Something thickheaded this way comes...
Name: Kuma
Race: Human
Class/Level: Barbarian 1
Gender: Male
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 215lbs
Exp: ?/1000
Desc: A tall, broad-shouldered man with somewhat shaggy, wind-tousled hair that falls in uneven waves down just past his shoulders. He has a strong jaw, sharply angled nose, and thick eyebrows that squat over clear blue eyes. He is clean shaven, and wears a thick, cured leather vest, reinforced with metal and bone studs, and leather breeches held up by a stout belt. From the belt dangles a well made, and well used, sword. Strapped to his left arm is a large round wooden shield.
Strength (STR) 16 +3
Dexterity (DEX) 14 +2
Constitution (CON) 14 +2
Intelligence (INT) 10
Wisdom (WIS) 10
Charisma (CHA) 10
Alignment: Chaotic Good AC: 17
Hit Points: 14/14 Movement: 40'
Base Attack Bonus: +1 Init: +2
Melee Attack: +4 Ranged Attack: +3
Fort: +4 Reflex: +2 Will: +0
Race Abilities
Extra Feat
Extra Skills
Class Abilities:
Rage 1/day
Fast Movement
Illiterate
Skills: Ranks Bonus Total Extra
Climb 4 3 +7
Intimidate 4 0 +4
Listen 4 0 +4
Survival 4 0 +4
Swim 4 3 +7
Feats
1 Power Attack
1 Cleave
Languages - Common
Money - 25gp 8sp
Weapons - Atck Bonus Damage Wgt Cost Special
Longsword +4 1d8+3 8lbs 15gp
Club +4 1d6+3 3lbs -
Shortspear +4 1d8+3 3lbs 1gp
Armour - AC Max Dex Check Arc Fail Wgt Cost
Studded leather +3 +5 -1 15% 20lbs 25gp
Hvy Wood Shield +2 - -2 15% 10lbs 7gp
Gear -
Bedroll 1sp 5lbs
Backpack 2gp 2lbs
Belt Pouch 1gp 1/2lbs
Waterskin 1gp 4lbs
10 torches 1sp 10lbs
Caltrops 1gp 2lbs
Flint and Steel 1gp -
Encumberance
67lbs - Light
Magic -
None
Background:
Kuma hails from a clan of relatively primitive tribesmen that live in a cavernous, long-extinct volcano far away, in the frozen tundras of the north. Though extinct, the deep caves still come close enough to magma that they are warm, and a constant warm stream of air circulates through the mountain's many caves, like a constant exhalation. The tribe's oral tradition maintains that once, long ago, a mighty dragon lived there and that the tribe was its chosen people. After it left, the tribe was ruled by generations of so-called 'dragon's kin,' men who had been specially blessed to carry a portion of the power of the dragon through their generations until the true creature's return. As years ground into ages though, the great bloodlines dwindled, thinned, and vanished. Out of tradition, chieftains are still chosen from those who can claim ancestry in one of the Blood, but because the dragon's gifts have long been extinguished, men of the Blood who wish to be considered must fulfill a great quest or accomplishment that marks them as men of special potential and destiny. This task is highly individual, and determined by a soothsayer, an old woman who lives apart from the tribe. Though many fear her, and whisper that no one knows her parents, or grandparents, none dispute the accuracy of her rare predictions.
Kuma is of the Blood of Artok, a great chieftain who led the clan to victory against the beasts that once came against them from other, more distant caves within the mountain. Though his kinship is distant, it is surprisingly direct, given the long years involved. As such, he is a candidate for chiefhood, if he can do what is required of him. The soothsayer told him that his quest was dangerous and long...which was both good and bad. For the more the quest demands, the firmer the questor's claim to rule was...if he survived. She told him that the winding road of his destiny was beyond her power to speak in its fullness, but that his first step would be to find the place where a great flame had struck the earth, splitting it asunder. There, hidden in shadow, he would come to a place forever shielded from the sun's eyes; where corruption was born of temptation and where lesser evils made war while a greater evil slept below.
He would find this place, she said, on a great plain of ash.
And so Kuma left the great caverns of his home and struck out into the world, armed only with a vague description of a place. Over weeks and months, he followed the rumors south, into the warmlands, to a place called Oakhurst that lay near a great rent in the earth.
A place known as the Ashen Plains.
