kAI, Genasi Swordmage

[elijin]

Player Name: Eugene

-- Character --
Name: Kai
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 130lbs
Deity:
Alignment: Good

Race: Genasi
Elemental Manifestation: Stormsoul
Class: Swordmage

-- Attributes --
STR: 10
CON: 14
DEX: 10
INT: 20
WIS: 10
CHA: 11

Point Buy Array: 8,14,10,18,10,11
Racial Modifiers: +2 Intel, +2 Str

Speed: 6 sqs
Vision: Normal

Languages: Common, Primordial

-- Skills --

Acrobatics

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[tr][td]Arcana[/td][td]12[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Athletics[/td][td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Bluff[/td][td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Diplomacy[/td][td]5[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Dungeoneering[/td][td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Endurance[/td][td]4[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Heal[/td][td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]History[/td][td]10[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Insight[/td][td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Intimidate[/td][td]5[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Nature[/td][td]2/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Perception[/td][td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Religion[/td][td]5[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Stealth[/td][td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Streetwise[/td][td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Thievery[/td][td]0[/td][/tr]
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-- Feats --
1] Intelligent Blademaster - Use Int mod instead of Str mod for melee basic attacks
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-- Powers --
1] Genasi Racial Feature: Promise of Storm
2] Swordmage Class Feature: Aegis of Assault
3] Swordmage at-will 1: RaiKen Throw (CFP)
4] Swordmage at-will 1: Booming Blade (FRPG)
5] Swordmage encounter 1: Crackling Burst (Arcane Power)
6] Swordmage daily 1: Dimensional Thunder (DragonM 367)

-- Worn Equipment --
Head Slot: None
Neck Slot:
Waist Slot:
Hands Slot: LORTEK Gauntlet
Arms Slot:
Feet Slot: LORTEK Guard
Armour Slot: LORTEX Leather Armour
Weapon Slot: RaiKen
Ring Slot:

-- Other Equipment (Weight: XX/XX) --
1] Standard Combat Kit
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-- Background Story --
Background Effect: Genasi Exhibit (+2 Arcana etc stuff)

Story:
"'Look brother! Father has made you a gift for your 7th! Whatever it is, Father said you must share!'

'Place him in the liquid tank slowly. His sister can...'

'Look at the specimen. Amazing. Program Kustomized Artificial Innovating begins!'

'The only memory the subject has left is the most traumatising one. That memory we have problems erasing.'

'We got funding? Wonderful. Now we can put Program kAI into full throttle.'

'After 4 years, we have nothing! Nothing! Creating something out of nothing is preposterous!.......... Change the nature of the program.'

'Sir, the specialized weapon for subject is ready.'

'Subject seems to be showing signs of resistance'

'Of course, no one knows about Program kAI. Not even the military. Ironically.'

'How did she get in? Get her! Don't let her remove the delimiter!'

My eyes opened. I was on the floor. The room is dark. Broken shards of glass are all around me. Not water. No tubes. No blinds. I am free.
I remember an explosion. I.. I caused it. The woman. Where is she? She's got.. sharp ears, silver hair. A symbol. A symbol on her face..
There were dead bodies everywhere. 6.. no 9 of them. Broken apparatus, devices. There's some commotion outside. Run. I took what looked like.. a red hilt. I took it and ran."

kAI stands in the balcony, reflecting on the events that brought him to this stage. Tomorrow is graduation day. 5 years have passed since he ran away from that nightmarish lab. In fact that was the first and only entry in kAI's journal. As Yuriel told him to write down whatever he could remember. This entry, though, he has read many many times.

Apart from this fragmented memory, nothing before this he remembers. What he was before Program kAI, who this sister of his was, who the eladrin (this after his foster father told him what the creature was from his description) was... Nonetheless, He remembers vividly the events after he was... born? manufactured? created? He was really bothered with his origin.
After the incident, he learned harshly the lesson of survival. Finding himself in the slums of the city known as Qualibu, he grew up on scraps of food from an inn nearby, drank water from the same trough as horses and pigs. Life was much better, to his surprised, after being found by the innkeeper. Initially the innkeeper wanted to pummel the "little blue thing into bits and pieces", but the innkeepers wife was more, compassionate perhaps? She kept the "little blue thing" as a helper around the inn. The "little blue thing" learned that a day of life in the slums are not without a little fighting, some gambling, and lots of ale. Life seems to have gained a little spectrum of colour for him now.

2 years have passed. Influenced by his current ghetto lifestyle, He picked up the art of gambling, the gracefulness of inn-fighting (although he claims never to have broken the furnishings of his master's inn), the intoxication of ale drinking and all the hearsay of the city he was in. Already penniless from the start, gambling has given him the false hope of getting rich quickly. Suddenly his motivation was the riches of the occasional nobles who ride through the slums, in their beautiful clothes and stylish flair. Soon enough, the "little blue thing" found himself debt-ridden. The debtors began harrassing the innkeeper. To repay the innkeeper wife's "compassion", He stole back what rightfully was his "worthless broken hilt",whom the innkeeper kept as collateral for his service, and left Qualibu in the dead of the night. (RP purpose he has Intimidate, History trained.)

He quickly learned, survival in the wild and survival in the city were 2 ends of a spectrum. He set off ambitious, hoping to reach the city of Cabus all by himself. He found himself dehydrated in the wild, hungry and cold. As if the gods have taken pity on this poor soul, a group of hunters chance upon the "little blue thing". Taking him into their abode He, then 12 years existence, truly knew the meaning of living.
Yuriel, head of the village took him in as a foster child, to give the "little blue boy" a new lease of life, motivation. Incidentally, Yuriel, a retired wizard, began to hone the genasi's elemental power. Genasi... is that what He is? That is the first time someone has affirm his racial origins. Innkeeper and his wife always called him names like "little blue thing". He began to learned alot about the genasi, no, learn alot about himself through Yuriel. Yuriel mentioned once, that the only difference between him and a genasi is that while all genasis have unique szuldars on them, He only has it on his right arm of his body. Knowledgeable as his foster father is, Yuriel has no idea why this is as such.
In his new home he naturally learns the dual path of mastery of the arcane arts, and the gracefulness of swordplay. kAI also learns of the secret of the hilt, that it is not just a hilt by itself, but a weapon specially customized for him. Yuriel has never seen such a weapon in his lifetime, and neither can he identify the material used for the construction of the hilt. (RP purpose through the kindness of the village he learned Diplomacy. Also the village location is just outside Cabus.)

In a blink of an eye, 3 years flew. He has grown, and now seeks to find his origins. Over the years the burning questions keeps coming back to him over and over. His true origins, his sister, Program kAI. He has matured, so Yuriel says, and he has the strength, the skills and the right to go out to find his story, his beginnings. Where shall he begin? What shall he do? He pondered and decided the place with answers can be found in Qualibu, in the military.

He made his way back to Qualibu. Out of curiosity, and a sense of guilt, he checked on the establishment that was the foundation of his broken self. The name has changed and, not surprisingly, the owners have changed hands too.
He approached the recuitment desk. As he fill in the necessary paperwork, a name was required. After a little thinking, without any hesitation he filled in the name kAI.
How apt.

Motivation:
1) kAI wants to know his origins. Human? Genasi? Was he created? Was he born from someone?
2) kAI wants to know the whereabouts of his sister. He knows the sister is human. Was it even his sister at all?
3) He wants to find out who broke him free, and the organization that the Eladrin belonged to.
4) He wants to find out the people behind Program KAI.
5) As a child he finds comfort in material wealth. He still harbours that wish, to accumulate wealth as much as possible.

Personality and Traits:
1) Flashy, loud
2) Ambitious
3) Impulsive
4) Will do the job to the best of his ability.

Unique:
Has a sensitive temper to the words "little blue thing".

[Dungeon Master]

Where is Intelligent Blademaster from?

Background has to be from PHB or PHB2

[elijin]

Intelligent Blademaster is from FRPG. Essentially its the same as Melee Training but I guess the feat came out in FRPG first. In any case, kAI is quite proud of being a swordmage and will mostly choose feats with the pre-requisite of swordmage/genasi.

Academic Exhibit is from PHB2, pg 182, under Racial Background.

[Dungeon Master]

aiya, melee training (intelligence) can le lah ...

heh the backgrounds from PHB2 are interesting

[elijin]

updated background history. class feature power, Custom At Will power

[Dungeon Master]

Qualibu is a Nation/Country
not a city.

The capital city of Qualibu is Quasa

Cabus is a country also
Catarack is the capital city