Dietrich Dracht

Dietrich Dracht
"I'm your man for drugs, glues and lubricating oils. Need anything else? I can arrange it for you."
The Quartermaster
Gender	Male
Race	Hyur
Clan	Midlander
Citizenship	Ul'dah
Place of birth	Ul'dah
Age	29
Marital status	Single
Guardian deity	Rhalgr, the Destroyer
Server	Balmung

Dietrich Dracht is a Disciple of Magic and former intern at the Arrzaneth Ossuary in Ul'dah. He presently serves as a Private in the Immortal Flames 1st Main Brigade, Flame Yataghans.

An Ul'dahn patriot, he believes in the motto For coin and country!, never shying from an opportunity to earn more gil. Like most of his family, he is a moderate monetarist, considering the Sultanate to be an ineffectual institution. He has little patience for the huddled masses and is distrustful of refugees and outsiders. He has great respect for the cities' Dunesfolk Lalafell and is at ease interacting with other Hyur. While he's encountered most of the other main races on the continent once or twice, he knows little about the customs and traditions of people from Limsa Lominsa and Gridania.

The Ul'dahn is not a very religious man, believing in shades of grey over empathic statements about Light and Darkness. He is repelled by overly righteous or selfless attitudes, mistrusting those who dedicate their lives to helping others. While he considers exploitation, deceit, distrust, and opportunism to be par for the course for any Ul'dahn businessman, he does not pursue evil for its own sake.

Personality

Overview Primary Motivator: Recognition  Emotional Disposition: Curious Moodiness: Labile Core Traits Outlook: Pessimistic Intergrity: Unscrupulous Impulsiveness: Spontaneous Boldness: Bold Flexibility: Flexible Affinity: Cold Comportment: Discordant Interactivity: Engaging Disclosure: Candid Conformity: Conventional

Sexuality Orientation: Homosexual Libido: Healthy Sexual Demeanor Expressiveness: Flirtatious Style: Crude Openness to Experience: Moderate Promiscuousness: Medium Habits and Hobbies Reading Experimenting Philosophising

Personality Type: ENTP Mind: Extraverted (48%) Energy: Intuitive (30%) Nature: Thinking (50%) Tactics: Prospecting (42%) Identity: Turbulent (27%)

Background

Early life

Dietrich Dracht was born the second son by the third wife of the Apothecary, Dietrich Dracht Senior. His father is the head of a mercantile Ul'dahn family that focusses on the export of potions and medicines. The son was thus born with a silver spoon in his mouth, growing up in relative luxury while assimilating Ul'dahns cut-throat values. The Calamity did much to improve the families' wealth, owing to the increase in demand for the products they purveyed, even if contact with some of the more far-flung trading posts was lost. All family members have chipped in to help support the business, by working in the shops or by going out into the country to peddle their wares. Though it wasn't a very warm nest to grow up in, the family was a tightly-knit unit and focussed around a single cause.

From age eleven onwards, the youth spent about half his time as an intern at the Ossuary. His father, desiring to expand the families' influence and recognising an unusual talent for magic in his second son, paid significant bribes for the privilege. To the old man's dismay, Dietrich was given an entire impractical education that focussed on rote remembrance of old tomes dealing with philosophy and highly theoretical issues of magic. The boy took to this with great zeal, becoming something of a dreamer and even thinking these intellectual pursuits to be more 'pure', and 'elevated' above the ways of his own blood. As puberty set on, young Dietrich grew ever more distant from his other relatives. His relationship with his father and elder brother became especially troubled as he failed to show up for work in time after spending time at the Ossuary. Though Dracht Sr. threatened to put his second son to work in the Apothecary full-time, he always held back on account of the lad's pleas, as well as the significant investment that had already been made in his future.

Recent events

When he took the oath, Dietrich had not yet tanned or grown facial hair.

Dietrich was recently made to accompany one of the families' traders on a round trip to serve several outposts in Thanalan. As usual, he tried to worm out of it, vastly preferring his books to the dust and grime of the desert. After returning, he loudly complained at the family dinner table about riff-raff customers and the incessant desert rains, hoping that he wouldn't be made to go on such trips again. Dracht senior exploded in anger and berated Dietrich for having been spoilt, cutting off his son's stipend and expelling him from the family home. Though Dietrich begged, kicked and screamed, he was given to understand that he could only return if he managed to "earn his own keep and stand on his own two feet." At age twenty-nine, he now seeks to make his own way, hoping sincerely that a man can earn coin while armed only with book knowledge and an eager mind.

After trying to make a living for a while selling his own concoctions, Dietrich signed up to join the military instead, being promised steady work as an alchemist and hoping that he might finally come to be seen as independent. He was sworn in as a Flame Private 3rd class in the Immortal Flames 1st Main Brigade,by Kale Aideron at Forgotten Springs.

The young man found it difficult to adapt to aspects of the soldiers' life. Though he respected the sergeant and his other two commanding officers, Dweia Delacroix and Moengeim Wistyrmanwyn, he found that he lacked many of the basic skills expected of a soldier: physical bravery and dexterity, in particular. Though the experiences cost him the contents of his stomach, he did eventually adapt to being aboard a ship and the handling of corpses in a state of decomposition. Even so, he retained the feeling of being ill-trained for some the jobs that he was supposed to do while supporting the units in the field.

At the same time, the independence that was foisted on him by his expulsion from the family home did unlock his own desire to pursue profit. Though his attempt to change the accounting system of the unit failed, he did manage to sell alchemical produce through various clever 'schemes', as well as managing to be hired by E'Lario Tia as a research assistant. As a result, his father's views have mellowed, and reconciliation is now a distinct possibility, particularly if the second son is willing to shoulder more of the families' responsibilities.

Spells and abilities

Like most Disciples of Magic, Dietrich requires magical foci to cast his spells. Having been educated at the Ul'dah Ossuary, he is most comfortable using sceptres, staves and gemstones imbued with magical properties to mould aether into sorcery. Alternatively, he may be seen wielding an occult tome. The standard array of thaumaturgical spells and some arcane geometric techniques are at his disposal, though he has little experience in drawing upon these abilities during combat situations. He tends to regard magic as an object of study, rather than as a tool to solve everyday problems.

Drawing on obscure tomes that were hidden away in some dusty corner of the Ossuary, Dietrich learned how to summon an impetuous imp known as Pizbag. This ability has proven to be a mixed blessing, as he has little control over the voidsent creature once it has been summoned, save for threatening to send it back from whence it came. Only Dietrich can hear the voidsent speak, which is all too well, since it is usually spouting invective at his would-be Master. Pizbag is determined to one day rule the seven hells. But for now, Dietrich's backside will do.

((In-game, Pizbag may be represented by an Infant Imp, though his supposed appearance is shown in the image on the side. Aside from harassing its master, the creature grants no special powers, but rather, it will supplant the arcanist/scholar's pets and their respective abilities.))

Relationships

● Good Standing    ● Neutral Standing    ● Poor Standing    

Immortal Flames ● Kale Aideron ● Dweia Delacroix ● Moengeim Wistyrmanwyn ● Vaughan Way ● Jhae'li Vyen ● Nako'li Chalahko

Ul'dahn ● Aerostein Epitaph ● Vincent Belsara ● Erik Mynhier

Foreigners ● E'Lario Tia ● K'aworu Demiir ● Avalt Laguz

Rumours

◢ Common Rumours (Easily overheard)

■ "One of the Apothecary's breed. Won't give you the time of day if you aint got no coin."

◢ Moderate Rumours (Moderately difficult to overhear)

■ "I hear 'is whole family works for the Syndicate. Right bastards, the lot of em."

■ "Got to wonder what he's doing as an Immortal Flame. Doesn't seem a likely figure for that sort 'o thing."

◢ Rare Rumours (Very difficult or rarely overheard)

■ "Oh, he's always sneezing. Allergic to chocobo's, or so I'm told. You'd think the Apothecary could do something about that."

■ "I hear he was involved with the kidnapping of a refugee! Shudder to think why."

◢ PC Rumours (Rumours from the characters of other players)

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