Bobitron said:
Well, looks like it's between Garrick, Alain, and Eva then. Any other input?
First of all, Congratulations Slip!!!!! Wow, triplets, that's wonderful. A friend of mine just had twins, and she and her husband are basically getting no sleep at night, since they were both underweight and had to be woken up to be fed every two hours. Good luck with that wonderful addition to the family. You'll be the envy (and pity) of your collective extended families for years to come
OK, Bobitron, if pressed into a corner, I kinda like the Paladin.
And now because you've been clamering for it. A little bit about Viktor Pendrake.
INTRODUCING VIKTOR PENDRAKE
Legends tell of a hero of men. A man so possessed with his thirst for knowledge that he would barehanded scale a hundred feet of cliff on the Broken Coast simply to recover a perfect feather from the nest of a massive saqu. The same man, it has been told, has wrestled a rampaging gorax, ridden bareback on a dracodile, and plucked the pines off a sleeping spine ripper. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I was there to see it all. The cliffs were much higher, the gorax was a frenzied mother protecting her young, and the spine ripper wasn't sleeping at all. I wont' even go into the dracodile; I had my eyes closed half the time!
To say that Professor Pendrake is a man possessed of a thirst for knowledge is to say that a bloodstalker has only a slight taste for human flesh. By any normal standards, Viktor Pendrake is utterly mad. Did I not know him myself, I would think that he much be two different men, indeed.
The man the students know, the professor of renown who has brought Corvis University such esteem, is a pensive, engaging character who speaks on the subjects of extraordinary beasts with infallible expertise and in a tone so carefully metered that one is nearly lured into a trance-like state by his cavernous voice. The Viktor Pendrake I know, however, the one who pursues the most fearsome inhabitants of this land out of simple curiosity, bears no resemblance to that wizend scholar buried beneath an avalanche of dusty scientific tomes in his dimly lit study.
Little is known of her early years, other than that he was born in very meager surroundings. During his youth he distinguished himself as a scout for the Cygnaran army, and was rewarded for his ingenuity and valor. Pendrake was offered any reward the king could provide. Without hesitation, the brave scout asked only for a sponsorship to Corvis University. The sponsorship was granted immediately, and at the age of twenty-one, Viktor Pendrake became the first junker (his parents collected and repaired scrap metal) ever admitted to the Corvis University, Department of Extraordinary Zoology.
Within a few summers, Pendrake earned his residency at the university and took his place amongst the most elite academics within the realm. Today, Pendrake divides his time between lecturing the up and coming minds of Corvis University and the pursuit of insanely inspired quests to catalog every wild creature that stalks the hills and forests of Caen.
