Background:
After reading his background I don't think Spirit is cursed, so much as he brings a curse to all those around him. LOL (poor party).
I can see what you mean. I'm not sure that will help Spirit being received with open arms, but I'm sure it will give you loads to play with. And if something goes wrong, it will be easy to blame me! Those that were immeadiately affected by the curse were those that in some way harmed me ... except my mother, but she did reject me ... and why was she running? The villagers all sold me into slavery at the first opportunity ... and that meteor was probably going to land there anyway
Jack Knife, sold me to the Assassin's guild just for profit, and fed me on sour milk. My teacher, beat me leaving me scarred for life, and the others in my class had all been part of the cycle of violence and bullying. As for Rayne ... her death was Merrik's fault. Spirit is sure of that, curse or no.
Few notes I have here...
I don't see your acquiring of Will (monkey familiar) in your background. You do wish to start with him correct?
Yeah, good point. I do want to start with him. Alright, so what if Will was Rayne's pet/familiar, and when she was killed, I'm thinking maybe crushed by some falling object provoked by Merrick, and Spirit was kneeling weeping in her blood, holding her limp hand, Will climbed onto his shoulder and began shrieking. Will refused to climb down, even when Spirit fled the scene. Will grew very ill and almost died, but Spirit attended him with great care and attention as he travelled far from the city. Eventually, Will recovered the will to live. His eyes however had turned from brown to green, the same colour eyes as Rayne. Spirit feels in someway that Rayne is always near him, perhaps trapped and unable to move onto the next life. Perhaps part of her lives on in Will. But he can't communicate with her in any way, something which has become his obsession. But having Will near him is perhaps his only comfort.
Your elven mother could have been fleeing the Fire Forest which is where she and your father could have been from. There was an elven village inside the forest.
Perfect. This gives him the perfect motivation to enter the forest ... and I imagine it intertwines with the first goal of the party to find a place to rest in the forest. Nice one! I'm quite eager to discover why his mother was fleeing, and why his father didn't follow. I'm thinking that his mother's rejection may have something to do with it.
Coming to it (fire forest) may be in responds to whispers from the spirits and a need to know where you are from. Maybe he hoped to meet his father and became more upset at not being able to travel more than a few hours into the forest.
Cool, this fits well. So the whispers lead him here in search of his roots. His feeling of curiosity and lonliness are mixed with resentment at his mother's rejection (the spirits whisper of this too) and his father's abandonment (the spirits whisper that he chose to let my mother leave, that he had no intention of ever coming for me). His attemots have been frustrated by the harsh elements inside the forest but also apart of him is scared to face the truth.
Reasons you can't travel deeper in.
a) Water source (you run out of water after trying to get to far in). Might want to add a waterskin to equipment.
This is a good one. Water is my opposite element as well. Im going to buy a Waterskin for sure ... now that I can handle those 4lbs!
b) Will, is not protected from the fire forest like you are. Endure Elements is good but doesn't stop anyone from catching on fire.
True. So spirit has begun studying how to overcome this problem, hence the study of Endure Elements. But will never willingly put Will at risk if he can help it, and Will is known to have a mind of his own sometimes, exposing himself to danger at unopportune times, although always with good intent. So Will leaping away into the fire following some clue or something hidden, a is a fear that is present in Spirit's mind
c) Equipment, your equipment is not protected and losing your spellbook would be very bad.
All three fit, so lets say a combination. The spellbook was a gift from Rayne. She, in fact, taught him to wrote spells in it. The first spell ever written here was Floating Disc. The best thing for carrying loot a Finder could ever imagine, she said. She didn't like the word thief, too many negative connotations. So, risking the loss of his spellbook is important as well.
Anything you wish to change in your background/update?
I'll adjust the background to include your ideas, and the ideas you ideas have given me
