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faithlikeaseed) wrote2017-07-24 02:54 am
faithlikeaseed) wrote2017-07-24 02:54 am
[OOC] Fade Rift Info Post
Basics
| NAME: Myrobalan Shivana AGE: 30 NATIONALITY: Marcher (Hasmal) RACE: Elf OCCUPATION: Creation mage, hobbyist beekeeper, amateur theologian; Chantry Relations project head TITLE/RANK: Knight-Enchanter | HEIGHT: 5'4" BUILD: Solid HAIR: Wheat-blond EYES: Hazel SKIN: Middling tan BEARING: Cheerful |
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Shorter and huskier than most elves. Sometimes still wears a blindfold around because the world's just too visually noisy and he knows the Gallows better when he can't see it. | |
Status
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Reputation
Hasmal Circle: Chantry-loyal Circle mage. Had an amateur theology group going when he was much younger. Also slept with just about anyone in the Circle who was willing.
They say he put out his own eyes with his bare hands sometime during the Mage-Templar War. Hasn't been the same since; he was training to be a knight-enchanter but the blindness put paid to that.
Typically a flirtatious, talkative, pleasant guy despite all that.
Kirkwall: Might've sent some bees after somebody once. Will talk to nearly anyone, at length. Curious about all things rifter. Perhaps a little too casual about how cool explosions are. Used to be blind; now he's not. Apparently the recipient of a miraculous healing.
Heads up the Chantry Relations project. Cade is his scribe. Known to be sharing a room and probably a bed with Simon Ashlock.
Hooks
* Prone to mooning around after any templars who get within a fifty yard radius of him.
* Keeps bees. Summons bees. Bees bees bees.
* Fascinated by clever uses of magic.
* LET'S TALK ABOUT THE CANTICLE OF SHARTAN
* Is a mage sleeping with a templar; most people might have Feelings about that.
* Night owl? Early bird? Good chance Myr's awake at any given hour of the day, owing to disordered sleep.
* Generally, he will get into just about anything that's going on out of pure curiosity.
* Has very strong feelings about the Chantry. Isn't talking about them as much these days in lieu of doing something about it. Weird?
Approval & Gifts
APPROVES + Loyalty + Dedication to one's duty + Social harmony and improvement + Andrastian heresies that redeem elves and/or mages + Love ♥ | - Unrestricted mage freedom - Himself, probably - Unrighteous coercion of any sort - Assholes who take advantage of - Abuse of mages |
GIFTS Maps! Anything that's got a pleasant texture, sound, or scent to it. Flowers. Tidbits of new information on his various interests (theology, plants, insects, magic, ...). Food (food is love). Spend an hour reading a new book to him and he'll love you forever. He's not very good at focusing on text yet. | |
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to-do list
[IC]
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Put up locator glyphs around the Gallows. Petra's offered to help.Done.* Meet all the rifter mages for dinner and Question Time. Create index of spell types that don't exist on Thedas (yet).
* Get beehives. Install bees.
* Check out that sweet forest again. Try not to get covered in sap this time.* Meet all the templars for dinner and sitting-in-awed-breathless-silence-in-the-presence-of-Andraste's-righteous-champions Time.* Set up another discussion group.*
Training!!In progress. Simon has been promoted from "awesome templar" to "awesome templar who's good for a spar".* Figure out how to forgive Vandelin.:(* Talk to Petra about Anders* Contact whoever made the sending crystals about giving them a recording function & an emergency channelUnnecessary -- going to work with Casimir on improving the crystals.* Talk to Chantry Relations about the theological status of rifters* Work with rifter mages on combined spells; research recreating Petra's language-learning spell (OOC: will fail)
* Sweet rolls & wild honey for Cade* Propose comparative magic project to Research
* Put in a word with Research about buying up books on griffons
[OOC]
* Visuals & aesthetic
* Playlist-- update this* mOAR RESOURCES -- pull these from plurk
* Hasmal headcanons to headcanon list
* Spells!
* Glyphmaster custom spec
Hasmal Circle & Shivana-Elris Family NPCs
Iolan Shivana: Myr's father. Tevinter refugee who converted to the Orlesian Chantry. Had very strong ideas about magic and the place of mages in the world, though they weren't as negative as might be assumed. Worked as a gardener for several noble patrons in Hasmal. Struck down in the street by one of them on thin pretext shortly after Myr was taken to Hasmal Circle.
Benden Shivana: Myr's older half-brother. Also a Tevinter refugee. Much quieter than their father, but likewise steady in the faith.
Diona Shivana (nee Elris): Myr's mother. Largely ignored her only child until he manifested as a mage, at which point she all but threw him at the templars to get rid of him.
Follow the link for Vandelin's family.
Hasmal Circle
Ser Jarom (Evergreen): Canny old bastard since birth. Gruff, disreputable, has a penchant for gambling despite his vow of poverty, tells completely bullshit stories, tried to convince someone he'd seen a nuggalope once. Never minds a spot of fisticuffs and acts like he hates all the little mage brats running around. (Except for the fact he always seemed to get the short straw when it came to fire duty for the Grease Explosion lesson--because it was fun to watch, all right??)
He isn't much longer for Thedas, being nearly in his sixties. He doesn't remember much but he does remember he's got a job to look out for these mages, who might as well be his family now. And look, kid--the Inquisition's got nuggalopes. What did he tell you?! ((screenshot edits courtesy of Ran -- "Abomination wreaking havoc across Thedas? Must be tuesday."))
Inspiration: This mystery hack right here.
Ser Clarimond: The templar who brought Myr and Van Benden's letter.
Enchanter Philomela: Resident knight-enchanter at Hasmal. Fierce as hell momma bear. Had her apprentices crosstrain with the templars to get them used to fighting bigger, nastier opponents who could shut down their magic. She made a personal project of Myr around the same time he worked out he could use his considerable bulk to make life miserable for anyone who crossed him or Van.
(Senior) Enchanter Belén: Theoretical researcher in the creation and spirit schools.
Rohesia Barlow: Vandelin's firebrand apprentice and rebel mage. Had a talent for incendiary flyers and Horror spells. Indirectly responsible for Myr's blinding.
Evie Braithwait: Her family owned an imported fennec. She wouldn't stop talking about it. Failed her Harrowing.
Clarence Pinckney-Brimble: Vandelin's terrible ex-roommate. Weeaboo for Creation magic. Myr broke his nose post-rebellion in the midst of Clarence trashing Van.
Adalbert Maynard: Once talked shit about Myr's Chantry-discussion group. Van cursed him with a very bad case of static cling for it.
Liesel Hoch: Another of Philomela's apprentices. Ginger Nevarran valkyrie. She was Myr's first serious crush; they had a few fumbling trysts. Transferred shortly after her Harrowing, ostensibly not for her romantic misadventures.
Expanded Strengths/Weaknesses
-- Unconventional -- in part owing to his difficulty with learning spells the "usual" way and in part owing to his strange way of thinking about magic, Myr makes unusual uses of his spells fairly routinely. Creation already lends itself to lots of out-of-combat utility; he's just expanding on that.
-- Confident -- even if he's faking that he knows what he's doing, he's faking it very convincingly.
-- Persistent
Neutral
-- Fearless -- with a couple of exceptions (see below), he's simply...not afraid of things or the possibility of harm coming to him. He has been doing well enough so far at navigating the world that he's not afraid to try things that are, probably, not very safe for a blind mage to do on his own--or dare others into doing things with him that could get him hurt. This can also get him in trouble as a loyalist, since he will not shy away from or demur about his beliefs if it comes to a direct challenge of them.
Weaknesses
-- Entropy magic -- has a spot of the ol' PTSD when it comes to this. What's worse is he won't acknowledge it, won't talk about it, and won't try to avoid the possibility of being fielded with an entropy mage because he thinks he can handle it right up until something's cast in his general vicinity and he panics.
-- Learns by doing/doesn't test well -- you can tell Myr over and over again how to do something, but until you show him how to do it, he'll have Maferath's own time picking it up. This meant he advanced more slowly than his peers through the Circle until he hit upon ways to learn and remember that worked for him (mostly writing things down and coming up with gestural components better matched to their spells).
-- Trusting
-- Naive
Quirks:
-- Can't whistle--don't even bother trying to teach him he just can't.
-- Habitually forgets Dalish words but remembers the translations just fine.