About Petyr "Books" OersonFighter 1 (0 XP)
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Weapons: Simple Weapons, Martial Weapons
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Fighting Style (Duelling: + 2 damage) [ FEATS ]
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Feature: Mercenary Life
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Coins weight 0.1 lb [ CHARACTER DETAILS ]
Trait
Ideal
Bond
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[ BACKGROUND ] Born of villager stock Petyr was exceptionally bright and soaked up such education that could be had from the local priest, learning to read at an early age. His parents wisely decided that the family didn't need an intellectual and when a wizard came through the village managed to persuade Saren Half-Elven to take an apprentice. The next 6 years were good ones but his master was obsessed about rumours of an Elven cabal... rumours that led them to the remote location of the Nine Sisters to examine the giant Elvish statues there. Unfortunately his master met with some mysterious Elves "The Galanduil". Assuming that the boy apprentice spoke no Elvish they expounded to Saren Half-Elven on the eventual doom of mankind and the need for humanity to accept Elvish rule. His master was deeply changed by the meeting and a few months later handed Petyr off to an old adventuring companion turned Mercenary by the name of Bertain the Bastard. Saren returned to the Nine Sisters... never to be seen again. Then a young man Petyr turned to a new trade, that of combat. He's done well, applying himself to the study of arms with the same discipline he applied to his study of magic. Petyr never turned away from his habits as a wizards apprentice and reads voraciously, earning the nickname "Books". He's now struck out on his own, sick of the constant stream of caravan guard jobs. Adventuring sounds like a promising alternative and one that may help him to find his way back to magical studies. "Books" looks like a warrior, somewhat beaten, carrying some scars and with a nose that was once broken but didn't heal right but he speaks like a scholar, enjoying intellectual discourse and a good game of chess. People are often struck by his sober and serious manner, his elocution and his propensity to reading while other warriors are arm wrestling, pounding ale jacks on the tables and indulging in heavy drinking. [ RELIGION ]
Belon appears to his worshippers as an elderly man wearing flowing white robes and carrying a walking staff. Belon is the embodiment of things learned upon the road, be they magical or mundane knowledge. Priests of Belon often serve as guides, educating themselves in local customs in order to afford better traveling conditions for those in their care. As such, Belon is patron of both journeys and knowledge, exemplified in the wisdom that can be gained by being well traveled. An emphasis on common sense ensures that he finds adherents among the stolid common folk of the world rather than only the scholars and learned. Belon the Wise was not originally a god of the Hyperborean or Foerdewaith pantheons. He seems to have been an Eastern god of some as yet unidentified Libynosi pantheon. Some scholars speculate that he was a lesser god of the Gohtra of Far Jaati. Other evidence seems to suggest that he was perhaps once an apprentice to Thasizier, the Libynosi Master of Good Magic and ancient enemy of the witch-goddess Hecate. Whatever his origin, it seems likely that Belon became introduced to the folk of Akados after having been carried back home by Foerdewaith crusaders sojourning in eastern realms. Belon’s earliest influence in Akados seems to have been in and around the city of Bard’s Gate where he enjoyed some popularity as a god of travel among a burgeoning city of merchants and travellers. Over time, however, his worship waned in favor of other gods that hold mercantilism and commerce among their areas of interest, deities such as Sefagreth and Tykee. Recently, however, the church of Belon has been on the rise again as interest in him as a god of arcane knowledge who can perhaps provide secrets of the ancient magic of the East. Less a travelers’ god, it is now more in vogue for wizards who consider themselves to be sophisticated and well-traveled to venerate the White Wanderer. This upsurge has been noticed by the clergy of the traditional god of magic Jamboor, and discussions about what to do among that god’s scholars have been going on for years now as more and more practitioners of the arcane arts turn to Belon as their patron. [ PERSONALITY ] Primary Motivator: Pursuit of knowledge
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