Bram Rikfeld

Early life and background
Bram is the son of the deceased Baron Rikfeld. Bram was twelve when Shah Roug giants came down from the mountains and sacked all of his father's holdings and killed his family. Bram witnessed his oldest sister murdered by the giants. After his home and family were lost, his brother Tovah, sister Rivkah and he went to live in the household of Baron Liefen, their old family friend.

The baron and his wife had no children of their own. The Liefens took in the two boys in the hopes of making one of them the heir to Baron Liefen. Rivkah became the daughter the Liefens never had.

Bram was promising in so many areas, particularly common sense and leadership, but he struggled with schoolwork and business concepts. Due to this deficiency, Bram would never become Baron Liefen. By his choice he was the only one of the three children not adopted by the Liefens. Tovah was chosen to succeed Baron Liefen.

Education and training
Before his family was murdered, Bram was training as a squire with the hopes of becoming a knight when he matured. The Liefen barony was facing it’s own financial crisis given the new threat at their border. They could not afford to sponsor Bram’s squireship and eventual knighthood. At the advice of Arkev the Stout, an old friend of the Liefens, the couple sponsored him in the church of Herew for training as clergy, or more likely as a paladin.

Father Wallace took charge of Bram in late 4702 to train him to be a priest of Herew. Bram did not take well to the study of ancient languages or books and struggled with academic concepts like math and geometry. However, Bram excelled in the leadership of others. It was this trait that dominated his divine career.

The father once witnessed Bram organize many of the younger children to challenge an older boy who had been bullying the smaller children. Bram and the children not only stopped the bully from the harming a fellow student, but beat him so badly that the boy was in the infirmary for two weeks. Father Wallace knew then that Bram’s sense of justice and leadership would be best suited to paladin training. Soon after, Bram became a squire for Arkev the Stout.

Adult life
Bram is now afield in the service of Herew as a full paladin and Warder of Humility in the Order of the Silver Thread.

Bram was preaching in the streets of Emerald Keep...

Bram rode quickly to the Barony of Liefen with Bulanto and Doublemint...

Bram beseeches Lord Coterii...

Bram searches for Father Domgee...

Bram arrives at the cavern to meet Kruseon...

Bram was with the Astigani when a package arrived...

A letter calls Bram to come see an old friend...