Player: Dave Bargman
Character: Odoroar “Odo” Tigersoul
Class: Monk of Lathander
        Born “Odo Moorlar”, he was the eldest of two children of Olaf (a farm hand) and
Chianna (a candle makers assistant)  Moorlar.  His sister Kira is 5 years
younger. From the small town of Uluvin which is west of Waterdeep, the Moorlars
lived a meager existence, not because they didn’t make enough money, but because
Olaf spent most of it on drinking and gambling. Olaf was a mean drunk too and
took it out on Chianna… until Odo came along. Odo inherited the best aspects of
his parents- His brains and caring nature from his mother and his toughness from
his father.  As he got older, Odo became the target for his father’s drunken
rages and when he wasn’t the target he would make himself one to take the burden
away from his mother and eventually his younger sister. As he got older, Odo
grew bigger… lean and quick. He could start to dodge the blows aimed at him from
his father and then he was able to block blows. This didn’t bode well with
“Dad”. Seeing that the growing Odo might start to fight back and be a problem,
Olaf did what any good father would do… He sold his son into slavery to pay off
his mounting bar tab and gambling debts.
Odo became the property of Klav Sinx, a local crime lord who had legit
businesses in beer production. Odo was assigned to work the wheat field chain
gangs. It was there where he learned skills of the sickle and gained strength
working long days in the field. A couple of the other slaves were followers of
Lathander and expounded the virtues of their god. An older slave named Jyrtha
Sands began to look after Odo. Odo was a good slave… quiet, strong and worked
hard. One day Jyrtha, being older and weaker stumbled while carrying a bag of
grain, it spilled and tumbled into a creek ruining it. The taskmaster began to
whip Jyrtha as punishment but cut it short when Odo stepped in. A struggle
ensued ending with the taskmaster dead of a broken neck. If Odo was a lesser
slave, he would’ve been killed but instead he was sold to the Brown Tribe…
Lizardmen of Lizard Marsh, which is almost as good as death… and the Brown Tribe
aren’t even the most savage group in the Marshes! Life got tougher for Odo. Poor
living conditions (for humans), diet, constant abuse took their toll, but Odo
managed to survive and even learned the language during his time there which
would’ve been indefinitely until the turf war happened. The Red and Green Tribes
went to war, pulling the Brown into the conflict. During an intense skirmish,
the Brown Tribe managed to fend off a brutal attack of the Green and pressed a
pursuit. Odo took advantage of the chaos, loss of life and a fortunately fallen
body that had keys to free himself from his bounds and flee. Running for as long
and as far as he could, he avoided all contact. He eventually stopped in the
Misty Forest. Working his way up creek his luck finally favored him and he found
a temple of Lathander. The clerics and paladins that resided there took him in
and nursed him back to proper health. Dedicating himself to his faith and
saviors he worked and lived at the temple, gaining knowledge of fighting from
the paladins and knowledge of the forest and woodland life from the clerics. In
an induction ceremony to the temple, he was renamed Odoroar Tigersoul.
        Feeling that he had reached an end and wanted to rejoin a proper society as a
free man, Odo took a small pack of provisions provided by the Temple and headed
to the closest major city… Waterdeep. He had heard tales of this bustling
metropolis and wanted to spread the word of Lathander and help those who could
are oppressed such as he has been his whole adult life. Upon entering the city
and wandering for a few days, Odo did his best to avoid the guards rounding up
the homeless. He eventually made his way to a temple of Lathander and crossed
paths which a braggart of a cleric named Gorson who looked like he needed some
protection.
Notes:
Living many years as a slave leant itself to Odo’s Monk ways…
Odo is relatively quiet and is use to only speaking when spoken too. Never
having been allowed to have any belongs or money, he is use to being broke and
hungry. Odo is quick and had to defend himself from cruel masters. He is
toughened from years of hard labor. He is loyal to those around him and is
willing to let himself get hurt in order to save a friend.