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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 6598926" data-attributes="member: 6788736">The DM has rulled we are in pre Spell plauge FR. Circa 1380 DRIts a character I ported over from 3.5. Has the Martyrs Progeny and all that. Parents were both adventurers (a Paladin and a Cleric of Torm respectively) who came to Tantras to worshsip at the Gods feet. My father was instrumental in ousting the zealots who had converted Tantras into a debased woship of Torm.Then, to reward a life of service to Torm... the God killed them. Because Torm was weak. Too weak to slay Bane personally. I was six at the time, and raised in the Church of Torm as one of the Martyrs progeny, and a Paladin of Torm. During a mission to track down my older brother (who had gone missing following an investigation into the cult of the dragon) I found he had been killed. Torm had let him down in his moment of need too. I tracked down his killler (who was still clad in my brothers armor) and defeated him after a short battle. Unarmed, defenceless and pleading for his life, I struck him down with no mercy or compassion. Shortly thereafter I noticed my paladin powers had deserted me.Realising Torm for the false, fickle and evil God that he was, I swore vengance on him and all his deluded  worshippers for the ruin he had brought to my family, taking them away from me and stripping me of my power for bringing my brothers killer justice. Accordingly I did the only thing that made sense and pledged my soul to the one God god who I knew could not only defeat Torm, but hated him as much as I did; Bane. In exchange for my loyalty to the black hand, I would be granted the power to bring vengence on the false believers of Torm the 'untrue'.The sad irony of my character pledging his allegiance to the very God my parents willingly gave their lives to protect (my character beleives they were duped into martyring themselves) is totally lost on him.He plans to use the Church of Bane and the Black network to establish a foothold in the Sword Coast, purge the remaining Cyricist influences from the Western church of the black hand (the Pereghost is in his sights), and then embark on a program of conquest and the building of a Theocratic empire dedicated to Bane. From there, the pogroms against the Tormites will begin in earnest.Once complete, and Torm is sufficiently weakened, I intend to travel to Celestia and kill the false God personally.Only once the false God is dead, and the entire continent is brought under the singular heel of Bane, will we have peace, unity and order in the Realms.</blockquote>

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