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Riftun
Male human bard (archivist) 5
NG medium humanoid (human)
Init +11; Senses Perception -1
Favored Class (Bard)
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Defense
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AC 11, touch 11, flat-footed 10
hp 29 (5d8+5)
Fort +2, Ref +5, Will +3
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Offense
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Speed 30 ft.
Melee unarmed +1 (1d3 - 2)
Special Attacks bardic performance (17/day)
Spells (CL 5; concentration +8):
2nd (3/day)-mirror image, glitterdust, gallant inspiration
1st (6/day)—timely inspiration, saving finale, liberating command, heightened awareness, cure light wounds
0 (at will)—detect magic, prestidigitation, light, mending, mage hand, message
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Statistics
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Str 7, Dex 12, Con 12, Int 17, Wis 8, Cha 20
Base Atk +3; CMB 1;CMD 12
Feats Combat Advice, Improved Initiative, Noble Scion of War, Steadfast Personality
Traits Vagabond Child (urban), Reactionary
Skills
diplomacy +3=+5+3+5
disable device +12=+5+3+1+2+1
knowledge (arcana) +13=+5+3+3+2
knowledge (dungeoneering) +13=+5+3+3+2
knowledge (local) +13=+5+3+3+2
knowledge (nature) +13=+5+3+3+2
knowledge (planes) +13=+5+3+3+2
knowledge (religion) +13=+5+3+3+2
spellcraft +10=+4+3+3
Background Skills
knowledge (nobility) +13=+3+3+3+2+2
knowledge (geography) +11=+3+3+3+2
knowledge (history) +12=+4+3+3+1+2
preform (oratory) +13=+5+5+3
Profession (cook) +5=+3+3-1
knowledge (engineering) +11=+3+3+3+2
Languages common, draconic, celestial, skald, sylvan
SQ cantrips
Combat Gear Dagger, Mithral Chain shirt
Other Gear waterskin, bedroll, trail rations x7, hot weather outfit, cold weather outfit, small tent, flint and steel, rope, masterwork thieves tools, bag of holding (type 1)
Misc book, ink, quill, paper(x100), 4152gp 5sp
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Special Abilities
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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.
Bardic Performance: (13/day)
Naturalist (Ex): An archivist who has identified a creature with a Knowledge check appropriate to its type can use performance to share strategies for defeating it with allies in combat. The archivist and any allies within 30 feet gain a +1 insight bonus to AC and on attack rolls and saving throws against extraordinary, supernatural, and spell-like abilities used by creatures of that specific kind of monster (e.g., frost giants, not all giants or all humanoids). This bonus increases by +1 at 5th level and every six levels thereafter. This language-dependent ability requires visual and audible components.

*Lore Master (Ex): At 2nd level, an archivist may take 20 on Knowledge checks once per day, plus once per six levels beyond 2nd.

This ability replaces versatile performance.

Magic Lore (Ex): At 2nd level, an archivist gains a bonus on Spellcraft checks to identify magic items or decipher scrolls equal to half his bard level and may take 10 on such checks. An archivist can use Disable Device to disarm magical traps as per a rogue’s trapfinding ability and gains a +4 bonus on saves against magical traps, language-dependent effects, and symbols, glyphs, and magical writings of any kind.

Riftun is a rather pale Ulfen young man at 20 with soft features and a somewhat small frame. His delicate features have even lead to him being confused for a woman on more than one rather awkward occasion but he takes no offense to it. On rare occasion he will even let his best friend Ameiko dress him up in "women's" clothing for some laughs.

Despite his slender frame and lack of what one might call "traditionally manly" features Riftun is rather handsome, in a certain light under his shockingly messy red hair and all of the ink stains covering his hands, cheeks, and brow. His smile is even said to light up a room whenever Ameiko or one of the regulars at the Rusty Dragon can get him to crack one with a smart joke or clever retort. This is further complimented by his deep blue eyes, almost sapphire-like in the way they sparkle when he laughs, and peculiarly a few streaks of red running through them (though he always insists people are imagining it when they remark on the strangeness of it).

He doesn't wear much in the way of jewelry though he does have a small blue ball piercing in each ear and his hair has been braided (by Ameiko) on the right side of his head, grown a little past his shoulder, much longer the rest of his hair.

As for clothes, he often wears white robes with a fancy green trim on them (often covered in ink stains as well) and is always found carrying his favorite leather backpack, stuffed with books, papers, inks, and quills.

There are a few words that could be used to sum up Riftun's existence with a fair degree of accuracy. Bright, kind-hearted, soft, shy, cowardly, depressive.

Riftun is a kind soul, always going out of his way to help others when he can, no thanks required or expected. He's never able to put into words why he is like this exactly, it seems to be something that has simply always been an integral part of his personality. His shyness and self-defeating attitude he says, when pressed, comes from his parents having constantly told him that he had nothing to say worth hearing and that he was an embarrassment to the family to the point where they eventually refused to let him out of the house for fear of causing further embarrassment. Because of this he is hesitant to speak, because he believes no one wants to hear what he has to say and he refuses to acknowledge himself as a person with value which is perhaps why he has never pursued romance or noticed any time someone has attempted to flirt with him. He simply isn't worthy of their time after all.

Being locked away for so long did have its benefits though! Riftun was able to spend many long hours studying massive texts and scriptures, gaining an encyclopedic knowledge of the world just outside the walls he would never be able to see. He particularly enjoyed, however, works of fiction and heroic retellings of tales of chivalrous knights, dangerous beasts, and fair maidens awaiting rescue (though he often lamented that is was never fair men awaiting rescue by a bold hero). To this end, he began writing himself, making fanciful tales of adventure and romance though they never featured himself as a character, he was unworthy of such things. Secretly, he sometimes wishes he could follow a daring band of adventures on their quest, recording their great deeds with only a tasteful amount of embellishment though only Ameiko knows of this hidden yearning.

As for his fearful nature, or cowardice as some other might put it? He refuses to talk about it, even to Ameiko, though she suspects it may have something to do with his hesitance around other women, and the scars that cover the young man's body underneath his robes.

Riftun arrived in Sandpoint almost two whole years ago to date. Having turned up, seemingly, out of nowhere with little more than the bag on his shoulders and the dust he carried with him. He said he had been travelling for quite some time and was roaming around the world to hear the best stories far off places had to offer and write about their culture and heritage. He had come for the famous Swallowtail Festival to be held there soon where he hoped to witness the Swallowtail Release for himself. Given that he had arrived so early before the festival and his, seemingly, congenial manner the guards welcomed him to the town telling him that he was lucky to have arrived before all the crowds began to show up so there should still be some room in the Rusty Dragon Inn.

"Look for Ameiko Kaijitsu." They said.

"If you're looking for a piece of Sandpoint culture that's the place to start."

He and Ameiko became fast friends after an, admittedly rough, initial meeting. She was able to break through his shyness and hesitation and bring out some joy in the young man. And he was always eager to listen to her tales of daring adventure and funny pub stories and, most importantly, lent an unjudging ear towards her sorrows and frustrations. Always there with a soft smile and a kind word when she couldn't give those things to herself.

She also noticed that Riftun had actual talent as a bard despite all appearances to the contrary because she knew that, behind closed doors, when he began retelling one of his stories of heroes and adventure the wall of shyness and apprehension would fall away and he would speak so boldly and full of excitement. It was impossible not to get drawn in yourself. He even did the voices! And so, like any true friend, she pushed him to get outside of his bubble and began giving him some stage instructions in private as well as making him go up on stage every now and again at the Inn to tell harrowing stories to an awestruck host of customers who couldn't believe the transformation of the timid young man they had grown to know and the bold fellow that stood before them on the stage. It helped bring in customers when things were slow, she reasoned with him. Besides the way he smiled when he was up on that stage really brightened the place up.

Ever since his arrival at Sandpoint two years ago Riftun has stayed at the Rusty Dragon Inn. What coin he had long since ran out but Ameiko was happy for him to stay rent free, as she often did with friends. Riftun insisted that he pay her back in return however so for the past year and a half Riftun has been a fixture in Sandpoint as dishwasher, barmaid, and occasional performer at the Rusty Dragon Inn.

Due to mysterious circumstances that not even Ameiko knows about, however, he has recently vanished in the middle of the night. No one knows where the young man may have gone or if he is even alive.