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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 5288095" data-attributes="member: 360">Brandis, human swordmage (templar)Okay, here's an idea[sblock=Preliminary character sheet]====== Created Using Wizards of the Coast D&D Character Builder ======Brandis, level 1Human, SwordmageBuild: Shielding SwordmageSwordmage Aegis: Aegis of ShieldingBackground: Oathbound Fellow (Bluff class skill)FINAL ABILITY SCORESStr 10, Con 14, Dex 13, Int 18, Wis 8, Cha 14.STARTING ABILITY SCORESStr 10, Con 14, Dex 13, Int 16, Wis 8, Cha 14.AC: 20 Fort: 13 Reflex: 15 Will: 15HP: 29 Surges: 10 Surge Value: 7TRAINED SKILLSBluff +7, Arcana +9, Intimidate +7, Insight +4, History +9UNTRAINED SKILLSAcrobatics +1, Diplomacy +2, Dungeoneering -1, Endurance +2, Heal -1, Nature -1, Perception -1, Religion +4, Stealth +1, Streetwise +2, Thievery +1, AthleticsFEATSHuman: Improved Swordmage WardingLevel 1: Intelligent BlademasterPOWERSBonus At-Will Power: Booming BladeSwordmage at-will 1: Lightning LureSwordmage at-will 1: Sword BurstSwordmage encounter 1: Sword of SigilsSwordmage daily 1: Frost BacklashITEMSLeather Armor, Adventurer's Kit, Longsword====== Copy to Clipboard and Press the Import Button on the Summary Tab ======[/sblock][sblock=mechanics note]I'd add in the Templar theme power and probably swap one or two of his powers for Templar powers, but those aren't in the Character Builder right now.[/sblock][sblock=background]Brandis was his name. Not long ago he could have claimed membership in one of the great Houses of Balic. Not long ago he was a newly-elected templar in Androponis' service. Perhaps with a little more compassion for the common man than was healthy, but the Sorcerer-King had been of a mind to indulge the people for a time by allowing him to hold office.When Darian Haraxes' men had come for him he'd claimed it had just been a matter of ignoring some smuggling for the favors of a pretty merchant girl. Templars in every city on Athas did that sort of thing all the time, even if that was a bit against his reputation. He'd kept up with that story right up to the time they decided that his family was not so important as that, and he could be tortured after all. Actually a bit beyond that; he'd kept silent until they actually did torture him. By then his lover had escaped the city, but someone had learned she was a courier for the Veiled Alliance. And that he had been covering for her.He'd been stripped of his titles, and sold into slavery soon after that. He wondered why he hadn't been executed. Did they want a lever on his lover? Or his family? Or was he to be 'repatriated' when Androponis wanted to make another show of his generosity? In any case, he had been sold, and sold again before reaching the salt mines of Rarun. And kept at the most back-breaking labor; no slave would take his orders, and House Njeer was not about to let anyone with his intelligence near the accounts.[/sblock][sblock=plot hooks]- What happened to Brendis' lover after she escaped Balic? Is she plotting his rescue, or angry that he somehow let her secrets be uncovered?- Does his family still protest his innocence, or at least maintain that belief in private?[/sblock]</blockquote>

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