[@Estylwen] Have a few character concept ideas and such so far, and thought I'd present one off them to you to see if its any bit viable (of if i overthought this thing to death already). Life's been busy irl otherwise, and I've gotta head to bed after posting this due to the oncoming work week I have. (@_@) 

Just want to see if it's viable for now though, juggling joining properly or not otherwise for the time being for a few personal irl reasons.....but, in the meantime, I at least want to see if some potential character idea or two might work or not juuuust in case.  

[hider=Character Concept #1 - The Homunculus]
Long, long ago, an ancient artifact was wrought in a quest for immortality....only for that success to end up being a horible curse. Bound to a peculiar and seemingly indestructible sphere, the individual inside lived for some time before eventually wishing to end it all. In this quest, and after many tries to find the death he eventually sought for, he tore out the magical core containing him from his latest body and flung it deep into the ocean. Here in the depths he would slumber unawkaened for an untold amount of time, before being found covered in softly glowing microorganisms on the shores of Athius by a young elven girl whose wealthy family hailed from Aethera. This girl would gain an interest in learning magic from the artifact, itselff covered in arcane runes and so forth, but for all anyone knew it was simply a cool-looking sphere that did nothing. 

Centuries later, given elven lifespans, the girl has become an alchemist whose life's work was to study the 'mysteries of life and its creation' and had long moved on from the artifact save for keeping it around her family's estate. Yet when a dog that wandered onto the premises slipped in an open door and eventually swallowed the artifact from where the elf had kept it, she noticed it take pause....and its eyes faintly flash with a light glow. It was as if something else was there instead of the dog, or someone else, and after killing the dog to get the artifact back she felt a burst of inspiration as she came to realize or at least theorize something about the artifact. She would work to craft a homnuculus body to place it in, then, a vessel that would bear it and hopefully allow her to discern its secrets at last. 

Yet after doing this, the individual inside of the artifact awoke in a new body for the first time in ages....and he was angry. Angry for being awoken again somehow, and yet his awakener was the opposite and was thrilled beyond belief at his existence and awakening. He did not give her all her answers, but he would end up becoming her lab assistant of sorts and advisor as he witnessed her growing obsession with studying life. Even as the elf's parents died of old age, her own husband died of illness, and she at times used her kids or servants for experiments while placing them otherwise in the care of this valued homunculus himself she continued on. And as she continued on and worsened, the homunculus himself increasingly became distant to her and stopped helping. In her he saw his mistakes, his follies, and in the end the elf would herself eventually die of strange and sudden yet seemingly normal mundane circumstances. 

Taking stewardship of her children and wealth, as she'd left everything to him in her will without so much as thinking about the matter, the homunculus sells the estate and most of its contents before taking the two kids and the wealth and leaving Aethera. He moves farther west, seeking distance from the elven ancestral home, and ends up moving as far as Hathforth and eventually becoming a professor at the College of Hathforth and broadening his knowledge between what he took of his maker's life's work with him but also taking the time to spend time with his basically adoptive elven kids at this point. Delves into known and secretly the forbidden in terms of magic, but it mostly ranges around alchemy, necromancy, and stuff like animating trees or statues. Or his magical leanings could be a bit more varied. Concept is flexible in this respect.

Eventually the titular Ludwig II comes to power and moves to unite Arrowfell, and this leads the homunculus to decide that he could do with a second home for retiring at some point or another. So, after having cultivated wealth from investments over time and banking up his income from teaching at the College, he manages to get ahold of a noble title of sorts and retires from the College to another location or town/city to relax for some time. Still keeps up his personal studying of magic, building his personal treasury/income, and maybe even pays for his own high-clase teleportation stuff, but ultimately in the end he moves far from the capital of Hathforth and its court dramas for the most part for some peace and quiet. 

Maybe he moves to an already known place, or maybe into someplace like another trading town/city that arose along the Fey River near the fork in the river to the north. Etc. Whatever the case, he becomes known as a human-looking individual who has a growing pool of wealth and some local connections in Arrofell due to business dealings outside of his teaching job over the years. The elven kids of his former maker have grown up enough to not be little kids for sure by this point, and yet live on the same estate as him like family. Could be he got up to somthing or another otherwise in this time period too, depending on if people wanted to have backstory connections or otherwise, but overall the general gist is things are peaceful enough for him in this era. 

....That is, they are until the Wizard Queen comes to power and the Glasic Fields erupt into existence. It shocks him as a mage/scholar for such a thing as the Glasic Fields to emerge, and while he wasn't some friend of Ludwig and just made bank and got a title from doing things underneath his rule in the past it is a shock to hear the guy who brought about a 20 year peace is dead so suddenly and so soon at least. 

From here, this character's potential involvement in things can vary a bit depending on what you'd want. Perhaps he is called back to work at the College out of a desperation for teachers, and has been working these last two years while 'commuting' from home via teleportation. Perhaps the Wizard Queen wants his expertise in her court in some capacity and to test his potential loyalties after getting word of him via the College. Perhaps some wily Duke or Duchess wanted his servies, or sees him as a potential asset to support or work against the Queen. Etc, etc. 

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