Oviduiu Ghenadie

Ovidiuiu is my first 4th edition character and like Sarkozy, I gave him an interesting past, but no overarching goal in his new life. He is a curious old tiefling curious to see what the regular world has to offer him.

Description
Oviduiu Ghenadie is an older tiefling with darker than average skin and brightly colored eyes. Oviduiu is upwards to around 5'10 or 5'11 with a fairly skinny physic. He wears simple dark robes and a cloak with a very ornamental collar. His face often shows an expression of deep thought or question.

Personality
Oviduiu is a slow speaking logical person. He thinks things out rationally and often acts without using his emotions. He cares for few things and generally prefers the easiest and fastest solution. This is only counteracted by the fact that he is very curious. Throughout his readings, he has learned a great deal about the history of Faerun. Anything he does not know, he will be interested in learning about.

He has presiding goals or dreams to accomplish. Oviduiu just wishes to have a simple life for the moment. Though reading many great adventures and being in the presence of people of action does give Oviduiu an unspoken goal to make his personal mark in history so that people like him might read about his exploits one day.

He is not the type to purposely be violent, but he does not build trust very easily. He learned to even distrusts his family and the people closest to him. He is easy to work with, but true friendship is something that will be hard to earn with Oviduiu. Oviduiu believes in impressions and is likely to keep negative impressions easily if provoked.

His personality and implies a dislike of good and naiveté, but Oviduiu has an ever greater problem with those that trick and deceive people on a regular basis. Despite his view on most people, Oviduiu is blunt and usually honest. Thieves and especially tyrants and slave owners gain a special loathing from Oviduiu from his past.

Family & Relationships
Oviduiu Ghenadie has a full living family. The Ghenadie gained through his most recent relatives ability win the game of Xorvintaal against known dragons in Faerun. The Genadie's that played the game as a knight of the Great Wyrm Black dracolich Xavarathimius "The Everlasting Wyrm". Unlike most of his family, Oviduiu preferred not to spend time around his dracolich master. He knew that he owed his life to the dracolich, but since he chose nothing, he tried to be as disconnected from the family legacy as possible.

Oviduiu's father Dvidiu and his brother Vilhelm both were master pieces of the game. Landislau Benedikte, Oviduiu's uncle acquired a great historical collection from his exploits beneath the radar in the Underdark. His exploits were earned away from Xorvintaal while battling the Drow in the north in the Underdark.

Character History
Oviduiu lived most of his life in a great house that was won in a game of Xorvintaal that Dvidiu helped Xavarathimius win. The game was played rarely since this house was won while the Draco-Rage was still up. Xavarathimius was is a dracolich so he could play anytime. Dvidiu was a master tactician and knew how to read people like no others. Dvidiu was a knight of the lord Xavarithimius used to help bring him to victory in Xorvingtaal. Elenuta, Oviduiu's mother managed to get her brother Landislau to offer his great historical collection to the newly one mansion.

Oviduiu lived his entire life in this one house. In this house, he had watched several siblings leave and take action and go forth to adventure as several remained. Oviduiu was not interested in battle, but took interest in the battles of history. He took great care and made fine use reading Landislau's collection. His family's legacy lived in miscellaneous adventure exploits and as knights of great dragons and dracoliches in Xorvintaal.

Oviduiu's brother Vilhelm left in his father's footsteps and learned the rules of Xorvintaal that piece needed to learn and started his training from his father. Vilhelm became very good at what he does, and he believed he was even better than Dvidiu. With that skill came arrogance, and Vilhelm searched far and wide for dragons to work under. In time he also agreed to work under Xavarithimius. Dvidiu's exploits as well as other important players had given the dracolich many powerful items. He was very interested in playing the game with the Genadie's again.

Vilhelm's games were full of success. For a time he greatly expanded on the riches and the amount of priceless good that were in the family's names. Vilhelm was a often referred to as a puppet master behind several changes. His matches though, like Dvidiu were far and in between since few dragons were willing be out long enough to plan or play Xorvintaal.

Once Sammaster was defeated and the Draco-Rage Mythal was destroyed, dragons were no longer afraid to start acting once more. The chance to play Xorvintaal increased and Xavarathimius got to test his abilities against far more opponents. Vilhelm joined an already ancient game where Xavarathimius was approaching a near loss against Kryonar, a White Wyrm dracolich in Mount Nar of Narfell. Xavarathimius pleaded for the use of another player for this victory, but such a cost would inquire a greater cost as a result of the game. Vilhelm believed without a doubt that he would bring victory to this game and bet his house and all of his belongings to the victory of this match. Dvidiu warned him against this move, as well as Oviduiu, but Vilhelm believed he was going to win.

Xavarathimius was defeated and Vilhelm had bet the entire family estate and the historical findings of Landisdau. The winners proceeded to take the home as property of the winners. Dvidiu and the rest of the family left saying that they would speak with Xavarathimius in an effort to gain their home back after years of service. Oviduiu was never really a fan of pleading to evil dracoliches for mercy and care. He was disappointed in Vilhelm's shortsightedness of the situation. Though Vilhelm had pledges the family's goods, his real loss was his own freedom. Kryonar knew that Vilhelm would be valuable, and took his life as an additional prize.

In this case the Genadie family is different from most. Dvidiu made his living under the watching of a Xavarathimius. Most pieces are not aware of what they are, but their role in the game was to act as leaders that some insight of the dragon's plans. The dragon knew better than to act directly, but Xavarathimius was a master of subterfuge with his knowing pieces, and a long string of Ghenadies knew how to use subterfuge and manipulation themselves to act as leaders and master tacticians for the purpose of Xorvintaal.

Oviduiu wanted nothing to do with this game and decided after the family was defeated to tell his father that he does not wish to plead from a dracolich. Dvidiu realized the harm that Vilhelm has caused the family by attempting to live his legacy. He understood that someone who never chose to live a life under a dracolich should not be forced to plead if he does not have to. Dvidiu told Oviduiu that he would make it clear when the family has a place to live. For the moment, they will live at the old Landislau Estate. It holds no real treasure and it is a fraction of the size, but this will help them live until they get their life back.

Oviduiu and one or two other members from his family decided that now was the time to make their life instead of living off the corrupt spoils of a puppet master's game. Oviduiu decided that he would go to Shaarmid to start a new life there.

Current Whereabouts / Activities
Oviduiu has arrived in Shaarmid with no particular direction. He is merely happy to be away from the shackles of a false life. At the same time, it is truly awkward for him to be in such regular conditions without any particular order or routine. He has no idea what lies ahead for him, and he awaits surprises to start his own legacy.

On his first real mission, Oviduiu found that the job he took for a simple life was going to be nothing of the sort. He was lead to kill many bandits, a job that his team would be skeptically about accepting. In the final battle against the boss of the bandits, Oviduiu thought his team had no chance of survival and moved from behind the cover that Sarianna gave him to help his Vice Captain Myzar fight the boss of the bandits. Oviduiu knew once he did this that he life was most likely over.

Oviduiu had always wished to be recorded in history, but he knew that his one act of good could have mattered more than knowing about anyone else's. He never got a chance to see who survived or what would become of his family. At least Oviduiu can say that he chose to do that mission that would end his life.

Miscellany
I totally want this guy to become an ancient vampire. His names and the name of everyone in his family were found on a site for finding old European names and Romanian names.