Skald 1 - Init. +1, Senses Normal Vision Perception +0, AC 16/ touch 11/ ff 15 (buckler ON); CMD 14; hp 10/10, F+5, R+1, W+2, Speed 20 ft.
Size
Medium
Age
32
Deity
Desna, Erastil, Gorum, Torag
Location
Land of Linnorm Kings
About Uthred son of Uthred
Uthred son of Uthred
Male Ulfen Skald 1
Alternate Racial Trait: Dual Talent (replaces Skilled and Human Bonus Feat)
N medium humanoid (human)
Init +1 Senses Normal Vision Perception +0
DEFENSE AC 15, touch 11, flat-footed 14 (armor 4, dex 1) (+1 when using buckler)
hp 10
Fort 5 Reflex 1 Will 2
Resistance cold 2
OFFENSE Speed 20 ft
Melee Greataxe +3 (1d12+4 x3)
Ranged Shortbow +1 (1d6 x3)
Space 5 Reach 5
STATISTICS STR 16 DEX 12 CON 14 INT 13 WIS 10 CHA 16
BAB 0 CMB 3 CMD 14
Feats Skald's Vigor
Skills Acrobatics -2, Appraise 1, Bluff 3, Climb 4, Diplomacy 3, Disguise 3, Escape Artist -2, Fly -2, Heal 0, Intimidate 3, Knowledge (arcana) 7, Knowledge (dungeoneering) 3, Knowledge (engineering) 3, Knowledge (geography) 7, Knowledge (history) 4, Knowledge (local) 3, Knowledge (nature) 3, Knowledge (nobility) 3, Knowledge (planes) 3, Knowledge (religion) 3, Perception 0, Perform (Sing) 7, Perform (Wind) 7, Ride -2, Sense Motive 0, Spellcraft 5, Stealth -2, Survival 0, Swim 4; Armor Check Penalty: -3 (included in skills above)
Languages Common, Skald, Sylvan, Giant
Traits Northern Ancestry (campaign), Historian (race-human)
Gear greataxe, dagger (3), mw dagger, cold iron dagger, shortbow, arrows x20, blunt arrows x10, mw chain shirt armor, buckler (only when shooting bow), skald's kit; cold weather outfit; Current Load: 108 lbs. (light 75 / medium 153 / heavy 230); broken pavillion tent: 50 lbs. (dropped in the first round of combat until we find a pack animal)
Class Features
-Light/Med Armor + Shields
-Simple and Martial Weapons
-Bardic Knowledge
-Raging Song: (6 rounds per day; standard action to start)
----> Inspired Rage: +2 morale bonus to STR & CON, +1 morale bonus to Will saves, -1 penalty to AC.
-Scribe Scroll
Raging Stats:
AC 14, touch 10, flat-footed 13
hp 11
Fort 6 Reflex 3 Will 3
Melee Greataxe +4 (1d12+6 x3)
Ranged Shortbow +1 (1d6 x3)
STATISTICS STR 18 DEX 12 CON 16 INT 13 WIS 10 CHA 16
BAB 0 CMB 4 CMD 15
Skills Climb 5, Swim 5
The Silver Stoat's door opens, and is then shut promptly... with perhaps a bit too much force behind it. A six foot tall Ulfen man with blond hair and a colorful knit wool sweater then turns, with a look that says 'sorry', and enters the common room. His trousers are slightly soiled, evidence of some work earlier this morning. The scent of farm animals (not all of them pleasant) wafts in as he moves between the tables to take a seat at the bar. He orders a Three Devil Ale and turns to the assembly of farmers and budding heroes in the making.
<"Heil ok sæl! Hvat segir þú?"> says the Ulfen man in the typical Skald greeting. Looking at the farmers assembled, he adds in a heavily accented Taldane, with a mischievous smile, "Everyone has some friend even among his enemies it seems já?" He leans over on his stool to playfully push the nearest one which he has known since they moved down the farm next to his.
Turning to the room at large and the other heroes, "I have received words from cousins in the Ulfen Guard that strange things might be afoot near our beloved village? what is this? They say you might need help, já? If so, I am here to strengthen warriors. I hail from Kalsgard and grew there before faðir, móðir and I moved here ten summers ago. I have studied most stories and legends. Long is it remembered what youth has gained. I am skald! I am Uthred, son of Uthred! pleased to meet you all!"
<"Healthy and happy! How are you?"> = translated from Skald
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Uthred son of Uthred
-Ulfen human male
-190 lbs., 6 ft. tall
-26 years old, single (he would have been married a long time ago if his parents had stayed in Karlsgard! Taldan women are so hard to please and are all about status and fancy stuff!)
-Lives on the family farm with his mother, father and two older brothers and two younger sisters.
-All of them are hard workers, but the land here in Taldor, while fertile, holds many secrets other farmers have not shared with them, so the family specializes on cold-growing ancestral crops from the Lands of the Linnorm Kings, with mixed results. However, they have a very small but loyal following of clients due to the prevalence of Ulfen migrants all over Taldor.
-Uthred is a trained Skald, and has resented the move to Taldor all his life, a constant source of dispute between his father and him. The culture in Taldor does not fully appreciate the depth of the songs and stories and their meaning is mostly lost on any audience he's tried to entertain. So he has often resigned himself to serve as an accompanying musician whenever a bard or other troupe visited Heldren. For the last three years however he has managed to reconnect with the Skald language and culture as he has traveled with his brothers to various locations in Taldor for crop deliveries, and has made quite a few Ulfen friends in many towns which have asked him to perform the old songs of the north. His older brothers and a few other Ulfen friends in Taldor are also not bad at music, and so have helped him form this little traveling music band to perform in summer festivals mostly, and always for small, select, appreciative crowds.
-All this strangeness near the border woods have unsettled some of their animals. It hasn't affected his own family's crops at all though, so Uthred has no idea why many of these other neighboring farmers are complaining...
-Uthred decides to start looking into this, starting at the Silver Stoat, of course, as this is why these no good Taldan farmer-complainers like to hang out! :)
