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Juggtacular

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I think it's because I only have the free version, but the only feat I'm given at the beginning is Grappler. Like it's just that solitary feat when there should be a few at least, right?

Pretty sure that's the issue, because a skill I wanted at level 3 isn't available because I've got the free version.

Kathyan

#26
Interested here, just wanted to ask a few questions:


Can the sheet be done on mythweavers?

I'm surprised to see clerics, druids and bards allowed, anyway I don't know if you considered them but are artificers allowed?

Are executioners above citizens in the social status just like soldiers, or are they above regular soldiers, like clergy, since they report directly to the queen?

Are we required to use the standard array of scores (15,14,13,12,10,8), or can be go point buy or dice rolling? (not that I prefer dice rolling since my luck is usually pretty bad at that)

GloomCookie

Quote from: Juggtacular on February 16, 2021, 07:32:50 PM
I think it's because I only have the free version, but the only feat I'm given at the beginning is Grappler. Like it's just that solitary feat when there should be a few at least, right?

Pretty sure that's the issue, because a skill I wanted at level 3 isn't available because I've got the free version.

Hmm odd. I have free as well but I have more options. Anyone have any idea what's going on?

Quote from: Kathyan on February 16, 2021, 08:36:25 PM
Interested here, just wanted to ask a few questions:


Can the sheet be done on mythweavers?

I'm surprised to see clerics, druids and bards allowed, anyway I don't know if you considered them but are artificers allowed?

Are executioners above citizens in the social status just like soldiers, or are they above regular soldiers, like clergy, since they report directly to the queen?

If you can get it in a format I can read the sheet online, you can. I suggested dndbeyond.com because they have a share function with a link that lets me look your sheets over.

So there are basically three tiers of magical ability in this strange society. There are mundane, low, and high magical aptitude. Low magical aptitude would be the clerics, druids, and bards, because they're not primarily driven by power. High magical aptitude is where they draw the line, because a lot of people are still terrified of the Chaos Wizards and don't want them to return, so most spellcasters are either killed or kept on such a short leash they are only brought out in large army formations and placed at the front of the army to cast magic against large groups of invaders or monsters. Otherwise, they're blindfolded and shackled to keep them from turning on the Empire. Druids can change form but they're useful as scouts and they're not impossible to hunt down and kill.

There's a special group called the Hunters made up of both Rangers and Rogues who specifically hunt rogue spellcasters and kill them. They have a special Marque of Reprieve allowing them to do almost anything short of kill random citizens to find spellcasters. Since most spellcasters start to show powers when they're teens and often are pretty bad at it, they get found out pretty quick and hauled off. It's the ones who escape for years at a time and are a legit threat that the Hunters get called in, and most are found because they start going around killing random groups because of things like being found out as spellcasters and whatnot. It's important to remember that the Hunters don't exist for the sake of being evil, it's because this society suffered centuries of abuse and enslavement at the hands of powerful spellcasters and they refuse to be subjugated again.

In regards to the status of Executioners, they're considered soldiers but they're also a kind of elite in the Army. To the average citizen, they don't know anything about the Executioners beyond hearing them come up a time or two, but to anyone in the Army they're basically just under generals in terms of importance. They're the equivalent of maybe a Navy SEAL or Army Green Beret, they're still soldiers but they're a higher caliber of soldier and so you can imagine them basically being a rank higher than their actual rank.

Speaking of ranks, in the Army they follow this rough organization:


The Empire maintains three legions in total. So, if a member of the Executioners held the rank of Centurion, he could in theory command an entire Cohort. It's unlikely, however, given the Executioners maintain their own Cohort of men that are sent where needed. They also don't use the standard battle tactics of the standard Legions given that they're specialized and pulled from various legions throughout the Empire based on merit. Most Executioners maintain a standard Tent Party, keeping them mobile and capable of fighting anywhere and everywhere.
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A Dark Weil

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Ok, I don't have much experience with this system so please let me know if I have any mistakes.  I used an archetype that wasn't available on that builder tool, but it's in the PHB, so I'm still trying to find a way to display that.

Name: Valeria "Val" Grey
Age: 24
Gender: Female

Brief Biography & Introduction:
Valeria, or Val, was born to dire circumstances.  Her mother, Emelia, was wife to Lord Anton Grey.  The Grey family are an old noble lineage with small but valuable holdings.  Emelia often spent her time traveling to visit family far from the borders of Ramasan.  On one of these trips, accompanied by her young son and Val's older brother Luc, they were ambushed by savage foreign barbarians.  The guards and servants were slaughtered, Luc himself only surviving due to being pinned and hidden under their broken carriage.  Emelia, in plain view of her trapped son, was ravaged by several of the raiders.  For hours the Mother and Son suffered before a patrol arrived to drive off the attackers.  Nine months later Valeria was born, her mother dying only hours afterwards.

Technically a bastard, and a bastard of rape, Valeria's stepfather Anton could feel only disgust for her, and she suffered many abuses within the walls of her family's home.  Outwardly the source of seed that had produced Valeria was a closely kept, if not entirely unknown, secret to avoid shaming the family.  She attended a few events each year to quell rumors, but otherwise spent little time interacting with other influential families.  Her older brother Luc, though cold and disconnected from Val in his own way, took it upon himself to mold the isolated half-sister he found in his home. 

Broken in his own way by the attack Luc only desires to gain power and expand the authority of The Empire.  To this end Val has been trained extensively in combat, intended to join the Executioners since she was a child.  There are three fundamental truths that define Val's views: first that her life is a sin, second that serving The Empire (and Queen Saega by extension) is the only way to absolve that sin, third that her brother is the only person able to guide her on that path.
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Juggtacular

Is there some other system I can use to create my character? Or just use a pdf sheet? DNDBeyond is basically telling me I outright don't have access to most skills and feats because I haven't bought them at the Marketplace.

Only starting feat I can select is Grappler as a Variant Human. Doesn't even matter what class I choose. And if I pick Human, then I don't even get the option for a starting feat. And as a Barbarian, the only choice I'm given for my lvl 3 Primal Path is "Path of the Berserker", again because I need to buy the others at the Marketplace.

So essentially I'm hamstrung before I even start as the most I can make is a vanilla, barebones, not all there whatever character when I have an actual build I was thinking of.

Isengrad

Dnd beyond is a great tool, for those that can afford it. I would suggest mythweavers for the sheet.

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Juggtacular

Quote from: Isengrad on February 17, 2021, 01:44:31 PM
Dnd beyond is a great tool, for those that can afford it. I would suggest mythweavers for the sheet.

Yeah, I don't have  $30 bucks to drop per system or feat list I want to use that is standard for characters.

Waldham

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Name:Waldham
Age: 32
Gender:Male
Class : Ranger (Archetype : Gloom Stalker)
Level : 3
Background : Urban Bounty Hunter
Quote : I am the one who runs from both the living and the dead, hunted by scavengers, haunted by those I could not protect. So I exist in this wasteland. A man reduced to a single instinct: survive.

Brief Biography & Introduction:
(to redesign BG)
Sold as an indentured servant to an ore supplier, he learned to gauge minerals for their quality and cost to fill the forges of Khuragzadd. Through her work, he constantly grooms a personal network of gossipmongers and favor-owers, associates who help him gain his footing quickly no matter where her travels take her. These allies, along with his own tenacity, cultivate a reputation for being able to find anyone, anywhere. As his reputation as a tracker grew, he came to the attention of the Hunter’s leader, Seirya. Waldham’s roughness of character appealed to the woman, who promoted him to serve as an Hunter in the Army for 5 years.

Ready to travel at a moment’s notice, Waldham owns little and packs even less. He’s terse and many interpret her exacting professionalism as greediness, but few can complain about his thoroughness or results. While not particularly interested in making friends, he knows a valuable contact when he sees one.

Personality :
At first sight, she seems olympian calm but behind this lies a rabid innovator and as such there are always better ways to achieve its goal. Tradition, for him, is a cage that prevents the imagination. Whatever she does, she strives to do better than what has been done.

Character sheet: Here

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Isengrad

yeah, DND beyond is actually a separate service.. I think it's licensed by wizards, But they are independent(With D&D Beyond being owned by Fandom, hence a lot of the fandom sites being stripped of 5e info). I would not mind if it was cheaper, but they are selling digital content people might already have a physical copy of, for the same price as the physical copy.

That being said, 5th edition creation is not as complicated as 3.5 or 4th, you needed the builder for 4th with all the options they had by the end of it.

So, Mythweavers.com for a hosted sheet, or if you want a more involved one...I think Dicecloud.com has a decent one as well, live update and tracking...just have to put everything in manually, they have a tutorial. If you need help, just PM me, I can scrape up some resources for you.

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GloomCookie

Quote from: A Dark Weil on February 17, 2021, 12:50:32 PM
Ok, I don't have much experience with this system so please let me know if I have any mistakes.  I used an archetype that wasn't available on that builder tool, but it's in the PHB, so I'm still trying to find a way to display that.

Name: Valeria "Val" Grey
Age: 24
Gender: Female

Brief Biography & Introduction:
Valeria, or Val, was born to dire circumstances.  Her mother, Emelia, was wife to Lord Anton Grey.  The Grey family are an old noble lineage with small but valuable holdings.  Emelia often spent her time traveling to visit family far from the borders of Ramasan.  On one of these trips, accompanied by her young son and Val's older brother Luc, they were ambushed by savage foreign barbarians.  The guards and servants were slaughtered, Luc himself only surviving due to being pinned and hidden under their broken carriage.  Emelia, in plain view of her trapped son, was ravaged by several of the raiders.  For hours the Mother and Son suffered before a patrol arrived to drive off the attackers.  Nine months later Valeria was born, her mother dying only hours afterwards.

Technically a bastard, and a bastard of rape, Valeria's stepfather Anton could feel only disgust for her, and she suffered many abuses within the walls of her family's home.  Outwardly the source of seed that had produced Valeria was a closely kept, if not entirely unknown, secret to avoid shaming the family.  She attended a few events each year to quell rumors, but otherwise spent little time interacting with other influential families.  Her older brother Luc, though cold and disconnected from Val in his own way, took it upon himself to mold the isolated half-sister he found in his home. 

Broken in his own way by the attack Luc only desires to gain power and expand the authority of The Empire.  To this end Val has been trained extensively in combat, intended to join the Executioners since she was a child.  There are three fundamental truths that define Val's views: first that her life is a sin, second that serving The Empire (and Queen Saega by extension) is the only way to absolve that sin, third that her brother is the only person able to guide her on that path.
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Well. That's certainly a dark backstory if ever I heard one.

So a couple of things, just to make sure we're all on the same page, Val would be broken down and rebuilt by basic training, like in most militaries. She would see herself less an individual and more a member of the Army. She could have heard about the Executioners but unlikely to have much exposure to them beyond that, so I'd suggest that her brother pushed her into the Army hoping to maybe have her get killed off while using her position within the Army for his own twisted ends. That would be a nice story hook of a soldier with less dedication towards the Queen and more towards her family, which could come into play should talk of rebellion or a coup come up (not saying it will, just an example).

Quote from: Waldham on February 17, 2021, 02:16:10 PM
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Name:Walter aka Waldham
Age: 32
Gender:Male
Class : Ranger (Archetype : Gloom Stalker)
Level : 3
Background : (coming soon)
Quote : I am the one who runs from both the living and the dead, hunted by scavengers, haunted by those I could not protect. So I exist in this wasteland. A man reduced to a single instinct: survive.

Brief Biography & Introduction:
Summary : This story is the physical transposition of a human from Earth into a fantasy realm(Tyrant’s Bastion). The displaced human is struggling to acclimate to the new world, but in most cases the Earthling went on to become a person of note, even a hero. Walter is undergoing therapy in a psychiatric hospital who is encouraged to role-play Waldham, a character in a science fiction novel. Walter finds himself actually transported to the fictional World of Forlonde, where he role-played the character in the hospital.

The founder of the Sleepless Agency, Celia Rent is a tall, fit woman approaching middle age. She has brown hair that she keeps trimmed short. Her eyes are big and inquisitive. Celia dresses in a fashion more befitting a businesswoman than an adventurer, though she keeps a slim dagger and a handgun hidden beneath her coat in case her usual tactics of diplomacy and guile break down into violence.
Celia grew up in a working-class family. Her parents weren’t well off, but they also never worried where their next meal would come from. As she reached adulthood, Celia originally wanted to join up with the city, but after looking into it further, she became disillusioned with that much rigid order and completely turned off by the simmering corruption. So, instead of going into official law enforcement, Celia began taking on cases of missing persons and lost possessions.
With each case the freelance investigator solved, her renown grew. Before long, minor aristrocrats in town were summoning her to their villas for more involved (and sometimes unscrupulous) matters. The people are uncomfortable with the supernatural, but curses, ghosts, or inexplicable magic never discouraged Celia as it did some of her fellow citizens.
As tales of her successes grew, she was hired by one of the city’s aristocrat to go into his old estate, which some believed to be haunted, and find a silver locket—an heirloom that proved the family’s right to a foreign property. The rumors turned out to be true, and Celia barely survived her first foray into the crumbling manor just outside of town. Determined to fulfill her contract (and collect the reward), Celia returned to the manor after using her burgeoning detective skills to research the estate and the family’s past. Back inside, Celia encountered another investigator in the basement just as she retrieved the lost locket.
Hired by a rival family, this investigator acknowledged that she had “won the prize,” and that he had arrived just minutes too late to claim it. He then offered to purchase the locket from her. In the musty basement, the two negotiated. During the tense conversation, the pair realized that they had much in common, and that the other investigator, Dorius Mactar, was in fact commissioned to obtain the locket for the legitimate owner. Though Celia was reluctant to have a failure on her record, she didn’t like the idea of helping yet another greedy noble family in another underhanded scheme. Besides, Dorius was offering her just as much money as the aristocrats who employed her.
As Celia mulled over this moral and financial dilemma, the ghost of the manor manifested once again. Angered by not one, but two intruders, the spirit flew into a frenzy. However, Celia and Dolrius were able to handily destroy the ghost by working together, seemingly anticipating each other’s actions. When the dust settled, Celia came to a conclusion: she agreed to part with the locket on the condition that Dorius consented to becoming her business partner.
The two worked well together, quickly getting access to more important cases (and better commissions) all across the country. They continued on this path for a number of years, Dorius suggested that they leave and travel to his hometown, where he had inherited a small piece of property. Celia had been fostering ideas of expanding their partnership into a full-fledged organization, so she agreed.
Their dream was almost cut short when a pair of assassins caught up with them. Dorius sacrificed himself in order to give Celia the upper hand in the fight. She dispatched one hired killer but sent the other one on his way (though missing an eye) to carry the message back to his masters that she wished to be left alone. They soon realized that it would be too costly to pursue its vendetta.
When she reached the hometown, she founded the Sleepless Agency in honor of her deceased friend and began hiring other investigators. She has moved away from fieldwork and taken on more of a managerial role. Thorough to the end, she makes sure that her field agents are always fully prepared for the tasks she assigns them.
It has been almost a decade since Celia created the Sleepless Agency, and she continues to expand the range of the agency and the quality of cases they take. She keeps most of her agents out in the field, retaining barely half a dozen agents in the headquarters.
She has grown to actually enjoy living in the hometown. Even though the place is always rainy and the people are superstitious, the size of the quaint town means that she and her agency are not often bothered by outsiders, and since gossip travels quickly through the town, she’s usually quickly aware of any new rumors.
Celia came requesting the service of one of her agents. Celia handed Walter a badge deputizing her with the authority of the Sleepless Agency, and sent him along to Asylum to inquire after a handful of recently committed patients.
Following the insanity that gripped Asylum, Waldham became a prisoner within. He had met only briefly with Administrator Losandro and had learned little of the asylum’s workings or those he’d been sent to inquire after, though he was promised a chance to interview the patients. While there he comes under the care of Dr. Rookie Bloom. Dr. Bloom is also a science-fiction fan. After a conversation with Walter, she invites him to join a projective therapy group. This group is focusing on the "World of Forlonde. After joining this group and participating in some sessions, Jim gains an insight. He realizes that hallucinations glimpsed prior to his arrival are of the World of Forlonde.
Even during his brief visit, he inferred something of the strangeness unraveling at the sanitarium and had been granted leave to explore the grounds. It was during this investigation that the first of the quakes struck and the patient uprising began. In the chaos that followed, Waldham and her compatriots found themselves attacked by deep one hybrid, which overwhelmed those who had traveled with him. Desperate to escape, Walter made her way to the asylum’s entry, but found that she wasn’t the first to be trapped by the unnatural mist surrounding the grounds. He was 'taken in' by the fog.
Waldham fled into the world of Forlonde, all the while pursued by raiders and monsters. By the time he stopped running—shattered and exhausted—he could only cry himself into a catatonic state. He awoke weeks later in Forlonde, his wounds roughly patched by priests to the best of their ability. Waldham learned much of his present-day survival skills on the road.

Sold as an indentured servant to an ore supplier, he learned to gauge minerals for their quality and cost to fill the forges of Khuragzadd. Through her work, he constantly grooms a personal network of gossipmongers and favor-owers, associates who help him gain his footing quickly no matter where her travels take her. These allies, along with his own tenacity, cultivate a reputation for being able to find anyone, anywhere. As his reputation as a tracker grew, he came to the attention of the Hunter’s leader, Seirya. Waldham’s roughness of character appealed to the woman, who promoted him to serve as an Hunter in the Army for 5 years.

Ready to travel at a moment’s notice, Waldham owns little and packs even less. He’s terse and many interpret her exacting professionalism as greediness, but few can complain about his thoroughness or results. While not particularly interested in making friends, he knows a valuable contact when he sees one.

Character sheet: (coming soon)
I'm rejecting this character.
First, while I get that it's meta, this is not a game for meta. So please remove the mentions of being in a mental institute doing a roleplaying game.
Second, you mention conducting investigations involving the supernatural and the arcane. That's a no. Magic is incredibly well regulated and if you have legit issues with magic, there are specific groups within the Empire that deal with it.

Quote from: Isengrad on February 17, 2021, 04:19:54 PM
yeah, DND beyond is actually a separate service.. I think it's licensed by wizards, But they are independent(With D&D Beyond being owned by Fandom, hence a lot of the fandom sites being stripped of 5e info). I would not mind if it was cheaper, but they are selling digital content people might already have a physical copy of, for the same price as the physical copy.

That being said, 5th edition creation is not as complicated as 3.5 or 4th, you needed the builder for 4th with all the options they had by the end of it.

So, Mythweavers.com for a hosted sheet, or if you want a more involved one...I think Dicecloud.com has a decent one as well, live update and tracking...just have to put everything in manually, they have a tutorial. If you need help, just PM me, I can scrape up some resources for you.
My understanding was DNDBeyond was free, so if that's not the case then I'm sorry. Thought for sure though it was.
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sullivanthedreadlord

Making a basic character with very limited options is what is free on D&D beyond. You don't even get access to most of the content that is in the player handbook because you have to pay for all the books you want to use.
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Juggtacular

Yeah, DNDBeyond is free in the way that a mobile game like Candy Crush is free. Yeah you can download it and use it for free, but only at the most basic of levels. If you want what should come standard, you have to pay to get stuff like feats, skills, and class specific traits.

sullivanthedreadlord

You get access to skills. You get access to one subclass only. You don't get access to feats.
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Quote from: GloomCookie on February 17, 2021, 04:33:06 PM
My understanding was DNDBeyond was free, so if that's not the case then I'm sorry. Thought for sure though it was.

Parts of it are, anything from the SRD that wizards presented is free as are most of the base races introduced through Unearthed Arcana or given time to shine in other aspects. But yeah...the sourcebook bundle(that has all 17 source books) is 391 bucks.

Not saying its a bad Product, the site itself has some wonderful tools not only for players but DM's as well(The encounter builder is wonderful, and it's really tempting to drop some money on the MM and Mord's tome of foes just for the digital tools). A place to store Homebrew and share it with an expansive D&D community, and a lot of neat articles and intergration into UA and playtest elements. Just...expensive if your getting into it late.

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GloomCookie

Damn. Sorry guys. If you have a way of sharing, let me know. I'll see if I can find anything on my end.
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Well, DnD Beyond is also useful if GM has all splats bought digitally they can 'share' the resources but needs to establish a game in DnD beyond and have a GM account there. So the service is good but is quite an expensive to get into. Ofc can try search sites that list details of feats and classes.

sullivanthedreadlord

The good thing about 5e is you can build a character and never touch the feats and still have a good character.
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Juggtacular

That's true but it's like saying Darth Vader is still awesome as a Sith Lord. While yes, he still is insanely powerful, he's a pale imitation of Anakin before the Mustafar fight and can never reach his full potential. Also some builds need certain feats and such to work.

I can't even get Tough for my Barbarian for example. I'm stuck with Grapple. Grapple of all things! lol

A Dark Weil

Quote from: GloomCookie on February 17, 2021, 04:33:06 PM
Well. That's certainly a dark backstory if ever I heard one.

So a couple of things, just to make sure we're all on the same page, Val would be broken down and rebuilt by basic training, like in most militaries. She would see herself less an individual and more a member of the Army. She could have heard about the Executioners but unlikely to have much exposure to them beyond that, so I'd suggest that her brother pushed her into the Army hoping to maybe have her get killed off while using her position within the Army for his own twisted ends. That would be a nice story hook of a soldier with less dedication towards the Queen and more towards her family, which could come into play should talk of rebellion or a coup come up (not saying it will, just an example).
Good notes, thanks!  I'll adjust the background as I work on the best way to link my character sheet. 

sullivanthedreadlord

Quote from: Juggtacular on February 17, 2021, 05:40:50 PM
That's true but it's like saying Darth Vader is still awesome as a Sith Lord. While yes, he still is insanely powerful, he's a pale imitation of Anakin before the Mustafar fight and can never reach his full potential. Also some builds need certain feats and such to work.

I can't even get Tough for my Barbarian for example. I'm stuck with Grapple. Grapple of all things! lol

Feats in 5e is an optional rule so DMs don't even have to use feats if they don't want to. You can't really compare an optional thing to Darth Vader and Anakin. Anakin becoming Darth Vader was not an optional thing as it was part of his character arc. Feats are not as important to character builds in 5e like they used to be in past editions.
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I'm not a super hardcore player, but I've never personally seen a setting where feats weren't used. My point is still valid in that not having feats takes away from all you can do with a character.

sullivanthedreadlord

I will say that some feat combos are good. Like Pole Arm Master and Sentinel. Before I played 5e I played pathfinder a lot more. That game has alot of feats in it.
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Beyond certainly doesn't make it easy to add things without paying extra, but I did find that under Actions you can add custom entries with whatever text you'd like if that helps anyone else.  I think it worked out pretty well for the Battle Master maneuvers at least.  I also tweaked the background a little bit to focus on her being in the army rather than the Executioners prior to the start of the campaign.

Updated Character Info
Name: Valeria "Val" Grey
Age: 24
Gender: Female

Brief Biography & Introduction:
Valeria, or Val, was born to dire circumstances.  Her mother, Emelia, was wife to Lord Anton Grey.  The Grey family are an old noble lineage with small but valuable holdings.  Emelia often spent her time traveling to visit family far from the borders of Ramasan.  On one of these trips, accompanied by her young son and Val's older brother Luc, they were ambushed by savage foreign barbarians.  The guards and servants were slaughtered, Luc himself only surviving due to being pinned and hidden under their broken carriage.  Emelia, in plain view of her trapped son, was ravaged by several of the raiders.  For hours the Mother and Son suffered before a patrol arrived to drive off the attackers.  Nine months later Valeria was born, her mother dying only hours afterwards.

Technically a bastard, and a bastard of rape, Valeria's stepfather Anton could feel only disgust for her, treating the girl as an unwanted guest at best and a prisoner at worst.  Outwardly the source of seed that had produced Valeria was a closely kept, if not entirely unknown, secret to avoid shaming the family.  She attended a few events each year to quell rumors, but otherwise spent little time interacting with other influential families.  Her older brother Luc, though cold and disconnected from Val in his own way, took it upon himself to mold the isolated half-sister he found in his home. 

Broken in his own way by the attack Luc only desires to gain power and expand the authority of The Empire.  To this end Val has been trained extensively in combat, pushed into the military as young as possible to either die or serve her brother's machinations.  There are three fundamental truths that define Val's views: first that her life is a sin, second that slaughtering the foes of The Empire is the only way to absolve that sin, third that her brother is the only person able to guide her on that path.  Val is a cold and merciless fighter, taking joy in few things besides cutting down her enemies.  Her personal life, when not directed by her brother for some benefit, is lacking in many friendships or relationships.  She often struggles to identify personal desires, and feels lost without an authority directing her.
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Name: Regina "Reggy" Walters
Age: 22
Gender: Female

As the middle child her family overlooked her. As soon as she was old enough, she enlisted and left her family for greener pasters. It was there that she found her place. She mostly kept to herself and did her job with cold efficiency with a devil may care attitude with how it would hurt other people who where not in power.

I didn't have a complex back story for this one. Just someone who is doing a job and does not care if it hurts people who are not in power. So long as she gets paid, who cares what happens to other people.
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