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Name:Sal Heath

Age:27

Role:Warrior

Skills:Weapon sharpening, Camp fire Cooking, Strategising Military Tactics and Maneuvers, Haggling, mapping out and understanding the layout of many different kinds of locations, extremely high endurance and speed from in part his years as a soldier and fighting in general and the other part from being a 'natural athlete' and he is exceptionally skilled with a variety of one handed weapons and shields.
  

Magic/supernatural abilities:Constant Vigilance: When something is behind him the hair's on the back of his neck stand up instantaneously and warn him which prevents him from being hurt by a sneak attack.  

Metal Enhancement:While wielding his weapons, or shields or when wearing armor, he can at will improve the metal to make it more durable, or have a sharper blade or point, or even make it lighter without losing any durability.  He can use this for a long period of time, but he will eventually tire out.  

Mountain Stance:  With both feet flat on the ground it doesn't matter if he was running a split second before-he can tense all his muscles up to either attack with a weapon with great force behind the strike, or if he manages to get his shield between him and an incoming attack he will block it and remain standing.  He will eventually tire out from this.   




Equipment: a big leather bag with a strap he keeps on his shoulder, a bunch of whetstones, some flasks of water, a heavy cloak and a light cloak, dry food like dried meat and berries and some canned goods, flint and small block of steel, a full suit of steel armor he wears most of the time, a large circular steel shield, a longsword, flail, short sword, a few daggers, a war hammer, and few gold coins along with a bunch of silver.   

Personality:He is a casual kind of person.  He will be friendly to strangers and even chat them up if he is in the mood.  If someone wants him to do something he would want the why of it, especially when he trusts the person, because if him and the other trust each other, then there should be no reason for him not to know why he's being asked for something.  Another thing to note about him is that he holds a grudge if he feels he has been betrayed one way or another. 

Biography:He grew up in a castle town.  he lived the average life of a lower class 'child.'  He got to play with the other kids of other family's, living around his house where they would pretend to be great knights or prince charming saving a princess from being locked up in some lonely tower.  But he wanted more then to pretend.  He wanted to actually live that sort of life, rescuing or protecting people.  So that day he went home and told his parents, who forbid him from going to the castle and enlisting as a beginning fighter because he was a child.  

He didn't accept their decision and went to the castle to enlist anyway.  Initially the guards at the front gate turned him down, but after a few minutes of arguing an elderly guard walked up to the gate to see what the commotion was about, he said that the kid could enlist and just remain in the castle for his safety until he reached adult hood.  

Which is what happened, he trained there in the grounds, for years, learning various weapons, doing tons of training exercises, mingling with the other soldiers and occasionally being invited to the royal banquets held in the Castle Hall.  

When he became an adult, he got to go with the other soldiers, and fight off bandits, go on trips to rally the people as part of the King's personal entourage on which the king gave speeches of how he was helping the common folk, a very honoured position and one he was suitably humbled to be a part of.  There was other things of course and years passed.  

He worked his way up to Captain of the Castle Guard.  About a year after that there was an invasion by a neighbouring Kingdom. Sal thought it would be no problem to defend the Castle.  He was wrong. He had made sure there were walls around the castle wall itself and trenches behind said walls to hide defensive forces to prevent any of the vermin from even reaching the castle gates.  But they had dug tunnels beneath the walls and the trenches and Zal was stunned.  He quickly overcame that feeling of shock and sent his second line of defence through the gates to meet up with the enemy pulling themselves out of the tunnel right next to said castle gate.   The second line held their own until the first line of defence, foolishly turned their backs to help the second line.  The enemy even from a distance saw this and took advantage swarming the castle.  Sal realized his mistake by taking his eyes away from the first line and took to the battlefield.  There were just too many of the men and the guards were quickly overwhelmed.  

Sal knew no one was going to survive, so out of shame and luck he managed to fight his way out of the castle and left the kingdom.  He hoped to one day, take the castle back, and so he has been looking for powerful people, and one day he had some kind of feeling which pulled him towards a cavern.  That is where he is today.