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<blockquote data-quote="emeraldbeacon" data-source="post: 8731004" data-attributes="member: 7032019"><p>It might help to know a bit about the character's origins, like their race/species. It could point you towards ideas. A few thoughts...</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>DESCENDED FROM KNIGHTS: </strong>Rhuarc's quest to destroy the old Order of the Aquiline Cross might provide some tie-ins, particularly if the PC is of a long-lived race like elves or dwarves. Maybe the parents were sympathizers or collaborators with the old order, that Rhuarc saw fit to remove from the world's equation... but finding a child amongst the caravan was <em>not </em>something he expected. Having a momentary pang of guilt, he decided to take in the child and train him as a Shadowdancer.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>FELLOW SURVIVOR:</strong> The child might be a survivor from one of many peoples displaced from their homes... maybe their parents were from Innenotdar, having fled to Gate Pass 40 years ago. Maybe they were some of the few survivors of the Phorros Irrendra massacre, or the resulting expulsion of the Temple of Echoed Souls in Ycengled Phurrst. In any of those cases, the child's ties to the Taranesti would present him an odd point of bonding with them. In either case, the parents may have <em>actually </em>been taken by the Shahalesti, in Ragesian Guise... a tactic that they use elsewhere in the story.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><strong>BEFORE THE SCOURGE: </strong>The parents could have once been Ragesian Scientists, whom have worked for years for Coaltongue and Leska in their tireless pursuit of power. Growing wary of their Emperor and Grand Inquisitor's persistent pushes for more control, they could have fled to Gate Pass in the hopes of living a peaceful life. Located by the Ragesians, they may have been forcibly returned to their prior positions. In this sense, they might be unwilling workers within the Scourge Prison, trading their scholarly efforts for a bedroom (instead of a prison cell).</li> </ol></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="emeraldbeacon, post: 8731004, member: 7032019"] It might help to know a bit about the character's origins, like their race/species. It could point you towards ideas. A few thoughts... [LIST=1] [*][B]DESCENDED FROM KNIGHTS: [/B]Rhuarc's quest to destroy the old Order of the Aquiline Cross might provide some tie-ins, particularly if the PC is of a long-lived race like elves or dwarves. Maybe the parents were sympathizers or collaborators with the old order, that Rhuarc saw fit to remove from the world's equation... but finding a child amongst the caravan was [I]not [/I]something he expected. Having a momentary pang of guilt, he decided to take in the child and train him as a Shadowdancer. [*][B]FELLOW SURVIVOR:[/B] The child might be a survivor from one of many peoples displaced from their homes... maybe their parents were from Innenotdar, having fled to Gate Pass 40 years ago. Maybe they were some of the few survivors of the Phorros Irrendra massacre, or the resulting expulsion of the Temple of Echoed Souls in Ycengled Phurrst. In any of those cases, the child's ties to the Taranesti would present him an odd point of bonding with them. In either case, the parents may have [I]actually [/I]been taken by the Shahalesti, in Ragesian Guise... a tactic that they use elsewhere in the story. [*][B]BEFORE THE SCOURGE: [/B]The parents could have once been Ragesian Scientists, whom have worked for years for Coaltongue and Leska in their tireless pursuit of power. Growing wary of their Emperor and Grand Inquisitor's persistent pushes for more control, they could have fled to Gate Pass in the hopes of living a peaceful life. Located by the Ragesians, they may have been forcibly returned to their prior positions. In this sense, they might be unwilling workers within the Scourge Prison, trading their scholarly efforts for a bedroom (instead of a prison cell). [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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