Gaten/History

## The Travelling Tower (episodes 1-3)

Gaten went to the Tower mostly to accompany Arina. He and Perrin recruited Bone together to be their fourth memebr. When the
group was short on money for a healing potion, he told Blablin his last memory
before being deactivated as payment. Part of the memory was of Gaten escorting
several people to safety at a shore. Two elaborately dressed people argued
about him and one pointed at him, saying he would be of nature.

On the first floor of the Tower, Gaten used his strength and
speed to brute force a solution to the first puzzle. When a magical effect made
him see his greatest fear, he recalled the people he escorted in the past saw
them being killed. He received a Mark in Barbarian and retained his memory of
the first floor. Gaten immediately took advantage of Arina and Bone’s memory
loss to trick them into believing they had additional companions who died during
their trials. Even when Perrin assured them it wasn’t true, Gaten continued his
façade.

The next morning, Gaten saw Blablin and two others from town
returning from the Tower. His companions were the bar owner Mahera
and one of Bone’s drinking buddies, Hornrick. On the second floor of the Tower, Gaten took
acid damage in the first room which damaged his sword. When Perrin told them
the creature in the room was copying his movements, Gaten manipulated the
creature to its doom onto a damaging rune.

In the second room, Gaten realized the group could fight the
shadow by using their doppelgangers. When the group defeated the doll in the fourth
room, Gaten gathered the pieces of the doll and gave it a burial, stating that constructs
shouldn’t be used for evil. Gaten did not remember the events on the second
floor.

When the party left the Tower, they met a trio waiting to
enter. Gaten warned them about the bandits they had encountered, which the trio
was mildly aware of. They told Gaten they had previously completed a floor in
the Soulspire in the Dead Cities. When Gaten noticed Perrin and Arina both had
health signets, he erroneously believed they got married. Perrin pointed out
they all had the rings and Gaten said he did not consent to nuptials as no one had
bested him in combat.

## Post-Traveler (episodes 3-4)

### Return to Town

Back in town, Gaten paid Blablin to magically fix his sword
and the party sold himseveral items. Blablin told Bone he was the best tinkerer in
town but Arina disputed it once he left. Gaten agreed that Blablin was no
longer in town. Bone asked Gaten who the best tinkerer was, in or out of town, and
Gaten listed Arina’s parents before noticing her expression and mentioning her
as well.

The group went to see Mahera and inform her of Rex’s death
as she was an authority figure in town. Gaten asked her if her group’s missing
member Belladonte’s death was the fault of an individual or the group. He didn’t notice
his party’s horror as he insensitively pointed out her party only needed to
split their treasure three ways. Despite his callousness, he was very
respectful of Rex’s body and made sure to leave his badge with him. Before he
left, Gaten made several more callous comments that upset a grieving Hornrick. Bone sincerely asked him if
he felt or understood emotions and Gaten told him he felt annoyed.

When Arina prepared to see her parents again, Gaten told her
he would activate sentry mode in case her mother got upset to the point of
fisticuffs. Arina told him it was fine if her mother did so. He let the two
reunite but butted in when Ella said she could have died, pointing
out he was repurposed to protect Arina. This only earned him a lecture for not stopping
Arina from entering the Tower. He quickly returned to sentry mode to avoid
further lecturing and rested.

Arina’s twin younger siblings told Gaten to put Bone high on
the suitor list after receiving a gift from him. Gaten reactivated and told
them they’d already exchanged rings, referencing the health signet rings. At dinner
when Arina’s parents thought she and Bone were married, Gaten offered to
destroy him for them. When her mother thought Perrin was also in a relationship
with Arina, Gaten informed her his rank had risen considerably on the list. After
Bone said he would hypothetically have more interest in Perrin than Arina,
Gaten made several comments that they should be together and said Bone ranked
very high on a list for Perrin.

When Arina’s grandfather Erzu joined them for dinner, Gaten
informed him that Blablin had a Mark and went through the Tower with Mahera. Arina’s
grandfather was displeased to hear it, saying he would talk to Mahera. Gaten noticed
Erzu seemed to be hiding something but couldn't discern what it might be.

The next day, the party met a group of mercenaries who were
hired to stop people from entering the Tower unless they paid a fee. They also
learned that Blablin had reported the Tower’s appearance which earned him a
finder’s fee. Since the party couldn’t afford the exorbitant entrance fee,
Gaten suggested they go to the cave Perrin had previously discovered.

### The Bard, The Witch, and the Pickpocket

Perrin told the party about being robbed and they staked out Mahera’s bar to catch the thief. After the thief arrived, Gaten noticed her preparing
to flee and blocked her exit. The party learned her name was Ali Vuror and she
was actually a merfolk who got legs from a witch to find a bard named Rebecca. Gaten
was intrigued by Ali’s ability to shift between having legs or a tail.

The party went to meet the witch, who asked if there was an
unintended consequence to the deal. Gaten caught that the witch seemed to be aware
of and enjoy the hidden costs of her deals. When the witch offered Bone a way
to find a member of his clan, Gaten pointed out the deal might twist so he couldn’t
truly locate them. Gaten informed the witch that Bone wanted to make a deal but
if Bone’s deal was detrimental to him, he would destroy her, her servant, and
her shack. This only piqued the witch’s interest and she seemed to know what
Gaten was. She said she would bring back the bard and tell Bone the location of
his clan leader in exchange for a twig. Gaten thought she wanted a piece of him,
but she said she required a twig from a tree they had not yet crossed paths
with and they would know it when they found it. She said Gaten specifically
would be able to get it. Gaten said he would take the deal by himself, not wanting
Arina and Perrin to be bound to it.

After Bone made his own deal and prepared to leave, he gave
Gaten the cloak of billowing. When Bone exited the shack, Gaten told him which
plants on the road were edible and which were poisonous. Back in the shack,
Gaten and Perrin hammered out the terms of the deal with the witch, making sure
there were no loopholes they could think of. The witch fulfilled her part of
the deal, returning Rebecca, and ominously told the party someone was waiting
for them. On their way back to town, Gaten pieced together from Rebecca’s
description that she must have been in the Feywild.

## The Ruins of Gao Oras (episode 5)

### Meeting Melusina

The next morning, Gaten displayed a new affinity for
wildlife. He told Arina he had requested several birds and squirrels to watch
over Bone and let them know if he needed help on the road. The two went to pick
up Perrin and go see Erzu. Gaten noticed Perrin had bulked up from leveling up
his Mark. Perrin wanted to use Arina’s Marking Stone to see what Marks Gaten
gained but Gaten declined his request.

The party made their way back to the Tower where Erzu said
he would be. They saw him speaking with an aaracokra, Melusina, close to the Tower and
Gaten offered her a corn cob he knew crows enjoyed. When Arina and Melusina
discussed feeling stuck doing the same thing again, Gaten used Perrin as an
example of making mistakes over and over again but he now had new capabilities.
When Melusina told them she felt she was asking for more than she needed, Gaten
misunderstood and asked Erzu if she was robbing him. Gaten spent the next
minute harshly assessing the people waiting to enter the tower.

When Arina told her grandfather they had plans, Gaten
bluntly informed him that they made a deal with a witch. Melusina asked if they
got something good out of it and Gaten told her they’d saved two lives. Before they
prepared to leave, Gaten scanned the area for any trace of the bandits they’d encountered.
He didn’t find any and the party went on their way.

On the way to the cave, Gaten asked Melusina if she could
fly. She confirmed it and Gaten suggested she fly over the field and locate the
cave entrance. As she did so, he commented “As the crow flies”, which actually
distracted her from finding the entrance. When Melusina told them of the
Soulspire, Gaten asked if she had ever seen the Raven Queen. Melusina told him
she hadn’t and Arina explained the gods didn’t show themselves physically. Gaten
rebutted this, saying he had distinct memory of manifest deities walking the
earth, referring to the figures in his last memory before the Cogdirs found and
reactivated him. Perrin wondered how old Gaten might truly be and Arina said
her family had found him as a seed before she was born.

When they got to the cave, Melusina noticed and questioned
why a constructed being wasn’t made to see in the dark. Gaten told her he seemed
to be built for use in daylight and camouflage and that he had “radar”. His radar
was him extending his sword and waving it around himself.

### The Ruins

In the cave, Gaten noticed burnt out torches and footprints
that seemed recent. The tracks appeared to be from the group that had run
Perrin off and only went one way. Gaten concluded they must be dead as it had been
several days but conceded there was an unlikely option they had found something
good.

As they continued, Arina noticed the ceiling was unstable
where they were about to pass by. Gaten decided to go last in case he caused a
cave-in and Arina gave him her enchanted flower so he could see. As the party
continued, they saw some vines and shrubbery that came to life and attacked
them. Gaten avoided the vines, cutting through them with his sword. Small plant
creatures ambushed the party, stabbing at them all with tiny claws. Seeing Arina
injured, Gaten activated combat mode. He landed the killing blow on the larger
vine creature that injured Perrin.

Once the battle ended, Gaten ran ahead intending to fend off
any more enemies. He found that the tunnel split, finding footprints of the
plant creatures from the left. To the corridor on the right were chalk marks
and footprints from the archaeologists as well as a large metal plate with a
hole in it. There were also tracks of a construct following after them. The group
decided to rest and Gaten listened to Melusina guide Perring through casting
Cure Wounds, attempting to follow her instructions.

Gaten inspected the tunnel, trying to discern what had
happened. He discerned that the metal plate was likely from a building and had
simply fallen into the tunnel, but something had eaten through it. Gaten led
the party as he had no metal objects to attract the ferevor’s hunger. He found
an area where the footsteps spread around quite purposefully and another chalk mark.
He suggested there might be a trap and they should follow the footprints. His hunch
was right as there was a motion-sensing trap and following the pattern of steps
was the best way to avoid them.

In the room past the trap was several dead bodies, the
archaeologists, and a dead end. Gaten pointed out that group was supposedly
capable adventurers but they were now dead and there was no twig so they should
simply turn around. Inspecting the bodies, he was able to determine they had been
maimed to prevent resurrection.

### Undead History

The party turned back and went down the left corridor the
plant creatures came from. The room had a layer of water from a pouring pipe
but Gaten did not feel the ill effects of the water as he waded through. The group
kept going and came upon a plaza with overgrown vegetation with a large,
gnarled object in the center. The object was an ancient tree and Perrin told
the party the story of Gao Oras’s vampire lord being killed at the tree as
punishment for failing to protect the city. Arina concluded that the Gulthias
Tree, named after the murdered lord, absorbed his vampiric nature and
originated tree blights in the world.

Gaten approached the tree and saw a skeleton impaled by a
sword. He tried to use druidcraft to make the tree bloom, saying it shouldn’t
be left in such a desolate nature, but the spell did nothing. Gaten took a twig
from the tree and then started removing the sword from the skeleton. As he did
so, the tree’s branches animated and lazily swung at him, missing. He managed
to remove the sword, a black greatsword with a red gem. The tree became more animated
when Melusina attacked it, drawing out several plant creatures. Gaten attacked
it as well, seeing it as an abomination.

Gaten obeyed Perrin’s command to retreat, running to defend
Arina. Melusina gave the health signet ring back to Gaten and told him to pass
on a message to the Ebon Claw that this was what she was sent to do. Gaten told
her to fight gloriously, knowing he had to protect Arina rather than aid her. Even
as he fought off twig blights, he tried to persuade them in druidic not to
fight.

## The City of the Dead (episode 6)

### Meeting Streekvok

Gaten did not heed Arina’s pleas to help Melusina, understanding
she had made her choice and prioritizing Arina’s safety. Just before they
reached the area with the strange water, Gaten ran into a goblin that had been
watching the scene. Gaten told them to run as they were being pursued, the
tunnel collapsing behind them. When they reached safety, Gaten told Arina
Melusina was an honorable warrior and he hoped she would die well.

He asked the goblin their name and they introduced themselves
as Streekvok. Streekvok chastised him for taking the sword without proper
investigation, though Gaten thought it was logical to retrieve it. Gaten suggested
they depart the ruins and contact the Ebon Claw as Melusina requested so they
would have reinforcements to destroy the tree. He said as passionately as he
was able that the woods should not suffer because of it.

Gaten became suspicious of Streekvok when they said he found
the party while passing by, claiming to be a lost fisherman. His suspicions
were assuaged when Streekvok admitted they had come to join the archaeologists
and were simply cautious of strangers. Gaten gave them the fourth health signet
ring since they were in a dangerous environment together.

When they cleared the rubble of the blocked doorway, the
party found an old corpse and Gaten immediately beheaded it. When Streekvok
noticed noises from Gaten’s chest, he tried to convince the goblin it was something
he ate despite constructs not eating. His ruse fell apart as Pietro climbed out
of the compartment.

Gaten was going to climb the steel girder in the room up to the
surface. Streekvok offered to scout ahead and went up impressively but accidentally
made noise by hitting a piece of rebar. Gaten commented he had planned to put
Streekvok high on the list due to similar height and green skin but was unsure due
to lack of skill.

As the party exited the ruins, the witch was waiting for them.
Gaten gave her the twig as agreed and unsubtly showed her his greatsword,
reminding her their business was finished. The wtich agreed and disappeared. Gaten
told the party their perilous journey was worth it to save Ali and Rebecca,
explaining their deal to Streekvok. Streekvok asked if they were hired and when
told no, commented they were paid in gratitude. Gaten said they weren’t paid
but did it because it was the right thing to do.

### Heading to the City

When Streekvok pointed out the smell of smoke, Gaten used a
spell to ask a crow if it had seen any fires. The crow told him tents burned
but no deaths as far as it knew. It commented it was a shame as a corpse would
be tasty so Gaten gave it some berries. The party arrived at the camp area by
the Tower and Gaten showed Erzu his sword. Erzu told him that he believed
Gulthias’s sword was capable of absorbing and regenerating.

As the party decided to go to Vehir Oras and find the Ebon
Claw, Gaten stated Melusina would not survive more than a week in the ruins. Erzu
told him he would see what he could do and wished him luck, telling him to take
care of himself. Gaten told him damage was opportunity for upgrades and they
now had a new goblin companion, though he seemed to misplace them often.

Gaten saw Blablin still in the area and approached him,
asking him to identify his sword. Arina interjected and said she would do it
for free.

When the party boarded a ship to leave for Vehir Oras, Gaten
stuck his head in the water and said goodbye to Ali. He was severely scolded by
the kobolds manning the boat. The next day, Arina identified his sword as The Reaping
Blade. Gaten asked Streekvok where they were from and commended them for
joining mercenaries to go through the Tower. He recognized the two figurines
Streekvok had picked off the archaeologists as Dawn and Arawe, gods who were
husband and wife but no longer in the current pantheon.

When Streekvok suggested lying about the figurines’ value
for more money, Gaten asked if they gave that same counsel to the archaeologists.
Streekvok scoffed that no one needed to give counsel to Silas Gesart to go into
dangerous situations for treasure. Perrin said the group must have found
something important and Gaten suggest finding someone who could speak with the
dead to learn what they’d found.

When Streekvok told them goblins took to ways they might see
as unsavory because no one was willing to teach and invest in a race that had
such short lifespans, Gaten said everyone’s life was short to him. He offered
to teach Streekvok any skills he knew. Arina sadly commented she was learning
life wasn’t nice and Gaten said he was sorry she no longer lived in ignorance
but was glad she had nearly a century of blissful ignorance.

Gaten asked Streekvok if they had discerned the cause of
death of the Tunnel Ghouls. Streekvok recalled stab wounds as well as marks of burns
and disintegration. When Perrin used his Divine Sense and warned the party not
to touch the water, Gaten thrust his sword into the water since it had once
slain an evil creature but nothing happened. Arina pointed out a bobbing light
ahead of the boat and Gaten asked the kobolds what it was. A kobold told him it
didn’t know and that they were turning the boat around. Gaten told it to go to
shore as they needed to continue on to Vehir Oras and the kobold warned him to
be quiet. The group quickly hid and Gaten moved to cover Perrin, who was not
very stealthy, but knocked something over as he did so. The kobolds all hid
behind Gaten but nothing happened as they moved past the light to shore. Streekvok
criticized the party for their lack of discretion, pointing out Gaten poking at
dangerous water with a magical sword with unknown properties. They established
rules for when to stab things, which Gaten took very seriously.

### Vehir Oras

When they reached Vehir Oras, Gaten got directions from the
kobolds to the Ebon Claw. As soon as Gaten got to shore, he attacked the water
with the Reaping Blade again. Two wardens taking a break asked the party if he
was okay, confused by his antics. The wardens tried to dupe the party into paying
a “dock fee” but Gaten said they had already paid when they boarded the boat. He
used druidcraft to make a skunk smell in the man’s face and ran for it. Gaten
saw the wardens grab Perrin and Streekvok and asked Arina if now was the time
to start stabbing. Arina suggested he intimidate them instead.

As they left the wardens, Gaten asked Streekvok for the
fastest way to reach the Ebon Claw. Streekvok replied that fastest wasn’t
safest and Gaten grabbed them, saying Melusina might still be fighting for her
life and they had to hurry. Streekvok told him off for grabbing them and said they
could move fast or safe. Arina told Gaten Streekvok had a point and he shouldn’t
just grab people. Gaten replied that he grabbed Arina all the time, but she might
be right and Melusina might already be dead. Arina told him not to think that
way and the Raven Queen would watch over her. Gaten asked why she was willing
to take the longer way if Melusina might be alive and Arina said because she
had hope. Streekvok yelled it was because there were no guards and to hurry up.
Gaten got stuck in the sewer grate and had to have oil poured on him so he could
get through.

When the party arrived at the temple of the Raven Queen, Streekvok
explained more about the corruption in the city. Arina said they should make it
so no one was exploited and Gaten told her it was unlikely they could do that now,
but the two of them would live long enough to maybe implement a permanent
change. Gaten told Streekvok they would not.

In the temple, Gaten showed a guard the Reaping Blade and
told them their meeting with Warrior Priest Antoch was of urgency. The guard
was confused, not knowing the context, and Perrin told them the sword was
historically significant and may need to be contained. Annoyed, Gaten gave a
brusque summary of Melusina fighting off an undead threat that was related to
the sword and that her dying wish was for them to relay a message to Antoch. He
wanted to stab the guard but saw Arina praying and withheld from asking her if he
could.