<table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Name:</strong> </td><td>   </td><td>Brandon Patterson / Sir Balthazar Tori ap’ Beaumayn</td><td></td><td><strong>Player:</strong> </td><td></td><td>Muse</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Chronicle:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>The Duchy of Storms</td><td></td><td><strong>Motley:</strong> </td><td></td><td>---</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Court:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>Seelie</td><td></td><td><strong>Seeming:</strong> </td><td></td><td>Grump</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Legacies:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>Troubadour / Knave</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Kith:</strong> </td><td></td><td>Troll</td></tr><tr><td><strong>House:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>Beaumayn</td><td>   </td><td><strong>EXP Spent:</strong> </td><td></td><td>0 EXP</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><hr/><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong><em>Physical</em></strong> </td><td>   </td><td>   </td><td></td><td><strong><em>Social</em></strong> </td><td></td><td>   </td><td>   </td><td><em><strong>Mental</strong></em></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Strength:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>●●●●●</td><td></td><td><strong>Charisma:</strong> </td><td></td><td>●●●○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Perception:</strong></td><td>●○○○○</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Dexterity:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>●●●○○</td><td></td><td><strong>Manipulation:</strong> </td><td></td><td>●○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Intelligence:</strong></td><td>●●●○○</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Stamina:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>●●●○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Appearance:</strong> </td><td></td><td>●●●●○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Wits:</strong></td><td>●●○○○</td></tr></tbody></table><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Specialties: Strength (?), Appearance (?)</em></span><br/><br/><hr/><hr/><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong><em>Talents</em></strong> </td><td>   </td><td>   </td><td></td><td><strong><em>Skills</em></strong> </td><td></td><td>   </td><td>   </td><td><em><strong>Knowledges</strong></em></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Alertness:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>●○○○○</td><td></td><td><strong>Animal Ken:</strong> </td><td></td><td>○○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Academics:</strong></td><td>●●○○○</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Athletics:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>●●●○○</td><td></td><td><strong>Crafts:</strong> </td><td></td><td>○○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Computer:</strong></td><td>●○○○○</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Brawl:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>○○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Drive:</strong> </td><td></td><td>●○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Enigmas:</strong></td><td>●○○○○</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Empathy:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>●○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Etiquette:</strong> </td><td></td><td>●○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Gremayre:</strong></td><td>●○○○○</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Expression:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>●●●●○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Firearms:</strong> </td><td></td><td>○○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Investigation:</strong></td><td>●○○○○</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Intimidation:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>○○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Larceny:</strong> </td><td></td><td>○○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Law:</strong></td><td>○○○○○</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Kenning:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>●●●○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Melee:</strong> </td><td></td><td>●●●●○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Medicine:</strong></td><td>●○○○○</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Leadership:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>●○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Performance:</strong> </td><td></td><td>○○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Politics:</strong></td><td>●○○○○</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Streetwise:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>○○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Stealth:</strong> </td><td></td><td>○○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Science:</strong></td><td>●○○○○</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Subterfuge:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>●○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Survival:</strong> </td><td></td><td>○○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Technology:</strong></td><td>○○○○○</td></tr></tbody></table><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Specialties: Appearance: Beefcake, Expression (Creative Writing), Melee (Polearms), Strength: Big Guy</em></span><br/><br/><hr/><hr/><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong><em>Backgrounds</em></strong> </td><td>   </td><td>   </td><td></td><td><strong><em>Arts</em></strong> </td><td></td><td>   </td><td>   </td><td><em><strong>Realms</strong></em></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Chimerical Items:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>●●●○○</td><td></td><td><strong>Skycraft:</strong> </td><td></td><td>●●○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Actor:</strong></td><td>●●●○○</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Dreamers:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>●●○○○</td><td></td><td><strong>Wayfare:</strong> </td><td></td><td>●○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Fae:</strong></td><td>●●●●○</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Remembrance:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>●●●○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>? ? ?:</strong> </td><td></td><td>○○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Prop:</strong></td><td>○○○○○</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Resources:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>●●○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>? ? ?:</strong> </td><td></td><td>○○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Scene:</strong></td><td>○○○○○</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Title:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>●●○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>? ? ?:</strong> </td><td></td><td>○○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Time:</strong></td><td>○○○○○</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><br/><hr/><hr/><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Glamour:</strong></td><td>   </td><td>●●●●○ ○○○○○</td><td></td><td><strong>Willpower:</strong> </td><td></td><td>●●●●● ●○○○○</td><td>   </td><td><strong>Nightmare:</strong></td><td>○○○○○ ○○○○○</td><td><strong>Banality:</strong></td><td>●●●○○ ○○○○○</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><hr/><hr/><br/><strong>Birthright:</strong><br/><br/><strong>Frailty:</strong><br/><br/><strong>Antithesis:</strong><br/><br/><strong>Health:</strong><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td>Real</td><td>Level </td><td>Chimerical</td></tr><tr><td>[ ]</td><td>Bruised</td><td>[ ]</td></tr><tr><td>[ ]</td><td>Hurt (-1)</td><td>[ ]</td></tr><tr><td>[ ]</td><td>Injured (-1)</td><td>[ ]</td></tr><tr><td>[ ]</td><td>Wounded (-2)</td><td>[ ]</td></tr><tr><td>[ ]</td><td>Mauled (-2)</td><td>[ ]</td></tr><tr><td>[ ]</td><td>Crippled (-5)</td><td>[ ]</td></tr><tr><td>[ ]</td><td>Incapacitated</td><td>[ ]</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><br/><hr/><hr/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Merits &amp; Flaws</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em><strong>Merits</strong></em><br/>- (5)   Blessing of Atlas<br/><br/><em><strong>Flaws</strong></em><br/>(1)   changeling's Eyes<br/>(2)   Enemy: (Dame Onnica __, ex lover, Shadow Court Sidhe)<br/>(2)   Intolerance: Ravagers<br/>(2)   Phobia: Buzzing, stinging things.  <br/></div></div><br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Just, kind, geeky, and gentle.  Laid back, romantic, and protective.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Brandon Patterson can't remember when it first crossed his mind that he wanted to be a writer.  Only child of a single mother who read to him practically from the day he was born, Brandon grew up in the home of his wealthy grandparents.  They owned several cotton gins, and lived in a big house with a nice garden in a small West Texas town called Quana.<br/><br/>School was rough on Brandon.  Big and strong for a boy his age, he was still very much a geek.  A peaceful child who didn't want to hurt anyone, he let himself be beat on by bullies several times in junior high.  In sixth grade, befriending a girl named Anabelle who also loved to read, bullies surrounded the two of them, looking for some fun.  In keeping with the code, the girls started shovving little Annabelle around while the boys grabbed Brandon and took turns punching him.<br/><br/>When Annabelle hit the ground with a cry, Brandon snapped.  He didn't care about his own pain, and he didn’t care about the code.<br/><br/>Those girls were hurting his friend.<br/><br/>He made them stop.<br/><br/>The principle was not at all happy about finding five girls in the nurses office with black eyes and broken noses.  He had Brandon in his office and sent the others home or to the doctor without a word.  He spent fifteen minutes yelling at Brandon that he shouldn't hit girls...<br/><br/>That was where Brandon's mother found them, and her tongue lashing left the forty year old man sitting at his desk in tears.  Her last words to him before she took Brandon home were, “I didn't raise a sexist.”<br/><br/>*   *   *<br/><br/>Brandon had a much harder time in school for a while, but before long he decided to actually defend himself—usually more by wrestling than throwing punches.  By high school, the bullies were too afraid of being tossed through the air to mess with him, the weaker kids tried to befriend him in hopes that he'd protect them, and the football coach was salivating for him.<br/><br/>“I'm sorry, coach,” Brandon told him, “I had as short story published over the summer.  I'm working on a novel now, and I started taking kendo in Amarillo on the weekends.”  Walking away, arm in arm with Annabelle on their way to their first class, he said softly, “Oh, my Lord...  Football?  How boring is that?”<br/><br/>The little blond giggled.<br/><br/>On Anabelle's sixteenth birthday, after her party, the two got in Brandon's room. He read two chapters from the fantasy novel he was writing to her, and then they began to kiss.  This time, instead of stopping him when she got too hot, Ana belle began to unbutton her blouse...<br/><br/>Cuddling with his beloved after a long night of passion, Brandon noticed as he was drifting off that his hands looked blue...<br/><br/>The next few days were pretty confusing.  Not only had Brandon gained a foot and a half over night, no one else could see it.  He questioned his sanity a few times, but every time he remembered that—when he woke up in Anabelle's arms, she'd told him that his eyes had changed—going from brown to blue.<br/><br/>It was the little pixie in the garden—a neverlander he half remembered from when she'd enchanted him a as child--who began to explain to him what he was, and actually told him he should sign up for an MMO called Enchanted Star Realms online.<br/><br/>This was where he met the creator of the game, Duke Brenden Beaumayn.  Baroness Tamora Hale knighted him the next year, bringing him into House  Beaumayn and The Knights of the Good Hand.  (Brandon—or Balthazar Tori as the Changelings had known him since his Sain Day—thought Tamora was the most beautiful being he'd ever imagined, but his love for Annabelle kept him from wooing her.<br/><br/>Balthazar moved to McAlister, Oklahoma for college and offered his fealty and service as a knight to Duchess Gabriela Cox.  Annabelle went to Dallas to study Biology, and their relationship faded in the coming months.<br/><br/>Balthazar has had a recurring crush on his Lady ever since, but he thinks she's beyond his reach.  He's had a few dalliances since then, but only one was serious.<br/><br/>He threw himself both into changeling life and into his writing, publishing several fantasy and romance novels.<br/><br/>On his editor's advise, he Brenda Aaron for the romances.  The deception bothered him, but he was new to the field and trusted his editor.<br/><br/>Three years ago, a new knight came to town, Dame Onnica Sioban.  Balthazar was utterly taken with the beautiful sidhe.  He wooed her and won her love—or so he thought.  Last Year, Onnica was discovered to be a Shadow Court spy who'd been sewing discord among the Seelie.<br/><br/>For the first and only time to date, Balthazar disobeyed a direct order from Gabriella. He moved ahead of the three knights going to arrest Onnica.  Those three were jumped by Shadow Court assassins.  They were slowed and wounded, but manage to drive the five away.  They found Onnica and Balthazar locked in a fierce duel as Onnica tried to escape with the Pennon of the Freehold.<br/><br/>Onnica escaped in the end, leaping from a high tower to be spirited away by a giant was, but Balthazar's willingness to put his duty before his love—and his lady's orders—allowed him to save the freehold's keys from being carried to the Shadow Court.<br/><br/>Baltahzar took a knee before Gabriella and offered to serve pennace for his disobedience.  She pardoned him, but Baltahzar spent several months fighting with his unseelie legacy.  He took a leave from his duties and poured his energy into a new romance novel.  After it went to the publishers, an order form Gabriella arrived commanding him to return to his duty and deal with a chimera rampaging on the New Mexico border.<br/><br/>It was the last nudge Baltahzar needed to find himself again, and he has happily returned to his duty since.<br/><br/>Bonus Points:  (15 + 7 from flaws)<br/>--7: +7 Backgrounds<br/>--4: +2 Realms (Actor)<br/>--2: +1 Skill (Expression)<br/>--2: +1 Skill (Melee)<br/>--5:  Merit (Blessing of Atlas)<br/>--2: +1 Willpower<br/>