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Round One

1. What race does your character belong to? What area are they from? Sceva is a human, from the town of Sonvico, in the Kingdom of Baden, in the Astaran Empire.
2. What is your character’s opinion of his own race? [Sceva] Humans are sort of a generic species. We are “Jacks of all Trades and Masters of None.” We are not as artistic and noble as the elves, or as masterful at construction as the dwarves. We are not as brutal as the orcs, or as gifted in tilling the Earth as the Halflings. The one thing we seem to have mastered is the ability and inclination to abuse and mistreat others of our own race. We also seem to be a close second to the orcs in the making of war.
3. How would you describe your character’s physical appearance? Would your character describe himself / herself as something different? Sceva is right at six feet tall. He is an older man, but still in excellent physical shape with a medium build and well-defined muscles. He has green eyes and shoulder-length, wavy hair that once was jet-black, but is now liberally sprinkled with grey. He wears a full beard that is also black with increasing amounts of grey. Sceva would describe himself in the same manner, though he would de-emphasize the grey in his hair.
4. What about your character’s family, what are they like? [Sceva] I grew up in the church of Elminoir. They are my family. My “parents” are Trista and Vicana, two druidesses in Sonvico. Originally, I was told that my birth parents had given me to the order and that I was essentially an orphan. I came to find out a few years ago that the church had taken me from my parents because of genetic experiments my father had been performing with my mother’s cooperation. I have never met my birth parents or my brother or sister.
5. What is your character’s main motivation? [Sceva] I am a knight of Elminoir. My main motivation is to serve the Lady. She has commissioned me to promote her interests among the kingdoms and to fight those who oppose her or who abuse the world she provides.
6. Who is the one person your character trusts the most? Who is trusted least? [Sceva] I trust Trista and Vicana implicitly and beyond any shadow of doubt. I also trust Lericanin, especially in military and combat matters. I do not trust anyone tainted by Sater, except for Lisa.
7. What is your character’s greatest strength? Greatest weakness? Sceva’s greatest strength is his faith and resolve. He is absolutely dedicated to his service to the Lady Elminoir and will not sway from any task she gives him. Once he determines the path to take, he will not stop until he has seen it through. This could also be considered a weakness.
8. What does your character think of honor? Sceva doesn’t always think of it in terms of honor, but he sees it as very important. For example, a person should always keep their word, respect other people and other faiths whenever possible, and act in a truthful and forthright manner. A person should be trustworthy. That is honorable.
9. Is your character a thinker or a fighter? Sceva always tries to think things through first and use force second. However, he always tries to take decisive action when it is called for.
10. Does your character have any prejudices? [Sceva] I’m sure my opinion of orcs and other dark creatures counts as a prejudice. Before I met Lisa, I definitely had a prejudice against vampires. My friendship with her has corrected that, though it almost caused me to mistakenly place my trust in Sir William de Mirijan because I had forgotten to consider the difference between being a half vampire and being a full vampire.
11. Was your character married or have any children? No.
12. To whom does your character owe the most loyalty? The Lady Elminoir.
13. What are your character’s favorite and least favorite things? He has a great love of growing things – forests, gardens, and the like. As a servant of Elminoir, he prefers natural growth to tilled earth. He dislikes large cities, because most of them are devoid of greenery and grow unrestrained into the surrounding forests. City dwellers typically have very little regard for the needs of nature and tend to plunder nature of her resources without the stewardship it requires.
14. Does your character have any recurring mannerisms? Sceva has a sense of gallows humor that is sometimes very dry. Many people take it as disrespectful. He will visit the graves of fallen friends when he can.
15. What about your character’s psychology? Sceva is very monk-like in his psychology. He is not interested in possessions or wealth, uninterested in physical pleasures, and mostly self-deprecating in his speech. He dresses very plainly, usually in browns and greens, and with very little adornment. He is unconcerned about death, though that was not always the case. That’s not to say that he is suicidal, he just has a somewhat fatalistic view on the subject. He sometimes seems to others as very serious and all-business. He doesn’t seem to ever really let his hair down. He considers friendship to be very important and will go to the ends of the earth for one of his friends. He appears to be very smooth and stable and exhibits great patience. He is not impulsive or selfish. He values life and prefers to provide his foes an opportunity to yield. If an opponent is wounded and unable to continue the fight he will not kill them except to end their suffering from an obviously fatal wound. He is often seen after a battle tending to the wounds of those he was fighting just moments before, though he will always tend to the wounds of comrades first. Sceva loves to read and would likely have a large library if he weren’t traveling so much.
16. How would your character handle an insubordinate person? He would use as much patience as possible and attempt to reason with them. If it becomes egregious or abusive, he would probably sweep their feet out from under them with his staff and give them a couple of good bruises. He is more likely to take action against a person being insubordinate to one of his friends than against someone being disrespectful directly to him.
17. How would your character’s parents describe him / her? They can’t. They have never met him as an adult.
18. What are your character’s highest ambitions? He wishes to die in the service of the Lady Elminoir – see Round Two, question 20.
19. How religious is your character? Very.
20. If you could, what advice would you give your character? Go get laid every once in while! Get a hobby! Get the stick out of your butt!

Round Two

1. Does your character have an ultimate goal? If so, what is it? His ultimate goal is the destruction of Sater and his followers.
2. What is his or her secret, and what will happen if it is discovered? Sceva is a lycanthrope, able to change into a large were-tiger. He doesn’t broadcast this, but it isn’t exactly a secret. Most of the members of the group know about this, as well as a few others such as Trista and Vicana. Usually, the only problems that arise from the discovery of his secret occur with those who do not know him and react violently from superstition.
3. What does your character think of the political climate? Sceva is politically neutral. He supports the Astaran Empire, but does not carry a grudge against those who once were their enemies, such as the Kuzimin Empire. His loyalty is not to kingdoms, but to Elminoir, so he sees no value to emphasizing something that ultimately doesn’t matter.
4. What does your character do for fun, to relax? Sceva will go for walks in the woods or in gardens. He sometimes relaxes with a pint of ale in a tavern. He doesn’t really have any hobbies, but he loves to read.
5. If your character were given 1,000 gold, what would he / she do with it? Sceva would donate most of it to the church.
6. Does your character have a stereotypical view of men and women? No.
7. What are the names of the character’s parents and siblings? What do they do? Father – Adalarsan Cavanaugh; alchemist Mother – Yoneko Cavanaugh; seamstress Brother – Samad Cavanaugh; courier Sister – Negan Cavanaugh; seamstress
8. What reward would your character most like to receive? Sceva seeks only the favor of the Lady Elminoir. See #20.
9. What do the character’s favorite weapons look like? They are very plain. He carries a three-foot ironwood staff with steel tips. His long sword is also mostly unadorned; it has a straight guard and a leather-wrapped, sphere-capped pommel. It carries a single rune etched into each side of the steel blade. Each side’s rune is different. They roughly translate to “power” and “victory.”
10. What are the character’s most vivid memories? [Sceva] I remember my first day of spell training. I was ten years old and I had finally been granted permission to attend the class after years of begging. My instructor, Brother Edgar, began class by levitating me out of my seat in the back row and into one in the center of the front row. I found out later that Brother Edgar was good friends with Vicana, and had singled me out for his demonstration.
11. What is your character’s favorite possession? Sceva does not have many possessions, and those he does have are either functional or sentimental. Probably his favorite possession is his ironwood staff, bequeathed to him by his friend Avion.
12. Who is the character’s closest friend? He is very close to Lericanin, especially after their year-long trip together. He is also very close to Lisa.
13. What does your character love, hate, and fear? Sceva loves family and friends and the quiet solitude of growing things. He loves knowledge and learning. He hates ignorance and the destruction and pain that the races inflict on each other, especially through ignorance or malice. He fears losing control over himself or failing his friends or the Lady.
14. How does your character feel about the various types of militaries and their troops? Mostly neutral (see #3). Naturally, he hates the armies of the Dark One and those with a reputation for cruelty.
15. How does your character feel about the hierarchy? I don't really understand the question. Do you mean military hierarchy? The feudal caste system?
16. Describe your character’s ideal mate. N/A
17. The character has just seen a dead body. What does he / she do? Its presence is duly noted, but unless there is some good reason to do otherwise, he just moves on.
18. How does your character feel about religion and those that practice it? [Sceva] That depends on the religion. I respect those of other faiths, except when that faith is at odds with the natural, common good. For example, I have a lot of respect for the followers of Arhus, Archantael, or Yaeby, but none for the followers of Sater.
19. How does your character feel about other races? [Sceva] Mostly neutral. I admire each race for its particular strength, such as the craftsmanship of the dwarves. I dislike orcs because I’ve never seen them do anything constructive.
20. What way would the character pick to die? Do they think that is how it will happen? Sceva would choose to die in one of two ways: either in battle against the enemies of Elminoir, or in a quiet moment of complete devotion when his Champion appears and informs him that the Lady has granted him an end to his labor and personally escorts him to the next plane (similar to how God took Elijah). He believes that it will happen in the first way, but he is hoping for the second.