Able Winters

aka Abe Munstead

3'4" tall, 41lbs, raggedy dark brown hair and beard, blue eyes

He has a birthmark of a Claw on his chest. (not secret, but doens't go and tell people, he doens't hide it, and if birthmarks come up he might mention it.

<BFF>Nephew of Zeke Munstead

Journal of his latest adventures

Player: Erick

Able travels with little more then a suit of leather armor, his cloak, a short spear and some pouches for gear, components and trinkets. Never far is his companion bark owl named Peanut.

<LOCAL>Abe was born in the merchant city of Feltrest, in a Theives Den. His mother ws being held hostage by the local crime lord until his father could pay for the damage caused by a joke gone bad. His mother had a hard birth, and died a week after he was born. Once the debt was paid Ab'e father collected him, and moved back to Cyrillya.

Abe grew up on his Father's farm at the edge of The Drakewood in Cyrellea. His father was a prosperous farmer and had a lot of land and farm hands to work it. Like all gnomes he liked jokes, but he often tended to take his a bit too far, gathering quite a few enemies. After a bad experience with one of his father's enemies in the nearby city of Trell, Abe decided didn't want to spend much time in the city's any more. After that he started spending more and more time in The Drakewood.

</LOCAL>

<FRIENDS>

When he was about 10, trying to stalk a deer through the woods just to see if he could touch it before it sensed him he stumbled into a clearing he hadn't been in before. In it was an elf who looked to be 80, meaning he was probably closer to 800 years old. The elf, Oldive, was a druid hermit, living in the forest, caring for its creatures, and keeping nature balanced. Abe and he talked about the woods for many hours, when it got dark they talked by campfire. Abe woke in the morning to the doe trying to eat his shirt, but as soon as he moved it quickly scampered away.

After that he spent more time in the woods, Oldive wasn't always there to greet him, but he gave him litle chores to do in the woods. Chores were nothing new to the farm boy, but these were more fulfilling somehow, he felt like he was actually helping with something worthwhile.

About a year later he found on a stump in that clearing a hand carved flute, with his name inscribed on it. Now when he walked through the woods he played, and thought up poems and lyrics to his songs. At first this playing scared away the animals, but as the years went by and his songs improved they became more soothing.

</FRIENDS>

<SECRET>

When he was 16 during the annual Harvest festival in Trell, a lottery/draft was held of all able bodies Gnomes to determine who would join the constable force for two years. Since he was of age, his name was in the bucket, and he was one of those chosen. Because of his age, the Head Constable assigned him more clerk/desk duties then patroling the streets. Initially it was very interesting, while he missed the woods, he did enjoy his new position of respect, the Head Constable even inviting him to some events and parties as her guest where he met several rich and influential people, Gnomes and others. But the Head Constable had other ideas.and she used Abe to provide sexual favors to some of the rich and influential people he needed help from. Eventually she forced him to murder a Master Alchamist who refused to brew her an elixir of youth. Beeing ill-experienced in murder, he was easily caught, sentanced, and thrown in prison.

His father visited him once, didn't say a word, just stared at him with tears, then walked away. his brothers and sister visited ocasionally in the begening, but after a few years they too stopped. His uncle Zeke however, understanding that one gnome's law, was another gnome's loose guideline visited as often as he could. And brought treats like cinimon sticks, which Abe immediatly loved.

Eventually the Head Constible's corruption was found out, and she took her own life rather then be tried for her crimes. So after 24 years, the majority of his life in prison, the Lord declared Amnesty and he was freed. After wandering the city in a daze for a few days, he made his way back to the Drakewood where he stayed, dedicating himself to Nature. He took on the name Able Winters (an alias his uncle had used in his travels) to start his new life.

</SECRET>

<BFF>

A few years later (Age 44) while visiting the city of Trell he ran into the daughter of the Alchamist he murdered. She recognized him, and prayed to Azrael to curse him. After that people he was travling with seemed to be the targets of bad luck occasionally, and when he gets in fights, he sometimes goes into a uncontrollable rage.

</BFF>

Around age 48 he decided to leave Cyrillia and see the giant Elderwood Forest and ask the elves to teach him some of their woodland lore. Zeke gave him an bracelet of finly wrought gold leaves that had been given to him by the Elves years before. After many months of travel he finally found the elves. He spent many years with them, gaining some of their trust with his dedication to Terra and love of Nature. He helped fight Orcs and purge out evil forces in the forest.

Finally he left and visited his uncle in Volkrad. Who after a short visit was promtly burgled and sent him on a quest to recover his property.

Founding member of the South Coast Hunters Adventuring guild