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Message: <blockquote data-quote="orbitalfreak" data-source="post: 2725281" data-attributes="member: 1669">Name: Vernon SellswordRace: HumanClass: Cleric 1/Wizard 12Age:  32Dravin Sellsword was an adventurer, skilled with a blade, who built up a more-than-modest fortune in his career before settling down in Cormyr to enjoy his life and start a family.  Marvin was his second child of three, his only son, who chose a career with (slightly) less risk than that of his father: trade.  Using his share of his father's fortune, granted to each child upon thier achieving adulthood, Marvin started a business in which he delt with what he considered novelties: items of magic, religious tomes, historical texts, and other books, all in addition to the standard fares of fine cloths and finer armors (the latter of which at the request of his father).  It was this business that Marvin hoped his son Vernon would inherit and expand upon, so he taught his son the basics of the business at an early age.Vernon, however, wasn't inclined to follow his father's path, or that of his grandfather.  What Marvin called "trinkets of the over-educated and money-endowed," Vernon thought of as something with much more importance.  As he grudgingly worked at his father's business, he was found studying the texts for trade as often as he was found selling them; it was here that he came to treasure knowledge, and magic.  Daydreams of his grandfather's tales of his wizardly companions filled his thoughts.For his nineteenth birthday, he was sent with his father to join a caravan travelling from Sembia, through Cormyr, west to Candlekeep on the Sword Coast.  This caravan was carrying many texts from various religious orders, arcane academies, with many from the Thayan Empire.  Vernon was to take the more valuable of his father's texts to sell once he reached the citadel on the coast.Along the way, Vernon became close friends with many of the clerics, especially Aaron Barm the warrior-priest from the church of Azuth, who mentored him in the ways of the divine.  The minor healing abilities he picked up on came in handy when the caravan was assaulted by bandits on several occasions.  It was one of the bandit raids which would change his life forever; a band of Thayan wizards and their accompanying mercenaries who felt that the knowledge in the travelling texts would find better use in the empire of the mages.  The caravan and the raiders both numbered many casualties, and the Thayans withdrew to regroup.  The caravan's leader instructed Aaron to take the most valuable book in the cargo and ride quickly to Candlekeep with it, to ensure that it at least would survive.  Aaron asked Vernon to accompany him.  One of the Thayans tracked them, and before being slain by Barm's longsword, inflicted grevious wounds on the cleric; Vernon rode fast and hard to take Aaron to Candlekeep, along with the book, where they arrived safely and were granted shelter.While staying at Candlekeep, Vernon decided that he could better serve his god, Azuth, by training in the wizardly arts instead of donning the mantle of priest.  When Aaron Barm decided to stay on at Candlekeep to better relations between the churches of Oghma and Azuth, he gifted his longsword to Vernon as a memento of thier travels together.  Though he seldom swung the blade, he carried it with him wherever he went.  As his adventuring career escalated, he routinely dropped back by Candlekeep to visit his mentor, and to donate at least one ancient text uncovered during his escapades.His most recent excursion took him to Vaasa in the Cold North, where he by chance discovered a valuable spellbook once belonging to the lich Zhengyi the Witch-King.  After returning this tome to the library at Candlekeep, he decided to take a small break from the adventurer's path and spend time in Waterdeep, the City of Splendors, where he could relax and spend time with his arcane studies, and spend a more appropriate amount of time in the churches of Azuth than was permitted by the roving nature of an adventurer.Stats to follow.</blockquote>

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