Character Sheet: Eridanus
Alignment: C-N Size: Medium
Height: 5′10″ Weight: 180 lbs
Background: Soldier Feat(s): Shield Master
Languages: Common, Orcish
Stats (Level 1, Dice Roll, +1 to DEX and STR)
Character Level Plans: lvl 4 - Spear Mastery; lvl 6 - Charger, lvl 8 - Sentinel, lvl 12 - Defensive Duelist, lvl 14 - ABS (+2 CON, 18), lvl 16 - ABS (+2 CON, 20), lvl 20 - ABS (+2 STR, 18)
Weapon Proficiencies: Simple Weapons, Martial Weapons.
Weapons: Spear, Longspear (Non-Throwable, reach), Shield, Bow and Arrows, Short Sword
Fighting Style(s): Protection
Personality Traits: Rather reserved and quiet but his attitude changes greatly when in battle.
He always likes to be in the frontlines and assert his dominance over his opponents.
Has a compulsive need to protect women from harm.
Has a disdain for most mages but puts up with them for their practical use.
Ideals: Believes that anything that can be killed with magic can be killed just as well with sweat and metal.
What good is a warrior if they're dead? (He will retreat if the battle is not in his favor/futile to go on)
Bonds: He is loyal to the nation of Chrysant.
Flaws: He can let his anger get the best of him at times.
Proficiencies: Light, Medium and Heavy Armor, Cook’s Utensils, Land Vehicles, Athletics, Intimidation, and Perception.
Notes: Eridanus’ main style of combat is to disable enemies by knocking them prone with his shield and then stabbing them while vulnerable. (Useful for gaining advantage on targets).
Background: Eridanus comes from a small farming village on the countryside of Chrysant. He lived his life without his father as he died in a naval battle. This would force Eridanus to do much of the heavy farmwork growing up. A friend of his, Meridia, would often accompany him in his spare time. The two were nearly inseparable and their parents thought that the two would end up getting married when they were old enough.
Eventually, an group of nomadic Orc raiders would attack the village for supplies and women. The orcs would catch Eridanus and Meridia together, forcing Eridanus to attack an Orc with the only thing he had available at the time, a hoe. The orc bashed Eridanus aside knocking him out cold, and take Meridia with him.
Eridanus awoke to find his mother by his side in their home. It was then she told him that soldiers led by General Aelius were tracking down the Orcs to kill them and save the captives. Time passed and Eridanus waited and the soldiers had returned with a wagon of most of the missing women, many of which had their clothes torn and were weeping. Meridia was in the wagon, bruised and bloody.
Over the next month, Eridanus would try to help Meridia but she would no longer speak. She became reserved and would often have a meltdown. One day, Eridanus was on his way to see her at her home with some fruit he harvested. She found her by a tree, bloodied and with a knife in her hand. She had taken her own life.
Eridanus broke down and wept for days at the loss of Meridia. After this event, he became noticeable more angry and irritable. He would have outbursts of violence and attack anyone who even looked at him the wrong way. The only person he showed any sign of affection to was his mother.
Despite his now violent nature, he felt the need to try to stop anything like this from happening again. He was powerless against the orc and couldn’t defend those he cared about, so he joined the Chrysanthian Military as part of the Naval Forces like his father.
During his training, Eridanus was not seen as the best trainee in the camp, far from it. Despite the harassment of his colleagues, he would keep practicing and would favor the spear. One day he had to train in grappling with a Paladin-in-training named Malleo. Despite his best efforts, he would constantly fail against Malleo until Eridanus got the idea to grab a nearby observer, Skopos, and toss him at Malleo only to run away.
Looked down upon by all of his peers, he became shunned and forced into cooking duty for his cowardice and was only allowed to continue in the training program due to his previous perseverance against Malleo.
He never saw cooking duty as a punishment though as he seemed to enjoy it. Though at times, a mage girl would try to sneak up on him for whatever reason. When he caught her one time when he was preparing a stew, he would tell her to leave him alone and that her magic “might spoil the stew”. She would leave and Eridanus would continue on cooking.
Eridanus came to the conclusion that the stew didn’t have enough potatoes and went off in search for more at the nearby storage. What he found instead was the mage girl being harassed by trainees and he saw them pushing themselves onto her. Eridanus felt a rage he hadn’t felt in years, the same rage he felt when the Orcs attack, the same rage he felt when he lost Meridia.
Eridanus charged at the trainees and knocked them to the floor only to beat and bloody all of them despite becoming bruised and bloodied himself. A monk would swiftly intervene quickly after, incapacitating the trainees except Eridanus. It was here Eridanus would learn the mage girl’s name, Mila.
The two would eventually become friends despite Eridanus’ outburst against those who made fun of her for being a mage. He would often find himself in constant struggles with Malleo as he would constantly harass Mila as Eridanus saw it. Eridanus would receive his first mission and be sent off-shore. The ship Eridanus was on would be caught in a terrible storm out in the sea and become shipwrecked on the island of Moon’s Eye.
Eridanus was the only survivor and he gathered whatever supplies he could from the wreckage after burying the bodies he could find of his comrades. Being the cook of the ship and not the navigator, Eridanus has no idea where he was and just felt like giving up on life. He turned to a life of solitude in the wild and would hunt animals until he ran across a village. It was in this village he saw a newsboard that was requesting able bodies to ward off bandits raiding trade routes.
This would lead Eridanus to meet a group also interested in the contract, a Monk named Ho-Kei, a Dwarven Bard called Aller, a Warlock known as Lothar, and a Librarian called Earal. (The beginning of the campaign Eridanus is in).
