L:PC/Dario Nardozzi/Personality

• Full name: Dario Fedele Nardozzi
• Birth date: Spring
• Birth order (eldest, second, youngest, etc.): One of the middle children in a very large (Italian) family
• Parents (or Guardian) and parent’s occupations as well as additional family information: Born to Orlando Luca & Tita Elisabetha Nardozzi, winemakers from the country. He has uncles, aunts, and cousins galore in his home town, where strangers are warmly welcomed.
• Major childhood influences, traumas, events, emotional wounds: Dario proved young that the older boys would not best him. Without fear he would take on boys twice his age and triple his size. Victory was not always won but his fearlessness as he fought the other boys in the vineyard earned him the nickname "Lion of the Grapes".
• Talents: The art of conversation is every bit as thrilling as the fencing to Dario. A rapscallion with the ladies, he is always honest and forthcoming, yet they bed him anyway.
• Flaws, vulnerabilities: Dario attempts to keep a handle on his pride, but compliments have a tendency to erode his resolve against manipulation.
• Strengths: A force of personality with charm.
• Religious affiliation/Patron Diety: Venal, the goddess of pies
• Attitudes, personality type–introvert or extrovert, optimist or pessimist: At his very heart, Dario is an extrovert.
• Primary relationships, marital status and capacity for intimacy: The one he is with is the primary relationship. Flowers and compliments showered upon her, but out of sight, out of mind.
• Occupation: Freedom fighter and lover.
• Education: Squired with Dino Fisoli, a hedge knight of little reknown.
• Taste in clothes: Outlandishly peacocked when at court, practical elsewhere.
• Food preferences: Rich foods and fondness for red wine.
• Pets: None.
• Favorite possessions: Vinum familiae Nardozzi, a small book that details the Nardozzi family back many generations.
• Mannerisms, expressions, gestures: Talks generously with his hands.
• Worst physical trait: None.
• Best physical trait: All of it.
• Reason he or she is motivated: The world is covered in darkness and the people need heroes, people of greatness that inspire them. Dario is such a hero.
• Enemies:
  • Rosetta Capelli - Teenage liaison's in the vineyard led Rosetta to believe that Dario was her true love. Dario did not reciprocate and in his inexperience with the hearts of women broke hers.
  • Arnaldo Taso - A cheesemaker who's wife fell for Dario's charms. Dario was deceived by the wife, Lisetta, and has tried to make amends with Arnaldo, but to no avail.
  • Malyth - A former companion whose darker nature ran afoul of Dario's light. Left the party but swore to return.
• Friends:
  • Fiora Libertini - While in bed she told Dario the bardic tales of heroes who saved people and slayed dragons, and how the people were inspired by the tales. Dario left town with her company and started his adventuring life.
  • Fyodor Revnik - No one believes that this bear of a man slings spells until you are on the receiving end of a blast of cold that cuts you to the bones. Fyodor saw a magical spark in Dario and tried to fan the embers to life but the time was not right. Dario holds him in high regards as a master.
• Reactions under stress: Declare intentions, offer surrender, eliminate resistance.
• Lifestyle (poor, moderate, rich, luxury): As rich as possible, while still being responsible.
• Goals, long and short term: Long term goal is to be a hero the bards sing of. Short term goal is to find adventure.
• One sentence character summary: Charming rogue of a paladin who slays the foes and enjoys the rewards of a rescued damsel.