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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lichtenhart" data-source="post: 526249" data-attributes="member: 761">Gloom, Male Elf Ranger/Barbarian or Ranger/Tamer of BeastsGloom is an elf. But he hates elves. Everyone knows that magic and pregnant women don't go along quite well. People say that if you use magic while your pregnant, the soul of the newborn could be replaced with a demon's one. When Gloom was born, his mother surely thought he was a demon. He had those red glowing eyes, and those strange black marks all over his body. She didn't kill him anyway, she left him in the woods to be killed by beasts.A half-elven ranger came by and found this strange child. Since he wasn't so superstitious as the other elves, and he and his wife couldn't have children, he brought him home and kept him as his own son. Gloom grew up to be an outcast in his village. The other children's mothers wouldn't let them play with him, and they found every way to be cruel with him because noone of the adults cared. The worst one was his teacher. He was really convinced the little boy was harboring a demon's soul and frequently tried to talk the mob into lynching him.On the contrary, his step-parents really loved him, his father taught him the ways of the forest, and his mother, a former bard, sang for him and told him the strange stories she learned around the world. The sad thing about an elf adopted by half-elves is that soon enough he will outlive them. His mother got carried away by a very harsh winter, and he and his father remained alone.One day the news of a raiding orc band arrived in the village. the villagers, frightened, formed a band to intercept the orc. Gloom's father was part of it, as well as the teacher, the best versed in the magic arts. Gloom wanted to go and help his old father, but couldn't because of the teacher's opposition. The band went into the woods...and only the mage came back. Gloom rushed into the forests and found his father badly wounded surrounded by orc corpses. He lived long enough to tell him the teacher escaped in fear as soon as they saw the orcs, revealing their presence, and to ask him not to hate the other villagers, and not to become the monster they believed he was.Gloom came back to the village in the night. he went to the teacher's house, dragged him out in the street, told everyone the truth, pointed one of his father's sword at his throat, and told him "If I really was the demon you think I am, you'd already be dead. Be careful when you see red eyes in the night. I may be watching you." Then  he came back to the house that was all that remained of the only people he loved, grabbed all he wanted to keep, and set it on fire. Then he went to the forest, never to return to his village.Thank to his stepfather he knew very well how to survive in the wilderness, and he did so for many years. He saved a little raven fallen from his nest, and it grew up to be his most faithful companion. Be became a legend among the travelers, a strange ghost that emerged from the forest to help people in need and disappered without saying a word, and a nightmare among brigands and monsters, especially orcs.Recently he helped a party of adventurers fight an druid turned evil that was harassing several cities and destroying the forest in his way, so the party cleric got his father's swords enchanted. When he finally faced his foe, the druid looked at him with surprise and said "The Abomination is still alive! Then she lied to us!". Unfortunately the villain managed to escape, leaving many questions unanswered.OOC: I need a little ruling: I'd like his mutation to give him a penalty on charisma based skills (of just to charisma) when dealing with humanoids, in exchange with for some strange ability (darkvision?). Maybe instead of getting a special item I could get strange "racial" abilities?</blockquote>

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