#;owain

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Have I said how much I love playing my new dwarven ranger with his owl named after Warren Gatland playing in a Celtic themed fantasy setting with actual Celtic deities in it?

BECAUSE I FUCKING DO!!!!

This was to grab a Quickling (Fey creature) in his talons to restrain the fucker (taking away disadvantage on attacks against it) and because generous DM, Warren was able to lift the Quickling up.

Too bad for Owain but that Quickling is going nowhere for the moment and there’s a round of party attacks coming up.

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So, my dwarven ranger Owain...

Lives in the fictional counterpart of my hometown.

Is travelling to the fictional counterpart of another town I’ve been to before.

Has an owl companion he saved from a redcap trap that was going to kill the owl slowly and ended up naming the owl Warren (meta: I named the owl after Wales Rugby Coach Warren Gatland, same way that Owain is named after Welsh legend Owain Glyndwr and his mentor from his backstory is named after Welsh Rugby player Ieuan Evans).

And worships a goddess of nature who actually exists in the Celtic pantheon (Don).

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My companion animal made a nat 20 perception.  The first nat 20 of the game.

I love Warren.

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Quickie speed sketch of Owain, my new Mountain Dwarven Beast Master Ranger

There is a reason he doesn’t look like a stereotypical fantasy Dwarf with a long braided beard.  But that’s between the DM and I for now.

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Owain Jones’ Backstory (WIP)

[Copying this straight off the google docs including my comments in the brackets]

Mountain Dwarven Ranger (WHY’D HE LEAVE HIS CLAN AND LIVE A SOLITARY LIFE IN THE WOODS??)

50 years old

Has spent the last five-ten years living in a cabin in the woods drinking homemade cider and living off his crops (WHY?)

More keen on animals than people.

Looks after injured animals he comes across in the woods - tending to their injuries and letting them heal in his cabin before releasing them back into the wild.  Some of them regularly come to visit him still.

Learning about the damage that some types of Fey, especially redcaps, could do to the woods, spent a number of years studying them, occasionally travelling to nearby villages to buy books on Sylvan, the language of the Fey.

Heard about King Caerdoc Strongarm’s call for defenders on one of his irregular trading stops to buy seeds to grow crops.

Worships Don, the goddess of nature (HOW?)

[Named after Owain Glyndwr, Jones is just because.  Still working with DM about justifying the Level 3 start but there’s at least one level in killing redcaps because ‘they are vicious and cruel’ so Owain has zero mercy for them.]