Sept 4, 2023 0:41:14 GMT
Post by Bran Viola on Sept 4, 2023 0:41:14 GMT
Bran Viola
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history
| Childhood | Teenage Years | Adulthood |
| most of brans early childhood is lost to the fog of memory, and tossed aside in favor of his family's teachings. His family, Viola, is descended from noble blood, having first rose to prominence in renaissance Florence as a powerful merchant family. their wealth and status persists to this day, a fact clothed in joking rumors of the family's ability as sorcerers. This rumor is half true, as the family's true wealth comes from their clandestine practice of hunting and binding fae to servitude. Bran was inducted into this practice fairly early in his life, after his family discovered that a half dead fae was mysteriously already in his service. Brans earliest memory is of asking a dying creature it's name. Bran's parents had been lost to the fae, and he was raised by a cavalcade of relatives and tutors. | Bran, was, as a Viola, trained to hunt the fae, an art he proved to be particularly capable with, quickly becoming one of the foremost hunters of his generation due in no small part to his now nameless servitor. As bran grew, he began to find a certain distaste for not only the fae, but his family as well. Needless to say this caused some friction between him and his superiors, a friction that burned all the hotter due to brans seemingly chronic laziness. Bran, however, did carry a certain inquisitive sense that lead to him continuing his work out of curiosity about the fae and his own peculiar circumstances. Ultimately, he came to the same understanding his forbears had, in that they had been privy to clandestine secrets that they could now use for their own benefit. Outside of his work however, bran is surprisingly inept, having been sheltered for most of his life. | -- |
personality
Shy
Inquisitive
Lazy
Logical
Cynical
Soft-Spoken
special situations
Bran is subject to two main situations- firstly, he is a member of the Viola family, a clandestine organization dedicated to hunting Fae. He has been trained in this discipline, which will be expanded on in the learned skills section, but also has a fairly high monetary status in the human world, akin to a rich child who is allowed to spend on what they please, but don't actually control their own funds. Second, Unbeknownst to Bran, he was saved from Fae sent by the west court to kill him by a west court Fae named Lucio Corena. a twist of fate caused bran to acquire the mans true name, and inadvertently bind him to service. the fact that this was done so early in brans development took a toll on Lucio's mind, which, by the time bran was a teenager, had deteriorated almost completely from bran treating him as imaginary. Bran has control of Lucio Corena per the rules on true names, but Lucio is only capable of following commands at this point, and can no longer speak. He is still capable of using magic to aid bran, though this is something that bran has to command, and given he is human, he knows comparatively little of what Lucio can actually do. His training in hunting fae is important, as it is integral to his role as a hunter, and his situation with Lucio is intended as cruel irony that will be integral to his development, as the relationship between the two is intended to highlight a contradictory unison of fae and human.
learned skills
Bran was Trained in his family's esoteric arts of faerie combat. He is extremely knowledgeable on the weaknesses of the fae and how to exploit them, and is capable with several forms of weaponry, including the sword, knives, garrote wire and specially crafted iron chains. he also has access to a sizable quantity of resources for combatting the fae, derived from his families wealth, and their trove of gear dedicated to the 'craft.'
Please put 10 for only two skills, as that is all they would have learned at school unless they were a prodigy as defined above. If you need any clarification on these skills, please consult the site lore.
Enchanting (as outlined in the site lore, putting enchantments on objects) 1-10
Wards (as outlined in the site lore, protections against magic on people or things) 1-10
Glamours (as outlined in the site lore, illusions and mind control) 1-10
Tailoring: (Making clothes, magical or otherwise) 1-10
Craftmanship: (Making furniture, architecture, woodworking. A broader field as few fey take to craftsmanship) 1-10
Forging: (Weaponsmiths and jewelry makers. Usually magical.) 1-10
Herbalism: (Magical plants, poisons, etc) 1-10
Combat (Strategies and tactics as well as actual fighting 1-10
Theory (Academic knowledge, ability to learn) 1-10
Combat (Strategies and tactics as well as actual fighting 1-10
Theory (Academic knowledge, ability to learn) 1-10
out of character
Alias: Nico
Other Characters: Julius Auyn, Lucio Corena
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