Ares Payne

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Character Profile
Name	Ares Thine Payne
Gender	Male
Race	Half-Troll / Half-Dwarf
Class	Cleric
Age	32 (mentally about 14)
Religion	The Trickster (Brothers of Conspiracy)
Played By	Arron Johnson

Ares had an unusual start in life. Born, along with his brother Elmo, to a Dwarven prostitute. His father was a full-troll (as far as mum recalls).
He was teased by the Dwarves of his generation because of his half-troll heritage and clumsy nature, he found the only way to be accepted by them was to be exceptional in some way, and the way he found was to make them laugh (or at least attempt too), because of this he turned to The Trickster.
After aquiring his faith, Ares started a life of pranks and practical jokes upon his peers and sometimes even his elders.
It was this pranking that caused him to be sent from the Dwarven realms to Aberddu, one particular prank involved candles, coal dust and the village cheif's desk, the end result was Ares being sent away to "grow-up" and learn "responsibility" and a very annoyed, bald chinned, Chief and his brother.

Upon arriving in Aberddu late in the year of 1106. Ares discovered the adventurers guild and thinking it to sound a fun place, decided to join, but just as he reached the door to the guildhouse he felt a strange sensation of pulling and found himself stood inside the guild house, a few seconds later he felt the same sensation and found himself in front of the main door again. Knowing he'd made the right decision and elate to have found somewhere as interesting and fun as this he entered the guild ready to do whatever it took to prove himself.

After the first week or so of being a member of the Adventurers guild Ares was amazed to discover the god that he followed was once a mortal man, not only that, but a mortal man who was once a member of this very guild! Upon hearing this, Ares made a pledge to himself and his god to help the guild in all ways he possibly could.

Not long after this revelation Ares' brother Elmo appeared at the guild, he'd followed Ares' to Aberddu "to be of help" but Ares' suspected Mum has sent Elmo to keep an eye on him. After collecting some crystals from dead ratkin on an outdoor guild-night, Ares became obsessed with the effects they had upon him while he wore them. His attempts to collect even more of these crystals have been stalled by Guildmaster Jup1.6 who ordered him to return any he collected from recent ratkin attacks.

After hearing of the fighting in the Dwarven Realms, Ares became convinced his mother was dead and as of yet nobody has told him otherwise. After a meeting with the Ghost of Midwinter-Past and the subsequent flashbacks that followed Ares' hatred of the Frisian ideal has been renewed. It also jolted him into the resolve of being more active in guild issues. This backfired when he attempted, with the help of Ed DeBree, to assasinate Maltheus Alloisious Amerretti in a case of mistaken identity.
Ed and Ares beleived Maltheus to be a Frisian spy, the truth being he was from Frisia and even worked within their ranks but did so no longer, they failed in their assasination attempt. Because of this misunderstanding, what Ares beleived to be his first great act of meaning within the guild, turned into a travesty and has lumbered himself and Ed with a debt of 300gilda.

Ed's close friends Giselle Snapdragon and Lees Duddrack have promised to help with the debt somehow by travelling to Paravel, Ares is going with them. Abatha and Eldoth also have a plan to help that has been set in motion, Helga Oakenshield also offered her help.

The trip to Paravel never happened, we spent most of our time wandering around, nowhere near the place. With the help of friends and with his own machinations he managed to raise approximatley 25 gilder, nowhere near the amount needed. One night while ruseing on ways to raise the money there was a call for new members at the Bards-Guild, thinking it a quick source of cash and finally a chance to improve his singing ability, Ares signed up. It wasn't long before he discovered things that interested him.
At the following AAG guild-meeting. Stryke, the newly appointed guild-master, pulled Ares into his office for a word. "Where is the money you owe the guild?" he said.
"I'm not paying it." Ares replied.
"Why not?" asked Stryke.
"I have more important things to do at the moment, that's why!"
"Such as?"
"Well, do you see that whole north side of the city, where people have a penchant for wearing red-tabards and summoning demons?" replied Ares in a sarcastic manner.
"Yes I have noticed, but there's still the matter of the money, we're a guild, we're friends and we look out for each other."
It was this statement that struck Ares off-guard, he had hoped to be able to talk Stryke down by explaining the work he'd done during the war. Yet Stryke had pointed out something Ares had forgotten, in the guild we we're friends and we had to look after each other, this bravado of trying to shout Stryke down had been a stupid idea, he should've tried harder to raise the money, but it was that "looking out for each other..." that made Ares remember something more important, and told Stryke about what he'd learnt in the past week or so.....

Weeks had gone by, many things has happened, Frysia had retreated to only holding the far North-western part of the city, the guild had gotten even more new members, training in the Bard's Guild was very nearly finished. He'd found new friends around the city and within the guild. Word was slowly coming in from the outside yet there was no word from Dwarven Realms, nor mum or Danielle and still he was no closer to getting through that door! Everything he tried seemed to stop him at every corner. There were demons there, he knew and quite possibly some very pissed off mages but nothing seemed to be working. It was time to call in help from the guild. There was also the situation with Elmo that needed sorting, he still didn't fully beleive it. His own brother, a ferverent follower of life and a pious cleric, willingly getting himself tainted? It must be something else, there had to be a good reason for it,maybe it had been forced upon him? Maybe it's affected his mind and made him mad? Whatever the cause, Ares would find out and destroy it.

After weeks of searching Elmo was cured forcibly by the Amroth temple along with Ares himself and Giselle who had also become tainted. Around the same time the Bard's guild was stormed by the Amroth temple after a tip-off from Ares himself, but the Bards guild's guildmaster Cerysiah Demonfort managed to escape, Ares still lives in fear of her returning to get him back for tipping off the Amroth temple. As the summer of 1108 began Ares set off with a group of 9 friends from the guild to try and rescue his Mum and his fiance Danielle and to ask for aid from the Dwarven Realms in the fight against Frisia.

Got back after summer and revelled in the fact that the mission into Frisia was a success and celebrated the lives of both Arkhan and Isin with sweets, alcohol and very, very bad poetry. Not long after their return Ares' organised a mission into the Dwarven Realms to find Mum again and find out what the hell they were doing. Upon reaching the Dwarven Realms and his home town, Ares, Elyas, Lasia and Karowyn discovered the anchient dwarven hero Bloodaxe had returned and was leading them to drive Frisia out. After a few days they retured home bringing Mum with them, who visited the guild for a night the following week remarking upon how respectable and heroic Ares' friends were.

Shortly after Mum went back to the Dwarven Realms, Ares was struck by tragedy when the death of his friend Dries was discovered on the guild house, since then Ares has been a little more unstable and a little less caring than usual.

Bardic Stories

- Where baby Tartars come from
- The bane of Anoveld
- An Oath to Armoth

Skills

Trickster cleric of the 6th circle
Bardic magician of the 1st circle
Experienced adventurer
Speaks 4 Languages (Common,Dwarven,Ctuman,Nipponese) and is working on more
Crap singer, crap storytller, decent dancer, good with his hands.
Was one of the party of adventurers who killed the Chaos god Malaktee
Once had a picnic in the Pit alongside Ed DeBree, Giselle and Torgluk
Quite good at massages
Proficient with a dagger
Proficient with a staff
Proficient with a hammer
Able to read and write (just about)
Can do simple sums (on his fingers)