Character Application
Name: Gideon Half-Elven, Gideon of Achisia
Age: 57
Gender:Male
Sexual Orientation: Not interested.
Race: Human/Elf Hybrid
Appearance: Gideon
5'11, approximately 145 lbs. Gideon looks about fifteen years younger than he actually is.
Position/Status/Affiliation: Outcast. Wanderer. Scholar. Gideon never stays in one place for long. He is a skilled cartographer, translator, and historian by trade. Will occasionally forge documents for the right price.
Skills/Powers//Magic: Oath magic. As a warrior may sit down nightly to lovingly hone and polish a fine blade, so has Gideon spent his life training his mind to wield that eldritch energy that flows through every being. Having detached himself from material joys and earthly pleasures he has become a conduit between that which is seen and that which is unseen, able to channel the raw power of the primeval. He seeks to master the power of the ancients, that old magic that could drive a man insane and destroy his body. To what end is known only to Gideon.
Equipment: Parchment. Ink. Quill. Spotlight lantern. Oil. Rope (50 ft). Traveling robes. Worn leather boots. Fine shoes. Silk robes. Tomes. Scrolls. Wineskin. Tinderbox. Ornate dagger. Sigil. Pipe. Tobacco. Incense. Spell components.
Personality: Driven. Condescending. Secretive. He is loyal to no one and no thing, but he always pays his debts and keeps his promises. Feels superior to others, and feels an affinity to the dwarves more than to either of his progenitor's races.
Moral Alignment: Chaotic neutral.
Biography: Gideon's father was one of the Children of the Sun, of an ancient line even by Vorian standards. He kept many slaves. One of these slaves was Gideon's mother. He knew neither. Before her pregnancy could be discovered, she was able to escape. This is quite a tale in itself, but altogether irrelevant. Gideon was later born in Arghyo. His mother gave the boy to her sister and disappeared from his life forever.
The woman who raised him, a human named Majira Caros, was kind but strict. He was given chores and lessons daily. When he was not dusting shelves or tending the garden, he studied history. When he wasn't gathering components for her spells or tending to Majira in her laboratory, Gideon learned of politics and the geography that shaped his world.
As he grew older, Majira taught him to meditate upon the mysteries of mana and it's many uses. She eventually took Gideon as her apprentice after he demonstrated his aptitude and natural inclination towards the arcane arts and other pursuits of the mind.
He left Arghyo on a journey to Achisia, which was prospering. Here he further studied magic and becamr associated with several different academies. Gideon witnessed the decline of Achisia into darkness firsthand. By the time he was a master of the Oath, Achisia was marching on the other realms of men, and he left, wanting no part in the wars to come.
Gideon returned to Arghyo. Majira had passed during his time away and left him as the sole beneficiary of her will, which included the estate he had grown up in as well as a small inheritance. When Achisia fell, Gideon left again to study the darkness that had taken hold of the once shining empire, determined to find a link between the Shadow, the Blight, and the ruin of Achisia.
Goals: Mastering of the arcane arts. Exploration of the Shadow. Immortality.
Theme Song: Right in Two
RP Sample: This RP never took off. My post is at the bottom viewtopic.php?f=31&t=429594&start=200
Did you read the Rules?: Yes
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