The Reconquista OOC

[Seeten]

I left a bit open between "apprenticeship in Niole Dra" and "the Giants come" I think, but after the invasion of Sterich Mavic should be pretty much a resistance fighter I'm guessing. My little band of rangers isn't very "good aligned", being a group led by bitter almost-nihilist followers of Wee Jas, but they were probably very active near the Jotuns in the war.

Anastasia could have provided the conscience that prevented atrocities from the Reddogs from happening fairly easily?

Absolutely. Right up her alley. She'll also be the first to charge, for a righteous cause, and the first to weep for the fallen afterward. I see her as the glue that keeps everyone together, providing the hope for a better future, and an example that it is possible to have hope, and ideals, even in the harshest of times.

 

[Seeten]

I left it pretty vague on purpose, this way it will probably fit with most other background stories. It doesn't even *need* to be *this* group, which I mentioned there, we could as well have come together later during the second invasion...

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Thanee

Just mentioning when I'd come along in your progression.

 

[Ranger Rick]

We are talking several years of warfare. Anastasia may not have the fiber to be a mercanary, but I bet she is ok to lead them if her Lord hired them.

I do not think we need to be together all these years. I feel that we drift in and out amongst each other.

We could be getting back together again to assist Antasia in a claim of repayment.

I went and beefed up my background a bit. I realize that as a spy, my lord (TBD) may have asked me to be a merc. In a nut shell, I set up a sleeper hook for branding to use in the future.

 

[James Heard]

Cool, I just double-checked and Mavic was 19 for the First Giant Invasion - just old enough to have completed his apprenticeship and maybe earned a level or two during his wild and devil-may-care years. I see him as having an almost unreasonable hatred for giants and the things opposing Sterich though (which would explain those 1st level rangers hooking up with him)...I'm not sure if he'd be up for many "normal" adventures that didn't involve his caricature of patriotism in some way. Who knows? Maybe the whole character-outlook will change during the backstory?

 

[Branding Opportunity]

Just to clarify, I was initially proposing to begin the group background in Fireseek 585 CY (6 years ago). That doesn't mean that people didn't have a life before that (especially the demihumans), and might have even known each other, but 585 is when the majority of the group first got together. The giant invasion of 577 was aborted when the heroes of the Demonweb Pits pulled the rug out from under the drow who had masterminded the whole thing. That "war" never caused the level of devastation that the 585 invasion did.

People seem to want to go back further than that, though. Should we start the synopses in 577 CY with Seeten and the younger humans joining once we get to 585?

 

[Seeten]

Its more, Mercenaries are below her standards, then her not having the fiber. She isnt the sort to do jobs for money. She does "work" in the church sense, (works) not in the "job" sense, for the ideal, ie, she goes to war to protect the people, to save lives, to bring justice and retribution to the guilty, not to make money.

In fact, the very idea of being paid to do what is right would be rejected out of hand. She wouldnt object to her friends being rewarded for their hard work, but she considers the results to be payment enough.

 

[Ranger Rick]

Its more, Mercenaries are below her standards, then her not having the fiber. She isnt the sort to do jobs for money. She does "work" in the church sense, (works) not in the "job" sense, for the ideal, ie, she goes to war to protect the people, to save lives, to bring justice and retribution to the guilty, not to make money.

In fact, the very idea of being paid to do what is right would be rejected out of hand. She wouldnt object to her friends being rewarded for their hard work, but she considers the results to be payment enough.

Sorry I used the wrong wording. Trying to balance a quick post between work. I do understand what you mean by merc work being beneath her.

All the more reason a paranoid Lord wants me to get in her good graces. Her loyalty & honesty will allow me to pass on info about the church back to my lord. Of course I could be barking up a wrong tree and there is no lord.

 

[Seeten]

Just to clarify, I was proposing to begin the group background in Fireseek 585 CY (6 years ago). That doesn't mean that people didn't have a life before that (especially the demihumans), and might have even known each other, but 585 is when the majority of the group first got together. The giant invasion of 577 was aborted when the heroes of the Demonweb Pits pulled the rug out from under the drow who had masterminded the whole thing. That "war" never caused the level of devastation that the 585 invasion did.

That works perfectly, Anastasia was 20 during that time, and would have just taken up the mantle of Paladin of Mayaheine.

 

[Thanee]

Just to clarify, I was proposing to begin the group background in Fireseek 585 CY (6 years ago). That doesn't mean that people didn't have a life before that (especially the demihumans), and might have even known each other, but 585 is when the majority of the group first got together.

Yep, I'll finish/fit the background, along the way.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

I just noticed, that all five characters posted in the RG so far have a different alignment.

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Thanee