<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/77FugKG.jpg?1)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>JAEL ANSEL</strong> (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1188345)</span><br/><br/><strong>Description:</strong><br/>Jael possessed lustrous hair the colour of burnished bronze, which almost hints of the sunny climes he comes from, whilst the blue of his eyes are dark enough that they almost seem black in the absence of light.  Tall and hard-bodied, with gentle aquiline features, his slightly tapered ears hint at mixed ancestry, though Jael seems to lean more on the elven side of his heritage than human.<br/><br/>With his longstanding service as an inquisitor to the church of Sarenrae, Jael projects an aura of meditative certitude at almost all moments (Wis 20), and whilst his face is generally placed it almost seems at odds with the scrutinising intensity of his gaze (Perception +18, Sense Motive +20).  His motions are deft and cautious as a hunting cat (Dex 22; Stealth +15, Survival +16), and whilst his words have the studied temper of a diplomat's flair (Bluff +16, Diplomacy +16), his piercing gaze hints at a darker persona lurking just beneath ready to boil forth at a moment's notice (Intimidate +20).<br/><br/><strong>Bio:</strong><br/>Jael was brought to a temple of Sarenrae as an abandoned orphan by local priestess – in reality the mother, but felt unable to raise the child alone after her partner died.  His childhood was fairly unremarkable other than an inability to relate to most of his peers, though he compensated by devotion to study and a certain competence in the more martial principles of the faith.  Entering the shaky years of his teens, he finally started to make friends, many of whom came from nearby villages and had been sent to the church as a potential priests.<br/><br/>Many seemed set to join the clergy when an influx of foreign religions entered the region.  Tolerance was advised, but as a result, many of these potentials found new callings and left the church.  Worse, many changes were made that left the church Jael had grown up virtually unrecognisable as they pursued new (and often unorthodox) principles.  Jael was one of the few who stood firm within the core principles on which the faith of Sarenrae was built on.  Whilst he believed in the teachings of his church, he came to understand that a church was only as good as the people who spread the faith.<br/><br/>When the main temple of Sarenrae began to elevate new members for upstanding service, Jael's adherence to original tenets of the faith, even in the face opposition from those around him, was noted.  With his warriors skills and fierce determination, Jael found a path other than that of a common priest.<br/><br/>Two years later, he and two others returned to his hometown.  Those who once mocked him for not following the status quo, were now forced to tread carefully the newly empowered inquisitor who had more authority than they.  Digging through the tangle of corruption ruffled many feathers, not only amongst those who had grown wealthy from graft but also amongst darker elements that had chosen to infiltrate the local priesthood.  By the time he and his cohorts were done, those who were guilty stood trial, those elements aligned with the cult of Norgorber dead, but the influence of the church of Sarenrae was little more than a shadow of what it once was.  Although his efforts were recognised as having culled a greater evil from the ranks of the church, Jael realised that his need for redress had made him overlook one of the key aspects of Sarenrae's church – redemption.<br/><br/>Whilst his comrades went on to become fairly ruthless enforcers, Jael took a sojourn to remain in his town to help rebuild the church he had destroyed, becoming more a contemplative than holy scourge.  After nearly a year, Jael was called upon to investigate the Order of the Silver Dawn.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">JAEL ANSEL'S<br/>BATTLE MASK</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://i.imgur.com/FML6MP8.jpg?1)</div></div>