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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tuxgeo" data-source="post: 6515329" data-attributes="member: 61026">That would be nice. 'Twas not always the case. For example, during early "Encounters" seasons at game stores, only Essentials-based characters were allowed. "Better Breet than Brute?" Yeah, I should probably refer to him in text by his given name "Breachtad." However, whenever introducing himself, he's still going to pronounce it "Breet." (I work hard to come up with these idiosyncracies.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/blush.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":blush:" title="Blush    :blush:" data-shortname=":blush:" />)Still mulling backstory. I'm thinking his father was a Hero of Encastulum, but his mother was a pact-sworn devotee of "The Eochaid,"* with her pact leading her to search for old relics of elven civilization in order to return them to the elf-lands. The mother may be dead now. I'm not sure why she would be; first guess is that she went on a lone mission into no-man's-land (where it is wisest to avoid assassins, due to having no help nearby), but was tracked there anyway, and she never came back. With her being a fey-pact warlock, Breachtad might have been able to learn and absorb the rush of energies of Eld. Bla., and the tang and feel of their application, from his mother through direct observation or instruction or osmosis. His not being able to cast the power often would be a natural result of his having no pact-source of his own, causing him to have to replenish his own, personal energies by drawing on his primal power source before he can cast the thing again, rather than drawing on an arcane power source directly. Also: Slouch Marshes (sorry, Sulch Marshes) -- are they alive like the Florida Everglades, or mostly dead like the Dead Marshes in Lord of the Rings? If Breachtad's Nature skill bonus of +9 gives him an automatic success on foraging for food in the Marshes (DC 10?), his spending time in the area could be part of his backstory -- but not so if the lands are mostly devoid of life. (If I had to guess, the waters of the marshes are slowly moving westward from the hills to the lake; but I don't want to declare that without being sure, in case your world has other physics.)(* drawing from Heroes of the Feywild again)</blockquote>

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