<div class="floatright">(http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/pp340/daggeroflath/MarcusHedbrandh_zps7517f62e.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong><em>Saga</em><br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong><em>If you can make friends easily, there's always someone with a fire and meal for you. So Saga seems bright, cheerful and easy to befriend. In actual fact he finds it very hard to trust people or have genuine friendships though. <br/><br/>Without real friends, his best friends are the gods, with whom he converses frequently. Of course to anyone else he's just talking to a rock or a bird or the thin air, but he knows that the gods are listening. They don't speak back directly either but he knows he'll see signs of what they want. He usually doesn't talk to the gods in front of other people though, since they often see it as blasphemous. The gods have never complained to him about it though, so he assumes they're happy with him talking to them. This is his attitude towards all dealings with the gods, he's not afraid to blaspheme because he assumes that the gods would let him know if they were unhappy. He genuinely believes in them wholeheartedly though.<br/><br/>Saga is confident and motivated, he goes for what he wants and doesn't ever really regard anything as impossible. It's just a matter of keeping on trying until you find a solution.</em><br/><br/><strong>Appearance:</strong><em>As pictured, though with less modern clothing.</em><br/><br/><strong>Gender:</strong><em>Male</em><br/><br/><strong>Race:</strong><em>Human</em><br/><br/><strong>History: </strong><em>Saga was the son of a Jarl from a small village but when he was young a more powerful king claimed him as a ward in order to have a hostage to force his father's loyalty. When he was about twelve his father fell in battle though and another man replaced him as Jarl. Things looked bad and Saga knew that if he wasn't useful as a hostage he would probably end up dead himself soon enough. So he fell back on his greatest skill and lied. He claimed that with the death of his supposed father he didn't have to keep the secret anymore and "admitted" that he was actually the son of Braggi, the poet god, who had seduced his mother into spending a night with him. Delivering this bluff with enough conviction allowed him to at least generate enough confusion with the king to allow him to slip away in the night while the king pondered this claim.<br/><br/>With nothing for him in his old home town, Saga wandered the world finding ways to survive wherever he could. Lying was his most common stock in trade, though sneaking about, stealing or the occasional bit of pickpocketing helped as well. Eventually he started studying the mystics and oracles he saw and took up fortune-telling as a profession, casting rune-stones to see the future. He believes that he can see the future, but lies because most people aren't ready to know what's in store for them. He picked up a lot of knowledge of different mystical arts. When he's thirsty he can read the future in the dregs at the bottom of a cup, when he's hungry he can read the entrails of a sacrificial animal that he will dispose of safely so as not to anger the gods, when he's tired he can see the future in his dreams as long as he sleeps in a comfortable warm bed.<br/><br/>Eventually though the world started turning darker and people were less confident in his reassurances that the future would be bright and everyone would be happy ever after. He started to worry that people would stop believing him. Instead though he ran into the opposite problem. A powerful man (need some GM feedback on who this could be) believed in him so greatly that he hired Saga to find out what had befallen the world and how it could be fixed. Taking the money and running wasn't an option though, this man was powerful enough that betraying him would probably see Saga executed. So he's taken on the job and he'll manage it... somehow. In the meanwhile being on a quest to save the world is a great line to get people to help chip in with resources or a place to stay.</em><br/><br/><strong>Combat:</strong><em>The world is full of warriors and doesn't need another one to steal the glory from everyone else. There's enough death in the world without killing more people, let's try talking this through. Besides, he has sworn a vow of non-violence to Freya for the wisdom of the runes. (Okay, he's just a coward... but he won't tell anyone that). However in his study of mysticism he's learned a lot of herbalism and secret tricks of medicine, he's actually quite good at tending to injuries.</em><br/>