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[b]Name:[/b] Hector Ward
[b]Age:[/b] 15
[b]Gender:[/b] Male
[b]Personality:[/b] 

[indent][b][Archetype][/b] [i]Paragon -[/i] Hector has a strong sense of justice cultivated by years of prejudice and mistreatment. He will try to aid anyone who asks him and isn't hesitant to put his body on the line when shit hits the fan. Rather than intense purity or naivete, Hector has a talent for seeing a person's true colors and accepting others misgivings. He has a forgiving spirit so long as the perpetrator seems to genuinely seek atonement. Hector's desire for peace and fairness often conflict with the black and white mentality of those around him. 

[b][Talent][/b] [i]Strong Body -[/i] A life of grueling physical labor and almost daily beatings has given Hector a sturdy body and some natural resistance to pain. He is quite strong for his size, and sacrifices neither agility nor speed. 

[b][Talent][/b] [i]Cooking Skills -[/i] Being a cook has given Hector a strong sense of memorization and a practiced manual dexterity. He can use a knife in combat without harming himself. Cutting lumber to build cooking fires has also given him basic mastery of a lumber axe in combat. Being around exceptionally hot kitchens has built up a moderate resistance to intense heat. 
  
[b][Flaw][/b] [i]Inexperienced -[/i] Hector has little to no combat training and is prone to getting in over his head due to his reckless nature.

[b][Flaw][/b] [i]Uneducated -[/i] Hector has never received a formal education and is ignorant of many social customs and study-related facts.[/indent]   

[b]Role/Title:[/b] Hopeful Cook 

[b]History:[/b] 
Hector was born a bastard child to a broken noblewoman, and therefore inherited the surname Ward as a sign of his illegitimate birth. He never met his father, and his mother was murdered by an unknown assailant when he was only six. Hector would have probably ended up like any other kid in his position and be quietly brushed under the rug, but he was picked up by a 'nice man' named Gande, who put him up in a warehouse with numerous other children. As it turned out, the children were forced into terribly intense manual labor and paid a paltry sum that they knew no better than to accept. In addition, the costs of their living expenses were being tallied in the background and were subject to 'interest rates' as the children aged. It was a brilliant and terrifying scam that circumvented the need for actual slavery and masqueraded as charity. Even if he made it out of the 'orphanage' alive, Hector's body would be broken long before he would be able to pay off all of the debts.

Even so, Hector accepted his position with a strange maturity. Maybe it was his inborn pride as a noble, though Hector himself was completely unaware of his heritage and he had no reason to think this way. He looked after the other children, taking the brunt of their work as his own burden. He even learned how to cook in order to feed himself and the others, though their meals amounted to little more than scraps. Despite his best efforts however, the other children were not as strong as Hector and one by one succumbed to exhaustion and illness until Hector was the only one left. He thought there would be others, but Gande expelled him from the house when he came of age at 14. For the past year he had been working as a cook in a tavern for food and board, though his freedom was still firmly locked behind an impossibly high wall called "debt."

When Hector heard of the expedition from rumors in the tavern, he was skeptical at first. He wasn't sure it would be enough to escape Gande and his shady backers, but when he discovered it was to liberate a plagued village from monsters he signed on for the mission thinking that the debt collectors would avoid him at all costs. Despite his young age he was technically an adult, and his cooking and labor skills made him ideal as a worker and support for the voyage. His only goal is to prove his worth and make a name for himself, and hopefully receive a commission to become a knight in order to escape his life of endless poverty. 
  
[b]Anything Extra: [/b] [b][Talent][/b] [i]Magic Potential -[/i] Unknown even to Hector himself, he has the makings of a fine magician given careful cultivation.
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