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PCs:Rule Acumen

2010-09-27T18:35:48Z

Dhocott:

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'''Name:''' Rule Acumen 
'''Race:''' [[Human]] 
'''Profession:''' 
'''Positions Held:''' 
 
'''Biography:''' 
Rule is a young human that grew up on the street of [[Kuras]]. His father was a drunkard and beat his wife when he would come home drunk. When Rule was old enough to defend himself he beat his father to a bloody pulp one night trying to save his mother from a regular wife beating session. Rule was completely disgusted when his mother actually defended his father and began beating Rule with a broom handle. Rule left home that very night and swore never return to his parents. “Let them rot, they deserve each other,” he said to himself as he walked out the door.
 
Life on the streets was hard and Rule has become even harder from it. His left eye twitches regularly, but he does not notice and it does not hinder his abilities. His body is covered with self-inflicted and other battle scars. He is covered in tattoos and has several piercings on his face and ears.
 
Rule has become obsessed with maintaining order in his life. He has a habit of arranging things to be in line with each other or facing a certain direction. One thing he attempts to control is his physical abilities. He is not educated formally beyond an elementary level, but he has gained much wisdom on the streets during his young life. He trains compulsively to make sure he can meet any physical challenge and any defeats drive him even harder.
 
Rule’s main concern is serving himself. He will help others as long as he receives some benefit, whether it be gold or a returned favor. His life motto is, “What’s in it for me?”

[[Category:PCs|Rule Acumen]]

2006-06-22T17:25:14Z

Dhocott:

Name: '''Willem Lightheart''' 
Race: [[Human]] [[Romini]] 
Profession: Lighthearted Performer and Scribe of Songs 
[[The Songs of Willem Lightheart|Willem's Songbook]] 
Biography: 
Willem Lightheart is the son of two Romini circus acrobats. When he was a young adolescent his father was teaching him to walk the tight rope and he fell to the ground and cut his cheek on a small stone giving him a small scar under his left eye. This event led to Willem’s fear of heights. Even though Willem never walked the tight rope again, he still enjoyed performing by singing and playing the lute. He had a natural ability, even as a young boy, to encourage and strengthen those who listened to his songs.
 
One of the circus performers was a friendly giant named Bigarow who was the circus’ sword swallower. Since he was such a large individual, he performed his act with a greatsword, which still looked like a twig in his hands. He befriended young Willem and even taught him to wield the greatsword, although Willem never learned to be a sword swallower because the greatsword was much too large for him to attempt that act.
 
Shortly after Willem became an adult one day he was sent to the near by town to purchase supplies for the circus. While he was gone a band of bandits attacked the circus to steal the receipts from that day’s performance. Willem’s parents were killed by the bandits during the robbery. Willem returned to find his murdered parents and since he knew he could never know who actually performed the act which led to his parent’s death, he vowed to dedicate his life to always fight and help protect those who could not do so for themselves.
 
As he sharpened his fighting skills he realized that his natural ability to encourage himself and others with his songs was one of his greatest strengths and since he enjoyed performing so much he continues to improve his abilities as a performer as well as venture across Avlis. His love of lore and song causes him to write many songs about those he travels with and the sights they see together.
 
Willem’s travels led him to the city of [[Elysia]] where he began working for some of the local farmers. One day as he was helping harvest crops and ridding the farm of rodents, he saw the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. She was a half-fey with bright green hair and she immediately stole his heart. Willem and [[Susallia]] started a relationship and their love grew as the days went by. Susallia learned of Willem’s fear of heights when she took him to the city of [[Le%27Or_T%27Nanshi | Le’Or]], but she led him across the many bridges and canopies holding his hand while he walked with his eyes closed. They were soon engaged and one day, after a brief absence from each other, they ran off to the Celestial City on Hala and were married in a very private ceremony. That day Willem’s fear of heights vanished when he put on his wedding band, for it was magically enchanted to make him immune to fear. Now when Willem crosses a bridge or walks along a cliff he often touches his wedding band and smiles.
 
During the war between [[Mikona]] and [[Elysia]] Willem’s love Susallia was banished from [[Elysia]] for treason. Although he had never been a religious person before, he felt lost without his soul mate at his side in the city where they met and lived together. He began searching the temple district for guidance and found himself in the Temple of [[Dru%27El | Dru’El]]. He learned that the way of Dru’El was to follow your heart and knew that Dru’El could help him through the troubling times he faced. He asked the priests to help him learn to follow [[Dru%27El | Dru’El]] and they gladly showed him the way.
 
Willem wanted to grow in his relationship with [[Dru%27El | Dru’El]] so he left [[Elysia]] for the deep woods of [[T%27Nanshi | T’Nanshi]] to pray and worship [[Dru%27El | Dru’El]]. He lived in seclusion for many days, but he realized that his place was among those who he could help with his songs and decided to return to the fair city of [[Elysia]]. Upon his return he discovered that his love had returned to the city as well and that they could once again be together making their empty house a home once again.
 
Unfortunately, Willem and Susallia had grown apart during their long separation. Upon his return they tried to pick up where they had left off, but the sands of time had put too much distance in between them. It was only a matter of time before Willem realized that it was for the best that he pack up his belongings and move out of their house. Although their song together was a happy one, there is a time for the music to fade.
 
Willem joined forces with several other bards led by Arania Moonshadow Alastaire-Alaster to form the traveling troupe [[Reverdie|Reverdie]] based out of the Academy of Bardic Arts in [[Visimontium]]. The thrill of entertaining a crowd always brought a twinkle to Willem’s eye, and traveling with the troupe gave him great pleasure. Their first performance together was a revival by a few of the members of a long since forgotten play titled [[Game_of_The_God|Game of The God]] at the first Spring Festival in [[Visimontium]].
 
After his marriage ended Willem began to travel Avlis again as he did before; searching for new people and things to sing about as was his way. He traveled South to [[Mikona]] and spent some time in that part of the world. When it was time for him to stay put, he would stay put and when it was time to move on to the next location, he would pick up and do that as well.
 
And the story continues…

[[Category:PCs|Lightheart]]

Guild:Reverdie

2006-06-16T13:20:50Z

Dhocott:

Alignment – Any
 
Base of Operation – The Academy of Bardic Arts in Visimontium
 
Profession - Bard
 
Reverdie is a traveling troupe of performing bards directed by Arania Moonshadow Alastaire-Alaster. Commissioned by Melonius Mennallin, Arania formed the troupe to perform plays and concerts in Visimontium and all across Avlis. The Academy of Bardic Arts was built in the city of Visimontium as a place for the troupe to work together and perform their shows as well as teach each other and those wishing to learn the ways of the profession.
 
The troupe consists of nine bards made up of six permanent and two rotating positions and the director.
 
Bards of Reverdie
 
[[PCs:Arania_Moonshadow_Alastaire-Alaster|Arania Moonshadow Alastaire-Alaster]] Director 
[[PCs:Adagio_D'Tranticus|Adagio D'Tranticus]] 
[[PCs:Elong_Singalong|Elong Singalong]] 
[[PCs:Rabiah_Endymion|Rabiah Endymion]] 
[[PCs:Raen|Raen]] 
[[PCs:Willem_Lightheart|Willem Lightheart]] 

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