Robert Fargoer
Legendary Wandering Swordsman
Name: Robert Fargoer
Title: Knight Templar
Race: Krynn Half-Elf
Class: Paladin
Alignment: Lawful Good
Demeanor: Free spirited warrior, trying to live with the guilt of his
friend's deaths. Determined and strong-willed when he sees something he feels
is important.
Sex: Male
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 145lbs
Eyes: Steele Blue
Hair: Brown, Long
Skin: Tanned, weathered
Age: 234 years old (Physiologically 49)
Appearance: Remarkably handsome half-elf, in a rugged mountain man
kind of way. Seems to carry an aire of purity about him. As though he were
at one with all things.
Distinguishing Marks: Long jagged scars across his back.
Robert's Statistics (AD&D)
Sacred Bundle
A sacred bundle is a collection of 5-10 totemic items placed together in a
pouch for the purpose of imbuing magical protection on the wearer. To create
a sacred bundle, a warrior: enters a trance (usually with his medicine man's
help) and contacts his guardian spirit. He then asks for the spirit's help
in creating this magical talisman. After carefully considering the warrior's
personality and nature, the spirit selects 4-9 (1d6 +3) items which the warrior
must collect. Usually, several of these items will be difficult or dangerous
to procure, such as a bear's claw, a giant snake's rattle, or a feather from
the nest of an eagle.
After he has collected these items, the warrior goes to his tribe's medicine
man and asks for his help in mystically binding the materials together. The
medicine man then asks the warrior to gather one last rare item. Almost always,
the medicine man chooses an item which he needs in performing his shamanistic
duties, and when the warrior procures it, takes part of the item for his own
use.
Once all the items are assembled, the medicine man performs a ceremony binding
them into a sacred bundle, and from that point forward the warrior wears the
bundle at all: times. The sacred bundle bestows the following benefits upon
the owner: + 2 on all saving throws, the warrior is only surprised on a natural
roll of 1, his unarmored AC becomes 2, and he subtracts one point from each
die of damage when he is hit by an enemy's weapons.
If the sacred bundle is ever removed from the warrior's body, all of its benefits
permanently vanish, and he can never get another. A sacred bundle never benefits
anybody but the warrior who made it.
Robert gained his Sacred bundle during his wanderings with a Plains Shaman
on the Plains of Dust. He helped the tribe defeat a terrible plague that had
been eating all the iron in the land. During which he lost his suit of magical
armor. The other warriors showed him how to use his make a bundle to protect
himself, and he has not donned a piece of armor since.
Game Status: PC
This is the a rebuilt version of Robert Fargoer. The original was created
in the Winter of 1986 for a PC game called Bards Tale. He carried over into
the sequels to that game as the leader of my party, and later was converted
to AD&D for a one-shot style adventure, that turned into a small campaign.
He was a lvl 55 paladin before it's end, most of those levels gained while
completing the Bard's Tale Adventure Games. Despite the difficulty of those
games, and the amount of combat, against all manner of monster, he has seen.
Robert has NEVER been killed. That may not seem like much unless you have
played AD&D, in which case you know it is common for PCs to die and be resurrected
several times during their lifetimes. Robert has outlived his normal lifetime,
only his continued adventures into the unknown and encountering of strange
occurances like time-warps, fountains of youth and the sort have kept him
young and vigorous.
I now bring him to the wing, converting him once again
into AD&D and lowering his level significantly for play there. As well as
adding him to the realm of Dragonlance. A world which up until now he had
no contact with. (One I believe he is older than IRL ~L~) I do this for two
reasons. First being that it is my favorite AD&D background, and second because
his life story so easily fits into it. Though he has become a plane-walker
and most likely visited several other worlds. The Dragonlance world of Krynn
seems to most fit as the birthplace of this grand hero.
Though I may in the future write some more on his background,
I will never attempt to chronicle it all. Instead I intend to start a new
volume with his exploits on the wing. Starting with the tale of the Armageddon
List.
Background
Homeland: Skara Brae, Solamnia (Krynn)
Social Class: Low
Religion: Follower of Paladine
Father: Unknown (Elven Minstrel)
Mother: Rachel (Dancer at the Horn's Blow Tavern, died in childbirth)
Siblings: None
Wife: None
Children: Daemynn Spaun (Son)
Aliases & Titles: Savior of Ki'ev, Conqueror of Mangar, Sword of Kylearan,
Defiler of the Mad God, Slayer of Ragadom, Hero of Berk's Pass, and on and
on and on...
Life Event: When he was 8 he was saved from thieves by a Solamnic Knight
named Brightblade. He swore to become just like him. He succeeded beyond what
anyone would have believed, though he considers himself a failure for not
becoming a Full Knight of Solamnia. A fault of his mixed blood not his own,
but Robert does not see it that way.
History (Condensed Version)
Gimme a few days.
