Name: Lazaras
Race: Dwarf
Class: Paladin
Sex: Male
Height : 4'7"
Weight: 160
Eye color: Green
Hair color: Brown

Special Characteristics

Tattoo around left arm---"My Honor is my Life"
Scarab guild Tattoo on right arm.
Waist length beard swept back into belt

History

Lazaras was nearing his prime when he followed his brothers footsteps...Scarab

Lazaras was one the 4 children born in the hills of Kywath to Shara Firestone. He had a great early life, son of the village leader and great cleric, Flint Firestone. He grew up wresting with his older brothers and fighting about anything from doing chores to who was the bravest and strongest.

He was a little on the daring and sometimes foolish end so a little after his coming of age celebration his father took him to learn from the great cleric Allanon in the Shale Valley. He prospered at everything Allanon taught him, but after a couple years grew restless. Like most people his age he wanted to see the world, adventure, and become a hero!

He had been learning at the monastery for about 2 years when a messenger came into the chapel and asked to speak with Allanon, alone. Lazaras was just being curious and eavesdropping when he heard that there were a band of evil men; barbarians, trolls, and ogres, who were laying waste to the country side. The band was marching about a mile away and the spy told Allanon to be careful until they were gone. He knew the area better than any so Laz decided to go and spy on the army just to appease his curiosity.

In the middle of the night Laz snuck right up to the camp. He was just about to go back when he heard a noise just to the right of him. Right there, not 5 feet away was the biggest ogre chieftain he had ever seen. Laz drew his hammer, then thought better of it(after all, the ogre was about 3 times his size!) and crept home. He heard no more about the army for a couple of months.

About 6 months until his completion from the church another messenger came to see Allanon. This time Lazaras was called in. The messenger told that Laz's village was sacked by the band. They had no chance. They were a peaceful village of about only 100 miners and their wives and children. The village was hit in the dead of night, few got away. Laz lost a brother and sister and both parents...he was devastated.

Lazaras left the priesthood, since he was really only in it because he father wished it. He went back to his village to help the few survivors left. When he got there he saw a band of about 50 humans in full armor on horseback. He asked what was going on and Palin(his brother) told him the humans were going to track down the band and see if they could stop them. Laz couldn't understand it, after all, they were human. Why would the humans want to exact revenge for his village getting attacked? He thought about it and came to no good conclusion, so he decided to asked the humans. They said they and were honorbound to help those in need. Laz was in shock, he had always heard that humans could be good, but he had thought for the most part they were a crazy, honorless people. He decided that he was going to go along with the warriors. At first they wouldn't have anything to do with him. They said he would only slow them down. But then they found out the truth about dwarven stubborness. They gave in and Laz rode out with them that very day.

They rode for about 2 years, fighting evil and protecting the good. But they never found the band that sacked his village. Over those years Lazaras learned that the group he was with were warrior/clerics known as Paladines. They taught him honor and the use of his weapons. After a time they even grow to respect the dogged determination Lazaras showed. After being with the group for about 2 years Laz left the group, saying he had to go back to his village. He wanted to teach more about his ways and about honor, valor, and courage. Upon arriving at his village he found it was no longer there. The last survives had moved to other villages to start there lives over again. He wondered around for a time, always hoping that he would find that evil band that hit his village. To this day that band has never been found. Lazaras feels that maybe, if he would he followed the band in the first place, or killed the great ogre chieftain, maybe he could have saved his family and village. He eventually came across his brother and Lord Hawke chasing evil across the world.....He pledged his life to their cause and has never strayed to this day.