Vaelyn Nykah
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| Vaelyn Nykah (Vaer LyKean) | |
 Fate is not just given to us, but something we make. | |
| Gender | Male |
| Race | Elezen |
| Clan | Duskwight |
| Citizenship | Unaffiliated |
| Birthdate | 20th Sun/2nd Umbral Moon |
| Age | 30 (In Hyrul terms) |
| Main Discipline of War | Lancer |
| Main Discipline of Hand | Blacksmith |
| Martial Status | Dating |
Contents
Character Profile
Vaelyn Nykah is a Duskwight Mercenary with a heart of gold and a knack for getting himself into things. Adventurous, quick witted, and lively, there is little that Vaelyn does not find himself enjoying taking part in or getting himself into. Vaelyn is also known for being extremely creative and this skill is even shown in combat. He loves to come up with crazy stories and wild ideas about the world around him; even worse around children as he loves to tell them all types of tall tales. Mostly ones of heroes defeating evil monsters or places of great danger, but equally of great reward. Unlike many of his people though, Vaelyn refuses to resort to underhanded means to gain the upper level. He likes to try to keep some sense of honor and dignity, while on the same coin, he can also come across just like his people due to his more street-wise ways and coy to sometimes playful wording; Yep, he can be a bit of Trickster for fun.
Skills & Traits
Vaelyn has many skills up his sleeve, or at least once did. He is a survivalist at heart and as such has taken on my skills to survive. Though he does admit that cooking is not really his best talent.
Weapons
- Polearms: Vaelyn has a natural flow with polearm type weapons and has shown great skill with one since he was allowed to pick up a weapon. The Polearm warfare is something that had been noted in his family for generations, though was rarely spoke of until he got ready to leave out. Mostly because his father did not wish for his son to think to highly of himself with such a family gift during his training. This is also one of Vaelyn's favorite weapons.
- Hand-To-Hand: Vaelyn, like all Duskwight are trained in Hand-to-Hand combat, as they can use their ability to hear someone or something coming in the shadows before tackling them. Though Vaelyn is trained in the art, he doesn't really care much for it. He rather have a weapon with a long reach between himself and whatever it is he may have to attack.
Natural Gifts(& Curses)
- Sharp Hearing: Vaelyn has, like most Duskwights, extremely sharp hearing. This is very handy when using sound to help him navigate in very dark places and makes up for his lack of eye sight in the darkness. The curse of such a sharp hearing is that some particular sounds can also be extreme painful if they are high enough.
- Long Reach: Vaelyn, like many Elezen, is tall. He is actually even seen as tall for his own race at times. As such Vaelyn has a pretty good reaching range with his own hands, which seems to be only extended with the polearm he uses.
- Height: Vaelyn is a tall guy, even compared to many of his Elezen kind. Though he isn't really the tallest of them either; or at least he doesn't think so. Though this height gives him the advantage of seeing over people, it also comes with the curses of making him easy to spot and doesn't help when dealing with very low clearance areas.
- Goddess Luck: This is a term that was given to him probably since he was young. Vaelyn has always, somehow, ended up lucky. Even in the worse of situations, he always seems to somehow manage to survive or get out of a situation by the skin of his teeth. He may still get a scar or two from the experience, but yet somehow he manages to avoid getting a broken bone or worse fate, Death.
- No Aether - No Magic: Vaelyn due to his origins is not able to use the Aether, nor is he able to use magic. Even if he wanted too, he is unable to channel any form, which means such things as teleportation is rather impossible for him and if someone does teleport him-- he tends to feel a little ill afterwards for a small bit.
Key Features
- Vaelyn has a very mild accent. It is hard to pick up and by most cases, nearly impossible. Yet if you have a keen enough ear, you may pick up the accent and if you been around Garleans - you may note that some syllables carry as they would if a Garlean spoke.
- If your sensitive to magic, another key feature about Vaelyn is he has no aether flow about him. This is either due to the fact that he was stepped out of time back at the battle that lead to the Calamity or because of the fact he can't channel any magic. He is unaware of this currently.
Background and False
Vaelyn has a rather long history, as it crosses over between two lives. His origin life and the life he made up for his spy/scout operative work. He as of late tends to mix these two histories up, because even though they attempted to jog his memory back, there are still parts of himself that have come to earn that he wishes he had nothing to do with the Empire.
This makes asking him anything to do with his background very difficult and sometimes a bit confusing; even for him. What he does know, or is willing to freely speak about also depends on who you are and what he may desire to share with you. If you are close enough to him, he may give you his full, true enough, background history. If you don't know him well enough, he will probably share with you the false history-- or just avoid the subject entirely.
He also does not speak of his real name anymore and fears if he ever hears it being said-- then he knows he has been found once more by the Empire he betrayed for love and there may be a dagger soon to his neck.
