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| − | == '''Cormac Black- | + | == '''Cormac Black-Neill''' == |
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| − | '''Current Age: | + | '''Current Age: Not Recorded (Deceased)<br>''' |
'''Class: Adventurer<br>''' | '''Class: Adventurer<br>''' | ||
'''Weapon of Choice: Short sword and dagger.'''<br> | '''Weapon of Choice: Short sword and dagger.'''<br> | ||
'''Current Title: None<br>''' | '''Current Title: None<br>''' | ||
| − | '''Titles Held: None''' | + | '''Titles Held: None'''<br> |
| + | '''Religion: Loose belief in the Norse Pantheon and the god Loki''' | ||
| − | Cormac | + | According to the journal left behind by Cormac, he was born one summer to a barmaid and prostitute named Gerturude Black in the Bones and Boar Tavern in the city of Makar. He was not exactly raised by his mother, so he quickly fell to becoming a strong-arm and thug with local street gangs where his unnaturally large size was an advantage. He taught himself to read and write so that he could more easily understand and forge ledgers in local businesses. |
| − | + | In his journal he wrote that around what he believed to have been his sixteenth birthday, he decided he could probably make a tidy profit if he could find his birth father, whom his mother would drunkenly boast was a rich Viking, and either blackmail him into giving him gold or convince him to become his illegitimate son's patron. He spent several months attempting to use his mother's clues and his knowledge of the local Clans until he learned enough to track his father back to a Viking noble serving Clan Neill named Fenrir Neill. | |
| − | Fenrir | + | Fenrir Neill turned out to be a very minor, poor noble that served the Clan as a hunter. Cormac described him as massive, hairy man with sharp eyes and a dog like face that Cormac recognized as similar to his own from his reflection in the water at the docks. Cormac told him his claim to the noble name and demanded to be allowed to live with him. He then wrote that the conversation went poorly and then men ended up fighting until Cormac stabbed him in the stomach. |
| − | + | Fearing reprisal, he boarded a ship for Beluaterra and arrived in Luz de Bia where he began his life as an adventurer and thief. His journal from around this time records his tally of killed monsters and undead as well as his successful thefts, plans to steal, and the number of nobles he had insulted and then robbed. His journal ends with the invasion of the daimon horde in Beluaterra. | |
| − | + | Records kept by a minor bureaucrat in the Luz de Bia provincial government seem to indicate that he was wanted in several hamlets for a variety of crimes though had eluded capture by local lawkeepers. It is believed that from there he was captured by the invading daimons and escaped or was released several times while traveling the continent in a search for riches. Rumour, spread after a village heard the words of a crazed prophet, claim that he was finally captured one last time and was executed by the Lord of the Netherworld, Unknowable. | |
| − | + | Even more rumor, fueled by the scribblings of various minor nobles, seem to indicate that a man bearing Cormac's name and face arrived on the East Continent sometime after his execution. This entity communicated with several nobles before vanishing. Whether this entity was indeed Cormac, or instead some an impostor (either infernal or human), no one knows. | |
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Latest revision as of 18:54, 7 April 2013
Cormac Black-Neill
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Current Age: Not Recorded (Deceased)
Class: Adventurer
Weapon of Choice: Short sword and dagger.
Current Title: None
Titles Held: None
Religion: Loose belief in the Norse Pantheon and the god Loki
According to the journal left behind by Cormac, he was born one summer to a barmaid and prostitute named Gerturude Black in the Bones and Boar Tavern in the city of Makar. He was not exactly raised by his mother, so he quickly fell to becoming a strong-arm and thug with local street gangs where his unnaturally large size was an advantage. He taught himself to read and write so that he could more easily understand and forge ledgers in local businesses.
In his journal he wrote that around what he believed to have been his sixteenth birthday, he decided he could probably make a tidy profit if he could find his birth father, whom his mother would drunkenly boast was a rich Viking, and either blackmail him into giving him gold or convince him to become his illegitimate son's patron. He spent several months attempting to use his mother's clues and his knowledge of the local Clans until he learned enough to track his father back to a Viking noble serving Clan Neill named Fenrir Neill.
Fenrir Neill turned out to be a very minor, poor noble that served the Clan as a hunter. Cormac described him as massive, hairy man with sharp eyes and a dog like face that Cormac recognized as similar to his own from his reflection in the water at the docks. Cormac told him his claim to the noble name and demanded to be allowed to live with him. He then wrote that the conversation went poorly and then men ended up fighting until Cormac stabbed him in the stomach.
Fearing reprisal, he boarded a ship for Beluaterra and arrived in Luz de Bia where he began his life as an adventurer and thief. His journal from around this time records his tally of killed monsters and undead as well as his successful thefts, plans to steal, and the number of nobles he had insulted and then robbed. His journal ends with the invasion of the daimon horde in Beluaterra.
Records kept by a minor bureaucrat in the Luz de Bia provincial government seem to indicate that he was wanted in several hamlets for a variety of crimes though had eluded capture by local lawkeepers. It is believed that from there he was captured by the invading daimons and escaped or was released several times while traveling the continent in a search for riches. Rumour, spread after a village heard the words of a crazed prophet, claim that he was finally captured one last time and was executed by the Lord of the Netherworld, Unknowable.
Even more rumor, fueled by the scribblings of various minor nobles, seem to indicate that a man bearing Cormac's name and face arrived on the East Continent sometime after his execution. This entity communicated with several nobles before vanishing. Whether this entity was indeed Cormac, or instead some an impostor (either infernal or human), no one knows.
