Character Sheet:
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Background:
Edgar is a gruff grizzled veteran that has had a hard life but mellowed out somewhat in his twilight years. As the illegitimate son of a burgomaster and a poor servant, life was tough. His biological father never supported him as his mother worked herself to the bone just to support Edgar and herself. It was no surprise that she got sick so easily, forcing the teenaged Edgar to take up the proverbial blade and become a mercenary to earn coin.

It was unfortunate that by the time he accumulated enough money to purchase the medicine to treat his mother, it had developed beyond treatment and died before the year ended. Embittered and spiteful by the tragic loss of the sole figure in his life that he loved, Ed turned to banditry in an effort to strike back against fate and, more importantly, his uncaring father.

It led him to a dark path. A very dark path that still haunts him to this day decades later. But that's a story for another time.

His hard and unfair life never prepared him for the biggest hurdle in his life. Fatherhood. He would have never expected himself to be one in his advanced age nor that he felt that he wanted it. But fate has a funny way of turning out. He found his daughter during a cold biting winter four years ago. He had gone out to hunt for deer for his new livelihood in a far far away town.

He heard the weak cries of what he assumed at the time, were auditory hallucinations of his wrongs haunting him again, but fortunately he gave it a second guess and followed the noise to its source. It was from a baby. Barely hanging onto life, but fervently clinging to it regardless. In the hands of two frostbitten corpses huddled within a small alcove, he assumed to be her biological parents, desperately trying to protect the baby from the cold. He had little choice on the matter and was forced to take care of her. He didn't know at the time, but she would become his world. His sole pride and joy. The one person he felt deserved the honor of bearing his mother's name. His most beloved daughter, Beatrice.

Though it would seem karma would come back to bite at him one last time. Earlier this year, Bea got sick. Same sickness that took his mother was now trying to take her away from him. Maybe he deserved it, but damn it all if Edgard didn't try harder this time around. Leaving her under the care of the closest thing to a healer they had in town, he took up the proverbial blade one last time. Hellbent on getting the treatment his adopted daughter so desperately needs.

He will not fail this time. Never again.

Name: Akio

Gender: ♂

Personality: Despite his noble upbringing, Akio is easygoing and hates standing on ceremony. Although he's capable of showing the manners of a member of high society, there's nothing he hates more than pretentious snobs. He's a bit reckless, and has a penchant for getting involved where he doesn't need to, though he's surprisingly cool-headed and not as much of an idiot as his devil-may-care attitude might suggest.

History: Akio ran away from his life as a noble, abandoning his family name and forging a new identity for himself. He found he much preferred the company of commoners and a traveler's lifestyle. He mostly worked as a courier, delivering goods and messages between towns. He was camping in the woods one night when he stumbled upon a large mansion, just sitting there in the middle of the woods, far from any towns. Although curious, he wasn't going to intrude until a pack of wolves cornered him and forced him inside - the doors were unlocked, luckily.

Although he hadn't planned on staying for long, he was soon greeted by a short girl with long, curly white hair. Akio asked to meet with her parents, though she insisted she was the lord of the manor, and also a fully grown adult in her mid twenties. Akio, barely an adult at the time, was about a foot taller than her, though he didn't want to be rude when he was already intruding on her home, so he didn't comment on it further. He explained his situation, and a look of realization swept over the girl, before she moved past him and opened the door. The wolves immediately tackled her, and after a brief moment of Akio's panic, the girl started laughing as the wolves licked her face affectionately. "They're my precious children", she said. He didn't lower his guard as one of them growled at him.

The girl invited him to stay in her mansion, and against his better judgement, he accepted, if only because he was still curious about the strange girl and her empty mansion in the middle of nowhere. The girl said she already ate, but volunteered to make him dinner, and sat at the table with him, asking for his opinion on her cooking. The food was pretty good, if a bit salty, and he gave her his compliments. As he was finishing up and she was reading a book, he asked her why she had a mansion built in the middle of some woods, and also how she tamed a bunch of wolves. She simply responded that it was magic, to which Akio immediately asked her to teach him.

In the following days, Akio learned the basics of druidcraft. The girl started off trying to teach him wizardry, but it proved too boring for him to handle. Although they weren't doing anything special, learning the ways of a Druid proved exhausting. There also seemed to be a mosquito problem in his room, because he had irritating bite marks on his neck.

It all made sense when he announced he was ready to leave, returning to his travels. The girl didn't want him to leave, and had more than enough pure physical strength and speed to stop him. Turns out, she was a vampire, and apparently a very lonely one, because she refused to let him leave. In the end, he had to hold a knife to one of her wolves to get her to let him go, cringing as it sank its teeth into him all the while. She said she regret not turning him into a spawn, and swore she would find him again one day.

He managed to drag himself out of her castle and back to the nearest town, wrestling with the wolf as he did so, though even after managing to release it without tearing him to shreds, getting his wounds treated and coming to rest at a local inn, her vow to find him weighed on his mind.

Years passed by as he managed to avoid being found by both his family and the vampire girl. As dangerous as it was, he still felt he owed a lot to her as his mentor, but when he tried to visit the girl again, he found that her mansion was completely gone.

What kind of Vampire becomes a Druid, anyway? They don't exactly scream "communer with nature". In any case, he's continued on, learning more and more as a Druid. He's heard they can even change into animals, something he never once saw the girl do, which is ironic since Vampires are known to change into bats. Using his newfound magical abilities, he took on more work as an adventurer, though, perhaps even more ironic than the girl, he found he preferred close combat over sitting in the back, tossing around spells.