The World of Layonara
Character Development => Development Journals and Discussion => Topic started by: merlin34baseball on July 04, 2011, 03:20:01 PM
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For posterity:
Character: Blue Lonepine
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Class: Ranger
Race: Human
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Biography:
The Emporium Mine had been running for years, though not real profitably, and it wasn't much of a mine, rather a stream diverted through wooden boxes with screens in them. The father and son panned for gold and ran a stream though wire mesh screens provided them with Trues only for the bare essentials. To supplement their meager income they fished the nearby streams and trapped animals for their meat and fur.
They were typical simple mountain men, his father traveled to the nearest trading post only when necessary to sell the meager gold nuggets and cured hides.
While they were mining one day, working the stream, poking through the gravel in the strainers his father had a heart attack and keeled headfirst into the stream and was washed away. Blue chased down the stream but could not catch up to the body. He had been raised that death was a part of life, the same as the animals and fish they hunted, so somehow his fathers death seemed natural to him.
Blue returned to their ramshackle shack that set near the stream, where his mother had died during childbirth 18 years before. He opened the rickety door and looked around. He knew that he had to get to the trading post soon as winter was coming and his food supply was low. He packed but the cured furs and the little gold dust they had saved and headed in the direction that his father traveled to the trade post.
Unfortunately he had never been to the trade post before, and took a wrong turn at one of the mountain passes. As he neared the bottom of the mountains he couldn't believe what he saw. Buildings as bid as some mountains he had seen, he was amazed!
Blue started off into the city forgetting all about his little shack in the mountains... and the adventure began in a city named Center.
Personality: Lacking in social skills because of the isolation of the mountains. Lacking in personal hygiene due to the isolation of the mountains. Loves to be outdoors and fish and hunt game for pelts and food. Basically your typical mountain man trying to reconcile his mountain ways with the strangeness of civilization.
//he has no noble ties, no nothing but the animal skin clothing on his back//