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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scurry" data-source="post: 3866374" data-attributes="member: 56641">I'd like to play a character that's unused to the typical "because it's the right thing" adventuring motive, dragged into the situation by family ties he's not entirely comfortable with. Not a snarling jackass antihero, just a merc trying to hang onto his detached, professional demeanor in the face of the crazy trials of an adventure, the more fervent motivations of some other party members, etc.Jessern Brightshield, Human Hexblade*Jessern is an irreverent, blithely self-confident mercenary whose antics during his youth drove his parents to no end of hair-pulling. His semi-famous aunt Mona had only a little more disciplinary success with her stern lectures.  When Jessern defied the Brightshields' tradition of the second child entering the clergy, neither she nor his parents made any attempt to hide their disapproval, and his relationship with his family cooled to remote cordiality over the  years.So it caught Jessern off guard when Mona Brightshield turned up at his door, relaying word of the happenings in Hommlet. A slightly tense conversation revealed that despite his wayward tendancies, the aging cleric had decided Jessern was the appropriate choice, the likeliest amongst the younger Brightshields and the martial acolytes of her church to successfully contest with whatever was stirring in the Temple.So, wisely swallowing the cheeky impulse to bill his aunt for his time, Jessern agreed to, for once, do his family duty.*Or some other Full BAB class with some casting sprinkled in - I'm having a hell of a time deciding between duskblade and hexblade.Misc Notes:Like I said, not Bad-Attitude Bob, just a guy who's usually not heroic. His motivations for going out to Hommlet are probably a mix of wanting to show up his aunt (and by extension, the religious tradition of his family), grudging respect for her, and the faint guilt that's replaced the glowering resentment of his family that he had when he was younger and hot-headed and ran away to become a arcane caster.I'm also undecided what god the Brightshields have such close ties to, and will wait to see what the party's like before I decide (if I make it in!), but it'll probably be Cuthbert or Heironeous or one of that sort.</blockquote>

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