Corin

The leader of the Church of Vengeance, a splinter group of Trithereonites in Obsidian Bay.

Overview

• Class(es): Rogue 3 / Cleric 11
• Race: Human, Oeridian
• God: Trithereon (Individuality, Liberty, Retribution, Self-Defense)
• Alignment: Chaotic Good
• Status: Alive
• City: Obsidian Bay
• Country: Domain of Obsidian Bay

Early Life

Corin was born in a village outside of Highport, and his family suffered for generations under humanoid rule. That suffering reached its peak when the orcish rulers murdered his entire family for not reaching the impossible quota of crops imposed upon them.

Corin had been on an errand that day – Planting 3, CY 585, and returned to find his home in flames, the livestock stolen, and the fields stripped of every last bit of grain. Worse yet, he learned they were publicly tortured in Highport’s Central Square, and then murdered by crucifixion on the city’s infamous Killing Way.

A New Path

The murders through him into a holy rage. He slew the grunts who’d been responsible for his parents death, and put together a band of like-minded rebels to assassinate the orcish commander who’d ordered the murders.

He and his band of rebels fled the city afterwards and took to the Drachensgrab Mountains. There he developed expert scouting and frontier-fighting skills as he led his people on raids against humanoid bases and explored abandoned ruins. During one such expedition against orcs operating out of a ruined castle, he discovered Retribution ,a powerful holy weapon of Trithereon.

The discovery opened his mind to the holy will of Trithereon, and from that day forward he dedicated himself to the god’s holy work.

Move to Obsidian Bay

He continued his raids, attacking again and again from a hidden base in the Drachensgrabs. During Obsidian Bay's War of Exile he learned of the existence of Kalib Ironfist, the leader of the Church of Trithereon, Obsidian Bay (and by association, all of The Pomarj).

When he went to the city to learn more about this priest, he was shocked. Rather than acting as a true priest of Trithereon -- fighting evil on the frontiers, moving constantly as to invoke justice over the widest area -- this priest had constructed a massive monument to his ego: the Cathedral of Liberty. Worse yet, associating with lawful members of the city, and was practically in bed with the stifling Church of St. Cuthbert.

Appalled by this, Corin decided to move his followers into the city, and begin challenging Kalib for leadership of the city. He personally believes that Kalib is headed for disaster, and that his law-loving ways will soon evoke the wrath of Trithereon.

Still, in recent years his attitude toward his fellow Trithereonite has mellowed somewhat. This is do in large part to Kalib, who extended an olive branch by offering to allow Corin to liberate and defend a just-discovered lost temple of Trithereon on the northern edge of the Drachensgrabs. He also offered him a powerful mace imbued with the power of their god.

A New Home

There can be little doubt that Kalib did this in order to get Corin out of the city, and his plan worked … for a while. Corin did go to the temple, and did liberate it. The process forged a new group of adventurers, who call themselves the Tyrant-Killers Guild, and they returned to Obsidian Bay with Corin in late CY 590.

Prior to his leaving, Corin had established the The Vengeful Temple, a splinter-church of Trithereon in Obsidian Bay's Strange Quarter. Upon returning from the lost temple -- and with his coffers filled with treasure secured during the defense -- he spent a small fortune fixing up the temple. He added better sleeping quarters for himself and his followers, erected many magical defenses, and expanded the number of self-defense classes his church offered to the city's citizens. He's also taken to funding patrols of Trithereonites, who impose vigilante justice when they see violent crimes being committed … or when they see Cuthbertians trying to impose their will on the masses.

Organizations

• Church of Trithereon, Obsidian Bay: Corin regularly butts heads with Kalib Ironfist, the leader of the church in Obsidian Bay.
• The Vengeful Temple: Home to a splinter group of Trithereonites that opposes the main church's more tolerant attitudes towards government and law.

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--NukeHavoc 13:37, 29 July 2007 (PDT)