Xander Stormcrow

[Archon_Prime]

Character: Xander Stormcrow
Player: Archon_Prime

Born in a small village about halfway between Narfell and Thesk, Xander's life had been one of peace and quiet. His small village had no threat of marauding monsters or dark plots by foreign powers. It was a truly rustic place. A farmer nearly from birth, he had only recently joined the village militia. Equipped with little more than spears and shortbows, the handful of militiamen's main purpose was to keep the peace among the few dozen families, and drive off the occasional wolf or wild boar. It seemed Xander was destined to live his life in peace, unknown and unnoticed by the rest of the world.

But one evening, a strange storm rolled in over the village. As rain started pouring across the fields, Xander was helping an elderly man to bring his cart into the barn. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck Xander's spear. The force threw him some yards, but he was already unconcious before he landed in the field.

He woke up in the village apothecary the next morning. The priestess of Chauntea had tended to his wounds, but was clearly surprised that Xander had survived at all. She simply commented that Chauntea had protected Xander from the worst of the lightning, but she could not explain the strange markings along his arms, nor the fact his hair now refused to lie down. It was a strange curiousity, but life in the village soon resumed as normal.

Only a few nights later, a most fierce thunderstorm broke out over the village again. It almost seemed as if the storm was angered at having failed to strike down Xander and had come back to finish what it started.
Lightning brought forth fires wherever it struck, and Xander's body wracked with magical energies, lashing out at everything and everyone nearby. He was helpless to stop this, and ran out of the village, and ran.. until he could run no more, and he could no longer see the storm clouds.

For a day he rested in the next village, hoping he could return to his own village soon. But the storm had followed, and again disaster struck in Xander's presence. The third village fared the same, but a resident mage quickly saw the link between Xander and the strange storm, and teleported him away randomly just moments before being struck down by the storm.

And so Xander arrived on the shores of a town far to the north, and he decided to head in. Perhaps he could find someone to cure this… curse, before the storm cought up with him again.

[Black Rider]

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