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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 9770857" data-attributes="member: 1125">in my teens I did do the Conan the Barbarian pastiche of "last survivor of my village, which was raized to the ground by the Evil Empire when I was a child" with my most edgy being Macabre, an orphan raised in a monastary until it was attacked and the monks slaughtered, Macabre had her face scarred but managed to escape when an elder monk gave his life to save her. Now she is an assasin for hire, seeking vengeance."But I got over that and now my characters generally have loving parents and happy childhoods, although they do tend to be sent away from home early - Orbril was raised in a gnome clan with 100 siblings, but when his penchant for alchemy became a menace to the burrows, he was sent to the city to become an alchemist apprentice (wherein he is part of a series of unexpected adventures). Henri de Vaugirard is second son of a minor French noble sent away at aged 12 to join the Corps de Cadets in Paris. He later serves in Flanders in the logistics corps during the War of Spanish Succession (the adventure campaign). Kebra was an Alladin-type theif in the ghettos of Fez who had a loving but hardpressed mother constantly admonishing him for mixing with the wrong crowd, hanging around the Souk and getting in to trouble with the City guard.Hakyn Slaazh was a goliath bard/ranger singing Battle Hymns, raised in the mountains by his religious zealot father, he had a reasonable childhood but he's father was resentful of the Empires oppression of giants and passed that to his son as a hatred of humans - I'm not sure if that counts as a happy childhood or not?</blockquote>

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