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Remi Lennevald
Topic Started: Jun 22 2011, 02:31 AM (499 Views)
Wil Grieve ✿
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Posting him here first to make sure everything's in line with history and such. If you have any changes or anything you'd like to make in terms of the northern city stuff, just lemme know.

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General

Full Name: Remi Lennevald
Alias: N/A

Kingdom: Chandelier
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Birthday: Aprolla 1
Elemental Affinity: Light
Psionic School: N/A

Currently

Florins: Remi gets by on very little.
Items on Hand: He prefers to travel lightly, and never carries anything unnecessary with him.
Weapons: Wrist-mounted miniature cannons and a small Fionan dagger (which is to say, a rather sizable dagger – them Fionans are pretty big dudes)
Aspirations: Remi had hoped, before departing Chandelier, to grow up in the service of the Temple of Aethir, below his family’s home. But when he met Caellach and began his journey outside of the Land’s End Veil, his aspirations changed to the rescue of a missing Fionan girl, and the obtaining of the crystals.
Current Occupation: N/A

Home: A typical house atop a temple in Chandelier’s holy district.
Workplace: N/A

Pets: Currently, he has a pet rabbit named Caellach. The rabbit is robotic, speaks in a warbled but distinguishable voice and is capable of understanding and communicating with humans and some other animals.

Looks

Appearance: Remi is a little short for his age, but his lacking height is made up for by the imposing golden wings on his back, which at their largest extension span over eight feet. Typically, he keeps them folded and out of the way, but they are impossible to hide completely and draw plenty of stares. His face is soft and effeminate, with the exception of his eyes, which pierce like no other, and his nose, which is small but sharp. His blonde hair is shoulder-length and he will sometimes tie it back when it becomes a problem.

Clothing: Remi’s shirt is similar to a white tank-top, but with broader shoulders and extensions almost too short to be called sleeves. The front of it dips in a deep V, and below the V the two sides of the shirt are tied together with golden material similar to shoestrings, but much more durable. The seams of the shirt are made with this same material. The shirt is loose, providing maximum comfort.

His shorts are made of the same material that his shirt is. This material is very strong, able to resist ripping or tearing even when slashed by a blade (bullets make short work of it, however). Loosely fitted for comfort as well, he hardly ever wears anything else. He wears golden sandals with white soles, though the soles are impossible to keep clean. For aerodynamics, he also has a jacket and pair of pants that cling tight to his body in flight, but he hardly ever uses it, as it is uncomfortable and sticks to his skin when he sweats.

Mentality

Personality: One thing Remi was always taught growing up was how to think, how to react, and not to dissent from what he felt was right despite great temptation. In Chandelier, opportunities to indulge vice were few and far between, so its citizens were in general a very honorable and noble people; Remi is the epitome of this ideal. He was also taught to be able to see the world through the eyes of others, so he has a large amount of sympathy and empathy. He has a huge respect for his elders and was a nearly perfect son to his parents, only getting in trouble when he fundamentally disagreed with them. Given that their environments were nearly the same for their upbringings, his personality rarely conflicted with theirs. Now that he’s out around a much less homogenous people, though, the seeds of bitterness have planted in his mind. He grows increasingly confrontational as he finds people acting in ways that don’t fit into his utopian worldview; pirates and other ne’er-do-wells rub him the wrong way especially, but he finds them to be incredibly useful resources, given that they operate outside of the world’s systems of law (many of which Remi finds to be dissatisfactory). He wants to know everything, no matter how unpleasant, but is ill-equipped emotionally to handle many of the world’s worst realities.

Likes: Dark chocolate, wildlife, putting people in their place.
Dislikes: Useless arguments, useless people, poverty.
Talents: A knack for Light magic, flight, and playing the bone flute hanging from his neck.
Inabilities: Whistling, adapting easily to society.
Fears: The unknown, despite his desire to learn it.

Internal Affairs

Family:
Milla Lennevald (Mother) – 46 – Milla is a healer in Chandelier’s Temple of Aethir. She has not seen Remi in two years, and every day wonders what became of her son when he left the veil.
Fado Lennevald (Father) – 50 – Fado is a preacher in the Temple of Aethir, second to the temple’s High Priest. He recognized Remi’s headstrong, if timid, spirit and has full faith that Remi will bring back the missing Fionan girl. However, the length of time that has passed since the boy left leaves Fado more doubtful every day.

History: Remi was born in a mysterious city located in the far north of the world, deep within the Land’s End Veil, a region with heavy mists that ships avoid due to its dubious reputation for swallowing sailors. Shrouded by the thick mists is a swirling maelstrom of Auria, a current so powerful that normal ships would be blown apart as in a giant hurricane. Beyond this veil exists a city unlike any other in the world – a floating city where the remaining Fionans live in harmony with humans. This city is called Chandelier.

Remi’s birth was unremarkable, as most in Chandelier were – however, a birth in a civilization consisting of so few individuals (no more than a few thousand) was always a cause for celebration, especially when the family involved had such a high position in Chandelier’s Temple of Aethir. Both of Remi’s parents were devout followers of their chosen god – the Chandelieric people worship all of the gods equally, but special regard is given to the six most powerful gods, and between those, the Lennevald’s chose Aethir to receive their service.

Raised as most Chandelieric humans were, Remi never thought to question the stark differences between himself and his Fionan peers. Though the Fionans numbered less than humans in the society, they were revered for their longevity and resulting wisdom. He was taught the history of the Fionans, of Gotterdammerung, of why they worshipped the gods and why they should respect them – because of his intimate knowledge of the early world, he was in for a rude awakening when he was thrust into the world of Vaenice, a land in which the history Remi grew up on was nothing but ruins and vague fable.

The Chandelieric people would have continued their lives blissfully unaware of life outside of the maelstrom if not for the sudden disappearance of a Fionan girl. The city was shaken to its core. Never in its history had a Fionan gone missing; indeed, no one had ever gone missing, humans included. There were no known cases of theft, or murder, or anything of the sort. It became especially disturbing when one other Fionan admitted to seeing her flee in the night, flying straight into the maelstrom never to return. It would be weeks before Remi would find himself personally involved in her rescue, but not a day went by where he wasn’t out at the maelstrom’s wall, fighting the currents with his metallic wings, gazing deep into the swirling clouds for the glow of the missing girl. Many times, he expressed a desire to his parents to fly in himself to find her, a common sentiment shared amongst human male youths, but the general consensus said they had no responsibility to commit suicide in order to find her. She would return; they had complete faith.

Eventually, Remi was the only one who would fly the maelstrom wall searching for the Fionan. And during one of his solo excursions, he was shocked to see a deep red burning within the vortex. He followed it as it slammed against huge chunks of floating rock until eventually it was spit out on the inside of the wall and began drifting in the dusk-colored sky around Chandelier. Remi investigated the crashed craft, still pulsing its emergency beacon, and found nothing on board but shattered crates and a brass cage bolted to the ship’s main deck. The cage contained an unconscious white rodent, like nothing Remi had ever seen. Though fascinated with the drifting ship, Remi felt a strong desire to help the animal, and took it from its cage back to his home.

The animal woke up before Remi did the next morning, and when it climbed atop the sleeping teen’s wings and began speaking to him in what sounded like a foreign dialect (but certainly the same language), Remi nearly did a backflip. It introduced itself as Caellach, an emissary from the lands outside of the maelstrom. While traveling with a companion (who’d since been tossed overboard by the heavy winds), Caellach witnessed the flight of a Fionan woman from within the storms at Land’s End. He flew in with high hopes of finding something spectacular within, and though his companion died, he was floored by the discovery.

Remi, with the knowledge that the girl had made it safely to the outside world, packed his things and left a note for his parents, insisting that the rabbit take him to Vaenice to find the missing Fionan. Caellach wanted to explore the incredible city, but eventually caved to Remi’s demands, on the promise that once the woman was found, Remi would bring Caellach back to the city. Little did Remi know, the rabbit had an ulterior motive, one that the young winged boy played straight into by joining up.

After a harrowing journey through the ship graveyard inside Land’s End, Remi and Caellach emerged unscathed in the northern skies of Vaenice. Chasing lead after lead, they lost faith many times that they would find what they were looking for. At one point, Caellach was killed by an assassin in a white scarf; this was the beginning of a two-week spiral of depression for Remi, who felt like he’d been robbed of his direction and his only friend. At the end of those two weeks, however, Caellach was back, in robot form; citing huge advances in veterinary science since Vaenice’s Industrial Revolution, he assured the sheltered Remi that his rebirth was not such a far-fetched thing in this brave new world.

Their travels would eventually put them in contact with one of Vaenice’s notorious pirate lords, the Ruthless Gentleman.
Edited by Wil Grieve, Jan 21 2013, 06:07 PM.
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