Character sheet: CoS Character Sheet
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Background:
Paelias was born in a small Elven settlement known as Aelinddar. However he was only half-elven, a fact that would cause him to be given away to a human temple many miles to the south. No one but Paelias’ mother knew who his father was but Paelias never meet his mother and didn’t even know her first name, yet he carried her last name.
The temple he was raised in was devoted to Lathander, commonly referred to by his worshippers as the Morninglord. Paelias hated getting up just before dawn every day to pray to the rising sun but over time he learned to tolerate it as well as the occasional funerals at dusk. As one of the children who had been given to the church to raise, he was taught how to perform the daily duties done by the priests of the temple so that he may someday take over their duties. Paelias’ favorite job was taking care of the elders because he loved hearing their stories of leaving the temple and searching the world for people to convert or even to set up new temples.
At the age of 10 Paelias became one of the Awakened, children who were assigned a priest that they were to follow and obey so as to learn how to do the job of a priest. Paelias’ mentor was a blue dragonborn named Mehen. He often slouched causing his large robes to drag on the floor and get filthy, which the older priests often mocked him for, but when he reprimanded Paelias he stood up straight and his robes revealed his scar-covered legs below the knees. Paelias enjoyed hearing the tales Mehen spoke of his brother who had been a mercenary for decades before he left that bloody life behind him.
Paelias had been under Mehen’s tutelage for nine months when he left with Mehen to go buy groceries from a small human village a few miles to the East, although the task was quite mundane this was the first time Paelias had left the church’s property since he had arrived there. However after buying the goods from the small village market, the road back to the temple was blocked by a large savage-looking half-orc with a large dagger in his hand. He demanded that Mehen give him all the gold Mehen had, but when Mehen said he had already spent it all and said the half-orc could come to the temple for dinner the half-orc laughed and stabbed Mehen in the gut over and over again with each stab more savage than the last. The half-orc casually walked away while Mehen bleed in the dirt muttering to Paelias who was too scared to do anything but stare at his mentor bleed to death. After the half-orc was out of sight Paelias sprinted back to the temple to get help, but by the time the other priests found Mehen he was already dead.
Paelias didn’t like his new mentor, he always sounded like he was yelling when talking to Paelias and beat Paelias for embarrassing him. But in time, he grew up and at the age of 20 he was sent alone to go on a pilgrimage to the Spires of the Morning in Waterdeep. He was supposed to meet with a convert from his home town of Aelinddar, which made him very nervous. He reached the town square of a nearby human village, which was the agreed meeting spot, but after waiting over two hours for the elf he spotted a strange yet slightly familiar figure. One of the beggars on the street was much larger than the others and his ragged hat had no coins in it unlike the other beggars. Paelias decided to take a closer look and drop a copper coin in the man’s purse. But when the beggar looked up and thanked him, memories came flooding back to Paelias. Despite the man’s now empty eye-sockets Paelias could still see the face that laughed before killing Mehen. Paelias turned on a dime and discreetly rushed to find a large stick or stone to bash this monster’s head in with. But by the time he had found a sizeable rock he had realized that the reason for the half-orc’s lack of eyes must have been because he tried to murder the wrong people and as a punishment had his eyes removed. After coming to this realization Paelias found an odd sense of pity for this murderer. Instead of murdering the murderer, Paelias came up to him and asked him if he could teach orcish to him. The half-orc smiled a toothy grin and agreed to teaching Paelias orcish in exchange for meals and bedding.
His name turned out to be Krusk, and Paelias learned that he had been raised by his orc father until Krusk challenged his father’s battle plan. After which he was banished from his father’s tribe and lived off the land often resorting to banditry to get by. However those days were done when he tried to attack the captain of the nearby village’s guard who had disguised himself as a farmer. As punishment his eyes were removed and he had no choice but to beg for food and coin, but his crimes were well known among the villager so only the generous or new gave him anything. Over the course of the year long journey to Waterdeep Paelias and Krusk became friends and when Krusk fell dangerously ill only a mile from Waterdeep, Paelias carried him the rest of the way to the Spires of the Morning where the priests there healed him and offered him a meager salary as a gardener. It was a sad farewell but Paelias had to go back to his temple.
But when Paelias returned to his temple two years after his departure, the elders were furious at him for not meeting with the elf as planned and demanded he go to see the elf in Aelinddar. But Paelias was not nervous on this trip, because he knew that people change and that maybe now his people would welcome him back. But when he came to the town of his birth he found only scorched ruins. The destruction of the isolated settlement had not been noticed by any of the relatively nearby human farmers and the only thing Paelias could recover from the settlement was a singed silver heart-shaped locket with the name Liadon engraved on the outside and another name engraved on the inside: Evenwood.
That was two years ago, these days Liadon works as a traveling priest happily disconnected from any structured church while roaming the world searching for people who want to see the light of Lathander or those who simply need help. But that is not all that Liadon still searches for his father as well as who or what destroyed his village.
Oh and I am able to post most of the time.
Background:
Paelias was born in a small Elven settlement known as Aelinddar. However he was only half-elven, a fact that would cause him to be given away to a human temple many miles to the south. No one but Paelias’ mother knew who his father was but Paelias never meet his mother and didn’t even know her first name, yet he carried her last name.
The temple he was raised in was devoted to Lathander, commonly referred to by his worshippers as the Morninglord. Paelias hated getting up just before dawn every day to pray to the rising sun but over time he learned to tolerate it as well as the occasional funerals at dusk. As one of the children who had been given to the church to raise, he was taught how to perform the daily duties done by the priests of the temple so that he may someday take over their duties. Paelias’ favorite job was taking care of the elders because he loved hearing their stories of leaving the temple and searching the world for people to convert or even to set up new temples.
At the age of 10 Paelias became one of the Awakened, children who were assigned a priest that they were to follow and obey so as to learn how to do the job of a priest. Paelias’ mentor was a blue dragonborn named Mehen. He often slouched causing his large robes to drag on the floor and get filthy, which the older priests often mocked him for, but when he reprimanded Paelias he stood up straight and his robes revealed his scar-covered legs below the knees. Paelias enjoyed hearing the tales Mehen spoke of his brother who had been a mercenary for decades before he left that bloody life behind him.
Paelias had been under Mehen’s tutelage for nine months when he left with Mehen to go buy groceries from a small human village a few miles to the East, although the task was quite mundane this was the first time Paelias had left the church’s property since he had arrived there. However after buying the goods from the small village market, the road back to the temple was blocked by a large savage-looking half-orc with a large dagger in his hand. He demanded that Mehen give him all the gold Mehen had, but when Mehen said he had already spent it all and said the half-orc could come to the temple for dinner the half-orc laughed and stabbed Mehen in the gut over and over again with each stab more savage than the last. The half-orc casually walked away while Mehen bleed in the dirt muttering to Paelias who was too scared to do anything but stare at his mentor bleed to death. After the half-orc was out of sight Paelias sprinted back to the temple to get help, but by the time the other priests found Mehen he was already dead.
Paelias didn’t like his new mentor, he always sounded like he was yelling when talking to Paelias and beat Paelias for embarrassing him. But in time, he grew up and at the age of 20 he was sent alone to go on a pilgrimage to the Spires of the Morning in Waterdeep. He was supposed to meet with a convert from his home town of Aelinddar, which made him very nervous. He reached the town square of a nearby human village, which was the agreed meeting spot, but after waiting over two hours for the elf he spotted a strange yet slightly familiar figure. One of the beggars on the street was much larger than the others and his ragged hat had no coins in it unlike the other beggars. Paelias decided to take a closer look and drop a copper coin in the man’s purse. But when the beggar looked up and thanked him, memories came flooding back to Paelias. Despite the man’s now empty eye-sockets Paelias could still see the face that laughed before killing Mehen. Paelias turned on a dime and discreetly rushed to find a large stick or stone to bash this monster’s head in with. But by the time he had found a sizeable rock he had realized that the reason for the half-orc’s lack of eyes must have been because he tried to murder the wrong people and as a punishment had his eyes removed. After coming to this realization Paelias found an odd sense of pity for this murderer. Instead of murdering the murderer, Paelias came up to him and asked him if he could teach orcish to him. The half-orc smiled a toothy grin and agreed to teaching Paelias orcish in exchange for meals and bedding.
His name turned out to be Krusk, and Paelias learned that he had been raised by his orc father until Krusk challenged his father’s battle plan. After which he was banished from his father’s tribe and lived off the land often resorting to banditry to get by. However those days were done when he tried to attack the captain of the nearby village’s guard who had disguised himself as a farmer. As punishment his eyes were removed and he had no choice but to beg for food and coin, but his crimes were well known among the villager so only the generous or new gave him anything. Over the course of the year long journey to Waterdeep Paelias and Krusk became friends and when Krusk fell dangerously ill only a mile from Waterdeep, Paelias carried him the rest of the way to the Spires of the Morning where the priests there healed him and offered him a meager salary as a gardener. It was a sad farewell but Paelias had to go back to his temple.
But when Paelias returned to his temple two years after his departure, the elders were furious at him for not meeting with the elf as planned and demanded he go to see the elf in Aelinddar. But Paelias was not nervous on this trip, because he knew that people change and that maybe now his people would welcome him back. But when he came to the town of his birth he found only scorched ruins. The destruction of the isolated settlement had not been noticed by any of the relatively nearby human farmers and the only thing Paelias could recover from the settlement was a singed silver heart-shaped locket with the name Liadon engraved on the outside and another name engraved on the inside: Evenwood.
That was two years ago, these days Liadon works as a traveling priest happily disconnected from any structured church while roaming the world searching for people who want to see the light of Lathander or those who simply need help. But that is not all that Liadon still searches for his father as well as who or what destroyed his village.
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