Veritas
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(By Bad Ritual, January 2023) -
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Basics
Face Claim: Chris Evans.
Voice Claim: Mathew Mercer (Example).
Birth Name: Ziv Teodoro de Morganstern-Cielo (Technically he was born Alba Teodora and later had his first and middle names changed).
Titles: Don de Morganstern-Cielo, El Caballero-PalatÃn del Draconis, El Valeroso ("Lord of Dawn Star-Sky, Knight-Paladin of the Dragon, The Valorous").
Preferred Moniker: Ziv the Valorous.
Age: 28.
Species: Dracofurre (A lineage resembling anthropomorphic pumas/mountain lions with draconic blood).
Height: 6'6" (2m, or 201cm).
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Family Heirloom/Conduit
Iustitia ("Justice"; Pronounced "ee-ah-STISH-ee-ah"). A masterwork mythril-steel alloy short sword with electrum center/hilt, and a sacred gem enchanted with the ability to glow when dark energy/magic is near. It is bound to his soul and will return to him on command.
Unknown to him thus far is the ability to slice through space itself to create small tears (portals). When he discovers this, he will be able to teleport to places he has been to before with ease, but if he doesn't know of the location, longer distances will expend more and more energy to the point where he can over-extend himself and wind up unconscious.
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Personality
Positive Traits: Kind, understanding, can be very warm and personable when needed, brave/heroic, giving.
Negative Traits: Sometimes overly serious, bit of a zealot for the Light, holier-than-thou (especially when it comes to beings he considers lesser, like demons, vampires, and even slaves), somewhat vain (he knows he is attractive and plays it up when needed).
Sexuality: D6 on the Purple-Red scale. Asterosian, Valour is exclusively attracted to males and masculine individuals. He favors humans, dragons, felines, and other flat-faced anthro creatures.
Romantic Status: Unpartnered, polyamorous
Likes: All kinds of meat except pork and shellfish, showing off his body and skills, sweets (especially flan!), tea with honey, and swimming. He has a 'sweet spot' on and behind his ears.
Dislikes: All alcohol, including wine (save for on holidays), salty things, being touched on the ears or thighs by someone he's not romantically interested in, dry heat, being on the ocean.
Fears: Losing access to the Light, failure, becoming that which he hates most (undead or enslaved), being rejected romantically, sex, drowning, becoming disinherited.
Goals: Becoming knight-captain of his own merchant guild, amassing followers of his religion and way of life, finding partners, having children, learning to shape-shift into a full dragon, learning to bring someone back from death - the ultimate paladin skill!
Afflictions: Mild gender dysphoria.
Strongest Virtue: Diligence.
Strongest Vice: Pride.
Diet/Allergies: Mushrooms. Never feed him mushrooms!
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History
"He said, 'Son, when you grow up
Would you be the savior of the broken
The beaten and the damned?'
He said, 'Will you defeat them?
Your demons, and all the non-believers
The plans that they have made?'
- Born in the large town of Morganstern on the south-eastern coast of Costa Dorada.
- Parents' marriage was a consolidation of power. His father is from one of the first families to arrive from the Stredlands. His mother is from a family that claims they were first to arrive on Costa Dorada altogether.
- Born into privilege as a "female."
- He and his fraternal twin brother, Bernardo, were close as children. Their older sister, Zahava, lorded her position as first-born over them constantly.
- His brother preferred making Doradan desserts and pastries to being a courtly noble, and Ziv preferred knighthood and adventure.
- Though his sister was bequeathed the future title of Marquesa, Bernardo and Ziv were given the family heirlooms: a shield and a sword, collectively known as Fortitudo y Iustitia.
- Turned 15.
- Upon being gifted the sword as an adolescent, Ziv's body transformed to be more masculine, as he'd always wished. It took a few years for the family to regard him as male, but in time they did. The townsfolk have yet to understand.
- Took a squireship in the Knights of the Dragon, and studied the Holy Light, in the capital city.
- Turned 18.
- Discovered the fae Nox, from another world. Fell in love, but then when the fae asked him to marry him and run away from his life and responsibilities, Ziv panicked and used a Sunlight spell on him, revealing Nox's vampiric nature. Nox fled, never to be seen again.
- Turned 20.
- Graduated from the academy of the Holy Light and was knighted.
- Bought his way onto a merchant ship to travel the world. Spent one month at sea and hated it.
- Went to study magic with the Serpents of Sona.
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- Came to the Stred lands to learn of his father's ancestors.
Profit.