Elias Two-Rivers's page

Favored Enemy: Orcs

Combat Style: Archery
Combat Feat: Precise Shot

Track - A ranger adds half his level (minimum 1) to Survival skill checks made to follow tracks.

Favored Enemy - 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.

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.

Elias never knew his mother. His earliest memories are of riding in a carrypack on his father's back, strapped in with rawhide and swaddled in wolf fur. His father was trapper, always on the outskirts of civilization, and Elias grew under the forest canopies and atop the mountain ledges. When he was old enough to walk alongside his father, he always had to hurry - his father didn't believe in patience and kindness, so Elias had to ensure that he kept up or he'd be left behind.

His father died when he was fifteen in an orc attack led by an old nemesis, Gorsk the Wounder. Elias hunted and slew the all the orcs but Gorsk, and collected the reward offered for their destruction at the closest town. He used the coin to buy a beautiful new bow, and set about following his father's footsteps.

For ten years Elias hunted and fought with the orcs in the mountains, always on Gorsk's tail but never managing to bring him down, until finally one climatic night he confronted his father's ancient enemy, and slew him. He then emerged from the wilderness to see what adventures life might bring his way.

As if haunted by the heights he has scaled and come to call home, Elias's countenance often carries a bleak and distant expression. Prone to introspection and silence, comfortable with solitude and stillness, it can come almost as a surprise when he smiles, becoming aware once more of those around him. His smile is all the more striking for the detachment it replaces.

Ht: 5'9"
Wt: 185 lbs.
Eyes: Dark brown
Hair: Brown, thick and untameable
Skin: Tanned
Age: 27 years