Ye Olde Background and History Thread!

[Kubo]

[OoC]I generated the stats using the 36 Point Buy in Myth Weavers, if you want me to generate stats via an other method, please let me know which method to use.
kubo grew up working his parent's trap lines and prospecting in the depths under the mountains. He tends towards being a loner, as his craft of exploring the depths of new caverns under the mountains for new trap lines, and hidden veins to begin new mines, which usually meant working for months in solitude. Recently he found some fresh caverns and began exploring them, when he spotted a strange glowing shallow pool. As he approached the pool it began to swirl and Kudo suddenly found himself be sucked in.  He awoke to find himeself in a strange new cavern chamber, and has setabout exploring it in hopes of finding his way out, back to some place he recognizes so he can make his way back to civilization, with Marthammor Duin's blessings, and resupply.

[OoC]Howmuch starting gold do I get to outfit my character?, and what is your campaigm id# for the dice roller at the unseen servant?
['OoC] It quit a bit of reading, but I think I found the answer to some of my previous questions. Just to double check Starting stats = 1d6 drox10gpp 1's, 7 times and drop the lowest, and starting gold = 6d4x10gp. I still need the campaign # though

[GM Marvel]

[OoC]I generated the stats using the 36 Point Buy in Myth Weavers, if you want me to generate stats via an other method, please let me know which method to use.
kubo grew up working his parent's trap lines and prospecting in the depths under the mountains. He tends towards being a loner, as his craft of exploring the depths of new caverns under the mountains for new trap lines, and hidden veins to begin new mines, which usually meant working for months in solitude. Recently he found some fresh caverns and began exploring them, when he spotted a strange glowing shallow pool. As he approached the pool it began to swirl and Kudo suddenly found himself be sucked in.  He awoke to find himeself in a strange new cavern chamber, and has setabout exploring it in hopes of finding his way out, back to some place he recognizes so he can make his way back to civilization, with Marthammor Duin's blessings, and resupply.

[OoC]Howmuch starting gold do I get to outfit my character?, and what is your campaigm id# for the dice roller at the unseen servant?
['OoC] It quit a bit of reading, but I think I found the answer to some of my previous questions. Just to double check Starting stats = 1d6 drox10gpp 1's, 7 times and drop the lowest, and starting gold = 6d4x10gp. I still need the campaign # though

Please watch which thread you're posting in.  This thread is for your history and background.  Questions should be asked in either the OoC thread or the Character creation thread.

The campaign number is: 357

Add 1000gp's for starting at 2nd level. [6d4x10gp] + 1000gp's = total

[Crozar the Sunspot]

Crozar crawled from the budding sands in Shankell during a high holy day of Sanshad.  He and all of those budded that day were blessed by Blessed Blossum herself, and a great destiny was ascribed to all of them.  However growing up in the white sands of the Cymek and the back alleys of Sanshad is a rough way to grow up.  Many of his birthmates died of illness or misadventure early on, but of those that survived most moved on into the priesthood.  

Crozar was always a firm believer in the power of Sanshad as worshiped by the Cactacae, having witnessed the fearsome power of the sun many times as a child.  Unfortunately he did not show any particular gift for clerical or druidic magics, and found serving as a ley person in the faith dissatisfying.  As he moved into his teen years, he hit an early massive growth spurt which led to him being inducted and trained with the militia of Shankell.  He enjoyed the fighting, although he was not nearly as tough and robust as his size would lead one to believe, so he knew his chances of a long military career was unlikely. He was curious about thaumaturges, but given his religious upbringing, he never had an opportunity to get much exposure to them.

This changed in the fall of his eighteenth year when he met an human Elementarii named Jasper Waith.  Waith was a high ranking thaumaturge in the Shankell militia, rumored to work directly under Lakmar himself. Crozar was assigned to the escort detail following him to explore some unknown ruin that had supposedly been recently discovered on the edge of the Cancotopic Stain.  Being just an escort guard, neither Waith nor the other thaumaturges in the company bothered to tell him what they were looking for, but they never even found the ruin. Several of them found the burly looking bruiser with an interest in thaumaturgy an amusing person to talk with.  Crozar quickly realized that he did not have the smarts needed for most of their arcane studies, but he was smart enough to know when they were trying to make fun of him, and he was charismatic enough to roll with the punches and even get a few prickly turnabouts of his own.  Crozar found Waith's discussions of his relations with the various elementals most fascinating.  Of particular note was Waith's near-heretical idea that Sanshad and the other great gods were in reality nothing more than ultimate elemental forms, and the implications this may have for the advancement of Elementarii power and the future of Rohengi itself.

On their last night before reaching the target location, but supposedly well far away from the threat of the Stain itself, they were set upon by a horde of Torque-touched monstrosities.  Almost before most of the group was awake, it seemed, most of the group was dead or dying horribly.  If not for the good fortune of having stayed up late talking with Waith, Crozar is sure that he would have died as well.  During the fight, his rivebow expended and nearly dead himself, one of the abominations disarmed him of his greatcleaver and knocked him to the ground.  Unexpectedly his thorns hooked on to the gnoscourge of Waith laying on the ground.  With horror, Crozar realized that Waith must have been killed even though his body was not present.  In a last ditch effort to survive he struggled to his feet and cracked the whip in what felt like the proper way.  With a sudden roar he heard the voice of Sanshad for the first time and a servitor of the Sun appeared at his command.  With the assistance of this elemental, Crozar and the last four survivors of the group were able to secure an escape into the night.

The small band of survivors where faced with a hard decision.  The thaumaturges that had been in charge were all dead, and none of the soldiers left were confident that we would not face severe reprimand, possibly even to the point of punishment factory processing, when they returned to Shankell.  On the other hand, none of them had family or contacts anywhere outside of the Cymek desert.  For the better part of a day as they worked to gather food and water and avoid the few monstrosities that still wandered the area under the eye of Sanshad, they debated back and forth on if returning to Shankell was worth it.  Eventually three of them decided that they would return to Shankell.  The returning three agreed to report that Crozar and Peal had died in the fight so as to ssave them from punishment as deserters.  Crozar never heard from them again, but hasn't seen his picture on any wanted posters, so has tried not to worry about it too much. Crozar and one other survivor, a Cray named Peal Scrumskitter, decided instead to make a new path for themselves.  

To this end they headed toward New Crobuzon.  Over the course of their travels Crozar attempted to figure out these new Elementarii abilities that he had been able to tap into that one time, but such efforts without formal training proved futile.  Peal died along the way to some highway brigands, but Crozar was able to make it to the city after a slow and difficult journey of months.  Once there he pledged himself as an apprentice to another human Elementarii, Cecil Makeninny.  Over the next couple of years Crozar developed his Elementarii skills, mastering the fundamental thaumaturgical invocations and finding that due to his robust health cultivated in the militia, the Lucaete elementals that he summoned almost always were also more healthy and resilient than most.  Having completed his Elementarii training and truly claiming his gnoscourge as his own, Crobuzon has returned to his mostly solitary explorations of the area in and around New Crobuzon.  That traumatic night near the Stain has left it's own mark on him however, and he has recognized that while Torque is wild and chaotic, it is not that different from the wild chaos of the elements themselves, and he has begun postulating theories of being able to summon Torque elementals, although he knows that any other Elementarii (or most sane people) would find this idea as abhorrent as the walking corpses of High Cromlech, so he has been careful to keep his ideas to himself.  This has also severely inhibited his ability to advance this research very far, but he knows that he is blessed by Sanshad and destined to change the world, just as soon as he figures out how.

[Kubo]

Looks good

[GM Marvel]

Wow!  Awesome job!  Considering that just a couple of days ago you had no idea about the setting, you did a great job of including many unique elements of this world in your background!  Well done!

[Crozar the Sunspot]

Thanks. I'm really surprised that none of the books (not that I've read them yet, just the summaries) do not appear to explore the idea of a Torque elemental or anything like that.  That is the problem with authors creating such expansive and unique worlds, they just never really explore all of the concepts they introduce. I do think I am going to look for audio versions of these books though. 

Have you had a chance to review his character sheet?  Are we just waiting for a good place to introduce?

[Betimi]

No character sheet posted? Or just shared to the GM via private message?

[GM Marvel]

No character sheet posted? Or just shared to the GM via private message?

He posted it in Character Concepts.

[Ningalu Baal'urki]

[Kubo]

NICE! Heroforge mini, if you upload one of those images into Tokenstamp2, you get a realy nice token, for free