Post by lym on Jun 20, 2024 23:47:18 GMT -5
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[attr="class","nametitle"]Balin Lym
[attr="class","namesubtitle"]"These are words I have spoken"
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Balin is stocky by nature, short, stout and a wall of hardened muscle hidden beneath loose-fitting clothes of simple design. 5’6” with long dark hair and a well-kept goatee his stone-faced appearance, weather worn skin, and callous covered hands give him an aged presence well beyond his 19 years. His features are more angular than round and his build, while stocky is predominantly the lean muscle of a runner rather than the bulk which comes from weightlifting. Though he is far from fastidious he does keep his clothing in reasonable shape, generally spurning flashy or as he would call it” froofy” clothes for the comfort of clothes he could farm or dig in. Balin’s aversion to flash however does not extend to the grim, he will usually have several skulls threaded onto a simple chain attached to his belt and his back is patterned with celtic style knot work made of interlocking bones. [attr="class","characterappheader"]Personality Balin likes to project a calm sense of wisdom to the world around him, he wants people to think he is always centered and a deep focused listener. The problem is he’s bad at it, his mind tends to wander when people speak for too long and he has a terrible memory for faces and names. The isolation of his upbringing left him lacking in some social graces though this is compensated for somewhat by his deep spirituality and strong sense of honor and duty. In a professional environment he endeavors to be the picture of a perfect soldier, but his blunt and spacy nature can be somewhat contradictory to this, in fact he’s the kind of knight who would call his captain an idiot but ask to speak freely first. Socially Balin is a go with the flow kind of guy he’ll choose bars and sparing over most activities but can appreciate fine art and culture even if it’s not his preferred environment. His sense of duty is extremely letter of the law and he’s happy to half ass things he considers unimportant so long as it get done. However, He has a strong moral compass with little to no compunction about violence against those he deems in the wrong. He puts perhaps too much emphasis on first impressions and though he is quick to trust he is very slow to forgive and never one to forget. Balin’s religion plays an important part in how he carries himself and his values. Though he would never admit it out loud he has internally acknowledged if not accepted the fact that it is possible his faith is simply the delusions of his grandfather and not the principles of an ancient dwarven clan. However, the precepts taught to him in childhood have instilled in him a reverence for magic as being the will of the ancestors and a deep sense of respect for the fallen, particularly those who die in battle. This sense of certainty of his place in the universe is a fundamental rock that has pushed him through many hardships, and he is unwilling to let that go. Though he is spiritual he is rarely preachy, choosing to share his beliefs only when one asks though he is prone to the occasional bout of religious soliloquy after a victory or defeat. [attr="class","characterappheader"]History The details of Balin’s birth are shrouded in mystery even to him. Sometimes, late at night before he drifts into slumber he can recall a smell, a sound, a fleeting image of his parents but like water through a sieve the memory true or false is gone just as quick. His earliest recollections are of his grandparents. When he was young, three maybe four years of age they moved with him to a remote cabin about a days ride from the nearest village and several more from saussy about as close to the livable edge of the high magic region north of the border between clover and heart as any structure. The mana enriched soil produced crops highly infused with mana and thus provided a comfortable if sparse living for the family. Living in this remote and isolated location, had its own dangers in the form of magical beasts and the occasional bandit. However, Balin’s grandfather was a talented bone mage who could summon powerful constructs and his grandmother was an equally skilled fire mage and mildly talented magical engineer. Neither liked to speak of the past so the origin of their skills was never explicitly explained but their cautious nature and ease of coordination had always led Balin to believe they used to be fighters or adventurers and fear they were deserters. Outside of farming and physical training Balin’s grandfather also taught him of the spirits, not the four great ones like most folk in clover knew but instead the ancestral spirits of the dwarves whom his grandfather claimed lineage with. In its’ simplest form this teaching boiled down to three tenants: Mana is the collective soul and will of the ancestors. To deepen ones bond with mana is to deepen ones connection to the other side. It is the duty of the living to carry the will of the dead. These tenants were supposedly revealed to his grandfather by spirits while meditating deep within a secret dungeon that only dwarves and their descendants could find. Though his grandfather also often spoke to these spirits around the house, which didn’t strike Balin as odd until years after his grandparents had past, his faith still leads him to carry the skulls of these ancient dwarves as his grandfather assured him they would speak when his bond with mana was deep enough. When he turned fifteen it was a four-day journey to the nearest grimoire tower and was Balin’s first extended interaction with people who were not family or abjectly afraid of his family due to the skeletons tending the farm. This ended up being a transformative experience in Balin’s life as he quickly learned that none of his peers had experienced the strict religious upbringing he had known. His frustration with this was somewhat tempered however by his excitement at getting his grimoire a pale black book with lavender grey embossing. Balin took to magic like a duck to water, even his grandfather was surprised by how quickly Balin took to the manipulation of two elements. Now fully equipped with a grimoire, Balin spent his free time training with his grandfather and practicing on his own, deeply engrossed in the novelty of his new skills and trying to ignoring the seed which was brewing trouble within. In the next couple years Balin grew rebellious, sneaking away from the farm sometimes for days. Eschewing his religious duties and practices in favor of drinking and carousing and other general teenage miscreance. However, when he was 17 he returned from such a trip to a sobering reality... his grandfather’s heart had given out… he had died. The death of his grandfather changed Balin, brought him back to his faith, partially because he blamed himself for not being there and partially because part of him wanted his grandfather to be right. He wanted to know that someday he would see him again. Balins’ next year was spent working the farm and caring for his grandmother, but without his grandfather’s constructs the work was untenable and without his grandfather his grandmother’s health rapidly declined. In a little more than a year his grandmother had passed too and suddenly Balin found himself truly alone for the first time in his life. For the next few months, Balin persisted in a haze mechanically existing but not living. Slowly he realized that he would not survive here… not alone… the farm had never been his home and honestly, he was a terrible farmer. Half the time his grandmother and him would have starved had it not been for Balin’s talent for hunting. Resolved Balin gathered his meager possessions, set fire to the farmhouse and headed out into the world. About ten days later in the village of saussy he realized that it would behoove him to have a plan… but he didn’t I mean afterall his favorite things to do was drink and fight. Not wanting to make a dishonorable living he thought long and hard about his future as his savings dwindled in the tavern. On one such feckless night, he overheard a group speaking of traveling to the capital to take the magic knight exam. The thought resonated with him, Magic knights were inherently talented in mana if he could truly commune with his ancestors by becoming strong enough joining them seemed a reasonable path to achieve it. Following the group but never joining he made the long trip to the capital arriving the night before the exam was due to begin. However, the exam itself was somewhat uneventful he felt the challenges insufficient and his opponent at the end disappointing. Between each round he spoke to the spirits in the skull hoping that the concentration of mana users would make it easier… yet to know avail. Oddly when it was time for the captains to pick new squad members only the black bulls selected him. Though he found it somewhat strange he felt their laid-back reputation would mix well with him so he accepted, thanking the captain and his ancestors. Now freshly minted as a magic knight, he begins his new life. A life of adventure, hardship, and hopefully good booze. |
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[attr="class","characterappheader2"]ELEMENT | [attr="class","characterappheader2"]GRIMOIRE TIER | [attr="class","characterappheader2"]GRIMOIRE RANK |
Bone/Ash | Gold/Silver | Junior |
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Balin refers to his magic as ancestral magic, aesthetically he doesn't manipulate his own bones but summons the bones of his ancestors "unproven" from the mana. Conversely, he sees the ash as the ethereal will and ire of the ancestors. Mechanically he treats Bone magic as more defensive while ash magic is more offensive, even the few dual spells he does know use bone magic for structure and ash magic for effect. Towards this end he primarily uses bone magic to shape things like, shields, walls, totems, armor, hammers and swords. While he uses ash magic primarily for offense wrapping spinning ash around his weapon or detonating clouds of mana infused ash to cause dust explosions. Out of combat he is much less skilled, he has in the past attempted some rudimentary golems but doesn’t really have the hang of it yet, though he can make bone tools like hoes, spades and crowbars easily and has occasionally been seen carving or digging with them. [/PTab]
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[attr="class","characterappheader2"]DISCORD NAME | Limburgler |
[attr="class","characterappheader2"]TIMEZONE | PDT |
[attr="class","characterappheader2"]DID YOU READ THE RULES? | yes |
[attr="class","characterappheader2"]FACE CLAIM | Far away paladin // Vindalfyr |
[attr="class","characterappheader2"]CHARACTER SLOT NUMBER | 2 |
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