FADE

FADE - Character Biography




ROTH

Age: 20
Occupation: RPG Adventurer
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Strengths: Helps out people. Determined. Not easily scared by most things (definitely not by skeletons).
Weaknesses: Helps out people only when offered a decent reward or if he feels like it. Lazy at times. Scared of spiders.
Likes: Adventure, Daydreaming, Drawing, Baseball, Hitting stuff.
Dislikes: Books, Reading, Waiting, Spiders, People making fun of his hair.

Roth is a born adventurer. Despite having lived most of his life in one of the most remote and boring towns in existence, Roth has somehow managed to still get into plenty of trouble over the years and experience more excitement in a single day than you and I will have in a lifetime.
With both his parents gone, Roth has been forced to take care of himself since he was a child. At young age he started to take up the job of Village Adventurer, completing tasks and jobs for the people living in Beta Town whenever they were too lazy to do stuff themselves. This has gotten him into some strange and unexpected situations, such as pushing people into tar lakes, fighting off flipping ninjas, journeys through space and time, racing on cows, and more.
In his free time, however, Roth likes to take it easy and he gets easily lost in thoughts as he daydreams away. And suddenly wakes up hours later, realising he has been sitting in the same spot all that time, doing absolutely nothing. He also likes to draw comics and cartoons that he secretly sells. His comic series "The Battlers" is crazy popular and there are entire stores dedicated to selling solely Battler comics. Though these places are often mistaken for empty warehouses, as the comics are completely sold out before they are even released, resulting in permanent empty store shelves.
Needless to say, this has caused his ego to grow out of reasonable proportions. He now likes to call himself the "God of Thunder" even though he isn't able to cast more than a puny electric spark. His friends have to keep reminding him that he isn't really the God of Thunder. If only Roth would listen to them.

Before he set out on his grand adventure, Roth lived in the SMASH-HOUSE. A wooden shack large enough to fit him, his younger brother (Thieme) and best friend (Rage) inside while still having room left for a TV, several holes in the floor leading to underground caverns, a stove and a long wooden table. The SMASH-HOUSE was his base of operations and was where he spent many a day with his buddies smashing TVs, playing baseball with whatever object they could find, punching and kicking Jiggs, arguing with Henk & Jan (two talking skulls) and competing in burping contests.
One day, while on a job for the local mad scientist who needed a test subject for his new dimortation device, Roth had managed to find blueprints of a huge airship, powered by four mythical Essences. After somehow managing to collect all four required Essences, Roth had convinced the scientist to build him the airship as shown on the blueprints to allow him to leave Beta Town and set out on a grand adventure.

After finally leaving Beta Town, together with Thieme and Rage, Roth was just happy going wherever and doing whatever comes on his path. But while shooting cannonballs at birds to collect meat for Rage who was hungry, he managed to anger the Prince of Darkness, who then destroyed Roth's statue of himself in a fit of rage, and then proceeded to set their airship on fire, forcing Roth's party to make a crash landing in the middle of the Dusk Woods, far away from civilisation.
While Roth's adventure didn't start off particularly well, he isn't going to feel bad about it. After all, he's still on an adventure, and whether that be in the air or on the ground, that shouldn't matter. An adventure is an adventure to Roth. Losing his airship is merely a setback, one that the Prince of Darkness is going to pay for some time.

In combat, Roth is a competent and well-balanced fighter, not sporting many weaknesses. Roth wields the powers of lightning, and even though he can't cast more than a puny electric spark at the start of his adventure, he's bound to learn many more. Utility-wise, Roth focuses mostly on helping to restore mana to either himself or his friends. This can be of great help to accelerate the party's damage output through the use of spells, which are typically stronger than physical attacks.