2022 Character Creation Challenge day 9, Auden the Assistant Beast Keeper, Beyond the Wall RPG

 

Character Stats

NAME: Auden    CLASS: Rogue/Mage    LEVEL: 1

ALLIGNMENT: Neutral    BASE ATTACK BONUS: 0    INITIATIVE: 2

STR: 11(0)    DEX: 12(0)    CON: 13(+1)    INT: 12(0)    WIS: 13(+1)    CHA: 12(0)

ARMOUR CLASS: 10    FORTUNE POINTS: 5    HIT POINTS: 9 (9)

SKILLS:  Sense Magic, Animal Ken, Survival, Cooking, Athletics, Singing

CANTRIPS: Beast Ken,  Blessing

Saving Throws

Poison: 13    Breath Weapon: 16    Polymorph: 12    Spell: 15    Magic Item: 14

Equipment & Weapons

Knife    0 to hit    1d3 damage

Peasants Clothing

Everything needed to look after Lupina his wolf.

10 Silvers

(Lupina Wolf

HP 9

Attack +1 to hit, 1d4+1 damage bite

AC13

Alignment Neutral)

Trait

unassuming.  he can use 1 fortune point at the start of any encounter to be automatically hidden if the surroundings allow it.

Description

Auden  grew up without either of his parents, his farther was outcast  and his mother died when he was young.  Taken in by the  local witch  Wihnhilda Barkridge, who put him to work in the Kitchen cooking and more importantly, looking after her animals and garden.

Auden is quiet and unassuming, he has few friends beyond his animals except Tristram the son of the lord of the manor and Hazel the apprentice witch.  He has a constant companion in Lupina the wolf who is a constant companion and look out for him.

Auden is about the same age as Hazel but he is a little subservient to the young witch and Hazel will use this to get Auden to run around after her, however she is kept in check by both Wihnhilda and Lupina the Wolf who seems to have the measure of the young witch.

Wihnhilda keeps Auden busy with work, she knows the young beast keeper has some magical ability which she has also helped him with , and whilst Wihnhilda can be both authoritarian and a hard  taskmaster she considers Auden and what he does as vitally important, and favours Auden  over both Hazel her chambermaid Flora which causes the tiny fae who looks after the pots and jars to resent Auden, Hazel is too busy to notice Wihnhildas favouritism.

Auden has always been liked in the village and although he is quiet and unassuming,  he spends a little time with the elders who have taught him to play games such as chess and he , in what little spare time he has, goes off with his friend Tristram, it was with Tristram that he witnessed the march of the faerie lord and his court which changed Auden greatly.  He feels there must be a better life for himself and Lupina than working for the Witch.

Auden does not know why his farther  is an outcast nor where he went and it is never mentioned by Wihnhilda or anyone else in the village.