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Tuck Deverin’s Backstory

From the moment Martha Bolmosa and Wade Deverin saw each other they knew there would be no one else. While Wade’s family was, at first, wary of Martha’s gypsy forefathers; they could not resist the love they saw when Martha and Wade were together. The couple listened to Wade’s family and courted the appropriate amount of time. They waited till both Wade and his brother Gaven had taken their final Paladin oaths to Abadar until they were finally married. The wedding was at the Cathedral of Abadar in Magnimar. During the day Varisian caravans filled the Naos section of Magnimar as Deverin Villa hosted a weeklong summer celebration. At night other celebrations were had at the Family’s Fancy Reef Claw Brewery in Low Cleft District late into the mornings; the memories of which are still whispered by family members too this day.
The happy couple moved to the small town of Sandpoint of Varisia’s Lost Coast, where Wade’s family had holdings. Sandpoint was a nice centrally located place for Martha to live while Wade and his brother Gaven were out on missions (many dangerous) for the church. Wade and Gaven ranged from Riddlepoint in the north, to Magnimar in the south and as far west as Kaer Maga. During Wade’s time at home he and Martha would rarely be more than an arm’s length apart. Unknown to some Martha and Gaven became great friends; Gaven even visiting Sandpoint even without his brother just to see her. During their time together Martha taught Gaven her family’s secrets of brewing great beer. Some wondered and even gossiped about their time alone together, but Gaven had never thought of her as any more than a sister. Unknown to most he had never had strong lustful feelings for anyone and had taken a vow of celibacy during his Paladin oaths, a vow which had always been easy for him to live with.
A few years passed and the brothers retired from official church work. Using their savings they brothers opened ‘Two Knight Brewery’. Martha and Gaven taught Wade how to brew while the three were happy in their own little world. Gaven started to worry that despite all the ‘alone time’ his brother and his wife had they did not yet have any children, for while he himself never expected to have children he had always been looking forward to being an uncle. Martha herself was also concerned and once while her family was visiting she consulted a family fortune teller that saw in her future no children she would ever raise.
Martha did not want to worry Wade with the news, so she talked with Gaven about what she had been told. Gaven told her not to worry. Sometimes people needed help in those areas, but Abadar provides to those who work hard. So the two spoke with various religious figures of different faiths, visited alchemists and had Martha try different tonics, Martha and Wade even spent the night together in various locals they were said to help fertility. Something must have worked for one day Martha had found herself with child.
Wade was beside himself with joy at the news. Honestly he had never noticed that they didn’t have children yet and always though there was plenty of time. He laughed when he found out what his brother and her went though trying to solve the ‘problem’, but thanked his brother for being so thoughtful and circumspect about his ‘problem’. A better husband a pregnant woman could not have asked for in Wade. Everything Martha needed, Wade was there.
But alas the old fortune teller was not wrong. For on Rova 27th4689 Martha did give birth but it was to a son she would never raise. No one knows what when wrong but after the birth Martha had but one night to hold her child in her arms for the next morning she did not awake.
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Young Tuck didn’t remember his mother, but he did have her stories. His father’s were always romantic with a touch of sadness; but his uncle’s stories always made him laugh. Many of his uncle’s stories included the statement “don’t tell your father I told you this about your mother but….”. Despite not having a mother it was like he grew up having two dads.
He grew up hearing bedtime stories of their real life heroics from their days with the church. He laughed with his uncle as was retold stories of his mother’s about her life on the road with her family. Duty, hard work and honesty were instilled in him by the actions of both. However, unlike their own upbringing, his was less strict due to their leniency (from not having a mother) in punishment and his rambunctious friends he made at the local Turandarok Academy, especially Ameiko Kaijitsu. Amy, as he shortened her name too, was a bit wild and would often pull Tuck into various adventures usually with disastrous ends. Like they time they found the goblin baby and tried to raise it themselves or the time made stew for school with some ‘herbs’ they borrowed from Pillbug’s garden. Amy was the only reason he ever saw his father lie. A bold faced lie right to Amy’s dad! As a youth Tuck couldn’t believe it, but it had made Tuck her friend for life.
Alas the happy times were not to last. Five years ago a terror struck Sandpoint and Tucks father was the first it hit. Young Tuck would be found by his uncle. Tuck was sitting next to his father cold body slowly rocking and pulling his own hair out, speaking in a strange language, covered in his father’s blood. A sadistic murderer was on the loose in Sandpoint and while Tuck’s father may have been the first he wasn’t the last. The killer murdered over two dozen in less than a month before he was finally caught. As an adult Tuck believes he was the intended first victim and that his father sensing the evil intervened and saved his life. That his father’s end was heroic, as it should have been.
Whatever happed to young Tuck during the incident left him scarred. A month later Tuck was still unresponsive, speaking in a strange language and completely bald. Gaven and the local priest, Father Tobyn, were unable to help and decided to send him to the Family estate in Magnimar hoping that maybe someone at the Cathedral of Abadar near there could help.
Someone at the Cathedral was able to help Father Fane. Fane knew the language Tuck was speaking as that of the Azata, the language of the angels. Fane had Tuck work with a young foal and was slowly able to coax him out of his withdrawn state and back to the world. When Tuck returned to the world he wasn’t quite the same. His red hair that he pulled out regrew white. He had developed a strong tie to the foal almost as if the foal was extension of him. And now whenever Tuck grows angry or outraged, a startling metamorphosis occurs, he partially reverts to that state when he was younger; not being able to speak nor understand any language but celestial.
Wanting to follow in his father’s footsteps he dedicated himself to Abadar with the intention of becoming a Paladin. But through talking with Proctor Imikar, leader of the Cathedral of Abadar, it was decided his was a different path. Though while his physical and mentally capabilities would put him at the top of the Paladin class and his connection to his steed was greater that most full-fledged Paladins his curse would always be a hindrance in squads. Other could not understand him without special training whenever engagements started and this could cost others their lives in the field. So the path of the Cleric is the one Tuck would follow.
During his training Tuck really only had four friends; his uncle who would write and sometimes visit, Amy who would write often, Ford (his horse) and Mr. Haskinswurth, the proprietor of the Fancy Reefclaw where he worked in his off hours for simply to not be alone. After four years and his training nearly complete; Tuck had a vision. A danger would threaten Sandpoint and possibly the world, and he would be Abadar’s instrument in stopping the threat to civilization. Knowing this, Tuck lied. During his cleric training he had noticed he could easily call upon Abadar to heal or bolster his fighting ability, but had more problems with other divine abilities. While he made headway, they did not come as easily. Tuck used the easy abilities and lied about his completion in training to graduate with an earlier class, he had to get home.
It’s been two months now and Tuck is growing slightly impatient. Nothing is happening in Sandpoint and nothing really in the surrounding lands. Tuck moved in with his Uncle and splits his weeks between the brewery and the Church and on the weekend patrols with the local militia. But where is the Danger? Was it just a dream?