STR: 16

CHA: 14

Height: 6'3"

Weight: 173

A tall, lean man with hazel eyes, a head full of golden blonde hair and a well trimmed beard. He wears a banged up old breastplate and carries a similarly worn shield. He wears a tattered green tabard blazoned with a white stag across his chest.

The son of a farmer, who's father also farmed, Aethelric hails from the tiny village of Bandermere, on the edges of the Great Forest, in House Winford's southeastern holdings. He had a peaceful, if somewhat boring life as a peasant on the borders of the great forest. While the lands were Ecclesian, around half the village's inhabitants were adherents of the druidic faith. Many were pilgrims from abroad who had come to meditate and find serenity under the boughs of the ancient forest. They ended up liking it so much they stayed.

Aethelric's mother, Sarai, was one such woman. Part of a party of adventurers, she was a healer and druid of modest gift. She and her party initially came to the town during a plague of undeath, seeking to both aid the ailing villagers, and discover what had caused the sickness, and the rising of the dead in the first place. It was under her care that his father, Gyles, recovered from his illness. While a devout Ecclesian, he came to appreciate the woman's gentle, compassionate, nature. She came to respect his quiet fortitude in the midst of suffering.

Once her party found and drove away the cause of the plague, a necromancer named Ivaxion hiding in a forgotten tower, Sarai decided to leave the party and settle down with Gyles. They wed twice. Once in the village's chapel. A second time, in a much simpler ceremony in the forest performed by a priest of the old religion. In time they were gifted with a son, Aethelric.

Growing up in a family where two religions were respected, Aethelric gained a level of respect for both, though he seemed constantly drawn to the forest and it's quiet majesties. He spent his youth working hard