Baiden

Information

Player: McKnighter

Character Full Name: Baidin Dolance

Character In-Game Name: Baidin

Nickname(s): Squire

Association(s): Stormwind, The Tumultus Inquisition

Race: Human

Class: Paladin

Skills and Abilities: Currently, commands small amounts of the Light. However, he is a talented warrior in some degrees. Typically, most of his attacks involve his shield, either by steam rolling through undead and people, or just shield bashing someone's face. It tends to work from time to time.

Age: 18

Sex: Male

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Hazel

Weight: 215 lbs

Height: 6'

Appearance

Usual Garments/Armor: He has recently been bought a brand new set of plate armor, very simple and plain, and chain-mail vest under it all. He carries a shield and a hammer, both have seen no combat what-so-ever. When he is out of his armor, he contains average quality clothes.

Other: He carries a tome that is connected to his belt by a steel chain.

Personality

Alignment: Neutral Good

Baidin is not your typical paladin. While he is striving for all the aspects that make up a paladin, he falls short on some of the key aspects.

For one, he's a coward. He doesn't have the heart to fight, despite the training his father put him through. He has some knowledge of the art of war, but doesn't want to apply it into violence and killing. It's a foreign concept that he much rather avoid.

He's also frighten and scared of the many dangers a paladin has to fight against. Undead and demons terrify him, often haunting his dreams in his youth were all the scary stories of monsters. Not to mention that orcs completely took over Stormwind, razing it in their wake, he's scared that a green-skin might tear him to shreds should he meet one. Humorous enough, he is also worried by women. They are so different from him, that it causes him to be uncomfortable. It doesn't help that most of the women he tends to meet are insane in some fashion.

Besides that, he's a Light worshiping man that follows the tenets. While he's still a young man, he enjoys humor when danger does not lurk about. He's a good kid that tries to stay out of trouble. He does try his best at whatever he does, but it often falls short of expectations. This causes bouts of depression that can seep out from time to time, with the burning hate of failure.

History

Baidin was born and raised in a small merchant family that had a comfortable life. His father, Garrett was a veteran of the First War, where he suffered a crippling wound to his leg, forcing him to walk with a cane at all times. Because of this, his new trade became one of the merchant, buying and selling goods to weep the profits. The mother, Amelia, was a simple woman that was very obedient to her husband.

Garrett always mourn the lost of his fighting skills, and was going to make sure that his son would follow in his foot-steps. From a very early age, Baidin would be played with by his father, often giving him a wooden toy sword and have him practice holding it, then progressed with play-fighting. Garrett would set up targets for his son to 'beat up', offering some childish enjoyment at the basic form of playing.

However, Baidin soon grow up to find the combative games boring. He began to look into more of the intelligent way of life. This was morphed and twisted by his father, urging his son to purse the knowledge of battle and war tactics. Though, again, this was warded off by Baidin. In a final effort, Garrett enrolled his son into the Church of the Light, making him a squire in hopes that he will learn to use the Light as a powerful paladin. While the boy's faith turned stoic to the Light, he was clearly built for more a priestly duty. Even the bishop suggested that Garrett would consider changing Baidin's enrollment. The old veteran would not have it, discounting all the reports of Baidin being weak in the terms of the paladin's elite training, he found one last chance for his son to become the warrior he dreamed of.

Garrett sent Baidin, still at the ripe age of 18, to a man by the name of Cassius, after hearing his religious zeal for the Light, the no mercy tone, should toughen up his son. Otherwise, he would believe Baidin as a failure, and that his life and legacy would die out in shame. Bearing the weight of his father's judgment, the young Baidin aims for the goal of pleasing his ever demanding father, and hopefully making it out alive.