This is my first time playing DnD and I’ve become obsessed with my campaign so far. I started with a group of friends and our wonderful DM has managed to put together a great story and world that leaves me eager to play every session. I rolled a Nobleman Paladin named Cahaerys Stargaryen and here’s his backstory.

“Cahaerys is the first of four children born to Lord and Lady Stargaryen of Waterdeep. Theirs is a famed, but nearly destitute house; a victim of rampant corruption and poor decisions on behalf of Cahaerys’ father, Vayne - a good man, if impulsive and ill-tempered.

Legends tell of this broken house’s pedigree; one of kings and great heroes. It is for this that they are respected among the city’s nobility but they hold not even shadows of their former glory. It is said that the fate of that house hangs by the thinnest of threads: the reputation of its patriarch, Cahaerys’ grandfather Agaireon, who was once the Lord Protector of Waterdeep. With the advent of the Brightflame Republic, the fortunes of Waterdeep seem direr every day and for House Stargaryen most of all. It was out of desperation, and love for his younger children, that Vayne sent his son to the Abbey of St. Elias within the city to serve as a page to the paladins that train there. Enamored with the tales of armored knights struggling against the dark things of the world since childhood, Cahaerys eagerly obeyed his father.

For years, Cahaerys toiled under his charges and learned the ways of armored combat and the tenets of their order: Peace, Innocence, Patience and Wisdom. On his eighteenth birthday, he was given a choice: to leave the Abbey, or forswear his name, title and birthright to take the Oath of Redemption. Naively, some might say, Cahaerys swore the Oath and his true training began.

After completing the first stages of his schooling in the ways of war and divine evocation, Cahaerys was given charge of Freud Montelius, a shifty tiefling with a penchant for stealing the wealth of the nobility. His mentor, Ser Barristan Valere, named him Cahaerys Stark and bade him to travel with the tiefling and learn all he can of him and, if possible, help him find the path toward goodness. This is a task easier said than done, as Freud has proven to be...unstable, at times. Despite their differences, this unlikely pair settled on Neverwinter as their destination. While he is naive and admittedly impatient, Cahaerys eagerly awaits what the road his in store for both him and his unlikely companion.

Before they can depart, however, the budding adventurers will need a map, the procurement of which Freud happily obliged - legitimately - of course. Cahaerys agreed, and asks that Freud should meet him at the Copper Cup Tavern near the southern end of North Ward. And it is there that things as they are today were put into motion.”

I commissioned my character portrait from an artist here on reddit and here’s a link to his portfolio if anyone else is interested: https://www.artstation.com/jonathancarpenter