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Here's Vidic Votev, a Ranger (Infiltrator) I created. His death and resurrection have led him to Wati. Adventurers interested in plundering tombs to gain knowledge into one's own mortality and some coin in one's own purse come to my banner. Background: Vidic hates thunderstorms. It wasn't always like that for him but it was a huge bolt of lightning that he saw arc above him that was his last memory before he died. Commander Brocha said it was the most devastatingly precise arrow he had ever seen that took Vidic right between the eyes, The young scout was dead before he hit the ground.
The next thing he remembered is awakening to the sight of his parents. His father had called in family markers in order to get his son raised. The Votevs had long supported the Surtovas in Brevoy and were once again aiding them in the country’s most recent civil war. The couple could not bear the thought of losing their youngest son. The Surtovas needed their political influence. Vidic had always been a confident lad. Fine with a sword. Great at tracking. It was why he had allowed to become a member of the Peerless Scouts at such a young age. There was unlimited potential there. Vidic, much to the chagrin or Commander Brocha and his own family, would never fight for the Surtova’s again. His death consumed him. His resurrection ate at him. Thunderstorms unnerved him. It was the obsession with death that led him to Wati. Well that and a Banker at the Temple of Abadar caught him reading Urgothoan texts. Vidic had poured through as many tomes as he could to gain any enlightenment on the nature of death and the afterlife. Cultural, spiritual and religious texts - all with various theories and guidance regarding the subject - were all he cared about. It was fine when he sought guidance from Pharasman teachings but Urgothoa was a different matter entirely. His family couldn’t understand Vidic’s obsession. Vidic barely understood it himself. One of the Bankers thought he could rid the Votev’s of an increasingly embarrassing problem while helping Vidic find the answers he sought. Thus, the recommendation he travel to Osirion, a land rich with old tombs that were recently earmarked to be plundered, seemed to be a solution. What better place to gain knowledge on the afterlife that a country built upon the bones of the long dead. Vidic jumped at the opportunity. He finally had a tangible goal. A little bit of that brash, confident scout returned as he made the long trip south. Vidic arrived in Osirion six months ago. He was part of an ever growing foreign faction of adventurers, explorers and tomb robbers that were taking advantage of Osirion’s new pyramid pundering initiative. A cold fish out of water, Vidic has tried to assimilate himself into the culture. Like any good scout, he was getting the lay of the land and its people. When the Wati opportunity presented itself, he hoped the contacts he made the past few months would pay off with an adventuring party that would not only gain approval for exploration but help successfully plunder the tombs - not for gold (although that would also be nice) - but for knowledge of the afterlife.
Here's Vidic Votev Human Ranger (Infiltrator)
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