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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShaggySpellsword" data-source="post: 3718522" data-attributes="member: 17626">This looks like fun.Benden d'OrienBackstory:  [sblock]Born in Aundair, Benden was moved to Hommlet to live with his uncle, Andes d'Orien, when he turned 16 due to an inappropriate intrest he had taken in joining up with the Aundarian army.  Andes, a very strict travel-mage for d'Orien took Benden under his arm, teaching him what he could of wizardry, though Benden tended to pursue his martial interests at the same time.  Andes worked with this, teaching Benden spells that required minimal movement to cast.  Benden was never sure what landed his Uncle the fairly dead-end job of overseeing the Orien business in Hommlet and Andes never spoke of it.  Though he worked for a while with the business, his Uncle decided to let Benden travel with a group of local adventurers--he felt it was the best way to gain real experience seeing people safely from point A to point B--the bread and butter of House Orien.  He even gave Benden a surprising going away present on his first adventure--an enchanted suit of plate armor.[/sblock][sblock=Benden's Journal]1 Zarantyr, 998:  Join up with adventurers, see the world they tell me.  It was fun two weeks ago, but now we are racing through goblin-infested caverns in Darguun, our landcart is busted, and some yahoos calling themselves the Jade Dragoons just flew overhead in a Lyrandar Airship.later: Convinced a Goblin shaman to unbind the Dragoon's elemental.  Go me.18 Olarune, 998:  Happy birthday to me!  I am about to get the nicest birthday present ever!  We are about two hours away from the ruins of Khja-T'Thule and a massive payday.  This sorcerer knew what he was doing, and if I can claim even a fraction of the arcane might he commanded, I will be sitting pretty.later:  That half-elf that sold us the map to the ruins?  Blayne d'Lyrandar--of the Jade Dragoons.  Apparently, Khja-T'Thule never existed.  No treasure.  Always wanted to see a gibbering mouther though.  Never want to again.21 Dravago, 998:  At least they let me keep my journal in prison.  I need to write down one image so I never forget what I own that dust-spawn Lyrandar air pig, Blayne.  His too-smoothe smile with that ridiculous patch of hair hanging off of his chin, grey eyes twinkling as he watches me and my friends carried away in chains from the deck of his air-ship.  He's wearing my cloak---the red Montebanc cloak that I won in that 3-dragon Ante game in Sharn from the drunken halfling.  I can tell by the counting he's doing on his leather-gloved fingers that he's deciding how many new fancy hats and necklaces he can afford once he sells off my armor.  We fell for their map to a stupid fake ruin once...now we do it again and fall right into a trap!  Uncle Andes is going to kill me. [/sblock]  [sblock=stats]Fighter 1/Wizard 3Stats: <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?a=show&id=1218280" target="_blank">http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?a=show&id=1218280</a>in progress[/sblock]</blockquote>

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