Sharo (Half elf)

[anime]

Sharo – “Sun walker” (elven name)

I was born to the outcast elfin princess Zyonna, also known as the Ivory keeper, if you have heard of her tale.
She was slain by my forsaken homeland when my father’s identity was revealed. She knew this day would come but had told me it must be this way and to hide if I ever heard her sob.

That day came when I was fairly young but it was noticeable that I was different from others I gazed upon from my mother’s window, I was a bit shorter and my ears oddly shaped. Her sobbing was subtle yet in my heart it caused me pain knowing what was to come. Her power of foresight amazed me that day as she knew every detail of that night to come beforehand.

She knew I would be in disbelief and spent the entire day telling me tales of my father Baeldre, who was known for his charm. But alas as she headed down to the kitchen her own guards detained her and presented her with the orders, and her death came swiftly.
I regret not being strong enough to protect her but all that is in the past.

The night she prepared for her death, she cast a ritual which I thought was normal practice but she did so with all intentions of protecting me, knowing if I was found I would be slain alongside her.
As I left her room that night searching for her since she had been gone far too long… I was teleported into the, what I would now call woodlands yet I have never seen such a lush undergrowth in the past decade.

Along my side laid desert clothing a bag of odds and ends and a note detailing what has gone on and why I was sent to this place. Shortly after reading the note a conglomeration of elements appeared before me and guided me assuring me that the tales of Baeldre I have been told from my mother are all true yet he goes by the name Dre and has not been called Baeldre Since long ago.

So thus my tale has started, I roam the desert trading and searching for the man named Dre who was my father and aid those whom have fallen in times of need in remembrance of my fallen mother.

One day I shall learn the total truth behind my birth, and why I have fallen to near death, surviving only to see the spirits that once walked the land and hope the skills I have attained thus far in my life shall guide me well.

Sharo, level 2
level 2
Half-Elf, Shaman
Build: World Speaker Shaman
Companion Spirit: World Speaker Spirit

FINAL ABILITY SCORES
Str 14, Con 19, Dex 13, Int 17, Wis 18, Cha 14.

STARTING ABILITY SCORES
Str 14, Con 17, Dex 13, Int 17, Wis 18, Cha 12.


AC: 14 Fort: 16 Reflex: 14 Will: 16
HP: 41 Surges: 11 Surge Value: 10

TRAINED SKILLS
Nature +10, Perception +10, Arcana +9, Endurance +10

UNTRAINED SKILLS
Acrobatics +2, Bluff +3, Diplomacy +5, Dungeoneering +5, Heal +5, History +4, Insight +7, Intimidate +3, Religion +4, Stealth +2, Streetwise +3, Thievery +2, Athletics +3

FEATS
Level 1: Toughness
Level 2: Strengthening Spirit

POWERS
Dilettante: Kinetic Trawl
Shaman at-will 1: Protecting Strike
Shaman encounter 1: Bramble Ally
Shaman daily 1: Stone Root Spirit
Shaman utility 2: Endure Pain

ITEMS
Magic Totem +1
desert clothing (+1 endurance to enviornment checks) 3lbs
5x filter mask(breath normally in adverse conditions ie sandstorm)
dowsing rod (+2 to nature on forage)5 lbs
rope, Giants hair (10 D.R.)10 lbs
3x fire kit (has small bow and stuff to make fire)
5x survival day (general adv gear for one day)
leather armor
widows's knife
wrist razor


Survival day

[frobones]

Pretty interesting for its brevity, but I have a few questions.

Zyonna is a princess, was she a member of a noble house or a merchant house? If so, what city did she hail from? I think it really helps RP and allows for more story hooks for the DM if you can reference at least one established faction/place/person in the backstory. So picking a city and a house (or even making up a house and what they dealt with) would give your story more backbone.

I'm assuming Zyonna is being slain because of your Half-elf nature, who killed her and who is after you?

If this knowledge is DM | Player hush hush secrets then just ignore me, but I think it's important that its established.

[anime]

I wanted to keep it short but what i opted to leave out was it was her own father who killed her ( was gonna link it in the note which explained a lot of her event since it is shunned upon) also was going to add story in which I returned years later in search for revenge to find the whole area desolate and in ruins which would not quench my thoughts of revenge but put it on the back burner to allow random spurts of tension to come across. The dune trader aspect was to come out of necessity as he was essentially in a new land which became more and more barren as he followed the spirit which became his companion. I also neglected to say that Sharo was never taken out into public society but taught by his mother and raised within that one area of the building, thus the looking out the window, was supposed to be her personal "area" within the realm.

Also since elves are mainly nomads i wanted to make the ravaged scene of the area in which he was brought up was only there due to the fact they seemed to return to this area frequently as a hub to their wanderings in which he stayed even as his mother traveled, so he was really a home body only learnign what he could from his mother and books (which sparked his historical nature wondering why the life was dwindling away)

Hope this helps sum up where i was going with the story but I was hoping to get the story out before the next power failure(been tripping every 30minutes - 2 hours at most in the past few days ... new house can't handle my computer being on - and yes called the electrician guy several times but it only happens on somde days now every day so he has no clue)

[frobones]

If you want an Athas locale to tie into, take a look at Yaramuke on pg. 177. It was an actual city-state that gets turned to ruin overnight. Maybe this is the kind of thing you're looking for, maybe not; just trying to be helpful. Sharo being sheltered was subtly there in the story, but explicitly saying he was never taken out into public gives the fact much more emphasis.

It looks like you have a lot of things planned, maybe I should have waited a little while longer before I said anything

You have some incredibly beefy stats too. I'm too afraid to roll for stats cause I might get stuck with terrible rolls.

[reiphil]

+200 XP

+2 to ONE of the following:
Perception, Diplomacy, Nature, Endurance

RP Bonus:
-Not sure where you are trying to go, feel free to contact me and we can see what goes on.