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About Xanros Duskwalker

Lawful Neutral Elf Scout 1

Appearance: 4’10” lean muscled body, short wild black hair and pale skin. He constantly watches for danger and he goes out of his way to sit in the shadows and observe his surroundings.

Init: + 4
Senses: Listen + 8, Spot + 8, Low Light Vision
AC: 16 (Dex + 4, leather armor + 2); flatfooted 12; touch 14; Armor class penalty 0
HP: 8
Saves: Fort + 0, Reflex + 5, Will + 2

Speed: 30’ (6 squares)
Melee: + 1
Ranged: + 4

Space: 5’/ reach 5’
Base Atk: +0; grp + 1

Combat Gear: Shortbow, shortsword, leather armor, hand axe, 20 arrows

Skills:
Climb + 1
Balance + 8(4 rks)
Disable Devise + 4(2 rks)
Jump + 3 (2rks)
Hide + 8(4 rks)
Knowledge (Geography) + 4(2 rks)
Knowledge (Nature) + 4(2 rks)
Knowledge (Dungeoneering) + 4(2 rks)
Listen + 8(4rks)
Move Silently + 8(4 rks)
Search + 8(4 rks)
Spot + 8(4rks)
Survival + 4 (2 rks)
Tumble + 8(4rks)

Abilities: Str 12, Dex 18, Con 10, Int 14, Wis 14, Cha 10
Languages: Common, Elven, Goblin, Dwarven
Feats: Track

Special: Skirmish +1d6, trapfinding
Race: Low-light vision, Immunity to Sleep, +2 save vs. enchantment spells, proficiency with longbow and longsword, chance to locate secret doors.

Weapons: Shortbow (1d6, x3), Short sword (1d6 + 1, 19-20/ x2), hand axe (1d4 + 1)
Armor: Leather Armor
Possessions: Combat gear plus Traveler's Outfit (5 lbs.), backpack (5 lbs.), water skin (4 lbs.), belt punch (.5lbs.), bedroll (2lbs.), 3 day of trail rations (3lbs.), quiver, flint and steel, 2 torches, charcoal and sketch book, amulet, 14gp, 5sp.

I did not count the charcoal and book to my cost since it is more for character history (see my profile) and not overly useful if that is ok. The same goes for the amulet I will not be selling it and to Xanros it is priceless.

The amulet is a silver image of a hand crushing a heart.

Xanros was born in a small village at the edge of Lyrantul Kalana in the mountains east of Ildonia. When he was about 25 (about 3 in ‘human’ years I guess, don’t really know how that works) a large band of mercenaries from Ildonia attack his village. As Xanros ran through the chaos he was struck in the head by a sword and knocked unconscious. When Xanros finally awoke he could not move and was being crush by something, after examining his surrounding he found that he was presumed died and thrown in a pile with all the other dead villagers. For two day he wiggled and fought and finally freed himself from his near grave and to this day his is always fearful of tight places and the corpse undead (zombies, ghouls, wrights...). Xanros wandered through his ruined home and finally found his parents bodies in a building that looked to be the village’s last stand. His father was beheaded and his mother stabbed through the heart and in her hand he found an amulet. The amulets chain was broken and must have been pulled off as his mother fought her last battle, he grabbed the amulet and over come with grief he ran from the village.

Xanros wondered south for several days until he finally stumbled in to a camp and collapsed. Luckily the group of adventurers gave him water and food, a half-elf women in the group Merrous Callen decided that they should take him back to their home country of Dreskana and put in one of the academies there. They arrived at the Warling Academy in Dreskana and dropped Xanros there, Merrous and Xanros developed a kind of mother son relationship as the traveled and she told him she would pay for his tuition and come to visit once in a while.

For about twenty years Xanros was commissioned to house work around the academy until he was old enough to enter the military side of the academy.

The first few years in the academy were hard, it was not unheard of students ‘accidentally’ getting killed during exercises or through disciplinary actions. It was not long before Xanros’s instructors noticed he had exceptional hearing and sight and could use his agility for stealth and reconnaissance. After his first four years of general training he was placed in the program for the Dreskana reconnaissance squadron call the Dreskana Daggers.

Brom Vera was the head instructor of the Daggers and started training the forty recruits the skills they needed to become a scout for the Dreskana army. After the first three months of the training only Xanros and sixteen other recruits were still in the program and Brom was not going to let up any time soon, Xanros learned to attack using his mobility for the most advantage and learn to track and move silently and unseen. Finally after a year Xanros and six other were the only ones left and Brom took each recruit out individually and trained them for a month straight. Even though Brom was harsh and strict Xanros and he got along very well and they soon became friends.

After the last month of training Xanros and the other scouts were assigned to a squadron in the army. Xanros for the next ten years was a scout for the Dreskana Shadows a covert branch of the Dreskana military. Surprisingly the Shadows were not very busy and only went out a handful of missions with not real combat. The military driven country of Dreskana doesn’t have to many problems in the country and the Shadows only left the country a couple of times to gather information.

After serving his ten years in the Shadows Xanros was allowed to leave the military but can be called back at anytime if Dreskana need him. He immediately headed north to his old village to find out who destroyed his village and child hood.