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Name: Kian Riaan (Key-en Ree-ahn)
Nickname/
Preferred name: Ki (Key)
Title: Currently None
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Sex: Male
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Age: 16
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Race: Human
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Ethnicity: Aeloran
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Affiliations: Wandering Musician
Civilian Blacksmith Apprentice
Seeking Position among Elysian Vanguard (current)
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Physical Description:
Kian's hair is a dark black color, sometimes appearing to be dark brown. The shadowed locks always seem to be tied back in a low pony-tail, reaching just below his abdomen, tied with a simple white strand of cloth with a single red stripe. The fringes of his hair are parted into thirds with a lock reaching down between his eyes slightly. His face’s jawline is smooth, leaving it very effeminate, with large amber eyes that seem to reflect the brightest of hopes. His cheek has a scar running down on the far right from long ago. His figure is lithe, somewhat short at 5'1", and light at approximately 100 lb.
Voice: High Alto, Slightly male, occasionally cracks to treble when yelling.
(Photo is meant to serve as a basis, details described here is the actual look.)
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Personality: Kian is often very childish - excitable, marveling, and easily impressed. His hopes and dreams often cause him to be undoubting of those around him, although he is still cautious around those he believes to be foes. He struggles to take situations as dire due to his faith in those around him. Always an idealist, he always has at least a light grin on his face except during times of great distress and will strive for greatness, unrelentingly. Despite his nature, he can show great respect towards his superiors while being warm with them in non-professional settings. He struggles to end the life of another, regardless of its insignificance, treasuring it, but will always act in favor of what he believes is the greater good.
History: Kian recalls little from before the age of 8. The fragments of memory remaining detail how he came to be lost. He assumed that his family were wandering musicians, especially due to his "untrained" excellence at stringed instruments. His first memories were of extreme pain and then, black. When he came to he was alone, on a long forgotten road, next to a bloodied stone on the path. Following in his skills, he played music for money for nearly 3 years, often scavenging and harvesting plants for food when there was little to provide him sustenance. Following the trails, he eventually became employed, warily, for a local blacksmith in the suburbs of a city. Quickly surpassing his mentor within the first 4 years, he was met with staunch resistance when it came time to leave. He had heard whispers of The Elysian Vanguard among the crowds. A whisper of purpose.
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Talents - Non-combat:
- Stringed Instruments
- Smithing
- Cooking (Randomly excellent or disastrous)
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Skills - Combat:
- Excels at dodging and parrying due to speed.
- Begins with balanced skill in all forms of weaponry - Exceptional - No outstanding performance with any specific weapon class. Develops weapon skills in tandem with each other, often opting to improve in select favorite weapon types at a faster pace.
- Poor to Fair hand-to-hand combat skill, primary due to underdeveloped body.
- Strong balance.
- Precise control of movement, including extremities (hands, feet, legs and arms)
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Style of Combat: While he has never been tested fully, Kian's specialized style involves the alternation of weaponry to launch unpredictable assaults with a wide variety of weapons from daggers to longswords. Rarely he showcases the ability to even lift a war-hammer or battleaxe, under extreme stress and with the proper adrenaline, he can. His forging hammer is often involved in his fighting style. His movements in open, line combat (lines of soldiers fighting) are most often sweeping, tailored to deal with groups or to land staggering blows, but often leave him isolated from allies. In skirmishing, his style adapts to dodging and quick strikes from as many angles as possible.
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Special Abilities:
- The Conduit: Kian's combat ability and mental state is strongly correlated with his emotions at the time. His emotions can cause a wide range of unintended consequences, from completely negating his ability to fight to enraging him to take unimaginable risks, acting without care for his own life. His positive nature helps him control this ability, but it can be a burden as it taxes the mind when it resists the change of emotions.
- Student of the World: Kian is able to learn affinities, otherwise known as elements, through prolonged contact with them. His learned affinities can allow him to influence substances of a certain affinity, such as heating/cooling, generating shock (sudden release of kinetic energy), release of charge (electric shocking), and influencing cells of cooperating individuals as well as generate amounts of base elements such as sparks, flames, dirt, wind, and water by drawing from the loose elements around him. His influence and generation amount depend on his experience with the substance, age, and strength at the time, both mental and physical.
- Synthesis: Kian is able to momentarily infuse his wielded weapon or hands with the power of one of the basic affinities such as the heat of a fire or the chill of ice at the expense of the weapon’s durability, occasionally even ruining the weapon beyond repair, or physical pain.
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Equipment:
Preferred:
- Activity: Playing the Instrument / Forging
- Weapon: Sabre / Quarterstaff
- Pass-time: Exploration
- Food: Berries - Old habits don’t die
Just as an example of how his hair (this isn't actually him~!) would look when he isn't in battle, which is usually strung up more tightly to prevent it from impeding his ability. Except it would be slightly longer, down to his waist.
! - Note: I think Kian would start off best, denied a role as Kirith'Kai, ending up working as a sub-role, most likely a blacksmith for the Vanguard until he's recognized for actual duty since he doesn't excel in any clear category.
