[SecondRevan]

Is it too late to join? Sorry about disappearing on the old game, but that was largely because no one was posting. Going to use the same set of characters as I was using for the last one.

RotR: Alyson Cait

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Alyson Cait and Riian Gage were both raised in a village in Lastwall, far from the border of both Ustalav and the Hold of Belkzen. As kids, all the children in the village idolised paladins, and would often excitedly play-fight tales of resisting the orcish hordes, or fighting the return of the Whispering Tyrant. This eventually led to many of them learning to fight, in the vain hope of being able to be one of the lucky few who left the village to become a paladin, instead of doing the sensible thing and working on the farms.

Riian and Alyson were friends from early childhood, fighting in fantasy tales with all the other children. Eventually, Alyson started training with the bow while Riian trained with the sword. The two were by far the best and many expected them to be lucky enough to be recruited, even after Riian woke up one day blind, saved only by a new sense that allowed him to understand where things were.

As they grew older, they eventually become lovers, but their affair ended when Riian's parents had to leave the village, to help family living in Korvosa, forcing him to leave behind, unbeknownst to him, the newly pregnant Alyson.

Only shortly after a year later, a group of orcs that had managed to sneak into Lastwall attacked the village, slaughtering nearly everyone. Alyson led the defense, but was helpless against the numbers and survived only by chance, when two barbed arrows took her out early in the fight, and she was ignored by the orcs as they killed and looted the town.

She only survived when a wandering alchemist, returning to his home of Magnimar. The alchemist found her alive, and nursed her back to health as they traveled. Unaware that both her mother and her child survived, she decided to cut her losses and instead live in Varisia, where she spent the next couple of years learning to become a paladin

What little optimism survived the destruction of her village slowly died over as she fulfilled her duties as a Paladin, as she routinely found herself meeting the worst of society. However, ten years after she was nearly killed in her home village, the final blow to her remaining optimism struck, when she learnt that the paladin that mentored her, Lawrence Symonds, died trying to guide refugees escaping a minor warlord calling himself the Bandit King, who was rampaging the surrounding area. The refugees turned on him and killed him when the Bandit King promised to spare their lives if they bought him Lawrence's head. With this news, that she received just as she arrived in Sandpoint, she found herself doubting her continued commitment to the path of a paladin.

CotCT

Spoiler

Alyson Cait and Riian Gage were both raised in a village in Lastwall, far from the border of both Ustalav and the Hold of Belkzen. As kids, all the children in the village idolised paladins, and would often excitedly play-fight tales of resisting the orcish hordes, or fighting the return of the Whispering Tyrant. This eventually led to many of them learning to fight, in the vain hope of being able to be one of the lucky few who left the village to become a paladin, instead of doing the sensible thing and working on the farms.

Riian and Alyson were friends from early childhood, fighting in fantasy tales with all the other children. Eventually, Alyson started training with the bow while Riian trained with the sword. The two were by far the best and many expected them to be lucky enough to be recruited, even after Riian woke up one day blind, saved only by a new sense that allowed him to understand where things were.

As they grew older, they eventually become lovers, but their affair ended when Riian's parents had to leave the village, to help family living in Korvosa, forcing him to leave behind, unbeknownst to him, the newly pregnant Alyson.

Riian originally fared well in Korvosa, managing to settle down successfully. Closer to scholars of magic, he learnt more about his blindness and discovered the magical powers he had been blessed with. After five years, he even met Ae, a beautiful half-elf (at least that's what she told him), who he fell in love with. They settled down and got married, with Riian becoming a guard and Ae running a magic item store.

Their life was happy, with the only fights occurring when Riian decided to play around with some of the more dangerous magical items. However, one day, while on patrol, a group of guards summoned him to a murder scene. They all knew who the victim was, and believed he deserved to see her corpse. Ae died in what looked like a simple mugging gone wrong, with a bag full of magic items and her wedding ring mysteriously gone.

Riian left is job as a guard and sold Ae's store, feeling lost and with little idea of what to do. The money he earned from the sale of the store slowly whittled away to nothing, but as Riian finally started to make his peace and return to the guard, he found his wife's wedding ring for sale in store. Too poor to afford it, he instead learnt where the merchant had got it from, and made it a quest to find Gaedren Lamm, to finally settle the death of his wife so that he could finally move on.

I'm not sure what character I'll choose for the last two, but the other characters will be:

Riia Cait:

Spoiler

Riia is the daughter of Alyson and Riian, and named after her father. She was one of the survivors of the attack on her village, and was raised by her grandmother, thinking that her mother was dead. She was trained by Alyson's mentor (name TBC) in the ways of archery, which, while she had some skill, never fit her perfectly. Therefore, he instead gave her a strange device he had picked up once from his many adventures, a pistol, which she quickly became adept at.

When (name TBC) planned to return to his adventuring life, Riia managed to persuade him to take her along, and they left Lastwall for adventures that eventually led them to Varisia. THis is partly because of an old fashioned thrist of adventure, and partly because she wishes to meet her father.

Name TBC

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Name TBC is an experienced adventurer, who has seemingly travelled everywhere and has a story about nearly every occasion. Despite multiple attempts, he has never managed to retire, though he did find himself with a close affinity to a village in Lastwall, having fallen in love with one of the villagers. Because of this, he ended up having a close relationship with many of the villagers, and was responsible for helping train many of the children, including Alyson.

During the orc attack, Name TBC was essential in helping save as many villagers as possible and helping relocate them, and, although he did not retire, he hung around Lastwall for a long tie, continuously returning, where he helped train the next generation, including Riia. However, eventually he decided he had grown too bored with Lastwall, and wished to leave the nation for good an do an epic adventure like the ones he had done in his youth. THerefore, he set out to Varisia, taking Riia in tow as an apprentice

Currently thinking of using Riia in Jade Regent, so she can learn of her mother from Ameiko. That should be interesting



Would I be allowed to use the rolls I got in the previous game for Alyson? They were (16, 18, 15, 15, 11, 16). Since they were so good, I'd love be able to keep them. If not, I'll reroll below

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(4d6b3)[8]
(4d6b3)[11]
(4d6b3)[8]
(4d6b3)[14]
(4d6b3)[12]
(4d6b3)[10]

Edit: And these rolls are terrible...