Name: 
Raymond Tanner

Gender:
Male

Age:
57

Appearance:

Ray is an old man, with a fairly tall and wrinkled forehead. Aside from his thick white beard, a bushy moustache and a pair of eyebrows, he has only a fringe of hair left on his head. His face usually seems rather stern, but this face is also pretty much saying, that this is one of those few people that you can trust. On the left side of his forehead, you can see a rather large scar. The rest of his face is also scarred, but those smaller ones are not as noticible. The man is rather stout, only about 1,7 meters in heigh, but he weights 87 kilos. While not many people see that, he is quite muscular, despite having a pot-belly. His thick arms obviously indicate that he is used to manual labor. However, that is rather rarely seen, as to the church he wears a catholic priest's robe, and casually he wears a long-sleeved shirt with overalls, of course, he wears a jacket or a coat, when it's not summer.

Personality:

Raymond is a good, honest and just man. He strongly believes that the god is here, and tries to contact him every day in his prayer. He completely abides to all the laws of god, and the laws of men. The man is also quite altruistic, and he lives in a rather humble and small house, leaving himself only enough money so that it would be enough for rent, food and water. 

History:

Raymond was a very energetic young man. A faithful young man, and a rather naive young man. Even at his childhood he seemed physically stronger than most of the kids in his age, though other things than the physical education seemed rather difficult. After barely graduating from school, he joined a police academy, and studdied there for quite a while. Through years, he became a policeman in New York, respected for his sense of justice, his selflessness and how he never took any bribes. When he was thirty two years old, he had become the chief of the precinct, after the previous one retired. And thus he, along with his precinct were called to a major drug bust to help a few detectives when they were assaulting a hiding place for the criminals... As the officers stormed the place there was a large firefight, during which, several officers were wounded. And for Raymond it ended when he saw a grenade roll near him, two detectives and some of the younger of his policemen. While one of the men that noticed it, ran in cover, Raymond acted quickly, as he grabbed a nearby wooden pallet and ran, near it, trying to shield his comrades from it, and praying to god, that this might work. The grenade exploded deafening the ones that were nearby, but only Raymond was injured by that. The pallet was torn to pieces, with splinters from it scratching his face and tearing his uniform. His ribs were shattered... Nails were stuck in some parts of his body, and a piece of a shrapnel, while slowed by the planks of the wooden object, did stick into his forehead, luckilly for him, without damaging the brain too much.... The bust ended with success and with casulties. An officer was dead, and five more were wounded...

As Ray awoke from a coma in the hospital, he found a lot of flowers on his table as well as a good number of 'Get well' cards. This all did make smile at this, almost chuckle, which has ended with him cringing in pain. He was alive... "Praise the Lord" he said loudly. During his time in the hospital, he has been gifted the holy bible, which he had asked from one of his closer friends, and by the time he had completely healed, Raymond remembered every single line from there. He started studying as a priest, and then rather quickly became a preacher at a nearby Catholic church...

God They Serve:

Though initially, he believes in the Christian God, but due to his nature, he might think (if he finds it out) that Ellona is the same.

Abilities: 

Raymond is physically quite strong, and has a good memory. The time in the hospital also gave him some time to learn more about human anotomy a little bit, and he knows about first aid from his time as a cadet.

Equipment:

While he has an old revolver in his home, he had not used it, nor took it out, for anything more than just polishing, out of a locked closet.
Besides that, he has some household tools in his shed, that he would never dream of using for anything else, rather than their original purpose.
Oh, and a medical cabinet in his house as well.