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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kanegrundar" data-source="post: 1412283" data-attributes="member: 3913">My favorite PC has to be Kane Grundar (hence my EN name).  He was one of my first characters and didn't start out all that fleshed out, but the more I played him the better he became.Kane was born to a simple barbarian tribe in the Jagged Peaks to the north of Green Valley.  His tribe was slaughtered when he was a young boy by a band of murderous undead sent by the evil mage Tarkin Vaughn, who controlled the Green Valley region.  Kane escaped into the wooded foothills of the mountains and was found by Waylan Orcbane, a grizzled old dwarf living alone in the hills.  Waylan raised Kane as his son.  While hunting, they met net up with a charasmatic young warrior named Klon Ranneck and his band of adventurers.  They were travelling to the Green Valley to rout out a dark cult that was preying upon the Northern Borderland Keep.  (The campaign ran us through the classic Keep on the Borderlands.)  Kane and Waylan joined the band and was successful in defeating the cult.  While searching the evil temple, the group discovered that Tarkin was likely behind the cult and likely was the cause of the undead attacks on the groups of barbarians to the north.  While trying to do their best to weaken the mage's forces and hold on the Valley, they took control of the Keep.  In the ensuing war, they battled Tarkin at the Battle of Braygan's Pass.  Kane slew so many orc minions that day that he was given the name of "Slaymaker" by the orcish chief, a name of the orc god of war.  Tarkin fell to Kane's blade after they stromed the mage's castle after the Battle of Braygan's Pass with the help of the rest of the band.  In the following years of uneasy peace, Klon was named King of the Valley.  Kane became leader of the Way Watchers and protected the Valley from bandits and other marauders.  He took one of the band, a cleric named Mariah, as his wife and settled quietly near the end of his adventuring days.  His final adventure came when Klon lead an attack on his former royal advisor, Wozolinir.  (Klon cast Wozolinir out of the kingdom when he discovered that the elf was studying the rites to lichdom, but couldn't rest with knowing that elf lived on in undeath.)  Kane gave his life to destroy Wozo after the lich slew Klon in his dark tower.  Kane shattered the lich's phylactery against a table of volatile chemicals that ignited and destroyed much of the lich's tower.  Two statues, one of the King and one of Kane now stand at the ruins of the tower as a memorial.  He was one of the few characters that I actually played out much of his life.  I've been a part of few campaigns as memorable as that one, and few characters that I liked as much as Kane.Regards,Kane</blockquote>

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