Richards Redemption

Richard grew up in the Gryphon Estate, and was born to Joff and Sabine Gryphon. They were a merchant family that was able to provide their children with a great childhood, with almost everything a kid in Mounteneare could want, with the only exception being having good and caring parents. Richard himself was given tutoring in merchantile skills and fighting by some of the best in the land, but all he really wanted from his parents was attention and responsibilty. As he grew up, the only man that Richard ever witnessed his father cowed by was the Arknight warrior, who was occassionally called to the Gryphon Estate in order to deal with bandit/ mercenary issues.   After Richard had finally given up on gaining his responsibilty within the Gryphon Estate, he decided to leave with one of the merchant caravans that would occassionally come through the Estate. Gryphon worked as a labour and guard for this caravan (a group of halfling traders) and began to wish for more through in this life again. Richard wanted to start a business based around making shoes for halflings, and in order to start this business, he borrowed 1000 gold from 'Goldtusk' the infamous loan shark.   After this business fell through, Richard was on the run from this loanshark and his lackeys. After escaping several different traps and fighting through small groups, Richard was eventually cornered by the loanshark. However, before he was killed, Richard was saved by Dorn Everwood, who then recruited Richard to be a Paladin of Pholtus   After becoming a Paladin of Pholtus, Richard began to go on Pligramages and other religios mission for the church. However, he was found to be an unworthy disciple of Pholtus. He would not preach the word of Pholtus, nor uphold their ideals of abstinece and Inflexibility. Due to this, he made enemies within the church, and the head paladin, Anton Augusto, chewed Richard out, and threatened him with expulsion from the church, if he was unable to complete this next pilgramage without error.   As Richard went out to start this Pilgramage, he decided to stop of in a local religous tavern within the first tier of Mounteneare. He stayed the night with a Halfling woman, yet when he woke up in the morning, he was actully next to a gnoll woman. Shocked and confused, Richard realised he was within a trap when the door was opened by some Goldtusk lackeys, and Richard was caught in the act by Dorn and Anton. After this, Richard was excommunicated from the Church of Pholtus.   Richard was able to be saved by Errelle, who inducted him into a new dogpack being formed within the Fortune Axium.