Zemok Dustcloak<br/>Human Magic-User 1, CN<br/>STR 9 [1-2, 1%]<br/>INT 17 [Know 75%, M/M 8/14]<br/>WIS 12<br/>DEX 10<br/>CON 15 [+1HP, SSS 91% RS 94%]<br/>CHA 16 [Hire 8, L +20, RA +25]<br/><br/>HP 5, AC 10<br/><br/>Age: 20, Height: 5' 10", Weight: 140,<br/>Black hair, dark eyes, pale-complected.<br/><br/>Zemok never knew his real origins.  He grew up as a sort of collective apprentice at the Ivory Tower, a reclusive and nearly monastic university focusing on arcane learning.  He grew up there amongst the squabbling academicians and the cobwebs, and the occasional lordling or adventurer who stopped by with jeweled fingers and expensive questions.  It was a good life.  He got the wanderlust in him at a certain age, as did most young men, but he never would have dreamed of actually leaving.  Maybe unfortunately, though, they kicked him out.<br/><br/>The story was that he had been a foundling with a large sack of gems, to cover his upkeep and tuition.  They informed him that it had simply run out.  They would miss him, of course, and hoped he would continue his studies via other means, maybe even come back and join the faculty.  They had reserved a small portion of the money for his own use, which they gave him, and there were small parting gifts from a few of the faculty.  These were not men given to sentimentality.<br/><br/>It was over in a whirl, and while he won't admit it, he was crushed.  He'd never known any other life, and had thought of the Tower as his family.  All those years of pent-up rebellion have come to the surface, and he's marched off to tear a chunk out of the world for himself, by whatever means he can.  "Get rich, or die trying," he's vowed.  [Let me clarify this:  Zemok spent years thinking he had a family - admittedly a peculiarly distant one - but it turns out he was just a paying student all long.  He won't admit this, but he's got a deep sense of betrayal, and he's also now intending to overcompensate by becoming hugely rich himself.  In a sense, he doesn't ever want to have that kind of experience again, and he can make sure he doesn't if he has lots of power, e.g., spells, a tower, piles of money, demonic servants, et cetera.]<br/><br/>Equipment:<br/>3 daggers<br/>A backpack<br/>Waterskin<br/>Bedroll<br/>7 days rations<br/>Flint & Steel<br/>6 Torches<br/>Chalk<br/>Belt Pouch<br/>[However much money he has left - I don't have my books with me here.]<br/>