TALL TALES FROM TALLAND: A Pathfinder Adventure

How about we switch it around and each player describes someone else's character? Funnier that way

Richard. Richard, played by our other admin, Zula, is a slave from distant and unimportant Redwind Isle at the start of the game. We all started together as slaves being sent to a quarry.

What we soon learned about Richard was that he was a sorcerer. Our party had a huge disagreement in the first session about which direction to go after our captors died. This led to my character (TomTom) teaming up with Richard to try and knock everyone else unconscious, and we nearly killed each other.

Over the course of the story we find that Richard is an idealist, and a brutal revolutionary. He also seems to be important in terms of destiny, because he keeps getting visions. His speeches often rally slaves to our cause. We pulled the rug out from under our Game Master by planning an anti-slavery revolution without him knowing, and masterfully executing it in one session when he didn't expect it. Ever since then, Richard's charisma and leadership continues to be useful for our cause.

On the other hand he's also not very compromising, and threw a Scorching Ray in a guard's face for barring our passage into a bank after the revolution started. He also thinks negotiations are a waste of time and that some people should be killed rather than compromised with. Other than that, he's a very useful member of the team, and our destinies depend on him.

One of his main moments was in a tomb on the Isle of Wights against an ancient spellcaster called the Ghoulmaster. We entered the Ghoulmaster's chamber and were badly outnumbered, but Richard accepted to duel the Ghoulmaster one on one to decide the combat. Richard narrowly lost, and the Ghoulmaster asked if Richard accepted defeat. He had his scythe at Richard's neck when he asked, and Richard was on his knees from injury. To which Richard replied:
"I will not become like you, I'll never give up on my dreams."
"Are your dreams more important than your life?"
"My dreams ARE my life."

The Ghoulmaster was suitably impressed and considered Richard to have passed his trials, rewarding the party with information about the great threat to Talland, the archdaemon Druj.

During the first battle of the revolution in the main slaver city of Braveport, Richard and TomTom stormed the town hall. Richard was hit by many arrows, triggering him to explode with power and incinerate several of his enemies. It was a sign of his potential to come, and what he represents. He was also recently informed that he might just be the reincarnation of General Redwind, the original liberator of Talland from the clutches of the Gnomeland empire.

Well technically he DID die, he wasn't saved from dying. In our setting resurrection isn't canon with the exception of a spell that needs to be cast within one turn of a person dying. Ash was fortunately next to our cleric when he died, so he made it through the resurrection loophole. He was our first PC casualty, but it was promptly and luckily reversed. He didn't get his eye back, though, and wears an eyepatch now.

Technically, Redwind never had a military rank. He was just a civilian who got together some friends and set the Gnomish fleet on fire in the dock, and later led the volunteer army in the liberation war. Even when he was the commander of the final major battle of the war, his only rank was "Redwind".

Though Richard's insistence on burning a ship in the anchor during the opening of your rebellion was kind of damaging. Since the ship was a civilian vessel belonging to a foreign country, it served no military or political agenda whatsoever.

If by damaging you mean "lead to a foreign country lending a lot of money to the Talland government, which they used to buy 10 000 mercs", then yes, it was kinda damaging.

You know how hard it is to convince Richard to not burn things that piss him off. Like gnome ships. Or douche guards. Or Aylan Donas' eye sockets.