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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 4600235" data-attributes="member: 17691">Oddly enough, my first thought was to try my hand at a halfling paladin mounted atop a riding dog. Now it seems that we've got a preponderance of warriors so I guess I'd best focus elsewhere. How about a gnomish wizard?[sblock=Ambrogino]Born at the end of the small street known as Bookend in the gnome quarter of a bustling cosmopolitan city, Ambrogino was only one of many children of the extended Prospero family. He grew up in the same rooms above his family's bookbinding workshop in which his grandfather had taken his first steps. Ambrogino was indoctrinated at an early age into the business which had brought prestige upon his family name for generations. Their fine leather bindings were considered amongst the best in the region, at least by those who took an interest in such things. The book making business was in fact the livelihood for all the residents of Bookend; everyone in the neighborhood was somehow involved in the business: papermakers, rag-men, bleachers, calenderers, stationers, leather workers, gilders, limner or scribes. Scholars, priests, wizards and nobles traveled to Bookend even from distant cities to purchase the community's wares.Although it was to Garl Glittergold that most of those in Bookend prayed to for prosperity and protection, it was perhaps Boccob that marked Ambrogino as destined for something greater than the simple life of a bookbinder. Ambrogino's curiosity and precociousness were evident to his family and their neighbours even as early as his first year when he learned to walk and talk surprisingly quickly. As he grew, few in the community could deny his gift for the sciences; mathematics, astrology, theology, literature, alchemy... there were few of the books that were bound by his family which he failed to read before they were sent to their new owners.As the years passed, he quickly grew into the neighborhood sage of sorts, respected and well liked. When he reached his teens, it became clear that it would be a sin if his great intellect were allowed to be wasted, but proper education and scholarly apprenticeship was exorbitantly expensive. The community of Bookend came together and held several local charitable events to help the Prospero family to cover the costs of Ambrogino's education. And so it was that Ambrogino studied long and hard, surviving the many jibes from the sons and daughters of the bourgeoisie and noble families who were his peers, to graduate as a journeyman wizard.Now he seeks to make his family and friends in Bookend proud; to repay them for their faith in him and his abilities; to somehow make their world and their lot in life better. Above all, Ambrogino has a great love for books and the written word. He believes that Boccob offers guidance by hiding revelatory words and passages scattered through the collected writings of mortals. He seeks the hidden wisdom and knowledge within books, all books.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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