| Zatniteshuk |
Updated Pathbuilder sheet
More of his backstory:
After the Goblinblood Wars ended and the gnomes (as well as some non-gnome residents and regular visitors of the town who revere Good Neighbors covenant) rebuilt their damaged town, word spread about the child who had burn scars on his neck that have the appearance of a religious symbol that has fire in it. Zateniteshuk felt a kinship with them, though did not feel the covenant they revered felt 'right' for him, though he obsessed to to discover more about deities, pantheons and covenants that use fire as their religious symbols.
Two things of note occurred during his research.
1) The first night after was reading up on Dahak, he started to have nightmares of being in a burning building - at first he thought it was memories of the night his family home had burned down - but the nightmares changed - sometimes it would be like he was seeing through someone else's eyes - sometimes inside a building on fire, and sometimes outside seeing buildings on fire, sometimes as if he were standing on the ground, and sometimes as if he were looking down on the town from the above. There was never any recognizable buildings (aside the nightmare memory dreams of the night his family home burned down). He became obsessed with learning as much as he could about Dahak.
2) The first time his research gleaned info about the Light of the Everlasting Flame covenant - his neck burn scars were nearly an exact match (shape-wise, not color-wise) of the covenant's religious symbol, and whereas the Good Neighbors covenant felt like 'good friends' the Light of the Everlasting Flame covenant felt like 'him'.
The year before the current Call of Heroes he traveled to the town as a spectator. A month ago his infrequent nightmares started up again...and on the third night he recognized one of the buildings from when he had traveled to Breachill the year before. The values of the Good Neighbors being important to him, he set off for Breachill - with plans to compete so he would hopefully gain a better idea of how to prevent the fiery tragedy he recently started to once again dream about from occurring.
The Student of the Canon skill feat uses Light of the Everlasting Flame covenant as the one he gets specific deity skill check success bracket bumps to.
One of his Good Neighbors covenant friends is a Varisian from Ustalav - and his Varisian friends' accent left a lasting impression on Zatniteshuk, who now pronounces his own name with the Ustalavian Varisian accent, 'Zatt-nite-shook' instead of pronouncing it 'Zat-nite-shuk'.
Changed his one of his four free ability boosts from Wis to Int (to gain Varisian as a bonus language).
Part of his fiery nightmares include him doing things he is not able to do (yet, but will via future skill feats) - jumping from a high-level window of a burning building to land on his feet without taking damage from the fall, climbing out one window of a burning building to get to another open window of a room a child is trapped in, etc.
Still need to buy gear for him.