Cælin the Huscarl – Nick’s Character Backgrounds
So I’ve been going through old PCs (as in the computers) and found a few old PC backgrounds (as in player characters). I’m posting this up in aprt to get a bit more RPG content here but also to keep a record of the characters. I’ve been meaning to do this for a bit, so here it goes! At the moment I just have fluff but will try to post stats as well.
Cælin thus Huscarl was a PC in a shortish game I played with the Oakleigh Roleplayers Club. You can get most of the background from the campaign wiki but basically it was a Dark Ages game played with the HarnMaster rules, using the GM Kyle’s own setting.
Cælin is a young huscarl in the service of the Eorlderman. At age 7, as with all Bronding children, he was fostered out to learn a trade. In Cælin’s case this was to Offa, his mother’s brother. Offa was a huscarl and he trained young Cælin in the ways of battle.
There was little doubt that Cælin would become a warrior – he was a strong but slow witted child, with none of the mental spark of his brothers and sisters. 4th in line, there was no way he would inherit property and he had no flare for craft. Cælin liked to hit things and so a warrior he became. When he came of age he inherited his uncle’s franciska and was given a ring byrnie by the Eorlderman. These are his most treasured possessions and he keeps them in immaculate condition.
But for all his dullness, Cælin was well liked amongst the clan. He had a sense of fun, a willingness to do almost anything, and he delighted in eating and drinking all kinds of things. Where ever mead flowed and meat was roasting, there was Cælin, looking for a story to hear (for he had no talent in that regard) or a woman to fondle. His like of drink and his strength meant that Cælin could find himself in trouble, as he was easily led, but so far nothing to untoward has happened.
Of some concern to his parents and Offa is Cælin’s friendship with Alric, the seneschal’s assistant. Alric has always been a reliable source for Cælin to get things from the larders and Cælin has rewarded this with stanch loyalty. For those who know Alric’s reputation for dubious moral sense, Cælin’s friendship seems misplaced. But Cælin’s reputation for slow wittedness has helped disguise the fact that he has fairly lax morals himself.
Finally though, Cælin has a secret which none know but Offa. Once, while hunting near the Henna, Offa and Cælin saw a gigantic black boar with but one tusk staring at them from the edge of the woods. Thinking it to be the Mæstbar of legend, the two hunters charged heedlessly into the forest. While in pursuit, Cælin tripped and fell down a steep slope, hitting his head hard upon a rock. When Offa scrambled down to check on him he found Cælin in the grip of some uncontrollable fit. The moment passed, but Cælin lives in fear that another blow may set him off again, this time either in battle or in front of the other clan members. Cælin believes it is a curse upon him from the goblins who haunt that forest. Offa has agreed to keep his secret, but worries that it to do so may be a mistake. For Cælin, the dark woods of the Henna hold a hidden fear. As a result, nether have ever told of the time they saw the Mæstbar.
1 Comment to Cælin the Huscarl – Nick’s Character Backgrounds
cool, keep going, Im reading
MD the DM
December 31, 2009