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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Captain NeMo" data-source="post: 2280887" data-attributes="member: 29615">Zook is a young gnome, but with an air of authority and maturity that gives him the demeanour of a grumpy old man. This, of course, could just be the smell from the collegium library. He is stern and unforgiving with a distaste for aloof and whimsical elves, mischievous halflings and regimentally ignorant dwarves. He is just about able to keep tactful around them for most of the time, as is apparent in the fact that some of his closest friends and colleagues are drawn from the affromentioned peoples. More than anything it is akin to a elf and dwarves casual jibes than spitefulness.  He takes his work very seriosuly within the collegium of Boccob and wears his metaphorical badge of position with fgreat pride. It is quite often that he will spend whole days locked one of the colelgiums many libraries researching and practicing a speech he will have to make on behalf of his superiors. Strell has also taken an interest in politics as of late maily due to the fact that his superiors have hinted towards asking one of the collegium's representatives to infiltrate local government. The grumpy old gnome finds most of his non-academic (or religous) comfort in talking with Sel Marn, a young dwarf (LN expert 3) who works at the local banking guild. he has taken the youngling a s brother of sorts and is very protective of him. His known family consists only of his two parents Bobnokin and Ellyjobel who run a general store nearby to the collegium. They are a kindly old pair, but a bit light in the mind and Zook only visits them once or twice a fortnight due to the fact that they bore him to tears.  I'm thinking Cleric 4, and possibly the cloistered cleric variant if at all possible. The cloistered cleric variant can be found here* and I only ask as I see the variant to be perfectly fitting to his concept (which, incidentally will include having a few ranks in perform (oratory) as he is going to be one of the collegium's representatives/public speakers. *<a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#clericVariantCloisteredCleric" target="_blank">http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#clericVariantCloisteredCleric</a></blockquote>

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