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<blockquote data-quote="Ancient History" data-source="post: 3816023" data-attributes="member: 55887"><p><strong>Keirgan Dorthanson</strong></p><p></p><p>Keirgan Drothanson</p><p></p><p>History:</p><p></p><p>Keirgan was born the second son of Dorthas, a respected if not overly wealthy member of the society. Dorthas expected all his sons to go into the family business but Keirgan had other plans. Since he was young, Keirgan dreamed of wealth and glory and felt that he deserved more than what the family business could offer him. For Keirgan felt he was not meant to be a mushroom farmer. He hated the smell of bat guano, the long arduous hours of back breaking work, and the final straw, his father wanted to marry him off to the daughter of the local fertilizer producer, another horrid occupation. Not to mention the daughter had begun to resemble the bats that she spent too much time with. So Keirgan ran away. Dorthas was upset but at least he still had Kerigan’s older brother, Gordain, to take over the family business. Keirgan never talked to his family again.</p><p></p><p>After running away Keirgan fell in with and a group of adventurers. He tried to take up the sword but found he had no nack for it. He lacked the strength of the average warrior, he did not have the faith to become a priest, and while he did fancy himself a thief the possibility of spending long years in prison did not sit well with him. Finally, he found he had a nack for magic. Realizing that an education in magic was costly and he had no gold, he did the only sensible thing. Keirgan started to woo Dannika Runemaker, a female dwarf wizard over a hundred years his senior. Keirgan devoted himself to making Dannika happy for as long as it was required to get her to teach him everything he needed to know. After several years of learning everything he could, he promptly left a dear Jane letter and moved on to begin his career in magic and has been a fairly successful adventurer ever since.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ancient History, post: 3816023, member: 55887"] [b]Keirgan Dorthanson[/b] Keirgan Drothanson History: Keirgan was born the second son of Dorthas, a respected if not overly wealthy member of the society. Dorthas expected all his sons to go into the family business but Keirgan had other plans. Since he was young, Keirgan dreamed of wealth and glory and felt that he deserved more than what the family business could offer him. For Keirgan felt he was not meant to be a mushroom farmer. He hated the smell of bat guano, the long arduous hours of back breaking work, and the final straw, his father wanted to marry him off to the daughter of the local fertilizer producer, another horrid occupation. Not to mention the daughter had begun to resemble the bats that she spent too much time with. So Keirgan ran away. Dorthas was upset but at least he still had Kerigan’s older brother, Gordain, to take over the family business. Keirgan never talked to his family again. After running away Keirgan fell in with and a group of adventurers. He tried to take up the sword but found he had no nack for it. He lacked the strength of the average warrior, he did not have the faith to become a priest, and while he did fancy himself a thief the possibility of spending long years in prison did not sit well with him. Finally, he found he had a nack for magic. Realizing that an education in magic was costly and he had no gold, he did the only sensible thing. Keirgan started to woo Dannika Runemaker, a female dwarf wizard over a hundred years his senior. Keirgan devoted himself to making Dannika happy for as long as it was required to get her to teach him everything he needed to know. After several years of learning everything he could, he promptly left a dear Jane letter and moved on to begin his career in magic and has been a fairly successful adventurer ever since. [/QUOTE]
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