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Name: Vairn Sayeld
Race: Human
Age: 47
Abilities: Vairn is a wizard of no small power, though his focus is much more of an outlying specialization than the more common magical occupations. Vairn has many spells, but almost all of them are used either to create new objects or alter existing ones, and the few spells that don't fit into those categories are either very weak or very limited in their use. Vairn prefers to be known for his talents as an artificer - someone who infuses items with magical abilities, for various reasons.
A more 'mundane' skill Vairn possesses is his talent as an alchemist, mixing various substances to create something that he can find a use for. More often than not, he combines this with his magic to create more powerful alchemy.
Weapons: Vairn has a considerable repertoire of weapons, ranging anywhere from flasks of explosive liquids to acidic stones (special gloves needed) to items of the magical variety. However, his main weapon is the walking stick he always carries around with him - he was quick to enchant it, and many of its strikes can hit just as hard as any sword.
Personality: Vairn was often in trouble at the magical academy he attended, not because of any crimes but because he was a bad student - the combination of absent-mindedness and arrogance that he had as a nineteen year old is still with him as a forty-seven year old. He often doesn't even realize that he is looking down on others, but everyone around him seems acutely aware of it - something that irritates him to no end. His absent-mindedness seems to have gotten worse as he aged, and now he will often work on a project only to lose interest halfway through, then switch to another one that suddenly seizes all his time. After working on this new one furiously for several days, he will leave it as he comes up with a new idea - he rarely gets things finished.
However, Vairn does have good qualities. He is both kind and friendly, and he often seems like just another senile, but humorous, old man. He enjoys new experiences above anything other than his work, and seeks to find inspiration for some new device in everything he sees. Vairn also believes that all societies should be built so that the weakest of the community can be elevated to the height of the strongest - people can only survive and live fruitful lives if they band together. He isn't afraid to defend this viewpoint either, and though he is generally accepting of other peoples ways (it's not his business, after all), he can't easily stand the sight of one person causing harm to another... Or not without good cause. More than once, he has negotiated with the local community and used criminals that would have been put to death as test subjects for his experiments - "If someone can't live peacefully within society, then they can at least aid the effort and help society move forward."
Appearance: Vairn looks much older than he actually is - his theory is that it has something to do with the expenditure of energy necessary in the creation of magical items. He stands about average in height, with completely white hair that hangs down to shoulder lengths (a bit longer in the back) and sports a neatly trimmed beard and mustache. His skin is a little weathered, though his blue eyes still flick about with the inquisitiveness of a child. He wears a white tunic and leggings over a blue vest and a cloak of the same color fastened to his breast by a golden pin.
He always wears long sleeves despite the weather to better conceal the blackened husk of a thing that was once his right arm... Now it looks more like the arm of someone who has been burned nearly to ash, but with four metal rods lying parallel to his forearm sticking up out of the skin. His leg looks much the same way, and he carries a walking stick with him to help get him around.
Biography: Vairn was born to a thoroughly magical family; his mother a priest of Ilman, God of Literature, and his father a powerful mage of no small renown. From an early age, Vairn and his twin Eraeh were taught about the power -and consequences- of magic. They were taught that the worst thing they could do was to cause unwilling hardship on another human being, if it wasn't strictly in order to prevent something else.
Eraeh, consumed with bookishness, was brought under the wing of Ilman and has spent most of his adult life as an adventurer, attempting to spread the word about his faith and help those who need it. Vairn was thus left to study wizardly magic under the tutelage of his father, and he advanced quickly through the lessons. At the age of eighteen he was sent to an academy to refine and continue his training, and Vairn came back six years later, the better for it.
After the academy, Vairn opened up a small shop within the city and lived in comfort for as long as the building was open. However, a year and a half after he had bought it, Vairn was caught in a small but powerful explosion caused by a poorly made enchantment upon a volatile alchemical substance, and a good portion of his right side was burned in the accident. He lost most of the use of his arm and his leg became weak enough that he couldn't stay standing too long without rest. However, Vairn diligently began to research new spells and enchantments, and after two more years and many, many painful (emotional and physical) failures, he was able to create an item, infused into his very skin, that gave him back the movement of his right arm. Soon after, he decided that his magic wasn't advancing at all sitting in a shop, and so he set out -like his twin- as an adventurer, to explore the world and learn more about his craft as he went.
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