First Name: Artuis
Last Name: Greystone
Last Name: Greystone
Appearance
Race: Human
Age: 43
Height: Roughly six foot, maybe a little under
Weight: Muscular with some flab. Around 180-ish maybe?
Eyes: Light green
Hair: Head shaven
Hair Color: Grey
Facial Hair Style: Beard and moustache. Kept well groomed and maintained.
Personality Profile
General Health: Good health, kept that way through active sword work as a mercenary. Injury to his right leg gave him a slight limp that acts up from time to time.
Deity: The Red Knight (referred to as Lady of Strategy IG)
Initial Alignment: Lawful, Neutral
Profession: Previously high ranking supply officer of a mercenary cadre, now independantly contracted mercenary
Habits/Hobbies: Reformed heavy drinker, speaks with a bit of a commoners accent. Brutally honest and without tact for subtle situations. Persona conceptualized as "the old grizzled war veteran who is the only survivor of his unit"
Languages: Common, Orc, Dwarf
Combat Profile
Hope you don't mind I added this section to the form.
Weapon of Choice: Longsword & Large Shield (not Tower)
Armor of Choice: Fullplate
Combat Habbits: Focuses his efforts on protecting those he travels with, never leaving a comrade to die, sometimes ignoring lethal threats to himself to help a troubled comrade.
Combat Style: Makes EXTREME use of tactical combat feats (Improved Knockdown, Improved Disarm, Shield Slam, Shield Charge, Taunt, ect). Uses them primarily to harass anyone not attacking himself or to shut down casters.
Base Class & Proposed Development: Pure Fighter to 30. Link to roughly what the build will look like at 30. Please note that the various Skill Focus feats are not actually Skill Focus feats, they are simply placeholders for the custom shield-style feats not found in the builder.
http://nwn2db.com/build/?97384
Background Related Information
Background: Spent the majority of his life in the Greystone Grays, a Cadre company originally founded by his father's father but had since been taken over and run at the top by people not of his family but given places in the cadre out of respect. Worked in the cadre for over twenty years until they were brutally routed and defeated defending a small hamlet on the edges of Featherdale against a marauding force of orcs whom had been displaced by unknown forces into their native mountain region. The township could not afford the rates so the captain had paid it out of his pocket. Artuis was the only one to survive, it having been said his cadre held to the last when they sent Artuis to go and retrieve support because they knew they couldn't hold. Artuis was, afterall, primarily an aging merc who had for years been behind a desk, being that he had already put in more than his fair share of time on the frontline. Artuis saw this as something of a mixed blessing, preferring the heat of battle to the boredom of paperwork and supply chain management.
During his attempt to get reinforcements he was taken by surprise by a single orc. He survived only on account of the orc thinking him dead and leaving him where he lay. With his cadre decimated, his honor in ruins, Artuis used the last of his ducats to buy passage on a boat to the farthest port he could reach to escape the demons of his past.
Goals: Find a way for Artuis to come to peace with his past, his dead cadre-mates, and to prove to himself that he's still of use to somebody and can still make a difference. More of the goals felt like Plot-Hooks so you'll find them below.
Possible Plot-Hooks:
- Trainee Farns is the only member not accounted for from the battle that decimated the Greystone Grays. He may yet be alive, or he may have had a more sinister hand in the defeat or something else altogether.
- Possibly attain a position in some kind of military structure, either in mercenary work or lawman fields.
- Possibly become some kind of drill-sergeant-esque man, teaching younger blades how to fight and showing them how to fight with discipline, honor and a clear strategy instead of recklessly fighting like savages.
- Possibly give new life to the Greystone Grays, recruiting under the banner and putting right the senseless death of his cadre-mates.