Some heroic PCs and NPCs from my campaign.
A bookish apprentice to a master herbalist journeying with his friends to right a horrible wrong discovers a forgotten genocidal history, a weapon of legend, and a secret fraternal order when he is kidnapped by its members who want to initiate him.
A strong and strong-willed blacksmith-in-training leaves for adventure with his friends in order to escape his mother and older sisters who baby him constantly despite his being the man of the house since his father died in a mining accident when he was just a boy.
An angry young 'human' dreams of magic but believes it to be the stuff of fairy tales until he is visited by his elven great-grandmother who, before giving him the spellbook that will serve him on his journeys as a sorcerer, reveals the cowardice of his parents who masquerade as humans and shun their secret blood heritage.
A half-elf, who was adopted by humans after his parents were killed, unknowingly carries on his dead father's legacy by becoming a paladin in a place where religion was abolished and elves were hunted to death.
A runaway prince secretly practices forbidden bardic magic while traveling incognito as a wandering musician and scoundrel in an attempt to evade his father's agents.
A young monk of incredible physical strength leaves his home and a disabled brother, whose injuries he blames on himself, in order to find his father's teacher so that he may study under him.
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A young girl studying the arts of fortune telling spends a great deal of time sobbing when she is tragically killed and mysteriously returns as a walking, self-aware corpse.
A young noble woman runs away to the city and poses as a 'lady of the evening' in order to trick men out of their money and reputation after she kills and escapes from another noble to whom she was sold, against her will, by her wicked parents.
Note: Congratulations to anyone who formed an actual sentence.
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