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 ====== Ash ======
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 ===== Introduction =====
-Ash is tall for an elf, and someone who is clearly most at home in nature. He carries a massive greatbow (carved from very wood he is named after), and although somewhat shy he is prone to showing off his excellent marksmanship, frequently firing more than one arrow at a time. His keen senses makes him unusually perceptive and coupled with an innate wisdom provides him deep insight towards the motives and intentions of others.
+//Go ahead, run. See if you can outpace my arrows//
+Ash is tall for an elf, and someone clearly most at home in nature. He carries a massive greatbow (carved from very wood he is named after), and although somewhat reserved, is prone to showing off his excellent marksmanship, frequently firing more than one arrow at a time. His keen senses makes him unusually perceptive and coupled with an innate wisdom provides him with deep insight towards the motives and intentions of others.
 **Were you born in Lockenport, or elsewhere?**
 I was born in a forest to the north, far beyond the Torgen mountains.
 **Do you have a big family? Do you stay in touch with them?**
 Of our family only a few scattered ashes remain. I grew up amongst the Fey.
 **What are your religious beliefs?**
-Not one for dogma, I follow the path of Melora. In exactly the same way that a fox or cricket would.
+I tend to follow the path of Melora. The same way a fox or cricket would.
 **Do you have any famous ancestors?**
 We travel with a light step, and attempt to leave no footprints.
 **What sort of education or training have you had?**
-The elders show one where to start, the goddess shows one where to go.
+The Elders showed me where to start, the Great Mother, where to go.
 **Do you have a trade (other than “adventuring”)?**
 I am an explorer, the adventure seems to follow.
 **Do you have many enemies?**
 Not many, no.
 **What style of clothes do you favour?**
-In the Feywild even trained monkeys wear noble hats. It's better to choose quiet armor, sensible boots, and a cloak that provides both shelter and stealth.
+In the Feywild even trained monkeys wear noble hats.
+Better to have quiet armor, sensible boots, and a non-assuming cloak.
 **Have you ever killed someone?**
 None undeserving.
 **What is your opinion of the Lockenport authorities?**
-I have no opinion of them yet, ask me again later.
+The Guilds you mean? Their complex balance of power seems to be for the greater good.
 ===== Journal =====
-=== Arrival ===
-Suddenly we're in Lockenport, a big sprawling city all the way on the South coast. At least we're out in the open again, and close to the sea. Living underground and those freaky metal minotaurs were really starting to get to me. For now a fresh ocean breeze and seemingly plenty of opportunity awaits.
-[XP awarded 2010-12-17]
+==== Fate favours the Fearless ====
+Last night I realized the patently obvious - ever since Elsir Vale I've been doing little other than traveling from battlefield to battlefield - and not for any ill intent either.
-=== Winter comes early ===
+I accept this fate as Battlefield Archer and will hone my skills accordingly.
-Undead approaching. What fun. And although no bronze bovines, I've already noticed some kind of iron mechanoid stomping around the Guild. Dwarven, by the craft, but who knows what is in control of it. Not a dwarf. Certainly not a sober one.
-There are plenty of strange creatures at the Guild - I haven't seen such a bizarre mix since that dodgy market in Thunderspire. They seem to employ just about anyone, and those that survive come back for more. Is this mistress Tarn in it for the money? The glory? Or does she just like keeping a paid-for army around? No wonder Greshtik wants to know more.
+==== Once more into the Pit ====
-It seems the Frost Prince is growing bolder by the day, his arctic chill leaking into this world lead us straight into the Feywild. Usually these spots are so much harder, and altogether more pleasant, to find. At least we got to to visit the Court of the Winds.
+Score. Clearly The Pit can be a very lucrative place. Oh, and also a way into the Shadowfell.
-Traveling with new companions was a bit odd to start with, but once one sees past the veneer, and get to know the flaws and virtues, they invariably become more likable. "High impact opera" - who would have thunk it? Maybe it's an acquired taste.
+I wonder when we'll be going down again, and how one would go about confronting that bizarre ball of gravity. It looked terribly lethal, no doubt guarding treasure. Not that I currently need the money.
-I forget just how quickly time passes over here.
+Come to think of it, I never did replace my ritual book after the Firestorm - always for a lack of gold. Ol' Mabe predicted that I'd be coming back to the arts one day - maybe it's time to invest in a new one.
+==== A Short Treatise on Travelling ====
+Only the most naive traveller thinks that the opposite of forward is back, for once one has gone forwards, then turning around and going back does not deliver one to where one started. We have long known that time is a fourth dimension of sorts, and that suggests the tantalizing possibility that one may be able to find a direction, call it anti-forward, that could enable one to return to the exact spot, in both time and space, from where one started. A search for such a direction to may well be a fool's errand. Or not.
-===== Stats =====
+It is easy to think of space as a container of sorts, with three axes in perpendicular arrangement stretching from where one currently is into infinity - a vacuum in which one may move freely. For this to have any meaning though, it is worth noting that there have to be at least two objects concerned, one you measure from and one you measure to, for if there was to be only one object in space, distance would become meaningless, as if in a dream.
-=== Elven Ranger, Level 8 ===
+We perceive time as a straight line, with our conscious experience as a point on it inexorably moving forwards. Yet, despite our perceptions, we think of the past as something concrete, a place that could be revisited, as if it still exists. We consider the future fungible, a set of possible occurrences on which we may impose our will. Yet, we continue to extract from nature her laws that reveal a clock-like regularity, one in which we, and by that I mean the subjective we, the one that observes, have very little choice.
-**Game Play Concept:** Ranged Striker
+Reality is no doubt more complicated. It's worth noting that when viewed from afar, a line becomes curved, as it is space itself that is curved. When viewed in a small enough frame, almost all known physical processes can as easily run forwards as back, and paradoxically it seems that one may "borrow" energy from the future as long as you "pay" it back quickly enough. This raises the question; on our imaginary time-line, just how "thick" is the slice of now anyway?
-**Emphasis:** Dexterity, Wisdom
+Normally time and space appear linear, yet up close or from afar it is circular. We know that for light to go forwards it requires interacting and rotating fields, and so it seems possible, likely even, that time and space are mere shadows of a bigger thing in which rotation and translation are intimately connected.
-**Theme:** Explorer
+With only a tiny turn your gaze can move a hundred miles over a distant and curved horizon, one that up close, appears to be very flat indeed. This suggests that when it comes to movement, the way back may very well be to go forward enough, and that the quickest way forward be a turn of sorts.
+===== Background =====
-**Trained Skills:** Acrobatics, Heal, Insight, Nature, Perception, Religion, Stealth
+[[ash_heroic|Ash Heroic Tier]]
-**Feats:** Defensive Mobility, Skill Training (Insight), Initiate of the Faith, Weapons Proficiency (Greatbow), Second Shot, Hobbling Strike
+===== Character Sheet =====
-**Powers:**
+**Build:** Archer Ranger
-    * At-Will: Nimble Strike, Twin Strike, Hunter's Quarry
-    * Encounter: Surefooted Stride, Elven Accuracy, Evasive Strike, Disruptive Strike, Hawk's Talon, Weave Through the Fray
-    * Daily: Split the Tree, Spitting Cobra Stance
-    * Utility: Archer's Stairway, Healing Word
+**Race:** Elf
-=== Character Sheet ===
+**Theme:** Explorer
-{{Ash7.dnd4e}}
-{{Ash8.dnd4e}}
+**Background:** Elf - Fey Ally
+**Ability Focus:** Dexterity, Wisdom
+**Paragon Path:** Battlefield Archer
+{{Ash12.dnd4e}}

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