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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TillForPie" data-source="post: 6343997" data-attributes="member: 6762758">"Marla's philosophy of life is that she might die at any moment. The tragedy - she said - was that she didn't."Fight ClubMy first character's going to be a human paladin named Tristan Le Pennec. From what I've gathered from the IC thread, the group is traveling through a kingdom ruled and populated by non-humans, but that there are feudal human nations nearby - is that correct? If so, I was thinking Tristan could be from one of those places. The meat of the character involves his ever-decreasing motivation to struggle on behalf of a world he no longer believes to be worth saving. In his early years, first as a page, then a squire, and eventually a young knight, he was something of a zealot - passion made manifest. After several years spent earning political and religious favor with who-knows-how-many spilled gallons of blood, he transitioned from what was probably something more similar to a fighter into a full-fledged paladin. He no longer needed to eat, drink, or sleep, he could detect lies (both of these things are from the two paladin boons I'd choose for him), heal the sick with his touch, cow others with his divine authority, and most importantly, detect the presence of evil. And detect it he did. Everywhere. It was then that he fully accepted something he'd already begun to suspect: He was an idealist living in a world of cynical and opportunistic weasels. But he wasn't about to spit in the eye of the God who'd blessed him, and so he set himself to his brutal work. Now decades have passed. Tristan is in his 90s, but thanks to his divine blessing he has only aged to the point that he appears 60 or so. Perhaps there's a limit on how much bloodshed a person can experience in his or her life before the soul is touched, and with the gift of long life has come the curse of apathy. Where once he was Good he is now only Lawful, the bloodshed and the soldiering continuing more out of an unceasing obligation to a deity that is never fully satisfied than because of any righteous fire the man himself possesses. He's an old mule well past his prime (any levels he gains will represent a strengthening of his divine power, rather than a honing of talent), but he bears his load without complaint. At least, no spoken complaints. Who knows what Tristan truly begs for in his morning prayers.I was thinking perhaps the group could stumble upon him having been trapped somewhere, either due to malice or misfortune, having only survived several months in this fashion thanks to his paladin boon. Considering that particular boon likely wouldn't see much use elsewhere in the game I think it'd be a cool intro.Let me know if this is the kind of thing you're looking for. If you don't think it'd be a good fit I could come up with something else. In the meantime I'll start mulling over a second character. I'm thinking a fighter, perhaps a dwarven woman.</blockquote>

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