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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wabinder" data-source="post: 2615539" data-attributes="member: 37093">Background for Brother DainBrother Dain - Level 7 Human MonkDain was born into a good, loving family.  He had an older sister (Polla), and his parents were fairly successful lesser merchants.  They were not rich by any means, but neither were they poor.  They lived in a small town on the Thrane side of the much-contested Thrane-Karrnath border.  It may not have been the safest place to live during the Last War, but life and business were good for the most part.All of that changed during one particularly bad border contest where the town was overrun.  The tides of battle turned too quickly, and the town could not be evacuated before the enemy forces penetrated the town.  Dain's parents hid him with his older sister in their home.  When the front door was broken down, the parents fought to both defend their home and to allow the children time to escape.  Somehow Polla did manage to escape with Dain, but not before seeing their parents cut down where they stood.Polla ran and ran and ran, all the while carrying the infant Dain in her arms.  Against all odds, she managed to get ahead of the invading army and back onto well defended Thrane soil.  When she could run no farther, she collapsed.  As fortune had it, she collapsed within sight of a monastery.  The monks found the two children and brought them inside.  They did all they could for Polla, but the exhaustion and fear had taken too much out of her.  She died shortly after relaying her story.  Her last request was that the monks take care of her younger brother.The monks did take Dain in, and he spent the rest of his childhood and young adulthood studying with the monks at the monastery - a monastery associated with the Church of the Silver Flame.  In time, his memories of his former life and family began to fade.  The monks and the monastery were his family now.Once he was old enough, Dain was made a Brother.  He was given free reign as to what he wanted to study and how he wanted to grow.  He decided to spend what became some of the last years of the Last War attempting to document the Thrane-Karrnath border disputes and battles for the official histories.  This meant spending a lot of time in and near very fierce battles.Sometimes, when the tide of battle turned too quickly, Dain was caught unawares, and he had to teach more than one small group of soldiers that an unarmed monk is still a very deadly foe.  Other times, he saw groups of innocents about to be overrun, and he ran to their defence and helped get them to safer territory.  Still other times, he was made aware of other Monasteries and Churches near the border that were under attack for their strategic positions, and he felt the patriotic call of duty to aid in the defence of these structures of his homeland and his faith.Once the war ended, Dain returned to his home monastery.  He has spent the past few years officially documenting his stories about the Thrane-Karrnath border disputes of the Last War.  He has attempted to be as objective as possible.  But since his Order is tied to the Church of the Silver Flame, and Thrane is his homeland, and the War claimed his family, his version of the histories are at least a little jaded in favor of Thrane.  When not writing for the histories, he has been spending time in rest and contemplation, attempting to attain perfection of mind and body.</blockquote>

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