Flash
(Swaine Lynch-Sai)
(played by Simon)
Statistics
Class: Fighter 13
Race: Elf
Gender: Male
Str: 19 (+4)
Dex: 20 (+5)
Con: 11 (+0)
Int: 15 (+2)
Wis: 9 (-1)
Cha: 10 (+0)
AC: 18 (+5 Dex, +2 leather, +1 cloak)
Initiative: +5 (+5 Dex)
Speed: 30 ft
Hit points: 70
Size: Medium
Age: 127
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 117 lbs
Eyes: Green
Hair: Dark (deep purple)
Saving throws
Reflex: +11 (+4 fighter, +5 Dex, +1 cloak, +1 luckstone)
Fortitude: +9 (+8 fighter, +1 luckstone)
Will: +4 (+4 fighter, -1 Wis, +1 luckstone) [+2 vs Enchantment]
Racial traits
Immunity to magic sleep
Low-light vision
Sense secret doors
Attacks
Melee: +17/+12/+7 (+13/+8/+3 fighter, +4 Str)
Ranged: +18/+13/+8 (+13/+8/+3 fighter, +5 Dex) [+1 up to 30 ft.]
Ranged (Rapid Shot): +16/+16/+11/+6
Two-handed (right hand): +13/+8/+3 [+2 for light off-hand weapon]
Two-handed (left hand): +13/+8 [+2 light off-hand weapon]

Single weapons

Rapier: melee +18/+13/+8, damage 1d6+6, critical 15-20/x2
Bloodletter: +20/+15/+10, damage 1d8+7 + bleed, critical 19-20/x2
Life Blade: +18/+13, damage 1d6+8, critical 15-19/x2 + 20/death (DC17)
For all of the above blades: [+2 damage used two-handed]
Short Sword of Quickness: +17/+17/+12/+7 , damage 1d6+6, critical 19-20/x2
Mighty Composite Longbow: +18/+13/+8, damage 1d8+4, critical x3

Two-weapon melee combinations

Bloodletter: +18/+13/+8 + Short Sword of Quickness: +15/+15/+10
Bloodletter: +14/+10 + Life Blade: +14/+9
Life Blade: +16/+11 + Short Sword of Quickness: +13/+13/+8
Feats
Ambidexterity
Dodge
Expertise
Improved Critical: Rapier
Improved Disarm
Improved-two Weapon Fighting
Point Blank Shot
Precise Shot
Rapid Shot
Two-weapon Fighting
Weapon Focus: Rapier
Weapon Specialization: Rapier
Languages
Elven (automatic)
Ivrean (automatic)
Halfling (bonus)
Yablonc (bonus)
Skills
+11 Balance (3, +5 Dex, +1 luckstone, +2 Tumble)
+12 Climb (7, +4 Str, +1 luckstone)
+6 Craft [bowmaking] (3, +2 Int, +1 luckstone)
+2 Diplomacy (1, +0 Cha, +1 luckstone)
+7 Escape Artist (1, +5 Dex, +1 luckstone)
+1 Heal (1, -1 Wis, +1 luckstone)
+7 Hide (1, +5 Dex, +1 luckstone)
+10 Jump (3, +4 Str, +1 luckstone, +2 Tumble)
+4 Knowledge [nobility] (1, +2 Int, +1 luckstone)
+3 Listen (1, -1 Wis, +2 elf, +1 luckstone)
+10 Move Silently (4, +5 Dex, +1 luckstone)
+2 Perform (1, +0 Cha, +1 luckstone)
+8 Ride (2, +5 Dex, +1 luckstone)
+7 Search (2, +2 Int, +2 elf, +1 luckstone)
+4 Spot (2, -1 Wis, +2 elf, +1 luckstone)
+6 Swim (1, +4 Str, +1 luckstone) [-1 per 5 pounds worn carried]
+11 Tumble (5, +5 Dex, +1 luckstone)
+8 Use Rope (2, +5 Dex, +1 luckstone)
+3 Wilderness Lore (3, -1 Wis, +1 luckstone)

Background

Appearance and equipment
Flash is rugged but refined in appearance. He always wears a floppy hat with a large feather.

When travelling, Flash seldom carries a back-pack or any heavy equipment. He has a shoulder-bag in which he keeps a few useful items (a rope, some grappling hooks, a whetstone), but which he can easily discard in combat.


Personality and views
Flash has a special affinity for swinging on chandeliers, and other acrobatic stunts. His favourite colour is sky blue with a dab of pink and a twist of orange.

Flash likes birds. He loves to spend a summer's day, lying soaking in the sun, watching the birds fly overhead in formation. He has a mild phobia of snakes.


Weapons and fighting skills
Flash collects interesting blades. His current favourites are Bloodletter (in his right hand) and the Short Sword of Quickness (in his left). He also carries the Life Blade from time to time. As well as these long blades, Flash usually has a least one or two stilettos hidden away on his person

The elf also carries a mighty composite longbow, tailor-made by Joranth to suit the elf's pulling strength. His quiver has been specially modified to prevent arrows coming loose while Flash tumbles. All of Flash's arrows bear his mark -- purple backing with a double white slash. He has developed many of his own specialised arrow designs over the years, but now favours a simple, high-speed variety.


Allies and enemies
Flash is good friends with all of the other Lords of Rotan, but has a special bond with Souriin Draco, from the times they spent hunting swords together.

Flash also works well together with the southern warrior-lord Euvgeni. Although their fighting styles differ significantly, they make an excellent combat team.

The young elf harbours a deep-seated emnity for dark elves, blaming them for his father's crippling injury. He also still has a score to settle with the pirate Yellowbeard, from his days at sea.



Items
Art Objects
Gold jewellery set

Books
Manual of Gainful Exercise

Clothing
Cloak of Protection

Oddities
Barding of Flight
Luckstone

Rings
City of Rotan signet ring

Weapons
Bloodletter
Life Blade
Short Sword of Quickness


Other Links
Family
Drazzel and Ditheran Lysmir
Hawthorn

Associates
Tempest and Larian
Yakar of Kidete

Enemies
Yellowbeard

Locations
Archery College
Flash's Treehouse
House at Dragondale

Oragansations
Rotan Gold Mining Company

Stories
Souriin's Letter to Flash
The Warning


Personal History
2578:10:03 "Swaine" born in Miris és Lirias-Tora, to Drazzel and Ditheran Lysmir.
2662:11 Flash wins his first serious archery contest.
2663:11 Drazzel is stabbed during a raid on a dark elf outpost. Poison on the blade does permanently damage to his legs, leaving him crippled.
2663:12 During a public royal awards ceremony, in honour of those elves fighting against the dark elves, Flash shatters a massive chandelier, bringing great embarassment to his family.
2663:12 Flash flees Miris.
2688:4 Flash signs on as crew on an ocean going vessel.
2693:1 Flash narrowly avoids a run in with the famed pirate Yellowbeard.
2693:3 Sepyt Niam recruits Flash.
2693:4 First meets Souriin and the other future Lords of Rotan.
2693:12 Flash and Souriin fight and destroy the elven vampire, Forestbane.
2693:12 Flash accidentally collapses the ruins of Ivrea.
2693:12 Souriin spares Flash's life and fails the Tests of Magic.
2694:1 Flash is made a Lord of Rotan.
2694:5 Sonya, Euvgeni's sister, runs away from home to travel with Flash.
2694:6 Yakar of Kidete presents Flash with his daughter, Hawthorn.
2694:9 Flash accidentally finds the first patch of Blight.
2695:6 Flash settles down in a tree house near the Druid's Conclave in Rotan. Sonya leaves to go travelling, but promises to return one day. Flash remains behind to raise Hawthorn alone.
2705:3 Beloni asks Flash to travel west on a quest for her.
2705:5 Flash returns from his quest, carrying Bloodletter.
2705:9 Souriin lapses into a coma, Flash takes a potion to Deathwatch Isle to revive him.
2705:10 Hawthorn begins her formal tutorship with Tess Sulinavallea, one of the Deans at the University of Craft and Thought.
2705:11 Flash returns from seclusion bearing a dire warning from the druids about the troll invasion.
2705:11 Flash founds an Archery College near New Ivrea.
2705:11 Strange monsters attack Miris és Lirias-Tora. Much of the Upper City is destroyed. Most elven families flee the city and travel north or east. Flash returns to Miris with Euvgeni and Damalanthas to rescue Artak of Triscoh.