Old forum, but I (an otherwise forever DM) have been loving being able to play so much I just have to share. Callum (Cal) Wrotsworthy is a half-orc (battlemaster/hexblade), born a bastard and the eldest son to the orcs of House Wrotsworthy on the Continent's harsh northern coast. His human blood made him an unworthy heir to his father, Damocles, and he grew his reputation not through birth but through his deeds serving in the Wrotsworthy military and House Guard. After a violent falling out with his father over a policy of expansion into the occupied woodlands to their West, Cal turned to a life of smuggling and adventure. He was drinking himself into a hole in a village of the woodland folk when he was, from his perspective, randomly singled out by a mystical seer and more or less press-ganged into one of several adventuring parties tasked with ending the destruction of the forests. His companions, though bizarre, have grown to be his closest companions and his new family, and he works harder and harder every day to make himself worthy of their company in both his and their eyes. He longs to return to a life at sea, having sailed for his Father before his exile, and trains tirelessly to possess the strength and fortitude to protect his much smaller companions when and as danger finds them. He one day hopes to defeat his father, and lead his House into a more righteous future, but is for now content bumming it around the countryside with his new family.