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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Catulle" data-source="post: 641334" data-attributes="member: 9942">Lucas Human Male, 2nd Level Paladin, Lawful Good alignmentMedium-size, 26 years old, 6’3’’ tall, 195 lbs, Brown eyes, Black hairStrength         14 (+2)    Dexterity         10 (+0)    Constitution  10 (+0)Intelligence   12 (+1)Wisdom         14 (+2)Charisma       15 (+2)Hit Points - 15Speed – 20 feet (medium load); run x4Armour Class – 16 (flat-footed 16, touch 10); scale mail, large wooden shieldArmour Check Penalty –6 (scale –4, shield -2) or –3 (medium load)Initiative +0Base Attack Bonus +2Saves; Fortitude +5, Reflex +2, Will +4Melee Attack +4, Ranged Attack +2Skills:-Animal Handling +7 (5 ranks), Heal +5 (3 ranks), Intimidate +4 (2.0 ranks cc), Profession (Groom) +5 (3 ranks), Ride +5 (5 ranks)Languages – Common, GoblinFeats:-Power Attack, SunderSpecial Abilities – Aura of Courage; extraordinary ability, immune to fear. supernatural ability, allies within 10 feet get +4 to save vs fear.Detect Evil; spell-like ability, unlimited uses/day as per the spell of the same name.Divine Grace; extraordinary ability, add Cha modifier to all saves.Divine Health; extraordinary ability, immune to all diseases, including magical ones.Lay on Hands; spell-like ability, heal (Cha mod x Lvl) hit points per day by touch; points may be split up.Smite Evil; supernatural ability, 1/day, add Cha modifier to attach roll and Lvl to damage.Physical Description;Habitually dishevelled, Lucas is concerned little with his appearance, finding the trappings of civilised life to distract from his cause (whatever that is he’s not sure… yet). He shaves infrequently (when he remembers), and his hair hangs loose to just above the shoulder, being cut with a knife whenever it becomes an impediment; there is almost always grime under his nails. He stands tall and straight, however, and there’s an undeniable intensity to his gaze. Some have likened it to the zeal of a man possessed; Lucas thinks of this as the result of accepting his fate. He wears whatever clothing, armour and weaponry he can afford to maintain at the time at hand, and has a wooden token carved with the image of a snowflake bound to his right wrist – his ‘holy symbol’. He still wears his wedding ring, a simple gold band inscribed with Katrin’s name.Background;Raised an innkeeper’s son, Lucas filled his days growing up with dreams of heroism and glory as he wiled away the years in the stables of his father’s establishment. He would pester any traveller for tales of the road and to pass along news of great deeds in far off lands. As he came into his majority, though, he discarded such foolish hopes as the empty-headed thinking of a child. Life, he reasoned, only provided heroic opportunity for those who could afford the luxury of chasing adventure. He, and his extended family could not – to fulfil his obligations to his parents, wife and child he put his thoughts aside and concentrated on grim reality.The family inn was situated on a route rich in trade which would have been an excellent target for marauding goblins, save for the king’s troops who were a common sight along the road and within the inns along its length. One winter, however, with the patrols reduced to cope with trouble in a distant part of the kingdom, a band of the monsters braved the cold to seize their chance at the last caravan. The result was sadly predictable; the inn was looted, its residents put to the sword, and set ablaze by the departing band. Lucas was trampled when the horses panicked and lay unconscious in the stable throughout the raid, only to wake as the goblins left. Rushing into the building as it started to catch, he searched for his family - his parents, and child he found dead, of his wife there was no sign. Overcome by despair, he fled the burning wreckage of his home, into the snow, directionless and dazed.After an hour, he collapsed as shock and exhaustion set in, coming to lie in the snow as the blood froze to his face. He recalls the snow-blindness setting in and felt the convulsions begin, but nothing after that. He remembers that he awoke in a copse nearby, sheltered by the bushes and trees, with barely a scratch on him. He knows that he died in the snow.Lucas lives his life as a man existing on borrowed time; he rationalises that something much more important and vast than him (a god, surely?) brought him back from beyond the cusp of death and cannot deny that there must be a reason for his experience. He has taken it upon himself to follow his heart, hoping that would satisfy his mysterious patron. As one overdue the grave, he has dedicated himself to helping prevent calamities such as the one that claimed his family reasoning that he has nothing left to lose. He hopes that his “god’s” agenda allows for him to uncover his wife’s fate, but sometimes worries that attaining this goal would rob him of the force behind his conviction. More likely, he thinks, that if he dies with courage and in the defence of others, they will be reunited in the afterlife by his patron’s doing.Equipment:-  93lb total weight (without pack: 61lb)                     medium load (59-116lb) [run x4, 20ft speed, max dex +3, acp –3 min]                     Explorer’s Outfit (free)Wooden Holy Symbol (1gp)Wedding Ring (5gp)Belt Pouch (1gp, 0.5lb)Whetstone (2cp, 1lb)14gp 13sp 4cp (0.5lb)Backpack (2gp, 2lb)Waterskin (1gp, 4lb)Bedroll (1sp, 5lb)Flint & Steel (1gp)50ft Hemp Rope (1gp, 10lb)        1 week’s worth of trail rations (3gp 5sp, 7lb)4 torches (4cp, 4lb)Spiked Gauntlet (5gp, 2lb) [dmg 1d4+2;x2;piercing]Dagger (2gp, 1lb) [dmg 1d4+2; 19-20/x2; piercing; 10' range inc]Longbow (75gp, 3lb) [dmg 1d8; x3; piercing; 100' range inc]20 Arrows (1gp, 3lb)Battleaxe (10gp, 7lb) [dmg 1d8+2; x3; slashing]Club (free, 3lb) [dmg 1d6+2; x2; bludgeoning; 10' range inc]Scale Mail Armour (50gp, 30lb)Large Wooden Shield (7gp, 10lb)“The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had…”</blockquote>

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