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<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#440D0D;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:14px;color:#314D67;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''Gender...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Calibri;"> Male </font> | <font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#440D0D;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:14px;color:#314D67;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''Gender...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Calibri;"> Male </font> | ||
− | <font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#440D0D;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:14px;color:#314D67;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''Age & Nameday...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Calibri;"> | + | <font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#440D0D;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:14px;color:#314D67;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''Age & Nameday...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Calibri;"> 39 | 5th Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon</font> |
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<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#440D0D;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:14px;color:#314D67;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''Occupation...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Calibri;"> Smuggler, double agent</font> | <font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#440D0D;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:14px;color:#314D67;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''Occupation...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Calibri;"> Smuggler, double agent</font> | ||
− | <font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#440D0D;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:14px;color:#314D67;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''Height & Physique...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Calibri;padding:0px 5px;"> | + | <font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#440D0D;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:14px;color:#314D67;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''Height & Physique...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Calibri;padding:0px 5px;"> 5'11" | Strongarmed </font> |
<font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#440D0D;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:14px;color:#314D67;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''Alignment...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Calibri;">Chaotic Neutral</font> | <font style="padding:0px 5px; font-size:12px;color:#440D0D;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">■</font> <font style="font-size:14px;color:#314D67;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:0.2em;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px silver">'''Alignment...'''</font> <font style="font-family:Calibri;">Chaotic Neutral</font> | ||
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<div align=center><div style="padding:10px 0%; background: #B8860B;font-size:16px;color:#ffffff;font-family:Calibri;text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px black">'''M I G H T A N D M E A D'''</div></div> | <div align=center><div style="padding:10px 0%; background: #B8860B;font-size:16px;color:#ffffff;font-family:Calibri;text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px black">'''M I G H T A N D M E A D'''</div></div> | ||
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<div style="padding:10px 35px; background: #8B0000;font-size:16px;color:#ffffff;font-family:Calibri;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black;letter-spacing:0.15em;"><center>'''A P P E A R A N C E'''</center></div></span></h3> | <div style="padding:10px 35px; background: #8B0000;font-size:16px;color:#ffffff;font-family:Calibri;text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black;letter-spacing:0.15em;"><center>'''A P P E A R A N C E'''</center></div></span></h3> | ||
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− | :'''A'''elfred stands out as an above average Hyur given his mixed blood. He is notably soft-featured for a Hyur, and especially a Highlander. His body is | + | :'''A'''elfred stands out as an above average midlander Hyur given his mixed blood. He is notably soft-featured for a Hyur, and especially a Highlander. His body is more sturdy in proportion to most Highlanders of equal height; His chest numbers nearly forty five ilms around with massive pectoralis muscles often bulging past his form fitting clothing. He carries a softer core gut mildly tilts down a belt. His deltoid and tricep muscle groups are tremendous from decade of work hauling ship cargo and smuggled goods. His thighs hold proud hamstring and quadriceps that bulge like a caveman under a loincloth, and most his body is covered in a fine fur akin to his head hair's color, which is strangely off-white suggesting he might be greatly aged, despite his more youthful features that don't suggest someone almost 40 years of age, courtesy of the Sielamat ritual. |
:His right eye is completely milky white with a traumatic cataract paired with a grotesque scar that runs vertically from brow to lower cheek bone. His left eye, however, holds a blood-red iris. He inherited it from his father, and it could mistake others into believing he is an albino were it not for his sun-kissed flesh. | :His right eye is completely milky white with a traumatic cataract paired with a grotesque scar that runs vertically from brow to lower cheek bone. His left eye, however, holds a blood-red iris. He inherited it from his father, and it could mistake others into believing he is an albino were it not for his sun-kissed flesh. | ||
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<div align=center><div style="padding:10px 0%; background: #810E0E;font-size:16px;color:#ffffff;font-family:Calibri;text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px black">'''A B I L I T I E S'''</div></div> | <div align=center><div style="padding:10px 0%; background: #810E0E;font-size:16px;color:#ffffff;font-family:Calibri;text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px black">'''A B I L I T I E S'''</div></div> | ||
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− | :Aelfred's newer, solid body and | + | :Aelfred's newer, solid body and slightly shorter height allows for few instances of loose footing or tripping by enemies. |
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:Aelfred's three-eyed mother. She presently lives in the familial lodge high in the mountains of Gyr Albania in hermit-hood, an hour's stride from Aelfred's birth place. She had left the Garlean Empire three decades ago to live in seclusion of the Highlands of Gyr Albania, and fell in love with Aelfred's father in his tribe and decided to settle down with child. She remains a figure of marvel for Aelfred, who regards her as a powerful potent woman with unparalleled skill with a zweihander. Despite Aelfred speaking highly of her, she is distant and largely rejecting of him, remarking his failure of the Garlean navy and how he has not secured wife and child in his encroaching middle age. Nevertheless, Aelfred knows that these are expectations of a tribesman and that he is her only living son. She couldn't ever entirely reject him. | :Aelfred's three-eyed mother. She presently lives in the familial lodge high in the mountains of Gyr Albania in hermit-hood, an hour's stride from Aelfred's birth place. She had left the Garlean Empire three decades ago to live in seclusion of the Highlands of Gyr Albania, and fell in love with Aelfred's father in his tribe and decided to settle down with child. She remains a figure of marvel for Aelfred, who regards her as a powerful potent woman with unparalleled skill with a zweihander. Despite Aelfred speaking highly of her, she is distant and largely rejecting of him, remarking his failure of the Garlean navy and how he has not secured wife and child in his encroaching middle age. Nevertheless, Aelfred knows that these are expectations of a tribesman and that he is her only living son. She couldn't ever entirely reject him. | ||
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+ | ! <div align="left"><div style="font-family:Calibri;"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3"> '''Janus Aelfredsdottir and Juno Aelfredsson'''</font> '''(''' <font style="color:#9EC60B;" size="3">●</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2"></font>''' ) ''' - '''Beloved Posterity'''</div></div> | ||
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+ | :Aelfred's twin offspring, or 'cubs'. They were born of three different worlds and always knew their father and mother's admiration. Peach flesh and brown hair, either youth shares the best features of their devoted parents. Originally meant to be Meifeng's ticket to Imperial citizenship, the pair solidified their mother and father's love for one another. They are Aelfred's greatest joy and the two things he would be ready to die for in the world. When Nikolai returned and forced Aelfred's hand following a minor skirmish, the Highlander took both his son and daughter under-arm and retreated to the woods leaving behind Meifeng who was unable to take action in her great fear to disobey her 'father', and whom had led the Garlean straight to their Twelveswood home. </div> | ||
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! <div align="left"><div style="font-family:Calibri;"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3"> '''Siegmund Saigathsson'''</font> '''(''' <font style="color:#9EC60B;" size="3">●</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✖</font>''' ) ''' - '''Father; Tribal warrior'''</div></div> | ! <div align="left"><div style="font-family:Calibri;"><font style="color:#000000;" size="3"> '''Siegmund Saigathsson'''</font> '''(''' <font style="color:#9EC60B;" size="3">●</font> <font style="color:#000000;" size="2">✖</font>''' ) ''' - '''Father; Tribal warrior'''</div></div> | ||
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:Siegmund is Aelfred's often unmentioned father, being mostly stated for Aelfred's surname. Siegmund was an adviser for the chieftan and a landowning warrior within the tribe. He was regarded as a stoic man and gave Ael little affection, but was not distant. He taught Ael at a young age how to ride Chocobos and fish and hunt in the summers as the ice melted. Aelfred holds brief but fond memories of him. He is presume dead following the Ala Mhigan resistance against the empire. </div> | :Siegmund is Aelfred's often unmentioned father, being mostly stated for Aelfred's surname. Siegmund was an adviser for the chieftan and a landowning warrior within the tribe. He was regarded as a stoic man and gave Ael little affection, but was not distant. He taught Ael at a young age how to ride Chocobos and fish and hunt in the summers as the ice melted. Aelfred holds brief but fond memories of him. He is presume dead following the Ala Mhigan resistance against the empire. </div> | ||
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+ | Beralda Skyhawk'''</font> '''(''' <font style="color:#F02311;" size="3">♥</font> ''')''' - '''A Siren's Send'''</div></div> | ||
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+ | :The woman of the North came to Aelfred in a darkest hour. The betrayal of Meifeng had left his heart putrid black: spiteful, distrusting, angered, petty. The adopted sister of Zan'Kria shared her Northern blood and came to know Aelfred through mutual friends. At first there was a fleshly flavor dancing between the two nordic persons, finding comfort in damaged hearts. The pair soon found to be kindred spirits and decided to toss a gamble into beating back the past and making something more of themselves and for future posterity. The ritual of the Sielamat eventually bound their souls as one, and he swore that if he ever would walk a path unfavorable to her or their children that his soul would be surrendered to be taken by the Siren. At last no strings were attached, and Aelfred has enjoyed three more kin to spend with Janus and Juno no longer knowing only their father as a loving hand. Each became the surrogate of the other's spawn indefinitely and proudly. | ||
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+ | Zan'Kria Skyhawk'''</font> '''(''' <font style="color:#9340EB;" size="3">♥</font> ''')''' - '''A Siren's Sister'''</div></div> | ||
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+ | :An old friend and the adopted sister of his beloved. There once existed an attraction to Ael as he were involved with playing double agent with one Meifeng Lemurfeet. The Northern Maiden had cared for him as a friend even as it would be a cycle before he were seen again after the Eorzean invasion of Gyr Albania, after the first time he climbed into her bedchamber to pass out asleep from liquor. She came to him again when he returned with Janus and Juno to the desert jewel to be in hiding with a mutual friend finding the halfbreed an often drunken mess in the Pearl Lane. Married and with new child, the old friend worried for Aelfred knowing well that something had occurred why he were absent a wife but he'd never speak of it. In recent times, she's proven to be an unrivaled ally to Aelfred providing both wealth, job, and a plethora of connections including an extended family. The attraction never faltered, and there are moments where the pair frollick together with her adoptive sister: Aelfred once finding the deed an affront to their matrimony but convinced in the world of cryptids it were considered an honor. | ||
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+ | Thidrandisson'''</font> '''(''' <font style="color:#5F5F5F;" size="3">●</font> ''')''' - '''A Scaled Ally'''</div></div> | ||
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+ | :The Wyrm represented another cryptid to crawl into Aelfred's life in the most unexpected times. Often representing himself in the mortal alias Ryokei Yumitori, the wyrm as Aelfred prefers to describe in the old tongue shows a friendly demeanor toward the Skyhawks and their compatriots. The dragon aided Aelfred in saving his beloved from his brother, Lancefer who were sworn to hunt the "harpies" for sport, and Aelfred considered it an unpayable debt. Aelfred and Thidrandisson can often be at odds on how to handle a friend in need, especially with the conflict of what to do about Lancefer. At times the two leave in a spit but Aelfred could never truly abandon him. | ||
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+ | Primus Ordinarius Nikolai rem Gladio'''</font> '''(''' <font style="color:#0000000;" size="3">♦</font> ''')''' - '''The Worst of Enemies'''</div></div> | ||
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− | : | + | :There would never have been a more heinous hatred for a man than Aelfred holds for Nikolai. The long torturer of his wife, and now cause for displacement of himself and his children. Aelfred had long wanted to snap his neck betwixt his hands at every opportunity, but Meifeng or fate staved Aelfred's hand. Nikolai remains the only being to match Aelfred's wit and the pair were constantly battling one another through instrumental aggression. Aelfred had failed to truly liberate Meifeng from his grasp, and together they forced Aelfred's hand to disadvantage and to return to hiding, with a larger target marker than ever before. |
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:Ael had moments to leave Meifeng to die or fail her missions on multiple occasions, but he worked in the guile of a 'loyal' Imperial citizen to aid her plights. Since then, he has taken strong affection with her, and has recently proposed and become affianced. She currently bears his bastard which he looks forward to taking to rear as his own with Mei to be wed and earn her Imperial citizenship instantly in such a manner. | :Ael had moments to leave Meifeng to die or fail her missions on multiple occasions, but he worked in the guile of a 'loyal' Imperial citizen to aid her plights. Since then, he has taken strong affection with her, and has recently proposed and become affianced. She currently bears his bastard which he looks forward to taking to rear as his own with Mei to be wed and earn her Imperial citizenship instantly in such a manner. | ||
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+ | :Happiness was short lived for the newlyweds, as Ael took flight with Meifeng during the fall of the XII legion in Gyr Albania back into Gridanian woods finally convincing her she may have a life free of the empire. Aelfred had hoped to forge a quiet livelihood to help tend to his beloved's horrific nightmares of torture at the hands of the Gladio. There Meifeng could live out her dream as a chocobo farmer. The months long peace were shattered by the arrival of a hooded figure to their homestead that turned to be none other than Nikolai. Aelfred welcomed the cursed spawn with false smiles playing coy that they were surviving in Eorzea as MIA rather than AWOL. Aelfred's chance to cleave off the man's head with an axe was ended by hidden backup in the brush, and it became clear that Meifeng had kept ties to her abusive surrogate. Seeing no other option, Aelfred chose his blood over Meifeng, and retreated out of the house and into the deep woods leaving behind the willowing screams of his wife knowing what fate awaited her betrayal to both sides. | ||
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+ | :The next time the two met was in the Desert Jewel when her appearance nearly drew Aelfred to be thrown into a Gaol wielding his longsword. The man spat in her direction calling her weak and pathetic, and as he turned his back she flung out a poisoned blade at his cheek that marred his flesh permanently. His colleague Auron Savaris and he chased the Shadow into the Pearl Lane where she played as a helpless maiden covered by a roving Roegadyn to escape. The woman had turned back to her old ways and was little more than a shadow of a memory to Aelfred, and one deserving the most brutal of deaths. | ||
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: <br><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;"><font style="color:#B9C4D0;" size="2">■</font> "This man is causing a commotion everytime I see him." - ''Auron Savaris''</div> | : <br><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;"><font style="color:#B9C4D0;" size="2">■</font> "This man is causing a commotion everytime I see him." - ''Auron Savaris''</div> | ||
: <br><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;"><font style="color:#B9C4D0;" size="2">■</font> "You might not believe it... but-but he used to be much taller. I'm... still trying t-to figure out if he wore boots with inserts or stilts." - '''Grymoefyra Fyrillwyn'' (credit to Grymoefyra Fyrillwyn)</div> | : <br><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;"><font style="color:#B9C4D0;" size="2">■</font> "You might not believe it... but-but he used to be much taller. I'm... still trying t-to figure out if he wore boots with inserts or stilts." - '''Grymoefyra Fyrillwyn'' (credit to Grymoefyra Fyrillwyn)</div> | ||
− | + | : <br><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:16px;"><font style="color:#B9C4D0;" size="2">■</font> "When he's around the Quicksand I feel like I'm right back in Gyr Abania! Or... at least what I imagine it must have been like!" - [[Aya Foxheart]]</div> | |
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:Time mended Ael's soul and heartache for how he turned his back to his friends before. Eventually he accepted his shorter form once more with the same magicks, to shed his body of its original marring. He found enlightenment in accepting the soulstone's influence without fighting it with drink and substance abuse. He rid his conscience of guilt and saw past the paranoia that anyone close to him desired to use him. Dalain offered him a gentle heart to heal with, and unfortunately she had duty as a Matriarch to leave to far off lands and try to meet with others of her tribe who were rumored to still be surviving, and desired Ael not endanger his life to go with her. | :Time mended Ael's soul and heartache for how he turned his back to his friends before. Eventually he accepted his shorter form once more with the same magicks, to shed his body of its original marring. He found enlightenment in accepting the soulstone's influence without fighting it with drink and substance abuse. He rid his conscience of guilt and saw past the paranoia that anyone close to him desired to use him. Dalain offered him a gentle heart to heal with, and unfortunately she had duty as a Matriarch to leave to far off lands and try to meet with others of her tribe who were rumored to still be surviving, and desired Ael not endanger his life to go with her. | ||
:Aelfred found peace at last. He was a freed man of either nation. He had comrades he could look after again. The dark thoughts and paranoia had disappeared, and he had found a real and lasting love that was only lost by a duty he wouldn't dare impede upon. A master of his own fate, Aelfred continues to live by the skills he's acquired and finding satisfaction in making small differences in lives of many who would come to call him ally, or friend. | :Aelfred found peace at last. He was a freed man of either nation. He had comrades he could look after again. The dark thoughts and paranoia had disappeared, and he had found a real and lasting love that was only lost by a duty he wouldn't dare impede upon. A master of his own fate, Aelfred continues to live by the skills he's acquired and finding satisfaction in making small differences in lives of many who would come to call him ally, or friend. | ||
− | : | + | :Aelfred had parted Dalain on good terms. She had left to find the remnants of her tribe which Ael recognized was her superior duty as a matriarch. He's both earned vice of Simeon and forgiveness of Fyra from recent experiences with the Aldenard Leveworks, though he has found purpose in tending to the mother of his soon to be born bastard, Meifeng Inugami, a Garlean shadow. |
:They are two refugees from foreign lands both having felt the cold hard brutality of Imperial conscription. Ael strongly identified with this woman and works to aid her goal to gain Garlean citizenship. He cast his soulstone into a cavern waterfall to leave it behind forever, no longer desiring the power and dark influence that could jeopardize his newfound family. He hides in plain sight in Eorzan lands committing to the Imperial missions that are placed upon Meifeng. He plays a dangerous game of living a lie that he is an honorably discharged veteran of the Empire, and a free citizen of Eorza. Aelfred aims to play both banners so that he can someday settle into a quiet family in a peaceful part of the world, In whichever land wins the war. | :They are two refugees from foreign lands both having felt the cold hard brutality of Imperial conscription. Ael strongly identified with this woman and works to aid her goal to gain Garlean citizenship. He cast his soulstone into a cavern waterfall to leave it behind forever, no longer desiring the power and dark influence that could jeopardize his newfound family. He hides in plain sight in Eorzan lands committing to the Imperial missions that are placed upon Meifeng. He plays a dangerous game of living a lie that he is an honorably discharged veteran of the Empire, and a free citizen of Eorza. Aelfred aims to play both banners so that he can someday settle into a quiet family in a peaceful part of the world, In whichever land wins the war. | ||
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+ | :Following the fall of the XIIth legion from Gyr Albania, Aelfred had at last persuaded Meifeng to disappear from Imperial communications listed as a casualty of the war. He led her and his children to a remote location in the Twelveswood to start a Chocobo farm as was his wife's dream all along. He built an adobe hut on the side of a hill and worked together with his wife to set up a corral. For the next year and a half, Aelfred continued to raise his young and try his best to quell Meifeng's PTSD from years of abuse of her 'father' and the horrors of the last war she participated in. Sleepness nights and waking up to his wife's screams of terror and nightmares always had Aelfred on edge, as if his fantasy world he worked so hard to build may be lost at any moment. The horror became reality as Aelfred rounded the homestead hearing his wife suddenly slam the door shut and grab Janus and Juno inside. Axe in hand from splitting wood, Aelfred spoke softly and carried a 'big stick', querying the supposed weary, robed traveler. The mysterious stranger turned out to be Nikolai, Meifeng's sadistic mentor and 'father figure'. Unbeknownst to Aelfred, Meifeng had kept secret contact with the Primus Ordinarius of her whereabouts never able to fully shed herself of the Imperial. Aelfred's cleverness was placed to the limit as he welcomed their once commander within his home, confident that the Highlander would be able to outwit him a second time. | ||
+ | :In mid conversation with Meifeng, Nikolai had exposed his back to Ael who attempted to decapitate the Imperial once and for all, and would have succeeded if not for intervention of an agent nearby who kept up a shield around Nikolai. The confident Pure Blood began to torment Meifeng further who was on her knees in hysteria as the two most important men of her life were ready to kill one another. Aelfred bellowed for her to flee with the children, and Nikolai requested that she kill Aelfred. In a split decision, Aelfred discharged his firearm at the Magitech shield with Nikolai's sword-gun trained on Aelfred to distract him long enough for Ael to dart to his children's room and retreat into the woods with his precious posterity, leaving behind Janus and Juno's screaming mother left to an unknown fate. | ||
+ | :Aelfred endured a cruel irony to resist the urge to return home to Gyr Albania from all his years of his life he had wished to see his homeland free of Imperial oppression to rear his children in a peaceful land. He was able to retreat back to Thanalan where there were old allies whom he could surround himself with for mutual protection. His old Salty Hearth now serves as a home for his greatly confused and bewildered children now absent of a mother and a permanent homestead. Aelfred was on edge for any sign related to Meifeng or Imperial presences. He returned to the bottle and cigars to quell his fear and rage and loss of security he long fought for. The short time ago in daylight he read to them and kept his children largely sheltered save to travel to the Bazaar. By night, he tucks his twins in for bed and sets upon Ul'Dah to surround himself in false comforts to pass out somewhere not always in his own home. On passing day, the Half-breed lost a little bit of himself to a growing madness and depression. Comforts of flesh often met brick ends with his temporary desires such as Ava Mazet and Erebos, the latter committing to false accusations of molestations once he began to favor his present beloved. A shorter temper drew him to make many enemies and even spend a week of hard labor as a payment for a crime never comitted, only so that he and Beralda might live in the city unbothered. Before his nameday, he had managed to make well with the previous women that acted out by envy and worry. | ||
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+ | :The thirty ninth cycle were met on the 5th day of the Fourth Umbral Moon. Aelfred had been saved from a life of substance abuse and finally provided meaning. Enough experience had drawn him to take a leap with no strings attached into a ritual that would give him no way out by irony. No longer bothering himself with seeking comradery among the usual masses, he instead surrounds himself with familiars, family, extended family and allies. His children and Beralda are his world and he would fiercely defend either to his last breath. He has accepted that his tribe is forever lost, and he no longer needs to dwell on the past in the stead of an illuminated future with his spawn and Valkyrie. | ||
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: <font style="color:#9790C1;" size="3">♪</font> <b>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ukmjBSQY-c The Sound of Silence]</b> | : <font style="color:#9790C1;" size="3">♪</font> <b>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ukmjBSQY-c The Sound of Silence]</b> | ||
:: <small>'''Artist:''' Simon and Garfunkle</small> | :: <small>'''Artist:''' Simon and Garfunkle</small> | ||
− | :: <small>'''Theme:''' Aelfred-- | + | :: <small>'''Theme:''' Aelfred--Losing it all</small> |
:: <small>'''Context:''' “Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again. Because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping, and the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sound of silence." </small> | :: <small>'''Context:''' “Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again. Because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping, and the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sound of silence." </small> | ||
:: <small>'''Context:''' "People talking without speaking. People hearing without listening. People writing songs that voices never share. No one dare disturb the sound of silence" </small> | :: <small>'''Context:''' "People talking without speaking. People hearing without listening. People writing songs that voices never share. No one dare disturb the sound of silence" </small> | ||
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:: <small>'''Context:''' “Sinking down in the ocean of severe emotions. Grab a bottle to drink up the pain-reliefing potion. But after all, that got boring too, so no matter what happens, I couldn't give a damn or two. The portal has been past 'til the point of no return. No more lines to cross, no bridges to burn. Now when your blindly death-raying blade swept my griefs and tears away. I'd never go back to cross that line. I cross my heart and hope to die." </small> | :: <small>'''Context:''' “Sinking down in the ocean of severe emotions. Grab a bottle to drink up the pain-reliefing potion. But after all, that got boring too, so no matter what happens, I couldn't give a damn or two. The portal has been past 'til the point of no return. No more lines to cross, no bridges to burn. Now when your blindly death-raying blade swept my griefs and tears away. I'd never go back to cross that line. I cross my heart and hope to die." </small> | ||
+ | : <font style="color:#9790C1;" size="3">♪</font> <b>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbw1pGUhG7Q The Price of a Mile]</b> | ||
+ | :: <small>'''Artist:''' Sabaton</small> | ||
+ | :: <small>'''Theme:''' Aelfred--Deserter</small> | ||
+ | :: <small>'''Context:''' “It's a stalemate at the frontline where the soldiers rest in mud roads and housesall is gonethere is no glory to be won know that many men will suffer know that many men will die half a million lives at stake... And as the night falls the general calls and the battle carries on and on. How long? What is the purpose of it all? What's the price of a mile? Thousands of feet march to the beat, it's an army on the march. Long way from home, paying the price in young men's lives. Thousands of feet march to the beat, it's an army in despair. Knee-deep in mud, stuck in the trench with no way out." </small> | ||
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: <font style="color:#9790C1;" size="3">♪</font> <b>[https://youtu.be/Hj2vU2nr5Jw?t=30 Indestructible]</b> | : <font style="color:#9790C1;" size="3">♪</font> <b>[https://youtu.be/Hj2vU2nr5Jw?t=30 Indestructible]</b> | ||
:: <small>'''Artist:''' Disturbed</small> | :: <small>'''Artist:''' Disturbed</small> | ||
− | :: <small>'''Theme:''' Aelfred-- | + | :: <small>'''Theme:''' Aelfred--Fighting for Mei's Freedom</small> |
:: <small>'''Context:''' “Determination that is incorruptible from the other side. A terror to behold. Annihilation will be unavoidable. Every broken enemy will know that their opponent had to be invincible.Take a last look around while you're alive. I'm an indestructible master of war. | :: <small>'''Context:''' “Determination that is incorruptible from the other side. A terror to behold. Annihilation will be unavoidable. Every broken enemy will know that their opponent had to be invincible.Take a last look around while you're alive. I'm an indestructible master of war. | ||
:: '''Context:''' "Another reason, another cause for me to fight. Another fuse uncovered now, for me to light. My dedication to all that I've sworn to protect...With not a regret. A declaration embedded deep under my skin. A permanent reminder of how we began. No hesitation when I am commanding the strike. You need to know that you're in for the fight of your life. You will be shown how I've become Indestructible" </small> | :: '''Context:''' "Another reason, another cause for me to fight. Another fuse uncovered now, for me to light. My dedication to all that I've sworn to protect...With not a regret. A declaration embedded deep under my skin. A permanent reminder of how we began. No hesitation when I am commanding the strike. You need to know that you're in for the fight of your life. You will be shown how I've become Indestructible" </small> | ||
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+ | : <font style="color:#9790C1;" size="3">♪</font> <b>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15JCb6P60Vw Through the Fire and the Flames]</b> | ||
+ | :: <small>'''Artist:''' Dragon Force</small> | ||
+ | :: <small>'''Theme:''' Aelfred--Securing a life for his Children</small> | ||
+ | :: <small>'''Context:''' “As the red day is dawning and the lightning cracks the sky They'll raise their hands to the heavens above with resentment in their eyes. Running back through the mid morning light there's a burning in my heart. We're banished from a time in a fallen land to a life beyond the stars. In your darkest dreams see to believe our destiny is time, and endlessly we'll all be free tonight. And on the wings of a dream, so far beyond reality. All alone in desperation, now the time has gone. Lost inside you'll never find, lost within my own mind. Day after day this misery must go on. So far away we wait for the day for the lives all so wasted and gone. We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days, through the fire and the flames we carry on" </small> | ||
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Contents
■ Aliases... Alfred Klios, Steelsoul, Big Bear, Gargantuan Doofbrains ■ Race & Clan... Half-Garlean/Half-Hyur | Highlander ■ Gender... Male ■ Age & Nameday... 39 | 5th Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon ■ Marital Status... Afianced |
■ Current Residence... The Salty Hearth (The Goblet 2nd Ward Subdivision, Apartment 61) ■ Occupation... Smuggler, double agent ■ Height & Physique... 5'11" | Strongarmed ■ Alignment... Chaotic Neutral ■ Status... Lying low. |
P E R S O N A
- Ael is a larger than life Hyur halfbreed who's priorities in life revolve around the frequent use of alcohol, imported cigars, and finding excuse to hedonize throughout the day. He is remarkably crude and honest which usually offends and impedes on the sensitivities of more civilized folk. He elects not to observe many Eorzan themes of decency, such as not belching or pounding on tables to demand more mead and food. He is loud, bold, merry, and lax. Aelfred will speak his mind without remorse in any setting, regardless of backlash or consequence.
In spite of his crass and unrefined demeanor, few may find more characters as approachable as Aelfred. He is quick to welcome others to his "Hearth", whether it be a simple table or the precise place he has decided to plop his rear and drink his honey-wine. He is very curious to hear a passerby's tales and feats of strength. He despises shyness in all forms, and desires that those in his company be boastful and straightforward. At face value, Aelfred can appear simple-minded and rather stubborn. However, his struggle of life at an early age following the Diaspora of his countrymen, and the experience of having lived in two nations has awarded him with a great deal of worldly knowledge. His wisdom can be off-set often by his propensity to become drunk and engage in tom-foolery, and being set off by specific topics that incite his rage such as slavery.
The Highlander may best be described of as a "Lazy Bear" as his past friends have affectionately named him. He is often inanimate and lax, and a warm figure to welcome most who approach with good or honest intentions. He can be quick to anger and maul what he judges as a threat to the physical well being of those close to him, or attacks on his beliefs. The Achilles's Heel to Aelfred's temperament is his unwavering demeanor that earns him as many enemies as it does allies. He simply could not be bothered if he insults and belittles those he considers "meek", "needy", or "petty". Aelfred lives for the moments where others may bask in his simple and honest life style, and that the courage he lends to his allies enables them to make better men and women of themselves.
A P P E A R A N C E
- Aelfred stands out as an above average midlander Hyur given his mixed blood. He is notably soft-featured for a Hyur, and especially a Highlander. His body is more sturdy in proportion to most Highlanders of equal height; His chest numbers nearly forty five ilms around with massive pectoralis muscles often bulging past his form fitting clothing. He carries a softer core gut mildly tilts down a belt. His deltoid and tricep muscle groups are tremendous from decade of work hauling ship cargo and smuggled goods. His thighs hold proud hamstring and quadriceps that bulge like a caveman under a loincloth, and most his body is covered in a fine fur akin to his head hair's color, which is strangely off-white suggesting he might be greatly aged, despite his more youthful features that don't suggest someone almost 40 years of age, courtesy of the Sielamat ritual.
- His right eye is completely milky white with a traumatic cataract paired with a grotesque scar that runs vertically from brow to lower cheek bone. His left eye, however, holds a blood-red iris. He inherited it from his father, and it could mistake others into believing he is an albino were it not for his sun-kissed flesh.
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Dirty Fighting
Swordsmanship
Firearm Proficiency
Hyuran versatility
Low center of gravity
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- ■ Template was created by Bancroft Gairn.
- ■ Adapted by Xheja Rajhera.
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