New Char Submition: Chaynce Baldu'muur

[merlin34baseball]

Name: Chaynce Baldu'muur
Race: Human
Age:18
Align: CG
Diety: none
Class: Fighter/Wizard

Stats:
STR: 14
DEX: 12
CON: 14
INT: 16
WIS: 10
CHA:10

//I know this submission is going to take quite a few revisions and have possible restrictions due to the fact that I also play his mother. His father no longer plays and has not for about ten months. Many of the facts below are documented in Tyrians CDT. Please let me know which you would like links to and I can provide them as Tyrians CDT is quite long, no sense in you hunting for the references.//

Chaynce is the son of Creighton Dallorius, fallen paladin of Toran, and Tyrian Baldu'muur, Evoker and Innkeeper.

Born to Tyrian eighteen years ago he has little memories of his father. His father left to help the poor and downtrodden when he was about six or seven.

//again, Creighton just stopped playing so I really don't know what he really went in did IC//

He grew up living with his mother and Exodus Stonecutter. Exodus turned into a defacto father figure to him, teaching him the ways of blades and battle as a youth. Tyrian used to come home to all manner of destruction with Exodus and Chaynce rampaging through the house.

Chaynce also learned dwarvish from Exodus. During their rampages of the house Exodus refused to speak anything but dwarvish as he taught him battle tactics. Chaynce was at first confused by his "uncle" but over the years came to be fairly fluent in dwarvish, especially all words linked with battle. Chaynce even started answering his mothers questions in dwarvish just to get a bit under her skin.

Exodus decided one day to return to his homeland, and Chaynce again lost a father figure. Chaynce was devastated by this turn of events.

//Exodus was deleted by his owner, but his owner still plays if verification of his teachings are necessary//

His mother did not know what to do with him as she was off at the Twin Dragon Inn taking care of it alot of the time. She tried to take him with the work, and did so frequently, but Chaynce was causing a bit to much mischief with the cantrips she had taught him.

One thing they did work on and enjoyed doing together besides the teaching of minor cantrips was speaking elvish. Tyrian wanted to pass on the little bit of elven heritage that she had, as her mother was a teacher, so they started simply, naming things in the Inn in elvish such as mops, bottles, musical instruments, coins, beds, equipment in the store etc. His learning in both elvish and dwarvish grew as he spoke with the residents of the Inn and the customers in the shop and at the bar in their native tounges when he could.

Chaynce also lived with three drow children that Tyrian took in upon the deaths of their parents, so he is very racially tolerant., looking past skin tones and such, to find the inner person in people.

She decided that the best place to send him was to a boarding school in Spellgard where his enthusiasm for magic could be channeled in a bit more structured way. At the age of twelve she took him there and he has been there since. His mother visits frequently, to see Chaynce and to visit with the head master when he lights something on fire that he's not supposed to.

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Chaynce's time in Spellgard was generally a happy one for him. He enjoyed expanding on the knowledge that his mother had taught him. As well as teaching some of his fellow students lessons with wooden swords out back of the school.

Generally he is a happy person, showing compassion for others, but he also has a bit of resentment against authority as his life has had many ups and downs from the two father figures he had leaving him at a young age.

The final turning point and the reason he is leaving the school in Spellgard is that him and another boy got in a fight, a real fight, after he hit the other boy a bit to hard while teaching the other boy sword play. The head master had had enough of Chaynce's antics behind the school with wooden swords and didn't think he was concentrating enough on his magic studies.

He was expelled from school, and set out to find his way in the world.

Tyrian finds out upon visiting the school that her son has been expelled, but Chaynce left no word of where to find him. Chaynce wanted to set out on his own free of authority and anyone at all telling him what to do.

//I am requesting an elven ear and a dwarven ear. Elvish being taught to him by his mother and dwarvish by Exodus Stonecutter//

[jrizz]

I dont think that you playing his mother is an issue. Also I dont see any need for a revision unless there is something you want to add.

[Weeblie]

The ears should preferable have justification in the submission itself also. It is very clear and easy to see that the ears would be taught by his mother and a close friend, but perhaps you could describe such a teaching event? Like his own thoughts about doing something as boring as being taught a language? Endless and sleepless nights, writing parchments after parchments for practice, making him on the brink of running away from home just because of that?

How much, you may ask? Well... consider this as a normal character submission without parent ties, asking for additional language ears!

[jrizz]

*agrees*

[merlin34baseball]

Hello,

Languages fleshed out a bit more. Edits are in red. Other than that I have nothing left to add.

Thanks!

[merlin34baseball]

Oh I realized level splits were not in the submission.

My ultimate goal is Spellsword, though I know this cannot and will not be approved on submition.

So for now it will look something like 7 Fighter/13 Wizard.

[merlin34baseball]

Originally Posted by jrizz

I dont think that you playing his mother is an issue. Also I dont see any need for a revision unless there is something you want to add.

Eh, did this mean this submission was approved or?

Thanks!

[darkstorme]

Your submission is still under discussion, Merlin.

Rest assured, you'll know when it's approved.

[darkstorme]

Alright. After much discussion, we'd like to see logs/CDT entries from Tyrian supporting tutoring Chaynce in Elven, and a similar contribution from Exodus, in support of the ears.

The rest of the submission seems fine, with the small concern re: Tyrian's continued interest in her son - while she does not know where he is, she remains a powerful figure in his life who is actively looking for him. An OOC guarantee may be the only way to ensure that nothing is passed from mother to son, as I can see no reason why the former would abrogate her search.

Regardless, of primary concern is the support for the ears.

Thanks!

[merlin34baseball]

Well, I went back through my CDT and can't find where I actually wrote that I Tyrian taught him elvish, I just thought it would be a natural thing for a mother to have done. Exodus has no CDT so no help there either.

So... guess I'll go without ears, and maybe in game find a tutor for elven and RP that he has a very very small rudimentary knowledge of it from listening to his mother speak, nothing more, and apply for the ear later on.

As far as interacting with his mother, he wants to be independent. I was going to have him send her a letter or some such, telling her that. That he wanted no part of the Inn or store. Tyrian has already left everything she has in a will to Mylindra, and this letter to her will confirm that decision of hers. Tyrian will decide that if he wants to go it alone he shall, though she won't stop looking for him to make sure he's ok, in a motherly way.

So... in no way will Chaynce get anything from his mother, besides a mothers concern and love.

[darkstorme]

Whoa!

No need to go without the ears, just because you don't have the CDT support. The CDTs were in lieu of substantial bio justification - basically, the kind of thing that every character can do. A greater description of Tyrian's time teaching, and Chaynce's eagerness to learn, for the elven ear, likewise for the dwarven ear, and Exodus' support of the claim, and you should still be alright.

If you wish to go without the ears, indicate this, and we'll proceed, but there's no reason to deny Chaynce what any other character can get. You simply have to add the justification to the bio that any other character would have to.

Thanks!

[merlin34baseball]

Ah OK!

I thought when you said CDT or logs you ment it had to be in Tyrians CDT...
I'll write something up in a bit about his learning and post it here, and I'll have Exodus's player post in here too about Dwarvish. Chaynces father spoke dwarvish too, as the Stonecutter clan made him and Tyrian honorary members, so I'll write all that out in a bit.

Thanks!

[merlin34baseball]

Elven and Dwarvish Ear:

Tyrian, knowing that the elven in her blood would not pass on much to her son began teaching him elvish as a baby. She read nursery rhymes in elvish as well as common to her son.

Exodus, who watched Chaynce much of the time when Tyrian was out doing things where Chaynce could not come along, began to teach him dwarvish as he taught Chaynce in the ways of weapons as a youth. Exodus was stubborn that the only proper way to fight was the way of Vorax, and therefor only dwarvish could be spoken during training. It started with basic battle commands and the words for arms and armor.

Chaynces father Creighton, who was an honorary Stonecutter, knew dwarvish as well and also helped Chaynce with dwarvish. Creighton taught him more common words and phrases not associated with battle, until the day Creighton went away. //again, I really don't have an IC reason Creighton left, he stopped playing//

As he became older and began to travel to the Inn with his mother they began to have naming games on the way. One would point to an object and he other would say the word in both elvish and common, with Chaynce adding a dwarvish word here and there to frusterate his mother in an impish way.

As Chaynce spent more and more time with his mother after his father left he began to attempt conversations with the patrons of the Inn in elvish. He delighted in speaking elvish to customers who were obviously not elvish, and pretended he knew no elvish when he was addressed by an elf, or when listening in to their conversations. He would speak dwarvish to elves, Elvish to halflings, etc. just to get a rise out of people and go merrily skipping off after he frustrated them enough. It became a game for Chaynce, deciding which languages to fess up to knowing and when.

Chaynce became quite fluent in the three languages, Common, Dwarvish, and Elvish. This fluency was cemented at his school in Spellgard, where they helped polish up his language skills.

To this day though, he doesn't let people he meets know that he is fluent in Dwarvish and Elvish, unless it is absolutely necessary. He would rather listen, pretending to be ignorant, and getting a feel for people by what they say in conversations that they think are private.

//I will PM Exodus's layer to post confirming that he was Chaynces babysiter, and taught him dwarvish.//

[merlin34baseball]

//this is taken from Creighton's CDT as some support of Exodus's teaching of dwarvish, Creigton learned Dwarvish himself after this was written//

*awakes early again to Chaynce pouring grape juice slowly onto his head...comes out of the bed laughing, the boy smiling and running down the hall*

"Can't catch me, Waazk'ah!" He shouts, laughing as only a child can.

"What did he call me?" Creighton thinks, gathering himself from the bed with his half-grin and pursuing the boy to the kitchen, where after a few moments of horseplay *broken up by the gruff but gentle Exodus "Stop tearin' up me howse, ye bloody wreckin' crew!"*, the pair settle at the table to eat what Exo himself prepared (most likely not wanting to clean up another mess).

*After the meal, Chaynce belches heartily (as only a dwarf could teach) and smiles at Creighton*

"I know you have to go, Waazk'ah, just like mommy," the boy's bright eyes hold his father much like those of his mother, "So be careful, OK?"

*Creighton assures the boy he will with another ruffle of his hair, and Chaynce bounces down the hall to his things.

He raises a brow to Exodus*

"What is that he keeps calling me?"

*the Stonecutter grins, a twinkle in his eye*

"E'en he don't know th' meanin', naught yet he don't...but 'tis whut I told 'im 'e should call ye".

* Creighton squints his eyes a bit, studying Exodus with good-natured suspicion*

"Is that so?" he asks, mirth in his voice.

"Azoa, lad," Exodus replies, the twinkle still in his eye, but his expression earnest.

"'Tis 'father'."

*Creighton sits still for a moment, not knowing where the tears in his eyes have sprung from, looking at Exodus smiling a genuine smile to him*

"Soon," Exodus continues, "the time will come fer 'im to know, an' I just wanted 'im to have a good start to 'is learnin'."

*Creighton rises and smiles at his old friend, no words necessary as the dwarf nods to him...glances in to see Chaynce playing happily, the makes his way out the door*

[jrizz]

We should have this concluded in the short term. Thanks for the extra info and work.

[merlin34baseball]

Eh... no hurry I have a month and a half before I can get back in game, so plenty of time to add, and add, and add.....