This will be the character I play when not playing specifically with a friend. Comments and feedback welcome. I will add to this thread as he explores the world and interacts with it.
Player Name: Kuroboshi
Character Name: Norendithas Moonshadow
Deity: Gond
Alignment: CN
Age: 187
Race: Sun Elf
Hair: Black
Eyes: Green
Skin: Bronze
Languages Spoken: Common, Elven, Gnomish, Draconic, Sylvan, Dwarven
Physical Description:
Midnight hair pulled back into a neat pony-tail frames the bronzed face of this sun elf. His shrewd green eyes watch the world with a hint of detachment, as though he is always concentrating on something other than the conversation at hand.
Small, intricate and interwoven tattoos cover his chest. Together each small pattern forms part of the larger one. Should anyone actually have the chance to examine them in detail, they will find they are notes and formulae on magical item creation and the working of various rare metals. A functional notebook that is also aesthetically pleasing and shows the kind of style Norendithas enjoys in his work.
As sun elves go he is surprisingly hardy and strong. Long years at the forge have given him a body resembling a fighter, more than a mage. His muscular development is clearly visible in anything but heavy armour. He is a tall elf for one of his race. Though the elves of Faerun are normally of the same height as humans, his 6?2? frame is easy to pick out in a crowd. His footsteps are light, and his movements are as lithe, wiry and graceful as his people are known for.
His hands are calloused from practice with weapons and long hours swinging a hammer. The ink stains common to a mage?s craft colour his fingers and palm, joining other stains of varying origin in his search for spell and crafting components. The smell of the forge can precede him when he forgets to use cleaning cantrips to remove it before venturing out. The only thing worse are the smells that come from his alchemy lab and those he rarely forgets to deal with, as they can cause potential customers to blanch and look elsewhere for their goods.
Personality traits:
Norendithas is highly intelligent and not as aloof as many of his kin. He has realized that condescension in tone or attitude drives away potential customers. His goal is to make and sell items of magical and mastercraft nature. He cares little for whether such items serve the cause of good or evil, so long as they are not used against him. Whether local laws or conventions permit or ban the things he makes and/or sells is also of no concern. If someone will pay for it, Norendithas will sell it. Life is that simple to him.
Norendithas cares first and foremost for himself. Second in his life is his craft. He will do whatever is needed to perfect his art. He will study any tome, any knowledge, forbidden or not. He will make any item he can, just for the challenge of making it. If that happens to need a rare or expensive component he will barter for it if he can or set out to find it himself if need be. Any source of learning or knowledge for his spell casting and his crafting will be used. To him, good and evil are just two different types of buyers.
He has trained as mage and fighter but before the magical arts to the martial ones. He believes that one should be knowledgeable in the things one makes and sells. One cannot answer a buyer?s questions if one does not know how to use the things one makes. To this end he has heard of the elderitch knights. They seem to blend both fighting and magic and would allow him to continue his studies of both.
Background:
Norendithas was born in Cormanthor. His father, Jandar, is an elven bladesmith and an enchanter. His mother, Sarrel, is a wizardess. The more powerful spells that go onto Jandar?s blades are put there by Sarrel. The two get along well and are good examples of simple elves following the teachings of Corellon in arts and magic. A nice family and utterly boring to Norendithas.
Norendithas was fascinated by crafting. Anything that was being built was something he would watch and learn from. He could sit for hours in rapt attention as hammers fell on steel. He could watch and not care about the fumes that came from the alchemist?s furnace. He would use scrolls his mother wrote for him to scry the Weave and watch its strands thrum and glow as she cast spells upon his father?s blades. All these things fascinated him, much more so than the item being crafted itself. It was the art, the making, that interested him.
Cormanthor had become a dangerous place since the Fall, centuries before his birth. When their family started to grow, both his parents realized it was no place to raise children, ancestral home or not. They left for Evermeet even before the Retreat was called. Joining their kin and the many other elves there as it seemed the logical thing to do.
They continued their trades on the blessed isles and Norendithas continued to learn from them. Watching, questioning and growing as the years passed by. In time, he went through the usual weapons training given all elven children. Growing up in dangerous places, especially the forests of Cormanthor, had shown the elven peoples the wisdom in making sure all their number could use sword and bow, whatever their calling. As he studied though, Norendithas wanted more. He was learning to make weapons other than just a longsword from his father. Why make a weapon he could not use? How could he be sure the weapon he made would work if he didn?t know how it worked? So, he enrolled with the local guard for a time and went to work learning the ways of weapon and armour. Each one had its place, its use and its need. He learned all of these in turn.
Player Name: Kuroboshi
Character Name: Norendithas Moonshadow
Deity: Gond
Alignment: CN
Age: 187
Race: Sun Elf
Hair: Black
Eyes: Green
Skin: Bronze
Languages Spoken: Common, Elven, Gnomish, Draconic, Sylvan, Dwarven
Physical Description:
Midnight hair pulled back into a neat pony-tail frames the bronzed face of this sun elf. His shrewd green eyes watch the world with a hint of detachment, as though he is always concentrating on something other than the conversation at hand.
Small, intricate and interwoven tattoos cover his chest. Together each small pattern forms part of the larger one. Should anyone actually have the chance to examine them in detail, they will find they are notes and formulae on magical item creation and the working of various rare metals. A functional notebook that is also aesthetically pleasing and shows the kind of style Norendithas enjoys in his work.
As sun elves go he is surprisingly hardy and strong. Long years at the forge have given him a body resembling a fighter, more than a mage. His muscular development is clearly visible in anything but heavy armour. He is a tall elf for one of his race. Though the elves of Faerun are normally of the same height as humans, his 6?2? frame is easy to pick out in a crowd. His footsteps are light, and his movements are as lithe, wiry and graceful as his people are known for.
His hands are calloused from practice with weapons and long hours swinging a hammer. The ink stains common to a mage?s craft colour his fingers and palm, joining other stains of varying origin in his search for spell and crafting components. The smell of the forge can precede him when he forgets to use cleaning cantrips to remove it before venturing out. The only thing worse are the smells that come from his alchemy lab and those he rarely forgets to deal with, as they can cause potential customers to blanch and look elsewhere for their goods.
Personality traits:
Norendithas is highly intelligent and not as aloof as many of his kin. He has realized that condescension in tone or attitude drives away potential customers. His goal is to make and sell items of magical and mastercraft nature. He cares little for whether such items serve the cause of good or evil, so long as they are not used against him. Whether local laws or conventions permit or ban the things he makes and/or sells is also of no concern. If someone will pay for it, Norendithas will sell it. Life is that simple to him.
Norendithas cares first and foremost for himself. Second in his life is his craft. He will do whatever is needed to perfect his art. He will study any tome, any knowledge, forbidden or not. He will make any item he can, just for the challenge of making it. If that happens to need a rare or expensive component he will barter for it if he can or set out to find it himself if need be. Any source of learning or knowledge for his spell casting and his crafting will be used. To him, good and evil are just two different types of buyers.
He has trained as mage and fighter but before the magical arts to the martial ones. He believes that one should be knowledgeable in the things one makes and sells. One cannot answer a buyer?s questions if one does not know how to use the things one makes. To this end he has heard of the elderitch knights. They seem to blend both fighting and magic and would allow him to continue his studies of both.
Background:
Norendithas was born in Cormanthor. His father, Jandar, is an elven bladesmith and an enchanter. His mother, Sarrel, is a wizardess. The more powerful spells that go onto Jandar?s blades are put there by Sarrel. The two get along well and are good examples of simple elves following the teachings of Corellon in arts and magic. A nice family and utterly boring to Norendithas.
Norendithas was fascinated by crafting. Anything that was being built was something he would watch and learn from. He could sit for hours in rapt attention as hammers fell on steel. He could watch and not care about the fumes that came from the alchemist?s furnace. He would use scrolls his mother wrote for him to scry the Weave and watch its strands thrum and glow as she cast spells upon his father?s blades. All these things fascinated him, much more so than the item being crafted itself. It was the art, the making, that interested him.
Cormanthor had become a dangerous place since the Fall, centuries before his birth. When their family started to grow, both his parents realized it was no place to raise children, ancestral home or not. They left for Evermeet even before the Retreat was called. Joining their kin and the many other elves there as it seemed the logical thing to do.
They continued their trades on the blessed isles and Norendithas continued to learn from them. Watching, questioning and growing as the years passed by. In time, he went through the usual weapons training given all elven children. Growing up in dangerous places, especially the forests of Cormanthor, had shown the elven peoples the wisdom in making sure all their number could use sword and bow, whatever their calling. As he studied though, Norendithas wanted more. He was learning to make weapons other than just a longsword from his father. Why make a weapon he could not use? How could he be sure the weapon he made would work if he didn?t know how it worked? So, he enrolled with the local guard for a time and went to work learning the ways of weapon and armour. Each one had its place, its use and its need. He learned all of these in turn.
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