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MonkeyPaladin 11-04-05, 04:18 PM	I made a dwarf ranger/barbarian, Delakar, in our Eberron campaigh, and am working him into the Deepwarden prestige class. I am working on his back story now. I want him to be more of a loner than other dwarves, maybe an outcast who was exiled for some reason, or perhaps his clan was killed. This event would be a major one in his life, and I'm thinking he picked up the barbarian levels once he was on his own. I just can't quite work out why he is on his own. I don't want it to be too horrible because I want him to stay one of the good guys. Any suggestions?
Blue_Dilemma 11-04-05, 06:23 PM	Sorry maybe I'm missing something but Deepwardens usually have roots in a Dwarven city's malitia, acting as an early warning system and reporting back to his comrades in the city which he serves. If he's an exile or clanless I don't get why he'd be a Deepwarden.
erbmjw 11-04-05, 10:35 PM	He shouldn't be an exile nor clanless - but the only surviving member of a clan that was hit by a natural disaster { at least as far as Delkar knows ;) } Then Delkar would both - be allowed to be a member of the Deepwardens ... oh and the leader of his clan ;) It would be great story hook - his clanmates all dies in natural disaster X - Deklar is now both the only surviving member and leader of his clan - it gives him a reason to want to protect other dwarves as well it gives your character a chance to decide if he wants to re-build his clan { which would be good for roleplaying -- your GM might even love that } Depending on your minor clan's former allies and enemies your GM and you could have a lot of fun
MonkeyPaladin 11-05-05, 12:31 AM	Thanks, I think I can work with that.
erbmjw 11-05-05, 01:17 AM	Just remember that before the disaster you were related to the clan leader as a 3rd removed ( even 4th or 5th?) younger cousin. You could even have a good but rarely directly connected relationship with your cousin the leader. One connection could be that he directly approved of your choice to be a ranger for the clan :) In case you are wondering: your great-grandfather and his -great-grandfather were brothers; their sons ( the grandparents ) were cousins; the next set of sons ( ie your father and his father) were second cousins; you and he are third cousins. Though the leader was older than you, married and had children, you are younger and still single. So for you, no arranged marriage or bethrothal yet; although discussions had started between your family elders ( parents, aunts and uncles ) as to which clans & sub-families they should start looking at. That would allow you to take on the position as clan leader in Dwarven culture - the Dwarven community should even respect your clans territory rights for at least a few years ( possibly a decade or two - after all dwarves are fairly long lived ). Since you were the only clan survivor after the disaster - you stayed, dug out the bodies and performed the proper funeral services - for your entire clan. During that time you had to live unlike most other dwarves and at more than one point you had to fight off creatures that came for the bodies. This should account for your characters barbarian levels - and would not disqualify/disgrace you in 'decent' Dwarves thoughts - in fact they would be willing to forgive your barbariac tendacies as they should most often see it as your great personal sacrifice towards both your clan and Dwarven culture/heritage. One other point - you have just given the GM an extensive dungeon - your clan's underground territories :) - the bonus is that you only know some of it because the natural disaster changed so much of it, and you have been away for so long. If you decide to reform the clan, then I would suggest that you get the Leadership feat at some point - it helps that you already have a fixed base from the point of the Dwarven community.