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| KnightErrantJR |
Posted - 04 Feb 2007 : 20:24:38
I made up the character concept and history of my next character, who will be adventuring in Tashluta to begin with. I came up with his origin as a Calishite former slave, and I just wanted to know if any of you had any ideas to throw in that would work in the region or would tie in with any hooks I already threw in.
Thanks all! |
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| WalkerNinja |
Posted - 05 Feb 2007 : 04:00:01
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Originally posted by Asgetrion
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
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Originally posted by KnightErrantJR
Nystar has taken a vow of chastity, in order to remain focused on aiding others and putting his own needs aside.
Ouch! One vow I wouldn't want to take.
*Ahem*, I thought it was mandatory for apprenticeship here at Candlekeep? Alaundo? Wooly? Sage?  
Ummm... playing D&D in general makes such a vow redundant...
Check me out, married for three years... no kids yet. |
| KnightErrantJR |
Posted - 05 Feb 2007 : 01:00:51
Definately going for the idea that he was basically "called" to be a servant of Ilmater, not that he was destined to be a Chosen or anything. Part of the idea of this was that at one point in time, there was a question about weather the character would be a favored soul, a healer, or a cleric, and since the character was a slave to begin with its not like he would have a formal religious education.
RF has the idea of what I was going for, a miracle occurring at some point in a divine casters life to let them know they should be on a given path. I can easily picture a future divine follower of Mystra, for example, suddenly having a spell in their mind at some crucial point, for example, or a future follower of Tempus that commits an amazing feat of strength at a crucial time.
Now that he is a cleric, his "miracles" are going to be determined by his normal spellcasting progression, and no, I definitely didn't picture him as any kind of Chosen, or even as someone with any more special of a destiny than any cleric would have.
Oh, and its Nystar . . . I think . . . |
| Rinonalyrna Fathomlin |
Posted - 05 Feb 2007 : 00:03:39
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Originally posted by Kentinal
Still unkillable? What a Chosen of Ilmater?
A good question, although KEJR did say it was a one-time thing. I know the Bible is replete with instances of being "saved from sheer faith" (and that's probably likely in most other religions, as well), so I rather like the idea of such a miracle occuring, although that shouldn't happen the rest of the time.
I can't say I'd be in favor of a Chosen of Ilmater (or any Chosen other than a Chosen of Mystra), but if that's what KEJR really wants, so be it (although he didn't say that's what he wanted, at any rate). |
| Kentinal |
Posted - 05 Feb 2007 : 00:00:46
Still unkillable? What a Chosen of Ilmater? |
| Rinonalyrna Fathomlin |
Posted - 04 Feb 2007 : 23:46:00
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Originally posted by KnightErrantJR
Heh, I meant for it to by Nystar, but for some reason I kept slipping up and typing Nystar.
So which one is it? |
| KnightErrantJR |
Posted - 04 Feb 2007 : 23:33:42
Heh, I meant for it to by Nystar, but for some reason I kept slipping up and typing Nystar.
As far as the healing goes, it was meant to be a one time thing, a sign that he is suppose to be a follower of Ilmater. I also wanted to show that he still felt the pain of the wounds, so it was still a horrific experience.
Thanks for the input all. |
| Asgetrion |
Posted - 04 Feb 2007 : 23:03:47
Anyway, GREAT background and concept, Knight... I especially liked the names - all of them are perfectly "Realmsian" (sp?). Although which one is it - Nystar or Nyshtar? |
| Asgetrion |
Posted - 04 Feb 2007 : 23:00:39
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
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Originally posted by KnightErrantJR
Nystar has taken a vow of chastity, in order to remain focused on aiding others and putting his own needs aside.
Ouch! One vow I wouldn't want to take.
*Ahem*, I thought it was mandatory for apprenticeship here at Candlekeep? Alaundo? Wooly? Sage? |
| Kentinal |
Posted - 04 Feb 2007 : 22:52:23
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Shavir guards tried to strangle the boy, and though he would black out, he would not die from lack of air. Shavir ordered the boy stoned, and though many bones were broken, he still lived. Shavir ordered his wrists slit, and the wounds would bleed, but little, and the boy still lived. Shavir stabbed the boy in the stomach, but he would not die. He finally ordered his bodyguard to take his great scimitar and cut off the boy's head. Though he struck a mighty blow, the boy's head would not leave his body.
Concerns me greatly. Are you saying the character can never be killed?
Also in some ways details of death of father, strike me as verbose. Though if Mother is still involved in the story the details might have some merit. |
| KnightErrantJR |
Posted - 04 Feb 2007 : 21:55:37
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
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Originally posted by KnightErrantJR
Nystar has taken a vow of chastity, in order to remain focused on aiding others and putting his own needs aside.
Ouch! One vow I wouldn't want to take.
Anyway, I like your character concept, and adventuring in Tashluta sounds fun.
Heh, adventuring in Tashluta is one of the reasons I took that vow for this character, since it will make it more . . . challenging.  |
| Rinonalyrna Fathomlin |
Posted - 04 Feb 2007 : 21:54:15
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Originally posted by KnightErrantJR
Nystar has taken a vow of chastity, in order to remain focused on aiding others and putting his own needs aside.
Ouch! One vow I wouldn't want to take.
Anyway, I like your character concept, and adventuring in Tashluta sounds fun. |
| KnightErrantJR |
Posted - 04 Feb 2007 : 20:25:30
Nyshtar barely remembers his childhood. His father was a slave that was a successful gladiator in the games of Manshaka, in Calimshan. Uyodrin the Golden Bear was legendary, especially in an arena known to be especially brutal to its contestants. Uyodrin was used as breeding stock for years, but he eventually fell in love with a Othirindra, a house slave of his master. Othirindra bore him a son, though their master, Shavir, paid little attention, assuming that one of his sons or other relations had violated the woman.
Uyodrin began to do his utmost to keep from being used as breeding stock after this point, and began to make plans to escape (something only one other slave in memory, Vajra Valjemay, had done), Uyodrin would feign all kinds of illnesses, and was constantly scraping what little gold was actually allowed to him to place side bets with other to earn even more gold.
Uyodrin was impatient, and Othrindra began to worry about his impetuousness. She was a follower of Ilmater, and she councilled him to make peace with his situation, and to keep his mind alert, and perhaps Ilmater would allow them to persevere long enough to survive their horrible surroundings. But Uyodrin was a man of action, and took gold in exchange for a promise to help him escape if he killed that fighter of a rival of the man paying him. Uyodrin picked a fight with the other gladiator, and killed him, but when the time came, the noble did not keep up his part of the bargain, and Uyodrin was called before Shavir to explain himself.
Shavir learned everything, from his love for Othirindra and his child with her, to his feigned illnesses, and his side bets. Shavir was shamed over the assassination of another noble's slave, and was incensed that his slave had played him for a fool for so long. He immediately had Uyodrin tortured, and even spent the coin to hire a traveling Red Wizard to perform some of the Thayan's famous spells of agony on the helpless slave, before finally killing him.
Shavir had Nyshtar seized and brought before him, and told him that he would be trained for battle like his father. Nyshtar told Shavir that he would never fight for him, and Shavir ordered the boy beated. The boy was nearly broken, but still defied Shavir. Shavir allowed the boy to rest, determined to break him, and eventually Nyshtar was brought before Shavir again, and the same thing happened again. Shavir allowed him to heal a third time, and a third time Nyshtar was brought before Shavir. Shavir still endured the beatings and torture, and Shavir, in a rage, demanded that the boy be killed.
Shavir guards tried to strangle the boy, and though he would black out, he would not die from lack of air. Shavir ordered the boy stoned, and though many bones were broken, he still lived. Shavir ordered his wrists slit, and the wounds would bleed, but little, and the boy still lived. Shavir stabbed the boy in the stomach, but he would not die. He finally ordered his bodyguard to take his great scimitar and cut off the boy's head. Though he struck a mighty blow, the boy's head would not leave his body.
Shavir saw Nyshtar standing before him, broken, bloody, with tears running down his face, hardly able to keep from moaning in pain. But still there was defiance in his eyes. He could not stand, only lean upon a wooden beam, and yet Shavir saw that the boy should have collapsed in a heap from his broken bones. In the image of the broken, bloody, crying lad, Shavir saw something more than the boy he had beaten and bloodied, and it scared him.
“What do you want? My blood? My house? My gold? Do you want vengence?,” Shavir finally cried.
Nystar looked at him, tears welling up anew, and simply said, “I don't want vengence. I don't want your blood. I just want you to stop hurting people.”
Shavir was afraid that Nyshtar was possesed by some foul spirit intend to do him harm, or cursed by some powerful wizard that he had never known he had offended, and wanted the boy away from his home as soon as possible. He called for his house priest, a cleric of Bhaelros, and had the cleric heal the boy fully. He then sent the boy to the slave markets of Calimshan to be sold, so that Shavir never had to see him again.
Nystar was sold in Calimshan, and had the good fortune to be bought by Brother Dolmas, an Ilmatari cleric that maintains a shrine to Saint Asref, patron saint of freed slaves in the Ilmatari faith. Brother Dolmas originally sought to free Nyshtar, but upon talking to Nyshtar, he heard a respect for Ilmater's teachings and a true desire to do good for others, even above his own self interest. Dolmas arranged for Nystar to travel to his home temple in Saradush in Tethyr for clerical training.
Nystar not only was trained as a cleric, but he also spoke of the good that Dolmas was doing in Calimport, in the hopes that he could get Brother Dolmas' shrine officially recognized as a holy site, and that the Order of Saint Asref could be officially recorded as a branch of the Church of Ilmater. For his devotion to his teacher, the priests in Saradush allowed Nystar to return to the docks of Calimport to work with Dolmas.
For several months Dolmas and Nystar healed injured slaves and did odd jobs to scrape together enough money to buy them from time to time in order to set them free. Eventually Pasha Harun of the Shackles Ward, the ward of Calimport where the slave markets are housed, noticed the Ilmatari clerics and their purchasing of slaves, and had them arrested for sedition. They were released, but with the stipulation that they could not gather a “levy,” in effect banning them from buying slaves.
Nystar was incensed, and he berated Pasha Harun, and called him a coward for not allowing them to work within the laws to do what the Pasha's are too afraid and debased to do themselves, to serve their people. Harun was furious, but didn't react right away. Dolmas and Nystar returned to their shrine, but Pasha Harun had a magistrate issue a warrant of arrest and a sentence of immediate execution for the charge of sedition against Nystar and any who would aid him.
Dolmas sought a way to get Nystar out of harm's way before he was found, and Pasha Tahyr of the Ports Ward made a deal with Dolmas. He was at odds with Pasha Harun, and agreed to get Dolmas cleared of sedition charges, and he would smuggle Nystar out of Calimport, but Dolmas would have to publicly say that Nystar was an agent provocatuer, and he had left Calimport without any aid. Dolmas did not want to accept the deal, for he was afraid of sullying Nystar's good name, but Nystar told Dolmas that he did not want to damage Dolmas' mission, and accepted the title of spy and seditionist, and his death sentence. Pasha Tahyr helped smuggle Nystar out of Calimport, and Pasha Harun still seeks the “traitor” to mete out his death sentence, especially now that Pasha Tahyr has embarrased Harun by clearing Dolmas.
Mannerisms and Traits
Nystar shaves his head so as to be easily identifyable as a priest (though obviously not all priests follow this practice). He has the golden brown skin of a Calishite, and a neatly trimmed goatee, and he also has the grey teardrop tatoo of the older, orthodox branch of the Ilmatari faith, a tradition that has been out of common practice for some time, the teardrop being under his left eye. Nystar is most concerned with healing and mending ills, as well as evincing the holy might of Ilmater. He is somewhat interested in holy power that emmits light, not as part of dogma so much as the fact that the cultists of Shar were a constant threat in the Dock Wards of Calimport. Nystar has taken a vow of chastity, in order to remain focused on aiding others and putting his own needs aside.
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