I am creating characters for the Age of Id Rogues, Rascals and Regents thread. This character is named Gyrandurin “Gyr” Goss. Although the character is my creation, he is linked to two characters in the D20 Blackmoor line. Gyr is the father of Mithgyllivyr and Raddam Goss. Mithgylllivyr was a great planar explorer and founder of the Ordo Elementarum. Raddam was a half-elf by a human mother and ended up becoming a genocidal maniac.

Although it was the sons who were remembered in history, it would be interesting to find out who the father was. My current idea is to make him a kind of archetypical Elven Elementalist Mage. I also want to make him a bit of a womanizer to explain his affair with a human woman to produce a half-elf child long after the Age of Id.

What do you think? Suggestions for where to take this character? :)

-Havard

Any further suggestions to fleshing out this brand new character? :)

-Havard

This won't be very helpful, but, to me, Gyrandurin sounds very Dwarvish. It's a good name, but isn't the character supposed to be an Elf?

I would imagine Raddan's family to have had some kind of trouble and faced hard times. Like perhaps his grandfather was a smuggler or something.