Let's Make a Party!

For this campaign, we'll be using the Microlite20 ruleset. It's similar to D&D 3.5/Pathfinder, except far simpler, free, and you can print it off in the form of a mini-rulebook (I've included links to them on the right-hand side of the blog). You can make a character using any of the included classes or races, although as fair warning Lizardmen and Half-orcs are uncommon and will probably not be received well by large portions of the city's population.

For your character's backstory, I'd like at least 3 sentences. More is nice, but not required. Please also give me three beliefs your character feels strongly about, and three goals your character has (A long, medium, and short-term goal would be perfect). Again, more is nice but not required. As long as you have some justification to be in an inn in the market district, your character will be able to be fit into the story quite nicely.

Once you have your character, please reply with your character information and backstory as a comment in this post, and I'll start the campaign in a new post sometime within the next week.

Now for a bit of back-history: Adiroth was built to span the Feycross Canyon. At the base of this canyon lies the stone prison containing the elder dragon Scourgetalon. Scourgetalon was the disaster foretold in the Fifteenth Razax Prophecy, of the legendary Sixteen (It is interpreted that the Sixteenth Razax Prophecy will result in the scouring of all life from the planet). However, thanks to a brave band of heroes, and with the help of the most powerful mages on the continent, Scourgetalon was defeated.

Due to his immortal nature, Scourgetalon cannot actually be killed, as he regenerates fatal wounds in mere seconds and is resistant to all but the most powerful of spells. As a result, after his defeat, he was imprisoned in a huge stone cell, chained to the ground with adamantium shackles that have been fused with the rocky mantle of the planet itself. In addition, the prison itself has been sealed with Twelve Sapphire Seals, crystal-inlaid ceramic tablets the size of a tavern table an gilt with the finest metals and enamels.

These Seals help keep the dragon somnolent, and allow him to remain asleep while the unceasing line of workers harvest the various reagents and raw materials from the dragon, taking advantage of his unceasing regeneration. While the Canyon was originally mined for gems and precious metals in the walls, now Adiroth's prime exports are all derived from the dragon; Indeed, the modern city was built around the trade of dragon blood and venom for spell reagents, scales and leather for armor, teeth and horns for weapons, and meat for foodstuffs. As a result of these prized exports, Adiroth is the wealthiest city in the Charoc nation, and leads the rest of the region in terms of diplomacy and political power.

To the north-east, the city borders (and in some cases, is inside of) the Thoury Forest, an ancient jungle teeming with both mundane and supernatural creatures. One of the other exports from the city is rare and exotic hardwoods harvested from the forest, earning the ire of many of the creatures and intelligent residents of the forest. The city (and nation as a whole) are still on supposedly neutral terms with the nation of Drufen to the south after the last great war a decade previously.

Despite the recent outbreak of the Stumbling Death plague in the poorer districts, Adiroth remains a bustling metropolis and the hub of activity for the entire continent. Only a fool would seek to disturb that...