[b]Maxwell[/b]:Yeah for some reason I thought that if the characters interest's coincided with the rest of the group, that is the killing of the invading king, it wouldn't matter much that the char was in a close relationship with the king. I should have read opening better.

As far as the back story goes, i got too into writing it early on then got lazy toward the end so your assessment of it makes perfect sense. 

I think from what you said it might be the best idea just to completely scrap the character. Idk I'm trying to think of something interesting. It might be cool to do an actor or a scholar or something. The problem is making the motivation fit. It seems hard to justify a character going full vengeance over the king. Either they had to have really liked the king (if so why weren't they there when he died?), or they are kinda of self-destructive and petty.

 I mean even assuming they knew the king but had some other family member/loved one killed in the war/siege (like the court wizard) it only really makes sense for them to seek revenge if they lost virtually all of their family. Otherwise collecting them and trying to get out of dodge or make a new life seemes like a more reasonable plan.

Idk, I'll have to think on it more.