Dreve Harrier

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Name: Dreve Harrier
Age: Early Twenties
Race: Human - Tethyrian
Physical Appearance: Green eyes, dark brown hair, pale skin, fairly tall, build is slim/wiry
Class: Maybe some sort of cleric or druid? Not smart enough for a mage.


Childhood - Dreve was born to the runners of caravan, Garth and Trianna, on the year of 1347, a sickly child raised during an uncertain time. The family lived in their wagons, going from settlement to settlement taking what jobs they could from whoever was seeking their services. From smuggling out low titled nobles to helping move plunder from estates and manors. They had to make a living, care for their mostly bed ridden son, and caravan hands to pay. One such hand was Dope, an old Half Orc who did much of the heavy lifting when it came to labor. Dope had a gentle and slow nature, soon becoming part of the family as Dreve's caretaker while his parents dealt with caravan duties. While under the care of Dope, Dreve would finally see more than just the inside of the wagon. Often riding on Dope's shoulders during travel, Dreve would see the blurry figures of soldiers, peasants, bandits, and more. It all amazed him but that soon changed when the Time of Troubles began. Whatever condition he had worsened with this event. Seizures, comatose periods, blindness, and delirium. Dope would stay by the bedside for most days now, speaking to the boy in orcish, chanting words of strength and prayers. Dreve continued to hang on, his frail body only sustained through natural medicine and alchemical tonics. Soon there would be a change.

The Longest Year - With the total disappearance of magic, Dreve began to recover from his illness. No longer having seizures or delirium, being able to live without medication, eat on his own, dress himself, get up, move around. In fact he started to feel better than before. His vision cleared, his body didn't hurt, senses became sharper, growth spurts, strength started to build, everything started to improve as the world seemed to crumble further. Dreve would continue to grow, explore, and cause Dope to trouble with his constant curiosity.

Magic's Slow Return - Dreve, now in his teens, has sprouted up like a weed. Still under the watchful eye of Dope, he's learned much of the aged half orc's duties for the caravan. He always yearned for more though. Staying out late to explore towns and villages they stop at, staring in awe at valuable goods, and quality items butting into conversations of news and far off lands. One such news was the rumors of returning magics and the vileness they bring. Dreve felt a sudden dread, a deep piercing feeling. His parents had attributed his recovery to the undoing of magic, whatever curse was on him had been lifted. With the whispers of it's return, what would happen to him?
 
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Dreams and Awakening - Dreve's worry began to take him, affecting his mood, his thoughts, his life. He'd repeatedly had terrible nightmares of his body aging, withering, and then rotting away. Confiding in Dope what he was experiencing, the old half orc pondered and fetched a bottle, it had a distinct emerald fairy on it. Dope handed it to Dreve and encouraged him to drink, stating in broken common. "Drink it all, for good sleep."

Dreve soon blacked out after, experiencing the same dream again but he did not stir awake from terror, the dream continued. His body rotting away and then from the dust, sprouts began to appear, grass, plants, bugs, mushrooms, the days began to speed by, day night day night day night. The sky beginning to form reptilian scales made of blue sky, clouds, storms, and stars. It whipped by until what felt like ages past, then came to a stand still. A young man walked up to the site of his death, it was Dreve, again. He saw himself lay down in the same spot he had rotted away. He started to talk, but only a snake's hiss was heard. Out of his mouth a many colored snake slithered out, moving away from him and outlining a circle around Dreve's laying body. The hissing became louder and the snake began to race after it's own tail. Dreve closed his eyes, and then his body began to age and wither again. The dream returning to the start, the hissing in his head becoming more painful until Dreve's eyes finally opened.

He struggled out of the wagon and fell to his knees, vomiting on the side of the road. Dope was the first to dismount and go to him, then his parents. They watched as Dreve spewed out not just his stomach contents but then blood, the torrent continuing until small animal bones fell from his mouth. After this dirt spilled out turning to acid, then magma, chunks of ice following that. The whole caravan stood surrounding him, faces contorted in horror. It was Dope that first moved to him, pulling off his rough cloak and covering Dreve, helping him back into the wagon to rest.

The next day it had been decided. Dope was going to take Dreve and go back to his people, a secluded group of half-orcs that lived in the southern hills of Amn. What happened to Dreve could be deadly, not just for him but could have to whole caravan burned down for sorcery. Dope's tribe was headed by a Chief Shaman, Truk'Mash, and could possibly give insight or help to the teen. With one last hug from his parents he set out, he saw more visions along the way. Visions of the constant repeating flow of time, of a serpent that spanned across the sky, that was the ground under his foot, that was the blood in his veins. When they had finally gotten to the tribe, both Dreve and the chieftain's brother, Dope, were welcomed.

Dreve would stay there for the rest of his teen years and into young adulthood. Taking part in the day to day activities of the tribe as well as subjecting himself to ritual and ceremony with the chief. Inhaling herb smoke, ingesting mushrooms, fasting for dayss and being told to wander the hills and plains. Guided by Truk'Mash he learned of Ouroboros, the enigmatic World Serpent, it was this being that guiding him. Granting Dreve his power as long as he observed what it showed him. Along side these shamanistic practices Dope would help train Dreve for the normal cruelties of the world. How to survive off the land and protect himself, use weapons and move in armor. As Dreve grew he yearned to see more of the world, to witness the reality of what he was being shown. Great moments where earth was shattered and fire rained from the sky, and small nothings of flowers dancing in a light breeze or a frog waiting for bugs on a lilypad. As he went to Truk'Mash and Dope to give them the news of his wanting to leave, he found himself already in a farewell ceremony. Truk'Mash saying that "This is what the bones showed me today." Dreve enjoyed the last day with his tribe and then set out, ready to experience the world.
 
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