[b]Name[/b]
Varrik Frost

[b]Age[/b]
29

[b]Gender[/b]
Male

[b]Race/People[/b]
Human

[b]Appearance[/b]
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Height: 1.78 meters 
Weight: 146 pounds 
Eye color: Red
Hair Color: Grey
Skin Tone: Pale
Dress: Varrik wears thick animal skin pants and jacket with a layer of bear fur on the inside to keep him warm at all times. His pants and jacket are a dyed grey color with his wool shirt being a light green color mimicking the color of pine trees. Over this attire is a large black hooded cloak that buttons up in the front and covers from his knees to a high necked collar so that when the hood is pulled over his head only his eyes are revealed.
Markings: Engraved into both palms with magic is the rune for [url=http://th06.deviantart.net/fs70/200H/f/2011/113/7/0/1303592685_zelian_rune_stone__ice_by_chimeradragonfang-d2tm7zt.png]ice[/url]

[b]Traits[/b] 
-Skills: Skilled Ice mage. Varrik has been trained in ice magic since a young age and would have been called a protege when he became a hero ten years ago but would now be called a master in the art of Ice Magic. Most spells that he can cast do not require an incantation with only a few master level spells still requiring him to use long-winded incantations. He is strong enough that he can draw on moister in the air to allow in to use magic when not around bodies of water.

-Flaws: He can be described as a sort of broken man who has changed in the ten years since the time of the Necromancer. While he kept his skills in magic honed, he also turned to drinking as a way to cope with the time of peace that they are in. The problem with him being a wartime hero is that he has had nothing truly worthy of his time since the fight against the Necromancer. He also has a bad habit of hitting on every girl that comes across his path weather he had been drinking or not. 

-Personality: Varrik is a generally friendly person who would like to be nice to anyone that he meets, but for the most part does not care what others think of him. People that truly know Varrik would say that the friendly man is just a mask and they would be right as he uses the friendly side to distract people from the fact that he is one of the heroes from ten years ago as some of the things that happened during the fighting that earned him the title of Hero. 

[b]Background[/b]
Varrik never knew his family or even the town where he was born. The only family he has ever known is the group of fellow apprentices and masters that made up the Mage Academy that raised him from a young age. At the young age of three, the child was tested for magical affinity and when it was found that he had a connection to magic he was taken away to be trained at the Falik Magical Academy. On the outside, the Academy appeared to be a place that trained young magicians to control the magic for the greater good in ways to help the government and how to make a living as a mage, but in actuality the Falik Academy took mages from their homes at young ages to be raised as living weapons to be used as soldiers for hire.

Varrik's early life consisted of various tests to learn which affinity for magic would be suit him and by the age of seven he was learning solely ice magic. As he slowly grew up in the strict environment of training it was found out that he was progressing faster then any of the other students and he was soon declared to be a protege by his masters. When the Necromancer started to expand his boundary and waged war against the rest of the nations, Falik Academy put for Varrik as their pride and joy to help fend off the waves of undead that threaten the rest of the world. At the age of nineteen, Varrik was a powerful Ice Mage who was on the fast track to become one of the youngest masters to ever come out of the Academy and when he was sent off to the battlefield with his two high level fire mage handlers, he was given a powerful Ice grimore containing dangerous spells from some of the great races like Frost Giants, Dwarves, elves and even Demons. 

The Ice Mage made a name for himself on the battlefield as he was known to take on entire legions of the undead by himself and leave only a desolate wasteland of ice remaining. He was found in a forward camp by the Adventuring group where they requested his handlers for him to join the group that was going after the Necromancer directly and the handlers reluctantly agreed to an arrangement where when the war ended Varrik was to be given back to the Falik Academy with the grimore intact as well. As the Necromancer fell at the feet of the Heroes, the mage sealed the grimore away in a powerful ice spell as he realized the power contained within and disappeared from the group before they had a chance to turn him back over to the Academy and struck out on his own for the first time in his life.

After three years traveling across the land adjusting to his new life of freedom the nightmares began. At first he was able to ignore the images but soon he was getting overrun by the memories from the war and the things that he had done during his time fighting. The solution that he came up with for ridding himself of the images was turning to the bottle for help as he searched for a more permanent solution for the nightmares.

[b]Items[/b] 
-Large eight hundred page black grimore hanging from Varrik's waist encased in a block of eternal ice.


[b]Misc[/b]
-The ice encasing the book can only be dissolved by a master level Ice Mage. Also the spell needed to dissolve the ice is located within the book and committed to Varrik's memory. 
-After the war, Varrik swore to never use his full powers ever again. 
-During his time with the Hero group, he was a quiet person who did not interact well with the others in the group.