Salamandra
Basic Information
Nicknames: Sala, Salad, Salam, Salamandalaldada
Age: Approx. 1200
Gender: Male
Race: Elf/Unknown
Status: Living/Undead/Magical Creature
Description
Height: 7’3
Weight: 205 lbs.
Body Type: Barely fit.
Eyes: Two different shades of blue intermingled curiously in glowing fashion.
Hair: Black, although it was brown when he re-appeared in Aegis. It is suggested this is a side-effect of Shade magic somehow.
Skin: Slightly tanned.
Markings/Tattoos: A small, barely visible scar beneath his left eye. It is assumed he covers something beneath the hair he casts over the right side of his face, but it is not known what.
Health: Alive. He is hung somewhere within the balance of being a lich and a living person, more so the former.
Personality: Reserved, calculated, dull, impassive. After returning from death as a lich through methods unknown, the man is a shadow of his former self: as if any happiness he once held has been stripped of him.
Inventory: His greatstaff which stands almost as tall as he, and a myriad of unknown items he has stored within his sleeves.
Further Details: It is assumed the man awaits the return of his wife Trinity, but after nearly a hundred years he has subconsciously accepted she will never return, despite what he may otherwise say on the topic about being hopeful for her re-appearance. This would explain his depression-like state, but as would his age, and possibly a number of other factors.
Life Style
Alignment: Neutral
Deity: Akilith (Daemon of Prayer)
Religion: None
Alliance/Nation/Home: None/None/The Tower of Ire.
Job/Class: None
Title(s): Wizard
Profession(s): Enchanting, Mining, Stonemason
Special Skill(s): Sewing, Pillow-fighting, Drunken-pillow style, scavenging/stealing.
Flaw(s): He fails to make emotional connections with people. He recognizes almost all of his best friends have died and if he makes more friends the same will only happen, in this way he fails at making new friendships. He is alone, but he almost prefers it that way. He is also very old, and his mind is strange in its way of thinking.
Magic
Current Status: Active
Arch-type: Arcane
Sub-Types: Alteration, Sensory Illusion, Earth Evocation, Mental Magic
Rank: Adept, Master, Master, Adept
Weakness(es): Unknown (It is assumed nobody living has seen him in a duel)
Strength(s): Unknown
Current Spell(s): N/A
Weaponry
Fighting Style: Very cautious
Trained Weapon: Dagger, Wood Bow, Pillow
Favored Weapon: Pillow
Archery: Although before he became a mage he was a very skilled shot, time has corroded his ability.
Biography
Parents: Unknown
Siblings: Unknown
Children: Rae’iri, Nirya, Cir’dian, Rilae
Extended Family: Flormai
Pet(s): A giant Kraken (Deceased), a small black snake (Deceased), Golem Raiga (Deceased), Golem Djinn (Deceased), Golem Miramel (Deceased)
History
Salamandra had been present in Aegis since the year 352, although he has never released any writings or spoken in detail of those times. It is known that he is currently writing his autobiography, but he is quoted stating: “...it is far from completion.”
In Aegis he was inducted into the Mages Guild as an apprentice where he began learning Earth Evocation. Some time after this he left the guild and began learning Shade magic, joined the Dark Brotherhood, and created a name for himself as the villain Regaki: The man who wears the golden-skull mask. His rise to power was great and terrible, leading to the deaths of many, and in his prime the man was never defeated in single-combat. This age for Regaki came to an abrupt end when he was physically split from his body in a situation involving a void node, and Salamandra was left behind within it. Salamandra and Regaki became two separate entities: one good (Blue), the other evil (Red), locked within the same body in a frantic battle for control.
It is Salamandra who won the original altercation and he speaks of Regaki as a demon who plagues him every waking moment, desperate to break free. In the past, few managed to make Salamandra so angry he would lose control and Regaki would proclaim his freedom. At present Regaki appears dormant, but there will no doubt come a day when one will earn his wrath.
Although Salamandra was influential in multiple magical affairs such as the founding of electrical evocation and modern Golemancy, in recent years there is nothing notable he has done. His one trademark is the ability to seemingly pull an innumerable amount of items into and out of his sleeves, which he has done since before the discovery of Void Translocation, so that theory has been debunked. Salamandra currently resides in the Tower of Ire off the coast of Haelun’or.
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