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-Gagak was a fun character to play. I picked him up at L1 when I joined a new game, he had already appeared as an NPC and his basic race, class and history had been set by the GM -  he grew from there.
+Gagak was a fun character to play. I picked him up at L1 when I joined a new tabletop game, he had already appeared as an NPC and his basic race, class and history had been set by the GM -  he grew from there.
 ===== Background =====
-Gagak’s mum was a human taken by an Orc tribe and kept as a personal slave.  She bore a child (Gagak) to her ‘master.  He let her keep the child for a bit and then, to punish her, sent the child to the kennels to live with the dogs.  So as a child he skivvied (cleaning out the toilets, carting the garbage etc etc) during the day and then ate and slept with the dogs overnight.  Mum managed to get him a few bits of half-decent food, clothing etc, and taught him a few words of common so he remembered his shared heritage -  but he was basically a tool to keep his mother passive and ‘happy’ with the Orc master. Finally, when Gagak was seven or eight years old she died in child birth, as did the new half-Orc child she bore.  On her deathbed she extracted a promise from ‘her Orc’ that Gagak  would not be killed -  but the Orc didn’t want the half-blood reminder around.  However, he remained true to his word and didn’t kill the lad, just kicked him out in the wilderness alone  …
+Gagak’s mum was a human taken by an Orc tribe and kept as a personal slave.  She bore a child (Gagak) to her ‘master.  He let her keep the child for a bit and then, to punish her, sent the child to the kennels to live with the dogs.  So as a child he skivvied (cleaning out the toilets, carting the garbage etc) during the day and then ate and slept with the dogs overnight.  Mum managed to get him a few bits of half-decent food, clothing etc, and taught him a few words of common so he remembered his shared heritage -  but he was basically a tool to keep his mother passive and ‘happy’ with the Orc master. Finally, when Gagak was seven or eight years old she died in childbirth, as did the new half-Orc child she bore.  On her deathbed, she extracted a promise from ‘her Orc’ that Gagak  would not be killed -  but the Orc didn’t want the half-blood reminder around.  However, he remained true to his word and didn’t kill the lad, just kicked him out in the wilderness alone  …
-Eventually, Gagak found  ‘The Village’, where people talked like his mum, and he hung around. Initially he was angry and ashamed of his time with the dogs, and when he came to 'The Village' he wanted to be as much like the humans as he could -  after all they were like his mum.
 The young Gagak was lucky, it was spring time and there were Ramsoms, dandelions, birds eggs and all sorts to eat, although he rarely found enough to stop his hunger.  Eventually he found The Village of Kassen, where people talked like his mum, and he decided to stay for a while watching, listening and generally checking things out.
-He found an abandoned  animal shelter outside the walls, and set up home there, still hunting for survival rations in the forest and eating what ever he could find.   One day he was caught stealing a cabbage, and he got a hard clip around the ear from the farmer -  who then turned around and told him he could have the cabbage if he mucked the yard out.   He learned - and soon he was doing enough odd jobs to supplement his foraging.  Then he branched out and found odd jobs that earned him a bowl, a spoon, a water bottle, clothes, boots, blankets – in fact all sorts of basic second hand bits and pieces.  He even did enough repairs on the shelter to make it more or less waterproof and then took in one of the stay dogs, he wanted the companionship, and started to teach it obedience and a few basic tricks.
+He found an abandoned animal shelter outside the walls, and set up home there, still hunting for survival rations in the forest and eating what ever he could find. One day he was caught stealing a cabbage, and he got a hard clip around the ear from the farmer -  who then turned around and told him he could have the cabbage if he mucked the yard out.   He learned - and soon he was doing enough odd jobs to supplement his foraging.  Then he branched out and found odd jobs that earned him a bowl, a spoon, a water bottle, clothes, boots, blankets – in fact all sorts of basic second hand bits and pieces.  He even did enough repairs on the shelter to make it more or less waterproof and then took in one of the stay dogs, he wanted the companionship, and started to teach it obedience and a few basic tricks.
-Over time, he started to realise that there are some positives to his dual heritage.  He realized was he bigger, stronger and faster, than most of his peers, and he eventually realised that came from his father.  From then on, he started to feel a bit more comfortable with his 'Orciness'.
+Over time, he started to realize that there are some positives to his dual heritage.  He realized that he was bigger, stronger and faster, than most of his peers, and he eventually realized that came from his father.  From then on, he started to feel a bit more comfortable with his 'Orciness'. However, he started to realize that he wasn’t going to have a comfortable life as an odd job boy.  No.  He would have to become an adventurer.  That was the only way that he was going to be able to afford a decent house, warm clothes and good food …
-Then he started to realize that he wasn’t going to have a comfortable life as an odd job boy.  No.  He would have to become an adventurer.  That was the only way that he was going to be able to afford a decent house, warm clothes and good food …
 By now he had a sling and could bring down small game to add to his diet -  and he found a length of rusty chain and, in exchange for pumping bellows for a few weeks, he talked the blacksmith into ‘welding’ a few old nails to it so he had something more suitable as an ‘adventurers’ weapon.  He arranged to do the mucky jobs for one of the village leather workers, in exchange for a few lessons and off cuts of cured leather - and from that he painstakingly made himself hide armour.  It was a right patchwork, and it didn’t look much and he was ready for the next stage of his life as an adventurer.
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 ===== Current =====
-Gagak still lives - somewhere.  However, he hasn't been 'home' for quite a while, and it is believed that he went off adventuring on another continent, or perhaps even another plane.  While the income from his business investments supports his family, there is uncertainty as to when he will return -  if he ever does,
+Gagak still lives - somewhere.  However, he hasn't been 'home' for quite a while, and it is believed that he went off adventuring on another continent, or perhaps even another plane.  While the income from his business investments supports his family, there is uncertainty as to when he will return -  if he ever does.