Oren

Agronak - Party Member

Miki - Party Member

Lyleth - Party Member

Lyra - Potential Love Interest

Brent - Mentor/Father Figure

Snipps - Pet

Oren is a player character in the Here be Dragons campaign. He is the oldest party member of his team and also the shortest. As far back as Oren can remember he was 6 years old when he and his parents went to watch a circus. They stayed the night in a nearby tent, but when Oren awoke both his parents were gone. Oren didn’t know where they went or if they’d be back. P.T. Barney (the elf circus ringmaster) had taken in Oren when Oren had nowhere else to go.

Oren had spent the next several years helping with the circus performances and had an act where he trained Gabby(a grey dog) to be dressed up like a lion and pretend to be one and do tricks. It wasn’t until Oren turned 17 that he wanted to move away from the circus and into the city. It was then that Oren learned that he wasn’t as free as he thought in the circus. Barney was keeping Oren from leaving the circus the whole time he lived with them. He just didn’t notice till he finally tried to leave. Barney tried to restrain Oren to P.T. Barney’s Circus grounds but Oren managed to slip free. On Oren’s way out he freed Gabby and took off to the nearest city of Rhemstahd to try to hide.

After hiding out for a few days Oren had been stealing from local food carts to keep himself and Gabby alive. One day he got recruited into a local Thieves guild by the guild master himself, Brent (22 Orc with a scar on his face). Oren happily joined as the guild shared their profit with each to have a more consistent wage coming in for all of them. Oren learned directly from Brent on the ways of the thief and Brent also taught Oren how to defend himself in a fight if it came down to it. Oren lived at the Talons guild house in the living quarters. Gabby continued to live with Oren until she grew too old and died in her sleep. Oren was 24 years old and devastated at the loss of his nearest companion since childhood. Here Oren spent most of his life living in the guild house thieving for the guild and earning a little bit of a reputation for himself within the guild. Oren and Brent grew close but more as a father-son like relationship.

It wasn’t until Oren was rediscovered by P.T. Barney when Oren was 40 that Oren life really changed again. Barney must’ve heard about Oren living in Rhemstahd as a thief and hired thugs to kidnap Oren one day in an alleyway. Oren doesn’t know how he was found out by Barney as he tried to stay low profile. Nonetheless Oren was captured and dragged back to the circus and this time with much less fragility. They beat Oren until he stopped trying to escape and kept shackles around his legs to keep him in place. They forced Oren to work at the circus again, but this time it was very obvious to him that he was a slave.

About 6 months of living like a slave, a beefy goliath named Ilathok wandered into the circus and freed Oren. Oren was baffled as he had never seen Ilathok before but was so grateful that he showed up there. Oren thanked Ilathok profusely and vowed to himself that he would follow Ilathok and be his loyal companion. Oren ended up teaming up with and hanging around Ilathok for the next few years as Ilathok did his mercenary work in Kragana. Around then is when they were both recruited into the Slayer's Initiative.