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Xalxika 07-28-03, 04:09 PM	I have a pretty good story-line going with my Devil Hunter that I will be playing with in a week, but I want him to have a slave. The DM that will take my place in a week has said he will think about me being able to start with one (we are beginning at level 1), though if he doesn't let me I could buy one later. My character is NG, so having a slave do chores and the like for him would be evil, right? Basically I'm going to 'show him the ropes', but how could I justify this sort of thing into my history? It seems to me that it would be easy, but I'm having trouble justifying it because of the other history information. The short-handed history: Lived in a small town that was raided by demons (a mis-placed portal let them through). So my character Lucius ran into the forest with his parents to hide and live. Soon they moved to the mountains. Lucius made voyages to town for supplies, as well as books on demons from the library to read about them. He became fascinated, eventually finding a Devil Hunter class that had been long forgotten. He took to training, moved to town, became a bounty hunter to earn enough to travel. He made a friend and started to travel with him. 2 months in there was an encounter with 2 Imps, and his friend died quickly, but Lucius killed one of the Imps. Then a higher demon came into the battle and forced Lucius to flee. Now he adventures to seal the gates to the 9 Hells. So, a little help on adding in a legitimate reason for a slave would be helpfull. Thanks in advance.
Mikal 07-28-03, 08:11 PM	Slavery isn't nessecary an evil thing, depending on the society. If it is a society based on say.. Roman or Greek civilization, then slaves aren't property per say, but prisoners of war, debtors, and poor people trying to buy their way out of their debts. As such, they recieve a small wage, and they MUST get proper food and clothing and shelter from their master. (i.e. you). And there are laws that protect you from abusing the slave. Thus it's more like an indentured servant, rather then chattel slavery. In this type of scenario I can see a NG person easily having a slave, since in a sense it is helping a person from starving and eventually helping them pay debts (slaves in those times were commonly better treated then the homeless and whatnot)
Xalxika 07-29-03, 12:39 AM	Thanks for the input. See, what I want to do with the slave is show him the way of being a Devil Hunter, or one of my companians can show him their class if he is so inclined. I plane to treat him well, and eventually set him free with some money to start adventuring, or to live in the city. I didn't really think about the indentured servant look of it, so thanks for helping my amnesia there :). The tasks for the slave will be minute as well. They won't be anything like farming or anything. Maybe just carrying my stuff, watching my horse while I'm in the dungeon, or some other small easy tasks. Hell, if he watches my horse while I'm in the Tavern, I'll even return the favor. Are my questions hard to answer or something because I get very little feedback. When I do, though, it's usually pretty good. Kind of a retorical question I guess. Just pondering. But thanks again.
MindLord 07-29-03, 12:54 AM	Slave is such a big word. Often a mage's apprentice is a slave too, he do all the chores and dirty work the mage doesn't want to do but he learns magic. Your slave do all the dirty works but he learn from you. He also could be evil and your trying to redempt him towards good.