ScattyThePirate's Minor Characters

ScattyThePirate · Hireling Joined: 05 Jun 2015 Posts: 48

Summary of Minor Characters

Here's a small summary of my characters who play minor roles in the overall plot of the House. They occasionally drop in or fulfill a more peripheral role in the RP. Since I put some work in their creation, their personality and their background, I might as well share it in a comprehensive post.

Char:

Areth Valinor, 25, born on the 2nd of Frostfall under the Tower.
=> Will receive his own bio soon!

Hub:

Hew's Bane

Appearance:

Areth is larger than average for a Bosmer, but still smaller than the average Dunmer or Breton. His body is practically covered in war paint. He prefers to wear dark colors.

Growing up in Valenwood, Areth’s preferred weapon is a bow.

Personality and Talents:

He’s sarcastic, cheerful and humorous most of the time, getting along with pretty much everyone, but if someone were to insult him, he can curse like a dremora in a box full of rabid skeevers.

He is a talented pickpocket with an eye for the wealth of a person; he can determine where someone hides their purse and how much gold is in it.

Areth is an avid thief due to his career as a bandit. He can stay hidden in the shadows and strike with close precision. Pickpocketing, lockpicking, trafficking, you name it. He had done all of it. As a result, he is very good with money and knows every knack on how to earn a lot of it. In his career, he learned where people keep their money and how to get access to it without being noticed.

He’ll never jump into a tricky situation headfirst. Only after a careful consideration of reward and risk, he’ll act. He then acts focused and fast, never neglecting his surroundings and using his environment to his advantage.

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Motivation:

He came to Stonefalls to look for his former bandit group, the Crimson Brigands, and their boss Gwilith the Red, which decamped to Morrowind after a skirmish with the guards in Elden Root. They took some of his personal items with them, leaving him back in Valenwood.

In Stonefalls, he stumbled upon Shaigan Seafarer, rather by accident. He tried to pickpocket his purse but Shaigan noticed. Instead of making a scene, he invited Areth to become part of his crew at the Darkmaiden. Since then he takes on scouting jobs, trafficking and the management of the ship’s income.

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Char:

Corvus Aurelian, 48, born on the 19th of Sun's Height under the Apprentice.

Hub:

Heimlyn Keep

Appearance:

Corvus has tanned skin, black hair and striking, yet tired and somber dark brown eyes. He appears rather gentle and friendly.

Because of a curse, inflicted by the Xivilai Xvarik, his flesh begins to rot rapidly on occasion, only leaving his bare bones. This happens very irregularly and seemingly to the most inconvenient situations. After a while, his flesh returns, as if nothing had happened.

Personality and Talents:

This once caring father of two now is rather characterized by pessimism, sarcasm and regret. While he got over his loss, happiness seems to be an alien concept for him. However, he is determined to make amends for all his mistakes, most notably the things he did for the Worm Cult and Molag Bal.

During his “apprenticeship”, he accumulated a nefarious amount of vile necromantic knowledge. Raising corpses, binding spirits, preserving flesh, brewing poisonous alchemical concoctions. While he does not cherish his skills, he can be perceived as an advanced necromancer. His education even involved mending and molding flesh, which can faintly be compared to restoration magic.

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Motivation:

Corvus used to be a sailor, living in Anvil with his wife Vala and their two daughters Aia and Ysabel. In the events following the Soulburst, he tragically lost his family. During the assault he managed to flee to the countryside. By sheer chance, he came across a group of necromancers hiding in a cave, which got annexed by the Worm Cult later. Still grieving over his wife and two daughters, he decided joined them. In his folly, he thought that he could resurrect them if he pursued the way of necromancy.

He wound up working in the Vile Laboratory for the Worm Cult in the end. After six months, Corvus began to see his foolishness and tried to escape from Molag Bal’s fangs in a desperate attempt to turn his life around.

The laboratory’s overseer Xvarik, who pulls the strings of all his subjects, noticed the escape attempt. Xvarik afflicted him with a vile curse before casting him through the portal to Nirn, leaving him to the capricious whims of a Worm Cult coven in Deshaan. There, the cultists found amusement in him suffering an endless cycle between mortality and undeath.

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Char:

Xal-Shei, 47, born on the 5th of Rain's Hand under the Mage.

Hub:

None at the moment

Appearance:

Xal has a rather athletic physique. His body is covered in green scales, his head adorned with black feathers.

His preferred weaponry consists of twohanded swords or a sword and shield.

Personality and Talents:

This lizard can be described as humble, kindhearted and caring as well as daring and courageous.

As a mercenary, he earns some money with the fulfillment of more or less important errands. While he has a reasonable income, he prefers a modest way of life. Hunting and fishing, sleeping beneath the stars somewhere remote and visiting the tavern once in a while. He enjoys the simpler things of life as he realized that not striving for fame and fortune is quite enjoyable. Some people might mistake his attitude as slacking, but it's really a subjective point of view.

His righteous mindset is often accompanied by the notion that sometimes brute force is the solution to a problem. Countless victorious bar brawls seem to be the result of that.

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Motivation:

His motivation is plain and simple: Enjoy your life, earn some coin and don't let anyone tell you how to live your life.

He ventured north from Black Marsh in an effort to find some mercenary work. Since travelling is pretty high on his priority list, he never stays in one place very long. Occasionally he can be found in his camp north of Ebonheart. On other occasions he might stay at an inn in Windhelm or spend some time in an Ayleid ruin in Shadowfen. Since he established some close ties with the inhabitants of Lukiul Uxith, he also can be found wandering there from time to time as well.

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Char:

Dante Valtieri, 291, born on the 15th of First Seed under the Lord.

Hub:

[Closed] Gold Coast

Appearance:

Pale skin, pointy fangs and bloodshot eyes. Dante is obviously a vampire - if he wants to show it. He uses illusion to conceal his true nature when he mingles with mortals, appearing as the average Breton with dark brown hair and brown eyes.

Personality and Talents:

Dante adheres to the creed of his now broken clan: Conceal your vampiric nature in public. Do not harm innocent mortals without reason. Control your thirst.

He appears rather dutiful and self-controlled, compared to most vampires one might encounter in troubled times like this. Cauteous by nature, it takes him a while to trust someone.

As for special talents: He's a skilled illusionist - partly due to being a vampire. He can cloak himself in shadow and even manipulate the minds of mortals to his advantage, allowing him to feed without being noticed.

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Motivation:

Dante's former clan broke apart when most of its members turned to Molag Bal after the Soulburst. Having forsaken the Lord of Brutality in the first place, Dante continues to uphold the virtues of his former clan. This however caused him to be seized and imprisoned by one of his former brothers, Sebastien. According to Sebastien, Dante wasn't worthy of posessing Molag Bal's gift and would be worth more to his cause as a mindless bloodfiend. For that reason, Sebastien locked him up and let him starve, causing him to slowly lose his mind to an overwhelming blood frenzy.

Fortunately, he was found and rescued by Clavius Cyprianus, a member of his former clan who didn't succumb to Molag Bal, before it was too late.

Headcanon: He ran over Vanus Galerion with his horse by accident and later punched him twice for being a conceited asshole. They didn't get along well.