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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mokona" data-source="post: 1932213" data-attributes="member: 24891">Sir Val of DelphisValor (called Val for brevity) grew up as a street urchin after his father had died when Val was still a young boy.  Dwarves, like Val, aren't common in the human cities of Omegan but one dirty begging child looks like any other when unbathed and clothed in rags.  The authorities caught Val stealing from pedestrians.  To repay Val's victims the judge had this homeless dwarf sold to an elven slaver.Upon cleaning up his slave and discovering a dwarf the elf slavemaster sent Val, who wasn't quite old enough to be a teenager, to work the mines.  Val spent 40 years working in the mines as a slave.  Resentment built up in Val for the crushing labor his taskmasters forced from him and the slavers liberally applied lashes to force Val to comply with their requirements.  After 30 years Val came to see his slavery as just punishment for his evil deeds as a youth.Throughout the land in which Val lived the deities were forgotten, despised, or not even believed in at all.  Val, however, saw the justice in his slavery-induced payment for past sins as a true sign that there was a good and lawful deity after all.  With that internal realization in mind Val became a model slave working as hard as possible without complaint or resistance.  A section of the mine collapsed on Val's slavelords, revealing an abandoned dwarf stronghold.  Val believed that his slavery had served its purpose of bringing him to a realization of a higher spiritual purpose.  Visions led him to a secret monastery of priests.  There he learned about religion and his deity.Val entered the world a changed dwarf; he was the sole champion, a paladin, of an abandoned faith in the divine.Sir Val fought an evil usurper and vile magics to restore the king of Delphis.  While earning a knighthood Val acquired his signature items.  Val wears scale male armor emblazoned (as if etched in the metal) with a rose and stem (a symbol of hid deity).  The armor is a relic created when Val called upon the divine glory of Tritus (his deity) within a defiled holy site to free that site from those who had corrupted it.  Val fights with a large steel shield featuring the image of a green dragon rampant and a one-handed longsword glowing with divine might.  Val has very weathered skin from his hard time working the mines and scars on his back/chest/arms from being lashed by slaver whips.  Dwarves from Val's line wear their hair (Val's is black with speckles of gray) short and neatly trimmed (including their very short, neatly trimmed beards).The biggest event in Val's life:  Valor finished a quest against evil elves who had stolen the magic in the world that Val's deity had created.  After Val's companions freed the trapped energy from the elven orrery that acted as a magic singularity Val channeled all magic in the world back to his deity (the magic's divine source).  The resulting removal of all magic from the world sunk the continent where the orrery was; it was a great catastrophe akin to the story of Atlantis.</blockquote>

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