Hey everyone I'm new to DnD only played it twice but it's frigging fun, to be able to use yor imagination in such a way is awesome...I can see why it's so popular video games are cool but they do not allow for the same kind of creativity...Anyway to the subject Oh! and he's third edition.
This is the first character I've ever made and if I havent written him in properly pleas say so!
Name; Raloth Arlyandor lvl2 fighter Race; Elf Alignment; Chaotic/neutral deity AO Gender male eyes Hazel Hair Brown Skin pale Height 1.5 Weight 65 KGs
AbilityAbility mod
STR15 +2
DEX19 +4
CON10 +0
WIS10 +0
INT11 +0
CHA 1 +0
lol hey I was making my Elf fighter's background,but that has escalated into me creating his country (history and everything)
So far it is inspired buy Ulthuan and New Zealand (So it's an island) and has a mix of humans, elves and half elves living on it (With smaller amount of Dwarves)
and has a mixed ecology (EG; lots of mountains, forests, lakes, open planes)
It is 1400 miles in length and 300 in width (420,000 miles squared)
It's main exports are; dairy products, meat, wood, metals, golds, armour and weapons (all are the best in the world)
It's populace is 4 million (Half living in the urban enviroment the other half rurally)
Millitary; the millitary of my country is the best in the world, all civilains have had training in one weapon or another so they have a powerful millitia but those dedicated to the way of the weapon are skilled in the extreme (The elves with their longer lives asspecally)
There's no need to create two threads for information on the same character. Please refrain from doing so in the future, for now I've merged these threads together.
Listen up maggots, Mr. Popo's 'bout to teach you the pecking order.
It goes you, the dirt, the worms inside of the dirt, Popo's stool, Kami, then Popo.
~Mr. Popo, Dragonball Z Abridged
I guess that C&C means something like "feedback"?
I like the picture you drew. I wish I could draw like that. Pretty bad at it.
I'd like to hear more about his backstory.
Some technical details:
You can't use Katanas with Weapon Finesse.
You shouldn't have taken Exotic Weapons, since you have an empty hand and thus could use your Katana in two hands, which let it count as a martial weapon. (Read the Bastard Sword, Katana's are masterwork Bastard Swords.) As it is, you could hold a shield in that unused hand.
At lvl 2, you can't have 4 ranks in Balance as a Fighter.
The CON is a bit low; 12-14 to start out is about right for a melee character. (I speak from experience.)
Thanks Gawain, my DM like I is a newbie at DnD (well at being a DM anyway) I shall fix these soon and inform him uhhh the CON being only ten is because of elves getting -2 on it the just katana without shield is because of fluff (using a katana with a sheild is really wierd) But to compensate I might give him two handed.
His story (Or fluff) will be done soon but I'm writing about the nation he's from (man that's hard!) lol hopefully one day my DM will allow me and my party to visit it now that would be cool
Well, yes, if you use it twohanded, you get another feat and you add 1.5 times your STR mod.
Why did you pick Weapon Finesse? It only applies to certain weapons. It wouldn't be unbalancing to apply it to a Katana, or any other melee weapon at that. Maybe your DM would allow that, since you seem keen on using it with a lot of DEX.
Oh, I saw that your Diety is Ao. If it's the Fogotten Realms dude, he isn't a god. He's more. He doesn't grant spells to his worshippers for example. I know, this isn't terribly important for a fighter, but may be worth thinking about in terms of story.
The weapon finesse was taken on the advice of my buddies, they had never used a katana before lol so didn't know it didn't work with it to bad my guy still kick arse! So far he's been pretty good killing a warg and a wolf, a zombie (he would have killed more if my cleric freind hadn't killed them all with turn undead!) He got knocked unconcius by an undead troll thingy (Man it got like +9 on it damage I could just imagine it close lining my guy through a wall) An perhaps one undead wolf (not to sure about that) he also killed (practacally all by himself!) a giant sludge monster and almost killed I really, really kicked it's arse a undead gurilla thing but then my party's rouge stole the kill
Well, there's a book called Player's Handbook II, that has rules to retrain feats.
Seeing how you fought a lot of undead, it reminds me to warn you to bring along several weapons which do different types of damage. A Warhammer bludgeoning damage, a Halberd for piercing/slashing damage (your choice) and your Katana then.
And back to the deity being AO I wanted a god of warriors (like if anyone knows Khaine off Warhammer/40k, the elven/Eldar god of war) we tried to look for a god like that in the book but couldn't find one so my friends suggested I just take AO.
Gawain do you know of god I could replace AO with that is like the god of war?
[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Forgotten_Realms_deities#Elven_deities"]Here[/url] are the elven deities - sounds like Shevarash is your best bet.
He's the god of battle and individual combat prowess. Shevarash, like Greg said, is rather the Elven goddess (I think it's a godess) of war and strategy. She's also Lawful Neutral.
Here's some of the work i've done on my country's histroy hope you all enjoy!
Alvarian History
Elves have in habituated Alvaria for forty thousand years this well know from excavation sites and archeogical study but only the last ten thousand have been recorded and this had started with the “ork wars”
The Ork Wars
The small island nation of Alvaria is isolated in the extreme, the nearest continent being two thousand, five hundred miles west, but numerous, small islands littered the sea in between
The Alvarians knew nothing of war; they had lived in peace for along time and their extreme isolation protected them from foreign invaders.
The Alvarians knew of the outside world but chose to avoid it; as they found humans and even other, foreign elves uncouth and barbaric.
No one knew how the orks had navigated to and found Alvaria as they had arrived on the east side of the island which was almost impossible to sail as the nearest settled country in the east is five thousand miles away, many historians say that the orks sailed in their rickety, primitive ships from the west and navigated around the island to attack from the east but many more argue that thousands of ork ships would never have gone unnoticed traveling around Alvaria’s coast.
Either way it is a mystery as millions of ork raiders landed upon the Alvarian coast and proceeded to slaughter everything and anything in their way.
The Alvarians knew nothing of war and so defenseless, many elves leant the hard way, becoming ruthless, skilled warriors called Caradrat who still serve Alvaria’s military today as axe wielding fighters whose hatred of orks still fire strong so much so that they are legendary through out the world for it.
But this was not enough as millions of elves, women and children included where killed and the ork tide enveloped the island nation like locusts.
Out of desperation the king at the time ordered his mages to magically call for aide.
The mages of Alvaria where and still are the best in the world but at this time they only knew peaceful magic.
But there calls where heeded.
Just as the last free city of Alvaria the capital came under siege by the orks, the thousand of survivors inside gave into their dooms.
Ship sails appeared on the horizon, elves, humans and dwarves of other countries though out numbered fell upon the orks; slaughtering the besiegers in a brilliant display of power and courage that would inspire many for thousands of years.
Halgrad, the great dwarven king, slaying the ork champion; Elgor in single combat..
It took the alliance twenty years to oust the ork scum from Alvaria, in that time Alvarians it was a bloody and furious war that saw both sides taking thousands upon thousands of casualties but the Alvarians learnt the ways of war, eagerly inheriting the knowledge from their allies or their own experience, they learnt so well that the Alvarian fighters were the best in the world (And still are)
The final battle took part on the northern part of the country the remaining orks fleeing to their last ships where finally caught by the alliance.
The king of Alvaria, Celledar was at the fore front he, a warrior without equal, being able to defeat every elven, dwarven and human leaders in single mock combat he had learnt everything and was wise beyond any, before the war he was a master scholar and loved leader the Alvarian king defeated he the ork king, Grullgor, slicing the mighty ork’s head off with what would later become the signature weapon of Alvaria; the katana in the midst of the chaotic battle.
Celledar’s victory was short lived as the ork king’s troll bodyguard fatally wounded him.
As he lay dieing with his loyal retainers and solders around he announced with blood flecked lips the new edicts that still run Alvaria to this day.
First was that Alvaria would no longer be run by a hereditary monarchy but have it’s kings voted by the people from the many lords of Alvaria’s many lands, that they would serve Alvaria till their very dying breath.
Second; that Alvaria embrace the ways, to teach each generation as to prevent Alvarian soil to be stained so much with its people’s blood.
Then he died, he would never know the repercussions of such.
The cities, the towns where in ruins, millions of dead elves lay amongst the rubble and the fields,
The Alvarian population was once twenty million but now reduced to a staggering seven million.
Despite this the Alvarian country side remained undamaged as the extreme power of the mages magic worked day and night healed the land during the invasion.
The remaining Alvarians, threw away their old naiveté arrogance and became hardy strong folk and then ironically the Alvarian economy flourished as they started to trade with their many allies and Alvarian products became the most sought after in the world.
True to Celledar’s edict a new king was voted to the throne; lord Lathian Alansar “the great” was appointed by the populace, one of Celledar’s fore most lieutenants a wise warrior second only to the past Celledar.
Celledar’s eldest son prince, young prince Avanliar was the for runner for kingship, he was much loved and respected like his father before, the surprise was almost over whelmed as Lathian was announced king in the court by the expectation of Avanliar erupting into rage at his lost, but Avanliar accepted this without hesitation and was the first to bow to the new king.
Lathian was a great king, for fifty years he traveled the land, teaching young elves the ways of war he also placed forward the edict that all Alvarian people take part in compulsory military training, an edict that the country still has today.
All the while Avanliar loyally stood at the king’s side, as one of Lathian’s senior advisors and they became the greatest of friends.
But for all Lathian’s wisdom it did not keep him from making a great mistake; he allowed many humans and foreign elves settle upon Alvaria’s soil he admired the foreigners and wished to pay them back for their aide of his country, luckily Lathian would not live to see the repercussions.
The loyalists
Unbeknown of Lathian a great dissidence had risen amongst Alvaria’s people, nobles and citizens alike did not approve of the changes made, a lot seeing getting rid of the hereditary monarchy as a break from thousands of years of tradition, spitting upon all that their ancestors had lived for, many also disagreeing with the compulsory military training
But many more were loyal followers of Avanliar and truly wished for the prince to take the throne.
Thousands of these Alvarians who called themselves “the loyalists” rioted and some of the more extreme ones almost rebelled all over Alvaria the law enforcers where hard pressed to stifle the loyalists.
When word of this reached Avanliar and Lathian they were both shocked, most of these elves where survivors of the ork wars did they not see the changes where needed for the continued survival of Alvaria?
Lathian was a warrior and so placed forward a very warrior like solution to the problem but Avanliar proposed a more subtle plan; he would pretend to agree with the loyalist view and infiltrate inside the underground rebels.
Lathian and Avanliar argued vehemently that day, but in the end the king bowed to Avaliar’s plan, not wishing to shed anymore Alvarian blood.
Avanliar infiltrated the loyalists, going to their many rallies and mixing with the loyalists highest followers, for ten years he worked further and further into the loyalist ways and he met his love a beautiful loyalist lady by the name; Serecene despite his arguments they showed their relationship openly, a disition Avanliar would later come to regret.
Cloak and dagger ways became Avanliar’s life; he ruthlessly silenced those who came close to his true intentions, he mastered the ways of stealth.
Slowly he became more and more involved in this life of death and espionage, his love for Serecene genuine, but she was starting to notice his dark side.
He finally found out what the loyalists where scheming a country wide war to over throw Lathian and the true government.
But his own true intentions where found out by the loyalists and he barely escaped with his life.
Loyalists immediately fell into open rebellion and murdered his love Serecene, suspecting her as a traitor also.
The war lasted for twenty years, for the first time in Alvarian history its was elf versus elf in a horrible bloody civil war which caught innocent human and dwarven settlers in the middle of the conflict.
When Avanliar leant of his love’s fate his resolve turned in upon itself and vowed that all loyalists will die at his hand, immediately he took aside dozens of warrior elves and taught them the ways of stealth and deceit and the Shadys where born; a secret society of especially ruthless elves that specialize in infiltration and stealth and extreme skill with both sword and bow that have served Alvaria till today and answer only till today.
The Shadys where a new tactic for Alvaria they infiltrated behind loyalist lines on countless occasions, wreaking havoc and chaos for the rest of the Alvarians to finish off the confused loyalists Avanliar became a legend, his escapades spread all over Alvaria and all over the world, his skill many said rivaled the great Celledar.
He was an inspiration to Alvarians while an evil, horrible specter to loyalist
Thousands of soldiers died on both sides but a lot of loyalists fled over seas, and established another society that still lives until this day.
In the end, the remaining loyalists fled to their last fortress and there the army under Lathian besieged them.
There was no sign of Avanliar and many of Lathian’s tactitons suggested that Avanliar and his men infiltrate the castle to open it from the inside, breaking the defenders and thus saving thousands of lives.
No one knows why Lathian flatly refused and perhaps never will as he was killed in the following battle that cost Alvaria thousands more lives but was victorious, Lathian was hailed as a hero and buried in the royal gardens with all the kings before, Avanliar was absent at the ceremony
When new of his old friend’s death reached Avanliar his resolve turned into itself, many said for him to be go for the appointment as the next king but he refused, instead he traveled the country training many more shadys.
Finally he had twenty thousand troops then he left Alvaria with one hundred of them to hunt down the escaped loyalists, they were never to be seen again.
Many say he and his men were ship wrecked on their way to the continents, while others say he still lives even today, still recruiting to the shadys over seas never resting until every single loyalist is in their grave.
Either way the sad, ironic story of Avanliar will never be forgotten in the hearts and minds of the Alvarian people.
