About Mavis the neigh-borQuick infos:
Init +9 | Senses: Perception +1 | Saves: 3/3/3 | Concentration +9 | HP: 2/10 | AC 16/13/13
Crunch:
Mavis Human Wizard 1 LG Medium humanoid Init:+9; Senses:Perception +1
Special Attacks Wizard Spells Prepared
Wizard Spellbook
Feats Combat Casting, Improved Initiative (Human Feat: +4 Initiative), Scribe Scroll (Wizard Feat: You can write magical scrolls) Traits Reactionary, Beast Bond (You share a close bond with animals. You gain a +1 bonus on Handle Animal checks and Ride checks. Handle Animal is always a class skill for you) Skills Knowledge (Arcana) +8, Knowledge (Dungeoneering) +8, Knowledge (Local) +8, Knowledge (Religion) +8, Linguistics +8, Perception +1, Spellcraft +8 Languages Common, Celestial, Goblin, Draconic, Elven, Halfling SQ
Wizard Specialized School & Abilities
Human Racial Traits:
+2 to Intelligence Medium: Humans are Medium creatures and have no bonuses or penalties due to their size. Normal Speed: Humans have a base speed of 30 feet. Bonus Feat: Humans select one extra feat at 1st level. Skilled: Humans gain an additional skill rank at first level and one additional rank whenever they gain a level. FAVORED CLASS BONUS: +1hp Gear:
WIZARD'S KIT Price 21 gp; Weight 21 lbs. (This kit includes the following: a backpack, a bedroll, a belt pouch, a flint and steel, ink, an inkpen, an iron pot, a mess kit, soap, a spell component pouch, torches (10), trail rations (5 days), and a waterskin.) CROSSBOW w/ 10 bolts Price 35 gp; Weight 4 lbs. Price 1 gp; Weight 1 lb. QUARTERSTAFF Price 0 gp; Weight 4 lb. AMULET/ WOODEN HOLY SYMBOL (given to him by Edna, it also is inscribed with the holy symbol of Andoletta) Price 1 gp; Weight - Mwk HAMARAKI +2 Price 0 (inheritance); Weight 1lb. WEALTH starting gold 150; 102 left Description:
Somewhat short and thick dark brown hair is continuously messy atop the frame of a lanky young man. Freckled and fairly pale, yet a slight grin is nearly always pasted across his face. History:
Mavis came into this world in a way quite different than most other people. It was in a stable out in the backwoods behind a farmhouse that Mavis’ opened his eyes for the first time. He saw the welcoming face of a man. Mavis looked down to see what was steadying him. Hands. Mavis liked hands. His parents were both horses, so he didn’t have any of those fancy things himself.
Being a horse didn’t come easily to Mavis. While others of his kind would submit to their base instincts and were more predictable as they were trained, Mavis wanted to know why he had to pull a plow… and a cart… and carry people. He eventually did come around, and submitted to the whims of whoever was riding him, but he found it incredibly boring. He wanted someone to talk to, and so he turned to the other horses on the farm, but found that they were simple beasts, and didn’t understand his whinnied pleas for conversation. After some time of this, Mavis found himself looking for ways to escape his fate as a simple beast of burden. The next day as he plodded down the lane with the farmer and his wife weighing down upon his back, he began listening to their conversation and trying to imitate the words they spoke. After only five minutes of riding, the farmer deduced that some evil spirit had taken ahold of his good horse, and they turned their course to go to the closest temple. Luckily for Mavis, Edna, the local priest was wise as she was old. She was able to see that Mavis was simply an exceptionally intelligent horse. Edna also knew just how Mavis felt, as she herself had been misunderstood when people had first heard that she, a woman, wanted to become a priest. An instant connection was formed between the two of them; luckily for them, the farmer wanted to be rid of Mavis once it was explained to him that his horse’s condition could not be cured. The farmer simply dropped the reins, and ran the whole way home. In Edna’s free time, she would read to Mavis out of the holy scripture, as he seemed very interested. Days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into months as eventually, Mavis learned the language. Afterwards, for over a month, Edna never ceased to praise her god for blessing this horse. On one of these days, Edna went to the market for food and bumped into a man of the forest, who was in town for much the same reasons. She quickly explained the situation to him, and even offered him gold in exchange for the man using his forest magics to change Mavis into a form whereby he would better be able to grasp his own fate. The man met with Mavis and after seeing his profound thirst for knowledge, yet inability to turn pages, he promptly agreed help him. Re-incarnate was cast after Mavis was briefly killed, and his spirit took shape in the body of a human. The man disappeared shortly thereafter without asking for any payment, or leaving a name. Since Edna had never had a child of her own, she adopted Mavis. As Mavis’ new guardian, she figured it was her solemn duty to teach Mavis about what was right and wrong, and about the joys that came with learning and collecting new knowledges. Mavis adapted to his new form rapidly, and eagerly took to her lessons as a fish to water. He still did thirst for something more that Edna’s lessons did not teach: Magic, and the knowledge of what lies beyond this world. After completing his chores each day, he would spend the rest of his time reading through some of the books on theories of magic that Edna had collected over the years. After abundant trial and error, Mavis was able to cast his first spell to call a small beetle into the material plane for a few moments. It wasn’t much, but it was the world to Mavis. Overview in bulletpoints:
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