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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nightbreeze" data-source="post: 4504160" data-attributes="member: 46755">Woo..I finally got my hand on the e-books and there are far more options then I though. Luckily, no point spending is required for now.So, I thought a little bit about the character. Enter Steve Jennsen, a 17-old kid living in the family house, 30 km away from Boston. Quite tall for his age, with a honest expression, gray eyes, black hair and somewhat absent look. He is currently preparing for the high school equivalence exam and then the SATs, after having studied at home all his life, and afterwards he will apply for Harvard. Although he has basically no extracurricular activities (such as sports and so on) because of his secluded live, his consistent placement in the first places of international math competitions has already granted him an assured place at the university. When not studying (either for the exams, or for his own interests, which include history, biology and philosophy), he plays football with his extended (quite wealthy) family each Friday, when they gather at the house: and there are enough family member scattered in the radius of 500km to make the games quite competitive.Now, what he doesn't know (and I am leaving gray areas, so that the DM can surprise me  <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=":)" /> )He is the son of either Osric or Finndo, illegitimate first sons of Oberon. Let's assume that when they were cast away from Amber, on the front lines of a war they couldn't win, at least one of them managed to get paired with someone from the courts of chaos (their mother is supposed to be from there, so maybe she acted as the intermediary; or perhaps they were sent to fight against the courts of chaos). Steve, or better, Stark, is the result of this pairing, and is subjectively quite old. Given the fact that he has spent a lot of his time in seclusion, concentrating on his studies of the primal powers and sorcery, nobody knew him at the beginning of the Final Confrontation. Then, out of nowhere, he appeared alone to storm several strongholds of the Victors, which at that phase were already predominant. After successfuly storming the third one, he locked himself in the central room, storage for ancient artifacts, and when the defenders finally managed to nullify his wards on the door, he was sitting there, staring into the nothingness. Needless to say, he was restrained and imprisoned, but a raid from their opponents managed to free him. Not that the opponents knew much more on his motives: they just wanted to free someone who was apparently on their side. He was still recovering when they decided to enforce the "hidden childs" plan.Perhaps, Stark was just trying to restore the equilibrium. Or perhaps, he already foresaw what was going to happen, and his "incident" was carefully crafted. Who knows. The point is that even if the spell on his is to be suddenly lifted, he wouldn't remember much of his former life, because of that partial amnesia he suffered. But if the incident was crafted, he probably left some clues somewhere, to help his future self.As for the origins of this magic: could it be that it is the result of a single being? Some of you may remember an episode of Doctor Who, when he assumed the disguise of a normal human with such a success, that he was able to fool both his enemies and himself (and I think it was even mentioned in the amber drpg). What if one of the elder rebels, long time hidden under disguises, has learned such a thing, and how to enforce them on other beings?</blockquote>

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