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    "name": "Alaric Vey",
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    "story_excerpt": "Everything Alaric carries belonged to someone else first.\n\nThe bow was his father's. Longbow, dark wood, carved with dragon motifs that wrap around the grip and up both limbs. His dad was a soldier and a woodworker and he made it himself before Alaric was born. The cloak pin on his chest was his mot",
    "story": "Everything Alaric carries belonged to someone else first.\n\nThe bow was his father's. Longbow, dark wood, carved with dragon motifs that wrap around the grip and up both limbs. His dad was a soldier and a woodworker and he made it himself before Alaric was born. The cloak pin on his chest was his mother's pendant. She left it behind when she left. He doesn't know where she went. He took the pendant apart and refashioned it into a clasp so he'd always have it on him without having to think about why. It's a small dragon with a sapphire set in its eye. Most people think it's decorative. It isn't.\n\nHe was a soldier. Enlisted young because that's what you did if you were a half elf with no connections and a dead father's longbow. Picked up a scar on his chin in his first real engagement, picked up the arcane shot thing by accident when an arrow he fired in a moment of panic lit up gold and blew a hole through a shield. Nobody trained him to do that. It just happened. The magic is tied to his emotions, which means the angrier or more protective he gets the brighter the runes glow along the bowstring and the hotter the arrows burn. In calm moments its a faint shimmer. In bad moments the whole bow lights up.\n\nHe wears browns and greens. Reinforced leather. A forest cloak. Gold chain earrings on his right ear because his mom was an elf and that's the one piece of elven tradition he kept. He keeps his hair in a bald fade on the sides, longer on top tied back. Practical. He's not flashy about anything except the bow and even that he'd call practical if you asked.\n\nOur campaign has been running about eight months. Alaric started as the quiet guy in the back of the party who shot things and didn't talk about himself. Slowly the other players started pulling details out of him in character and each one landed harder than the last. The bow. The pin. The mother who left. The magic he can't fully control. Our bard asked him once why his arrows glow and he just said 'I don't know. They started doing that the day my father died.' Table went dead silent. I hadn't even planned that line. It just came out. That's when I knew this character was something special."
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