Background
Potential ideas:
- Your character has become aware of the recently discovered tomb of Imbriel the Stargazer, one the twelve fabled children of the god Lathander, a high elf born two millennia ago and dead for a full millennia.
- It just so happens that his tomb is hidden near/beneath the castle recently captured by the adventuring party (Castle Rend).
- You want to get in the tomb and Indiana Jones-style get the most important artifact (or maybe have some other motivation?)
- You are currently working for:
- yourself? you're just a history buff and an archeologist? maybe you just sell stuff to the highest bidder?
- you're a hired gun and have been employed by someone that we'll make up?
- you are a member of the secretive organization the Lyceum Arcanum and your job is to do stuff like this?
- Your race is:
- half-elf, human, or half-orc is easiest?
- if you want to be something else then we have to come up with a reason?
- Your class is:
- anything you want?
In a perfect world, i was thinking that you:
- show up at the castle,
- tell everyone that you're just here to try to see the tomb
- and at the end, steal the most important thing and run off. or something like that.
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Backstory
This is one of your favorite taverns, a fair-sized and extremely well-kept establishment that is a bit out of place in a rough section of the city of Hornsferry. The chair in which you are seated is a deep, plush, expensive chair that has never been mended. The floor is polished hardwood without a scratch. Delicate baubles and curios adorn the walls and hang behind the bar. For the third time tonight, you were served your favorite drink in a fragile, fluted glass. Considering the rough-and-tumble neighborhood crowd, it seems inevitable that this tavern would quickly devolve into a collection of chipped glasses and broken tables and stools. But, it hasn't. You have made this tavern one of your bases of operations for years and each night that you return it appears unchanged. Your guess? The fight club that goes on in the basement and the associated betting that occurs pours a flood of gold into the pockets of the owners. Those owners seem to reinvest every coin in the bar. The profits probably also help pay for the cadre of hard-eyed bouncers that unobtrusively patrol the floor.
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