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Title: Platemail's Bio Part 2
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It was after a few weeks of wandering that
mountains that Platemail found a village of
dwarves. He spoke elven very well, which made the
dwarves suspisious. But they agreed to let him
work the stables of the only inn in town. Many
weeks were spent there, him just barely making
enough to feed himself when he caught the
attention of Hriekal, the towns armoursmith.
Platemail who was about 15 now, had started making
horse shoes in the inn's stables for the horses.
What the twon couldn't figure out was how he had
learned to do it, truth be known he didn't know.
They were poorly made, but a good effort
nonetheless. So Hriekal took an apprentice in the
human lad, a first for that village and began
teaching him. Platemail learned fast, and through
cosntant working and teaching, became a master in
his own right. he spent 2 hqappy years in the
village learning from Hriekal before graduating.
He was then given the name of Platemail, becuase
that was what he was the best at making. He was
then asked to leave the village. One armoursmith
was enough, besides the lad should spend some time
with his human relatives. So Platemail left with
his first chestplate on, and headed down the
mountains.
It wasn't long after that he had set up shop in a
small town of humans, making extrodinary weapons
and armour for the humans. He had obviously been
taught by a dwarf, his skills were expert. It was
by that renown that he had attracked the
attentions of a local wizard, who immediately
demanded that he apprentice with him as a mage.
Platemail knew that he had no patience for magic,
and would refuse each time till finally the wizard
hit home. The lad could make three times the
money if he could enchant his wares, magic armour
going for thousands of gold pieces more than
regular. So Platemail spent the next year and
half learning the magics trade from the wizard.
He then bid adieu to his wizard teacher, and then
began to head north.
Many many weeks later he reached the realm of
ravensdale, and found an inn where many many
strange people gathered each night. It was called
vampyres and during the course of the next year he
would go through many changes, having a case of
lycanthropy where he could turn into a garagoyle
and eventually turn into a bone dragon. It was by
the efforts of many people in the vampyre room
that he was cured of the lycanthropy, and returned
to his roots as a magician. He used a variety of
magics while he learned and played in the room.
It was tehre that he learned how to speak the
variety of demon and foriegn languages. He was a
paladin for a short while, but was cast out when
it was discovered when he was in love with a
vampyress. They excommunicated him from the
church, and he gladly didn't care because he was
in love. Many days later he was almost killed by
her as she wanted to feed and was just stringing
him along. He escaped and kept a wary eye on her
until she finally disappeared.
It was at the end of that eventful and fateful
year that a vampyre lord named Arakis stole his
image and committed heinous acts against his
friends. He returned to find out he was hated and
loathed by his former friends, and was asked to
leave. He did so with a heavy heart leaving his
armour behind and undergoing a spiritual journey.
Many months he spent in the woods of the relam of
ravensdale, where he chance encountered a tiger
being attacked by wraiths. He defended the tiger,
who immediately rewarded him by merging with him.
The tiger gave Platemail an understanding of all
animal languages, as well as giving him new
abilities. He returned to the realm and the
vampyres room a new man, but still extremely
depressed at the actions of him and the vampyre
Arakis. During the course of taht year he
redeemeed himself in the eyes of his friends. And
another summer was spent in seclusion and
meditation, where he became a vampyre once again.
It was in a frenzied bloodlust he realized he
could not live as a vampyre when he underwent
another journey.
He reached a small monatery in the south polar
region of the world, where a cure for vampyrism
could be obtained. Thirteen vials of a strange
magicla liquid would cure him of the disease, but
it had a serious side effect. It would strip him
of all his magical abilities, and half of his soul
to contain the evil. The resulting effects that
were that each day he would lose a little of his
soul, so that each time he ever attempted anything
beyond a normal life, it would cost him more of
his soul and cause him to have less life
remaining. He returned to ravensdale where he
first entered the Rivindell inn, and began to
learn new techniques and powers while he lived at
his home called Tigers den. It was when he had
relearned how to work his powers that he realized
that his soul would actually recharge when he used
his tiger form. He spent many days in tiger form
and would be able to extend his life while he used
his powers.
He left tiger's den because that place reeked of
sadness and that's when he built his camp in the
fangstone mountains. he then finally felt at
home, working his forge and serving in a variety
of mercinary troops in operation throughout the
realm. He spent many happy months doing that,
until he met his would be wife. He courted a
woman named Ti'lee, and after a long engagement
married her in a small ceremony in a small chapel.
He soon after became a captain for a privateer
navy, and found the reamins of a ship called the
crystal cutter. It was when he touched the
dismembered planks he remembered the blue glow
from so long ago.
The blue glow was actually a ship that had
teleported him to its decks. The ship was magical
through and through, but the magic had grown
sentience. It sought him out becuase he had
abilities and the persona nexessary to provide the
ship with amusement, it was when the ship lost its
magic it crashed and splintered into a reck near
where the young platemail would wake up.
Platemail gathered the wreck and over the course
of the next few months rebuilt the ship, which had
brought him here and to his freedom. the magics
were still strong, and he enchanted it so that it
could be able to fly.
It was several days later when he became a guard
for the realm of Ravensdale, and swore allegiance
to the lord. He served tirelessly, doing any and
everything the lord wanted him to do. Those happy
days lasted for a long time till his wife's
disappearance, and the trickery of Phyrix an
undead dragon lich. The dragon tricked Platemail
into serving him when he used an animation of
Ti'lee. Plate served the dragon unwillingly until
his wife returned and set his mind free. Plate
served as a guard still for many more months when
his wife disappeared again and this time he found
out from her sister that she had died. The sister
tried to kill herself, but Platemail was able to
stop her by blanking her memory and setting her
loose in a new realm to live when he flew her
there with his magical flying ship.
Nobody knew but with his wife's disappareance and
death, he became very evil. He never showed it
but had even harboured thoughts of killing
everyone who ever gave him trouble or his friends
trouble. It was the reappearance of his wife, who
gave him a solemn choice. She could return to him
as pertained in a deal that she had made with her
gods, or she could stay dead. Platemail chose for
her to come back, which made him realize he
couldn't affect death, but after a couple of
months of bliss and terrible fights the sitauation
was finally fixed. She accepted his life as a
guard, and he accepeted her life in her clan in
the other realm.
It was 2 months later when a gorup of undead
soliders destroyed his camp in the mountains. He
had pissed off a local demon who sent his millitia
to teach the guard a lesson. He escaped with some
of his things and his ship to set up a new home
far far away from the camp so that both he and his
wife would be safe, but still close enough so that
he could serve the realm. It was after a few
weeks that the faithful guard quit the realm, and
went into the desert to seek spiritual purpose and
guidance. He returned a week later dressed in his
new white amrour, able to turn into a snow eagle,
and apparently a paladin for four very powerful
gods. His new role would remain unlcear for those
present for a while.
Long history huh? You asked for it. The events
during the last spiritual quest is the Epic I
wrote for platemail. That will be added to the
Riv Library soon.