Character Generation Thread

The son of Reese Everdeen, a minor sergeant in the City Watch, Tom grew up listening to stories of his father's tussles with petty criminals. While his father tried hard to mold Tom into a future watchman, the boy unfortunately stayed small and scrawny (something Reese blamed on the boy's late mother). The only area where he didn't appear to disappoint his father was his skill with a bow--so, Reese jokingly gifted him with a surplus one from the watch which he could barely carry. But otherwise, he was generally hopeless with a sword and shield.

Even worse in his father's eyes was the fact that Tom preferred reading to any kind of sport. He was constantly scolded for the fact that he was reading far too much. Tom still had nightmares of the day his father learned his eyes were already worn out to the extent that he was going to need specially-made spectacles. Tom couldn't help it though, reading was his greatest joy whether it be books on language, nature, medicine, or science (the latter of which he experimented with to mix up extracts when his dad wasn't around). Tom's absolute favorite remained crime stories those that his father told and whichever written ones he could get his hands on. He loved hearing about the cunning of the villains and the brilliant ways that constables managed to catch them.

By the time he was seven, Tom was no longer just listening to Reese's cases but asking very detailed questions--at first this impressed his father, then seemed to worry him that Tom was trying to plan out how to do the same crimes without getting caught. That only led to a closer eye being kept on him. But by time he was nine, he was suggesting a few things that his father and his men had missed. After the third time the boy's hunches earned Reese an accolade from his superiors, the sergeant began taking the boy seriously and bringing him questions from his active cases for his input.

However, frustratingly, Tom's found it very hard to get anyone else to take him at all seriously. It probably doesn't help that he's proud, arrogant, and constantly certain he's the smartest one in the any room regardless of their age.

As he grows older, he's only growing nosier; his obsession with justice and the rule of law leading him to insert himself into business where he doesn't really belong and where it might even be dangerous. His dad has lectured him on this repeatedly, that he needs to get a sense of perspective and to know his place.

It's likely that sometime soon he's going to learn a sharp lesson; hopefully he survives it.

Yeah, let's do a "day-to-day" kind of thing and we will work the acquisition of items into the story (or, if you prefer, you can say that it was an inheritance, or something similar). Note that not all of you have to be from Waterdeep originally, you are just there now. You may be the child of an ambassador to the city or a semi-permanent visitor.

Yeah, let's do a "day-to-day" kind of thing and we will work the acquisition of items into the story (or, if you prefer, you can say that it was an inheritance, or something similar). Note that not all of you have to be from Waterdeep originally, you are just there now. You may be the child of an ambassador to the city or a semi-permanent visitor.

Glad to game with you, everyone. I'm brewing up an Aasimar with the Scion of Humanity racial trait so he's more distant and less straight up angel-ish. Oracle seems fitting. I'm also thinking in the same kind of "discovered magic" vein that runekyndig is in.