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Ajvar Rekssen.

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Thu 28 Feb 2019
at 14:54
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Ajvar Rekssen

Backstory moments:
1. The illegitimate son of a general and a barmaid.

2. Raised by the barmaid and his stepfather, a gravedigger. Childhood is weird but idyllic.

3. Saw Death as a child all the time. It didn't scare him, but he was a weird kid.

4. A plague swept through his city. The father he knew succumbed early. Anry buried him himself.

5. On her deathbed, Anry's mother gave him a letter explaining his true father, a letter of provenance addressed to the general, and enough gold to send the boy to the general.

6. Anry travels to meet his real father. Anry's parentage was undeniable--he was a spitting image of his father as a young man. Still, there is tension.

7. Anry has three older half-brothers who think the bastard kid is trying to muscle in on their inheritance. The general's wife sees Anry as a living symbol of her husband's infidelities, and treats the boy like garbage.

8. Anry lacks talent as a soldier, but seems to take to helping the injured recover. He is assigned to his father's command, but becomes an assistant to the clerics who administer to the troops. This keeps him far removed from his new family's intrigue.

9. Anry witnesses death all around him, and converts to ___________, much to his father's chagrin. He earns an officer's rank, however, and serves as a chaplain.

10. Anry falls in love with a handsome officer named _________. That officer is killed in battle, and this breaks Anry.

11. Anry abandons his father's army and retreats to a temple in ________. He spends several years there in silent solitude, reconciling with Death.

12. His father's soldiers caught up with Anry, though. His father had covered his absence as a sabbatical, but was furious over his son's abandonment of post.

13. Anry returned to his chaplain mission, and was assigned to work with the PC group.
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:52, Thu 28 Feb 2019.
DM
GM, 128 posts
Thu 28 Feb 2019
at 23:30
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Ajvar Rekssen

The Grey Lady is a psychopomp minor diety which presents the souls of the deceased to Kelemvor for judgement and entry into the afterlife. Statues depicting a cloaked (sometimes with her face concealed, or sometimes serene-faced) woman is a common theme in cemeteries in the Western Kingdom.

The Church dedicated to the Grey Lady is small. Most devotees serve their communities with funeral rites and comfort for the grieving. In some rural and remote villages, followers of the Grey Lady are often tasked as arbiters and judges of local disputes, as the goddess is seen as an impartial agent in the final judgment.

When Ajvar was a boy, his family lived near the cemetery. In his childhood, he could see the Grey Lady frequently as she ferried the dead to Kelemvor. Even now sometimes, Ajvar sometimes witnesses her when death is nearby or in scenes of great carnage.

As he joined the Grey Lady's church, however, it became far more common for the recently deceased to reach out to Ajvar directly, often begging the mortal to somehow save them from their demise. These visions often last seconds before the poor souls are carried off.

Despite having experienced the Grey Lady a multitude of times, she has never actually spoken to Ajvar. She used to softly smile at him when he was a child, but this stopped once he was sent to live with the general. In the few instances he sees her, she never meets his eye, appearing instead in his periphery, sometimes shrouded in darkness or by distance.

Her presence is undeniable, though: calm, quiet, inevitable. The Grey Lady's work is part of the natural cycle, and she will not be denied her divine task.

Forces like the undead are abomination to the Grey Lady, and her adherents must destroy these creatures when they encounter them. Similarly, she will not fuel the magic necessary to animate the dead and befoul the natural cycle.

Since his self-imposed exile and the death of his one true love, Ajvar is sometimes visited by spirits. They are usually the ghosts of people close to Ajvar--his parents, or his love--but sometimes those he has recently slain. Sometimes they speak, and others they remain silent. Ajvar wonders if these visitations are really ghosts, or if the Grey Lady herself is more directly communicating through these hallucinations.

In addition to his military uniform and armor, Ajvar wears a deep grey hooded chasuble as a symbol of his faith. Embroidered along the edge in fine silver thread is a motif of calls lillies, another symbol often associated with the Grey Lady. A trio of the same flowers form a circle is carved onto his shield to serve as an active symbol of his divine mission.
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:27, Fri 01 Mar 2019.
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