Full name: Kervel Greencrest
Age: 60
Race: Chondathan Human
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: 10th of Kythorn,1298 DR, Year of The Pointed Bone.
Place of Birth: Daggerford, Greencrest family farm on the rural outskirts of the city.
Aligment: Neutral Good
Patron Deity: Chauntea
Profession: Priest of Chauntea, farmer and veterinarian
Base Class & Proposed Development: Cleric/Hierophant
Primary Language: Chondathan. Primary language used around the region of Daggerford.
Secondary Language: Common. Kervel has been using it more frequently as he arrived in Baldur's Gate, but he used it regulary while in Daggerford among visitors, merchants and travelers.
Other Languages: Celestial, Elven, Sylvan, Draconic. All learned with study, practise and other means throughout his years. Understands well when spoke. Writing and speaking these varies.
Physical description:
Weight: 70 kg
Height: 171 cm
Eyes: Vibrant Green
Skin: Tanned, but worn by labor, years and weather
Health: Kervel has no medical issue that he knows of. His age is slowing him down bit by bit. He is old by Faerunian standards, though his healthy diet and livestyle keeps him in good health.
Hair: Well kept graying mustache and long hair that is knotted back
Psychological description:
Kervel is a friendly, polite and kind person. He is quick to smile and shares a laugh with ease. He cares for the people he considers close, actively checks up on them and helps them in anyway he can. He is quick to aid anyone whom seems geniune to him and it is within his power to help. He is an optimistic at heart, but age has shown him the reality of life. He is not a naive person by any means. He is patient and ponderous soul, sometimes even trusting that time will sort matters rather than direct action. This might give a rather serious picture of him, but he is a humorous one. Often displaying it when least expected. He dilikes rude behavior and loathes violence, speaking against it and refuses to use it himself if he can. A life of honest labor has shaped him to be as productive as possible. He likes to be active and see matters foward. Althuough his age has slowed him down, but he has accepted this.
Religious views:
Kervel tries his best to embody the core teachings of Chauntean faith to the best of his ability both with words and actions. He preaches of better life and growth of all living things. Both when dealing with sentinent beings just as much he preaches and guides the proper use and growth of plants both cultivated and wild. He loves spending time in nature, but most of all in the countryside. There he does everything he can to aid those that make their living off the land. If they seek his aid or not. He makes himself available to them and all the other interested people aswell. Chances are that when someone come seeking him in these matters, Kervel will abandon any other activity at hand or is at least easy to find. He cares for any growing life where he can and when he can. He considers all races among this aswell, just as much as any fauna or crop. He is an early bird and a usual sight when new day arises. He greets the day with humble appreciation of Chauntea, as is customary among her faithfull. He prays daily at sundown, and only skips or prays other times when he might be prevented to do so.
Kervel prefers seasons of spring, summer and early autum, as one might expect. However he preaches and spreads the words of Chauntea during winter, perhaps even more vigoriously than during other seasons. He feels it is important to mind everyone of the warm future, even when harsh conditions of the world are a fact and can't be changed for better.
Kervel immensely dislikes violence, and will try his best to prevent it happening to both himself or others. He will use it in self-defence or when the situation truly needs it. Kervel is calm, patient and often meditates or ponders on matters before acting if there is a chance. A wisdom both granted by the dogma of his goddess and his age. He gives time and speaks of the importance of it in any matter. Only exception is when he is dealing with undead, which he considers the worst curse and insult. The old priest might even grow uncharacteristically angry at these situations.
History:
Kervel was born to a family in Daggerfords rural area nearby the city. He had a rather uneventful, but happy childhood in a farmer community on the countryside of the city. At early age he was expected to work in the fields, livestock and with animals of their family farm. He did so dutifully all his young age along with his brothers and sisters. His parents were strict, but loving. Kervel was kind, happy and sociable child and often enjoyed the company of animals as much as people. He started learning cultivation, agriculture and animal keeping from his father and mother at early age. His parents taught the young man everything they knew about farming during his childhood and teenage years. As he was a middle child of the family he was not expected to take over running the farm when the time came, so he had his mind on something else.
Kervel always held characteristics of Chauntean faith close to heart. He enjoyed spending time in natural beauty, often sitting quietly in woods or simply enjoying a warm summerbreeze on a sunny field. He took great care of the animals in the farms and was conserned by their well-being. Planting and growing all kinds of plants was his passion besides the crops they had in the fields. He held many friends and was liked by all. He loved to eat, drink and had a healthy appetite. There was not a single Greengrass or other festive he would miss. More than that he was very peaceful, patient and quick to smile. At his teens the young man was accepted to start his studies in the Harvest House and became a priest. This was a great honor to his family. It was a temple of Chauntea in Daggerford located in Farmer's Quarter. This made young Kervel extremely happy, for it was clear to him that this was all that he ever wanted at the time.
Kervel exelleced in his studies from the start and fitted right in. He started to learn animal care besides his religion. For years he studied vigoriosly in the temple. He started to study nature lore as well as magical texts, but mostly as a side hobby to his main subjects. After years of study and service he returned to his community, becaming the local priest there. This is where he stayed for many many years and honed his skilled and practise. He led a dual life of as farmer and a priest. A Pastoral of his community. His years living in the city of Daggerford made him sort of emmisary of the families living in the area. If there were errands, matters or business to be had in the city they would sent Kervel aswell. He had lived in the Farmer's Quearters during his stay in the temple and was most familiar with it.
Decades rolled by and Kervel served his faith in his home community. It was Time of Troubles that had him questioning his decisions. He had no offsrping of his own and was getting older and older. Her goddess silence and the confusion in the land had him revaluating the rest of his years. Many times he tried to pray to her, but no answers came. At that time he worked the farms in fear, a shadow of his own jolly character. When Time of Troubles finally came to an end and his prayers was answered again he made a choice: He would take his belogings and travel to the people and lands that needed tending and care of The Earthmother more so than his home did. He had heard of war in Western Heartlands. Burned down and destroyed farms, caravans and countryside. It was this where he would leave. He gathered what he had and said his bitter sweet goodbye to everyone that was close to him. Then from Daggerford he sailed for the very first time in his life and after a long sail landed in the Harbour of Baldur's Gate.
Family:
Andren Greencrest - Father, deceased, died of old age some years ago.
Sandra Greencrest - Mother, deceased, presumed dead after going missing many years ago while gathering ingredients.
Garen Greencrest - Big brother, alive, took over Greencrest farm from his father long ago, he passed it on to his eldest son years ago, but he still lives there.
Lilly Greencrest - Big sister, alive, worked as a midwife all his life and now has retired to the family farm.
Daisy Greencrest - Little sister, alive, presumed dead after going missing along with her mother while gathering ingredients.
Future:
Kervel wants to spread the Chauntean faith and dogma. He wants to restore and regrow the damage and destruction that has been done in the region. He wants to preserve nature and keep balance between the agrarian needs of people and the natural world best he can. He wants to aid local farmers and commoners of Baldur's Gate and other nearby states and towns with their everyday lives, particulary with farming, after hearing of recent famine and the troubles that ensued. He dreams of constructing a temple and giving the faith the following he thinks is vital and necessary.
Plot Hooks
Kervel's mother and younger sister went missing over a decades ago when they were gathering basic ingredients from a nearby woods in Daggerford. Despite extensive search they were never found and neither was clues of what happened to them. Kervel has learned to live with this loss as time has passed, to the fact that he doesn't actively think of it anymore. He still harbors some optimism for discovering what happened to them some day. Both of her mother and sister have been buried, presumed dead.
After Time of Troubles Kervel had a series of vivid dreams he thinks come from Chauntea herself. This motivated and drove him to leave Daggerford and to persue his goals today.
Kervel is unable to conceive children of his own. Despite a lifetime of trying he hasn't been able to have a family of his own. This is unknown to Kervel and he thinks himself cursed or unworthy in eyes of his goddess. A fact that pushes him foward in spreading Chaunteas dogma even more vigoriously in a attempt to prove her wrong. He has come to term with the fact as he is nearing the later years of his life, but he has not accepted it.