GM Rednal's Way of the Wicked

Game Master Rednal

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Picture of a much higher level Karn

*Starts to post, then pauses*

What was your crime, anyway? XD It doesn't look like Zander has any of his traits yet...? *Totally planning to customize this to Zander's history as much as possible - adding his backstory to his alias will make it much easier to reference*

Ohyeah my bad lol

I'll write something up

Initial backstory, I know I get only one actual crime trait, I just thought that you know how they pin a bunch of crime to a rap sheet even if there is a worse one on there.

Zander White was raised by the minor Nobles Alyssa and Graham White, in the nation of Talingarde. Devout Diabolists, and originally from Cheliax, though his father was of Ulfen descent, Zander’s parents, while strict were loving and wise. They fell to the purge at the hands of house Darius. Zander was seven.

Orphaned and pressed into the care of a Mitran priest called Father Haad, strict and petty man possessed with a cruel zeal. He mistreated Zander for the alleged crimes of his parents. Forced to do endless penitence and subjugated to religious flagellation, Zander quickly learned to say what the priest and his disciples wanted to hear. Lying and smiling became a way of life. The white robes and prayers disgusted him. He learned what little he could of his family’s ways from the journal of his father which he managed to recover from the burned husk of White Manor.

To all he appeared a repentant sinner, a reformed lost child, proof of Mitra’s mercy and power. He hated them. He had attempted to contact any sort of religious sympathizers, leaving notes in taverns and dark alleys using the moniker, Karn Deathand. He had gotten some notes in return, nothing organized, just random encouragement at dead drops or unsorted arcane notes. This is what led to his discovery of Necromancy, it had nothing to do with his political and religious quest for revenge, but it was interesting none the less. If his allies wouldn’t show themselves, perhaps he could learn to create his own.

At nineteen years of age, the night after a funeral procession had buried a man in the chapel’s graveyard, Zander rose from his mat and dug the body up. He was discovered right away by a weasel of a man who was a disciple of Father Haad, Acolyte William Bode, called Pious Bill among the other Acolytes, in his late twenties now, as an older boy who was a ward of the church, he had often gotten Zander in trouble and enjoyed viciously employing corporate punishment. This night, he ran for the guards, and Zander pursued him through the dark sanctuary. catching him and beating him to death with a bronze sun holy symbol of Mitra. Father Haad witnessed this from the reliquary and successfully summoned the guards who captured Zander.

After an investigation and inspection of Zander’s personal items, he was convicted of Murder, Desecration, Grave Robbing and Consorting with Dark Powers. He was stripped, beaten, branded and sent to Brandescar.

Zander’s appearance is tall and muscularly toned but lean. He had stubby facial hair and long blonde locks. The F brand is on the inside of his left wrist. He has green eyes and is quite attractive by any standard.

*Rubs chin* A good start, I'd say. Anything you want to add to make him seem a little more lawful (or interested in order/control, at least, if not necessarily the laws of people he doesn't like)? That's pretty important for this campaign because of its overall plot, and he does feel like he's leaning kind of chaotic at the moment. XD