Vincenzo

"This is proof that I was born for adventure!"

Vincenzo is a balth human adventurer, former smith appretince. He is from the small village Salmon river.

## Character

Vincenzo is self-centered, impulsive and a glory hound. While he seeks to prove himself as adventurer, he lacks empathy for individuals. He claims that his old friends from Salmon River holds him back in every way, especially in being well-met by the people they meet during their travels.

## Background

Vincenzo grew up with stories of his mother who was a great adventurer before she settled down. While he dreamt of becoming an adventurer himself, he was always hasty and arrogant which led to his desires to be expressed in form of bullying and attempts to congratulate himself. Lucas Shepard was a frequent target of his. Vincenzo had two friends/minions, Bell & Tell. When he partook in the balth weapon training, he chose to train with the estoc.

## History

Right before the winter solstice festival, he met the two adventurers Shata and Casia. While he quickly connected with Shata and agreed to join them on their adventurers, their meeting was interrupted when a monster attacked the inn they were in. Vincenzo aided them in the battle by handing Shata her weapons. After the battle, the adventurers brought him and Lucas, Leliana and Waldemar together. The adventurers wouldn't explain the details to the village children, but told them that they needed to leave the village at once.

Vincenzo headed home to gather his belongings. While there, he gave a hasty farewell to his mother and avoided meeting his father on the way back. After they had set out, Vincenzo was asking plenty of questions to the two adventurers who were unwilling to answer.

The next morning, they were awoken by the noise of the horn of a orc fist. While they tried to avoid it, the group was caught up to by a second fist and had to fight their way through. While Shata and Casia wanted them to avoid fighting, Vincenzo caught the attention of an orc. He had trouble hitting it, but Lucas rode up and aided in the battle. Shortly after, they were able to escape.

After the battle, Vincenzo was very upset with Lucas who had interfered. Vincenzo badgered him for fighting now but not in the training bouts before. It was later decided by the two adventurers that after this, the youngsters would recieve more training.

During the training next morning, Lucas tried to improve his friends prepared equipment. Before he could get to Vincenzo, their exchange of looks made certain that any suggestions would not be appreciated.

They travelled further north until they reached a abandoned, ruined city. While it was uncertain of how safe it would be, it was decided that the next camp would be made there. Shortly after finding a suitable building, Shata and Casia went to speak privatly. Vincenzo took this oppertunity to sneak out to explore the city. The other teenagers snuck after him aswell, one after one leaving with the though to look after the previous one. The building Vincenzo decided to explore had a magical field surrounding it, which removed the snow of each teenager who went inside. In there, Vincenzo found several metal binders with a crystal inside each one. He took one, and then touched a larger crystal in a seated chamber. He gained knowledge of engineering from it, and at that point the other teenagers revealed themselves. Before they could explore further, loud noises were heard from the streets outside. Huge machines had started patrolling the streets. The teenagers decided to get back to the camp and avoid drawing attention. They were found however, but Vincenzo was able to run away along with Leliana.

When they all got back, Shata and Casia said that they knew of these machines and had hoped that their claims of danger would be enough to deter the group. When the teenagers explained where they had been though, they all went back to the building. There, Casia and Shata showed that the field would disintegrate anything that were not of an old soul. The group speculated that the teenagers may have souls over 5000 years old from various reincarnations. Afterwards, they went back to camp.

Shortly after leaving the city, Waldemar spoke with Vincenzo . Waldemar explained that he figured there was a hidden lesson which they had been taught which they should reflect on. Feeling challenged, Vincenzo responded by claiming that Waldemar should take over the training if he was going to be a teacher to them anyway, and kept on insulting the goliath as he was making a response.

A few days of travel later, Vincenzo noted to Casia that the three other teenagers had been talking for long during a training session. When Casia instead brought up Vincenzo's own training regimen, he attempted a suprise attack against her. She knocked up with a swift attack. When he woke up, Shata had just concluded the magical assesment test for Leliana. Vincenzo loudly questioned what was going on but was drowned out by Waldemar being overjoyed over the news, tossing Leliana around in celebration. Vincenzo became furious with jelousy. Wanting to lash out against everyone, he took the oppertunity to quickly go through Casia's bag, finding a communication book in her Bag of holding. He examined it openly, waiting for someone to notice this When Casia did, she struck Vincenzo away and scolded him. Waldemar was disgusted by this, muttering "thief" under his breath.

At last, their journey ended when they arrived at Shata and Casia's destination. The lair of the bronze dragon Oceanus, whom Casia spoke with. She briefly relayed the betrayal and the importance of the youths they had brought along. The dragon studied each of them individually, adressing them by their race. When he spoke with Vincenzo, he noted the connection to another dragon. Musing that this other dragon wouldn't mind, he touched Vincenzo and unlocked the power of his dragonmark.

When Casia and Oceanus finished their discussion, Casia told the group that the dragon would sent them closer to Baltharn's capital, Panderom, which had been their destination all along. Everyone gathered in a circle for Oceanus to prepare the spell.Just as the spell was being finished, an being with traits of both orc and bat flew into the cavern. Oceanus attacked it with his lightning breath, but it was sent along the group as the spell finished. It turned out that the beast had died, but its presence frightened the group. Shata and Casia exchanged quizical, vague murmurs about what it could mean. Waldemar's worry took on an unexpected form, by him manifesting markings on his body and internal voices of his giant lineage. Waldemar was eventually calmed down, and group set out for the short journey to the capital. During their travels, Vincenzo got more descriptions of the mark which had appeared, the dragonmark of making, which was upon his back.

The next night, another beast of the same kind which had attacked Oceanus lair had breached the camp and pierced Lucas with its claws. The rest of the group woke up and attacked. It was fought off enough that the bivouac sphere could be activated, which warded it off. Lucas had fallen into a coma, which Shata determined that he could be awoken from if he was taken to a healing stone. As such, the course towards the capital was kept.

After riding the next day, the group arrived at Panderom in the evening. As the healing stones would not available until the next day, they found an inn rested. The next morning, Vincenzo tagged along Shata while she went shopping. When they came back, Shata revealed that she had bought equipment for all the youths. While Leliana and Vincenzo checked out the bought weapons, Waldemar went up to check on the comatose Lucas. When he entered the room, a shadowlike being emerged from behind the door and attacked. Waldemar fought to protect Lucas, while Vincenzo and Leliana ran up the stairs. Shata and Casia remained as more beings appeared on the base floor. The youths was able to fight it off, and when they got down Shata and Casia had defeated all the beings below aswell. But they declared that the group would not be safe, so they set off to leave Panderom. But on the way out, they were about to be interecepted by individuals which Shata and Casia recognized. Quickly recognizing that the youths would be captured if their importance were found and that they would not be able to outrun them, Shata and Casia decided to remain behind to give the rest of the group a chance to escape. Shata quickly gave directions, that they should head towards Lahal. But if unable, they would not to go through The Notharian Empire. There was little time for goodbyes, and Waldemar, Leliana and Vincenzo escaped with the still comatose Lucas.

The 3 youths decided that they would head towards Lahal but would first get a map from the closest city. They also decided that they would avoid resting in populated areas, since they had been attacked one too many times to risk civilians. During the evening of the same day the had left Panderom, Vincenzo wondered what to do about Lucas and smacked him on the head. This awoke Lucas, who told the group of what he had learned but could not tell the details of how he had learned this. He also demonstrated his newfound skills from his training and made certain to the group that he would be able to protect them.

During the travels next day, the came across the carcass of a mammoth but didn't investigate as it had several axebeaks prowling around it. The group rested for the night shortly away from avillage to avoid resting within it. During Lucas watch, the camp was attacked by a yeti. The beast quickly knocked out Lucas, but the rest came to his rescue and killed the beast.

The next day, the group arrived at the village Philden ride, where they discovered that the innkeeper's daughter had been kidnapped last night. They followed tracks which Waldemar managed to find. The group found a meadow with the kidnapped woman, a large portal, and the Summer court butler. The butler explained that this was the womans wish, and that she would be kept asleep until she was married to one of the court's princes. Unable to persuade him, the group took action and attacked. During the battle the butler used magic to control all melee weapons in the area and made them attack the group. But he was unable to fight them off, and tried to escape through the portal to the Feywild. Vincenzo and Waldemar followed, and managed to drag him back into the Material plane where he was killed by Vincenzo. He quickly grabbed the only equipment the butler had and the group hurried back to the village, as the woman was still asleep and terribly cold.

At camp, Lucas and Leliana was furious over all that had happened. Waldemar insisted that they did nothing wrong, while Vincenzo accused the two of being cold-hearted. In the night, Vincenzo was awakened by Lucas. He told Vincenzo that he was right about everything, and challenged Vincenzo to find a way to convince the group to make them leave Lucas behind.