http://plothook.net/RPG/profiler/view.php?id=12930<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">"Voloke"</div><div class="spoiler_body"><br/>(http://i1300.photobucket.com/albums/ag99/Entropic1/blacnandwhitepicsrule_zps909cbe52.jpg) (http://s1300.photobucket.com/user/Entropic1/media/blacnandwhitepicsrule_zps909cbe52.jpg.html)<br/><br/>Voloke was born in a small town in the North named Bellside. The name came from the old metalworking shop whose owner was particularly skilled at crafting large bells that bigger towns would use. The town is on the edge of Lurkwood Forest, far enough away forom any major cities that it needs to still have its own militia to protect it from orc or goblin raids. Unfortunately, fourteen years ago, one such raid, a very large one, swept into town, led by an orc chief called Dudremk, and wiped out all of the men of the town. Children, Voloke among them, were taken as prisoners, to be used as slaves for Dudremk. The women suffered worse fates, which the young girls who were taken would inevitably share. Voloke was trapped with the life of a slave for three years before Dudremk and his orcs abandoned their rather large encampment when a battalion of soldiers from Neverwinter came along to kick down to door to avenge the death of the son of a prominent Neverwinter nobleman. Voloke, like the other child slaves, was taken back to Neverwinter and, like most orphans, taken into the care of one temple or another.<br/><br/>It was the priesthood of Tyr in Neverwinter that took in Voloke, and they had planned on raising him as a priest. However, Voloke, upon coming of age, joined the Grey Cloaks of Neverwinter briefly. Years of being in forced slavery, followed by even more years of cleaning and helping the priests in the temple. It wasn't that Voloke disliked anything about the priesthood of Tyr, so much as he felt that the life of a Priest wasn't for him. Three years of being a slave to the bastard that had murdered his family had instilled in Voloke a thirst for revenge that still to this day has not been satisfied. He has vowed that one day, he will find Dudremk and end him. Voloke had hoped that the Grey Cloaks would make an effort to do just that, but Dudremk is still at large in the North, his small army of orcs pillaging, raping, murdering, plundering, and sacking small towns whenever the chance arises.<br/><br/>Voloke left the Grey Cloaks after a little more than a year. He has been acting as a mercenary since then, and jumps at the opportunity to take any job that involves dealing with orcs, always hoping that it will lead him to Dudremk, so that he can finally take revenge.<br/><br/>When he's not doing mercenary work, Voloke usually likes to spend time alone. He does enjoy arts, and likes to listen to bards play and sing, or even see a performance at a theatre. He has no natural talent for such things himself, but he loves to experience it anyway. While Voloke certainly does enjoy fighting his enemies, to an extent at least, he doesn't go into taverns to start brawls or anything of the sort. He would prefer to be left alone to his ale. He's been told that he has a nice smile and might even be handsome, but Voloke doesn't, by his own estimation at least, smile often enough to tell.<br/><br/>He's more selective than most mercenaries, never wanting to take jobs that involve theft or outright assassination, though there's always someone willing to pay for a caravan guard or to have a band of goblins run back into the mountains and away from more civilized lands.<br/><br/>Voloke's last job, escorting a rather wealthy merchant named Reldmin from Luskan south to Waterdeep, has just been finished, and he's looking for work elsewhere.</div></div>