Post by Silas Crowley on Apr 26, 2017 21:06:37 GMT
SILAS CROWLEY
DARK MAGE of NOHR
HP | 16 |
STR | 00 |
MAG | 09 |
SKL | 03 |
SPD | 05 |
DEF | 01 |
RES | 07 |
Silas has an affinity for DARKNESS,
indicating a clouded heart bound in blithe gloom.
WEAPONS:
Tomes
Darkness [E]
INVENTORY:
x1 Flux
GENERAL
RACE; Elf
GENDER; Male
AGE; 21
BIRTHDAY; 01 / 13
BOON: Magic
BANE: Strength
APPEARANCE
HAIR: Long, silky platinum-white. Waist-length.
EYES: Avaricious yellow. Tinged orange at the edges.
HEIGHT: 6'4"
WEIGHT: 189 Lbs.
CLOTHING: Ceremonial Nohrian robes, tailored to apprentice mages. Silas' uniform is adorned by crow feathers and thin, spiked plates of black Nohrian steel.
BUILD: Broad and tall, but lanky and slim, with a delicate look befitting most elves.
ABOUT
PROFESSION: Court mage, Nohrian military.
ALLIANCE: Nohr
HOMETOWN: Krakenburg, Windmire.
LIKES: Bird-watching, libraries, spellcraft, incense, finery, freedom.
DISLIKES: Mud, insects, Hoshido, humans, nobles, authority.
PERSONALITY: Having suffered Nohrian prejudice against elves, Silas has acquired a dogged and defiant nature complimented by his lust for magical power. He does not see himself as the low-ranking mage soldier he is, but rather as a special exception to the general strife and enmity of Nohr, a harsh nation that would see all elves subjugated and used. He is egotistical, ambitious and somewhat deluded, considering himself a 'Nohrian' even as he curses the land's nobility in the same breath.
Silas confides in his magic-rich heritage. While his great-grandfather was human, Silas' lineage is an official pedigree of mostly elves, of which he belongs to its third generation. He believes his Crowley name implies he has a vast magical potential that can achieve anything... if he can harness the courage and talent in his latent blood and master Nohrian sorcery, that is. For this reason Silas takes his failures harshly to himself, but swells with pleasured pride at his every success in both his military career and magic research.
Silas takes no interest in his elvish heritage, besides that it also implies he has a somehow extraordinary potential to attain powerful magic. His elven ancestors were conquered by the Nohrians... thus, he deems them to have lived an inferior way of life, and doesn't care for elven culture or animism at all. Silas' heart is driven by a lust for freedom justified by power and carries strong values of individuality, exceptionalism and a yearning to topple social strata through magic arcana alone.
He believes it will be magic, not laws or people, to change the world and create a new order governed by mages solely.
BIOGRAPHY: Silas is the third in a wide family tree of 'Crowley' mages, a clan associated entirely with magic. Founded by a single Nohrian sorcerer of wealth, cunning and talent almost a hundred years ago, Silas has many detached sibling, mostly elven but some human. Silas' great-grandfather married several conquered elves as brides and begat many children from them, who have since repeated his tradition and married into magic-rich elven blood, not so different from the pedigree-obsessed Nohrian nobility that the Crowley line is tied to but estranged with.
Occupying a strange and blurred place between noble and second-class citizen, Silas joined the Nohrian military at the age of seven, becoming a sorcerer's apprentice in castle Krakenburg - the very place of his birth. While he was a legitimate son, his father was ever at war, and his mother was a mere concubine. He forsook family and personal relationships in order to study intensely within the complex academia of Castle Krakenburg's libraries and magic laboratories, where Faceless research and Dark magic development was always heavy underway.
Accustomed to power, Silas surpassed the disdain of his fellow Nohrian soldiers through power, and fought in his first battle at the age of fourteen: it was a small skirmish with Hoshidans, but Silas managed to survive and injure a few soldiers, legitimizing his place amongst not just his colleagues but all Nohrians who he fought beside. Silas became a student to many sorcerers since, studying their notes and performing chores for them in exchange for arcane tutelage.
Silas has led a somewhat sheltered existence of constant study with little practical application of his magical powers. With special leave, he was dispatched at the age of eighteen to study abroad, a freedom that has since expanded to allow Silas to venture wheresoever he pleases under the pretenses of pursuing several studies: faceless research, alchemy and horticulture are just a few scholarships that have given the young mage broad freedoms not normally afforded to Nohrians, and he now travels deep into Nohr's bitter woodlands to pursue rare herbs for his research.
But it will not be trinkets, potions or academia that Silas pursues; in the wilds, he seeks practical combat, to test magic of warfare on living soldiers and attain a dark power that not even the crown of Nohr will be able to ignore.
OTHER
STATUS: Single.
PET: --