Henry Morgan's page

I say, jolly good show old sprout.

Character for Masque of the Red Death pbp game that never got off the ground.

Thanks, Pendragon.

BTW, I'm writing my character's background and during the time period I selected (1300-1307) there appears to be no active crusade. Instead, there is intense cloak and dagger stuff between the king of france, the pope and the knights templar. I'm planning to have my character be a member of the grandmaster's personal guard, hence the preferred use of the greatsword. perhaps we can have our characters meet there.

we'll be drawn into the mists after the grandmaster dispatches us on a mission to the pope to denounce the king of france for being a heretic - a mission we'll not be able to complete.

This is just a rough sketch.

Is your dude based in France then? Early 12th century works for me. I was planning Henry to be a Brit from the lonely moors of Cornwall ... but he studied in Paris in his youth, so it's conceivable he could be back there, perhaps visiting the university. However the Crusades were over by almost 100 years by this point, so he's not really likely to want to hook up with you guys because you're returning Crusaders ...

Maybe he just happens to be in the same place at the same time. Or maybe he doesn't enter the mist with you guys at all.

Works for me.

I should warn everyone that Henry is likely not to be able to contribute an awful lot to the party initially - as far as he is aware his spells don't work (so he probably won't begin with any prepared), he's not a melee combatant at all, I don't think it makes sense to his background to have him start carrying a missile weapon, and his main strength, his knowledge skills, will initially pertain to Earth, so probably have limited value in Ravenloft until he sort of learns the lay of the land.

Just so everyone is forewarned...

In the interest of possibly establishing a connection (however tenuous) between Henry and Rad and/or Pen’s characters;

The most likely reason for Henry to leave his crumbling manor house would be in the pursuit of knowledge – rare books, scrolls, manuscripts, stone tablets and the like. No doubt warriors returning from the crusade would be a fair source of such things, so Henry has traveled (or is on his way) to London or Paris to procure some of these treasures brought back from the east.

His connection with the other two might simply be one of chance proximity; alternatively, he might have hired one or both as a guard or guide for his journey, or the names of one of your characters might have been supplied to him as someone who actually has one of these rare manuscripts in his possession.

Hey, this is my character name and avatar. He’s a reclusive (and very minor) member of the British gentry, who attended university in either Oxford or Paris and has since become something of a recluse, derided by his peers for his pursuit of the improbably – arcane lore and magic.

Those of you planning to play Crusaders (Pendragon and Rad) – what era are you thinking? Richard 1 and Phillip Augustus were in the Holy Lands in the 1190s (Third Crusade) I believe. The Fourth Crusade was in the early 1200s. Rad, the persecution of the Templars did not begin until about 1307.