Varis

Race/Class:** Wood Elf/Druid Gender: Male Background: Outlander Occupation: Forester Equipment Staff Hunting trap Traveler's clothes Gold: 20 gp Leather armor Explorer’s pack/ backpack, a bedroll, a mess kit, a tinderbox, 10 torches, 10 days rations, a waterskin, and 50 ft of hempen rope Druidic focus/the dragon's blood Herbalism kit Armor Proficiencies: Light armor Medium armor Shield (nothing made of metal) Weapon Proficiencies: Clubs Daggers Darts Javelins Maces Quarterstaffs Scimitars Sickles Slings Spears longbow shortbow longsword short sword Skills Languages: common, elvish, Druidic, draconic, and dwarfish Survival Skills: Can find food and water for himself and others each day. Memory: Good memory for geography and can recall terrain and settlement layouts. Traits Personality Trait: Feels far more comfortable around animals than people. Ideal: Believes the natural world is more important than the constructions of civilization. Bond: Haunted by visions of a coming disaster and will do anything to prevent it. Flaw: Slow to trust members of other races, tribes, and societies. BACKGROUND He has an excellent memory for maps and geography, and he can always recall the general layout of terrain, settlements, and other features around him. In addition, he can find food and fresh water for himself and other people each day, provided that the land offers berries, small game, water, and so forth. Often considered rude and uncouth among civilized folk, outlanders have little respect for the niceties of life in the cities. The ties of tribe, clan, family, and the natural world of which they are a part are the most important bonds to most outlanders. He grew up in the wilds, far from civilization and the comforts of town and technology. He has witnessed the migration of herds larger than forests, survived weather more extreme than any city-dweller could comprehend, and enjoyed the solitude of being the only thinking creature for miles in any direction. The wilds are in his blood, whether he was a nomad, an explorer, a recluse, a hunter-gatherer, or even a marauder. Even in places where he doesn't know the specific features of the terrain, he knows the ways of the wild. He reveres nature above all, gaining his spells and other magical powers either from the force of nature itself or from a nature deity. Many druids pursue a mystic spirituality of transcendent union with nature rather than devotion to a divine entity, while others serve gods of wild nature, animals, or elemental forces. The ancient druidic traditions are sometimes called the Old Faith, in contrast to the worship of gods in temples and shrines. Druid spells are oriented toward nature and animals—the power of tooth and claw, of sun and moon, of fire and storm. Druids also gain the ability to take on animal forms, and some druids make a particular study of this practice, even to the point where they prefer animal form to their natural form. As a wood elf, he has keen senses and intuition, and his fleet feet carry him quickly and stealthily through his native forests. This category includes the wild elves (grugach) of Greyhawk and the Kagonesti of Dragonlance, as well as the races called wood elves in Greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms. In Faerûn, wood elves (also called wild elves, green elves, or forest elves) are reclusive and distrusting of non-elves. Druidic Focus. A druidic focus might be a sprig of mistletoe or holly, a wand or scepter made of yew or another special wood, a staff drawn whole out of a living tree, or a totem object incorporating feathers, fur, bones, and teeth from sacred animals. A druid can use such an object as a spellcasting focus. HIS CHILDHOOD When he was young and was still named Vall, it was just him and his parents. While he was out gathering berries, he came back to find his parents had been attacked. After that, one of his parents' friends, a half-elf and druid named Theren, took him in and raised him, teaching him how to live. Then, when he turned 100 years old, he earned his adult name, Tara. As he grew, Theren helped him become a druid and taught him how to live on his own in the forest where he lives away from people and civilization. He rarely leaves the forest unless necessary; he knows it like the back of his hand. His best friend is a hawk he named Ginger. Ginger has a mixture of light and dark brown feathers, and since he and Theren are druids, they can understand him. AROUND OTHER PEOPLE Other than his parents, he has only ever known Theren. When other people come into the forest, he lets Theren do all the talking while he observes. When they do talk to him, his answers are short and to the point, and when he is done talking, he will just walk away. But if you happen to gain his trust, there is a completely different side of him. He will be sweet, enjoy physical contact like hugs, fist bumps, high fives, etc., and is really sweet and playful. IN THE BEDROOM He has no experience in that sort of thing because no one besides him and Theren live in the forest. but he is a switch is very possessive and protective. if he trust you enough to let you near him he trust you with his life completely

Appearance: short black hair with hazel eyes and 6ft2in