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Alexander Crann
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Origin Nation Name: Duiland/Rutan
Nation Description: Duiland and Rutan occupy the same geographic location, except that Rutan is underground below the above ground Duiland.
Duiland is a small landlocked country that is known for its eco-friendly technology and a small, but respectable magic community. The Duiland government is a constitutional monarchy with a democratically elected council that has most of the political power within the nation. Duiland isn't the largest economy in the world, but is quite wealthy as it self-subsistent, being able to produce enough food and power for its people, and it makes a sizable amount of money from exports such as various rare plants, funguses and insects used for various chemical and alchemical products, as well various eco-friendly hardware such as hover-cars.
In addition, Duiland is probably most known for its tourism. Most major cities are built around giant trees called Great Aosta Trees. The Great Aosta Tree is only found in the Duiland region, and has no documented attempts have been made of successfully growing one, so the government makes conversation of these trees are high priority. Great Aosta Trees are roughly the size of skyscrapers, though some are larger than others. Aosta City, the capital of Duiland, is built around the largest of said trees, often called some variant of the Greater Aosta Tree, often shortened to The Greater Aosta or just the Greater.
Rutan is the name given to several underground settlements nestled in the roots of the Great Aosta Trees. It is governed by a council of elders, with each elder hand-picking and often raising their successor, though it is rarely passed from parent to child. The people of Rutan are very traditional, preferring old magics to new technology. They are not completely opposed to using technology, but are cautious of it.
Until only about thirty years ago, the entrance to Rutan was sealed. The only known passageway into Rutan is through the Greater, and it is possible to travel to any of the known settlements through tunnels within the roots, as the roots of the various Aosta Trees connect together.
There is a tense peace between the two nations as both fear that any conflict could result in damage to the Aosta Trees. At first, the Rutans rejected almost all outsiders, but quickly accepted ethnic Duilans as they learned they came from a common ancestor, though they regard their Duilan relatives with some some suspicion. The region has recently opened the area to more people but almost exclusively for political or professional reasons.
Allegiances: He is a graduate of Aosta City Institution of Higher Learning and Practical Skills
P H Y S I C A L
Age: 21
Race: Human
Typical Outfit Description: He typically wears pretty simple modern clothing, usually a t-shirt, jeans, and a jacket if it is cold. The only notable thing is that he tends to either wear thick leather gloves, or have them on his person.
Eye Color:Green
Hair Color: Platinum Blonde
P E R S O N A L I T Y
Summary: Alexander is often distant and cold towards strangers, not out of malice though it may sometimes come off that way. It is simply that he has very limited people skills. However he is hard-working and passionate about animals, finding beauty in even the most dangerous and ugly of creatures of the earth.
Mental Strengths: He has a strong will and is both intelligent and diligent.
Mental Weaknesses:He is stubborn, bad with people, and is particularly bad with social ques
Loves/Likes:Animals, Biology, Small Spaces, Being left alone
Hates/Dislikes: People who hurt animals for no reason, Necrotic Magic
Fears: Large fires, Large open areas
Brief Background
Alexander Crann was born about ten years after the rediscovery of Rutan. His mother was apart of the first group of explorers that located and opened the pathway down into the subterranean civilization. She was considered an important diplomat to the region during the early days, as she had studied old Duilanian, which is very similar to the Rutan language. There she fell in love with Alexander’s father, a person who selected to succeed one of the elders. Their marriage, that incorporated both traditions, was considered a massive diplomatic victory for both countries, though was largely insignificant to the actual peace process.
Alexander was the three of their children, so by time he was born, almost all of the press around the couple had died off. Both of his parents were often very busy, as by this time, his father had ascended to being an elder when his mentor died from a terminal illness. Alex spent most of his time living with his mother as she moved around both regions as a diplomat, and was never truly native to one of the nations over the other, being an outsider in both of his homes.
As soon as he was old enough, he enrolled and then graduated from Aosta City Institution of Higher Learning and Practical Skills under what is colloquially called their beast-tamer program. He then went to a new country looking for new opportunity and a new home.
T A L E N T S
Magic
- Life Conduit Alexander is able to take excessive natural energy proceeded by him and other nearby life forms and channel into a living object accelerating their natural healing and immune response. The effectiveness of this spell depends on how natural the surrounding area is. In an emergency, he is able to tap into his own life energy and give it to someone else, however this causes him to become lethargic afterwards, and he has to be healthy himself to tap into this extra energy.
- Rebuke Darkness Working on similiar principles of his Life Conduit spell, he is able to draw energy from the air, except when he is using this spell he is channel to weaken and repel demonic or death magic. When his focuses this energy on the undead, it causes them to feel as though the area being focused on is burning, and weaker undead will flee from the source of the energy.
Technology
- Neuroelectric Whip A seeming simple metal casing that produce a whip-like energy. The whip has two settings while on, stun and discharge.While in stun mode, When it comes in contact with the surface of a being with a nervous system the energy causes no pain, and instead numbness, making it harder to move that area the longer it is exposed. While in discharge, whenever it makes contact with anything, it lets out a small electrical discharge.
Skills
- Animal Handling Alexander has an encyclopedic knowledge about animals and how to interact with them and calm them down.
- Multilingual Alexander spent some time during his education learning about various other languages, and while he is only fluent in a limited number of languages, has learned bits and pieces of other languages.
Powers
- Animal Empathy Alexander is able to focus on beast he is able to physically see and innately understand its basic emotional state. With more focus, he is able to influence that emotional state temporarily.
- Will of the Aosta Alexander is resistant to most poisons, diseases, and mind-altaring effects. While he is not immune to them, he shows less of a reaction to them as compared to a normal person.
O T H E R
<Comment: I am terrible with names. The made-up names I used for the nations he is formed are based on Old Irish. It is probably better than what I usually do and just based it on latin. >
Player Input:
Would do you want to join this role-play? - I find magic-tech worlds to be very open-ended and I want to get back into roleplaying as a way to get back into writing.
What makes you think yourself to be dedicated enough to be accepted? - Because I have nothing better to do with my life. And the idea of posting twice or three times a week seems really slow
If you needed a break because of real life, would you inform anyone on this RP? - If I am able, I will post in the OOC if I can't post.