Michael Dunn

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Michael Dunn

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Name: Michael Dunn
Race: Human
DOB: 18th of Hammer, 1321 (37)
Birthplace: Westgate
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 230ish
Eyes: Blue-hazel
Hair: Dark brown, usually cut short
Deity: Shaundakul

Past Professions or Affiliations (A work in progress, likely incomplete) 1349-(Present, 1358 at the time of writing):
1. Burglar and Enforcer of the -Redacted of Redacted- Something so far gone it was as if it were another lifetime ago. But the lessons learned in youth are carried forward still. Long since tempered by a better way of seeing the world, and better realization of his part in it. Though some stains do not wash clean.

2. Bosun, or Boatswain, of the Dragon's Wing - He lied to get the job, desperate as he was, but he did his best to perform it well. He was a sailor during the end of the Blight War and shortly thereafter.

3. Impromptu Guardian. During the Blight War, on the very night the walls of the Palace District Fell, he was there, and he saw what became of law, order, chaos, and war when plans went out the window and desperation was so thick one could taste it. He defended an oft hated man, that was the unlooked to savior of Baldur's Gate, though this savior did not act out of altruism. He was later gifted a cold iron lance for this act.

4. Silas of the Temple of Lathander - A lost man looking for a brighter dawn. He was too absorbed in bitterness and a broken heart to give the faith the proper reverence. It was a struggle that became too much and more than once nearly became the end of him. He abandoned this path of faith before the Devil's Gate War really started in earnest.

5. Laborer of the Pathfinder's Hall - What is now an official orphanage was once a vibrant placed filled with the laughter of war-displaced children. After the end of the Blight War, he served as a simple cook and laborer, in a former Adventuring Company Hall under Ameris and Telia Santraeger. Distrust and Dunn's accusations toward an oft celebrated knight later led to him being released of this service. Another nail in the coffin of a faith he did not fully accept. But while there, he worked side by side with a dusky toned lady named Tarina.

6. Sword in the Ebon Blade Mercenary Company. He labored beside the company as it built up the militia of Soubar, to fend off an impending orcish horde that he thought might be the end of both Soubar and he. When death did not come, he considered taking matters into his own hands, but a friend came to stay his hand. He served, trained, and learned alongside the likes of Ashan Wayne, before the latter, and then Dunn himself, both eventually left in good standing. This would not always be the case.

7. Guard of Candlekeep. A position he did not last long in. The tedious and to him, boring work of being a Candlekeep Guard was something that could not hold the man in place long. Though he had good company during the endeavor.

8. Airborne Ranger. Sometime following the end of the Blight War, a series of battles involving troll armies was threatening the lands surrounding Baldur's Gate. On a strike team concocted by Terri of Phoenix Company, he and several others took to flight using magic to combat the foes of the sky, and to turn the tide in favor of the ground forces fighting the hordes. He was, for a brief time, an airborne Ranger.

9. Hunter, tracker, husband, field medic. A strawberry blonde beauty was taken by bandit lord, and so he and his partner Rain Dog were eventually hired by her friends including Ronja, Derik, and Herran Hymn to help find and rescue the little lady. Job became far more as the pair fell in love. They eventually wed on the cliff's of Ulgoth's Beard. They married in youth without enough consideration to the road ahead, and as their paths diverged, the man wandered. Eventually a priestess of Selune stole his attention, and his heart, and what was sworn was broken.

10. Founder of the Northern Watch. When the devils first took Dragonspear, he and the like minded Wren took it upon themselves to found something that could be trusted more than Ebon Blades, Zhents, or otherwise to guard the north against the sudden invasion of Dragonspear. Those that remember he helped found the Watch are of little want to credit the man, as he did at one point desert its service. Was during this departure elsewhere, with the Selunite Silverstar Tess, that he finally realized what proper faith and service to a higher power was, and he took up the teachings of Shaundakul true and to his heart. To this day he professes faith in the Helping Hand. To this day, he loves Tess Ableton, her absence a wound that never really healed, and made worse by his loss of her a few years later.

11. Freelance mercenary, half-orc victim. For a time he was affiliated to none, and it was during this time that he witnessed the end of his dear friend and fellow burglar, Drogo of the Ebon Blades. But not before a former leader of the Radiant Heart thought to cave in the skull of an unarmed man, turning to look away to the sounds of a fight. Drogo was felled on the steps of the mercenary keep, whose reinforcements along with the aforementioned Tess Ableton were able to save one man, but not the other. Was not the first friend he outlived, but one that weighs upon him heavily.

12. Lieutenant of the Bastards of B Company, Ebon Blade Mercenary officer. He eventually returned to Captain Nightgale's service, and during the Devil Gate War led an intensive effort to reform the image of the Ebon Blades, who had fallen under the sway of the foul magi, Morgan Blackrose, the mad. He fought tirelessly to turn reputation around and even unite the southern and eastern fronts against the invading devils of the war, at times bringing unlikely allies together against a common, near universal threat. The Ebon Blades could not be fully rid of Morgan's influence, however, and so Lieutenant Dunn departed the company for the final time, taking several of its members with it.

13. Captain of the Whitewood Vanguard. One of his favorite roles, though not one without both trials and tribulations. Since the founding of the Vanguard, alongside other Ebon Blade deserters and like minded souls, his past has consistently hounded him. He's buried more friends since the seed of the white tree was planted and his dreams are often haunted with their ghosts. Still, the life suits him and he soldiers along on the road well, graced with his company, his allies, and his friends. The closest to a true family the man has known. The company was dissolved in the month of Uktar, 1358 following several setbacks combined with the end of the war between Elturel and the Zhentarim, which saw the Zhentarim lose much of its land holdings due north of Baldur's Gate and which Dunn saw as an overall victory.

14. Proprietor of the Warrior's Rest. He bought the rights to the inn, which is inseparable from the grounds of the attached Bladestone Foundation, a school began by his one time Ebon Blade comrade. His most recent 'hat to wear,' things have been rocky at best with the foundation he bought into. A few months into this profession, Dunn was forcibly removed by the Bladestone Foundation when they threatened to vote him out of ownership if he did not sell his share of the property to Derik Ranloss. This was because Dunn temporarily barred one of the Foundation's guardsmen/magi after they threatened to send a paladin to the nine hells, amongst other frictions.



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“There is more than one sort of prison, Captain," Chirrut said. "I sense that you carry yours wherever you go.”
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