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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torscha" data-source="post: 3703968" data-attributes="member: 52748">Here's a rundown on the characters of the ongoing A Song for Sharn Story Hour, located <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=203792" target="_blank">here</a>.Vague back-stories at the moment, I'll probably get around to posting their stat-blocks at a later date, together with more detailed analyses. Torscha Worldwalkeraka DM PC Swiss-army Knife characterMonk 2 / Cleric 3 / Sovereign Speaker 4 (Caster Level 6th)Domains: Trickery, Travel, Force, Celerity, Knowledge, HealingDespite his appearances, Torscha was actually born in Sharn, to a father who was an avid Fellow of Morgrave University, with a special interest in the history of pre-war Galifar. He had a younger sister, Asha, during whose birth their mother passed away. Their father was an absent but not unkind man, who sought to strike a balance between his passion for his work and his duty towards his children, and who can be said to have not failed as abysmally as one might have expected. When Torscha was only six and Asha four, their father went on an expedition into Cyre: all hopes for his possible return were crushed during the Day of Mourning.Long before then, however, their father's debtors had already come to collect. The good professor had borrowed heavily to finance his research, and in his absence the sharks began to circle around his meagre estate. Driven out of their home by goblinoid toughs, Torscha and Asha took to the streets, for a while living as the other street children of Sharn did, by theft and by larceny and above all by their wits.Torscha's natural intelligence and quickness might have seen them through, if it hadn't been for that first winter. Asha took sick, without shelter or warmth, and the coughs that wracked her frail frame brought up blood and bile. Desperate for a way out, Torscha sought to bring her to the attentions of the local priests of the Sovereign Host, hoping they would take pity on them and take them in. Unfortunately, when he brought them to the location where his sister had been hiding away, Torscha found the place ransacked, victim of one of the many looting raids that gripped Sharn during the war. Broken-hearted, he inspired great sympathy amongst the priests, who decided that they would in fact take him in. They sent him off under Host auspices to Karrnath, to train at one of the monasteries of the Host. He proved an adept student, fuelling his discipline with all the pent-up rage and frustration of not having been able to save his sister. Beneath that roiling core of discontent, however, his teachers detected a wellspring of calm, an inner heart of compassion. Instead of continuing his training as a monk, they sent him to a seminary, where he began training as a cleric. Once more allowed access to books and lore, his love of learning resurfaced, and he determined to follow in his father's footsteps, unearthing lost knowledge and travelling the face of Eberron, seeking out secrets. He firmly believes the Last War to be a product of stifling ignorance, and is a firm believer that awareness breeds tolerance.His devotion to a cause instead of one of the Host won him their favour, and his expanded powers give him many resources to call upon. Although a capable combatant, his travels have taught him to prefer less direct methods of resolution. Most of the spells he prefers are related in some way to travel or stealth, such as obscuring mist and longstrider. Just before the campaign begins, he was notified by an old associate that his sister in fact did survive the Last War. She had been picked up by a patrol of paladins loyal to the Order of the Silver Flame, and had been taken in as an initiate. Believing herself abandoned by her brother, she had dedicated herself towards eradicating the foibles which led to such large-scale calamity, training as a cleric in Thrane. Travelling there, Torscha discovered that she had last been sent on an assignment back to Sharn; he returns to the city of his birth, seeking the sister he lost so long ago.</blockquote>

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