Earnest Beckwith

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### Affiliation

Royalty of Ilgad, Soldier of Erios, An Adventuring Party of Sorts, Order of the Flagon

## Appearances

### Debut

Fire and Fury, session #3

Earnest Beckwith is the former bastard son of Marquess Guthrend "the Able" Beckwith of Ilgad. The half blood heritage between a gnome and a dwarf gave him an appearance that was quite unusual for either of the two races. His stature was bold and hardy like that of a dwarf, but his size was quite shorter than most dwarfs, and he noticeably had patches of bright pink hair mingled within his black braids and beard. His fighting style is unorthodox to most people, riding upon a boar named Capri and wielding a lance against his enemies. Earnest is also infamous for his alcoholic tendencies and his habit of drinking mid-battle; claiming that is "bolsters his strength" during a fight.

After the death of his family at the hands of the Sect of the Crystal Blood, Earnest fell into a depression during which he met adventuring party, of sorts, and he began travelling with them on a road that appeared to take him back to his annexed home city. In their travels, Earnest found out that there had been no survivors of his family whatsoever -a hope that had lingered in the back of his mind since the assault. Earnest was thrown into a deeper pit of depression and alcoholism, during which he submitted all claims that had fallen to him as the next successor of Ilgad to the king of Erios. Furthermore, due to a curse that curiously kept Earnest mentally bound to one of his travelling companions, Winnie Matsuura, as well as an intriguing mystery that seemed ripe for the solving, Earnest chose to continue travelling with the adventuring party, of sorts, away from Ilgad to find someone named The Warden.

In his travels with the adventuring party, of sorts, Earnest had a dream that would impact his life forever. The dream started with a woman dressed in all black in a shadowy dress. She began to speak, uttering Earnest's name, and there was a picture of Earnest upon a throne, with a crown atop his head, before the vision was suddenly interrupted and Earnest felt a powerful surge of energy from within his chest. The visage of a giant, cloaked in red flames, roars in your mind as the giant grips a massive greataxe and swings it in your direction, screaming as she does so. A powerful drum beat begins to play in your chest as you find yourself swimming through a great lake of magma.

## Backstory

After Earnest's mother Venci; a young gnomish courtier at Ilgad, gave birth to her son, Earnest was acknowledged as the child of the Marquess and was accepted into his estate. As the Marquess's bastard son, he was treated as an outsider in the city's castle -especially by Marchioness Gunnhild, his step mother.

Feeling unaccepted by his step mother, the nobles of the stone city, and even his two younger siblings, Vira and Gregory (who had rightful claims as royalty), Earnest took to the common streets of the city to find a place of acceptance. However, he found out that as a noble in the city, he would be rejected in these places as well. Feeling like an outsider in all aspects of life, Earnest turned to become a soldier for the city in hopes of making a reputation of himself that would allow him to build some sense of honor and prestige. Because of his status as a noble and having been trained in falconry, boar riding, and combat, Earnest was taken in as a lieutenant of Ilgad's army. But early in his career as a military man, he took up drinking because of the stress of a life of a soldier.