Odebie of the North Tribe's page

Male Oread Stonelord Paladin 5
CN Medium Outsider (Native)
Init +2; Senses: Perception +10, Darkvision
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Defense
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AC 18|20, touch 12|14, flat-footed 16 (+4 armor, +2 Dex, +2 Natural)
HP 44|54 (1d10+2)
Fort +6|+8, Ref +3, Will +6|+8
Resistances Acid 5
DR/Adamantine 2
Other 25% Chance to ignore critical hits
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Offense
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Speed 30 ft. (20 ft. in armor), Burrow 10 ft.
Melee +1 Lucerne Hammer +11|+13 (1d12+7|+9/×2)
Ranged Shortbow +7 (1d6/×3)
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Statistics
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Str 18|22, Dex 14, Con 14|18, Int 10, Wis 12, Cha 10
Base Atk +5; CMB +9|+11; CMD 21|23
Feats Power Attack, Weapon Focus (Lucerne Hammer), Elemental Channel (Earth), Extra Lay On Hands
Traits Indomitable Faith, Seeker
Skills Diplomacy +6, Linguistics +1, Perception +10, Profession (Lawman) +10, Sense Motive +9
Languages Common, Sedime
SQ Stonestrike, Aura of Good, Detect Evil, Ferrous Growth, Heart of Stone, Stoneblood, Aura of Courage, Defensive Stance, Earth Channel
Combat Gear oil (5); Other Gear Armored Coat, arrows (60), Lucerne Hammer, shortbow, candle (2), chalk, hammer, hemp rope (50 ft.), hooded lantern, piton (4), sack (2), tindertwig (4), torch (2), fleshgem 60 gp
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Special Abilities
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Stonestrike (5/day, swift action): Melee attacks treated as magical and adamantine; +1 to attack and damage, and CMD if touching ground or stone structure.
Detect Evil (At Will): Can use detect evil, as the spell.
Ferrous Growth (1/day): Touch a piece of nonmagical iron or steel to grow into an object weighing no more than 10lb. Effect lasts 10 minutes.
Lay On Hands (4/day): As a standard action (swift if self-target), heal the target for 2d6.
Defensive Stance (8 rnds/day): Gain a +2 dodge bonus to AC, a +4 morale bonus to Strength and Constitution, and a +2 morale bonus to Will saves. This ends if Odebie willingly moves. When this ends, he is fatigued for two round for every round he spent in the stance.
Stone Servant: May call a small earth elemental with the celestial template once per day as a full round action.
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Appearance:
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Tall and broad, for an Oread, with red, mossy hair and beard. His face is worn with permanent laugh lines and his eyes glitter slightly in the light, accented by an emerald fleshgem replacing a missing incisor.
He's dressed in a leather coat with metal plates sewn in, clearly of Ifrit make, and carries a long, wickedly pointed hammer on his back.

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Personality:
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Smiling and gregarious, Obedie is usually extremely good natured. He's a simple person at heart and takes joy in helping others, though he can't stand being talked down to or treated as inferior because he doesn't know something. In battle, he becomes much sterner and his eyes cease to glitter entirely.

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Background:
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Background:
1: Born the son of a priest of the Grey Father
2: Left the north tribe to find work.
3. Never fights when he can avoid it.
4. Is bad at avoiding fights.

I wanted to expand on a single event in Odebie's background: When he was twenty his father took him north to see the oldest of the Quiet Elders. Venturing into the heart of the tree's roots, Odebie saw how the earth had risen up to infuse the wood and turned it hard as iron. He's carried that lesson with him since, and by reaching out to the Grey Father he is able to receive that same blessing, for a short time.

Secrets:
1: When he left the Quiet Elder he carried a piece of petrified wood with him; it forms the core of his holy symbol.
2: In his first ever fight he killed the other oread; he still feels terrible and has since worked to leash his temper.

People:
His father, Obedie, is a priest of the Grey Father and taught him about religion.
Chiten, his childhood friend, is a ranger that fights in the North.
Dariush is an Ifrit nobleman Odebie knows from work in Hearth; at the last Meet Odebie earned his ire when he held him accountable to the laws of the tribe rather than the laws of the cities.

Memories:
The first time he saw the Grey Fathers, and realized trees and stone were one and the same.
His first fight, the rush of anger and fear.
Walking into the city, surrounded by strange smells and noises and the press of people.

A more narrative background: Odebie was originally trained as a priest of the Grey Father but didn't take to it; after a fight gone bad in his youth he left his home tribe and worked as a caravan guard and guide for a few years. Eventually, he realized he was happiest when he was working at the Meets as a guard/troubeshooter and signed up with the Hearth city guard the next chance he got. That was a few years ago, since then he's helped keep the peace in oread neighborhoods and coached oread newcomers through life in the city.