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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Lemming" data-source="post: 3694423" data-attributes="member: 21457">Here's my character background for your perusal and critique.Yun; Human MonkYun is a human male with short; sun bleached blond hair that seems to stick up a bit more than it should and dark brown eyes.  He's of about average height, has an athletic build and has darkly tanned skin.Yun's father, Shoon is a monk who was once a member of the Scarlet Brotherhood.  Left with them as a child, he learned nothing of morality for most of his childhood, learning only to follow orders.  One day however he met a cleric of Pelor who inspired him.  Filling him with thoughts of a greater purpose, and so he escaped the monastery, and ventured forth into the world.  He found that his talents were particularly suited to bounty hunting, and so that is the profession he took up.  In his travels he met a young cleric of Pelor who for reasons he is not entirely sure of decided to join him.  In any case he started to become quite infatuated with her, but unfortunately one of the things he'd never been taught in his stunted upbringing was how to talk to women.  Eventually she did realize how he felt, and it seemed like she felt the same way, but his continued social ineptitude repulsed her and one day while they were staying at an inn, she ran off with the Bard that had been singing there that night.  When he awoke to found her gone he remembered seeing her talking to the bard the night before and the way she had reacted to him and imediately decided that he had kidnapped her.  Thus began his long pursuit after her and the Bard.His travels eventually led him to Hommlet where he stayed the night at the Inn there, unaware of the evils that were brewing nearby.  In the morning he met a band of adventurers who spoke of fighting bandits in an old abandoned moathouse, and of hints of a greater evil afoot.  Having no better leads on the Bard, whom he had decided must be evil; he joined them on their journey to Nulb and eventually to the temple itself.Yun has never been told anything about his mother.  He learned to stop asking after a while, as it seemed to pain his father greatly to think about it.  When he was seventeen, his father, who had been his teacher up until that point, left with nothing more than a letter left behind, saying that he had taught everything he could.  Now with nothing left but his martial abilities, he started traveling, honing his skills, in hopes of… well, he didn’t know what.  This however, was what he had been taught.  His last link to family, so perhaps that had something to do with it.  Three years later, he received a letter in an unfamiliar hand, telling him to come to Hommlet where a true challenge awaited.  Yun’s curiosity got the better of him, and he set out the next day.</blockquote>

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