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 ====== Ash ====== ====== Ash ======
  
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 ===== Introduction ===== ===== Introduction =====
  
-Ash is tall for an elfand someone clearly most at home in nature. He carries a massive greatbow (carved from very wood he is named after), and although somewhat shy otherwise, 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+//Go aheadrunSee 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?​** **Were you born in Lockenport, or elsewhere?​**
  
-I was born in a forest to the north, far beyond the Torgen mountains. +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?** **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.  Of our family only a few scattered ashes remain. I grew up amongst the Fey. 
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 **What are your religious beliefs?** **What are your religious beliefs?**
  
-Not one for dogma, ​I tend to follow the path of Melora. ​In 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?​** **Do you have any famous ancestors?​**
  
 We travel with a light step, and attempt to leave no footprints. ​ We travel with a light step, and attempt to leave no footprints. ​
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 **What sort of education or training have you had?** **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”)?​** **Do you have a trade (other than “adventuring”)?​**
  
 I am an explorer, the adventure seems to follow. I am an explorer, the adventure seems to follow.
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 **Do you have many enemies?** **Do you have many enemies?**
  
 Not many, no. Not many, no.
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 **What style of clothes do you favour?** **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?** **Have you ever killed someone?**
  
 None undeserving. ​ None undeserving. ​
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 **What is your opinion of the Lockenport authorities?​** **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 ===== ===== 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. 
  
 +==== Fate favours the Fearless ====
  
-==== Winter comes early ====+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.
  
-Undead approaching. Joy. And although no bronze bovines, ​I've already noticed some kind of iron mechanoid stomping around. Dwarven, by the craft of it, but who knows what is really in control? Not a dwarf. Certainly not a sober one+accept this fate as Battlefield Archer and will hone my skills accordingly
  
-Not that there is any shortage of strange creatures here at the Guild. Come to think of it, I haven'​t seen such a bizarre mix since we visited 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 this Greshtik wants to know more.  
  
-Meanwhile the Frost Prince grows bolder, his arctic chill leading 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. ​+==== Once more into the Pit ====
  
-Traveling with new companions was bit odd to start withbut once past the veneer, getting to know the flaws and virtues, they invariably become ​lot more likable. But high impact opera? Who would have imagined that such music exists! Requiring from the voice the same skill an auctioneer might employ. Endurance, with a good cutting edge+Score. Clearly The Pit can be very lucrative place. Oh, and also way into the Shadowfell
  
-It must be 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.
  
 +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.  ​
  
-==== Defenders of Comack Island II ====+==== A Short Treatise on Travelling ​====
  
-Damn, Petru didn't make it back, and Corrin nearly bit it too. All because two clueless brainiacs wanted ​to steal some gizmo from the HordeThey may know lot about magicbut clearly at cost to the more common sensibilities.+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 startedWe have long known that time is a fourth dimension of sorts, and that suggests the tantalizing possibility that one may be able to find directioncall 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
  
-Our fallen comrade ​is probably already in service ​of the Lich Lordluckily Ubu took something ​for the clerics ​to work with, as I understand the Guild covers one raise dead on credit. Bonus? Maybe+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
  
-Hold on, I wonder ​if that means that the merry Shadar-Kai will encounter his zombie self on the battlefield?​ Freaky.+We perceive time as a straight line, with our conscious experience as a point on it inexorably moving forwards. Yetdespite 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.
  
 +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? ​
  
-==== Into the Pit ==== +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. ​
  
-My various gods, what city. Undead approaching, ​and, oh yesthis here bottomless pit in the back yard+With only tiny turn your gaze can move a hundred miles over a distant ​and curved horizonone 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 =====
  
-Bottomless pit my foot, a pit without end is a tunnel. I wonder where to. Or more to the point, from. +[[ash_heroic|Ash Heroic Tier]]
  
 +===== Character Sheet =====
  
-==== Shadow of the Assassin ====+**Build:** Archer Ranger
  
-The Shadowfell remains every bit as dreary as I remember - stepping through the portal and it's as if all the colour and joy is leached from your being, and replaced with feelings of dread and despair; an awful place filled with barbaric creatures whose only delight seems to be the pain and suffering of others.  +**Race:** Elf
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-The reason for our visit is that Greshtik, or rather the Guild at the behest of Greshtik, wanted us to investigate a curious assassination that proved to be as fatal to the assassin as it did to his target. As an added twist we discovered that the assassin himself was in fact the target, his victim merely convenient collateral with all the guile and duplicity that only a dragon could muster.  +
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-I wonder how the cultists fit into all of this. Oh, and Greshtik of course - somehow I suspect that his cunning surpasses even that of a shadow dragon.  +
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-===== Stats ===== +
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-==== Elven Ranger, Level 10 ==== +
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-**Game Play Concept:** Ranged Striker +
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-**Emphasis:​** Dexterity, Wisdom+
  
 **Theme:** Explorer **Theme:** Explorer
  
-**Trained Skills:** Acrobatics, Heal, Insight, Nature, Perception, Religion, Stealth +**Background:** Elf Fey Ally
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-**Feats:** Defensive Mobility, Skill Training (Insight), Initiate of the Faith, Weapons Proficiency (Greatbow), Second Shot, Bow Expertise, Weapon Focus (Bow) +
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-**Powers:​** +
-    * 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, Archer'​s Stairway, Healing Word +
-    * Daily: Split the Tree, Spitting Cobra Stance, Attacks on the Run, Root Gate +
  
-==== Character Sheet ==== +**Ability Focus:** Dexterity, Wisdom
-{{ash10.dnd4e}}+
  
 +**Paragon Path:** Battlefield Archer
  
 +{{Ash12.dnd4e}}
  
  
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