Wendell Brishen

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Wendell "Brye" Brishen
Information
Archetype Farmboy, Reluctant Cleric
Hair Colour Nut Brown
Eye Colour Light Brown
Height 5'10"
Build Stocky
Profession Farm Hand
Religion As Yet Undefined

Description

Brye has a muscular and stocky build, thanks both to his life of hard manual labor and his peasant heritage. He is broad of shoulders and chest. He has nut brown hair and light brown eyes. His skin is tanned and a bit ruddy, and his face has wide-set features.

He smells faintly of dry hay. His voice is rough and pleasant, though it often betrays his simple upbringing.

Brye keeps his head down, especially around strangers and those he perceives as being nobility. He tends to hunch down a bit, trying to seem smaller than he really is. He is friendly, if a bit shy and taciturn at first, and can be very perceptive of the emotions and subtext in the behavior of others. He dresses in simple clothing, typically a linen tunic and loose trousers.

Brye has only limited literacy. While he is a fairly quick learner, he has had little exposure to the written word. He has been raised on a philosophy of practicality and simplicity - he dislikes unnecessary frills and decoration, and especially dislikes wasteful use of metal.

A light wind often blows around him, and rain bends just slightly to avoid falling on him.

Wendell Brishen rarely goes by his actual name, instead referring to himself as Brye.

Background

Origins

Wendell Brishen was born to an honest, hardworking family of Thessilanian farmers. He is the third child out of five, all raised to know their place, which was never expected to be high in the social strata. As the middle child of a peasant family, Brye was sure to grow up a farm-worker, and never truly considered that there might, or could, be alternatives. So he worked, for himself and his family, and he grew up strong and simple.

Then, on one wet spring morning, Brye discovered that he had become blessed. When he glared out the door at the cold rain, it parted before him, flowing to the sides of a sudden path. Feeling the call of magic and adventure, he promptly slammed the door and prayed that it had been his imagination. His prayer was met with some confusion, but his new god soon decided that he must in fact have wanted more rain. This was quickly provided, flattening a full acre of wheat fields.

Where the god came from, Brye does not know. What it wants and why it chose him, Brye does not know. But, in the hope of finding answers, he took what money he had and started out into the wide world. It's a long road to the truth, and who knows what he'll meet along the way...

The Broken Dagger

Brye came to the Myrken Wood as a temporary farmhand for the spring planting, and intends to stay on until he's saved up some money and found enough answers to know where to head next.

The Present

When he's not in the tavern, Brye can usually be found doing manual labor on one of the nearby farms.

Brye has become the focus of a strange and unidentified god or god-like being. Unfortunately, Brye and his god do not speak the same language. He isn't sure if the god even knows how to talk. While Brye can sometimes manage to get the result he desires, things are usually lost in translation. And what the god interprets as a prayer may not be intended as such. Brye is also given to divine compulsions - requests from his god that are just as difficult to understand as his own prayers seem to be. The god, if that is what it actually is, is not a particularly powerful one. It can't raise anyone from the dead or smite Brye's enemies with the power of the heavens, nor would Brye know how to ask it to do such things. But it is very, very attentive.

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