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Puskara 12-17-04, 09:18 AM

So I have been tossing around tons of character ideas and I have settled on one. Need some help fleshing out more details or improving the existing ones. Name = Raphael Argent Race = Potentially human or halfling. Leaning towards small race. Type = Shapechanger(Werebear, Natural) Class = Gestalt werebear/primary caster (TBD) Familiar = Lantern Archon Personlity traits in no particular order = Vain, Studious, Open, Cheerfull, Friendly, Protective. Raphael typically goes by Argent. Raphael was a precocious child who was always getting into things. He was particularily fond of animals and stargazing. While trapesing through the forest he discovered a hare caught in a snare. The Keepers of the Forest had banned trapping in the forest. This was Rapaels first glimpse of how harmful greed is. Raphaels mother comforted her weeping child and cheered him with a fresh cookie. To set his heart at ease she told him the story of his grandfather the great Keeper. "Your grandfather had been a Keeper for almost forty years when he was changed. He had always held a special love for bears. When visiting the northern reaches of the forests he came upon a mother and her cubs who were haggared and starving. He saw the mother make a trepidacious step forward, daring what no bear would without a pair of starving cubs to drive it. Slowly he raised his hands and spoke so that she would understand, explaining that he understood and held her not to account for the sake of her children. Grandfather knelt and prepared himself for the end. He wispered his last prayer to Bharri the Patron as the mother bear charged, asking that the Great Bear look over the forest and in particular this mother and her cubs. The pain was terrible but he bore it with a smile. He gave himself to save these creatures that he had never met before that day. Bharri watched from his great caverns and was moved with pity for the bears and great admiration for your grandfather. Bharri's appearance in the forest was his first in many thousands of years. The mother and her cubs were instantly overwhelmed and collapsed. Bharri licked thier wounds and they were healed and he breathed a great snort of rushing breath into thier nostrils and they were rejuvinated and filled with a much greater power of mind, some say equal to that of a man. Bharri bid them travel to his great caverns and study there with him. Then Bharri turned to grandfather, his lifes blood pouring out on the snow. Great tears welled up in Bhari's eyes and as these tears fell upon your Grandfather, his wounds began to close. You grandfather opened his eyes to see the greatest of all bears, fur whiter than the snow and deep blue eyes with boundless wisdom and compassion in them. Bharri's massive head was crowned with a gossamer stole or purple and gold. The Great Bear leaned forward and took your Grandfather in his jaws, jaws that could snap him in two in a moment and that carried him more gently than his mother on the day of his birth. Your Grandfather immediatly fell into a very deep slumber. Imagine Grandma's suprise when a great white bear the size of their cabin came calling with her husband in its pearlescent maw! Grandma fainted strait away and when they both awoke they were wrapped safely in thier great warm blankets, thier house in perfect order, and a fragrent soup simmering over a low fire. Your Grandfather bore marsk from Bharri's jaw though they could not rightly be called scars. The marks were golden in color and there was no deformation in his flesh. Since that day your Grandfather walked the forests as one of the bears he loved so much. And that is how you and I came to be as we are. All of his children and thier children carry the gift of Bharri with them as a blessing and calling to do good through perseverance, study, and great heart." After hearing his favorite story Raphael slept and dremt of one day finding the vast caves of Bharri in order to study and to meet the Grandfather he never knew. So what do you folks think? Comments? Suggestions? Critisism? Thanks in advance. Puskara