[hider=Character Sheet: Oswin of Rigobod][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/abUmw3J.png[/img]
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Have you ever thought about where stories come from? Why people tell stories, and how mere series of events are molded and shaped into legends and tales that survive and even outlast empires? Since the dawn of mankind, such questions have run wild in the minds of those who make their craft that of the written, spoken, sung. In Rigobod, a young lad was born and weaned on the stories of glory and great hunts by his father. Years passed and the boy became a man, though not before his unmatched love for stories led him to seek training as a menestrel. 

A year and seven days before Oswin's 18th birth day, his father went out to sea on the hunt. Oswin never saw him again. The hunting boat did return eventually, severely battered, burnt, and barely in one piece. The vengeful words on the lips of the broken men were poison to Oswin's innocence, as they spoke of "Nhirian bastards, who capture men for their damned campaign against the Thraxians." From that day on, Oswin sat at the docks with a hungry look in his eye, waiting patiently for more news from far-flung Gwidlings come home to tell their tales.

It’s said the seas call men in their own time, once they have matured to the point where the bounds of their birthplaces can raise them no longer. Oswin felt this call when he had learned of the Thraxian cause and their Great Council. Filled to the brim with legends, tales, myths, and yarns of utter fanciful nonsense, Oswin felt a hunger to find those who stole his father and wreak vengeance on them. The honeyed wine of rumour seduced the young man, and the wind took him across the sea on the deck of a Gwidlic merchant’s ship.

A Thraxian port town of the Carogacts was the Gwidling’s landing, where he heard that the chieftain had not long left for the meeting place. Oswin rushed down the road, heedless of the risks he was taking, in order to meet this chieftain and join his forces. ...

The meeting of a nation’s tribes to rally against an overwhelming and ruinous empire. Chieftains and mercenaries from the world over banding together, to either break the old power or die together trying. All the makings of a civilization-defining legend, and all that was missing was a suitable chronicler to record and immortalize the events, as they happened. No longer, it would come to pass, as Oswin of Rigobod raced toward the mountains and landed in the company of one of the many chieftains. An oddity amongst warriors and warlords, his strength of arm far inferior to the strength of his wit, Oswin hoped to inspire hope and witness heroism. It would remain to be seen whether his hopes would soar or plummet, alongside the Thraxian cause. [/cell][cell][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/xGpwQFc.png[/img]
[sup] Oswin has the rugged appearance of a Gwidlic youth, sporting blonde-brown shoulder-length curls and a youthful face. His wide green eyes can be seen gawking at every new sight to be seen in his environs, and is himself not particularly remarkable in dress, tending to wear garments of muted colours. Oswin’s stature is not small, but he is not muscular by any measure even if he is taller than average. As a man barely grown, Oswin’s scruffy beard is kept to a close shave, although it is doubtful any would call his fuzz a beard in the first place. Overall, Oswin is a youthful nondescript man who emphasizes cleanliness. 
[b][color=c11e0f]Age:[/color][/b] 19
[b][color=c11e0f]Skills & Talents:[/color][/b] As a Menestrel, Oswin is competent at Writing, Singing, Memorizing, Carving, and Poetry. As a Gwidling, he also has passing skill in Fishing, and is an Amateur Sailor.
[b][color=c11e0f]Traits:[/color][/b] Well-Spoken, Attentive, Naive, Imaginative, Proud, Jealous
[b][color=c11e0f]Allegiances:[/color][/b] Gwidlic Gods, God of Skalds, Storms, and Songs (Bragi), Gwidlic Kingdoms, Rigobod, Lubbo Bladetaker 
[b][color=c11e0f]Rank & Role:[/color][/b] RETAINER [/sup][/center][/cell][/row][row][/row][/table][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/abUmw3J.png[/img][/center][/hider]