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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 4552503" data-attributes="member: 158">The character I am currently playing in an alternate future Forgotten Realms game, I was inspired by the "In Hextor's Name" story hour. I liked the idea of a cleric who wasn't evil, per se, but served an evil god, and who walked a morally grey line for the "greater good." Therefore, enter Brom Tondrath, Half-Orc Crusader of Bane. (Score no points on originality for the name or concept <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=":)" />) Brom grew up in a world where Mystra had been murdered in a plot by Shar (keep in mind this campaign originated six months before 4E had even been announced!); the world was in constant turmoil, and Brom grew up a bastard child with no family. All of his sense of structure and self came from the regimented lifestyle of the Zhentil Keep Army, and from the Priesthood of Bane. He never seemed to have much calling for the priesthood, but showed aptitude for the semi-mystical powers of the Crusaders of Bane (Book of Nine Swords) and his life was spent in service to bodyguarding the Priests of Bane. After travel all over the Sword Coast and the North, the forces of Red Wizards and the Zhentarim have joined to lay waste to the world with a massive army; Brom is having a crisis of faith now, as the organization he knew and idolized growing up as the only source of security in a chaotic world is now causing mass destruction and massacres across Faerun. He's always seen Bane as a source of order, and a source of protecting the innocent, as long as they obey their superiors. I'm not sure where I'll take him -- he might even change alliegences to Helm, God of Guardians in the end, or he might try to form his OWN sect of the True Teachings of Bane in his own image, and show people that Bane is the God of Security and Order in the end. Anyway, I'm having fun challenging the group's preconception's of what Banites are supposed to be like (all the while performing some rather questionable judge/jury/executioner acts behind the scenes that they don't know about <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />)</blockquote>

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