Amber Gambell & Maximo Bloodwright

[Cantalyssa]

First Name: Amber
Last Name: Gambell

Appearance:

Amber is a shorter human female that is plainly average looking. She is generally outfitted in a Breastplate of some sort with her hair decorated and down, wrapped to one side of her neck. Occasionally she will dorn a simple robe while meditiating. In her left hand is a medium sized shield, and in her right a clean scimitar. While out adventuring she is often seen with her animal companion, Clair the Bear. Clair is a generic bear in looks with the exception of a small ribbon tied loosly around her neck. It would have any recent flowers Amber has found placed into the knot on the top side of her neck, making the bear look absolutely adorable (in Ambers opinion, anyways). She is nearly always seen with Maximo Bloodwright in tow as well (read below for information regarding him).


Race: Human
Age: 22 Years
Height 5'4
Weight: 128 Pounds
Eyes: Light Blue, Nearly White
Hair: Blonde, Various pieces of nature are often worn in her hair (Flowers, Vines, etc)
Facial Hair Style: n/a

Personality Profile:

Amber is concerned about the well being of Nature more than anything. She hates seeing nature defiled and is willing to stop those that defile nature by any means neccissary. She is a soft spoken female, but will hold her ground for what she believes is right. Overall a very friendly person.


Deity: Silvanus
Initial Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Profession: Adventuring, Gathering Herbs/Flowers
Base Class & Proposed Development: Pure Druid
Habits/Hobbies: Decorating Clair, Attempting to decorate Maximo Bloodwright, Gathering Flowers, Studying the Druidic Arts
Languages: Druidic, Elven, Common, Dwarf, Animal
Weapon of Choice: Scimitar, Animal Form

Background:

A daughter of a family that had just fallen from Nobility, she was set to marry a family friends son, Jack Sanders, a lower noble in an attempt to bring her own families status back. Amber knew of this man from several classes they had together and knew he was nothing but a bully and couldn't stand the thought of marrying such a man. She protested to her father who simply tossed her worries aside, being more interested in a chance at regaining his previous status.

In response to her Fathers decision, she decided to run away from Baldur's Gate in an attempt to find a new and better life. After sneaking out of her room at night with nothing but a semi-formal dress and leaving Baldurs Gate she had an unfortunate run-in with a band of thugs who expected her to have money due to her attire. She was told to give them her money, but she confessed that she had none. The Thugs began yelling louder, calling her a liar and accused her of stealing from the poor. One of which drew their sword and moved forward saying, "If ye ain't got no money, Misses, It'll be yer 'ead!" Amber screamed and covered herself with her arms sure that her life was over, but heard the sound of metal hitting metal. She looked up to see a man in plate armor holding a greatsword over her, protecting her.

He looked down towards her, smirking, before turning towards the group of Thugs. She recognized the mans face as Maximo Bloodwright, her childhood friend. His family had served the Gambells for generations, until her father had no way of paying the additional money that Maximo's father had asked for back when she was 15 years of age. Shortly after the Bloodwrights began to serve the Sanders, the same family she was to be married into. That was the last time she had seen Maximo before this.

Maximo shoved the Thugs blade he had parried and began walking towards the Thugs as Amber sat there and watched, crying. Maximo brought his greatsword up, and the thug raised his own sword up ready for it saying, "'Ey boys, Gettim!". Maximo swung it down with a *Woosh* and then the sound of metal hitting metal, a crunching noise of metal found flesh and bone, a scream, and finally the sound of metal clanking against the stones.

Amber sat quietly and watched as she saw the Thug that had attacked her fall to the ground, dead. She looked at the mans face in horror, as this was the first time she had actually seen death. The mans face had a scar across his cheek and his eyes were blank but looking straight at her. His mouth open with a short stream of blood trailing down to the stones from it.

Time seemed to have fly for Amber in the next minutes as she cried, the Thugs face stuck into her mind. Afterwards Maximo approached her and kneels down, "Amber?" he asked. Amber nodded her head, happy to see someone she actually got along with. "I-It's been so long, Max!" she said. Maximo would nod and stand, pointing back to the city, "You should head back. You deserve more than this." he mumbled as he turned around and searched the corpses. "I-I'm not going to marry into the Sanders family! I refuse to and you can't take me back to them! Please act like you didn't see me.. Since you work for them I'd really-" she said, trying to persuade Maximo before he interrupted her. "I don't work for them." he said in spite.

Amber sighed and got up "I.. I won't ask why, but I'm glad to see you. We should go..?" she asked. Maximo replied, "I have a small camp in the woods a few hours away" and started walking off. Amber would follow him back and make small talk, catching up with what's happened over the years since they had last seen each other. After a while they reached his camp. A small fire hand burned out and was nothing but a small collection of warm ashes.

Maximo created a fire yet again, and offered Amber his chair. "Not much, but it'll work-" He started to say as he stood up, drawing his sword. Amber would look at him, scared the thought of 'Did he bring me out here to kill me too?' "Who goes there!?" Maximo calls out and an elvish man would appear wielding a staff some tattered brown robes. Behind him would be a few animals, the most notable being a large brown bear that moves to his right before looking up to him and sitting down, turning its gaze to Maximo and Amber.

"It's not everyday you find someone walking through your forest with... Potential." the man would say slowly. "Put away your sword, Boy. I have not come to hurt you." he says, stepping forward closer to Amber and Maximo and sitting on a log near the fire. The animals would follow him and stay near him as he sat, the bear now resting its head in the mans lap.

He points to Amber, "You.. Yes, You have potential.." he says.


//Please feel free to comment on my backstory and let me know what you think. I had a hard time trying to find out how a human would become a druid. Thanks in advance

Goals:

- Feeling guilty about abandoning her family she would like to return with a way to get her Families status back
- Find out what happened to Maximo
- Become one with Nature through further training of the Druidic ways


Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts:

- Improved relationship with Maximo OR Being betrayed by Maximo
- Finding her family has fallen into poverty due to her abandoning her duties
- Death of the druid teaching her

[Shrapnel77]

First Name: Maximo
Last Name: Bloodwright

Appearance:
As a tall muscular man, in his early twenties, Maximo would seem like an above-average town guard, or perhaps a warrior of the realm. Many who see him usually stay of of the way due to the scowl he wears most of the time.

Race: Human, Male
Age: 22
Height 6'4
Weight: 230lb
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Facial Hair Style: 5 o'clock shadow

Personality Profile:
General Health: Muscular, Athletic
Deity: None.
Initial Alignment: True Neutral
Profession: Bodyguard
Base Class & Proposed Development: Fighter, Weaponmaster
Habits/Hobbies: Blacksmith, Bladesmith.
Languages: Common, Elvish
Weapon of Choice: Greatsword

Background:
Born to a commoners family, Maximo Bloodwright grew up in the commonwealth of Baldur's Gate.

Childhood was as any could expect, other than the friendship with Amber Gambell, as she was born to a noble family, and noble children where usually kept away from the common district. In this case however, the Bloodwrights were in service to the Gambell family.

In his teenage years, Maximo developed an intense interest in swordplay, after many begs and pleas the local guardsmen would allow him to spar with them, and he took every chance he got to learn everything he could. Even heading to the local archives to look up any scraps of writing about the subject and anything related.

On the year reaching manhood, his family separated from the Gambell family to serve with the Sanders family. The move was sudden and nobody spoke much of it, other than the whispers behind closed doors, which quickly stop when footsteps are heard. This did nothing to change the friendship between Maximo and Amber.

One day, he had noticed that she was in a particularly bad mood, he kept close tabs on her for the remainder of the day, and surmised her plan to run away, he camped outside her estate that night, he didn't have to wait long.

Amber Gambell had successfully escaped her estate, and started heading towards the farmlands, Maximo followed her and before she had made it out of the farmlands, had run into trouble.

Before he knew it, a group of thugs had surrounded her and where about to attack, Maximo instinctively got up and started running full speed towards them. After defeating their leader easily enough, the rest of them fled, swearing and cursing at both of them.

Leading Amber to a camp he used in the woods to train by himself, he calmed her and they discussed what to do next.

// That is where the story starts, im unfamiliar with Neverwinter/Baldurs gate lore, so i had to keep it generic. Im also a terrible storywriter, so it might be redundant in some places. Any comments and critique are welcome.

Goals:
- The protection of Amber Gambell, regardless the cost to his own well-being.
- Further his own ability as a fighter.

Possible Plot-Hook Ideas and Misc Facts:
- Confront family; "Why did you leave the service of the Gambell family?"
// Ideas welcome.

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