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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jkason" data-source="post: 3574088" data-attributes="member: 2710">More on DonovanLet's see if this tickles your fancy:Appearance: While Donovan tends to keep them covered, he bears various tatoos, most of them found near one or more of the scars he received in the fights those tatoos represent. The only generally-visible tatoo is that of the Silver Flame's fiery arrowhead, which he had set on the back of his right hand when he took his vows. As for the scars, the only one he does nothing to conceal is the crecent-shaped mark near his left eye. Gained while holding off a half-dozen ruffians who were trying to extort gold from an elderly merchant, the scar reminds Donovan of the providence he's had; once he would have called it luck that saved his eye, now he believes it was a touch of the divine. Donovan wears the more formal robes of his office when circumstances call for it, but prefers more humble attire. While his beard is more evenly trimmed and his face cleaner, he might still be mistaken for a laborer--with his broad shoulders, rough hands, and only-slightly-better-than-commoner's clothes--were it not for the Silver Flame's arrowhead hung prominently about his neck by a silver chain.Accomplishments: It is perhaps this tendency of Brother Donovan's not to set himself apart from his flock which has so endeared him to them. He's certainly not afraid to get his hands dirty; Donovan has spent more time than anyone working with the volunteer construction crews he organized to clean up and renovate the slums that housed the church's poorer followers.When Donovan more recently spearheaded a campaign to clean out the "protection" gang leeching off his home neighborhood, he fought alongside the constabulary, then sat at table with the gang's leadership to broker their amnesty in exchange for their retreat. Cerril Maise: While Brother Donovan's stubbornness initially lead him to repeated spats with his superior, eventually the two developed a mutual respect for one another. As a shifter, Cerril had to contend with those who insist that shifters are a blight left over from the scourge of the lycanthropes--bitter enemies of The Silver Flame. Donovan, however, has always refused to judge based on the circumstances of one's birth. After all, he himself has risen from squallor to become a man of faith and of his people. Given the obstacles they both had to fight to overcome, the two have grown to see they have far more in common than their initial head-butting would have suggested.Miscellany: I'd been thinking that, with his brutal past, Donovan's first level might actually be Barbarian. It fits with the "uncivilized" living situation he was in, certainly. I could see him living much of his youth illiterate, as well as often surviving fights only through force of will (read: rage).  The uncivilized/barbarism aspect is part of where the scars and tatoos are coming from, as well. Obviously, then, I'm thinking of him as non-lawful. Neutral Good seemed to fit, I thought, with the way he doesn't quite follow the standard dress of priests and initiates his own programs / directives, but the way he's always got an eye on the welfare of others.</blockquote>

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