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| Kib Absold is a recently unemployed [[Odessa|Odessan]] soldier. He is one of three recruited to help out the town of Draglet, and is currently exploring its environs with his three tiny compatriots, [[Thed]], [[Thoven]] and [[Gilerl|Gilerl Gilerlson]], and with the more average-sized [[Anise]].
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| ==Short Description== | | ==Short Description== |
| A fairly large Human man, with dark, close-cropped hair, dark eyes, olive skin. Clean-shaven and orderly. Wears a light grey uniform with no insignia. Carries a guisarme (strapped to his back when not needed), with a warhammer at his belt and shield at his back. Has a voice that carries well without being grating.
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| ==Description== | | ==Description== |
| Kib Absold is 6'2" and 195 lbs, with dark hair, dark eyes, and olive skin. He is classically handsome by Odessan standards, but not to the point where he stands out in a crowd on looks alone. The tone of his voice, however, instantly attracts attention when sounded, at once both commanding and certain.
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| His straight hair was worn loose at about shoulder length, kept out of his eyes by a simple leather band, in the current style preferred by Odessan officers. However, he has recently resorted to trimming it short, as the demands of an adventuring lifestyle leave no means through which to maintain the more aristocratic look. Kib's reckoning on this matter is that if he cannot be fashionable, he will at least be tidy.
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| He keeps himself and his equipment clean and in good order, with the due diligence born of his military training. His face is always clean-shaven, a state maintained by the razor-sharp edge of the dagger he keeps on his person.
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| Kib prefers the sensibility of adventuring clothing, but often been seen in the more fashionable attire suiting his former rank, and is quite comfortable in either state of dress. Currently, his wardrobe consists solely of the two pairs of Odessan grey battle-dress he possessed when discharged (with insignia removed). Whatever he wears, he prefers it to be clean and in good repair, whenever possible.
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| Kib is used to command, and he habitually speaks in a tone meant to carry long distances. His bearing is open, but can quickly become very intimidating. He tries to make and execute his decisions as quickly as possible--while he recognizes the value of considering all possibilities, he is used to dealing with time-sensitive situations that demand a decision, and overdue deliberation invokes his rare impatience.
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| Kib gets along well enough with all sorts of people, and is generally willing to allow people their way if they do not impede his progress. He is even willing to accept such radical notions as Servitor Abolitionism, but is never fundamentalist in his ideals, and recognizes the realities of the societies of which he is a part.
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| Kib stays generally within the framework of Law when he can, but less from conviction than from convenience--he is not overly bothered about breaking a rule if the benefit is worth the legal consequence. His immediate superiors are sometimes put off by this attitude, but to the ranks above, the results speak for themselves.
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| ==Background== | | ==Background== |
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| ===Pre-Military Life===
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| Kib was born to a family of lower merchant class, the fifth of ten children (third son), in [[Farrandon]], Odessa. His father, [[Garn Absold | Garn]], a stonemason, was a keen businessman whose acumen brought him enough money to obtain a noble title, and all the rights and privileges granted therewith--the first such title awarded in hundreds of years. Kib was thus raised as a nobleman, and groomed for a life in the service of His Majesty King Aden as an officer in the military.
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| ===Military Service===
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| Kib served for three years in Odessa's armed forces. After receiving training for his commissioned rank, he was assigned a platoon attached to the 36th Regiment out of Cebridon. He spent his first year on campaign with a peacekeeping force in [[Alexia]] that was tasked with managing dissident elements in that country, following a series of tariff reforms that, to the people who could see it, symbolized the final nail in the coffin of Alexian sovereignty. There, the action focused mainly on policing activities, and never in pitched battle.
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| As events quieted down in Alexia, Kib's platoon was reassigned to the 74th, to fight in skirmishes on the Celstian/Odessan border. It was here that Kib saw his first real battlefield action. He earned a reputation for breaking with orders when it suited him to do so, but since this more often resulted in better outcomes than not, he generally received commendation rather than approbation from his superiors. Although those immediately above him on the chain of command saw him as unreliable, the higher-ups thought of him as a man who could get the job done. After a year and a half in Celestia, Kib was on his way to a promotion, when his career was dramatically interrupted.
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| ===Family Scandal===
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| While Kib was in Celestia, the Absold family began finding itself under pressure at home. After a series of events that Kib was not around to witness, Garn was charged, tried and sentenced for a variety of charges, ranging from bribery and corruption to borderline treason. The Absold family was stripped of its noble title, and Garn was tossed into jail. Kib found himself transferred to Gildenhome before he even knew of his family's fate, and while there he was summarily discharged and left to his own devices. He decided immediately that he would use any means necessary to find his way home and restore his family's reputation.
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| ==Tactical Philosophy==
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| 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. He also carries a shield and warhammer for close quarters, and a shortbow for long-distance situations. He is also a fair hand in a fist-fight, and is developing his effectiveness in mounted combat.
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| In general, he prefers compromise to combat, but he has spent enough time in dangerous situations to be willing to rapidly engage his foes in battle when necessary. He knows the value of live prisoners, and he carries a respect for his opponents' goals and lives, even when they are at odds to his own.
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| He strives to kill only when necessary, which, to his distaste, is far too often. He is unwilling to kill helpless prisoners if he does not perceive them as a threat, although he has no qualms against dispatching a helpless enemy if he thinks that not doing so will cause great enough future harm.
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| ==Current==
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| Kib has spent the last couple of months following various leads to a disturbance in Draglet. He and his party spent a while side-tracked in Kred, dealing with a (seemingly related) threat, but have finally made it to Draglet Fortress, where they hope to find the mysterious object that, upon crashing into the ground, was the apparent source of all the strange things that are happening in the area.
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| As Kib continues, his party insists that he is becoming more and more fatalistic, and are ever more reluctant to press on into the dangers that surround them. To Kib, this is a calculated risk, a path that will more quickly earn him the status and wealth he requires to solve his own, personal mysteries, but whether his competence in the abilities of himself and his party is overestimated has yet to be seen.
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| ==Goals==
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| Kib would eventually like to see his father's reputation and title restored. 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.
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| 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. More recently, though, with the troubles in his current location, accumulating enough wealth to get back, has become a far secondary preoccupation, as the dire circumstances have brought forth Kib's essential desire to do good. He realizes this, and rationalizes that becoming well-known for his deeds is to accumulate another kind of wealth, one that may take him further than mere riches would, alone.
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| After the happenings in Kred, Kib has begun keeping a journal of his travels, to consolidate ideas. In it, he only mentions his real goals in obtuse, roundabout ways, to prevent the casual reader from learning about, in particular, his family's plight--he does not think about this, but if he did, he would surmise that he has some interest in keeping at least part of his identity hidden. The journal is also filled with notes of his linguistic endeavors--most notably, it contains the orthographies he has developed for [[Goblin (Language)|Goblin]] and [[Kobold (Language)|Kobold]], and notes to aid his study (vocabulary, grammar rules, and so forth).
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| ==Career Notable Victories==
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| *King Mab, a [[Kobold]] Sorc 3/Fighter 1, in single combat. NOTE: NOT A REAL KING (slain).<br /> | |
| *The [[Masked Gnome]], with [[Thed]], [[Thoven]] and [[Gilerl]] (subdued and captured).<br /> | |
| *[[Swingin' Dan]] and [[The Professor]], with [[Thed]], [[Thoven]], [[Gilerl]], [[Zealeus]], and a valiant band of Kred's finest, who stood their ground to their last (if only because death came too quickly for them to even scream).<br />
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| *ZOMG HOLY CRAP SO MANY KOBOLDS.
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| ==Contacts==
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| *Captain [[Kleptinax]], of the Kred city guard, has seen first-hand what Kib and his group can do, and has also received from him a gift in the form of a dozen Wydmoor coins, rare in the East, for his collection.
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| *Everyone in Kred knows who Kib is, and anyone who would have something to lose from a Kobold invasion, and isn't a (fairly short-sighted) smuggler, probably likes him.
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| *[[Heston]] was an Alexian adolescent who lived near Kib's camp while he was on duty there. Originally, he would provide information in exchange for food and coin. Eventually, Absold become good friends with him and his family, often sharing meals under their roof, and covertly supporting them when they needed assistance.
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| *[[Uldern Garrolea]], a distant cousin of the Absold family, is Kib's closest childhood friend, whom he has not seen since beginning his military career. When Kib last saw Uldern, he was studying to become a Journeyman blacksmith, following his father's trade.
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| *All the men in Kib's squad became very close to him, but [[Cartil Durrendon]], as Kib's right hand, became doubly so. A towering giant of a man, eschewing the more traditional longspear and in favor of his family's ''zweihander'', he had a cutting wit and an enormous capacity for drink. In Alexia, he was a good companion with whom to chatter away the dull hours on sentry. In Celestia, he was an invaluable asset, and in the year and a half spent skirmishing there, both managed to pull each other out of scrapes that would have been their untimely deaths at Celstian hands.
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| *Kib Absold has six [[Kib Absold's Family | siblings]] (out of nine--two died shortly after birth, the other after sixteen months of life). He is the last of three boys, and much younger than the other two. Growing up, he was closest to [[Lea Absold|Lea]], his immediately older sister. Last he saw, Lea had completed her [[Primary Measure]] in Histories, and was beginning work on her [[Secondary Measure]].
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| *In his group during training for commission were twenty-three others of noble birth. All in that group know each other with more than passing familiarity, and most are still inhabiting various commissioned ranks within all of the various branches of the Odessan military.
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| '''*SPOILER*''' [[Kib Absold's Character Sheet]]
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| [[Category:Player Characters]] | | [[Category:Player Characters]] |
