Duplicity App
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Name: Reiko Age: 34 Contact: PM, Timezone: US Central/GMT -6 Other Character(s): Adalwolfe Hawke wolfehawke |
Name: Amnos Stonehewer Door: Pass here as Dominant Canon: D&D OC Canon Point: In Iliniver, just after returning from the Bell in the Deep. Level 14. Age: 33 Appearance: What most notice first about Amnos is just how large he is. Standing at 7' and build like a brick house, Amnos strikes an imposing figure. He has horns that curve from the sides of his head down to the sides of his mouth and his eyes are an almost unnaturally bright green. He has fangs, only visible when he smiles broadly though he does this a lot, and a tail with a large tuft of hair at the end the same color as his hair. His feet are normal human feet - not hooves - and he maintains a well kept beard and long hair that he normally keeps in a messy braid. While his physique is imposing, Amnos has a way about him that's very open and inviting in his posture. He takes up a lot of space by virtue of his size, but also his body language. Upon closer inspection, much of the way Amnos presents himself is as close to traditionally dwarven as he can manage. He has dwarven knotwork design worked into most of his clothing and armor from home and the gold caps in his beard and beads that he sometimes plaits into his hair also carry this motif. He wears very dwarven symbolism of a large ox or goat and there is a significant of stonework in the decorative elements on his gear. Being brassy-skinned, Amnos tends to lean into deep greens and reddish-browns for his garments, though he doesn't shy away from splashes of color either. He has a collection of head scarves in every color of the rainbow and likes to wear ones that match his mood. For anyone getting up close physically, he has many many scars. The obvious ones are on his face - a deeply split lip, a gash on the right side of his jaw, and a notch in his left ear - but he has numerous other healed patterns of wounds across his body. There's a vague burn mark on his neck and chest where the skin is a bit rougher; teeth, claw, and beak pocks in his arms and torso; various healed arrow scars - including one that may or may not still have the arrowhead in it - and four inch and a half wide puncture marks in his back in a square pattern from each other, each mark with a Lichtenberg figure branching from it. History: Amnos Stonehewer was mysteriously left at the gates of the dwarven city of Thar'Kaldur as an infant, apparently abandoned by his birth parents. He was taken in by a pair of stonemasons, spouses Arras and Farram Stonehewer, and raised in the dwarven tradition. As such, Amnos grew up with a deep sense of dwarven pride and a love of crafting stone like his adopted parents. Unfortunately, despite being a dwarf in his heart, as Amnos grew he was not viewed as a dwarf by all of Thar'Kaldur. While he did have a solid support network in his family and close family friends, he always felt somewhat alienated by the basics of being a tall, broad, horned individual among more traditional dwarves. He had to have a special desk at school, was not allowed to participate in arena sport, and had a contentious relationship with the Shaperate refusing to record him in the annuls as a dwarf. This made for a tumultuous childhood and gave rise to a lot of anger in Amnos. Thankfully, Baernom Goldvein - family friend and captain of the city guard - taught Amnos to harness his rage into something useful in battle, training him to hopefully one day join the guard. This was not to be, however, as Amnos preferred the feeling of making things with his hands and instead followed in the family business of masonry. Eventually, when he'd mastered his family's craft, he set out into the world to find new techniques and expand the business. He traveled south into the northern Moonsea region and eventually made his way to Elmwood where he met a young sorcerer named Silver, the desert thief Ra'ah, and Rhyt the rogue. Together, they were drugged and kidnapped and together they escaped, finding that they worked well as a team. Their adventures led them to Melvaunt and caught them up in a plot to overthrow the criminal Lister family who had stolen leadership of the city from the Sonom family years ago. Once in Melvaunt, Amnos met the tiefling druid Chastity, who had vital information to their quest. He took a liking to her, never having met someone who looked like him, and sought her out again later simply to spend time with her. Eventually it was revealed that Rhyt was the heir to the Sonom house and she and her brother Chris Sonom joined with the party to take out the Listers and liberate Melvaunt from their nefarious grasp. They were coined the Guardians of Melvaunt and continued to serve and support the Sonom family and their efforts to restore Melvaunt to a place worth living in. Amnos, never one to delay if he could help it, quickly married Chastity and started a family as they all worked to improve life in Melvaunt together. However, this peace was shattered three years later when the Guardians were called away on some business, save for Rhyt who had to stay behind to see to some business of running the city. A brutal attack from an unknown enemy razed Melvaunt to the ground, leaving an enormous clockwork dragon perched upon the smoldering ruins. When he managed to get back to the city, Amnos found Rhyt dead and Chris facing down the dragon on his own. Amnos was forced to pull Chris away from the dragon physically and drag him to see if his wife and children - and the rest of their friends - were safe. Thankfully, Chastity, the kids, and most of the vassals of House Sonom had survived and escaped the city and the Guardians and their charges met up outside the gates to make the long trek to Phlan with the other refugees. Along the way, the party decided to make their way to Thar'Kaldur and debated what to do. Ultimately, they decided the would not stand for the home they worked so hard to build being left to rubble. The Guardians of Melvaunt committed to building an army and gaining enough ally support to wrest the city back from the dragon and the followers of Bane who had used it to attack them. Once in Thar'Kaldur, they met with city leadership in order to start gaining support for their venture. With Amnos' ties to the city, this was readily pledged, and the party took a few days to regroup, mourn, and figure out their next move. Ultimately, Amnos and the Guardians set out to garner more support from the other cities in the Thar and beyond, finding out more about who attacked them and what their motivations may have been. The group traveled and gained favor with many towns and cities along their route north to Iliniver. Most notably, they met with the Raven Queen in her palace in the Shadowfell to perform a task for the Goddess of Death, for which they were handsomely rewarded. They were tasked with ridding a town of a dragon that was plaguing them and Amnos talked her into not only leaving the town alone but also coming to their aid in the future fight to reclaim Melvaunt. Most significantly, they defeated a vampire baroness recovered a diamond from her person worth enough for a spell to resurrect Rhyt. Before being pulled into Duplicity, Amnos has just returned with the Guardians - renamed the Guardians of the North for the scope of their ambition having changed - to Iliniver from a highly successful excursion to the Bell in the Deep, a sunken keep full of magical artifacts. He is eager to wrap up their business because the plan is to visit Thar'Kaldur next so he can see his three kids and very pregnant wife (twins!). Personality: Growing up as a tiefling in an underground dwarven city is not an easy feat. Amnos learned early on that he was different from the other children in his neighborhood, from his horns and tail, to his fangs and his eventual stature. He was teased in class and gawked at by adults, and barred from physical competition as he aged due to having an 'unfair advantage' owed to his size. The Shaperate, keepers of the annuls of dwarven history, even refuse to record him as a dwarf, instead only writing him in as a 'foundling' at best. Because of all this, Amnos developed problems of body image that have stuck with him to some degree throughout his life. He is self-conscious about his apparent tiefling lineage and instead proudly proclaims himself to be a dwarf to anyone who even remotely asks, almost daring them to say otherwise. These frustrations also gave rise to a deeply rooted rage inside him, something that caused him to be both internally and externally destructive in his childhood. However, this was caught and harnessed very early and Amnos was taught to direct and use his rage as a tool, instead of letting it consume him. He can very easily tap into it even now, as it has always and will always be a part of him, but he controls it. He never lets it control him, save in the case of threats to children. Amnos is a father and grew up in a loving family besides, and when anything threatens young children, his or otherwise, he sees red and his control slips. I doubt his trait of being protective of children will come up in Duplicity, but it is a major facet of his personality. Outside of issues of self-perception, Amnos is a generally affable man and comfortable with a lot of things that perhaps others might not be. Having grown up dwarven, he does not consider gender as any sort of defining factor of his life and will respond to any pronoun. It's all the same to him, especially since dwarven pronouns are all gender neutral. He will even sometimes wear dresses, though usually only for special occasions. He's adventurous and willing to try new things whenever the opportunity presents itself, even ones that might put his pride at risk if he fails. That said, he does have a certain standard and if he or others don't meet that standard, he becomes frustrated and surly. He has a low charisma stat, which manifests in speaking very bluntly and not sugar-coating when he believes someone to have done something stupid or not understand something obvious, himself included. This situational impatience does not extend to children, however, who can't do anything wrong or see the obvious because they're too young. As he's grown up, Amnos has spent a great deal of time finding himself. In that journey, there is one thing in particular that has always been a major focus of his life, and that is family. Whether it is with the parents and extended family - related or not - who raised him, his found family among the Guardians of the North, or his wife and children, Amnos' ultimate drive is always to provide for and protect them. Being as family oriented as he is, Duplicity will be a trial for him, especially in being apart from his wife and children. In battle, perhaps surprisingly to some, Amnos is very tactically minded even while raging. He seeks to control the battlefield, giving his party every advantage while still providing a solid defense through offense in his role as the tank and defender. He is always aware of where everyone else is on the field and will give orders and direction when needed. Knowing that one wrong step can be the difference between life and death and that his friends and his family love and need him, Amnos prioritizes his own safety just as highly as everyone else's, retreating when prudent. However, he knows what he can take very well, and his rushes into battle don't always look controlled or thought out to those who don't know him closely, making him appear reckless often even though he isn't. While Amnos is able to prioritize himself physically just fine, emotionally is an entirely different story. His greatest flaw is that he deprioritizes his own emotional well-being over that of everyone else's. He does not believe that his wants and needs are something that can be put central over anyone else in the group or especially over a greater mission, to the point where he does not even recognize when it would be no hardship to allow himself to follow through on his needs. He makes himself an emotional martyr, sacrificing his mental health on the crucible of duty and self-discipline. He is Always Fine. Powers and Abilities: Abilities and spells listed on his info page. Most are copied & pasted from D&D Beyond. Any abilities granted from items means he must have the gear on him and be attuned to it in order to utilize that ability. As most of his abilities are physical and most of his spells only deal with lower-level combat or utility, I don't believe anything needs to be nerfed. Inventory: Molten Core Greatsword, Strength of the Veil (bracer), Belt of Dwarvenkind. Descriptions in info post. Samples: TDM threads! |
