Mort

Mort was born and raised in Kipper, a small fishing village on the Sword Coast. As Mort grew up he longed for something more than what could be offered in Kipper. So at the age of 18, looking for adventure, gold and escape from the inevitable life of being a fisherman, Mort decided to use his sailing skills and already formidable size and joined the first pirate vessel that would take him, the Sloppy Pocket. Mort soon settled into the life on the seas, and quickly rose through the ranks, becoming one of Captain Meme's key lieutenants, earning large amounts of gold and a reputation throughout the seas. Success brought rivals who were jealous, and one evening the ship was attacked and the Sloppy Pocket was sunk and all aboard were killed, apart from Mort who washed up on a beach with nothing but the clothes he was wearing. Saved by a local mercenary guild he was nursed back to full health.  Mort stayed with the guild for almost a year learning how to fight properly, with the aim of one day avenging his former shipmates.  Upon leaving the mercenary guild be began his quest of finding those responsible, the first few months he was very successful at tracking down some of those responsible, but once word got out that he was searching for them the remaining members went underground. Knowing he needed coin to continue his search Mort began to take on contacts to earn some gold.  While waiting for a  contact to meet in a tavern, Mort struck up a conversation with a half-elf thief called Venrie who ended up offering Mort a job, keen on the payment, Mort agreed. The job didn't go as intended and it ended with Mort and Venrie having to deal with some major trouble.  Mort enjoyed being part of a team again and found Venrie to be reliable and honorable as any of his former shipmates.  They completed many jobs together, and for while they earned large amounts of gold but when the opportunity arose to earn a vast amount of gold it was too good to turn down. The highly lucrative but exceedingly dangerous job involved robbing a bank that was a front for a local criminal syndicate. The heist went perfectly and Mort and Venrie prudently decided to lay low and live comfortably off the proceeds.  Mort and Venrie are friends first and colleagues second, always having each others backs, making a pact to help each other in their quest to avenge Morts shipmates and find Venrie's father. A chance meeting led them to a tavern just before the local town was attacked, deciding to investigate, Mort, Venrie and the other patrons of the tavern headed into town under siege. Supporting the local forces the newly formed group assisted the town in any way they could.  The group infiltrated the camp of the unknown force looking for information and gold.  In the process they were captured, Mort managed to free his new friends after winnning a fist fight against a Kobold and during the escape pilfered a strange rune dagger.  While traveling back to the town they found the corpse of the former Luxodon companion, and while attempting to move the corpse off the road, manage to push Morts hands inside the corpse, where Mort suspects he has contacted Elephant Aids (Mort is unsure as he is of extremely poor intelligence but strongly suspected the Loxodon to be a kiddie fiddler).  On returning back to the town Mort and his companions were awarded knighthoods.