My character sheet is here, on Mythweavers.  Updates will be applied regularly, as needed: http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=230569 (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=230569)<br/><br/><strong>Description:</strong><br/>Rygel has the appearance of a tall, square-jawed man of clearly-defined musculature.  He has strikingly blue eyes, and long, wild black hair.  He is intensely handsome, and has a smile that makes women melt.  He also has white, feathered wings extending from his back.  His voice is deep and naturally carries, he speaks with clear enunciation.  His outfit involves a great deal of black leather - tight pants, a richly embroidered long-coat with epaulets and frogging, calf-high boots with a curved steel plate riveted on over his toes.  He is bare chested beneath the coat, displaying his powerful body to fine effect.  He carries no weapons other than spell components and little in the way of equipment.  He prefers to rely on his natural abilities, and claims that little compares to the feeling of an opponent's ribs cracking under your fist.<br/><br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong><br/>Rygel was taken to a monastery shortly after birth, to be raised on a holy and ascetic path.  Several incidents, however, sowed doubt in his mind.  On one occasion, an evil sorcerer defeated and slew the paladin-protector of the temple.  He then forced the abbot to offer obeisance and prostrate himself, and extracted tribute besides.  While Rygel was originally cloistered at almost all times, on one occasion he was taken out into the city and became accidentally embroiled in a brawl with numerous sailors.  Even by then his superhuman physical abilities had started to manifest, and he defeated them all after a brutal and lengthy fight.<br/><br/>By the time he had reached adulthood, he went out on a quest to defeat a band of orcs who had preyed on the outlying farms of the town.  He was there to assist the new paladin-guardian, who was likely too inexperienced to handle the task himself.  Rygel insisted on pursuing the orcs after they broke and fled.  Although he was deeply naive and had spent very little time outside the monastery, he fell into the lifestyle of an adventurer as the weeks wore on.  He learned swiftly to enjoy having money (from the bounties), the feeling of strength he gained (from defeating opponents) and the attention of women (for being a handsome hero and saving them from the ravages of orcs.)<br/><br/>He began to have differences of opinion with the abbot and the monks, and there were many heated arguments.  He eventually ran away with a gypsy fortune-teller who helped him improve his command of magical forces - he had studied arcane theory for many, many long hours in the temple library, but had had no cause or opportunity to put those forces to practical use.  Once he did, he luxuriated in his burgeoning powers and how they set him apart from others, even other adventurers.<br/><br/>He eventually settled in to work as a professor at an academy in a large city.  He taught a few classes, and mostly did "specialized archaeological research."  He went out to sites of ruins, some of them underground, and slaughtered any monstrous residents in order to recover ancient lore and artifacts.  He was increasingly accompanied by the head librarian; she eventually joined him when he gathered his resources and traveled out into the wastes.  A number of staff, in fact, found themselves so loyal they were willing to resign and join him in his quixotic quest to create a new kind of academia.<br/><br/>When he turned to<br/><br/><strong>Goals:</strong><br/>Rygel cannot tolerate the weakness in himself or in others.  He desires to test himself and gain unknown heights of might, and to encourage this path in others.  Therefore, he is starting a University that teaches its students to be righteous badasses of a very high caliber.  He doesn't discriminate against the forms this takes - he is equally happy to observe growing excellence in swordswomen or magicians.  By churning out a regular crop of heroically strong humans, he encourages the people of the world to be less pathetic by some small measure.  He also desires the incidents of personal power - magic, wealth, a widely feared and respected reputation, etc.<br/><br/><strong>Relationships:</strong><br/>His closest (possibly only) personal friendship is with Kayla, his Archivist cohort.  He is in something like human love with her, and can't stand those warm, squishy feelings within himself.  He is compelled to keep her close by, comfortable, happy, and safe, but is too frightened of his own emotions to become overtly romantic with her.<br/>(http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc177/WyzardWhately/Death_of_the_Endless1.jpg)