Deynn K’Vyll
“Beauty should need no protector, Truth should need no champion, Goodness should need no shield… but they do… In these realms, they all do.”
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PC: Deynn
Deynn is a male Half-Elf of about 30 years age. He is a Monk of The Way of the Metallon Fist. He carries just a simple satchel – no weapons or armor as he does not need them.
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Description:
Deynn is dressed in simple clothes. He wears a vest with a hood which covers his ears and shaved head. He stands nearly 6ft tall and is built solid for a half-elf. His posture is always one of strength, and, rather than feel intimidated… people tend to feel stronger and more capable themselves when in his presence.
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Combat Tactics:
Deynn prefers unarmed combat and does not use any weapons or shield. In the monastery, he was trained in the way of Ironwall Tactics which are strongly defensive. Even if another so-trained monk is not in combat with him, he will tend to fight from a firm stance, starting with a Dodge action and allowing opponents to make the first attack.
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Roleplaying:
Deynn may be a bit naïve still. He sees himself a defender of the things which make life worth living, but cannot be placed behind physical walls for protection. He cares little for the laws of the land as his own moral code of goodness obligates him to action regardless of social expectations and regulations.
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Objective(s):
Deynn is ultimately seeking a location (and the funds) to start his own school, a sister to The Abbey Ironwall, to teach both the martial and philisophical traditions of his order.
Deynn is also seeking to find his older brother, who could be anywhere in the world.
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Motivations and Temptations:
Deynn is motivated by honor, valor even. These are not for their own sakes. Deynn would say honor is merely the result of living a life worth living. He is probably too quick to trust a stranger but would rather by taken advantage of than live in contant suspicion.
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Relationships:
Deynn has not yet learned how to see himself in any intimate relationship. It is another area is he naïve about… he really just does not think of it.
His father is a stranger to him. He knows only a little of him and assumes that is all he needs to know.
Deynn has an older brother who, like himself, was cast away as a baby by their father. He was in the same monastery for 15 years before Deynn was born, and left when Deynn was still a young boy. His memories of Kivronn are strong and emotional. He is confident that he will, somehow, find him in the realms.
Deynn also has some unknown connection to Nobanion. Neither he, or the DM, quite know why Nobanion sent an ethereal lion pup to save him the day he left the monastery and ran into trouble near Starmantle. Ghostpaw has been a companion ever since.
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Background:
Deynn K’Vyll has spent his entire life in The Abbey Ironwall. Deynn’s mother was a half-elf and his father a high elf. In fact, his mother was also his sister and his father was also his grandfather…. That is, he was his mother’s father as well. His grandmother was a Payit woman of great beauty, as his mother once told him. His father and she fell in love in Maztica before the spellplague. His grandmother died while his mother was young, in her 30s, and losing her broke his father’s mind. He began imagining that his daughter was his wife and began trying to have another daughter with her. Several boys were born first however. The first few were killed at birth but Daine was allowed to live as an exile. His mother brought him to the Abbey while still an infant. She visited him there several times a year throughout his childhood and told him his story. She stopped coming around his 29th birthday, it has been 15 years since he has seen her.
Deynn’s father lives in Corellon’s Cradle in the Reach – on the other side of the massive Orsraun Mountains – but Daine has had no desire to seek him out.
Deynn ventured out from The Abbey in 1488 DR – three years ago. Because members of The Abbey spend much of their time sheltered from the world, it is an essential part of their training to venture out and wander the regions for a period of time. Daine has been a vagabond along the Sword Coast, from The City of Coin and North through Baldurs Gate and Waterdeep. He has been in Neverwinter just a short time.
Daine practices The Way of The Metallon Fist. This tradition required nearly a decade of daily trial just to be minimally useful. With the power of his Ki, Daine is able to absorb metal into his skin. The essence of the metal can be focused into a hand or a foot or even his forehead when delivering an unarmed attack. At level 3, the amount is limited to about 1 lb of metal – approx an average dagger. If the weapon is enchanted, Daine can first attune to the weapon prior to absorbing it and so retaining the enchantment (it also requires ongoing attunement). At higher levels he will be able to absorb larger amounts of metal from larger sized weapons.
This is what motivates Daine: Protecting the ideas of Justice and Truth and Beauty and Goodness. He intends to gain enough experience, and amass enough of a fortune to start his own Abbey in the Realms.
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References:
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The Abbey has a tradition similar to Dajemma
Elders were respected for their wisdom and mental strength while children were expected to earn their place in the world, rather than having it handed to them. Most young adult Rashemi traveled extensively for a year as part of a coming-of-age ritual called dajemma (also spelled darjemma),resulting in a population with considerable worldly knowledge. A young man sometimes traveled with a younger member of the Wychlaran known as a hathran.
The Rashemaar were quite superstitious, but also maintained a strong connection with the spirits of their land, particularly spirits of nature and house-spirts called domovoi.
The Dajemma (also spelled darjemma) was a type of coming-of-age tradition for young Rashemi men to travel to foreign lands to see and understand more of the world.
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