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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jollyninja" data-source="post: 270610" data-attributes="member: 3208">now as a preperatory introduction let me say that i am horrible at playing paladins. my characters tend to have a bit of a darker edge to them, so paladins played by me have a tendency to multiclass quickly or lose their paladinhood within the first two sessions. this is the best paladin character i have ever played. nathaniel birch grew up near a small villiage called dartmoor. his father was a retired bard who had travelled the world and performed for royalty. the father was not however a braggart so only his wife and child knew of his past and were entertained nightly with his seemingly infinite repitoire of stories and songs.when nate was only 12 there was a terrible flood that killed both of his parents and nearly took him as well. he was found be a reclusive hermit washed up on the river's new bank. the hermit brought nate to the local temple and they nursed him back to health. the villiage council decided that raising nate would become the responsibility of everyone. they would all take month long turns providing food and shelter for the boy. nate was a hard worker so most folk didn't mind taking him in for a short time. over the years nate spent as much of his time as possible sitting, playing and doing whatever he could on his father's old land, which had been taken over by the local nobility due to lack of use but remained inactive due to the villiagers opinion that the land should be nate's. they subtly drove off all who came to work it. all nate had of his family were his father's hunting knife, a hat his mother made him and his memory of the stories. all his time in the wilderness and the training with weapons that the hermit gave him turned him into quite a woodsman.when nate was 16, the villiage was visited by an ogre and a small force of orcs. nate had perched himself in a trees earlier in the day as he was currently staying with the local innkeeper who liked to give him 2 chore free days per week as there were few customers in the out of the way villiage. from his vantage point nate saw the ogre and his orcs enter the villiage and begin attacking the people. they killed 5 before the local conastable could arrive on the scene. he charged the small force but was easily dispatched by the ogre is single combat. the ogre demanded tribute and the local townspeople obeyed as few of them had any combat training. the ogre and the orcs waited beneath the very tree in which nate sat. after the tribute had been collected, the ogre demanded that the townsfolk give him three of their daughters as wives. nate lept from the tree and took a stab at the ogre's meaty back with his long hunting knife. as luck would have it the knife (a magical dagger) stabbed into the ogre's heart and the blood sprayed all over nate as the monster fell. nate began screaming as he had been completely surprised by the gusher of blood that covered his face and upper body. the orcs were terrified by the blood covered, scrawny, screaming, wild haired youth (they thought it might be an elf) and they ran into the woods. and the local ledgend was born. two days later nathaniel was sworn in as the new constable of dartmoor and his training began at the local church to become a paladin.</blockquote>

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