Jean Paul

Jean Paul Belrose was a mason in the town of Marseille, in the south, west of the capital. One day as he was traveling up into the hills to quarry some granite, with his apprentice and nephew Javert Belrose, they saw vultures circling around something about 100 meters off of the road. Jean Paul stopped the oxen and went to investigate. He saw a mangled body of a child that he could make out as Lucette, Claude Leclerc’s daughter, with 5 piles of wax evenly spaced in a circle around the body. He scared off the vultures and coyotes that were eating the body. Jean Paul carried the body back to the cart and turned around to take it back to Marseille. He took the body to Claude and told the town what had happened. Lucette was buried later that day with Myriel, the priest of Ra in Marseille, officiating.

The town began a witch hunt with everyone making accusations and screaming. When night fell they had made no progress finding the killer, and decided to continue the search for murderer in the morning. A little after dawn Élise Mélodie Dupond started running through the town screaming that her son Léonard had been taken in the night. The town began a search in the hills for Léonard. After about an hour and a half of searching Jean Paul and a few other villagers came across a similar scene with Léonard’s body in the middle of 5 piles of wax. This time they reached the body before the scavengers. Léonard’s chest was cut open and his heart was taken out. This murder looked very surgical. A star in the dirt could be roughly made out connecting the piles of wax. After the body was taken back to the town and a funeral was held, the bickering and accusations began again. Jean Paul yelled to get their attention and proceeded to give an inspiring speech about how the needs to work together and call upon Ra to find and stop this body snatching demon worshiper. The town stopped arguing right away. Jean Paul was somewhat of a natural leader and many thought that he would become the next town elder when a vacancy opened up.

That evening Jean Paul went to the church of Ra and prayed to Ra promise that he would dedicate his life to His service if He could help Jean Paul stop this killer. That night Blanche Deniel woke the town with screams that she saw the killer take her daughter Mylène. The town people grabbed whatever makeshift weapons they could find mostly hoes and shovels; Jean Paul took his sledge hammer. They found Mylène right after a hooded figure made a huge gash in her chest. The town’s people started beating him with their hoes and shovels. He blasted them down with blasts of dark magic and by stabbing them with his dagger. Jean Paul bravely charged in with his sledge hammer raised as it shone like the sun and he smote the murderer down. Jean Paul the rush to see what he could do to help Mylène. As he raised up her head the gash on her chest began to glow as it repaired itself and Mylène was fine. The town’s people recognized the body of the hooded figure as Raymond  Solomon a farmer just outside of town. Raymond’s blade was gone but in that had he had a ring on and his hand up to half of his forearm looked black and diseased. The ring was golden with a ruby inlayed, the design was obviously some kind of symbol but no one knew what is was of. Jean Paul took the ring and was entranced by it. Jean Paul know it was of demonic origins and must be destroyed, but whatever the villagers tried the ring couldn’t be harmed so they decided to take it into the hills and bury it.

Jean Paul talked to Myriel about his covenant with Ra, and Myriel told him to go talk to Albin Nicolas Borde in Fayem. One of the deceased was Alphonse Jacques, a member of the elder council of Marseille. All of the town’s people wanted Jean Paul to take his place, but Jean Paul refused and told them he needed to go to Fayem. He left his house and masonry business to Javert, and went to Fayem.

Once Jean Paul reached Fayem, Albin Borde told him that Ra had called him to be a Paladin. Jean Paul joined the clergy and honed his paladin skills. Soon he joined the Celestial Inquisition Agency (CIA) and traveled around the continent stomping out evil force, at first it was mostly fiendish and undead they dealt with but there was a rise in hag attacks. These attacks seemed much more organized and planned than normal. On one raid Jean Paul heard a hag cackle “Aurelia will prevail!” Jean Paul was sent to the libraries of Serrian to investigate the order. This is where he met the party.

After the attack on Svorgoth by Gorgorron, Jean Paul opened an orpanage.

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 * Orphanage (upkeep
 * Number of childrent - ...
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 * adfs - religion
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