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 ==== Vincent ====
-[[Player Character]] in the [[Voyager]] campaign.
+[[Player Character]] in the [[Voyager]] campaign.  Cousin to [[Aramil]].
-Rogue/13, Ranger/2, Wizard/3.
+The identity of his father was [[voyagersecret70|revealed]] to [[Roderick]]
+by [[The Fates]].  For more information, see the writeup about [[teir|Farmer Teir]].
+**The original backstory writeup from Ken** //(1 August 2004)//:
+Vincent is the bastard son of a "noble" taken in by his Baron grandfather and
+nursed back to health by his mother.  The Baron found the poor fellow, dressed
+as a noble, wounded and near death at the borders of his estate.  The
+sonuvabitch talked a good game and in no time at all he had a private room and
+the Baron's virgin daughter as a private nurse.  He gave a name and a lineage
+just distant enough that we didn't have time to verify it before it was too
+late.  He pumped up [[Vincent]]'s mother with stories of "revealing their love, and
+engagement, in a grand public gesture."  Which left her very publicly humiliated
+when he took off with their best horse and family heirloom sword in the opposite
+direction on the appointed day.  Doubly so when it was discovered that she was
+pregnant and therefore, among other things, unsuitable for a proper marriage.
+Well, you can't take an insult like that out on your own daughter.  But her
+shiftless bastard son - now that's something else.
+Growing up, [[Vincent]] couldn't get a single break from his Grandfather the Baron.
+Nothing was ever good enough for the curmudgeon.  [[Vincent]] didn't study hard
+enough.  He didn't show enough respect.  He wasn't strong enough.  He wasn't
+honest enough.  And when [[Vincent]] started turning to the local merchants and
+lesser commoners for companionship, even his friends weren't good enough to suit
+the Baron.
+Vincent took to deceit and manipulation like a duck to water.  He ran little
+cons and swindles and, when the duplicity was eventually revealed, always had
+his noble birth to shield him from real consequences.  He may have been unwanted
+in the castle, but it was understood in the village that anyone spilling the
+blood of the Baron's kin would face the Baron's wrath most terribly. To [[Vincent]],
+it only seemed fair that if he wasn't going to be given anything in this life
+that he see to his own needs.
+What was, to [[Vincent]], the greatest insult the Baron ever visited upon him was
+actually the greatest honor.  The Baron tasked [[Vincent]], on more than one
+occasion, with negotiating with the barbarian tribes that always threatened the
+Barony's borders.  With a sack of "tribute" in one hand and a loaded crossbow in
+the other, the young [[Vincent]] waged peace with the steely nerve of a seasoned
+veteran.  The Baron understood that the boy's deceitful ways could be used to
+serve the Barony and redeem the lad's personal honor.  Entrusting him with such
+a crucial mission was a signal of respect, albeit a grudging one, from the
+Baron.  [[Vincent]], however saw this duty as nothing more than his grandfather's
+unsuccessful attempt to get rid of him once and for all through a series of
+thinly-disguised suicide missions.
+When the Baron began receiving hints that [[Vincent]] was plotting his murder, he
+decided that it was best that he and the boy have a "cooling off period".  And
+so it was that [[Vincent]] was gifted with a stay at the resort.
+In a year's time, when the Hippogriff is mature, [[Vincent]] plans to head home to
+pay his respects to his Mother.  On some level he still longs for affection and
+affirmation from his grandfather.  He is unlikely to receive it.
+Vincent's back-story is rife with hooks.  Who was his father, really?  A Noble
+from a distant land, as he claimed, torn away from his one true love by the
+urgent needs of his family's honor?  A simple con man?  An *extraordinary* con
+man?  Have the treaties [[Vincent]] negotiated remained intact?  Is all peaceful
+with the neighboring baronies?
+I am personally very satisfied with [[Vincent]]'s growth as a character and as a
+person.  In the end, he was willing to lay down his life for a friend (his
+horse) motivated only by personal loyalty, and in quiet, guileless defiance of
+Roget and [[Dhersion]], the two men whose wills have dominated his world for these
+past six months.  Even while negotiating over the soul gem, he stood up for
+himself and made a very noble, not greedy, choice, in the hippogriff.  I'm
+naming him Silver, by the way.
+Unless destiny intervenes, [[Vincent]] will pursue the life of a wandering noble.
+His charm, riding and training skills, fascinating stories, and unique mount
+will make him a much-sought-after house guest for years to come.  And if someone
+wants to offer him better compensation than simple hospitality, this lifestyle
+would also make him an excellent spy.  If he knows what is good for him he will
+stay out of dungeons.  He can neither locate nor disarm traps, nor can he pick
+locks.  Of course, if someone were to offer him some lands to call his own, he
+could be talked into anything.  No man can truly call himself a noble until he
+has deed to a proper manor and lands.
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