Role

Chapter 5

As a student Paladin, only just earning his graduation through the
Adventurer's Academy, Theoduin struggled to maintain his well-practiced
stoicism in the face of immense culture-shock. The people of Thera, those who
he was sworn to serve, to guide and to protect, were far different than the
stories and the books had described them. They were complex, strange and
confusing. If he was to help these people, he must find a way to truly
understand them.

Taught that the other races were lower than himself, Theoduin's faith in that
teaching was shaken when he first stood before the great paladin Dallantius
Ghrim. It was fractured further as he met an apparently friendly Dark-Elf near
the Fortress of Light, who had the audacity to lecture him on the morality of
fighting aggressive bears. What young Theoduin was taught simply did not
reflect was truly was. And if he were to live up to the great duty which he
was tasked, Theoduin must learn more.

It was this understanding, this first doubt of his own readiness, that drove
him to question the next steps in his path. While he knew where his purpose
lie, he also knew that he could not fulfill it alone. And so he did his father
had taught him- he looked above for an answer. For the answer.

He found that answer in a place he did not expect. While his father taught him
to worship the Gods of the Light in all things, Theoduin came to realize that
it was not the Gods of the the Light that would inspire the understanding that
he needed to fulfill his duty. He found himself dreaming of the Eternal
Library, what some would say is the greatest source of knowledge known. One
way or another, perhaps that was the place that Theoduin would find the
understanding that he sought.