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== Ireneus ==

'''Abilities:'''

Agility d8

Smarts d8

Spirit d8

Strength d4

Vigor d4


'''Skills:'''

Boating d4

Fighting d6

Healing d8

Knowledge (medicine) d8

Notice d8

Persuasion d4

Riding d4

Swimming d4

Throwing d6


'''Hindrances:'''

Clueless

Pacifist (minor)

Vow (minor): The Hippocratic Oath


'''Edges:'''

Charismatic

Healer

Steady Hands


'''Gear:'''

4 knives

Spear

Leather armour

Medium shield

Bandages

Needle and thread

The Arche Panacea, a fabulous medicine that can:
* Once, Heal a whole town of a cold or such ailment, or
* Once, Cure a number equal to a ship's crew of the plague or other such deadly sickness, or
* (1-3 times) Heal a single man of all his wounds, or
* Once, Raise a recently dead man back to life....


'''Description:'''

Ireneus is a man of comfortable birth and once-great prospects, who looked forward to a life of affluence and respect after he completed his apprenticeship as a healer. He was horrified to be sent to the front as a field medic, knowing all too well that his life of study and care for the sick hadn't in any way prepared him to fight for his life. He was relieved that the war was over almost immediately, but now there is a long stretch of wilderness infested with bandits and beasts between him and his comfortable bed...

He is slight, pale and tends to look somewhat lost when the conversation is on anything but diseases and the treatment of injuries, on which he is all the more confident in his opinions. He tries to remember the teachings and high standards of Hippocrates and apply them to his life, but he suspects that the Father of Medicine did not have quite so many people throwing javelins on him, nor such trouble getting hold of his daily bread. When caring for patients, he is calm, gentle and businesslike; when in battle, he fights with desperate determination to survive but also unhappily, feeling that there is something fundamentally wrong with sticking sharp objects through the divine miracle that is the human body.