Eberhard
Scribe and translator
Background:
Eberhard was the second son of a textile merchant of Bremen in Saxonia (northern Germany). Although his father loved both of his sons and tried to be fair, he was plagued by doubt that his younder wife at cheated on him and that Eberhard was the result. No matter, since Eberhard's much older brother Karl (born from the father's first wife) was always destined to become the owner of the family business. Still, their father tried to find a place for Eberhard and decided his younger son should be educated enough to help in the business, so he sent him at an early age to a Benedictine monastery to be taught his letters.
Unfortunately for young Eberhard, his father died of a fever just a few years later. Karl, not very fond of his younger half-brother, told the monks to keep the young whelp and refused to pay any more for his half-brother's education. The monks, trying to show Christian charity to the orphaned boy, kept schooling him in Latin, Greek and scribing. Yet, anytime something went wrong at the monastery they noticed that young Eberhard was nearby. And as the years went by such incidents accumulated, until the abbot decided to send the young man away.
With little resources and no family to help him, Eberhard tried to find work as a scribe or accountant for a merchant house. Unfortunately, whenever he would finally find some work he got blamed for any incident and soon sent away. So it is that he eventually accepted employment from unsavory people and moving to their isolated community (the covenant of Triamore). Even there he wasn't free from blame whenever accidents happened, but was able to make a life there. He even befriended one of the strange magi (Petronius) living there. When he was asked to leave with him to establish another such community, he felt this might be his chance to prove his worth to this new friend.
Age: 21
Last Update: Saga start
Characteristics: Int +2, Per +1, Str -1, Sta 0, Pre -1, Com 0, Dex +1, Qik +1
Virtues: Clerk, Piercing Gaze, Sharp Ears
Flaws: Judged Unfairly, Offensive to Animals, Weak Characteristics
Abilities:
- Area Lore: Bremen (merchants) 2
- Artes Liberales (grammar) 2
- Awareness (searching) 2
- Brawl (fist) 2
- Chirurgy (diagnosis) 1
- Civil and Canon Law (Saxonia) 1
- Language: Ancient Greek (Artes Liberales) 4
- Language: Latin (Church) 5
- Language: Low German (Saxon) 5
- Medecine (apothecary) 1
- Profession: Scribe (neat hand) 5
- Teaching (Profession: Scribe) 1
- Theology (history) 1
Saga Notes:
Although as a mundane scribe Eberhard is reasonably skilled, Petronius plans on spending at least a season training him in Magic Theory and eventually teaching him to decode his personal script. That will allow Eberhard to decode his lab notes and make copies of books for the covenant.
Advancement Log:
- Year 1: