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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pathfinderq1" data-source="post: 4021769" data-attributes="member: 48394">I've been having a bit of trouble deciding which concept to focus on- so I'll pitch them both.  Both concepts are druids, perhaps a bit more healing-centric and less combat-focused than the average druid but it looks like this group has the close-in combat pretty well covered.It all comes down to responsibility, one way or another.  Chevri is leaping wholeheartedly into the responsibilities that her adulthood has thrust upon her; Fox is running away from a responsibility that he doesn't want, and he is wiling to risk everything to avoid.Chevri is a shifter, from deep in the Eldeen Reaches.  From a small village, and a rather isolated one, she had little contact with the outside world while she was growing up- some rare travelers sought ought the local elders for their wisdom and advice, but that was all.  Chevri was noticed at an early age for her magical gifts and for the strength of her spirit, and she was apprenticed to one of the local elder druids.  She would have been content to stay within the friendly and familiar trees of her home for her entire life, serving the needs of nature and her own tiny community- but that was not to be.  As she approached adulthood, both Chevri and her mentor were plagued by recurring dreams- while the details varied, the central message was clear.  Chevri was meant to be a druid, of course, but she was not meant to stay in the friendly confines of the Reaches- in fact, if she did stay, it would mean disaster.  She was marked, meant to wander the world at large, to study and experience the power and majesty of nature in all its guises.  Only after years of wandering and study would she find her way home.  And so it was that she left that tiny village in the Reaches- first to Aundair, then out into the wider world.  Years have passed since that day, and she has developed powerful gifts, especially as a healer- and she has wandered far.  Only recently has she traveled into the jungles of Q'Barra, and the experience has not been a pleasant one- for the lizardfolk have been less than welcoming. (Female wildhunt shifter, Druid 5, with racial substitutions at levels 1, 4, and 5, so no animla companion; she has Augment Healing and will take Spontaneous Healing at 6th level; she is headed for the Moonspeaker PrC, but not until level 9 so it probably won't come into play)"Fox" is all the name he uses nowadays, the only name he has used for years.  Even the civilized halflings of Khorvaire suffered greatly during the war.  Fox was an orphan, both his parents slain during the endless years of tumult.  He was sent to live at an isolated hostel on the borders of the Eldeen Reaches, a hunting lodge of sorts run by House Ghallandra and catering to rich folk seeking to experience the wilderness.  The hostel was home to dozens of city-borne orphan halfling children at any one time, and they fulfilled many of the myriad tasks about the place while growing up in a healthy environment far removed from the terrors of the war which had scarred so many of their lives.  As the children grew, many of them were taken back to the cities, often trained as non-marked employees of either Jorasco or Ghallandra, as neither house had a shortage of job openings.  But the hostel also served as a refuge for dragonmarked Jorasco healers who had seen too much of war, a place for them to recover before they put themselves back into the fires of conflict.  Fox was terrified by the stories he heard from such healers, and even more terrified by the unspoken trauma that they suffered.  He knew, even from an early age, that to carry the mark of Jorasco was a great honor, but also a terrible burden.  He was also far more interested in the wonders of nature, for the Eldeen Reaches were home to many marvelous sights and sounds.  As he grew, he spent more time in the forest and less among the civilized folk of the hostel- by the time he was an adolescent he had already taken the first steps to join the druidic faith.  The halfling elders who ran the place were sad to see him go, but they would have been even sadder had they known that he carried House Jorasco's healing mark- a secret he kept from even his closest friends.  Years passed, and he continued his studies as a druid- but the knowledge of the mark he carried drove him farther and farther from civilized lands.  Even as a full adult and an experienced druid, he felt that House Jorasco would not allow him any peace if they knew the powers he had, so he continued to push out into wild lands- first deep into the Reaches, then even farther, into the jungles of Q'Barra, where he and he trusty riding dog fell afoul of the lizardfolk who held the land...  (Halfling male Druid 5, with riding dog steed.companion; has Least Jorasco mark and will take the lesser mark at level 6)</blockquote>

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