Just finished my character - pretty late where I live and it's basically done, so I'll post it and finish coding/look for a pic when I wake up.

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[b]Name: [/b]
Toma Enow

[b]Race: [/b]
Human

[b]Age: [/b]
18 

[b]Gender: [/b]
Male

[b]Appearance: [/b]
Slightly taller than 6'0, Toma is what someone would expect from a farmhand or day laborer. His skin is deeply tanned from hours in the sun, and constant labor has left him very muscular. While his haircut is scruffy and his clothes very simple, he does his best to take care of his hygiene and appearance now that he is at a 'fancy school'. He can typically be seen training in the Hall of Combat or maintaining his wagon, which more resembles a cart from how small it is. His only notable item is his sword, a simple and unadorned longsword that seems to glow softly in the presence of the more unscrupulous students.
(Subject to change until I find good art.)

[b]Class: [/b]
Paladin 
(Martial Fighters who worship one of the gods, and work to act out their will. While entirely Mundane in the beginning, many veteran Paladins learn a few spells in Spirit Magic or receive a divine blessing from their god.)

[b]Personality: [/b]
Initially appearing hotheaded and foolish, Toma vastly overestimates his own abilities and prowess in a number of different fields. He regularly gets into sparring matches with other students to 'test their mettle', and will openly threaten and attack students who he believes steal from or harass others... Which is kind of hypocritical. He has a very idealistic view of adventurers and thinks that people who don't do everything they can to help someone in need shouldn't be allowed at the academy. This has backfired on him in the past however since all it takes is someone asking him for a favor and he will force himself to work for hours to help complete strangers.

Regardless of how horrible a crime someone commits, however, Toma will always defend them from serious injury. There's a reason behind Toma's willingness to put himself through troubles for others. In his youth, a starving bear attacked Toma and his friend, and he left the boy to die. Toma has immense guilt from this experience and trains hard to avoid similar situations from happening. He rarely takes his own feelings into account, and has difficulties recognizing his emotions - he doesn't believe he has the right to feel happy. As a result, he thinks that even the worst people deserve to live, and he struggles to hurt someone regardless of how evil they are.

[b]Strengths: [/b]
-Owns a holy sword. It is more potent against the undead and wicked, but will not cut the Good. It can even guide itself to strike the opponent, helping offset Toma's lack of skill with a blade.
-While he is not trained in fighting, years of hard labor have given him a well-developed body. He is quite strong, and his durability and unwillingness to stop make him difficult to put down.
-Toma is knowledgeable about many animals and their behaviors. When to intimidate and when to play dead for a predator, how to properly raise livestock and work animals, and even driving a wagon or cart.
-His life in a small village has made it necessary to be skilled in a number of crafts, which is surprisingly rare for many adventurers. While he can't do anything as advanced as forging a sword, he is more than able to fix a broken axle on a wagon or sew a tear in a pack.
-Owns a small wagon, a stubborn Donkey, and many small handmade tools and items that are useful for a fledgling adventurer. Nothing expensive like a compass or a tent, but quite a few waterskins and hammers.

[b]Weaknesses: [/b]
-Very ignorant. Holds many superstitious beliefs, thinks most stereotypes about non-humans are true (All dwarves love beer!), and he's kind of sexist in a white knight way. It will lessen as he experiences the world, but it's bound to get him in trouble at first. Thanks to a difficult event in his childhood, he is terrified of forests, and getting him to enter one will leave him on a hair-trigger.
-Uneducated and untrained. If it can't be learned on a farm in a small village, Toma doesn't know it. He's illiterate, is pathetic when it comes to academics, and without his sword he doesn't know how to fight. Even with it, all he knows is how to hit someone - he can't dodge or take hits as a trained fighter could.
-Toma is incredibly idealistic and will attempt to solve all problems honorably. While it might be possible to get him to overlook a friend breaking the rules or using underhanded tactics, he will never do them himself - sneak attacks and the like 'Aren't manly at all', and as a result, Toma refuses to engage in them. He's also very generous with his gold, and with his naivety, it is quite easy to trick him out of lots of money.
-Toma's sword is enchanted with Spirit Magic rather than Runes. The reason it helps guide his blows is that the previous users are possessing him slightly when he uses it. Overusing it will taint his personality thanks to the repeated possessions, and Anti-Spirit magic or items will render the blade worthless.
-Toma's sword has a minor spirit inside of it, and as a result, it has its own thoughts and desires (albeit simple). It will attempt to coerce him into what it believes is morally correct, usually involving horrific violence. If their relationship gets poor enough it will not use its abilities, or even refuse to be wielded by him at all.

[b]Biography: [/b]
Born in Whitelot, a farming village a few dozen miles southeast of Windleton, Toma's early life had little in the way of danger or excitement. The population was small enough that crime wasn't a serious problem, and a retired paladin of Storalla that lived in the village was more than enough to defend from the odd predator or runaway slave from Windleton. From an early age, Toma's desire to explore the world outside his village put a lot of stress on the family - while slavers weren't allowed to attack the village directly, nothing would stop them from snatching a stray child wandering the woods. To distract him, Toma's parents made him work on their farm from a young age, desperate to keep him too busy to put himself in danger.

This worked for a long time, but when he turned 10, Toma was finally tired of abiding by his parents' wishes. He and a boy a few years his junior, one of the only other children in the village, had decided to explore the forest several miles from the village in search of something other than cropland. The trip was enlightening - Toma saw animals and plants that he had never seen in his life, and he was further from his home than he had ever been his life. He wanted to go even farther, and experience more of the world - so he kept going deeper into the woods, dragging his friend all the way. Eventually, though, they came across a very intimidating creature.

A bear. Clearly unhealthy, the beast had missing patches of fur and skin and seemed to be starving. It was roughly rubbing its shoulder against a tree, leaving bloodstains on the bark as it tore skin off. However, when it noticed the pair of children looking at it, it immediately lumbered towards them. Looking back on it, Toma knows the bear was almost certainly dying - it was nothing like the bears he had seen since then, and there would be no other reason it would attack on sight. The creature charged at them like a monster from the village Paladin's stories and the pair immediately began to run away. Even if it was dying, the bear was easily able to catch up to them - luckily for Toma, his friend was younger and less athletic. The last thing he heard from his friend as he ran back home was his anguished screams, as he was eaten alive.

Toma was never the same after this incident. Even if it was indirectly, he killed his friend - he suggested they went to the forest, and he made no effort to help his friend. And even if his friend's parents never said it, they clearly blamed him as well - they never spoke to him again, and only a month later, they sold their farm and moved to Windleton. Toma claimed that they were attacked by wolves, which occasionally came from the forest in search of food. He only told the truth to the Paladin, who had sworn to not reveal Toma's secret. From then, he spent all of his free time with the Paladin, doing his best to learn from him and look for some way to resolve the guilt he felt.

When the paladin passed away, he had left nearly everything he owned to Toma. This didn't include much - A wagon, a Donkey, the old church in his village, and basic survival equipment that Toma assumed were from the Paladin's early years. Two stood out, however - the magic sword that the Paladin carried (no to mention the only enchanted item in the entire village), and a letter that had been delivered to the Paladin on his deathbed. Opening it (and asking his father to read it to him) revealed that the Paladin had applied Toma to Hoseforn Academy, and somehow, the young man was accepted.

Toma left Whitelot once more, this time for good. There was no hesitation in the matter - this was the chance that Toma could use to lift the burden on his conscience, and he would definitely take it.
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