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Congratulations to the selected! Have fun with the campaign.

Incidentally, the battle against the Stag Lord and his bandits was handled in a way that deviated from the AP as written. One of the bandit lieutenants, Dovan from Nisroch, usurped the Stag Lord and cast him out. The Stag Lord actually traveled north, and the party found him on the doorstep of Oleg's Trading Post, delirious with fever. They took him in and cared for him, not knowing who he was. When his identity was eventually revealed, he was tried and executed.

Dovan and the other bandits were actually receiving aid from a recurring nemesis of the party, Baroness Althea Thrune, who was the leader of another one of the groups chartered by Rostland. This led to a siege launched against the trading post by an army of bandits, mercenaries, and even a coerced wyvern. The party obviously broke the siege and scattered the bandits. When they sent word of Althea's duplicity to Restov, her charter was revoked and she was branded a criminal. She is presently at large.

Thanks for the information! I was able to incorporate a few elements of the ongoing campaign into my backstory. Especially the baroness fit well with an earlier writeup.

I thought about everything some more and eventually decided to go with what I originally wanted to play. After all, or so I thought, it's up to the party to decide who they want to take along, not me. All I can do is make a hopefully interesting build and character with a lot of potential plothooks :)

Thus, Ravis as posted here is now a complete submission! He is intended to be a heavily casting-focused enchanter bard, tailor-made for the Grand Diplomat role (or any other requiring charisma, though his dexterity is also pretty good). He also has some melee capacity (one level of swashbuckler) for a backup strategy, making it less optimized but more fun for me. I wanted him to be good swordfighter too and he eventually will be, I think :) Finally, he is decently good at stealth and perception and I could optionally add survival to make him act as a field scout when travelling. That I eventually managed to combine it while using my favorite pathfinder 1 class, the bard, in a new way is just a sweet added bonus!