taken to the Dragon Coast and sold into slavery.Asterion accepted this turn of events, hoping that perhaps his new masters would eventually free him. He was forced to clean up on the ship and to carry their often heavy freight. This never fazed Asterion. One morning, while the sun rose over the bluish-gray horizon, one of the old deckhands called out to Asterion. This old pirate was named Boulder, a towering (but ancient) goliath brigand. Boulder, seeing Asterion's physical strength in action, brought him below deck to the moveable forge that Boulder often worked at as the ship's only blacksmith.Eventually, Asterion's apprenticeship was completed, and instead of being sold into slavery, he took over Boulder's forge and hammer and became a member of the Iron Fang crew. Asterion quickly surpassed his tutor in every way, becoming an innovative and careful weaponmaster. He even forged a beautiful cutlass for Captain Kumar himself.Asterion worked silently at the forge for several years, never participating in the violent excursions of the ship - instead solemnly standing at his anvil, hammer in hand, pounding and folding plates of metal into sharp and resilient blades and suits of armor.One day, the pirates had begun to lay siege to a quiet coastal village, and through the window in the hull of the ship, Asterion watched as the brigands plundered the town. He watched impassively as Kumar himself beheaded prisoners and set fire to the houses of the town. Asterion knew that this violence could no longer stand. He knew that to stand by and do nothing while these criminals raped and murdered was cowardly and weak.Asterion stood at his anvil, gripping his forge-hammer tight. He set about making the strongest set of armor he'd yet crafted. His hammer swung with the might of someone who had seen injustice, and after years of watching, had seen that the time had come to stand up - to punish evil. But something else rang out in the din of the forge that day - a divine light that radiated each time the hammer struck metal - a light that gave Asterion courage to face evil.Soon, after the halls of the forge had stopped echoing with the powerful blows of his hammer, Asterion hid away a suit of heavy protective armor and a light shield with an insignia of a bull's head. He grasped his forge-hammer tightly in his hand and waited until it was his time to strike, for he knew that in time, he could fold the way of the world as easily as he had folded those metal plates.[/sblock][sblock=Asterion Character Sheet]Asterion, level 3Minotaur, RunepriestRunic Artistry: Wrathful HammerBackground: Silenced BeastFINAL ABILITY SCORESStr 19, Con 19, Dex 10, Int 10, Wis 12, Cha 10.STARTING ABILITY SCORESStr 16, Con 16, Dex 10, Int 10, Wis 12, Cha 10.AC: 23 Fort: 17 Reflex: 15 Will: 16HP: 46 Surges: 12 Surge Value: 11ATTACK BONUS+10DAMAGE BONUS+5TRAINED SKILLSReligion, Insight (+2), Heal, AthleticsNOTABLE UNTRAINED SKILLSNature (+2), Perception (+2)FEATSLevel 1: Weapon Expertise: Hammer (Warhammer)Level 2: Armor Proficiency: PlateLevel 4: Shield Proficiency: HeavyPOWERSMinotaur At-Will: FerocityRunepriest At-Will: Word of DiminishmentRunepriest At-Will: Word of ShieldingMinotaur Encounter: Goring ChargeRunepriest Class Encounter: Rune of Mending (x2)Runepriest Encounter 1: Flames of PurityRunepriest Encounter 3: Word of the Blinding ShieldRunepriest Daily 1: Rune of the Unreliable DawnRunepriest Utility 2: Shield of SacrificeITEMSAdventurer's Kit, 2 Potion of HealingBoulder's Hammer - (Lullaby, Lvl. 4, +1)Boulder's Armor - (Sacrifice, Lvl. 5, +1)Boulder's Shielf - (Heavy, Lvl. 5)Level 1 Amulet of Protection (+1)Level 2 Immunizing Plate Armor (+1)Level 3 Quick Warhammer (+1)380 gp[/sblock][sblock=Asterion Quick Reference]HP: 46/46 Surges: 12/12AC: 23 Fort: 17 Ref: 15 Will: 16[sblock=Powers]FerocityWord of ShieldingWord of DiminishmentGoring ChargeRune of Mending (2/2)Flames of PurityWord of the Blinding ShieldRune of the Unreliable DawnShield of SacrificeBattleforged Shield (Item)Lullaby Hammer (Item)Armor of Sacrifice (Item)[/sblock][/sblock]</blockquote>

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