John

[The Broken Sword]

What will your character’s name be?

Johnathan Ashton

Please briefly describe the physical attributes of your character, including age, looks, height, weight and any notable features:


It could be said that the decendants of the Ashton bloodline were sculpted from the Godspine Mountains themselves, solemn and towering creatures. John Ashton was no different, but whereas his half-brother, Robert, had been relatively good-looking, John was a veritable gargoyle. His body, a canvas of ruined flesh, whether by ink, burns, abrasions, incisions, or injections, much of John’s form has been transformed. Dark hair is usually worn short, revealing a harsh, brutal face, and strange near-yellow eyes.

Briefly state your character’s intentions or motivations for entering the First Province:

Informed of the death of his brother, Robert Ashton, at the hands of an affliction. John has traveled from Titan’s Hollow in the shadows of Roenhelm’s valley, to the First Province to collect his younger brother’s ashes and see him returned to the family’s crypt. Along the way, perhaps, he will discover what it is that the former Prelate had saw worthy of protecting.


Briefly provide a pertinent detail or notable quality of your character’s history (this does not have to be exhaustive nor revealing of any information you wish to keep secret):

The Ashton Family does not hold to a particular legacy, and is not known beyond the deeds of the individual members of the family. Robert, John, Mason, Lyanna, Jaina are all that survives the name, and now Robert, who was without a child of his own, has passed beyond, carried by the Flame. Only four now remain.

John, unlike his brother, had no patriotic call to serve Vitaveus, but was forcibly conscripted by the Legion for a short and bloody campaign in the Blacklands where he had served as an assistant to the Field Surgeon. After four years, he moved on, driven by his experience among field hospitals, into the waiting arms of the Apothecary Corp, but he was not destined to become a doctor, or a surgeon, but rather, his gifts would be deployed in research, namely as a test subject. His body carries the scars of nearly a decade of blood-tests, introduction of toxins, venoms, strange concoctions, and controlled exposures to a variety of diseases, including the Ashen sickness, the scars of which can still be seen across his large frame. Yet, somehow, he survived all of the trials and tests. As such, he was more property of the Apothecary Corp, then he was a part of them.

Briefly write an in-character response to the following scenario:

John steps up to the Officiant, his sickly yellow eyes, drifting across the display. A leather and iron wrapped hand lifting to remove the scarred mask that he had take to wearing to obscure his visage from passersby. Light touches the horrible, scarred features, of the solemn titan. His voice is unpleasantly coarse as he first tries to speak.

“You..”

He hesitates, reaching back to a small leather satchel at his hip where a flask can be found, he drinks deeply of its contents, then begins again, his voice somewhat recovered now.

“You will know my business is true.”

A small stack of papers is produced, carrying the seal of the [redacted] Provost’s Office, indicating that John was on official business, investigating a recent outbreak of a strange plague near the “Tenebrae”, and if that’s not enough, the hulking Midlander leans in close, parting his jacket just enough for the Officiant to see the curvature of a firearm, there are no words passed, but the threat is clear. Deny him access, and they would both die right there.

[Kristijonas]

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