Kib Absold

Background and Notes

Kib was born to a family of lower merchant class, the fifth of ten children (third son). His father was a stonemason with a keen mind for business, whose acumen allowed him to buy a Lordship and enter his family into the nobility. With his father's support and new-found influence, Kib was brought up into the military as an officer.

A couple of years before the beginning of our story, Kib for Odessa's armed forces, campaigning in Alexia and Celstia. He fought and led well enough, and was in the running for a commendation into a real military command, but a scandal involving his father caused him to be sent on assignment far away to Gildenhome, then summarily discharged. Stripped of name, title, and rank, he found himself in a town far from his home, seeking means to return and clear his father's name.

The Odessan infantry mainly makes use of the longspear to support its longbowmen, but while in Alexia, Kib picked up a respect for the skilled use of the more martial pole arms, and has adapted their use into his own arsenal.

Kib firmly disbelieves that his father could have done any of the things that he is charged with, and will do anything to clear the family's name. He knows that he needs money to do so, and he presumes that the fastest way to gain coin with his training is to adventure for it.

Goals

Kib would eventually like to see his father's name cleared, and restored to its former title. He is convinced that nothing that his father was accused of could have happened, and knows he must hurry, before the stay in prison takes its toll.

Kib's immediate goals are to find enough work to get him enough money to start finding the information he needs to find. He knows that a regular job won't cut it, and stories of the vast riches recovered by soldiers of fortune and adventure-seekers have given him hope.

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