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For Rilamon - What is it that placed Rilamon in his spiral of self-destruction? Was it laziness or tragedy or something else?

I'm not certain actually. I figured it works equally well if he's just suffering the effects of a Forlorn Elf growing up among short-lived humans (and thus having the opportunity to rise above his self-destruction and become a hero) or if he did something to get himself expelled from proper elven society decades ago (and thus getting an opportunity to redeem himself in the eyes of his people).

Alright and one thing for everybody. Pick either one or two of the other characters, and then write a little blurb about how your character knows their character. Basically, I want you to choose who your campaign trait links you to and why.

Calondrel Aural The presence of other elves in town is a sort of mixed blessing for Rilamon. While it is nice to have someone with a similar perspective of time, he finds he's much more embarrassed about his alcoholism around fellow elves. In the long run, elves like Calondrel could be a good influence on Rilamon.

BTW, the researching the blot trait is a bad thing to take. The AP was written for 3.5, when identifying items with a Spellcraft roll wasn't the standard way to do things. But the DC given by the trait is actually higher than the standard DC to do so in Pathfinder. At best, the trait does nothing. At worst, it makes characters worse at identifying magic items than they would be otherwise. It either needs to be avoided entirely or re-written by the GM.

I'd like to submit Rilamon. (A non-PFS version of an thus-far unplayed PFS society character.) Rilamon's one of a nearly-endless supply of drunken layabouts in Riddleport, and is looking at the tournament as a lead-in to gainful employment. Not that he really wants a job. What he does want a source of booze money, and not to have to go back to sea.

Rilamon doesn't talk about his past, pretty much with anyone. He's not hostile or rude about it, he just doesn't really respond to anyone's inquiries. And since he's been the same drunken waste that all the humans in Riddleport know him as for longer than most of them have been alive, no one ever really thinks to ask about it. Some who've been around town long enough remember that he used to go out with one pirate crew or another, but he never really took to it - too much swabbing, not enough wenching (and drinking).

What his actual history is could be explored in play; I'd be equally fine with it being the completely mundane story of a Forlorn elf growing up among humans and turning to alcohol to dull the boredom of the decades and the pain of watching friends age and die or with him having a sordid history of some sort with the proper elven society who still remember the misdeeds that got him exiled long ago.

He'll either stay in Fighter for his entire career, or possibly take a five level dip in Lantern Bearer if it were to be appropriate in-character.