DM Kaavek’s Scales of War (Inactive)

Game Master Kaavek

Skills: 8 (6+2)
Acrobatics +7[1+2+3+1]
Appraise
Bluff+1(w/Axe)
Climb* +6[1+2+3]
Craft*(Trapmaking) +8[1+2+3+2]
Diplomacy
Disable Device*+6(+7) [1+2+3+1*]
Handle Animal* +4(1+0+3)
Heal*
Intimidate*+1(w/Axe)
Knowledge(Dungeoneering)*
Knowledge(Geography)*
Knowledge(Nature)*+6[ 1+2+3]
Perception* +5(+6)[1+2+2+1*]
Profession*
Ride*
Spellcraft*
Stealth*+6[ 1+2+3]
Survival*+5(+6)[1+2+2+1*]
Swim+6[1+2+3]
Languages:Dwarven, Common,Elven,Goblin
Traits:
Reckless: You gain a +1 bonus on Acrobatics checks, and Acrobatics is always a class skill for you.
Signature Moves: Your starting equipment includes a single masterwork item worth less than 900 gp(Dwarven Waraxe), and you gain a +1 trait bonus on Bluff and Intimidate checks while wielding this item in one or both hands.
Special Abilities:
Dwarf:
Defensive Training: Dwarves gain a +4 dodge bonus to AC against monsters of the giant subtype.
Hardy: Dwarves gain a +2 racial bonus on saving throws against poison, spells, and spell-like abilities.
Stability: Dwarves gain a +4 racial bonus to their Combat Maneuver Defense when resisting a bull rush or trip attempt while standing on the ground.
Craftsman: Dwarves are known for their superior craftsmanship when it comes to metallurgy and stonework. Dwarves with this racial trait receive a +2 racial bonus on all Craft or Profession checks related to metal or stone. This racial trait replaces greed.
Stonecunning: Dwarves gain a +2 bonus on Perception checks to notice unusual stonework, such as traps and hidden doors located in stone walls or floors. They receive a check to notice such features whenever they pass within 10 feet of them, whether or not they are actively looking.
Darkvision: Dwarves can see perfectly in the dark up to 60 feet.
Hatred: Dwarves gain a +1 racial bonus on attack rolls against humanoid creatures of the orc and goblinoid subtypes because of their special training against these hated foes.
Weapon Familiarity: Dwarves are proficient with battleaxes, heavy picks, and warhammers, and treat any weapon with the word “dwarven” in its name as a martial weapon.
Ranger(Trapper)
Weapons and Armor Proficiency: A ranger is proficient with all simple and martial weapons and with light armor, medium armor, and shields (except tower shields).
Favored Enemy: (Goblinoids +2)
At 1st level, a ranger selects a creature type from the ranger favored enemies table. He gains a +2 bonus on Bluff, Knowledge, Perception, Sense Motive, and Survival checks against creatures of his selected type. Likewise, he gets a +2 bonus on weapon attack and damage rolls against them. A ranger may make Knowledge skill checks untrained when attempting to identify these creatures.
At 5th level and every five levels thereafter (10th, 15th, and 20th level), the ranger may select an additional favored enemy. In addition, at each such interval, the bonus against any one favored enemy (including the one just selected, if so desired) increases by +2.
If the ranger chooses humanoids or outsiders as a favored enemy, he must also choose an associated subtype, as indicated in the table below. (Note that there are other types of humanoid to choose from—those called out specifically on the table below are merely the most common.) If a specific creature falls into more than one category of favored enemy, the ranger’s bonuses do not stack; he simply uses whichever bonus is higher.
Track: A ranger adds half his level (minimum 1) to Survival skill checks made to follow tracks.
Wild Empathy: A ranger can improve the initial attitude of an animal. This ability functions just like a Diplomacy check to improve the attitude of a person (see Using Skills). The ranger rolls 1d20 and adds his ranger level and his Charisma bonus to determine the wild empathy check result. The typical domestic animal has a starting attitude of indifferent, while wild animals are usually unfriendly.
To use wild empathy, the ranger and the animal must be within 30 feet of one another under normal visibility conditions. Generally, influencing an animal in this way takes 1 minute, but, as with influencing people, it might take more or less time.
The ranger can also use this ability to influence a magical beast with an Intelligence score of 1 or 2, but he takes a –4 penalty on the check.
Trapfinding: A trapper adds 1/2 her ranger level on Perception skill checks made to locate traps and on Disable Device skill checks (minimum +1). A trapper can use Disable Device to disarm magic traps.

Equipment
Ranger’s Kit: 9gp,28lbs. A Backpack, Bedroll, Belt Pouch, Flint and Steel, iron pot, Mess Kit, rope, Torches(10), Trail Rations(5 days), waterskin.
Armored Coat:(50gp)+4[ Max Dex +3,Penalty -2, 20% spell failure, Speed 20ft.,20lbs)
Heavy Wooden Shield(7gp)+2{-2,15%,10lbs)
Explorer’s Outfit: This set of clothes is for someone who never knows what to expect. It includes sturdy boots, leather breeches or a skirt, a belt, a shirt (perhaps with a vest or jacket), gloves, and a cloak. Rather than a leather skirt, a leather overtunic may be worn over a cloth skirt. The clothes have plenty of pockets (especially the cloak). The outfit also includes any extra accessories you might need, such as a scarf or a wide-brimmed hat.
2 Bandoliers: 1gp Two belts to hold his Throwing Axes.
Survival Kit:5gp, 4lbs. A survival kit provides the necessary tools for day-to-day existence in a temperate wilderness. It typically contains a flint and steel, a mess kit, two waterskins (enough to hold water for 1 person for 1 day), very basic maps showing major landmarks, and a small utility knife.
Grooming Kit:1gp,2lbs. This pouch of toiletries includes a comb, scissors, a nail file, a sponge, a hairbrush, a miniature mirror, soap, a chewing stick, and tooth powder.
Gear Maintenance Kit:5gp,2lb.This kit contains metal polish, a small file, a leather paring knife, conditioning oil for leather, two soft cloths, extra leather straps, a sewing needle, and a few buttons.
Thieve’s Tools Common: 30gp,1lb, This kit contains lockpicks and other tools you need to use the Disable Device skill. Without these tools, you must use improvised tools, and you take a –2 circumstance penalty on Disable Device checks.

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Gp- 7
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Step 1: Write at least 5 background and concept elements that you feel are important to the image of your character. These can be a concept overview, a list of important life events, a physical description, a personality profile etc.
1.It was chaos, utter and total chaos. Her parents who had come to set up a simple shop selling well-made earthenware. The former Hammerfist Dwarves fell defending their newly adopted home leaving a barely adult daughter behind. Rhona Copperhair fought too. Her face and hands staining with the blood of the goblinoid trash that not only slew her parents but threatened to take her. She fought learning exactly how to fight. It was during this short ordeal that Rhona learned to use her father's’ once formidable Axe. Hew Goblin Cleaver her Axe once her fathers was born.In this blur of fighting and bloody mess was the vivid flashes of gleaming pristine steel. Steel that belonged to the Elven hero and Swordmaster Katar Swordstar
2.Rhona never one to shy from fighting goblins sought out one of the fiercest fighters in the Area of Brindol. She found herself in the Marth Forest seeking an Elf named Katar Swordstar an accomplished Ranger who was stuck inside Brindol with a small contingent of elves. She observed him and his deadly dance of blades against the hordes. Seeing that Rhona went to the forest and trudged blindly into the woods until she grew weak. When she awoke she was in the midst of three Elves who spoke with her. After learning her intentions, Rhona was taken to the lesser Blademaster Katar and after deeming her worth began to teach her how to fight.
3. Rhona while with the Elven people learned to speak and dance. Here she found a bit of peace, but nothing like the rush she had when fighting against the very creatures that slew her parents. The years here amongst the elves was one she would cherish. She met a friend there a young Priestess named Syrune Duskmere, whom she shared time with. It was this priestess to showed her the softer side of the heart and taught her in the ways of the Sehanine. She became blessed with a special braid of silver and black gifted to her by Syrune. One she cherishes deeply.
4. After a few years with the Elves Rhona left, seeking to test herself in battle. Armed with unusual weapons at least according to her teacher she joined with one of the merchant wagons. She hated the long treks as the food was often subpar, the conversations rough and sparse. It was a bit of a bore. On one long trek from the Hammerfist Holds to Drellins Ferry, THe caravan she was on was attacked. Rhona and her fellow mercenaries went into action. Her first real battle since Brindol and she fought. She took a dangerous and deep wound from a goblin. The spear piercing her right side right underneath her ribs. She thought she would die, in her battle haze, she continued to fight on, while she thought back on her life seeing her Family, her teacher and her friend she held on. Eventually, she passed out. When she awoke she was in Brindol. But she carries the scar and memory of the battle forever.
5. Her last and most recent impacting memory was in Brindol. Having become a staple among the Prospector caravans coming in and out of Brindol and the Hammerfist Holds, she was brought into the Guild house. There she met Lord Damon Gunter. Vaguely she remembered this man when but a lass and listened to him and his offer. She would become an official member of the Prospectors. She was excited and would sit down and write a letter to Syrune. It was one of her first letters since she had left the Elven settlement. Things were vastly changing and thankfully the dwarven lass was finding some sense of peace again. What made this special was the fact Lord Gunter was friends to her father. During her initial training and subsequent admission into the guild proper, Gunter presented Rhona with a recast Axe. Her precious heirloom, had become a beautiful masterpiece, woven with symbols of Moradin and Sehanine amongst the sigils for the Hammerfists and Prospectors her stout Axe had truly become a sight to behold. Enough of one that whenever she held it, others would show her the respect due to her station. Rhona Copper Hair was becoming something of a well known and reliable caravan guard, especially when “Hew Goblin Cleaver” was drawn!
Step 2: List at least two goals for the character. At least one of these goals should be one that the character has, while another could be one that you, as a player, want to see developed over the course of the game.
Rhona at the moment seeks to continue her training, however, her master Katar Swordstar told her she must get more actual combat experience before he can teach her the more advanced forms of his martial dance. To do this she has thrown herself into guarding caravans fighting a few goblin and bandit ilk. Still, she practices every day, and works on her other woodlore, including trap detection and dismantling. Eventually, she wishes to become a master of the “Elven War Dance”(Ie Two-Weapon Fighting) and continue to fight against Goblinoids and another ilk(eventually orcs, Giants, Lizardfolk?) in the Vale. In the End, she hopes to once more grace the Elven city to stay and be one of the first Dwarves to live there.
As for me, I would love to see her become a very well known ranger. One that hunts down evil, defends others and seeks to look towards the ultimate goal of earning not only a spot in the Elven settlement but to live out her days there. Want to see her grow not only as a warrior but an interesting RP character who is eager to learn to defend and avenge those she loves and cares about. Would be cool to make her have to wear an eye patch too. Cause eyepatches are cool. Mostly See Rhona as a Wilderness Warrior who will weld Two Dwarven Waraxes or possibly Axe and Hammer, or Axe and Pick! Fearsome yet gentle, a warrior who is more than just her race and class but one that others will want to interact with!
Step 3: List at least two secrets about your character. One is a secret the character knows, one is a secret that involves them but that they are not actually aware of yet. This will help me in creating plots that center around your character. I will also be creating a third secret which you as a player will not be aware of, so expect some surprises!

But secrets don’t make friends...Oh well
Rhona hides the fact that her parents were secretly rogues who specialized in traps and locks. Her fear is a valid one as her father under another name left the Hammerfist Holds due to one settlement seeking an ore thief.
Rhona doesn’t know that while in the Elven Settlement in Marth, Syrune and Her went through a Soulbond ritual. This meant that they were forever together in heart and soul. The Silver and Black silk braid is the physical representation of this, Rhona cherishes it but doesn’t know that is what it means.
Step 4: Describe at least three people that are tied to the character. Two of them are friendly to the character, one is hostile. Feel free to use characters mentioned in the Player’s Guide.
1.Lord Damon Gunter is like a strange but distant adoptive father to her. A friend of her father Damon, gifted Rhona a reforged waraxe. He is blunt with her as he is with everyone else but he often will smile and dote on her like a real father. Granted he had very little to do with her upbringing he sees Rhona as a child. Rhona is very courteous to Damon and respects him. She will argue and talk back at him at times but in the end accepts most of his terms.
2. In Brindol her sparring partner and former fellow student of Katar Swordstar is Ilimtier Wyspwood an Elven Ranger and runner. A cheerful fellow with flare for the dramatic, is a stylish warrior who fights with a longsword and a short sword. He is often at Ilyas’ Cardhouse between runs. He is one of the few messengers who actually deliver messages to and from Methas Forest.
3. Rhona has a few rivals in town, but none as Bad as Stagnar Stones. A bastard son from a widow farm wife the Half-Orc was never well liked. Rhona not a fan of the more “savage”species began her time around the man trying to see past his physical appearance. She stumbled a bit, but Stagnar didn’t see her attempts as a genuine and basically challenged her. She fought him and put him on his butt. Stagnar, did not like that and has begun to train in styles that can smash hers. Since that initial meeting Stagnar and Rhona have sparred with Rhona having a slight edge every time. Still he is willing to go to great lengths to try and humble the dwarven woman.
4. Swordmaster Katar Swordstar is Rhonas’ teacher. She seeks to learn how to fight like him, but not forsake her heritage. So The Blademaster has learned to adapt his style with her weapons. He is a dutiful teacher, teacher her more than weapons, but also woodlore and strengthening her already impressive skills with traps. Granted he had to pull in help to help refine her skill with Traps, but in the end it was all for the better. Katar waits for his strange but adaptive pupil to return from her first journey to delve deeper into his reservoir of knowledge that will set her on her path to becoming a true Elven Blademaster.
5.Rhona’s true friend and confidant is Syrune Duskmere. The alabaster-skinned, raven-haired beauty and sworn priestess to Sehanine. The woman is devoted to her ‘uruite melar’ a deep true friend that she has given a powerful and lasting bond to her. Syrune prays for Rhona often and is anxious to get any word from her little “Naur Findl”.
6. Unfortunately for Rhona a half-elf named Jax a man with a strange set of skills. Known to poke and prod in places and areas he is not supposed to. In doing so the man has amassed a skill set unique in many circles. Jax was brought in to help teach Rhona how to hone her skills with traps. The Half-Elf sneered and scoffed through the training until Rhona put him in his place. In doing so Jax sought to kill the dwarven woman. However Katar and Syrune figured out the plot and had the supposed Archaeologist exiled from Marth. In doing so Jax, has sought to take revenge on Rhona. He has sought the ancient holds and dark places in the Vale and outside it. Since then he has only met Rhona two times inside Brindol He knows she is aware of his treachery but she seems not to bring it up.
Step 5: Describe three memories, mannerisms, or quirks that your character has. They don't have to be elaborate, but they should provide some context and flavor.

-Rhona carries with her a length of braided silver and black cord on her person. She currently wears it as a necklace with a simple clasp. She often runs her fingers around it while in thought and kisses it now and then.

-The fight was fierce and unexpected, Goblins poured from their hiding spots and advanced on us all, crudes weapons and armor they carried as our trusted gear was the first squawking goblin came forward with a crude sickle, I cut out in a feint luring him forward, I shifted bringing the weight of my father's’ Axe, now dubbed Hew Goblin Cleaver down hard, it’s steel biting into the exposed shoulder of the smaller lesser thing. Its’ blood spewed forth painting my weapon and face. What I had forgotten is the simple fact that goblins believed in a numbers game. Numbers I forgot in my eager lust for combat. In hindsight I would hate to err this way again, For this mistake cost me a lot as the goblin had his friend step in, for in a second after I raised my axe out of the felled one's neck the hidden goblin sprang forward it's to grubby hands thrusting the crude iron spear into my side.Pain welled in my lower chest growling through it I brought Hew down over and over, not really thinking in that moment as The spear tip burned and my lifeblood poured. I thought of My parents, their faces fuzzy names mere whispers, Then I thought of my “Uruite Melar”, My friend Syrona, and my Teacher Katar. I thought of the Elves and their home. In the end, I wound up spinning before I hit the ground. Later I would be told my almost dying rage sent many goblins to a well-deserved grave. In the end, the twisted scar below my right breast and lover ribs is a reminder of my hubris in battle. It shall be a badge of failure, a forever reminder to adapt and learn.

-Rhona is very self-conscious about her traps and lockpicking talents. It's not that she doesn’t excel at it, more than her father and mother ingrained in her that such talents were best hidden as other did not understand. Despite her subsequent teachers telling her otherwise. So when having to ply this part of her trade she prefers others to look away so she can perform her task, otherwise, she gets nervous and clams up.

Resources:
HP: 12/12
==DEFENSE==
AC 19, touch 15, flat-footed 15 (+4 armor, +4 dex, +1 size)
hp 12 (1d10+2)
Fort +6, Ref +5, Will +2

Special Defense Fearless (+2 vs fear)

==OFFENSE==
Spd 15 ft
Melee Ranseur +3 (1d6+1) 20/x3 (disarm, reach)
Guisarme +3 (1d6+1) 20/x3 (trip, reach)
Short Sword +3 (1d4+1) 19-20/x2
Dagger +3 (1d3+1) 19-20/x2

Ranged Longbow +6 (1d6) 20/x3

==STATISTICS==
Str 12 (14-2), Dex 18 (16+2), Con 14 (12+2), Int 14, Wis 12, Cha 10 (8+2)
BAB +1, CMB +4, CMD 15
Feats Agile Manuevers, combat expertise

Skills

==SPECIAL ABILITIES==

Feats:

Agile Maneuvers: Use dex vs str for cmb

Combat Expertise: When making an attackwith a melee weapon, you may subtract 1 point from attack rolls and combat maneuver checks and add the same as a dodge bonus to AC until your next turn.

Traits:
Armor Expert (combat): When you wear armor of any sort, reduce that suit's armor check penalty by 1, to a minimum check penalty of 0

Life of toil (Social): +1 fort save

Fate's Favored: The fates watch over you. Whenever you are under the effect of a luck bonus of any kind, that bonus increases by 1.

Drawback: Pride: You can't abide challenges to your dignity, authority, or honor. When someone threatens, accuses, or challenges you, you take a —2 penalty on Diplomacy checks and Sense Motive

checks involving that creature until the creature apologizes to you.

Racial Abilities

Languages Common, Halfling, Elven, Goblin

Carrying capacity: Light Load: 32.5lbs, Med load: 64.5, Heavy Load: 97.5
Lift overhead: 98lbs; Lift Off ground: 195lbs; Push/Drag:488lbs

Equipment: Chain Shirt (+4 Armor bonus, +4 max dex bonus, -1 ACP, 20ft speed, 12.5 lbs) 100 gp
Short Sword 1 lb 10 gp
Dagger x4 2 lb 8gp
Guisarme 6 lbs 9 gp
Ranseur 6 lbs 10 gp
Longbow 1.5 lbs 75gp
20 arrows 1.5 lbs 1gp

Fighter's Kit: Backpack, Bedroll, Belt pouch, flint and steel, iron pot, mess kit, rope (50 ft hemp), soap, torches (10), trail rations (5 days), water skin 14.5 lbs 9gp
Caltrops x2 1 2b 2gp
Scrivener's Kit: Ink Vial, ink pen, spare pen nibs, pigment container for making ink, tiny knige for gutting quills into pens, a blotter, and a small ruler. .5 lb 10 gp
Wrist sheath .5 lbs 1 gp

Alchemist's Fire x2 2 lbs 40 gp
TOTAL: 49 lbs (Armor and shield: 31 lbs)

Coins: 25GP

Background

Abiandym. "Anger of the Broken Eclipse". A pompous name for a spirit that had been trapped and contained in their tribe as long as they had history and probably before. The dreams it sometimes gave when too much of her was let in gave her glimpses of a plain, where offerings were made in battle, and two figures stood at the head of dark armies. They fought, and she always awoke before it lost, overwhelmed by impotent rage at a past long gone and nearly forgotten.

While it was contained, it was being cleansed, and in time it would be destroyed. So she had to do as much good as was possible, so when it was passed on, the burden would be that much less for her successor. Difficult to do in the tribe itself, so she had to travel wider, whether they wanted her to or not. She would return before her time to pass on the burden of containing it.
(Goal: Survive long enough to pass it on while cleansing it as much as she could)

She does not know about the cult that persists in searching for its Master. They were thought to be wiped out. She does know that she should not have left her tribe, but this creature is a danger to them, and a moving target is harder to hit.

In Brindol, she somehow has the favor of Lady Ariane Sanja, which is doing her no favors in the realm of public opinion, but just the same, her favor is there. Likewise for Lord Eshan Jarmaan, because of her name, of all things. She knows that nothing good will likely come of his interest, but she favors the attention. Contrast that with the actively hostile regard of Dania, priestess of the Raven Queen in Brindol. Whatever her reasons, those under her influence do make things difficult for her whenever they can, trusting in their position to keep them safe.

One of the memories that she can't escape is the ritual that bound Abiandym to her. It was the same ritual that gave her the scars that she carries, and culminated in the death of her master. She still wakes up from reliving the event from time to time. Due to the influence of what she contains, she does crave meat more than is normal. To combat this, she does try to keep a good supply of jerky, and is almost always chewing on a strip. Having to deal with it has left her with a slight scowl, having been forced to hear its running commentary as well as feeling its irritation at being contained.

CG Human Female Medium(Fiend Keeper)
HP: 10
AC:
BAB: +0
Saves: +2/+2/+3
Special: /Hero Point 1/ Knacks, Evil Spirit, Spirit Bonus +1, Spirit Power(lesser), Spirit Surge 1d6
Skills:
A: Bluff +7, Intimidate +7, K.(Planes) +5, K.(Religion) +5, Sense Motive +5
B: Craft(clothing) +5, Linguistics +5
Languages: Common, Abyssal, Celestial

Spells Known:
0th: haunted fey(fiend) aspect, resistance

Equipment:(240g)

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DEFENSE
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AC 16 (20), touch 10, flat-footed 16 (+6 Armor, +0 Dex, +4 Dodge against giant subtype, +0 Sacred)
HP 13 (1d8 + feat + CON)
Fort +5 Ref +0, Will +6
Resist

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OFFENSE
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Spd 20ft. can’t be modified by armor or encumbrance
Melee Sacred Weapon DMG 1d6; Greatsword +2 (2d6 + 3);

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STATISTICS
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STR 14 (+2) | DEX 10 (+0) | CON 15 (+2) | Int 14 (+2)| Wis 17 (+3) | Cha 12 (+1)

Aura Faint/Chaotic Neutral

BAB +0; CMB 0; CMD 12 (+4 racial Stability)

Feats:
[BONUS] Weapon Focus (Warhammer)
[BONUS] Toughness
1st Fight On

Traits:
Secret Knowledge - +2 to one knowledge skill and that becomes a class skill. (Dungeoneering)

Mountain Guide - +1 to knowledge (geography) and Survival checks when in mountainous areas. Knowledge (geography) is always a class skill for you.

Storm-Touched - You gain DR 1/— against creatures and attacks with the electricity type.

Impatient (drawback) - You can’t delay or ready actions, and if you are the last of your allies to act in a round of combat, you take a –1 penalty on ability checks, attack rolls, saving throws, and skill checks.

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Skills
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Class Skills: 2 + INT + 2 BG + 1 favoured class
Italics means the skill can't be used untrained.
Bold is a class skill.

Adventuring Acrobatics +0, Bluff +0, Climb +2, Diplomacy +0, Disable Device +0, Disguise +0, Escape Artist +0, Fly +0, Heal +4, Intimidate +0, K.Arcana +0, K.Dungeoneering (1) +8, K.Local +0, K.Nature +0, K.Religion (1) +6, Perception +4 (+2 racial Stonecunning), Ride +0, Sense Motive (1) +8, Spellcraft (1) +6, Survival (1) +8, Swim +2, Use Magic Device +0

Background Appraise +0, Artistry +2, Craft (armor) (1) +6, Handle Animal +0, K.Engineering (1) +6, K.Geograhpy +0 (+1), K.History +0, K.Nobility +0, Linguistics +0, Lore +0, Sleight of Hand +0

Languages:
Common, Dwarven, Goblin, Orc

Trackable Abilities

Blessing
(Weather) Storm Strike minor At 1st level, you can touch one weapon and grant it a blessing of stormy weather. For 1 minute, this weapon glows with blue or yellow sparks and deals an additional 1d4 points of electricity damage with each hit. This additional damage doesn’t stack with the additional damage from the shock or shocking burst weapon special abilities.

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ADVANCEMENT
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1st level - [BONUS] Weapon Focus (Warhammer), [BONUS] Toughness, [1st] Fight On OR Skill Focus (K.Nature) if pursuing Eldritch Heritage (Stormborn).

2nd level – Forge Mastery (Ex), access to Power Attack via Feat Tax

3rd level – [BONUS] Craft Magic Arms and Armor, [2nd] Cleave

4th level – Creator’s Bond (Su), Cha +1 (if getting Eldritch Heritage) OR Wis +1

5th level – [3rd] Cleaving Finish OR Eldritch Hertiage

6th level – Heat of the Forge (Su)

7th level – Sacred Armor (Su) +1, [4th] Furious Focus

8th level – Str +1

9th level – [BONUS] Create Wondrous Item, [5th] Great Cleave

10th level – Sacred Armor (Su) +2,

11th level – [6th] Create Reliquary Arms and Shields

12th level – [BONUS] Cleave Through

13th level – Sacred Armor (Su) +3, [7th] Improved Cleaving Finish

14th level –

15th level - [BONUS] Hammer the Gap , [8th] Pushing Assault (str 15)

16th level - Sacred Armor (Su) +4,

17th level – [9th] Deadly Finish

18th level – [BONUS] Powerful Manoeuvres

19th level – Sacred Armor (Su) +5, [10th]

20th level – Aspect of War (Su)

May deviate into Sorcerer for the Stormborn Bloodline somewhere. Not sure for how long, it would depend on where she goes as a character and how much that part of her background gets used.

Also would change if VMC is allowed.

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Equipment
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Remaining coin – 5gp 5sp

Greatsword – 50gp | 2d6 | 19-20/x2 | - | 8lbs | S | -
Breastplate – 150gp | +6 | +3 | -4 | 25% | 20ft. | 30lbs
Dagger – 2gp

Cleric’s Kit – 16gp | 32lbs

• Backpack, common
  
• Bedroll
  
• Belt pouch
  
• Candles (10)
  
• Cheap Holy Text (Moradin)
  
• Flint and Steel
  
• Iron Pot
  
• Mess Kit
  
• Rope
  
• Soap
  
• Spell component pouch
  
• Torches (10)
  
• Trail Rations (5 days)
  
• Waterskin
  
• Wooden Holy Symbol
  

Grooming Kit – 1gp | 2lbs
Gear Maintenance Kit – 5gp | 2lbs
Leather Holy Text (Kord) – 25gp | 2lbs
Holy Symbol Silver, Flask (Kord) – 35gp | 1lbs (Storm Stout [Dwarven stout of the Stormstone’s] 2cp)
MW Artisan’s Tools (Armor smith) – 55gp | 5lbs
Dwarven Trail Rations (5) – 10gp | 7.5lbs [Smoked sausages, salted meat, hard biscuits, dried veggies]

Stability: Dwarves gain a +4 racial bonus to their Combat Maneuver Defense when resisting a bull rush or trip attempt while standing on the ground.

Unstoppable: Some dwarves train from a young age to outlast orcs on the battlefield. They gain Toughness as a bonus feat and a +1 racial bonus on Fortitude saves. This racial trait replaces hardy.

Feat and Skill Racial Traits
Craftsman: Dwarves are known for their superior craftsmanship when it comes to metallurgy and stonework. Dwarves with this racial trait receive a +2 racial bonus on all Craft or Profession checks related to metal or stone. This racial trait replaces greed.
b]Stonecunning:[/b] Dwarves gain a +2 bonus on Perception checks to notice unusual stonework, such as traps and hidden doors located in stone walls or floors. They receive a check to notice such features whenever they pass within 10 feet of them, whether or not they are actively looking.

Senses Racial Traits
Darkvision: Dwarves can see perfectly in the dark up to 60 feet.

Offense Racial Traits
Hatred: Dwarves gain a +1 racial bonus on attack rolls against humanoid creatures of the orc and goblinoid subtypes because of their special training against these hated foes.

Weapon Familiarity: Dwarves are proficient with battleaxes, heavy picks, and warhammers, and treat any weapon with the word “dwarven” in its name as a martial weapon.

Armorers of exquisite skill, forgepriests take inspiration from their deity to produce the most perfect weapons and armor they can, the better to equip the armies of the faithful.

Blessings
A forgepriest selects only one blessing.

This ability alters the blessings class feature.

Smith’s Spells
A forgepriest adds the following spells to his spell list: 1st—jury rig, shield; 2nd—heat metal, shatter; 3rd—keen edge, quench, versatile weapon; 4th—wreath of blades; 5th—fabricate, major creation; 6th—mage’s sword.

Forge Mastery (Ex)
A 2nd level, the forgepriest adds a bonus equal to half his level to all Craft checks to make metal items, armor, and weapons. (This benefit is gained from the altered version of blessings, above.)

Bonus Feats
A forgepriest can select item creation feats in addition to combat feats when he gains a bonus feat.

This ability alters bonus feats.

Craft Magic Arms and Armor
At 3rd level, a forgepriest gains Craft Magic Arms and Armor as a bonus feat.

This ability replaces the bonus feat gained at 3rd level.

Creator’s Bond (Su)
At 4th level, when a forgepriest uses his sacred weapon ability with an item he created personally, he can expend two uses of his fervor ability to increase the bonus granted by 1. Once the forgepriest has the sacred armor ability, he can also use this ability in conjunction with that.

This ability replaces channel energy.

Heat of the Forge (Su)
At 6th level, a forgepriest gains fire resistance 5. At 13th level, this resistance increases to 10.

This ability replaces the bonus feat gained at 6th level.

• Ingra runs the risk of coming across kind of gnomish in that she isn’t as stoic and serious as people view dwarves. Mostly because dwarves aren’t like that around other dwarves, they have a certain sense of humor and she just never really bothered to learn to surpass it around outsiders. Took too much concentration away from what she wanted to focus on, whether that was a piece of armor or a bit of information. She is an all-in kind of character. Whatever she is doing, whatever aspect of her life, she never does anything half-heartedly. Her view of life can be seen in her fighting style, she follows through in all situations (Advancement plans follow the Cleave feat tree)

• Ingra is very confident and optimistic, one could say. She is always moving forward, even if she fails, she never dwells or doubts herself, just swears colourfully in dwarvish, while mulling over what went wrong so she can fix it. Problems are meant to be fixed, not dwelt on. If they can’t be fixed, then really what’s the use of them? She is very much enough elbow grease and a little know how can solve most problems.

• Ingra is just tall enough to wield her greatsword with little issue, standing at a decent 4’8”, taller than a lot of female dwarves. She has a great pride in her appearance, almost as much in her abilities. She has grown her dark grey hair, a trademark of her clan, down to her hips, wearing it in a thick assortment of braids (think like Rapunzel from Tangled).

• She has modelled her life around 2 core figures: Kord and Lord Damon Gunter. She was a young adult when the siege on Brindol took place, and absorbed the stories that reached her home in the Hammerfist Holds like a sponge. Just like that her whole life changed. Her family knew of Kord, their name often being mistaken for followers of his, but like most dwarves they mostly worship Moradin. To honour her family’s, and homelands, patron god, she learnt to use the Warhammer along with her Greatsword, Weapon Focus (Warhammer) and pays respects to both.

• Key memories: When she first saw lightning (she was awe struck), her brother taking her down into the mines for the first time, hearing about Lord Gunter and the siege on Brindol, beginning her training as a Warpriest, seeing how her friend, Toby McCally had age when she hadn’t, learning about the existence of Storm Giants, forging her first piece of armor, her brother’s wedding, the birth of niece, her first fight with Korn about her worship of Kord, receiving her Greatsword (Tempest) after her initial Warpriest training had finished, arriving in Brindol for the first time.
  

2. Goals and Ambitions

• As a heavy influence in her life, she wants to meet Lord Gunter, but because of her own merits, not just on request. To that end she has ventured to Brindol to seek out success and renown worthy of notice to her mentor.

• She wants to craft a set of armor inspired by the God of Storms, one that any warrior *cough*or cleric *cough* would be proud and honoured to wear into battle. She has many sketches and ideas, but currently lacks the abilities. (Her feats and skills will go towards this goal, in some part)

• Over the course of the game I want to see Ingra achieve her goal of meeting Lord Gunter by becoming a powerhouse on the battlefield and a master smith. I’d like her to see some of the old dwarven ruins, and pull motivation and inspiration from that. Having her interact with non-dwarven races will be great for her growth to, I’d like her to be able to go back to Hammerfist Hold claiming a friend in many races, because currently she’s very naïve when it comes to them.
  

3. Secrets

• Despite growing up surrounded by dwarves that hate giants, after researching for her holy armor of Kord that she aims to make, she stumbled upon a verse that shook her to her core:

  Eldest children of sea and sky, storm giants are benevolent colossi who tower over almost all other giants in size, strength, and glory. They garb themselves in armaments that match their imperial beauty, and are masters of all they survey. Wind and water thrum in harmony with the thunderous beating of storm giants’ hearts, and their atonement to the natural world is so strong that the goliaths’ moods are often reflected in their very surroundings, the calm winds and raging tempests that follow them indicative of their fickle manner.

  From that moment, she has been in awe of Storm giants, and wants to witness them in real life. It’s almost a worship that rivals that of Kord, for these creatures must been strongly tied to her god if what she has read is true.

  Of course, if anyone found out she had such reverence for a type of giant, she worries how they would react, so she keeps it to herself while dreaming of these untameable manifestations of lightning and thunder.

• While her family’s name doesn’t tie to Kord, it does tie to Storm Giants. It must have occurred as far back as when the lost dwarven kingdom existed for the stigma of such a thing to have been forgotten in the dwarven community, but the dark grey hair and occasional manifestation of elemental resistance against electricity are the ever-present sign of that relation.

  Whether it is in the blood from a conception or magic is up to DM because I have the Tolkien idea that a Dwarf can’t have babies with anyone other than another dwarf, but I like the idea of having that link. Can come up with other secret if I need to. Not even sure Storm Giants exist in this universe.
  

4. Relationships

• Orgin Stormstone – Ingra’s older brother. He is like her, but more. Very dwarf. Very closed-minded. Loves his family and little sister to pieces and has a habit of bringing up embarrassing stories from when she was younger, normally involving him trying to teach her something. He is 15 years older than Ingra, so they are close for dwarf siblings. He is a miner at Hammerfist Hold, and advises her on metals and other prospecting and appraisal tasks. He has a 10 year old daughter, Kotri, who, much to his hidden dismay, idolises her aunt far more than her would like., particularly since one of the young dwarf’s favourite terms has become ‘Oh my Kord!’. His wife, Yessa, thinks it’s hilarious, but never shows it.

• Toby McCally – a human merchant that travels between Brindol and Hammerfist Hold trading supplies and buying ore and wares. Probably Ingra’s only connection to the outside world, which is why he got stuck escorting her to Brindol in the first place. It was with him that she had her first racial shock. They met just before the siege on Brindol, both young, she was 24 and he was 25. Now she looks at her friend and can see age, he is still only a year old, and yet she can see the signs of human aging she has heard about, wrinkles, grey hairs, slower movement. She is in her prime, still young by dwarven standards. She doesn’t really know how to process this information yet, that her effective childhood friend, at least it was her childhood, will be gone before she reaches her mid-life.

• Korn Bronzebeard – Hailing from one of the oldest houses in Hammerfist Hold, Korn finds Ingra’s habit of being less than traditional as something that endangers the whole community, and has made it his personal vendetta to either change her ways, or make the rest of the community see how much of a threat she is.
  They grew up together, but he never understood her way of thinking. She was a dwarf, and surely should think and act like a dwarf. Both from influential families, she was a perspective partner for him, and her actions threw him off so badly that it was a personal affront to him and his family, at least in his mind. He sees her going to Brindol as the perfect opportunity to sow his ideals.
  He isn’t a bad person (dwarf) it’s just, deep down, as a traditionalist, her way of life is frightening and threatening to all that he loves, and all that he believes his family, her family, and the dwarven community should represent. To him she is the bad guy, and needs to be dealt with.
  

5. Quirks, Mannerisms, or Memories

• Ingra carries a small, metal ball, about the size of ping-pong ball, around with her everywhere. Whenever she gets nervous, or needs to think, she polishes it, or rolls it around in her fingers. It was a baby toy her brother made her, too big for her to choke on, and made from ore he dug up himself. She’s adapted it, so she can wear it in her hair securely, so it’s easy to access, and she also sees it as a way of displaying where she is from. She gazes into it sometimes, thinking of her family, her future, or maybe her holy armor.

• Ingra chews the inside of her mouth when she’s getting impatient. Needless to say, she chews her mouth a lot. It starts with her just biting her lip, which many see as meaning something else, be it interest or uncertainty, she’s just getting fed up with whatever is, or isn’t, happening. This leads to her habit of interrupting people on a regular basis, or just leaving.

• Being a dwarf from a dwarven community, she has a lot of misconceptions about the workmanship of other races. As such she tests most things before using them; rattling a chair, examining cutlery, rocking a table. Then she’ll exclaim her findings as if they were complimentary, or helpful advice. She’ll be amazed with ‘human ingenuity’ and be genuine in a way that almost always gets seen as insulting.
  

The idea is that Ingra would be a Warpriest whose Storm Giant link gets more prominent the more she tries to be connected to Kord. She'd be a Sorcerer VMC for the Stormborn bloodline.

With VMC rules, she'd get a bloodline ability at 3rd, 7th, 11th, and 15th level instead of a feat, but no spells or any other Sorcerer ability (bummer). She'd advance in Warpriest normally though, not missing out on any features or whatever.

I can see how this might be a bit compromising if applied to other characters, but I think it suits her because she isn't training to be a sorcerer, her bloodline is just manifesting itself. So not getting spells and that is fine, because she wouldn't know about them anyway.

She'll initially see these new powers as blessings from Kord, having never really met any true worshipers of Kord before she'll think it normal, but as she progresses she'll find out that it's only her.

I'll need to move her feats around a bit, but they'll still be focused on the Cleave and Crafting trees.

So just throwing it out there.

I was super stoked that they even had a storm orientated bloodline.