Gawain/History

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## Backstory

Luca Romana was born the son of a wealthy up and coming politician. Thanks to his father’s status and prestige he never really hurt for anything. His early childhood was spent as a spoiled brat getting whatever he wanted whenever he wanted it. Being the only son his parents showered him with affection. It was rare to see him without his mother around, and in the cases where she wasn’t with him an attendant was. It truly was the early childhood of royalty. This kind of childhood would go on to create a monster.

As soon as he entered school Luca began to show his problematic behavior. He would boss around the other children, using violence to force them into submission if they refused to bend to his verbal commands. Any repercussions he would have faced were waved away due to his parents prestige and more importantly their money. This led to him gathering a gang of young goons around him. They became the playground bullies. This would only get worse as he entered into his teenage years. The harassing and bullying of kids turned into literal shakedowns and crimes. It got so bad that police had to step in, but even they were bought off by the Romano’s.

As an adult Luca refused to get a normal job, instead he started using his parents money to purchase up more and more goons. They began branching out, praying for the poor of italy. Extorting small local businesses, acting as loan sharks. They themselves became a small time mob all on their own. The power got to his head and Luca started striking out more and more. On one occasion he even gathered up a small family who he lent money to and gave the father a choice. Payback the money, or they would be selling the organs of his family. The man couldn’t pay.

Luca never did any of the dirty work himself, instead he had his goons do it for him. Thinking himself secure in his power base he began to let up on his guard. The vetting process he used on his new hires grew sloppy and he unknowingly hired a man whose father had been one of the Romana goon’s victims. This led to Luca’s early grave when the man slipped poison into Luca’s drink. That is where the story should have ended, but death had other plans for him. A god gave him a choice, gave him another chance, and gave him the opportunity to reflect on his actions.

## Current Life

When Luca awoke everything felt different. His body felt lighter. Even though the area around him was dark he could see perfectly fine. Sitting up he looked around to see he was in a field of corpses. A sudden rush of emotion came over him as horrific memories raced through his mind. Scenes of great crimes and inhumanity. It was enough to make him cry… yet he did not cry. Instead it felt more like he could not cry, as if he lacked the ability to produce tears. Looking down at himself Luca realized why. He was nothing but bones. No muscle or flesh clung to him, he was just pearly white bones.

It was then that the memory of the old divine came to mind. He had been reborn into a new world, and as punishment for his crimes in his past life he was now a skeleton. This would be his punishment, every time he looked at himself he would be reminded of his past crimes. Rising to his feet, Luca would take his time to get used to his new magical body. Knowing full well that he would never survive out in the world as a bare skeleton he would perform one more despicable act. He would loot the dead.

After searching for a while he would eventually find one body that was roughly the same size as his own. He stripped the body and dressed himself in the presumably adventurer’s gear. Now that he had clothes that covered his body, and a cloak that he could wrap around his head to cover his skull, he just needed a weapon. He would find his weapon in the form of a longsword that had been cast aside. Taking the blade he would attach the sheath to his waist. These would be the only things he would take, clothes to cover him and a weapon to wield. Any gold or valuables were left behind. The old Luca would have taken everything he could carry, but not the new Luca. It was on that field that he made an oath to himself and a promise to the nameless god who had brought him here. He would not waste this second chance. Taking up the name of the bravest of the Legendary knights he could think of, the skeleton Gawain set off into the world determined to be a force for good.