NAME Paidoboron PLAYER csanchez CONCEPT Barbarian RACE Human CLASS Fighter ALIGN Lawful GENDER Male AGE 16 HEIGHT 6'4" WEIGHT 200 lb LEVEL 1 BONUS +5% EXP 200 TNL 1980 ABILITY SCORES STR 17 TO-HIT +2 DAMAGE +2 OPEN 1-4 CARRY +30 DEX 12 MISSILE +0 AC +0 CON 14 HP +1 RAISE 100% INT 8 LANG 1 SPLV 5 LEARN 40% SPELLS 3/5 WIS 11 CHA 9 HIRE 4 HP 6/7 AC 13 SAVE 14 GOLD 57 WEAPONS Harpoon DAMAGE 1d6 WEIGHT 12 lb COST 1 gp Two-handed Sword DAMAGE 1d10 WEIGHT 15 lb COST 30 gp Hand Axe DAMAGE 1d8 WEIGHT 5 lb COST 1 gp ARMOR Ring EFF. AC -4 WEIGHT 40 lb COST 30 gp EQUIPMENT Sack (30 lb) 2 gp Bedroll 0.2 gp Flint & steel 1 gp Charmed garlic 10 gp Wooden holy symbol 1 gp Dried rations (5d) 5 gp Waterskin 1 gp Wolfsbane 0.1 gp Hemp rope (50') 1 gp Wineskin 1 gp APPEARANCE Paidoboron is a youth tall for his age, but not extremely so for his people. The harsh upbringing of even the high born among the Stone people has left him with dense muscles strung on a lanky frame. His eyes are pale blue-grey under a heavy brow. He tends to wear his greasy blonde shoulder-length hair plaited in back. His face sprouts a stubbly full beard and mustache. At home he clothes himself mainly in furs to block the icy wind that blows year-round from the northern sea, but newly come to more southern climes he has doffed most of his clothing in favor of his shiny new ring mail and leather harness to hold his weapon collection. BACKGROUND Paidoboron is a prince from the Kingdom of Stone, a primitive sea-faring nation of the remote bleak and wind-beaten northern coast. His people subsist primarily on fishing, whaling, and the hunting of sea monsters with trade in ivory and sea monster bone their main source of cash money. The harpoon is their traditional weapon, with which the men train to deadly proficiency out of necessity. Unsatisfied with the price offered by itinerant merchants for the season's take of ivory and bone, Paidoboron's father sent his son and a small party of warriors with the season's harvest loaded onto a longboat to seek a better price in one of the southern market cities. However, once the Stone longboat what out of sight of its home port, the "merchants", sore at losing the season's trade, attacked, thinking they could take by force what the simple men of Stone wouldn't trade. Underestimating the men of Stone was the last mistake the "merchants" would make. After a fierce battle on the decks of the two ships, the men of Stone slew their attackers and cast their remains into the sea as a sacrifice to the sea gods. They then found themselves in possession of both their own vessel and that of the merchant/pirates. Paidoboron and the other Stone men divided both the booty from the pirate ship and once they reached port the proceeds from the sale of their ivory and sea monster bone, which explains his bulging purse as he swaggers about exploring the strange city. Metal being hard to come by in the north, the weapon monger's and armorer's goods caught Paidoboron's eye and took a good portion of his earnings. Paidoboron, like most of his people, tends to be superstitious and credulous of claims of supernatural power. The Stone people believe that earthly conflicts are manifestations of conflicts between supernatural powers, so Paidoboron collects religious symbols of both vanquished foes and of deities who may be able to aid him. HIRELING NAME "Squid" CONCEPT Servant/Torchbearer RACE Human GENDER Male AGE 13 UPKEEP Paidoboron pays for all food and lodging WAGES (Allowance) 2 gp/month + bonus from adventure booty EQUIPMENT Backpack (30 lb) 5 gp Bedroll 0.2 gp Flint & steel 1 gp Dried rations (5d) 5 gp Waterskin 1 gp Torches (5) 0.5 gp Hemp rope (50') 1 gp "Squid" is a distant cousin of Paidoboron and the son of one of Paidoboron's father's sub-chieftains.