There is a woeful lack of tanks. Remedied.
Name: Harriett Marigold
Age: 23
Sex and Gender: Female, Cisgender (I.E. Identifies as her sex)
Race: Human
Physical Description: A woman standing at around 5’9”, with long black hair in a ponytail, and green eyes. When out of her armor, she wears a simple black dress.
Personality Description: Generally polite and courteous, she finds the whole ‘adventuring’ thing a bit annoying, only doing so out of obligation to her family. She is decidedly not polite when someone suggests something that is outright stupid, and despite the general reluctance refuses to allow anyone to die without trying to save them.
Class: Paladin. Wearing heavy armor and casting divine miracles, these holy warriors protect their allies with shield and sword...
Backstory: Or at least, most of them are holy. You see, in the nation that Harriett hails from, Paladin is mostly a job. Handed down from father to oldest son, the Paladins of Daria are more a standing military and special forces group than holy warriors. Being they worship a god of war, it makes some sense.
Harriett's father was a Paladin. Unfortunately, he only had female children, of which Harriett is the oldest. And so she was walked over to the town cathedral when she was 16, and inducted into the order, the only woman. They expected her to die on her first expedition.
In a twist that none expected, she was the only one not to die. There had been rumors of a necromancer in the deep catacombs of the capital city. This was an insult to the king, and the nation. Not to mention, necromancy in itself was an insult to their god, raising those who had died honorable deaths in battle. The Paladins were called to arrest this heretic and traitor. In and out, easy mission for a group of rookies.
And it would have been. If it had been a normal necromancer. Instead, when they entered the section of the tombs where the necromancer had been supposed to be hiding, they were assailed by 100s of undead. 5 of the 10 paladins died right then and there. Going further in, they were assaulted from every side. 2 more were dragged off into the shadows, never to be seen again. There were only 3 remaining when they found the deepest part of the catacombs and heard the chanting. Once they opened the door, 2 more were killed by a trap of magic fire. Harriett was the only one left.
The necromancer reported was no mere necromancer. It was a lich king, one that had evaded the Paladins for generations.
When Harriett returned to the guild, she was dragging the head of the lich, and the bodies of her companions. She was covered in the black blood of the dead and damned, and her own red blood. She refused to speak of what happened after she entered the room, or what the lich was doing.
Soon after, an uprising against the monarchy occurred, and after the success of the coup d'état, the Paladins were disbanded, a symbol of the peace the new leadership wanted. Most were sent to the Adventurer’s Guild, to do good for all.
((I’ll PM what exactly happened in the room to the GM, I think it should come out through RP.))
I... may have gone overboard on the backstory. Yeah.
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