Background: Mercenary Veteran
Background Feature: Mercenary Life
Personality Trait: I love a good insult, even one directed at me. My time in the Chill was spent insulting, brawling, and doing mercenary work, and it left me to have a love if those things.
Ideal: Might. The strong should rule over the weak, and those who pretend to have power should be put down.
Bond: The Chill both fears and respects me as a soldier. If I must face them I will make sure they die with honor.
Flaw: I have no patients for anyone who is not a proven warrior.
BACKSTORY
Hutch was born into a middle class family in the great city of Baldurs Gate. He grew up as an exceptional child, proving himself to be better than his two siblings, Jack and Gabriel. As a result he spent the formative years of his childhoid feeling superior to most other humans. He found himself marveling at the strength of the gods, and after seeing the Order of the Radiant Heart in watch and the strength they had he devoted himself to Helm.
This devotion to Helm was strong and at the age of twelve he was taken into the Order of the Radiant Heart as a squire. His parents were proud of him, though he never understood how they could be proud when he had accomplished so little. He proved to be a hard working member of the order, and a favorite of some of the clergy.
On his fifteenth name day he was fully accepted into the order, and made the first of his sacred vows. To him it was everything. For several months he patrolled the great city as a proud member of the order, his Halberd held high, and his gear gleaming. Half way though that year a girl caught his eye. Her name was Sophie,and she was a tiefling who worked at a tavern. Hutch, for the first time in his life, found himself loving someone.
Three years of courtship passed, and sixth months after Hutch's 18th name day the two were wed. For a time it seemed simply like nothing bad could ever happen. In fact a year would pass before any bad thing would happen. Sophie caught Filth Fever after a dire rat out break. She died a week into the disease. Hutch cursed Helm for Sophie's death, blaspheming his vows and setting out from Baldurs Gate.
He found the Chill, a mercenary band if Hobgoblins. He joined them proving his strength among the Hobgoblins. He served these last 8 years as a foot soldier in the Chill before retiring to journey and price his worth as a warrior, the only thing left to him.
Personality
Since the death of Sophie, Hutch changed from an arrogant, yet caring and devout individual to an arrogant, bitter and blasphemous soldier. His years along side Hobgoblins have given him a very harsh disciplined perspective on life, viewing those who aren't proven warriors to be lesser beings. Since Sophie's death his devotion to the first vows he made and to Helm have turned to a blasphemous belief that the strong should have power and that pretenders to power should be put down. With all of this however, he is still saddened by the death of Sophie and is willing to fight for lesser beings and tieflings in her name.
Description
Hutch looks very different than he acts. He is a handsome man, well built with cropped dark brown hair, and close shaven beard, just coming off of his face. His uniform is a chrisp clean red over shirt and trousers. His chain mail is likewise polished, yet not to the shine it had been when he was a member of the Radiant Heart. The remains of a white tabard lays around the top of the chainmail, having been torn off several years ago.
Hutch has taken care of his weapons, especially the Halberd he received for joining the Chill. It is a well crafted weapon, it's blade is slightly serrated with a well polished metal pole. His short sword is well polished, and having seen very little action. His dagger is well crafted, and well used dagger and unlike his other weapons has not been polished in years
