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Kulan: Knightfall's Crisis in Bluffside Game [OOC]
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<blockquote data-quote="Aust Thale" data-source="post: 7808297" data-attributes="member: 6804768"><p>Thanks for compliment. I have a loose backstory complete with magical gaps in memory for the protection of his friends and contacts. The languages thing I’ve wanted in a character for awhile. First real chance to use a feat to do it.</p><p>I’ll modify languages some to include Cliffspeak and drop Eldred, but my thoughts on him is that he’s always working on languages and can speak or write a smattering of words in similar alphabets much the way Portuguese and Spanish are similar. His background is immersion in languages. Those contacts cultivated his knack for it. And the Old Tongue, etc. was taught to him specifically because he was half-hobgoblin (who would guess that he knows it?) and former slave as a compliment to scripts and magic. He finds Tanger much to his liking precisely because he can hear any number of languages, especially among the pirates and smugglers who he watches and listens for information or the aristocrats who think he’s a half-breed blue collar dude. He uses the information to his advantage either economically (he isn’t particularly more skilled at commerce; he is simply able to put a wider range of people together because he can communicate with them) or courtesy of a job (he finds people and things or acts as a courier or covert translator). Plenty of people know he can speak a little of this and more of that. But nobody except his mentor and perhaps a friend or two knows about the Old Tongue. And the fact that he picks up proficiency in a language every level would be the only indication to anybody that he does.</p><p>As to his alignment, he’s not Neutral out of a particular ideological proclivity. He is because to put one foot in front of the other each day, he has to be. As long as he and his are protected, he forms no moral attachment to the law or lack of. As to good and evil, that’s often a matter of political (lower and upper case “P”) perspective, and that’s often the result of need or want. Probably more info than you want. The two mentors cover his classes and no small degree of why he behaves the way he does.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aust Thale, post: 7808297, member: 6804768"] Thanks for compliment. I have a loose backstory complete with magical gaps in memory for the protection of his friends and contacts. The languages thing I’ve wanted in a character for awhile. First real chance to use a feat to do it. I’ll modify languages some to include Cliffspeak and drop Eldred, but my thoughts on him is that he’s always working on languages and can speak or write a smattering of words in similar alphabets much the way Portuguese and Spanish are similar. His background is immersion in languages. Those contacts cultivated his knack for it. And the Old Tongue, etc. was taught to him specifically because he was half-hobgoblin (who would guess that he knows it?) and former slave as a compliment to scripts and magic. He finds Tanger much to his liking precisely because he can hear any number of languages, especially among the pirates and smugglers who he watches and listens for information or the aristocrats who think he’s a half-breed blue collar dude. He uses the information to his advantage either economically (he isn’t particularly more skilled at commerce; he is simply able to put a wider range of people together because he can communicate with them) or courtesy of a job (he finds people and things or acts as a courier or covert translator). Plenty of people know he can speak a little of this and more of that. But nobody except his mentor and perhaps a friend or two knows about the Old Tongue. And the fact that he picks up proficiency in a language every level would be the only indication to anybody that he does. As to his alignment, he’s not Neutral out of a particular ideological proclivity. He is because to put one foot in front of the other each day, he has to be. As long as he and his are protected, he forms no moral attachment to the law or lack of. As to good and evil, that’s often a matter of political (lower and upper case “P”) perspective, and that’s often the result of need or want. Probably more info than you want. The two mentors cover his classes and no small degree of why he behaves the way he does. [/QUOTE]
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