Okay! Eglantine Hawkwood is a fairly new mage in House Merinitia. He (yes, he) is half fairy, and very proud of the fact. His mother was a fairy, and his father smelled of... Sorry. Wrong society. No, his mother was a fairy, and his father was a mortal. He was brought up with the fairies until he was five, when he was... mislaid.
Eglantine can remember little of his first five years, but he knows for a fact that a jealous half-brother or an evil uncle was behind his loss. He knows that his mother (a fairy queen, obviously) is still looking for him all over the place, desperate to find her little boy. When she finds him, he will assume his rightful place at her side, honoured by all.
His natural magical talents led to him being trained as a mage, but his main obsession is in finding out more about fairies, and he likes to rush off to wherever fairies are sighted, in case this will be the long-dreamed-of reunion with his family. I have to work fairly hard to provide him with the motivation to join in with the adventures the party encounters.
Actually, I rather suspect that his family kicked him out because he's an arrogant spoiled brat, but I can't be sure of this. Maybe one day the GM will allow Eglantine to meet his family, and I can find out the truth about his backstory.
Since he is half fairy, his magic is very much of the "messing with people's minds" variety. He's great at imaginem, and pretty good at mentem. He's recently started learning corpus, since it seems fun to mess with people's bodies, as well as their minds.
He's handsome - of course! - and charismatic and charming... when he's not being an arrogant brat, that is. He's easily bored and easily distracted, but probably good at heart, perhaps, maybe. He's the sort of mage who would never dream of going out without having cast an illusion of prettiness on his clothing and hair.
The year is currently 1217, by the way, and the setting is northen England. We started playing with 4th edition rules, and switched (rather confusingly) to 5th edition half way through.
I've not played other systems (though I've played lots of computer games that use D&D rules) but I think this one is great!
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Date: 2005-06-20 04:54 pm (UTC)Eglantine can remember little of his first five years, but he knows for a fact that a jealous half-brother or an evil uncle was behind his loss. He knows that his mother (a fairy queen, obviously) is still looking for him all over the place, desperate to find her little boy. When she finds him, he will assume his rightful place at her side, honoured by all.
His natural magical talents led to him being trained as a mage, but his main obsession is in finding out more about fairies, and he likes to rush off to wherever fairies are sighted, in case this will be the long-dreamed-of reunion with his family. I have to work fairly hard to provide him with the motivation to join in with the adventures the party encounters.
Actually, I rather suspect that his family kicked him out because he's an arrogant spoiled brat, but I can't be sure of this. Maybe one day the GM will allow Eglantine to meet his family, and I can find out the truth about his backstory.
Since he is half fairy, his magic is very much of the "messing with people's minds" variety. He's great at imaginem, and pretty good at mentem. He's recently started learning corpus, since it seems fun to mess with people's bodies, as well as their minds.
He's handsome - of course! - and charismatic and charming... when he's not being an arrogant brat, that is. He's easily bored and easily distracted, but probably good at heart, perhaps, maybe. He's the sort of mage who would never dream of going out without having cast an illusion of prettiness on his clothing and hair.
The year is currently 1217, by the way, and the setting is northen England. We started playing with 4th edition rules, and switched (rather confusingly) to 5th edition half way through.
I've not played other systems (though I've played lots of computer games that use D&D rules) but I think this one is great!