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About Ranzo vonLebeda

Looks: 6' 1", 180 lbs., Medium length braided black hair, Brown hair, no facial hair

Initiative: +2

Hit Points: 11/11 (1d10, +1 Con)

BAB: +1
CMB: +4
CMD: +16

Melee:
Hand to Hand: Longsword +5 (1d8+3, 19-20 x2) Slashing
Ranged: MW Comp. Longbow (str-14)(Haps) +4 (1d8+2, 20 x3) Piercing (+1/+1 within 30’)
AC: 19, FF 17, Touch 12 (Armor +5, + 2 Shield +2 Dex)

Saves:
Fortitude: +3
Reflex: +2
Will Power: +0

Size: Medium
Speed: 30', 20' in armor

Character Traits:
Noble Born: Lebeda:As a deft merchant of the region, you gain a bonus language: Sylvan. Your family motto is “Success through Grace.”

Natural-Born Leader: All cohorts, followers, or summoned creatures under your leadership gain a +1 morale bonus on Will saves to avoid mind-affecting effects. If you ever take the Leadership feat, you gain a +1 trait bonus to your Leadership score.

Armor Expert: When you wear armor of any sort, reduce that suit’s armor check penalty by 1, to a minimum check penalty of 0.

Skills:
5 ranks/level (2 class, 1 human, 2 int)

Climb +7* (1 rank, +3 class, +3 Str)
Craft Carpentry +6 (1 rank, +3 class, +2 Int)
Profession Soldier +4 (1 rank, +3 class, +0 Wis)
Ride +6 (1 rank, +3 class, +2 Dex)
Survival +4 (1 rank, +3 class, +0 Wis)
Swim +7* (1 rank, +3 class, +3 Str)
* Armor Check Penalty -5** (-6 without trait)

Feats:

Point Blank Shot: You get a +1 bonus on attack and damage rolls with ranged weapons at ranges of up to 30 feet.

Mounted Combat: Once per round when your mount is hit in combat, you may attempt a Ride check (as an immediate action) to negate the hit. The hit is negated if your Ride check result is greater than the opponent's attack roll.

Weapon Focus (Long Sword): You gain a +1 bonus on all attack rolls you make using the selected weapon.

Languages: Common, Dwarven, Giant, Sylvan

Background:
Ranzo is the forth son of one of the minor nobles of the Lebeda house. His family prides itself as one of giving the most service back to the Kingdom. Ranzo grew up well outside the effect of the house seat at Silverhall, not learning interhouse politics. As a child, he and several other children gathered together, hunted and killed a young bear that had killed a friend’s dog. Ranzo keep the skull that was given to him by the children as a prize to this day. His family was mad but proud at the same time. The family business came easy to him, learning from his father and uncles. He always knew that he was destined to become a solider in the Kingdoms military, then taking that back and teaching the new generation of his house. When he was seventeen, he was given a direct commission as a junior officer in the heavy infantry. He served the way he that he was taught by his family; leading from the front during the fighting and watching and protecting his troops back in peace. After four years and one promotion, Ranzo became disillusioned with the senior officer corp. He was putting together bits of conversations and some orders that the troopers are only numbers and don’t care if they live or die as long as the goal is reached. He hoped it was a singular occurrence, received a transfer to another unit (engineering and siege), and saw it was worse there, because he was closer to the headquarters.
At the end of his term he did not re-enlist, he said it because his Mother died and went back home. His father, Vessy von Lebeda was still emotional over the death of his wife, Elsignor. He only seemed to spit acid at his son who he thought wasted his opportunity. His two uncles, Klagas and Rothswater , know as the two purple squirrels, (due to their tunics and fighing styles) did their best to shield Ranzo from this, but ultimately failed.
He gathered his possessions and moved East. He worked a year as a caravan guard, bouncer and bodyguard for a year. He felt that he was spinning his wheels and heard of the advertisement for the Shattered lands and directly applied.
Ranzo is looking for a group of people that he can think on like family, he misses his, but feels it is inappropriate at this time to go home. He wants to make it on his own instead of being given a job by his father. He falls in easier with other swordsmen, taking more time with magic slingers. He will never betray anyone that is at least a traveling companion, it is not his way. Commanding troops comes easy to him and will take over that role without thinking. He hopes this is the first step to making something more out of his life.

Relationships:
Good Friend: Current military officer, Renault Youngs; a peer of his during his military service, the type of friend he would drop everything for.

Friend: Daughter of a large Inn and provision store, Onora Ui'Rauirc, a brown haired busty woman that he has dated before and wants to again.

Acquaintance: Kelvach Mivoric, factor for a caravan company, organizes guards and security for same.

See me fail: My Father, he has softened during the last year and wants me to come home, he has a job for me.

See me dead: Anton Surtova, a Baron’s son surviving on his fathers’ financial allotment, supposedly going to school. I kicked him out of the bar, broke his nose and insulted him all at the same time.