Bloodborne: The Old Hunters [OOC / ALWAYS OPEN]

[Theyra]

I assume that you can train to become Mightier (by lifting or bashing things), read books for lore, talk with folks to be more influential, but what about Will and Cunning? How do you level up those stats?

Might is your combat.
Influence is talking
Cunning is your intellectual ability. Basically build stuff.
Will will naturally build up over time the longer you are apart of the investigation. Basically it's how dedicated you are.

Tag for a skeptic and can you only learn up with either blood or insight with the archetypes that have unspecified leveling conditions?

Can you rephrase that.

You answered my question. It was how you learn up with a archetype that was not blood or insight related.

[Axis Asteroid]

Your character sounds like Lady Maria's successor lol. I personally wish I put more towards a skill build now that I know how to parry effectively in any case, though I do use the Evelyn as my primary pistol now too.

No joke though, I found getting the Rakuyo harder than than some of the bosses in the game because of those two shark monsters in the well. I had to cheese them in the end, since I didn't want to spend too much time on them when the Orphan was just around the corner. :/

I cheesed them too, I used the bone claw item for them to do all the work.

That sounds more efficient than what I did. I had to use throwing knives to aggro them from the ledge accessed via the Orphan shortcut where I then used the spinning attack of the Hunter Axe repeatedly whenever they got close.

[North America Inc]

Might is your combat.
Influence is talking
Cunning is your intellectual ability. Basically build stuff.
Will will naturally build up over time the longer you are apart of the investigation. Basically it's how dedicated you are.


Can you rephrase that.

You answered my question. It was how you learn up with a archetype that was not blood or insight related.

Technically everyone can use blood or insight. Hunters can use insight, and scholars can be blood lusted. But there mare major benefits and downsides for not using them.

[North America Inc]

I cheesed them too, I used the bone claw item for them to do all the work.

That sounds more efficient than what I did. I had to use throwing knives to aggro them from the ledge accessed via the Orphan shortcut where I then used the spinning attack of the Hunter Axe repeatedly whenever they got close.

Use the Beast cutter it's much safer.

[Danceria]

Right, so I want to make a medic who served during the Independence War. Had seen some weird blood shit (Freaking Cainhurst man...), but nevertheless keeps on being peppy and upbeat because he's naturally optimistic/when he says things can get worse, he means it so quit your griping/he's trying to put on a facade since he saw...something that you couldn't have/the Odeon-damned determinator and he realizes the world is going to shit and everyone dies. So you might as well punch the person responsible. I mean, what's the worst that could happen?

Sound feasible?

[North America Inc]

Right, so I want to make a medic who served during the Independence War. Had seen some weird blood shit (Freaking Cainhurst man...), but nevertheless keeps on being peppy and upbeat because he's naturally optimistic/when he says things can get worse, he means it so quit your griping/he's trying to put on a facade since he saw...something that you couldn't have/the Odeon-damned determinator and he realizes the world is going to shit and everyone dies. So you might as well punch the person responsible. I mean, what's the worst that could happen?

Sound feasible?

Totally feasible.

[Ralnis]

Think the hardest part of the app is figuring out what attributes to put on my character.

[North America Inc]

Think the hardest part of the app is figuring out what attributes to put on my character.

What basic character traits and back story do you have in mind?

[Elerian]

Think the hardest part of the app is figuring out what attributes to put on my character.

Same. I just went with some stuff that might've made sense for a lawman to have.

[Ralnis]

Name: Calium Rus
Gender or Sex:Male
Age: 25

Class: Scholar
Personality:Inquisitive and Ambitious, he searches to learn the Eldritch Truth and to elevate his thoughts as Master Wilhelm is trying to do. He has a method to his madness and does not forget the scientific method and use other scientific instruments in order to continue his research in the Great Ones and line his mind with eyes.
Backstory: A man from beyond the Continent, Calium traveled to Yarhem to find the great secrets of the great city for a cause he had forgot. He joined Wilhelm's university as a means to understand the very questions of life for this cause and to go home but he was caught in the search for the Truth. He lived in the great college and continued his studies, trying to gain the wisdom that Wilhelm taught and to fear the Old Blood.

It was here that he shunned the Healing Church and try to continue his research into the insight and to try to line his mind with eyes. While many took the sayings literally, he tried to study it via philosophical means and to understand the cosmic beings as their insight is a path to apotheosis. It was because of this that he looked into the use of arcane truths and powers that the old texts had and focused on joining the team to translate them.

He believes it was because of this and his understanding of lore that he was hired to figure out about the disappearance of the people. This Cult was among the most mysterious thing to happen to the grand city and it seemed like a good idea to try and line eyes in his mind and ascend to the cosmos.
Attributes Arcane Adept, Method to Madness
Equipment:Just his scholar clothing and scientific equipment
Appearance:http://2014.symposium.100yss.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/final_mike-perschon-426x240.jpg

[North America Inc]

Name: Calium Rus
Gender or Sex:Male
Age: 25

Class: Scholar
Personality:Inquisitive and Ambitious, he searches to learn the Eldritch Truth and to elevate his thoughts as Master Wilhelm is trying to do. He has a method to his madness and does not forget the scientific method and use other scientific instruments in order to continue his research in the Great Ones and line his mind with eyes.
Backstory: A man from beyond the Continent, Calium traveled to Yarhem to find the great secrets of the great city for a cause he had forgot. He joined Wilhelm's university as a means to understand the very questions of life for this cause and to go home but he was caught in the search for the Truth. He lived in the great college and continued his studies, trying to gain the wisdom that Wilhelm taught and to fear the Old Blood.

It was here that he shunned the Healing Church and try to continue his research into the insight and to try to line his mind with eyes. While many took the sayings literally, he tried to study it via philosophical means and to understand the cosmic beings as their insight is a path to apotheosis. It was because of this that he looked into the use of arcane truths and powers that the old texts had and focused on joining the team to translate them.

He believes it was because of this and his understanding of lore that he was hired to figure out about the disappearance of the people. This Cult was among the most mysterious thing to happen to the grand city and it seemed like a good idea to try and line eyes in his mind and ascend to the cosmos.
Attributes Arcane Adept, Method to Madness
Equipment:Just his scholar clothing and scientific equipment
Appearance:http://2014.symposium.100yss.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/final_mike-perschon-426x240.jpg

Accepted, just use commas.

[Ralnis]

Name: Calium Rus
Gender or Sex:Male
Age: 25

Class: Scholar
Personality:Inquisitive and Ambitious, he searches to learn the Eldritch Truth and to elevate his thoughts as Master Wilhelm is trying to do. He has a method to his madness and does not forget the scientific method and use other scientific instruments in order to continue his research in the Great Ones and line his mind with eyes.
Backstory: A man from beyond the Continent, Calium traveled to Yarhem to find the great secrets of the great city for a cause he had forgot. He joined Wilhelm's university as a means to understand the very questions of life for this cause and to go home but he was caught in the search for the Truth. He lived in the great college and continued his studies, trying to gain the wisdom that Wilhelm taught and to fear the Old Blood.

It was here that he shunned the Healing Church and try to continue his research into the insight and to try to line his mind with eyes. While many took the sayings literally, he tried to study it via philosophical means and to understand the cosmic beings as their insight is a path to apotheosis. It was because of this that he looked into the use of arcane truths and powers that the old texts had and focused on joining the team to translate them.

He believes it was because of this and his understanding of lore that he was hired to figure out about the disappearance of the people. This Cult was among the most mysterious thing to happen to the grand city and it seemed like a good idea to try and line eyes in his mind and ascend to the cosmos.
Attributes Arcane Adept, Method to Madness
Equipment:Just his scholar clothing and scientific equipment
Appearance:http://2014.symposium.100yss.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/final_mike-perschon-426x240.jpg

Accepted, just use commas.

I know, too tired to use proper grammar.

[Axis Asteroid]

Decided to go with a different Church character instead of the Executioner. Ended up using (Imposter) Iosefka's likeness (might just have this be her parent or something).

Name: Sister Ysolde
Gender or Sex: Female
Age: 18
Class: Devout
Personality: Zealous and devout, fanatical almost, yet quite sympathetic to the sickly and poor of Yharnam. Can be ruthless when she has to be however, especially when it comes to her duties as a Cleric of the Choir. A true believer when it comes to spreading the wonders of Blood Ministration across Yharnam, convinced in the salvation and prosperity promised by the Old Blood to not only the downtrodden, but Yharnam as a whole, if not all of humanity when the time comes.

Backstory: As the unwanted byproduct of infidelity between two star crossed lovers from two rival Yharnamite noble houses, Ysolde's birth had inspired no cause for celebration between the two families, drawing considerable enough ire from both to endanger the newborn's very well being instead, culminating in her abandonment at the steps of Oedon Chapel that moonlight night in a last ditch effort by her parents to save her life, where she was raised within the hallowed confines of the Cathedral Ward henceforth as an adopted ward of the newly ascendant Healing Church.

Only within those shadowed halls of that most regal cloister did Ysolde find family and kinship when the Gentry of Old Yharnam actively spurned her of both home and hearth. It was during these early years that she took to the teachings of her new home as would moth to a flame, developing an intimate understanding of the dogma and theology of her newly found faith, much more so than the other adopted orphans she had been ken to up to that point, her mind ever swirling and churning with tales of Great Ones and Higher Planes, enraptured with the craving for blood and insight found within those holy texts.

Perhaps it was this zeal and loyalty that spared her from the horrific experiments conducted by the Choir and School of Mensis on her young peers behind closed doors. Perhaps it was something else entirely, such as the quality of her blood that the Church discovered, and its compatibility with that most holy of mediums in the form of the Old Blood. Whichever the case, Ysolde was declared a blood saint thereafter, allowing her to join others like Saint Adeline as caretakers of the sickly and the poor, spreading the influence of the Church through the use of the healing blood found in their veins, injected into vials to be used to work the medical miracles brought about by Blood Ministration.

However, her days dressed in the black garments of a blood saint was not to last long. Her lust for insight and her devotion to the cause had been noted, leading to that horrific, yet ever enlightening moonlit night when her eyes were exposed to a grim and eldritch truth beneath the surface when she traded ebony for ivory upon joining the ranks of the Choir. While not privy to all its secrets as perhaps its youngest newcomer, Ysolde has nevertheless been exposed to the Church's more darker dealings committed in the pursuit of knowledge and insight, which to her ultimate surprise hardly phased her as much as it should have. Despite the Choir's emphasis on insight however, she herself still sees the potential of both blood and insight in ushering humanity to a higher plane, but largely favors the former as the pathway to salvation due her prior experiences as a blood saint witnessing medical wonders accomplished through Blood Healing.

Attributes Blood Saint & Choir Cleric
Equipment:

• White Church Set (See Image)
  
  • White Church Garb
  • Surgical Long Gloves
  • White Church Dress
• Threaded Cane
• Repeating Pistol
• Hand Lantern
• Blood Vials x10

Appearance: See Image

[North America Inc]

Decided to go with a different Church character instead of the Executioner. Ended up using (Imposter) Iosefka's likeness (might just have this be her parent or something).

(Image)

Name: Sister Ysolde
Gender or Sex: Female
Age: 22
Class: Devout
Personality: Zealous and devout, fanatical almost, yet quite sympathetic to the sickly and poor of Yharnam. Can be ruthless when she has to be however, especially when it comes to her duties as a Cleric of the Choir. A true believer when it comes to spreading the wonders of Blood Ministration across Yharnam, convinced in the salvation and prosperity promised by the Old Blood to not only the downtrodden, but Yharnam as a whole, if not all of humanity when the time comes.

Backstory: As the unwanted byproduct of infidelity between two star crossed lovers from two rival Yharnamite noble houses, Ysolde's birth had inspired no cause for celebration between the two families, drawing considerable enough ire from both to endanger the newborn's very well being instead, culminating in her abandonment at the steps of the Grand Cathedral that moonlight night in a last ditch effort by her parents to save her life, where she was raised within the hallowed confines of the Cathedral Ward henceforth as an adopted ward of the newly ascendant Healing Church.

Only within those shadowed halls of that most regal cloister did Ysolde find family and kinship when the Gentry of Old Yharnam actively spurned her of both home and hearth. It was during these early years that she took to the teachings of her new home as would moth to a flame, developing an intimate understanding of the dogma and theology of her newly found faith, much more so than the other adopted orphans she had been ken to up to that point, her mind ever swirling and churning with tales of Great Ones and Higher Planes, enraptured with the craving for blood and insight found within those holy texts.

Perhaps it was this zeal and loyalty that spared her from the horrific experiments conducted by the Choir and School of Mensis on her young peers behind closed doors. Perhaps it was something else entirely, such as the quality of her blood that the Church discovered, and its compatibility with that most holy of mediums in the form of the Old Blood. Whichever the case, Ysolde was declared a blood saint thereafter, allowing her to join others like Saint Adeline as caretakers of the sickly and the poor, spreading the influence of the Church through the use of the healing blood found in their veins, injected into vials to be used to work the medical miracles brought about by Blood Ministration.

However, her days dressed in the black garments of a blood saint was not to last long. Her lust for insight and her devotion to the cause had been noted, leading to that horrific, yet ever enlightening moment moonlit night when her eyes were exposed to a grim and eldritch truth beneath the surface when she traded ebony for ivory upon joining the ranks of the Choir. While not privy to all its secrets as perhaps its youngest newcomer, Ysolde has nevertheless been exposed to the Church's more darker dealings committed in the pursuit of knowledge and insight, which to her ultimate surprise hardly phased her as much as it should have. Despite the Choir's emphasis on insight however, she herself still sees the potential of both blood and insight in ushering humanity to a higher plane, but largely favors the former as the pathway to salvation due her prior experiences as a blood saint witnessing medical wonders accomplished through Blood Healing.

Attributes Blood Saint & Choir Cleric
Equipment:

• White Church Set (See Image)
  
  • White Church Garb
  • Surgical Long Gloves
  • White Church Dress
• Threaded Cane
• Blunderbuss
• Hand Lantern
• Blood Vials x10

Appearance: See Image

Is she the child of Romeo and Juliet? Lol

Lower her age slightly, the unparalleled rise of the Healing Church is suppose to be new, maybe 17 or 18 if she's just an orphan.

Also let her be left at the steps of a chapel, in the RP I'm having the grand cathedral construction as a relatively new affair.

Besides that, she's has a great back story. A lot of detail and feels connected to the world at large.

[Axis Asteroid]

Decided to go with a different Church character instead of the Executioner. Ended up using (Imposter) Iosefka's likeness (might just have this be her parent or something).

Name: Sister Ysolde
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Is she the child of Romeo and Juliet? Lol

Lower her age slightly, the unparalleled rise of the Healing Church is suppose to be new, maybe 17 or 18 if she's just an orphan.

Also let her be left at the steps of a chapel, in the RP I'm having the grand cathedral construction as a relatively new affair.

Besides that, she's has a great back story. A lot of detail and feels connected to the world at large.

In fair Yharnam where we lay our scene... jk

Yeah, I got really into it, so glad to see you like the backstory.

Changes you requested are done too. She's now 18 and left at the steps of Oedon Chapel instead.

[North America Inc]

Is she the child of Romeo and Juliet? Lol

Lower her age slightly, the unparalleled rise of the Healing Church is suppose to be new, maybe 17 or 18 if she's just an orphan.

Also let her be left at the steps of a chapel, in the RP I'm having the grand cathedral construction as a relatively new affair.

Besides that, she's has a great back story. A lot of detail and feels connected to the world at large.

In fair Yharnam where we lay our scene... jk

Yeah, I got really into it, so glad to see you like the backstory.

Changes you requested are done too. She's now 18 and left at the steps of Oedon Chapel instead.

Then you are accepted. Since you are a young cleric of the choir, maybe we can develop an idol/follower relationship between her and Maria. Maybe in this pre industrial society, two women in high positions of authority notice each other?

[Axis Asteroid]

In fair Yharnam where we lay our scene... jk

Yeah, I got really into it, so glad to see you like the backstory.

Changes you requested are done too. She's now 18 and left at the steps of Oedon Chapel instead.

Then you are accepted. Since you are a young cleric of the choir, maybe we can develop an idol/follower relationship between her and Maria. Maybe in this pre industrial society, two women in high positions of authority notice each other?

Cool. I'm definitely down for that too. Lady Maria would definitely stand out among the moon-scented hunters of the workship as a figure of admiration for someone like Ysolde for that reason, possibly as far back during her younger years as a blood saint too.

Anyway, it'll be an interesting dynamic to work with.

EDIT: I meant admiration lol.

[North America Inc]

Then you are accepted. Since you are a young cleric of the choir, maybe we can develop an idol/follower relationship between her and Maria. Maybe in this pre industrial society, two women in high positions of authority notice each other?

Cool. I'm definitely down for that too. Lady Maria would definitely stand out among the moon-scented hunters of the workship as a figure of admiration for someone like Ysolde for that reason, possibly as far back during her younger years as a blood saint too.

Anyway, it'll be an interesting dynamic to work with.

EDIT: I meant admiration lol.

Anything else you wanted to add?

[Axis Asteroid]

Cool. I'm definitely down for that too. Lady Maria would definitely stand out among the moon-scented hunters of the workship as a figure of admiration for someone like Ysolde for that reason, possibly as far back during her younger years as a blood saint too.

Anyway, it'll be an interesting dynamic to work with.

EDIT: I meant admiration lol.

Anything else you wanted to add?

To the app you mean? I think I'm good right now. I'll let you know if something else comes to mind though.

Did you want something else added btw?

[North America Inc]

Anything else you wanted to add?

To the app you mean? I think I'm good right now. I'll let you know if something else comes to mind though.

Did you want something else added btw?

To the App, of the relationship between the two.

[Axis Asteroid]

To the app you mean? I think I'm good right now. I'll let you know if something else comes to mind though.

Did you want something else added btw?

To the App, of the relationship between the two.

Ah, I was thinking we could just set up/delve into their relationship in the actual IC, but I could add it to the app first thing in the morning if you think that's best too.

EDIT: Unless you want to add it in your Lady Maria app if you're doing one that is.

[North America Inc]

To the App, of the relationship between the two.

Ah, I was thinking we could just set up/delve into their relationship in the actual IC, but I could add it to the app first thing in the morning if you think that's best too.

EDIT: Unless you want to add it in your Lady Maria app if you're doing one that is.

Whatever you want to do.

I'll add it in my app.

[Axis Asteroid]

Ah, I was thinking we could just set up/delve into their relationship in the actual IC, but I could add it to the app first thing in the morning if you think that's best too.

EDIT: Unless you want to add it in your Lady Maria app if you're doing one that is.

Whatever you want to do.

I'll add it in my app.

In that case, I'll add it tomorrow then.

[Danceria]

Name:Lt. Sigmund Jannesson van Kataryn, of the 208th Mobile Medical Post, and by extension, the 34th Infantry Battalion. Affectionately known as “Doc” or “Doc Sig”.
Gender or Sex: Male
Age: 32

Class: The Determinator The Haunted “Eh, some new face in town. Says ‘e’s a doc from the War. Hardly touches Blood, can ya believe it?”
“Heard ‘e’s from the outskirts, all th’ way from Kataryna.”
“The blokes who “chase th’ son” or somesuch? He’ll get in right trouble wi’ the Church.”
“Strange thing is, he isn’t, oft’n pitches in at the medical wards whenever they’re short on staff. He knows all sorts o’ stuff ‘bout medicine without usin’ blood. If he weren’t always buttin’ ‘eads with th’ head doctors o’er when ta’ use Blood, I’d reckon he’d be in Byrgenwerth.”
“Odd fellow tha’ Sigmund...an odd duck indeed…”
Personality: Jovial and upbeat, he is seen as a stalwart source of sunny disposition in an otherwise bleak city. Rather down to earth, he would rather spend a night at the tavern gambling or exercising rather than the cloak and dagger antics of Yharnam, and will often be seen as a source of fatherly advice and comfort to the downtrodden of people.

Despite his veterancy during the Independence War and his skill in medicine, his relationship with the Healing Church is...complicated. On one hand, he is a follower of the Covenant of Solestus, the deities worshipped by those residing outside of Yharnam during the War and during the days of Cainhurst, often referred to as the Ancient Ones or the True Gods, so he is considered an apostate by the more fanatic members of the Church. Sigmond in turn views the over-use of Blood as styming medical progress, rather than aiding the downtrodden to live healthy lifestyles, and feels uneasy in the various chapels of the Healing Church. Nevertheless, the few who know him cannot deny his compassion for the ailed and needy, nor his skill in medicine outside of Blood Ministration. Some of the more cynical residents of the city disdain his charitable nature, and residing in squalor along with the ne’er do wells.

Through interaction with him, one can reveal more about life outside of Yharnam, about his life as a family doctor in a decent sized but well knit town. His service, and shenanigans of soldiers. With luck, and if he is in a particularly good mood on a rather cold, may even tell you the time about how he played shuffleboard using a group of Cainhurst Flaymen during a frigid northern winter.

Despite his jovial nature, he often spends time alone with scholars and clerics, discussing medicine, swapping stories and small talk, or just napping. Modern psychologists would diagnose the Katarynan with mild narcolepsy and a most unusual form of PTSD. His nightmares rarely involve the men who died around him, or the experiences of the war. If he had to hazard a guess, Sigmond received this after...encountering…something he’s certainly not talking about.
Backstory: Born in the County of Kataryna, near the border of Cainhurst proper and Austorea, Sigmond was the eldest and sole son of Dr. Jannes Zelig van Kataryn, former physician for the Count and Countess of Kataryna, of whose jolly and charitable nature left a profound impact upon the young Zigmond. Due to Kataryna’s proximity to Cainhurst, and the tumultuous nature of the times, many Blood Knights rode through the city, often placing it under occupation as they rode to dispatch rebels and ride over to the Eastern Campaign. Frustrated with the occupation of his home village, and enthralled by the revolutionary pamphlets that were dispersed in secret, Sigmond eventually snuck away from his home to join the Yharnamite Army.

His knowledge of medicine earned him a spot on one of the many medical outfits needed to keep the army sustained, and his proximity to the front lines meant that he would have his hands full.

Rumors of foul beasts, frenzied riders butchering all in their path, and illicit rituals calling upon heinous powers of blood and shadow would find their way down to the home front. This was in one part used as religious propaganda by the budding Church, denounced as heresy, and considered classified information.

He returned home a changed man in many ways. For one thing, he had a shiny medal and a decent pension for his services, and for the fact he survived much of the war. For another, he became...distant, brooding, and solitary. Sigmond’s nights were filled with tumultuous dreams and hallucinations, whose intensity eventually died down through prayer and interacting with the community once again. Now they became less intense, but more consistent. They became less of good memories gone horrendously wrong, of half-dead comrades laughing while bleeding, and dancing in their own gore. Silently, did the skyline of Yharnam linger in his mind night after night.

While not wholly a man who believes in soothsaying or dreams, a mix of faith for the Ancient Flame and curiosity for closure caused him to seek out Byrgenwerth and the old City.
Attributes
(Erm...I think this is where I place my stats…?)
2 Might, 2 Influence, 2 Cunning, 1 Lore, 2 Will
Ability: Fervent Drive
Sub/Optional Negotiable Ability that can be deleted if need be: Pluck Ultra.
Some men shit their pants at the sight of a Great Old One, others tell them to eat said shit and kick them in the gonads. The frightening does not faze this man, and in fact, rushes him with adrenaline. Whether this be from idealistic courage, iron discipline, or because he knows that there are far more dangerous things above him…
Other Sub/Optional Negotiable Ability that can be deleted if need be:
Combat Comfort: From patching someone up on the battlefield, to encouraging them off it, for whatever reason, this man says that the world’s troubles are “as big as you make them to be”. Somehow, you almost believe him.

Equipment:Possibly his old repeating rifle/gun he kept from the war, and a medicine kit, as well as various textbooks pertaining to medicine, a small pendant of a blazing sun, a medal for valorous service, along with a photo of his old outfit before being deployed (he’s the farthest one on the left, bottom row)
Appearance:Sigmond is a rather stout individual, not nearly as tall as he’d like to be, with stormy grey eyes and paling blonde hair. He keeps himself stockily fit, but age and a few nights at the Tavern has made him slightly pudgy. When he speaks, it is a pleasantly accented baritone, mingling learned vocabulary with almost whimsical phrases and adages. When amused, it can range from a sly and sardonic chuckle to a bellowing bark, though when ired, that same bellowing will only be laced with as many adjectives and pronouns as it takes to kill an enemy, or for you to do your job.

(Erase Everything in Parenthesis) (How ‘bout I don’t? )

[North America Inc]

Name:Lt. Sigmund Jannesson van Kataryn, of the 208th Mobile Medical Post, and by extension, the 34th Infantry Battalion. Affectionately known as “Doc” or “Doc Sig”.
Gender or Sex: Male
Age: 32

Class: The Determinator The Haunted “Eh, some new face in town. Says ‘e’s a doc from the War. Hardly touches Blood, can ya believe it?”
“Heard ‘e’s from the outskirts, all th’ way from Kataryna.”
“The blokes who “chase th’ son” or somesuch? He’ll get in right trouble wi’ the Church.”
“Strange thing is, he isn’t, oft’n pitches in at the medical wards whenever they’re short on staff. He knows all sorts o’ stuff ‘bout medicine without usin’ blood. If he weren’t always buttin’ ‘eads with th’ head doctors o’er when ta’ use Blood, I’d reckon he’d be in Byrgenwerth.”
“Odd fellow tha’ Sigmund...an odd duck indeed…”
Personality: Jovial and upbeat, he is seen as a stalwart source of sunny disposition in an otherwise bleak city. Rather down to earth, he would rather spend a night at the tavern gambling or exercising rather than the cloak and dagger antics of Yharnam, and will often be seen as a source of fatherly advice and comfort to the downtrodden of people.

Despite his veterancy during the Independence War and his skill in medicine, his relationship with the Healing Church is...complicated. On one hand, he is a follower of the Covenant of Solestus, the deities worshipped by those residing outside of Yharnam during the War and during the days of Cainhurst, often referred to as the Ancient Ones or the True Gods, so he is considered an apostate by the more fanatic members of the Church. Sigmond in turn views the over-use of Blood as styming medical progress, rather than aiding the downtrodden to live healthy lifestyles, and feels uneasy in the various chapels of the Healing Church. Nevertheless, the few who know him cannot deny his compassion for the ailed and needy, nor his skill in medicine outside of Blood Ministration. Some of the more cynical residents of the city disdain his charitable nature, and residing in squalor along with the ne’er do wells.

Through interaction with him, one can reveal more about life outside of Yharnam, about his life as a family doctor in a decent sized but well knit town. His service, and shenanigans of soldiers. With luck, and if he is in a particularly good mood on a rather cold, may even tell you the time about how he played shuffleboard using a group of Cainhurst Flaymen during a frigid northern winter.

Despite his jovial nature, he often spends time alone with scholars and clerics, discussing medicine, swapping stories and small talk, or just napping. Modern psychologists would diagnose the Katarynan with mild narcolepsy and a most unusual form of PTSD. His nightmares rarely involve the men who died around him, or the experiences of the war. If he had to hazard a guess, Sigmond received this after...encountering…something he’s certainly not talking about.
Backstory: Born in the County of Kataryna, near the border of Cainhurst proper and Austorea, Sigmond was the eldest and sole son of Dr. Jannes Zelig van Kataryn, former physician for the Count and Countess of Kataryna, of whose jolly and charitable nature left a profound impact upon the young Zigmond. Due to Kataryna’s proximity to Cainhurst, and the tumultuous nature of the times, many Blood Knights rode through the city, often placing it under occupation as they rode to dispatch rebels and ride over to the Eastern Campaign. Frustrated with the occupation of his home village, and enthralled by the revolutionary pamphlets that were dispersed in secret, Sigmond eventually snuck away from his home to join the Yharnamite Army.

His knowledge of medicine earned him a spot on one of the many medical outfits needed to keep the army sustained, and his proximity to the front lines meant that he would have his hands full.

Rumors of foul beasts, frenzied riders butchering all in their path, and illicit rituals calling upon heinous powers of blood and shadow would find their way down to the home front. This was in one part used as religious propaganda by the budding Church, denounced as heresy, and considered classified information.

He returned home a changed man in many ways. For one thing, he had a shiny medal and a decent pension for his services, and for the fact he survived much of the war. For another, he became...distant, brooding, and solitary. Sigmond’s nights were filled with tumultuous dreams and hallucinations, whose intensity eventually died down through prayer and interacting with the community once again. Now they became less intense, but more consistent. They became less of good memories gone horrendously wrong, of half-dead comrades laughing while bleeding, and dancing in their own gore. Silently, did the skyline of Yharnam linger in his mind night after night.

While not wholly a man who believes in soothsaying or dreams, a mix of faith for the Ancient Flame and curiosity for closure caused him to seek out Byrgenwerth and the old City.
Attributes
(Erm...I think this is where I place my stats…?)
2 Might, 2 Influence, 2 Cunning, 1 Lore, 2 Will
Ability: Fervent Drive
Sub/Optional Negotiable Ability that can be deleted if need be: Pluck Ultra.
Some men shit their pants at the sight of a Great Old One, others tell them to eat said shit and kick them in the gonads. The frightening does not faze this man, and in fact, rushes him with adrenaline. Whether this be from idealistic courage, iron discipline, or because he knows that there are far more dangerous things above him…
Other Sub/Optional Negotiable Ability that can be deleted if need be:
Combat Comfort: From patching someone up on the battlefield, to encouraging them off it, for whatever reason, this man says that the world’s troubles are “as big as you make them to be”. Somehow, you almost believe him.

Equipment:Possibly his old repeating rifle/gun he kept from the war, and a medicine kit, as well as various textbooks pertaining to medicine, a small pendant of a blazing sun, a medal for valorous service, along with a photo of his old outfit before being deployed (he’s the farthest one on the left, bottom row)
Appearance:Sigmond is a rather stout individual, not nearly as tall as he’d like to be, with stormy grey eyes and paling blonde hair. He keeps himself stockily fit, but age and a few nights at the Tavern has made him slightly pudgy. When he speaks, it is a pleasantly accented baritone, mingling learned vocabulary with almost whimsical phrases and adages. When amused, it can range from a sly and sardonic chuckle to a bellowing bark, though when ired, that same bellowing will only be laced with as many adjectives and pronouns as it takes to kill an enemy, or for you to do your job.

(Erase Everything in Parenthesis) (How ‘bout I don’t? )

So you're a civilian?