Role

Chapter 1

Son of Davius Lydwich, a world renowned barovian vampire slayer - made
famous across the eastern continent for his exploits. Lorente Lydwich is
a troubled man. His youth spent in prayer with his father, and instilled
with an innate sense of distaste for the undead through his upbringing.
He watched night after night as his father would come home drenched in
the blood of vampires after a successful hunt. He wasn't allowed to join
his father, even in his formative years, but he was expected to pray
vigilantly against the darkness night after night.

His fathers exploits started out by merit of virtue, and he was
exceptionally good at what he did as far as Lorente could tell. His
father often told him stories of an ancient weapon that was capable of
ending undeath forever. As far as Lorente could tell, these were merely
legends - but his father spoke of it, and searched for it with such
passion that perhaps there was some truth to the tale.

Eventually a woman storyteller, and her half-drow son met Davius, and
began to regale his famous exploits across Thera, enticing his father to
a life of wealth and fame. It was not long before Davius spent more time
entertaining curious patrons at the Inn, and buried in alcohol - than he
did slaying vampires in Barovia. As time went on, Lorente's father
slipped further and further into alcoholism and whoring, and his days of
vampire slaying were all but legend. One morning Lorente awoke to find
his father had not returned home - and his mother Soriena Lydwich, had
died when he was young according to his father. Perplexed, Lorente set
out to Hamsah Mu'tazz to search for his father at tha Inn. When he
arrived, he discovered from tha guards that his father was found dead.
The Tribunal had no leads, and the case was cold - was it suicide,
murder?

This crushed Lorente - and he vowed to find out what had happened to his
father that night. He armed himself with his fathers silver sword, and
set out to become a destroyer of the undead himself. He hated the
Tribunal, for failing to solve - what in his mind, was clearly a crime.
He lost all respect for the rule of law, and knew that matters must be
taken into his own hands.

He left the trappings of wealth, and city life behind and became an
ascetic hermit, living in a small cave in the forest of Prosimy. He
learned to live off the land, and be self sufficient, and developed a
fondness for the natural world. He honed his skills in Barovia against
the undead, just as his father had - and decided he would seek out the
refuge to find others who sought to destroy the unnatural.