Jean Paul

Jean Paul Belrose was a mason in the town of Marseille, in
the south, west of the capital. One day as he was traveling up into the hills
to quarry some granite, with his apprentice and nephew Javert Belrose, they saw
vultures circling around something about 100 meters off of the road. Jean Paul
stopped the oxen and went to investigate. He saw a mangled body of a child that
he could make out as Lucette, Claude Leclerc’s daughter, with 5 piles of wax
evenly spaced in a circle around the body. He scared off the vultures and
coyotes that were eating the body. Jean Paul carried the body back to the cart
and turned around to take it back to Marseille. He took the body to Claude and
told the town what had happened. Lucette was buried later that day with Myriel,
the priest of Ra in Marseille, officiating.

The town began a witch hunt with
everyone making accusations and screaming. When night fell they had made no
progress finding the killer, and decided to continue the search for murderer in
the morning. A little after dawn Élise Mélodie Dupond
started running through the town screaming that her son Léonard had been taken in
the night. The town began a search in the hills for Léonard. After about an
hour and a half of searching Jean Paul and a few other villagers came across a
similar scene with Léonard’s
body in the middle of 5 piles of wax. This time they reached the body before
the scavengers. Léonard’s
chest was cut open and his heart was taken out. This murder looked very surgical. A star in the dirt could be
roughly made out connecting the piles of wax. After the body was taken back to
the town and a funeral was held, the bickering and accusations began again.
Jean Paul yelled to get their attention and proceeded to give an inspiring speech
about how the needs to work together and call upon Ra to find and stop this
body snatching demon worshiper. The town stopped arguing right away. Jean Paul
was somewhat of a natural leader and many thought that he would become the next
town elder when a vacancy opened up.

That evening Jean Paul went to the
church of Ra and prayed to Ra promise that he would dedicate his life to His
service if He could help Jean Paul stop this killer. That night Blanche Deniel
woke the town with screams that she saw the killer take her daughter Mylène. The town people grabbed whatever makeshift weapons they could
find mostly hoes and shovels; Jean Paul took his sledge hammer. They found Mylène right after a hooded figure made a huge gash in her
chest. The town’s people started beating him with their hoes and shovels. He blasted
them down with blasts of dark magic and by stabbing them with his dagger. Jean
Paul bravely charged in with his sledge hammer raised as it shone like the sun
and he smote the murderer down. Jean Paul the rush to see what he could do to
help Mylène. As he raised up her head the gash on her chest began to
glow as it repaired itself and Mylène was fine. The town’s people recognized the body of the
hooded figure as Raymond  Solomon a farmer just
outside of town. Raymond’s blade was gone but in that had he had a ring on and
his hand up to half of his forearm looked black and diseased. The ring was
golden with a ruby inlayed, the design was obviously some kind of symbol but no
one knew what is was of. Jean Paul took the ring and was entranced by it. Jean
Paul know it was of demonic origins and must be destroyed, but whatever the
villagers tried the ring couldn’t be harmed so they decided to take it into the
hills and bury it.

Jean Paul talked to Myriel about
his covenant with Ra, and Myriel told him to go talk to
Albin Nicolas Borde
in Fayem. One of the deceased was Alphonse Jacques,
a member of the elder council of Marseille. All of the town’s people wanted
Jean Paul to take his place, but Jean Paul refused and told them he needed to
go to Fayem. He left his house and masonry business to Javert, and went to
Fayem.

Once Jean Paul reached Fayem, Albin
Borde told him that Ra had called him to be a Paladin. Jean Paul joined the
clergy and honed his paladin skills. Soon he joined the Celestial Inquisition
Agency (CIA) and traveled around the continent stomping out evil force, at
first it was mostly fiendish and undead they dealt with but there was a rise in
hag attacks. These attacks seemed much more organized and planned than normal.
On one raid Jean Paul heard a hag cackle “Aurelia will prevail!” Jean Paul was
sent to the libraries of Serrian to investigate the order. This is where he met
the party.

After the attack on Svorgoth by Gorgorron, Jean Paul opened an orpanage.

### Downtime

#### Resources

* Contacts
	+ Inquisition (lightbringers?)
	+ Svorgath's guards
* Orphanage (upkeep
	+ Number of childrent - ...
	+ Staff
		- teachers
			* adfs - religion
			* adsfasdf - reading/writing