Asheloux Thalantos

Asheloux Thalantos
"You cannot put a price on knowledge"
Gender	Male
Race	Elezen (Wildwood)
Clan	None (Parents were Ishgardian Exiles)
Citizenship	Limsa Lominsa, by affiliation ; Gridania (former)
Age	28
Guardian	Nald'thal, the Traders
Namesday	19th Sun of the 6th Astral Moon

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Character

General

Name: Asheloux Thalantos (Ash-low Tha-lan-tose)

Nickname: None. He dislikes it when people call him anything other than his given name. His nickname is not "Ashe" and he will get annoyed if you address him as so

Birthplace: Gridania

Age: 28: Born in 1562

Marital Status: Single

Sexuality: Bisexual - preference goes towards men, though romance is not a major part of his life nor is interesting for him.

Class: Black Mage

Beliefs: While he was brought up to revere Halone, Asheloux became interested in Thaumaturgy and, thus, Nald'thal. However, once uninterested in their limited magic and becoming more interested in the void and darker magics and beyond, Asheloux's faith in the twelve technically is absent as he strives for something more than what the twelve give to Eorzea.

Personality

Asheloux is sharp-tongued and generally not sociable with people he deems are below him. Due to his upbringing, his lack of respect for others could solely be based on a person’s race. This is especially true for Miqo’te, Lalafell, Roegadyn, and Duskwight Elezen. For Hyur, it depends on mostly on his mood at the time. He is pretty straight-laced due to his academic upbringing and prefers formalities over pointless frivolities. That is not to say that he cannot enjoy himself in the right company. He gets along well with those who are like minded to him. He also is more relaxed around those who he doesn’t feel threaten his current existence in any way. He isn’t one to randomly strike up a conversation, but if he finds himself in a position conversing with a stranger, he knows how to put on airs to seem relatively normal. He not the type of person who one would ever be able to call their best friend.

Romantically, Asheloux is rather uninterested in most potential partners. He has found himself attracted towards both men and women, but more-so men. He can admire either gender’s beauty, and mostly leans towards men because of his lack of ability to properly communicate outside of people who are similar to him.

Rumors

Common Rumors

• "Asheloux Thalantos? That gloomy guy?"
• "I hear he is recruiting for some new order in some alliance...Illustre Alliance? The Umbra?"
• "That man is hard to approach, but strike up a thoughtful conversation and he'll come out of his shell."

Moderate Rumors

• "I hear he would do anything for his studies, even torturing his assistants."
• "That man is so strict about research practices...he practically becomes a demon if you anger him. But he really does care about the safety of his assistants so I understand why, but..."
• "That man can't hold his liquor to save his life. He is a pretty angry drunk, too. Not a good drinking partner."

Rare Rumors

• "Isn't he the Gridanian boy who killed his parents some odd years ago? The bounty is probably still valid."
• "Asheloux Thalantos? His parents were traitors to Ishgard."

History/Timeline

Arthurioux Haton was an Ishgardian Dragoon and, much like all Ishgardians, was deeply devoted to his faith in Halone, The Fury. As a successful, high ranking official, Arthurioux had many men in his unit and would go on to fight bravely in the war against the dragons. He was even betrothed to a beautiful Elezen woman by the name of Elecotte Dauremant. Right before leaving for what would be his last time on the battlefield as a Dragoon, Elecotte informed Arthurioux that she was pregnant with his successor. Arthurioux was thrilled and vowed to come home victorious and he would come back and they would be wed. However, that did not go as planned. With the knowledge that he now had a future son and wife to come home to, he faltered on the battlefield. When his men needed him most, instead of doing what the good Ishgardian would do, and sacrifice himself for their cause, he deserted. Arthurioux was banished from Ishgard for his cowardice, along with his wife Elecotte. They traveled to the next safe-haven for their kind, which was Gridania.

Asheloux was born in Gridania and had a fairly normal upbringing. His father and mother instilled their Ishgardian teachings on him, and his father tried to get him to pick up the spear, but but Asheloux was not talented in the art like his father. Frustrated, his father had Elecotte school him on the teachings of Halone, which he enjoyed. Despite living in Gridania, he was very much a caged bird growing up. Although wealthy and noble in every right, Asheloux’s parents kept him and their family separated from the rest of society unless necessary. He grew up around books and his parents tough lessons and that grew to be normal. Their home was a large mansion on the edge of the Lavender Beds. No one really approached them and they kept to themselves.

When he was around 14 years old, a few neighborhood children started teasing him on the way home from running errands for his mother. While this was a normal occurrence for Asheloux, he never bothered to question his lifestyle with is family until something just clicked. When he got home for dinner that night, he inquired on the subject and his parents were furious that he would question their teachings. Asheloux’s curiosity started to peak and that is when he started wandering to the conjurer’s guild and other academic places in Gridania to learn more about the life outside of his home. The more he learned, the more enraged at his parents he became. He spent three years harboring these feelings, collecting books and information in secret and learning all he could about the cage that his parents had built for him. He grew towards the teachings of Nald’thal, and longed for the Thaumaturges of Ul’dah. Furthermore, he was drawn towards the void. He would practice in secret and had a natural affinity towards the magics but with no real training, he felt as though something was missing. He wanted to go to Ul’dah.

One day, Asheloux’s father discovered his secrets and that was when everything changed. He and his father got into a heated argument about honoring his Ishgardian roots. Asheloux on the other hand called his father out on being a traitor to his own people. The fight moved from verbal to physical. His father beat him senseless and would have probably killed him if it wasn’t for the Thaumaturgy he practiced in secret. Using his practiced talents, he focused all of the Aether on one blow, accidentally casting Flare and destroying his home, killing both of his parents and injuring himself.

Asheloux escaped from Gridania, with all the bitter memories of the place he had, and headed to where he thought was Ul’dah. He wasn’t penniless, so he wasn’t worried about his future. He just wanted to train with the mages. Having never traveled outside of Gridania, he found himself crossing into La Noscea. It was there that he got involved with a Ninja clan who, instead of killing him, trained him in the art of subtly and espionage. He found their connection to the elements through their mudras to be fascinating and enjoyed his time spent learning under them. From there, he started to travel all over Eorzea. It took him almost two years, but he finally reached Ul’dah. During that time, he had self-taught himself much of the basics of Thaumaturgy and was rather unimpressed with what the Coco brothers of the guild had to offer. He wanted to learn the black magics and it was there that by chance he ended up with the connections he needed to make that happen.

For the next 6 years, Asheloux trained heavily in the black magics, becoming a master black mage. He learned other trades and fighting styles here and there, and learned more about the world than he could ever know. At the end of his training, Asheloux started experimenting with new magics and new ways of channeling aether and casting. During one of his experiments, something went wrong, damaging his left eye completely. The eye turned white and became functionally blind. However, it was able to see and help him visually process aether flows and magics. While the ability is not perfect and he does not know if it is just temporary, it has become useful to him in his research and hasn’t bothered to try and fix it.

Once he turned 25, Asheloux set out to travel the world and learn even more through experience and collection books. He established the Umbra as a group of researchers and informants and later allied himself with the Illustre Alliance as one of its leaders.

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