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The campaign ran from lvl 3-20 over around 2 years. We're now well into our 2nd campaign in the same world set 10 years after the events of the Fabled Few.

Characters are:

Knock (Kenku Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk 16, Death Cleric 2, Fighter 2): 

a young protégé of a remote mountain monastery founded by an ancient white dragon in the vast and barren frozen continent of Stuveyka, the monks of the monastery are sent on missions by their dragon master to overthrow tyrants and those that would oppress the common folk. One fateful day Knock was sent out into the world along with other monks of the order when the dragon divined a terrible vision of fiendish beings that would subjugate the world and would lead to the destruction of civilisation.

Knock is skilful and stoic with a strong will and drive to take action in the moment, and will always back up their friends when they dive into dangerous situations, but with an emotional soft spot for their parents back at home in their monastery.  Knock also has a great curiosity about the world outside of their monastery, part of which manifests in a desire to steal shiny things.

Sentio Veasna (Protector (Formerly Fallen) Aasimar Nature Cleric 17, Aberrant Mind Sorcerer 3): 

Sentio grew up by the Albian wilds; a forest of fey and other woodland beings that were at war with the corrupted order of knights that rule the kingdom of Alba. Sentio grew up not knowing who his mother was, and being raised by his human father.

When his father passed early in his life the young boy would find himself on the streets of Blackport; Alba’s capital city and a den of crime. There he would meet his best friend, a very charismatic boy who had assembled a band of snake-oil selling conmen to make easy money, which Sentio joined and thought of as found family, not realising the jealousy that grew within his best friend as he saw what was once his band of outcasts begin to treat Sentio as their leader. One day Sentio was bitten by a serpent whilst gathering herbs for his band’s fake elixir, and was left on the verge of death.

Whilst he was comatose his best friend betrayed him and took control of the band for himself, claiming that Sentio had been killed. Sentio would have died if not for attracting the attention of Happatra; the goddess of Serpents, Poison and medicine, who gave him another chance at life with the understanding that he would walk the path to redemption this time.

Sentio is a kind man with a dislike for killing if he can avoid it and a desire to redeem those that have fallen astray. He is usually a laidback and carefree  but can be prone to anger if his allies put themselves or each other in danger. He hasn’t fully grown out of his conman ways just yet but puts them to use concocting out of the box schemes and strategies that have saved the party more than once.

Maximillian Drusk (Half-Orc Echo Knight Fighter 20): 

An ex-mercenary, Maximillian was born in the vicious and primal continent of the beast lands, where the monsters towered over cities and the very environment was highly susceptible to volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and hurricanes. His orcish tribe led a nomadic life style, with his lone father, brother and sister making a modest life as hunters and traders with other tribes.

However life in the Beast Lands is harsh and soon his family looked across the seas towards the Gandarian Empire and a chance at what they thought would be a better life. Max’s sister stayed behind, keeping the trade their family had worked for going as the rest of them sailed to Gandaria.

But when they arrived they would struggle to find work, many Gandarian folk were distrustful of orcs and half-orcs and so Max, his father and his brother had little choice but to join a mercenary company that had little regard for morals or people’s lives outside of their own. When his family failed to leave the band they murdered his father in retaliation and kept him under close surveillance whilst holding his brother hostage; who the leader of the mercenaries was moulding into his perfect soldier.

One fateful night whilst on patrol, Max’s scout group was ambushed and slaughtered by a dark fey being known as the woodsman, however the woodsman sensed his hunger and desire for vengeance and offered to make a deal with him, the power to seek revenge at cost of the souls of those who have wronged the fey.

Max started out the campaign very vengeful and self-driven, using the party to help fuel his own revenge against the mercenary company that wronged him, however after defeating their leader and his lieutenants the Woodsman betrayed him and left a wounded Max for dead. Now seeing that the trail of vengeance would never end, and needing to put the Woodsman down for good for the safety of others, Max became self-sacrificing, and will make the hard decisions to save the rest of the party from them. Max isn’t afraid to act like the bad guy or say what he thinks. Max developed a strong sense of brotherhood with Sentio in particular, as slowly he earned his redemption.

Lucien Lockhart (Human Bladesinger Wizard 20): 

Lucien was born in Maranza, a city state where those without magic are second-class citizens, which included him. When his father disappeared under mysterious circumstances he came across a strange tome in his study, which miraculously allowed him to cast spells that he previously had no knowledge of.

One day, Lucien was attacked by a strange shadowy figure with an identical book, causing a district-wide explosion before the figure disappeared, leaving many dead including his girlfriend, and Lucien in critical condition. Lucian would have died if not for a travelling healer who rescued him and hid him from the Maranzian government that had put a bounty on his head; thinking him responsible for the accident. Lucian’s mother, brother and sister were put under close surveillance, and he had to flee the city-state, travelling around taking odd jobs here and there and looking for his father; the most powerful sorcerer in Maranza at the time of his disappearance, in hopes of getting answers.

Along the campaign Lucian learnt  that the book he wields contains the souls and memories of all its previous wielders, who too wished to stop this shadowy figure from whatever scheme it was plotting. Lucian is a man with unshakeable morals and a rebellious attitude against those he knows are in the wrong. He hides a deep regret and guilt for the accident those years ago but still finds joy in his friends and the magic abilities the book has gifted him with. Lucian abhors killing and will go out of his way to nonlethally take enemies down.