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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dlsharrock" data-source="post: 4176974" data-attributes="member: 55833">Redclaw...Languages: Rohirric and bonus language is Westron, which he speaks well. Rohirric is actually rendered in LotR as archaic Old English,  but is in fact a language in its own right and when Aeric is with his father or other members of the Eotheod tribes he may speak this language without being fully understood by others. Rohirric exists before the evolution of Eotheod into Rohirrim and is the derivative from which the Rohirrim and the region of Rohan gets its name. There are a few sources for Rohirric on the web, but not many as Tolkien never elaborated much on the language, choosing instead to represent it in LotR as an archaic form of Old English, as far as I can ascertain, so readers could understand dialogue. Most of the existing translations are from Rohirrim protagonist names and locations. Curiously, the language of Hobbits has, at some point in the past, been influenced by Rohirric, so you may be able to semi-converse with Hobbits in their own language or understand Hobbit text (and in my game they do have their own language). The Rohirric 'trahan' for example, means burrow in Hobbitish. More significantly, éo means horse (as in Éowyn, Éomer and so on). Théoden supposedly means King and the Rohirric word 'wose' means wild-man, which is where the Wose race of Middle-Earth get their name. Of course, you don't really need to know any of this, I'm just including it fyi.Starting Gold: as with other players I'm taking the 900gp 2nd level award on a character by character basis. I'm trimming it to 450gp for basic starting equipment. However, Aerec does get a free high pedigree horse worth around 300gp (compared with the usual 75gp) and I'll also award 150gp to spend exclusively on gearing up the horse with barding, saddles and so forth. Add the left over gold from your starting gold to the pile and spend on the horse or basics.The Horse:Medium weight barding will reduce the horse's base speed by 15ft. Heavy weight barding will reduce the horse's base speed by 15ft and also moving at only triple its base speed when running instead of quadruple. Light carrying capacity will not affect the horse's movement. Medium will reduce base speed by 15ft. Heavy will reduce base speed by 25ft. Size: large animal, light weight creature (Arabian style, cannot fight while carrying a rider).HP: 20Speed: 65ftAC: 31 (-1 size, +2 Dex, +3 natural), touch 10, flat footed 12 Base Attack/Grapple: +2/+8Attack: Hoof -2 melee (1d4+1)Full Attack: 2 hooves -2 melee (1d4+1)Space/Reach: 10ft/5ftSpecial Qualities: low light vision/scentSaves: Fort+7, Ref+4, Will+2Abilities: Str 14, Dex 15, Con 15, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 7Skills: Listen +4, Spot+4Feats: Endurance, Run, Great FortitudeCarrying Capacity: Light up to 150lbs. Medium 151-300lbs. Heavy 301-450lbs.Drag Capacity: A light horse can drag up to 2,250lbs but movement restrictions will be applied.Feel free to roll Hit Points.All Abilities, Skills and Feats look good <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As with Shayuri's Elf, feel free to request magic item purchases but remember the low-magic levels of the setting and the likelihood of stumbling across exotic magic items in a logging camp or during his time in Lake Town/Dale. The Eotheod are a fairly superstitious people and not naturally drawn to magic, so heirlooms are probably unlikely.</blockquote>

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