This week’s randomrolls gave us a high constitution and little else. Picking a class
was exceedingly hard because of the stats, so I really had to work with the
background tidbits for this character. It was the died at birth notation that
really inspired me for this character and I even had a full build in my head.
So without further ado I introduce you to a blood keneticist.
Batriach Ekeno
Batriach was born and died – the first time – in the
former Chelish colony of Sargava. It was a hard birth for his mother and when
he came into the world he wasn’t breathing. He was dead a good two minutes
before the midwife was able to bring him back to life. Sadly the difficulty of
his birth was hard on his mother’s body and although she conceived again – a
sister – two years later, the damage he cause to her body made his siblings
birth so traumatizing it killed her.
His father was set to raise two children while tending
the field outside of Port Freedom. Through most of his childhood Batriach was
sickly. He contracted almost every disease that passed through the town. It
left his body ravaged with a severe limp as he grew older. He also died on two
other occasions, from various bloodborne diseases, but apparently death was not
in the cards at those times.
In his early teens he fell in with one of many bad crowds
around Fort Freedom. He made enemies of the other small gangs that opposed his
group. He was never a great fighter but he could certainly take a beating. All
the abuse his body had received from his childhood hardened him to almost super
human levels.
What he lacked in combat prowess he more than made up in
keen observational ability. One rival found the town guard on his doorstep when
Batriach helped some damning information find its way into their hands. He
expected that the young man would be locked away or maybe lashed, but
apparently the officials were looking to send a message after a recent rash of
criminal activity and he was hung. Batriach always felt bad about this.
Batriach spent the next year or so looking for a way out.
Not just of the group he’d gotten swept up in, but out of Port Freedom. He
hitched his wagon to a disgraced noble who had been living on the outskirts of
town. The man was finally looking to find a new place to start over and he’d
used a number of the young ruffians to his own end, so the boy asked to go
along. Their first stop was Crown’s End where they would find a path out of
Sargava altogether.
Soon after Crown’s End there were boats and water, lots
of water. Batriach began to feel something pulling at his very body while they
were on the waves. His blood seemed to move with the pull of the tide. The boat
was a rough place to begin with as most of the crew were scoundrels or even
downright pirates. When one of them struck Batriach for “being in the way” – a
massive blow which barely phased the boy – he lashed out. The beads of sweat on
his body seemed to collect in a globe that struck the crewman. The water didn’t
just splash on him it cut him deeply across his bare chest.
For the first time the boy saw that he had power. His
whole life he had been unable to truly affect the world around him, but now he
could. The fallen noble also saw the power of the boy and sought to guide him
in their new life among the pirates of the Shackles. The power was now
literally in Batriach’s blood and he intended to use it.
Did you find the power in his blood or did you find
something different? Who was your character? What class do these stats and
background coalesce into in your mind? How did this character’s mother die?
What did his low dexterity represent?
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