Name of Creator: Lei (Fletcher, Kincade)
Name of Character: Thomas Avonlea
Relation to Other Site Characters: None – exists to die horribly.
Brief Outline of Personality, History, and Appearance:
Young, fair-haired and blue-eyed, Thomas is an attractive lad full of the vitality of youth. He is well-muscled from years of work farming and tilling the land, and his skill with a thresher is only matched by that of his with a pole-axe.
While his looks make all the local girls titter and blush, his brains are slightly less than impressive. While sweet and honorable, Tom has always been a bit naïve, and never the sharpest tool in the shed, relying on others to do most of his thinking for him, be it his father, his officer, or his bible.
Growing up as a poor farm boy, Thomas often had dreams of glory, inspired by the stories his father told in front of the fire each night. When he was old enough, he took his few possessions and left to join the King’s Army, to fight nobly against the barbarian hordes and win honor for his family name and for God. In the last skirmish, he fought valiantly; uttering the Lord’s Prayer with each stroke he delivered that felled a heathen enemy. But now Thomas has been captured by the Baskar, and he can only guess as to his fate…