[Approved by Avalon] Russel Kandor

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Russel Kandor SadPlamt
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Russel Kandor  [Approved CS]

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Name: Russel Kandor

Race: Human

Date of Birth: 18th of Saun, 706

Languages Spoken:
Fluent = Common
Broken = Atvian


Appearance

Pale skin and corpse-eyes, Russel Kandor's haggard and haunted appearance lives in direct opposition to his otherwise apparent youth. Delicate, soft features that pair nicely with the elegant shape of his face, he could be described as "pretty" but never mistaken for "handsome". Red and recent scars across the bridge of his nose and underneath his left eye mar the otherwise undisturbed surface of his unblemished skin. His platinum blonde hair is kept in a neat, fastidious style; practical, but pleasant enough. Russel's eyes remain a murky grey, unsettling to most at first glance, but hiding a softness, a kindness, underneath to those whose looks linger.

He is a lithe figure, elegant angles and quiet grace neatly packaged into a reedy 5'9" frame. His physicality does not bear the known awkwardness for those having just begun to grow into their bodies. Even his recently acquired curse of Loshava, with its needling roots spreading underneath his skin, do not disrupt his carefully manicured movement. He attempts to mitigate the stench of death that stalks him with pockets of posies and pleasant perfumes.

Quiet as a shadow, Russel prefers to fade into the background and his sense of style matches that impulse. Rarely caught out of the simple, black uniform of the Eternal Empire's Mage Corps, the youth has made only minimal adjustments to the otherwise unaltered set of clothes. The most apparent of those changes is the sweet-smelling rose pinned to the lapel of his dress long-coat, another attempt at disguising the corpse-stench which clings to his curse.
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Russel Kandor SadPlamt
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Posts: 109
Joined: Fri Mar 04, 2022 7:40 pm
Race: Human
Profession: Imperial Agent
Renown: 60
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Skills & Knowledge

Skill Name Level XP
Endurance Expert 76/250
Athletics (RB) Competent 30/250
Stealth (FT) Competent 26/100
Hunting Competent 26/250
Combat (Blades): One-Handed Competent 26/250
Intelligence Novice 15/250
Graft Novice 10/250
Larceny Novice 10/250

Knowledge
Endurance
Total: 25
Bend and Sway: 1
Near Death: 3
In-Fighting: 1
Imperial March: 3
The Magma Beast: 8
A Study in Secrets I: 2
Initiation Day: 4
Fight of the Founding: 3

Hunting
Total: 22
Starter Knowledge: 11
Hanging Tree: 4
Snowblind: 2
Do Webs Catch Tears as Flies?: 5

Combat: Blades (One-Handed)
Total: 21
Starter Knowledge: 2
Character Approval: 1
Near Death: 3
In-Fighting: 5
The Magma Beast: 6
Do Webs Catch Tears as Flies?: 3
Fight of the Founding: 1


Stealth
Total: 19
Starter Knowledge: 11
Hanging Tree: 2
Snowblind: 4
Do Webs Catch Tears as Flies?: 2

Athletics
Total: 14
Starter Knowledge: 5
Character Approval: 1
Bend and Sway: 5
Fight of the Founding: 3

Intelligence
Total: 10
Starter Knowledge: 2
Character Approval: 1
Imperial March: 5
A Study in Secrets I: 2

Graft:
Total: 6
Initiation Day:1
New Growth, Old Rot: 5

Detection
Total: 6
The Magma Beast: 6

Socialization
Total: 4
Imperial March: 2
A Study in Secrets I: 2

Tactics
Total: 4
Tactics: Trying not to let your curse affect the group
Tactics: Learning from past errors
Tactics: Hanging back so as not to accidentally interfere.
Tactics: Taking point when there's a potential threat you can deal with.


Discipline:
Total: 4
Initiation Day: 1
Discipline: Reducing the negative effects of your curse
Discipline: Trying not to let your pain show
Discipline: Keeping bad memories from affecting you

Larceny
Starter Knowledge: 2

Research
Total: 2
Research: Using your curse to test a theory.
Research: When all else fails, use your eyes.


Meditation:
New Growth, Old Rot: 1

Etiquette
Etiquette: Returning a bow is only good manners.

Detection
Detection: Looking for traces of physical passage.

Leadership
Leadership: Offering to lead a small group.
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Russel Kandor SadPlamt
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Posts: 109
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Race: Human
Profession: Imperial Agent
Renown: 60
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Skill Point Ledger

Thread or Skill Name Points Adjustment Running Total
Stealth +26 0
Hunting (SP) +26 0
Athletics (SP) +25 0
Larceny (SP) +10 0
Combat (Blades): One-Handed (SP) +10 0
Intelligence (SP) +10 0
Combat (Blades): One-Handed (Approval) +5 0
Intelligence (Approval) +5 0
Athletics (Approval) +5 0
Bend and Sway +10 10
Near Death +10 20
In-Fighting +10 30
Combat (Blades): One-Handed -11 19
The Imperial March +15 34
Hanging Tree +10 44
Snowblind +10 54
The Magma Beast +20 74
Endurance -26 48
A Study in Secrets I +10 58
Initiation Day +10 68
Endurance -50 18
New Growth, Old Rot +10 Magic XP 18, 10 MXP
Graft -10 MXP 18
Do Webs Catch Tears as Flies? +15 33
Fight of the Founding +15 48
Shadows Under the Palace +15 63
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Russel Kandor SadPlamt
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Personality


Shy, soft-spoken, and of a solitary nature, Russel Kandor is not known for the raucous and rash behavior other young soldiers in his corps often display. He is considerate with his intentions, cautious with his actions, and contemplative with his discoveries. Solemn and diligent, he is slow to trust anyone outside of his unit and withholding amidst strangers. He's already paid the price for brash behavior and has no intention on paying it further.

The innate grace in which he moves through his physical life completely abandons Russel in social situations. Stammering and nervous, Russel often finds himself tripping over words and embarrassing himself immensely when thrown into conversation. His awkward nature only worsened after his curse manifested, and now the youth has been forced to learn to take comfort in quiet isolation.

Behind his caution and beyond his anxiety, there lives a gentleness that is core to Russel's being. Kind, and being a sweetness that is perhaps belayed by his occupation, Russel genuinely cares about the people he is protecting in the Empire. He is greatly motivated by a sense of service above his sense of self, and is willing to sacrifice great parts of his happiness if it means his duty to his fellow person is fulfilled.

However, since being mentored by and initiated into Graft by Captain Yssera Kolt, Russel has begun to display a semblance of her off-beat humor and approach to life. He smiles more, shows a greater willingness to take risks, and has learned a quiet ease in social settings. Feeling like he's living on borrowed time since his curse, a touch of a devil-may-care attitude has crept into Russel's day-to-day approach to life. The self-doubt which plagued him as a youth has been beat back by an increasing list of accomplishments, replaced by a soldier's confidence in his abilities
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History


A farmboy born to the Kandor Clan out in the boonies of Korlasir, Russel was raised not knowing the difference between community and family. Brought up in traditional Empire fashion, in a polygamist commune where everyone raises everyone, his parents numbered in the double digits, and his siblings exceeded even that sum. Life was simple as a child, filled with rotating mentors all intent in bringing the best out in the young boy and the others of his birth group. They played, they laughed, and lived out their joy as children before the duty of adulthood yoked them to professions.

Russel's quiet nature bred a quiet step, and as he outgrew his child-clothes he found a steadiness and grace in his limbs. Were it not for Imperial Recruiters, he might have grown into an accomplished hunter for his clan. But the Hotlands War needed bodies, and to the youth community, no matter how large, was family. He happily enlisted at 15 arcs, assured that he would come home to his clan with new stories and the scars to go with it.

He couldn't have known what he would have seen at the Hotlands Border. He couldn't have prepared for the rage and the anger of battle, how it surged within him and made him burn with anger. He couldn't have stopped himself from taking that torch, chasing down the traitor that slit the throats of his unit in the night while he was on patrol, and burning him out of the forest that they slipped into.

Most of all, he couldn't have known what the wrath of Ashan entailed as the Immortal tended to that same burning forest.

His soul damned, his unit dead, and the war quickly coming to a close, Russel was reassigned to the Carhyst garrison for retraining and evaluation. There, he remains under constant study as Imperial researchers try to find a way to weaponize his curse for the Glory of the Empress.
Starter Quest

[Optional] As a Hated of Ashan, life has become a bit difficult for Russel. Coming back from a curse isn't easy and entails learning about the Immortal who bestowed the mark and figuring out how to try to atone for the sin they committed, and that's only if the Immortal is willing to listen.

On the other hand, the Imperial researchers at the Carhyst garrison are trying to find a way to weaponize his curse. Is that what he wants? Or does he want to find a way to appease Ashan and rid himself of it?

Russel has a decision to make.
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Marks & Magic

Curse of Loshava
Hated
The Cursed who earn Ashan’s ire find themselves cut away from the spiritual world. If the Cursed is a Sev'ryn they immediately lose their Familiar, unable to bond or retrieve it till the curse is lifted. All spirits flee in the wake of the Cursed. A Cursed of Ashan is a Blight upon the spiritual world and a destroyer of both Ephemera and Ectoplasm. Ghosts will avoid all confrontations with a cursed. No spiritual ability in any mark will work with a cursed of Loshova and even Pact mages will find the very presence of a Cursed unbearable. In addition, the Cursed mark plants a seed in the body of the Cursed. Until the Curse is lifted, painful shoots of vines and leaves will bloodlessly pierce the skin and flower at random intervals. A Cursed will find during Cylus their metabolism slows considerably and they slumber longer. For Tunawa or other plant-based races, they find their growth uncontrollable and in strange places. Extra, inoperable limbs roots, and even featureless heads will grow randomly, wither and die.

Graft
Graft Theme: Synthesis

Graft Spark Persona:
The Gardner
A creeping vine of magic threaded through Russel's very soul, the Gardner is a calculating creature that takes inspiration from the blooming seeds already sprouting throughout its host. It sees the prospect of synthesis between flora and fauna within Russel; delighting in the potential of perfect authority over oneself and one's environment. As such, it encourages Russel to seek growth and understanding under its guiding hand. It pushes Russel further and further in the direction of his goals, no matter what attachments he might be leaving behind. The Gardner keeps true to its namesake, trimming away what it sees as the rot of Russel, the anxiety, the self-doubt and all those that do not serve his development, until he sprouts into a manicured mastery of himself.

Witchmark:
Root Apex - True to its goal of synthesis, The Gardner manifests the first vestiges of its influence through the tips of its hosts fingers. Utilizing the most sensitive sensory organ of a plant a blueprint, the Gardner has shifted the pads of Russel's fingers to a dark brown color in an attempt to build out roots. The half-built organs, while non-functional, have the unintended result of removing Russel's fingerprints.

Competent Awakening:
Bolting - Much like the botanical technique of forcing a plant's early growth, the Gardener has seen fit to force Russel to sprout before his seasons demanded it. Physically, this manifests in wild growths sprouting on Russel's body corresponding to his emotional state. Moments of extreme joy or love will result in sweet smelling flowers budding from his skin. Moments of anxiety or anger will cause his subdermal vines to externalize, sprouting barbs all over his body.
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Russel Kandor SadPlamt
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Possessions and Housing
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General Possessions
  • 4 outfits of average quality
  • Leather armor (masterwork)
  • Wooden shield (masterwork)
  • Dagger x10 (average)
  • Thieves' Kit (average)
  • Hunter's Kit (average)
  • Average Map of the Eternal Empire
Imperial Agent Equipment:
  • One arming sword
  • Chainmail shirt
  • Helmet
  • Greaves
  • Gauntlets
Imperial Agent Formal Dress:
  • Black trench coat with silver trim that buckles across the chest,
  • Black button up vest
  • Black undershirt
  • Black trousers with silver piping down the sides
  • Black gloves
  • Black knee high boots
  • Black tricorn hat with silver lining.
Heirloom
  • Minithelite Chain Longcoat -
    A longcoat cut in traditional imperial style, but interwoven with a strange Mer metal. When worn, the metal has a tendency to shift coloration to blend with Russel's environment, perfect for missions that require a bit more discretion. This was a gift from Russel's clan upon his enlistment in the Imperial Infantry, hoping that it would keep their community's child hidden and safe during the chaos of the Hotlands war.
    Reference Image
    This, minus the heavy plate on the arms/shoulders and the color is sort of what I'm going for: Image
Housing

Russel lives with his unit in the Cahryst Garrison. He otherwise keeps a simple apartment in Korlasir for when he returns home to visit family, or has business in the capital.
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Wealth Ledger

Current Wealth Tier:
Item Adjustment Total WP
Starting Package Tier 5 (66 WP) 66
Wealth Thread +1 WP 67
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Renown Ledger

Item/ Thread Renown Total
Starting Renown +10 10
In-Fighting +5 15
Imperial March +5 20
Hanging Tree +5 25
Snowblind +10 35
The Magma Beast +10 45
Fight of the Founding +5 50
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Thread List

Bend and Sway - 1st of Cylus, 722
Snowblind - 22nd of Cylus, 722
Imperial March - 22nd of Ashan, 722
Near Death - 26th of Ashan, 722
In-Fighting - 30th of Ashan, 722
Hanging Tree 37th of Ashan, 722
A Study in Secrets I - 42nd of Ashan, 722
The Magma Beast - 120th of Ashan, 722
Initiation Day - 13th of Ymiden, 722
New Growth, Old Rot - 15th of Ymiden, 722
Fight of the Founding - 42nd of Ymiden, 722
Do Webs Catch Tears as Flies? - 82nd of Ymiden, 722
Shadows Under the Palace - 40th of Saun, 722
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