Post by dragonus45 on Dec 12, 2016 0:00:15 GMT -7
In the hills surrounding Rook there lives a Monk by the name of Denshi Kobushi, a monk dedicated to spreading the word of Korada. While he spent much time adventuring and doing good works he found his time increasingly taken up in keeping up with his charity work and maintaining his growing Grotto Temple and its gardens. It was in those gardens that he one day found a half orc boy by the name of Gulthok attempting to rob him blind.
Gulthok had lived a difficult life, in his youth his sorcerous powers had been discovered and he had grown under the harsh tutelage of the local shaman. Unable to bear the cruelty he fled at age 7, falling in with several gangs as he made his way towards the city of Rook. After a brief stint as forced labor for a group of highwayman he managed to escape before getting lost in the hills in his attempts to escape being tracked. Eventually he found stumbled into a rather beautiful series of gardens, each containing a statue of one of the empyreal lords. Having little survival training and no ability to hunt or track the starved child broke the lock off one of the greenhouses and gorged himself on the fruits he found inside. It was then that he started to notice several gems and semiprecious stones worked into various decorations and set to work with his dagger. He had just worked free the first several stones when a strange golden skinned but shabbily dressed monk happened upon him. Gulthok wasted no time in fleeing as fast as he could, but no matter how fast he ran the monk seemed to be just behind him.
Things really had a turn for the worse, for just when he lost one pursuer he ran headfirst into the highwayman who had never stopped searching for him. Deciding he had had enough running Gulthok punched one in the groin and bit the fingers off a second before making a run for it. After 3 minutes of receiving a solid beating he noticed the old monk calmly walking into the clearing and the last thought he had was one of regret, that he had led the man straight to his death. He passed out to the sounds of somewhat girlish high pitched screaming.
He awoke several days later, his wounds bandaged and in a spare but comfortable cot. Next to him was a fresh meal and a manual in stone working.
Denshi took Gulshok in, as he did several other youths from the area alongside many of the bandits, highwayman, and other criminals he defeated. Offering many of them a second chance to learn a trade and be rehabilitated. Gulthok was initially given the stone working manual as a bit of a joke, as he had damaged several of the sculptures in the gardens when robbing them but Gulthok found he had a talent for working the stone. Before long the boy realized that while many of those Denshi taught came and went he had been staying for quite a while. He began to seek lessons from Denshi in both martial and mystical matters, but despite his best efforts he never managed to grasp the art of his masters flowing movements. Instead he decided to delve deeper into the nature of his magical blood to compensate. With the assistance of the writings of a draconic acquaintance of Denshi's he unlocked his heritage. Soon Denshi decided that he had reached the limit of what he could assisting Denshi in his charity work and clearing out local bandits and he told Gulthok it was time for him to travel the world as Denshi once had. Gulthok, before setting out created his greatest work to date, a Statue celebrating Chadali the empyreal lord of fate and Serendipity before changing his name. He renamed himself Tsume in honor if his and took on Denshi's as his new family name.
Gulthok had lived a difficult life, in his youth his sorcerous powers had been discovered and he had grown under the harsh tutelage of the local shaman. Unable to bear the cruelty he fled at age 7, falling in with several gangs as he made his way towards the city of Rook. After a brief stint as forced labor for a group of highwayman he managed to escape before getting lost in the hills in his attempts to escape being tracked. Eventually he found stumbled into a rather beautiful series of gardens, each containing a statue of one of the empyreal lords. Having little survival training and no ability to hunt or track the starved child broke the lock off one of the greenhouses and gorged himself on the fruits he found inside. It was then that he started to notice several gems and semiprecious stones worked into various decorations and set to work with his dagger. He had just worked free the first several stones when a strange golden skinned but shabbily dressed monk happened upon him. Gulthok wasted no time in fleeing as fast as he could, but no matter how fast he ran the monk seemed to be just behind him.
Things really had a turn for the worse, for just when he lost one pursuer he ran headfirst into the highwayman who had never stopped searching for him. Deciding he had had enough running Gulthok punched one in the groin and bit the fingers off a second before making a run for it. After 3 minutes of receiving a solid beating he noticed the old monk calmly walking into the clearing and the last thought he had was one of regret, that he had led the man straight to his death. He passed out to the sounds of somewhat girlish high pitched screaming.
He awoke several days later, his wounds bandaged and in a spare but comfortable cot. Next to him was a fresh meal and a manual in stone working.
Denshi took Gulshok in, as he did several other youths from the area alongside many of the bandits, highwayman, and other criminals he defeated. Offering many of them a second chance to learn a trade and be rehabilitated. Gulthok was initially given the stone working manual as a bit of a joke, as he had damaged several of the sculptures in the gardens when robbing them but Gulthok found he had a talent for working the stone. Before long the boy realized that while many of those Denshi taught came and went he had been staying for quite a while. He began to seek lessons from Denshi in both martial and mystical matters, but despite his best efforts he never managed to grasp the art of his masters flowing movements. Instead he decided to delve deeper into the nature of his magical blood to compensate. With the assistance of the writings of a draconic acquaintance of Denshi's he unlocked his heritage. Soon Denshi decided that he had reached the limit of what he could assisting Denshi in his charity work and clearing out local bandits and he told Gulthok it was time for him to travel the world as Denshi once had. Gulthok, before setting out created his greatest work to date, a Statue celebrating Chadali the empyreal lord of fate and Serendipity before changing his name. He renamed himself Tsume in honor if his and took on Denshi's as his new family name.