As of 5/24/99
Lawful Neutral Fighter
Created by
Robb Farrell
Physical appearance of Antigo Gamparaditis:
Antigo is a solid-looking human warrior, standing six feet high with a bulk well over 200 pounds. He has long brown hair that falls over his shoulders and large, blue-gray eyes complimenting a clean shaven, attractive, and rugged face. Antigo can usually be found wearing a chain mail shirt with shortened sleeves, extending midway on his upper arms, over a cotton tunic tucked into a pair of leather leggings. A pair of short brown leather boots cover his feet, with thick laces winding their way up his muscular calves. A hooded cloak of dark green is draped over his shoulders, fastened in the front by a silver clasp in the shape of a dragon. A thick leather belt is wrapped around his waste, fastened with a silver dragon buckle, with two small pouches and the scabbards of a dagger and bastard sword attached to the belt. Two small forearm bracers, made of metal attached to a boiled leather underlining, and a dull copper ring on the third finger of his right hand, complete Antigo's general appearance.
In times of battle, Antigo is know to wield his bastard sword in his right hand while defending himself with a large metal shield in his left. Because of his moral upbringing in the city of Gyper Bay, the capital of Cannovan, Antigo attempts to avoid using his dagger as a back-stabbing weapon at all costs, allowing that "pleasure" to the more chaotic individuals that he is occasionally found in the companionship of.
Background:
Antigo was born 28 years back in a small home a short distance from the city of Gyper Bay, where his mother was employed as a server at The Dragon's Eye - a taverned inn of some quality, located just outside the city's walls and the western gate, known as Trader's Gate - and his father a lower ranking yards master, working for the trading family Tomas and Jyseth Gerumon. Two days after the celebration of Antigo's ninth day of birth, in the month of Morning Dew, Antigo's father was killed. It was labeled an accident and wasn't investigated, although Antigo had heard some of the men his father had worked with at the yards talking in The Dragon's Eye one eve, and it wasn't an accident they spoke of. His mother had quickly silenced the men, and Antigo was told to never ask about what he had heard that night.
Like most of the young men growing up in and around Gyper Bay, Antigo wanted to be taken on by one of the trading families as a hired guardsman, finding excitement on the roads from Gyper Bay to the other cities, and at the harbors the trading vessels frequented. In the month of Morning Dew, when Antigo's mother celebrated the eighteenth day of his birth, Antigo and the other young men of his age were lined in the center of Gyper Bay's market. Of the twenty-three in line that day, only two were taken on by the trading families of Gyper Bay, with most of the others landing mindless jobs in the yards and on the docks. Antigo, not being picked by one of the trading families and not wanting to grudge through life as his father had done, decided to go the way of the Gyper Bay militia.
Less than a year later, Antigo could be seen patrolling the streets of the port city and capital of the Cannovan, wearing the standard black leather jerkin of the militia. It was here that he learned the true ways of the sword, and not always by the hands of his seasoned instructors, for Gyper Bay was sometimes a city in strife by night, with the city's trading families occasionally warring against one another. More times than not, it seemed, Antigo and the Gyper Bay militia were caught in the middle of the feuding, and on numerous occasions Antigo watched his fellow militiamen fall to the blades of the trading families.
Antigo was twenty-three years of age when he reached the rank of captain of the Gyper Bay militia, overseeing the city's western district. His income was a bit over twenty gold per month, enough so that his mother could quit her job as innkeeper at The Dragon's Eye and retire to their family home. It was then that Antigo was approached by a member of the Shade, a secret but well-known set of rulers - professional assassins, thieves, warriors and mages - who controlled most of the illegal doings in the city. He was offered a salary five times that of what he was making, as well as a position with the Shade as soon as he, "Brought back the head of some orc chief's wife and got a bit of experience under your belt." - as the Shade member had said.
At first, Antigo refused the man with as much courtesy as he saw fit, for the Shade and it's members left a sour taste in his mouth. The second time Antigo was approached, it was by three members of the Shade, and he was told - not asked - that he was being put on their payroll, and that he had better "Sharpen thine eyes, as well as thine blade, for we'll be watching thee night and day." Again, Antigo refused the offer set before him. The three men laughed aloud as they left Antigo's chambers, located in the north tower of Trader's Gate. That night, the family home of the Gamparaditis' was burned to the ground, and Antigo's mother was gutted and left for dead. For the next six days and nights, war filled the streets of Gyper Bay between the black leather-jerkined militia and known members of the Shade. Even the feuding between trading families paused to make way for the bloodbath that Antigo headed.
In the end, Lady Hoesh, the matriarchal widow of the trading family Lorenea, demanded the warring to end, finding the Gyper Bay militia at fault. Stripped of rank and facing a beheading, Antigo fled the port city, traveling east and south. He found employment as a sellsword, a sailor, and a smithy's apprentice, befriending a small clan of Dervatear living in the Fillian Mountains. Five years and several adventures later, Antigo found himself in a tavern known as the Drunkard Monk, in the port city of Crierton, sitting at a large table with a handful of friends and fellow adventurers.
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