Description and Background
Description:
Older gentleman, usually in rustic dress with a backpack and walking stick. Brown hair, and short brown beard streaked with grey, and dark eyes.
Caerth is a Naturalist, keeping track of different plants, trees, insects and animals in a journal, complete with drawings. He enjoys the outdoors and has found he enjoys traveling as well. He smokes a pipe and usually has some pipe tobacco on his person.
Background:
Caerth grew up beholden to an old hedge mage. The mage lived far outside of any large civilization, near a small village in the forest. Caerth augmented his magic studies with knowledge of nature; birds, plants and weather. They lived a simple existence, living off gardening and the land. As the hedge mage grew older, he taught Caerth less and less, but Caerth was content. However, civilization has a way of making itself known, usually in violent fashion.
Over the years, towns grew and encroached upon the mages land. Soon, the land was seen as valuable by many. Caerth was out foraging and nature watching, as he was wont to do, when he felt a pain in his chest, but it was not his own. Knowing something was wrong, he flew home to find the old mage dead at the threshold to the cottage. In time, officials from the regional towns made inquiries and the old mage’s cottage was sold, requiring Caerth to gather his things and move elsewhere.
Hearing of different flora and fauna across the sea, he undertook the journey to a port town, and obtained passage on a ship…
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