Paetines

Paetines
Vital Stats
Place of Birth:	Eastern Ansalon
Race:	Half-Elf
Appearance
Hair Color:	Grey
Eye Color:	Blue
Height:	5'9"
Weight:	190 lbs
Additional Information
Occupation:	Priest of Paladine

Character Background

The oldest surviving member of the Silver Knights of Ansalon, Paetines was instructor in the healing arts to both Kylus Dragonsbane and his brother, Warburton. Honored and revered by all the Knights as a friend a teacher, the cleric of Paladine had humble beginnings. Born on the eastern side of Ansalon, he was accustomed to poverty and want throughout his young life. Despite the protests and eventual disowning by his family, the young man sought out Paladine's temple, where he trained to be a priest of Bahamut the Platinum Dragon.

The young priest excelled in the healing arts, and at the age of 21 was sent to work in the Temple of the Silver Knights, where he worked there faithfully for the life of the Order. Ten years later, he encountered Kylus Dragonsbane, a Half-Elven youth, whom he took a liking to almost immediately. Their relationship was almost as father and son, for though Kylus was only 10 years the priest's junior, his 21 years were but childhood to his elven blood. Paetines had the wisdom and experience of humanity, which created a strong bond between the teacher and his student. Their bond would be tested time and again by disaster.

It began with the death of Kylus' wife Arylin by his own hand, which drove the paladin to the brink of sanity. Paetines did all he could to stop the young man from disappearing from Ansalon, but to no avail. The crushing blow would come with the destruction of the Order of the Silver Knights by the Knights of Solamnia. Paetines returned from retreat to find the Temple a smoldering ruin, looted and strewn with bodies. Grief stricken, the aging man could only begin to bury the bodies of his pupils, but shock too its toll on the old man's heart, and he stopped before he was halfway done. It would be years later that Paetines would reunite with Kylus, after the destruction of the Temple. In his wanderings about the continent of Ansalon, Paetines was guided over the mountains through the land of RhyDin, and then to the Kingdom of Arangoth, where he was welcomed and discovered by Kylus, now the Royal Priest to Queen AngelSin.

And in Arangoth he remains, in the closing years of his life, preaching the word of Paladine to those who wish to listen, assisting Kylus with the care of the Royal Church of Arangoth and its Vault, and praying each day for the souls of the students and friends he buried at the ruins of the Temple so many years ago.