In the interest of keeping with the theme, I too will be playing a cleric!<br/><br/>Half-elven jerk*/magic-user, go!<br/><br/>Authmund Alfsson (Chaotic Evil**)<br/><br/><em>*"priest" of Loki, ahem.  Authmund is aware that he has Loki's attention (a fact which makes him equal parts gratified and terrified), but not that the god grants him spells.  His spellcasting manifests as unreasonably good fortune -- right up to the point where Loki decides he doesn't want Authmund to succeed at his current task.</em><br/><br/><em>**The alignment system is fun, but also very limited.  Authmund could be CE, NE, or even CN depending on the circumstances.  The jist of his moral and ethical outlook is that he's selfish, he's never met a rule he liked, and he has no qualms about hurting people -- badly -- if he feels like they deserve it, which can be a pretty arbitrary thing.</em><br/><br/>About four decades ago, give or take, a buxom young human girl living in the northern reaches of the Empire was seduced by a wood elf into giving up her innocence.  However, the unlucky couple was found in the forest<em>inflagrante delicto</em>, as it were, and the elf lost his head in a very literal sense.  Nine months later, Authmund was born.  His mother's parents named him ("lucky gift") in the hope of diverting any evil headed their way due to the unnatural birth or the murder of his father.  Not, it should be noted, because they considered his arrival particularly lucky or in any way a gift.<br/><br/>Authmund grew up slowly, as one might expect, and he was always smaller than the other boys his age.  Coupled with a uniform lack of interest in all things competitive, Authmund went through the usual list of unfriendly nicknames very quickly and his peers found themselves at something of a loss to come up with new ones.<br/><br/>Universally disliked by his peers and his family, the preternaturally bright Authmund found ways to jab at the comparatively ignorant people around him, usually managing to get someone else in trouble for his antics.  The god Loki took notice, and Authmund came to find that he often had inexplicable and sometimes impossible help with his shenanigans.<br/><br/>When he was old enough, Authmund made a nuisance of himself to the local soothsayer until she agreed to take him on as a pupil.  That went well -- magic being the one thing Authmund found really interested him -- until one of the young man's pranks went sour.  He was arrested, clapped in irons, and shipped to New Elmwood, to work in the mines.<br/><br/>Loki, of course, had other plans for the young wizard, once he arrived there....<br/><br/>Authmund Alfsson<br/>Chaotic Evil male half-elven 1st-level priest of Loki/1st-level magic-user<br/><br/>STR 8<br/>DEX 11<br/>CON 10<br/>INT 18<br/>WIS 16<br/>CHA 15<br/><br/>HP 7<br/>AC 10<br/><br/>Wizard Spells Known: 1st: Charm Person, Detect Magic, Read Magic, Ventriloquism<br/>Wizard Spells Memorized: none (no spellbook)<br/><br/>Cleric Spells Memorized: 1st: Cause Fear, Cure Light Wounds, Curse, Sanctuary