Arthur

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Name: Arthur

Age: 24

Race: Human

Sex: Male

Hair: Hazel-sepia brown colored, straight, long, and layered in the front. but sideburns and back have been trimmed accordingly to shorter longitude.

Eyes: A deep hue of dark emerald green.

Weight: 167lbs

Height: 5'10"

Weapon: Arthur carries a slightly modified broad sword, as it shapes and acts more like a standard claymore. It was primarily smithed for power and as an anti-cavalry weapon and its range and span is commonly dwarfed by other swords. It hilt is has the color of a gold substitue color and the center of it has a emerald engraved into it. The guards are also broader, taking on a upward pointed shape. The sword proves to be one of his most prized possesions, having it once belonged to his grandfather. In addition to his brand, he also carries a regular composite shortbow made of yew and heart wood calibers with dark black dye for auxillary purposes.

Armor: Apart from his clothing, he wears surrvival gear-tunic with many layers of padding on top of his daywear for combat and wears various metallic guards at his pressure points(shoulder, knee, etc.). On top of his tunic, he wears a standard jet black waist-length jacket that pockets many of his supplies and such.

Strengths: Arthur's strengths lie in his exceptional talent in his swordsmanship. His abilities are refined enough to give him a mastery of several techniques designed to maniuplate and crush opponents. He is also known for his lasting endurance in the heat of battle.

Weakness: Arthur's footwork and agility are average at best, as he is quite clumsy and prone to error due to his lack of normal coordination, which also hurts his skill with the bow. He also lacks particularly great skill with his magic.

Skills/Magic: Asides from various swordsmanship skills, he can also control thunder and lightning to small degrees. He is quite great with his acrobatic skill ranging from diving to jumping. He can channel energy from himself into a form of a lightning beam from his palms or summoning a minor squall from the sky, but they are rather hard for him to execute perfectly. He can also conjure minor things from the enviroment, such as creating a sand whirlwind to sheild him in the desert.

Appearance: See armor for elaboration. His build is quite lanky and thin, but he has unusual and often concealed girth at his waist, so his constituion looks often unevenly distributed. His daywear under his layers of armor is either absent or a simple work/labour tunic. He wears standard peasent cloth pants and plain hide boots. Also carries an amulet, a momento from his lover Hilde.

Personality: Essentially complex and sometimes contradictory. In battle, he usually appears calm, collected, and compulsive but is prone to bursting fits of panic, rage, and anxiety if he is provoked. As a person, he is a natural pessimistic and constant worrier, but is generally kind and friendly. He is quite witty and sarcastic at times, but can also appear quite reserved and serious to most strangers. In most cases though, he is compassionate, regressive, and a deep thinker but can also bottle up his feelings inside. Being eager to please, he sometimes hides his own beleifs and his opinions for the sake of pleasing everybody. He is lazy and with his kind nature, he tends to like shortcuts and constantly strives for easy ways out of situations. He will be known to keep grudges, as he is hurt easily.

Biography: Arthur is the illegitimate son of a rich merchant and speculations have been made about him being the product of a rape, although his mother seems to have vanished. Although his father came to acknowledge his son later on, he was first raised by a maid of his father's estate. When he was barely out of his toddler years, his father finally accepted him into his family but the two remained distant even at his young age. His father was one day killed in hunting accident and he and his two brothers came to live with the Lord of Avoria, a good hunting friend of his fathers and eventually was adopted as his son by him. Again, Arthur proved aloof to his guardian and he remained isolated and reserved from the rest of the family. When he became a teenager, his foster father decided to send him to a military academy in the neighobring country of Dorna in accordance with his tradition of being a nobleman. Arthur protested as he wanted to become a scholar, but eventually Avoria had the last say in it. Albeit the fact that Arthur hated the school and resented much of the school's attendees, but it eventually shaped him up to become a well trained soldier, at least in the physical sense. His foster father had his own troubles though, when investigators reported that he was showing treason and conspiracy against his soverign, the King of Beltia. By definition, the price to pay was death. And so, secret orders were made to the group of knights who stormed Avoria Castle and slaughtered almost all of the inhabitants. Reports of the murders eventually were modified to a thief assault from the mountains, but Arthur sensed the danger and saw that Dorna was too close for comfort and fled south to Gonobolossos, but graduated before doing so. With his education, he was able to find a job as a senior member of a mercenary guild. His occupation took him on many adventures across the region until it one day took him to Beltia. He remained quiet about his background but eventually the Beltian army became interfered in their operations and a great fight ensued and Arthur became captured and listed for execution. He escaped with the help of an old friend from Avoria. Much of the guild was wiped out by the battle and blame soon was laid on his past for the ordeal. They intended to elimiante Arthur and ambushed on his way back to Gonobolossos, but they spared him and left him for dead, depriving him of his money and clothes-- but as a courtesy, left him his grandfather's sword. However, a local girl by the name of Hilde found him and nursed him back to health. They soon became lovers and were engaged soon enough. However, a warlord by the name of the Scarlet Lord closed his army into the village. The inhabitants surrendered but later learned the town was to be burned and ransacked anyway. Arthur led a small mini-war to prevent this, but Hilde was killed in the process along with his unborn child. Arthur fled and found work again as a gladiator in a coliseum within the slums of the port town Castillo. Eventually, he was rehired as a mercenary.

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