Peter of York

Dominican Friar, Inquisitor.

Str 12 Con 13 Pow 12 Dex 12 App 11 Siz 14 Int 16 Edu 15 (+2 for age) = 17

HP 14 DB +1D4 Idea 80 Know 75 Luck 60

Age: 41

Skills: (340 + 160 = 500 pts)

   *  Accounting: 41%
   * Anthropology: 1%
   * Archaeology: 1%
   * Art
         o (Artistic default): 5%
         o Illumination: 41% 
   * Astronomy: 1%
   * Bargain: 15%
   * Biology: 1% (Keeper permission only)
   * Chemistry: 1%
   * Climb: 40%
   * Conceal: 15%
   * Craft
         o (Craft default): 5%
         o Book Binding: 36% 
   * Credit Rating:  35% (Gentry)
   * Cthulhu Mythos: None at character generation
   * Disguise: 1%
   * Dodge: DEX x2% = 24%
   * Drive Wagon: 15%
   * Fast Talk: 15%
   * First Aid: 40%
   * Geology: 1%
   * Hide: 10%
   * History: 40%
   * Jump: 25%
   * Law: 51%
         o Canon Law: 71% (Literate only past 25%) 
   * Library Use: 61% (Literate only)
   * Listen: 35%
   * Locksmith: 1%
   * Martial Arts: 1%
   * Mechanical Repair: 10%
   * Medicine: 1% (Literate only)
   * Natural History: 25%
   * Navigate: 10%
   * Occult: 15%
   * Pharmacy: 21%
   * Pilot (Sail Boat or Row Boat only): 5%
   * Psychology: 5%
   * Rhetoric: 55%
   * Ride: 30%
   * Sneak: 10%
   * Spot Hidden: 30%
   * Swim: 1%
   * Theology: 71%
   * Throw: 25%
   * Track: 10% 

Added skills: Theology (1% base), Rhetoric (for preaching, speaking ex cathedra etc, using persuade as a base)

   * Weapons
   * Hand to hand
         o Fist: 25%
         o Kick: 15%
         o Head Butt: 10%
         o Grapple: 25% 
   * Axe
         o One Handed Axe/Hammer: 10%
         o Two Handed Axe/Hammer: 10%
               + Poll Axe/Hammer: 
   * Club
         o One Handed Club/Mace: 15%
         o Two Handed Club/Mace: 15% 
   * Flail
         o One Handed Flail: 5%
         o Two Handed Flail: 5% 
   * Spear
         o Lance (couched): 5%
         o One Handed Spear: 5%
         o Two Handed Spear: 10% 
   * Sword
         o Dagger/Short Sword: 15%
         o One Handed Sword: 10%
         o Two Handed Sword: 10% 
   * Shield
         o Buckler: 20%
         o Shield: 25% 
   * Missile weapons
         o Bow: 10%
         o Crossbow: 25%
         o Javelin: 10%
         o Hurled stone: 25%
         o Seige weapons
               + Trebuchet/Catapult: 1%
               + Espringalde/Ballista: 5% 
   * Gunpowder weapons
         o Artillery
               + Bombard: 1%
               + Siege Gun: 1%
               + Field Gun: 1% 
         o Hand Guns
               + Arquebus: 30% 

Languages: English 80% Latin 75% Occitan (Gascon) 30% Oïl (Norman) 15%

Armour: None Weapons: Knife, Walking Stick.

Equipment: Several religious texts; Writing kit (parchment, ink, several pens); Religious garb, Horse; Small purse for expenses.

Background:

Peter of York is a Dominican friar from the priory of York. A trained preacher, as are all Dominicans, Peter has specialised in his study of law, both secular and ecclesiastical, though of course he has favoured canon law. Still, the knowledge of both legal codes is important; We ought to render what is Caesar's, to Caesar, after all. Due to his studies, Peter has excelled in the profession of inquisitor; he has conducted several noteworthy investigations as part of a tribunal, including two inquisitions into possible canonisations, a brief trial concerning possibly heterodoxy in the writings of a Benedictine monk in Wales, and his latest case, which saw him venture south to Gascony to sit on a tribunal debating whether the teachings of a local tutor veered into Manichaeanism.

His family background is of suitably high enough status for Peter to have been accepted into the church, taught as a friar, and given important tasks; while it is possible for a lower status individual to rise in the church and to be given such a prominent position as an inquisitor, it is rare, and Peter is of the more frequent class for such noble undertakings. He remains on good terms with an elder brother, who resides at a manor near Peter's priory home, their parents both being dead, though he has little seen his younger sister, who married a knight from the south of England. Perhaps on his travels back to York from Gascony, Peter may have chance to call on her briefly, but he feels her husband is dreadful boor with little time for the church and for religious faith.

Peter is currently travelling with a knight from the south to keep would-be bandits at a distance; his inquisition was conducted soundly, and he is returning to York, his warrant having been completed. As Peter has ages, these long travels are starting to take their toll on him, and he hopes that his next case may be some time in coming, and closer to home. His fellow tribunal inquisitors, Guillermo of Savoy and Friedrich of Wien, are probably already home.