Barnaby Wells
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:47 pm
Player Name: Starless
Name:Barnaby Wells
Age: 23
Race: Half elf half human
Height: 6’ 2”
Weight: 205
Physical Description: Barnaby is lanky and awkward. He often gives off the impression of being a large and avenging bird due to his penchant for black scholar’s robes and his beak-like nose. When he is out of his robes, which often happens since he has to do menial labor, he resembles a scarecrow. His nose is crooked due to a bad break when he was 16. His eyes, which are dark blue, tend to lighten or darken with his emotions. Barnaby is a rather absent minded fellow when it comes to his appearance so his hair tend to stay long. He is too busy with intellectual pursuits to seek out a barber, so he simply ties his black curls at the nape of his neck with a leather thong. His hair serves well enough to hid the slight but obvious points on the end of his ears. Barnaby tends to always have frown lines on his forehead due to his meditation upon things by far too lofty for the normal man to understand and to have his large nose stuck in a book.
Possessions: A pocket sized book of philosophy, and a pocket sized book of poetry. Along with several herbs to stave off headaches.
Powers or Strengths: Is actually rather smart. He is also very good at figuring out budgets and retaining startling amounts of information. He can work minor magics such as finding a lost pen or persuading a flower to grow.
Abilities
Find Lost Object
Barnaby can locate any small object such as a key or coin within a 400 foot radius.
Calming
Barnaby can not force a person to calm down but he can exude a relaxing presence that a person or animal can pick up on and be affected by. It does not always work.
Retention
Not necessarily a magical ability, but Barnaby can retain just about any bit of information he sees or hears. He has a very good memory so he very rarely forgets anything.
Blinding Flash
The only strong spell Barnaby dares to use and only in the most dire of situations. He utters a phrase and his assailants and anyone in their immediate area is blinded by a sudden surge of white light. The side effects of using such a spell are often sudden blackouts. He can either wake up almost immediately afterwards or stay knocked out for days.
Weaknesses: Barnaby is very awkward in social situations. He is sort of arrogant at times and has a very abrasive way of talking to people. Also when it comes to magic he can’t work any large spells. Minor things such as finding a lost Bishani or calming down a dog he can do. But anything larger such as using a fire spell or blinding a person has serious consequences. Depending on the strength of the spell he can have anything from a migraine to exhaustion so crushing that it can immobilize him for several days.
History: Barnaby’s mother was a human and his father was Elf who was disowned by his family. Even so, he was wealthy enough to draw just about any shallow woman’s interest. After a consensual fling, the two parted. When his mother discovered that she was pregnant, she told her former lover and he agreed easily enough to provide for them. They moved to Marn near the Elven lord’s house and have been there ever since. As Barnaby grew older and his elven side became more prominent, his human playmates began to ostracize him. So often times he was left alone with only his mother for company. She had a small talent for magic, nothing that would draw the government’s attention, and so she taught her son a few spells that were handy for a woman, but often useless for a boy. When he was 12 years old, his father brought him to his house and he was tutored along with his half brothers and sisters. The man was a widower so had no wife to protest the inclusion of his bastard child into the household. When it became obvious that Barnaby had a gift for the Academic his father funded his further Education.
At the age of 16 Barnaby was returning from his classes and was menaced by a gang of men who despised half-breeds. After a minor pummeling, he raised his hands in defense and accidentally set one of his assailants hair on fire. From there things escalated. The boy was put on trial and was quickly decided to be guilty of having used combat magic and was to await his death sentence in jail. On the day before he was to meet his maker a government official stopped at his cell. He had heard of the boy’s potential and was astounded. Curious, he had come to chat with the boy and was further fascinated when he found him to be rather genteel. The Official then decided that such a rarity as Barnaby had to be a once in a lifetime occurrence so he pulled some strings and had the boy signed into his care as an almost slave but was labelled as his ‘assistant’. From there on out Barnaby was the Official’s confidante, accountant, advisor, and book keeper. Of course the work was often hard. When his master returned from a party, half drunk and enraged at some bit of gossip or another, Barnaby would often take the brunt of it. When there was an imbalance in the books, caused by his master’s sloppy spending and not by any fault of his, he was beaten for that too. The official often took bribes from townspeople and other people like him who could be carted away to the courthouse and killed so he had to hide that among his master’s accounts as well. Barnaby grew hard and callous towards others in that house. After 6 years in the government official’s employ, he simply died one day. Barnaby reworked the books to hide the fact that he had taken 400 bishani and ran to Shim. He was sure that the guard would realize that the dead man’s Assistant had simply disappeared, but very few people knew that Barnaby was in reality a slave in all but name. So he simply prayed for his freedom and ran. For a year he worked any odd jobs that the distrustful locals would give him and they have reached a uneasy truce.
Name:Barnaby Wells
Age: 23
Race: Half elf half human
Height: 6’ 2”
Weight: 205
Physical Description: Barnaby is lanky and awkward. He often gives off the impression of being a large and avenging bird due to his penchant for black scholar’s robes and his beak-like nose. When he is out of his robes, which often happens since he has to do menial labor, he resembles a scarecrow. His nose is crooked due to a bad break when he was 16. His eyes, which are dark blue, tend to lighten or darken with his emotions. Barnaby is a rather absent minded fellow when it comes to his appearance so his hair tend to stay long. He is too busy with intellectual pursuits to seek out a barber, so he simply ties his black curls at the nape of his neck with a leather thong. His hair serves well enough to hid the slight but obvious points on the end of his ears. Barnaby tends to always have frown lines on his forehead due to his meditation upon things by far too lofty for the normal man to understand and to have his large nose stuck in a book.
Possessions: A pocket sized book of philosophy, and a pocket sized book of poetry. Along with several herbs to stave off headaches.
Powers or Strengths: Is actually rather smart. He is also very good at figuring out budgets and retaining startling amounts of information. He can work minor magics such as finding a lost pen or persuading a flower to grow.
Abilities
Find Lost Object
Barnaby can locate any small object such as a key or coin within a 400 foot radius.
Calming
Barnaby can not force a person to calm down but he can exude a relaxing presence that a person or animal can pick up on and be affected by. It does not always work.
Retention
Not necessarily a magical ability, but Barnaby can retain just about any bit of information he sees or hears. He has a very good memory so he very rarely forgets anything.
Blinding Flash
The only strong spell Barnaby dares to use and only in the most dire of situations. He utters a phrase and his assailants and anyone in their immediate area is blinded by a sudden surge of white light. The side effects of using such a spell are often sudden blackouts. He can either wake up almost immediately afterwards or stay knocked out for days.
Weaknesses: Barnaby is very awkward in social situations. He is sort of arrogant at times and has a very abrasive way of talking to people. Also when it comes to magic he can’t work any large spells. Minor things such as finding a lost Bishani or calming down a dog he can do. But anything larger such as using a fire spell or blinding a person has serious consequences. Depending on the strength of the spell he can have anything from a migraine to exhaustion so crushing that it can immobilize him for several days.
History: Barnaby’s mother was a human and his father was Elf who was disowned by his family. Even so, he was wealthy enough to draw just about any shallow woman’s interest. After a consensual fling, the two parted. When his mother discovered that she was pregnant, she told her former lover and he agreed easily enough to provide for them. They moved to Marn near the Elven lord’s house and have been there ever since. As Barnaby grew older and his elven side became more prominent, his human playmates began to ostracize him. So often times he was left alone with only his mother for company. She had a small talent for magic, nothing that would draw the government’s attention, and so she taught her son a few spells that were handy for a woman, but often useless for a boy. When he was 12 years old, his father brought him to his house and he was tutored along with his half brothers and sisters. The man was a widower so had no wife to protest the inclusion of his bastard child into the household. When it became obvious that Barnaby had a gift for the Academic his father funded his further Education.
At the age of 16 Barnaby was returning from his classes and was menaced by a gang of men who despised half-breeds. After a minor pummeling, he raised his hands in defense and accidentally set one of his assailants hair on fire. From there things escalated. The boy was put on trial and was quickly decided to be guilty of having used combat magic and was to await his death sentence in jail. On the day before he was to meet his maker a government official stopped at his cell. He had heard of the boy’s potential and was astounded. Curious, he had come to chat with the boy and was further fascinated when he found him to be rather genteel. The Official then decided that such a rarity as Barnaby had to be a once in a lifetime occurrence so he pulled some strings and had the boy signed into his care as an almost slave but was labelled as his ‘assistant’. From there on out Barnaby was the Official’s confidante, accountant, advisor, and book keeper. Of course the work was often hard. When his master returned from a party, half drunk and enraged at some bit of gossip or another, Barnaby would often take the brunt of it. When there was an imbalance in the books, caused by his master’s sloppy spending and not by any fault of his, he was beaten for that too. The official often took bribes from townspeople and other people like him who could be carted away to the courthouse and killed so he had to hide that among his master’s accounts as well. Barnaby grew hard and callous towards others in that house. After 6 years in the government official’s employ, he simply died one day. Barnaby reworked the books to hide the fact that he had taken 400 bishani and ran to Shim. He was sure that the guard would realize that the dead man’s Assistant had simply disappeared, but very few people knew that Barnaby was in reality a slave in all but name. So he simply prayed for his freedom and ran. For a year he worked any odd jobs that the distrustful locals would give him and they have reached a uneasy truce.