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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Destil" data-source="post: 3230209" data-attributes="member: 1980">Atheas, Gatekeeper InitiateAtheas was raised in the far south in a fairly quiet elven village. His distain for his potential role as a leader amoung his people drove him from the more traditional druidic teachings of his early life to the ways of the Gatekeepers. Since then he has spent his life hunting the unnatural. ApearanceAtheas is fairly young for an elf, appearing perhaps as human may in his early 20s. His skin is pale from the months spent in the frozen north without sunlight. His emerald green eyes are usually cast forward in a hard stare. A tattoo of a tree with leaves ranging from nearly black-purple to pale blue, the trunk and branches bright green dominates the entire left side of his face and continues down below the neckline of his armor. Long silver hair trails from his head down to his waist, with a single braid tied in the front. Hanging through this braid are several feathers of various sizes, it ends with a hard leather strap with half a dozen teeth of some small animal set into it. He wears stiff cured armor made from the black-brown hide of some huge creature: the more rigid pieces across his body are bare hide but the flexible parts at his joints still covered with short fur. The shoulders and thighs of the armor have the beast's hair still at its original length, it hangs down across his entire chest and legs. Bone runs visibily across the edge of the breastplate, and a thin collar guard of ivory. A well-maintained scimitar hangs on the left side of his belt without a sheath, black fletching from a long quiver rest at his right. On his back he carries a long yew bow nearly as tall as he is; over this a large wooden shield is set, shaped in an elegant style with flowing curves alowing one to wield wield a blade easily on the other side. Over his armor is a bandoleer made of cracking leather holding nine daggers of similar quality. At his neck an uncut crystal with a deep purple hue hangs, tied with a thin leather strap.(Atheas' armor is MW hide, made from a wolly mamoth, reinforced with bone and ivory. The crystal is peice of byshek and serves as his divine focus. The gatekeepers were lifted wholecloth from Eberron)PersonalityAtheas tends to be direct, to the point and blunt. He doesn’t speak as often as some other members of the group but when he does most listen. He’s a rather pragmatic for a druid (in this not being very different from most Gatekeepers), and generally reserves judgment until someone’s had a chance to show their worth. He has a sense of humor, but it’s subtle and sardonic, often having him play the straight man in the witty banter between others. He lacks in the way of modesty, ego and moral baggage compared to most raised in more ‘civilized’ societies.Atheas is from the dense jungles of the far south, hundreds of miles beyond the expirences of any of the other party members. After his journy north he was captured by Carcerian Empire (Think a combination of Ancient Rome and RIFTS CS) and worked as a slave in a frozen mine called Hearthsgate in the far north. Since escaping he had hitched his fortinues to that of the party and is attempting to resume his mission of hunting down the unnatural. His animal companion is a long haired wolf named Burn, burn has a nearly snow-white coat and a distinct burn scar across his snout (the result of a produce flame from Atheas when a wolfpack attacked their camp, the druid later tracked down a surviving wolf and 'adopted' it).</blockquote>

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