Keru Lowry

K'eyiru "Keru" Lowry
Gender	Male
Race	Miqo'te
Clan	Seeker of the Sun
Citizenship	Limsa Lominsa
Age	23
Marital Status	Taken
Occupation	Adventurer, Healer, Co-Highguard of Fidelis
Height/Weight	5 fulm 3 ilm. 135 ponze.
Orientation	Homosexual
Relatives	K'arteh Tia (Lowry)(Father) B'sholya Aneh(Lowry)(Mother)

Keru is a Seeker of the Sun, Miqo'te who is a healer by almost profession. Despite his size he has proven to be both resilient and tough, he also is Co-Highguard of Legio Fidelis with Camille Everardi.

Basic Info

• Pronunciation: (Keh-rue Lau-rhee)

• Nameday: 15th Sun of the Sixth Umbral Moon 1555.

• Laterality: Left-Handed

• Place of Birth: Gridania

LIKES ■ Sunshine. ■ Fields. ■ Watching Performers. ■ Humming. ■ Bards. ■ Magical Theories. ■ Fine hats and coatees.

DISLIKES ■ Overly rude people. ■ Height jokes. ■ Being followed. ■ Cramped or small spaces.

OTHER ■ Alignment: Lawful Neutral. ■ Vice(s): Doesn't eat properly. Fine coatees. ■ Favorite Food: Chicken and Mushrooms ■ Favorite Drink: Chilled Tea ■ Favorite Color: Red

Appearance & Personality

• Keru wears short robes on most occasions, having given up on wearing sandals, the shoes he wears vary, he has only recently been seen wearing more armor like clothing though he does not wear heavy armor. Keru wears his glasses more often now, he also dresses in random colors. Keru has become a someone more mature person in light of recent events in his life, while he is still bad at catching on to a number of things(mostly innuendos) he has grown a bit more confident in his abilities and works to improve himself. Keru still retains a lot of his old habits, bad with time management, forgetting to feed himself, still pretty poor with directions, he has gotten much better at carrying on conversations as well as becoming fairly good at using his wit.

Biography

Childhood

Keru was born as K'eyiru in Gridania to parents K'arteh and B'sholya, he was raised in Gridania most of his life. Keru from a young age was fascinated with the art of magic and wanted to train as conjurer for most of his childhood. Over the years Keru learned more about his family and how his parents were protection for a merchants caravan and how they traveled most of their lives until Keru was in the picture. It was then they told him his surname was Lowry, however he felt it wasn't true.

Around the time Keru was ten he had been demonstrating abilities that allowed him to manipulate aether. Keru's parents wanted him to learn how to use and control his powers and his mother wanted to teach him both Conjury and Thaumaturgy, while the Conjurer's guild would not except him, his mother taught him a few basic spells, much to his father's dismay although throughout this time he also began to teach Keru archery, shortly after Keru became friends with two local girls Danni and Gabi. While he was fairly shy and soft-spoken they acted as his sisters and tried to teach him how to toughen up and be his own person, and to not let others push him around.

Teenage

Around his fifteenth year Danni and Gabi were missing and he had a hunch on were they would be, he grabbed his mothers wand and tried to go after them, when he reached them they were being chased by an ochu he tried to use a spell he was practicing but he unfortunately was unable to do it, his parents showed up and were able to scare off the ochu and save Danni and Gabi. After some of the townsfolk heard of this they were confused and thought Keru brought them out there, Keru's parents decided it was in Keru's best interest if they left Gridania so they left to Limsa Lominsa.

A year after they arrived Keru decided he wanted to be able to protect those he cared about and started training to join the arcanist guild and was accepted for training. Keru's training was smooth for the most part, Keru had two mentors, one who still to this day works with the arcanist guild, the other who had passed away. One of his mentors, Violenne a duskwight elezen, taught him a lot about magic and the views of her colleagues, which also helped him formulate his ideas. Unfortunately Keru experienced the darker side of magic when his mentor Violenne was tortured then killed by a rouge thaumaturge, it is unknown to the guild but Keru watched both the torture and murder of Violenne. Throughout his training he had learned many things and around the time of the Calamity he had a falling out with his parents and after the calamity he was unable to find them. Keru knew they argued but does not remember about what so he is unsure where they went and what happened all he found was a book of his parents contacts in other cities, throughout these years Keru had also been formulating his views and ideas about magic, while he also wanted to write two different books, one about all of his magical theories, the other an encyclopedia of sorts. Despite their disappearance he decided to stay in Limsa Lominsa for the following years and has up until recently thought it was an issue of them visiting relatives he has since decided that when he gets a little bit stronger he will go out to Gridania and see what people who knew his parents know about their disappearance.

Present

In the year 1577 Keru had made the choice to go to Gridania and seek out the help of others so that he can get over his guilt involving his parents. Keru is also going back and forth from Gridania and Limsa Lominsa. Keru joined the medical division of XI:7 having spoke with them on a few occasions. After quite a bit of things happened to the company, he was trying to get closer to the other members, and for a while he felt odd around them, after recent events however, he quickly has felt as if XI:7 is his second home. Keru had begun basic training with the cesti over in Ul'dah along with browsing through the books owned by the Thaumaturge's guild. Keru seems to be all over, in most cases he can be found where ever there are books.

Keru had parted ways with his free company and has since moved to other aspects of life to focus on. Keru had begun his search of who had killed his mentor cycles ago look into details he might've missed, he recalled that she had an odd tatoo he had never really seen, having spoke with the little family Violenne had left they had mentioned to him that she left her study locked and no one else knew how to get in. After some digging Keru had learned she left a key with him and with approval from the family he entered her study to look around, to find that there were letters with meeting locations that have oddly been around the time she had taken him farther from Limsa. Spending weeks looking to the letters he had found he realized that a common meeting was in Ul'dah and went to investigate the place, when he initially checked the place out he had recalled that he remembered a time she and him were in the area and she had went to the meeting while he had mostly fallen asleep. It was there he had met Kylin and had discussed the matter with him. Kylin later proving that he was a member of the same group she was known as the Order of the Stormguard, Kylin had then given him a linkpearl to hold onto.

Weeks had went by and the linkpearl was mostly silent though he had received a letter from Kylin instructing him to meet at Camp Bentbrach, it was there Kylin, S'ereno, Moltove, and himself set off to investigate some a group in the Tam-Tara Deepcroft. It was through the trial Kylin had attempted to teach the group a little about the stormguard. A bit of time passed as new memebers began to show up as well as they had an initiation in which they had become full members and received their tattoos. After a while things were going fairly smoothly although with the investigation of an amulet in possession of Kylin's museum his staff had ended him breaking the focus of said staff shattering as well. Keru worked with S'ereno as well as other members to get him a new magical foci made. Not long after he had attended an excavation of the old Haven having only to barely escape as well as the temporary headquarters being destroyed the decided to seek solace in an old storage house his parents owned. Within the next days or so the group had found a new haven to call home. Months later Keru was approached by Kylin along with Camille and S'ereno were all given their positions as Highguards, Camille and him being Co-leaders of Legio Fidelis. Keru in this time has also met with his parents for a brief moment with S'ereno. Keru has since assisted in recruiting a few members as well as helping Seeing Lyte save his newly accquired unicorn.

Miscellaneous

• In most cases Keru will be referred to as Keru, unless someone who knows him closely or family refers to him as K'eyiru.
• K'eyiru goes by Keru because it is easier to pronounce for some, and for whatever reason he dislikes his name, most recent records have him as Keru.
• Lowry comes from a Hyur who helped Keru's family, and allowed his parents to use his surname if they desired to.
• Keru is Claustrophobic.
• Keru is slightly nearsighted, He can see faces though they are blurry, he seems to manage, This is also why he wears glasses while he reads.

RUMORS Some of these rumors are untrue or are greatly exaggerated. Please feel free to add your own rumors under PC! ◢ Common Rumors (Easily overheard) ■ "I remember him! He's the one with the alcohol problem righ-What? Wasn't him? Huh." - Confused Lalafell patron. ■ "Oh, I heard he's some kind of whiz when it comes to magic, What's so funny?" - Hyur that made unintentional wordplay. ■ "Every time I've seen him he's in glasses, when he isn't I see him squinting." - Merchant. ■ "Him? He won't make it as an arcanist, he can't even summon carbuncle, the guild is wasting time on him." - Annoyed Hyur. ■ "Well I ain't a genius but, his hair don't have actual red in it." - Jack, The obvious stating Hyur. ◢ Moderate Rumors (Moderately difficult to overhear) ■ "I heard his parents spent a bit of time travelling, guess they wanted to get away from him." - Hyuran woman. ■ "Ok I'm certain he's the one that owes me money right? No? Who is he then?" - Still confused Lalafell patron. ■ "Oh, he's a sweet young man, but I noticed he is pretty quiet." - Drowning Wench patron ◢ Rare Rumors (Very difficult or rarely overheard) ■ "I heard his parents were once great assassins and that's why they've up an disappeared, They left him though." - Doubtful Elezen ■ "He's a sad story, the poor thing lost his mentor. To what? I'm not sure." - Whispering Arcanist. ■ ◢ PC Rumors (Rumors from the character's of other players) ■ ((Feel free to add your own!)) ■ "He's... well, he don't talk much at all, do he? I'm sure he's a darlin' but maybe he just takes a while to warm up to anyone." - Jajara Jara ■ "He really needs to work on his acting skills" - Xha'li Moui ■

RELATIONS ♥ Romantic Interest ♥ Platonic Love ● Good Standing ● Poor Standing ♥ ♥ Khuja'to Tayuun: A man Keru met in a bar in Limsa one night, after spending the night chatting with him, (and failing to catch on to Khuja's many attempts at flirting) they had parted ways, then months passed before he and Khuja met once again Keru going home with him and relaxing and speaking to him. In the months they've been together Keru has grown to deeply love Khuja and wants nothing more than to protect him with all he can, a bit to Khuja's dismay. Keru at the moment enjoys every moment he spends with the Keeper. ♥ Orpheus Arkouda: One of the few people Keru trusts, he finds Orph's dry humor to be quite enjoyable, and each time they do converse with one another they both have a good time. ♥ Racilian Lyenum: Keru despite being indifferent with her around when they met he since has come to trust her wholly, and seems to highly value her presence. ● Pepper Peppamel: Pepper was a friend Keru made around the time he went back to gridania, he has a good friendship with the lalafell and he knows that he can trust her. At the Full Moon Gala she had tried to throw Keru at many a woman. ● Jajara Jara: This woman has helped Keru a lot, he found her to be kind, and she always worried for him, he trusts her, and knows that if she needed help, he'd do what he can. ● S'ereno Tia: Keru has met this seeker not too long ago and views him as mysterious. Keru does however value his input and is thankful for the conversations he has had with him. ● Camille Everardi: Camille was an interesting person for Keru to get to know, he respects her as a healer as well as he knows that he can trust her. That said he looks forward to working with his co-leader. ● Kylin Felstar: Keru is not too sure what to make of his leader. Keru mostly trusts him though like many of his group he doesn't know much about him.

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