SHMKehoes Character

I think I'm going to go with a dragonborn wizard flavoured, flavoured as a lizard-folk named Ammos Grifstone.

I like the idea of my character being plucked up from their birthplace at a very young age- some kind of bog or mire where the lizardfolk live.
Young enough to have vague memories of characters but not old enough to be able to remember exactly why they were taken. (an attempt to subjugate the lizard-folk was made by taking 1 child from each household as a hostage. The taken were then adopted into noble families to hopefully influence better race relations in the near future.)

After being adopted into a Waterdavian human Noble household they were raised and flourished in high society and treated as kin. Their older sister is the family heir, allowing Ammos to go where his interest takes him. Which is towards the Arcane and Medicine.

The Arcane drew Ammos in with an early fascination, under tutelage he was able to manifest an aptitude for spellcasting and quickly began to see himself as a Mage. His interest in the Arcane was endless, and his love of magic had him marvelling in the city of Waterdeep, but through his studies, learned that the magics of today are but pale echo of the magic that came before- leading to his love of exploration and delving into the ancient places of the world to find magic and spells lost.

His interest in Medicine was lesser but with some of the best teachers at his disposal, Ammos has become a competent physician (Healer feat).

The Grifstone Family in Waterdeep were a recently elevated noble family who made wealth and fame in the mining, masonry and crafting trades. Growing up amongst it, Ammos developed a strong attachment to finer things; gems, precious metals and precious stones. So when the Rockseeker brothers came to Waterdeep with crates of gems and tales of their adventures to find them he was enthralled and became fast friends with the three.

Now an adult, Ammos learned from Gundren that he and his brothers had found "something big" and- unable to resist- Ammos asked Gundren to be allowed to join him on his latest adventure. Gundren allowed it, but despite Ammos's protests of not needing payment, Gundren just repeated "Fair pay for fair work".

I have submitted the character to the campaign :)

As for "what do I want to happen"

Their goals are to learn more about the powerful ancient arcane magic, discover magic items, and have an adventure.
They are a naive young noble raised on stories of adventurers and treasure, in the City of Splendors and magic.

I think the real adventurer's life will be a rude awakening for him and I think the theme I want to go with is the wool being pulled from their eyes, the harsh reality setting in... then a slow growth and eventual rise to the occasion.

Looked over your character sheet, it looks good. I will allow you a healer's kit to start since you took the healer's feat

That's awesome, I was going to try and purchase one at the Wayside Inn after "forgetting" my last one in Neverwinter. So I'm happy to mark off 5 gold.

That’s fine, I have always felt like if somebody is proficient in some kit or tool they would probably have that thing with them to start.

@SHMKehoe, I know you wanted to share spells from my character's book. Right now I have selected the following 1st-level spells:
Alarm
Catapult
Detect Magic
Identify
Magic Missile
Silent Image

I also took the Magic Initiate (Wizard) feat and obtained Shield.

Let me know if this works for you!

@Cancerman The spells that I have taken are:

>Detect Magic
Ice Knife
Mage Armour
>Magic Missile
>Shield
Unseen Servant

I'm happy to say that the spells we both already know are spells we learnt together from our tutor in Waterdeep? I will say that all three of me, you and GeneCortess have all taken Detect Magic, so if you wanted to swap it for something else we've got that covered. (I feel like it makes sense for Ammos to have it due to his obsession with magic and ancient magic).

No pressure to swap it if you have your own reason for wanting to take it!

In my head canon, Detect Magic is something every wizard learns so it's not unreasonable for everyone to have it. Whether a wizard has it prepared is a different matter, of course. Right now I've prepared Identify and will rely on Detect Magic as a ritual.

And it makes sense that Tatiana, Ammos's adopted younger sister, would have the same tutors. Tatiana was semi-studious, but didn't take instruction too seriously; the typical bored student forced to be there, while still absorbing the knowledge and skill.

Awesome, I'm going to be relying on it as a ritual as well!