Cael Ladveer - The Beggar

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    Basic Information
    • Full Name: Cael Ede Ladveer "Say-El" (Sail with more emphasis on the I)
    • Race: Ailor, Aetosian
    • Age: 51
    • Gender: Male
    Core Concept
    • Cael is a pragmatic Jacobin. A life filled with tragedy, surviving crisis after crisis, losing loved ones along the way like his Fiancé during the Deathling Crisis, alongside military service in fruitless and genocidal campaigns in Second Songaskian War and the Elven War, have turned him into a staunch anti-Imperial. He struggles to balance the pragmatic nature of his upbringing and military life, which agrees with many of the Empire's actions, against his radical and collectivist ideals which put him in conflict with it.
    Values and Politics

    Political Ideology: Radical Militant Collectivist

    • Believes in full freedom and no restrictions on the usage of Magic and the Occult. He believes everyone should be able to fulfil their potential in whatever means are available to them. It is all a means to an end.
    • He believes in full freedom of movement, habitation, and opportunities in life for all. Foreigners, citizens, occult, everyone.
    • Believes in global peace and the elimination of borders, one ideal land where all live in harmony equally.
    • Unlike other Collectivists, Cael believes that the only way this vision can come to pass is by deposing all with power, because nobody with power will willingly put it aside for the benefit of all. This includes radical military action at times. The monarchy of all states must be destroyed.
    • Cael has little regard for the law, seeing it as a construct put in place by the powerful to maintain their power at the expense of everyone else. He wishes to cast it down and see it reforged into something that suits his Collectivist ideals one day.

    Proficiencies

    Total Points: 14/14
    • Strength - 4
      • Duelist Pack (Melee)
      • Skirmisher Pack (Melee)
      • Warrior Pack (Melee)
      • Tactician Pack (Melee)
    • Constitution - 4
      • Block Pack (Defensive)
      • Counterplay Pack (Defensive)
      • Recovery Pack (Defensive)
      • Ironheart (Training)
    • Wisdom - 0
    • Dexterity - 3
      • Prepared Pack (Firearms)
      • Parkour Pack (Roguery)
      • Escapist (Roguery)
    • Magic (Exist) - 1
      • Illusionism (Spell)
      • Specials: Pocket Dimensions, Prison Break, Arcane Sight
    • Charisma - 2
      • Commander (State)
      • Leadership (State)
    Combat Stats
    • Health: 6HP 1AP
    • Attack: 14
    • Ranged: 13
    • Magic: 11
    • Defense: 13

    Abilities

    Racial:
    • Manifest Familiar - Cael's familiar is a prey bird- in this case a Raven- that he met when he was young. The Raven's name is Oreb, and it has survived multiple city-devastating events alongside Cael, including the Deathling Invasion, the Sewers Collapse, the Return of the Dragons, and the Clicker Crisis. It even outlived his wife, who was ironically named Raven.
    • Dark Empathy - Cael is able to shut down his emotions and conscience at will without noticing and willfully block out specific memories.
    • Practiced Mockery - Cael can tell when he is being insulted, even if he does not understand the language.
    Strength:
    • Technique Parry - (Melee) Protect themselves from an incoming Mundane Technique from the Melee, Ranged, and Firearm Point Buy. Once per hour.
    • Pinning Throw - (Emote) Throw a short blade to pin a person against a wall or floor, Rooting them for 5 minutes. This effect ends early if they are affected by a damaging ability or basic attack. Once per 30 minutes.
    • Battle Flurry - (1 Block) Lash out instantly to strike those surrounding them. /roll (# of targets in range) and the roll decides how many people are hit. Must be more than 1 target in range to use this ability. Once per restart.
    • Leader's Rally - (Emote) Rallies two allies, granting them +2 Strength that can break cap up to a maximum of 9 for their next 2 basic attack emotes. Once per 2 hours.
    Constitution:
    • Shield Cover - (Special) Use an action to raise a shield and block Ranged or Firearm default shots from in front of them.
    • Shield Block - (Self) Block 1 Melee Attack so long as you are carrying an intact shield. Once per hour.
    • Rage Counter - (Melee) When hit with a basic attack or Mundane Technique, immediately make a guaranteed strike against the attacker before reacting to the attack, as long as they are in range. Can not be used if triggering attack was countered, cancelled, or ignored. Once per 2 hours.
    • Bonfire - (Self) When not moving, in combat, or using other abilities, mend your wounds. Heals the most recent wound every ten minutes, and will do so until the ability is interupted. Once per 2 hours.
    • Ironheart - (Passive) Can fight indefinitely without suffering fatigue. When targetted by another person with an ability that increases HP Counters, gain 1 extra HP Counter.
    • Endless Endurance - (Self) When a debuff is afflicted, gain 3 Constitution that can break the cap, up to 12. Additional stacked debuffs do not grant any man Con. Bonus Con is removed when the Debuff is removed, and the cooldown begins. Once per 30 minutes.
    Dexterity:
    • Belt Shot - (10 Blocks) Rapidly loads and fires a firearm from the hip, causing a short to medium range blow-out. Anyone within 10 blocks in front of the user is knocked back 5 blocks. Deals a guaranteed hit. Once per 30 minutes.
    • Parkour - (Passive) Can parkour, scale buildings using Jump II, and stand on rooftops. Can not stand on leaf blocks.
    • Escape Artist - (Self) Can slip out of ropes, chains, handcuffs, and other mundane restraints. Can escape from any mundane holding cell or prison by picking the locks. This action can not be noticed by captors until the user attacks, moves, or takes another action. Twice per day.
    Magic: (Exist)
    Cael's magic has the aesthetic of pale silvery blue lotus flowers.
    • Reflection Strike - (10 Blocks) Conjure a perfect copy of themselves next to a target that delivers a default melee hit on the target before vanishing. Functions like a 5 Strength melee hit and can be countered with block counters. Once per hour.
    • Specials: (3/3)
      • Pocket Dimensions - The user can have a personal magic pocket dimension where they can store up to a closet worth of items (not people). This portal must be summoned before putting in or pulling out items.
      • Prison Break - The user may, using Magic, smash the gate of a prison cell either in the Prison or a private kidnapping situation.
      • Arcane Sight - The user can use Magic to substitute blindness or near or farsightedness, allowing them to be blind or blindfolded and still function like a seeing person.
    Charisma:
    • Move Command - (Emote) Can anticipate a Movement Power and choose an ally to travel with the moving Target, maintaining relative distance from one another. Can not be used on one's self. Once oer day.
    • Battle Command - (Emote) Must be used when completely out of combat, and ends if user enters combat or uses another ability. Choose a target and buff them with +2 Strength, Constitution, and Dexterity as a Link Power. One person can only be under one Battle Command at a time. Cooldown begins as soon as the Link is broken. Once per 10 minutes.

    Languages

    • Common [10/10] (Free)
    • Hellas [10/10] (Native)

    Appearance Information

    • Cael is an older man, with messy brown hair that is graying at his temples, dark forest green eyes. His face bears a scar on the right side of his mouth, and a long rope burn scar rings its way around his neck.
    • He is typically garbed in a sturdy field-use purple coat with large dull brass buttons and lined with dozens of pockets. His pants are tan and thick, and he wears durable brown boots. At his hip are scabbards for daggers and a blacksteel arming sword.
    Pickpocketing Sheet
    When Cael is pickpocketed, you can pick to roll /roll 5 or /roll 6. /roll 6 puts a personal item up for grabs and requires you're willing to have a plotline with it, not just sells to npcs+.
    • Rolled 6: Brass pocket watch with a ship and island engraved in the front It is a very intricate and finely crafted design. An appraiser or someone with finecraft arts would recognize the internals as high quality clockwork. 350r.
    • Rolled 5: A silver ring bearing a sigil of a crow flying over the sea. 110r.
    • Rolled 4: A small pouch containing 95 regals (9 tenners and 5 regals). 95r.
    • Rolled 3: A small chunk of Achate, a pinkish stone with complex swirls on the cut face making it resemble a rose. It is cracked, but workable. 40r
    • Rolled 2: A small steel dagger of decent make, measuring at 11 inches long, putting it within the legal range to carry in public. 20r.
    • Rolled 1: Wrapped vial of ruby rose paste. 15r.

    Visual Information Expanded

    • Face: Cael has an odd young look to his features. Defined enough to be almost handsome, but never quite escaping that gray area where he looked in his early twenties. The only distinctions that have marked age are the bags under his eyes, laugh-lines on his cheeks, and various scars, altogether giving him a mid-thirties look despite being ten years older. The two most obvious scars are the one across his left cheekbone down to the jawline, and the long, rough rope-burn scar around his neck. He also bears a smaller scar on the corner of his lips on the right side that has faded with age.
    • Body: A rapid metabolism has always prevented Cael from being very sturdy looking, though muscle definition has helped slightly in that area. He bears a large circular scar on his left abdomen where he was run through by the spike of a Lantern Shield, a large scar from his left collarbone to his right rib cage where he was slashed with an arming sword, and several scars on his right arm from various weapons. On top of this, he is very obviously missing his entire left arm from the shoulder down.
    • Fashion and Possessions: Cael wears a thick, long coat that's a dull dark-purple, with tattered fringes and cuffs and brass buttons, and a 'goldish' tinted lining. Under his coat is a looser thin gray short-sleeved shirt. His pants are thick and near-black, held up by a dark brown belt. His shoes are cuffed and made of similar worn but sturdy dark leather.
    • Voice: Cael has lived a varied life, and his voice can reflect that strongly. With minor effort, he can sound fairly refined and proper, like a low-born noble nearly. In casual conversation he tends towards rougher, more accented speak, his Etosian accent slipping. He is also a decent voice actor, changing tone and pitch to put on a variety of voices on the spot, due to his time in Theater.


    Weaknesses

    • One Arm: Cael's most glaring and obvious weakness for anyone who looks at him is clearly his missing left arm. Lost during the Lo Crisis with the Sewer Collapse, the missing limb has impaired both his fighting and day-to-day life greatly.
    Relationships
    Uncle: Kendritch Ladveer - Age 67. Deceased.
    Mother: Allia Ladveer - Age 32. Deceased.
    Me: Cael Ede Ladveer - Age 51.
    Fiancee: Raven Vitae - Age 40. Deceased.
    Daughter: Nikia Ladveer - Age 30.
    Daughter: Alithia Ladveer - Age 23.


    Life Story

    Foreword: Cael has been active off and on for something like 7 years. Condensing his life story is really fucking hard, because so much happened and everything in this from him meeting Kokoura and Raven on all happened in actual Roleplay. I've tried but holy shit this man has so much history. The Unabridged version is more coherent and makes more sense.
    • Cael was raised in Etosil by his uncle, who was a military man and former member of the Regalian Army. He was taught to be the "Man's Man"- a swordsman, tactician, artist, and philosopher. Though much of this did not stick, it impacted how Cael saw the world going forwards.
    • Cael left Etosil at 21 to become a mercenary, eventually becoming a captain and leaving a girl in Regalia with child that she then abandoned so he left her. He was educated in Command and Statecraft by Regalian institutions, before seeking tutoring in Ithania later. He ran into an old friend, now a pirate, named Kokoura and fell in love with one of her crewmates called Raven.
    • Cael and Raven settled in Regalia, had a daughter named Alithia, and rediscovered his lost daughter Nikia who they took in. He outed a Baron for corruption, and then that Baron was raised as a Deathling and took revenge by killing Raven.
    • Cael vented his anger and grief against the Deathlings, serving the Empire greatly in the battle to retake the city from Freya Lo. This earned him position in the military, and he slowly advanced, serving in the Second Songaskian War and the Elven War, where he became disillusioned by the rampant and unjustifiable genocide.
    • He began operating against the Empire, seeking at first to stem the violence but later becoming more and more radicalized as Crisis after Crisis and War after War occurred, fighting Clickers, Death God Demons, Arken, and Dragons, and every time witnessing the poor people of the Slums and Sewers, where his Daughter had basically raised herself, suffer.
    • He became radicalized and declared himself the Beggar King, commanding in the Battle of the Gates against the Regalians as they sought to capture and take Slummers to Fort Loyalty. His identity was discovered during this time, and he fled and went into hiding. Now he is returning, his fury returned in full at the 'Somatic Corrections' and other atrocities of the current Regime.

    Unabridged Version
    • Cael was raised in Etosil, first by his mother until her death when he was 10, then by his uncle, who tutored him and taught him basic swordplay. His uncle once held high rank in the Regalian Army, and sought to tailor Cael for the job as well, fashioning him into a "Man's Man". He learned swordplay, and literature, and was pushed into the arts in his teen years.
    • When Cael was 21, he left Etosil to become a mercenary. He served under the mercenary band for years, slowly rising to the rank of captain.
    • During the later years of this time, he left a woman in Regalia with child. Upon finding this out, he returned to the city only to learn she had abandoned the girl, named Nikia, and blown all his coin on opium, convinced he would never return.
    • He left and rejoined the mercenary band only to leave the band soon after and head for the Imperial Regalian Marshal Academy to be properly and formally educated in the School of Command, and soon after became involved in politics due to a friend, attending the Regalian Statesman Academy soon after.
    • Becoming disillusioned with Regalian society, Cael left for the more free-minded Ithania, using his prior credentials to serve a minor noble, which lead to him being schooled at the Groupe d'Intervention Pratique in Espionage as well.
    • During his time in Ithania, he ran into an old friend, Kokoura. She was a smuggler, and in her crew was a woman called Raven. Cael and Raven grew fond for each other and eventually became a couple, with Cael using his connections to try and bury her more illicit deeds.
    • He and Raven left to settle down in Regalia. While there, he found his first daughter, Nikia, and they soon after had a second, Alithia.
    • After some foul run-ins with a Baron named Beck, Cael and his associates were able to expose the man for his shady dealings, and he shortly after was dead.
    • Cael once against confronted the Baron, after he was raised by the Deathling Queen Lo as an undead. Driven by hate and a need for revenge, the Baron attacked Cael's wife, both of them dying in combat. Her severed head was sent to Cael's house by one of the Deathling's lackeys. After failing to hang himself in his grief, Cael swore to rid the world of Deathlings, their extermination becoming his main drive through the next months as he plotted.
    • He lost an arm in the efforts, but finally the Battle of Regalia began. During the battle, he lead a small force in the city, leading Deathlings into ambushes and helping to take the Tavern back. In the end, it was all trivial in his mind, as he learned all the Deathlings would have died anyway when Lo was stabbed.
    • Others didn't see it that way, and he never had the heart to argue it, but it ate at him even as it opened doors into the Regalian Army. Finally, he joined under General Von Rahm, and began service immediately in the Elven War.
    • His treasonous thoughts were fueled by what he witnessed in the Second Songaskian War and the Elven War, and he rapidly became further distanced from the ideals of the Empire.
    • Cael was determined to change the way things were, however he had to, and he delved into the criminal side of the city, hiding a secret second-life as the self-proclaimed Beggar King.
    • At the Battle of the Gates, Guards and Nobles gathered to herd civilians into their 'Fort Loyalty' for the good of the Empire. Cael rallied and organized the Slum defenders, holding the Guards at the gate.
    • During the fighting, he was captured, and identified in Fort Loyalty, and after escaping custody briefly he was again imprisoned. Despite clearly being guilty, he was released and took the opportunity to flee to Rei, defecting to the Elven Empire with his band of mercenaries.
    • This worked, for a while, however he and his family were now on the receiving end of the same discrimination he had always hated. But he worked through it, even tutoring under an Elven General for a year. Eventually he was through with this life, he sent his daughters away to live and learn with his old friend, the smuggler Kokoura, and finally he again left, to return to Regalia.
    • Back in Regalia, Cael joined the Blackhawks and eventually reformed the Beggars, reclaiming his title as Beggar King. In the end Regalia's criminal politics never change however, and it wasn't long before the other gangs tore him down and captured him.
    • Originally he was in the custody of a mercenary company, though they acted more as a gang than anything. He managed to convince one of them to let him go by simply being open and talking about his life, however as soon as his bonds were cut the Keep was attacked by Vampires who re-captured him.
    • Again, shockingly, simply talking to the vampire had them on his side, but they refused to let him go. They were intent on claiming the bounty on his head, and the Regalians already knew they had him. At the last moment, he was released again by a traitor in their ranks, who handed him off to a Regalian authority for mysterious cause.
    • Since then, Cael has been laying low, waiting to return and reclaim the title of Beggar King once more, and liberate the downtrodden as he sees it.
     

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    Hello, my name is Eccetra and I’ll be reviewing your app today.​
    • What language is Theodoran? Did you mean Etosian by any chance?
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    • Please take the Life Story out of the spoiler tag, and instead place the Visual Information Expansion in one! This is because the former is a necessary part of the application that we may need to look at in a pinch.
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    • Please specify in the life story that he joined the School of Command, as right now it's a little bit unclear.
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    • At the moment, the Life Story is almost half filled with aspects that happened during the Lo Invasion and afterwards. I would recommend trimming some of the fat if possible, as it's presently a bit hard to read and understand, and feels quite unbalanced. Try to limit what he did during the Lo Invasion to one bullet point, and so on.
    Please mark your changes in another color and tag me when you’re finished!
     
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    Conflee Me an the bois at 3 am lookin for BEANS!

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    Yes, it changed and I didn't notice. Fixed.

    Fixed the other issues as best I could as well, though most of his major character development happened slightly before the Bone Horror Crisis up to the Fort Loyalty events, hence that area being a lot denser. Trimmed some of it and tried combining things as best I could though.
     
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    That's much clearer! Great job.

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    All checks out! Only one thing to change, but it's minor:
    Your total physical stat is 6, as cultural bonuses don't factor into muscle type. However this shouldn't change anything, and he remains Toned.

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    Conflee Me an the bois at 3 am lookin for BEANS!

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    oops. Yea I knew that, just a slipup. Fixed.
     
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    Conflee Me an the bois at 3 am lookin for BEANS!

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    Did a small edit, shifted some Proficiency points to allow for the Language update.
     
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    Conflee Me an the bois at 3 am lookin for BEANS!

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    @Eccetra Updated to the new Personality Section and tweaked his points a little. Lost the tag in the process but it probably needed a rereview anyway for it.
     
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    Hello! I'm gonna be filling in for Eccetra.

    Iterate more on his response to fear as a person, situations where he cannot wrestle control. What are his coping mechanisms? What is his general response, how does it change his demeanor? Always keep in mind there are certain scenarios where fear is inevitably unavoidable like when assailed by a monster for the first time, or confronted with a loved one being taken hostage. Consider how he would react to these events!

    I would recommend adding another sentence to questions with only one and try to keep a minimum of two, it helps give you more room to provide more depth or detailed answers!

    Tag me and highlight edits when you're done!

    Oh the irony of Cael reviewing Cael.
     
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    @Caelamus Expanded on a few points etc with purple and underlined highlighting.
     
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    Conflee Me an the bois at 3 am lookin for BEANS!

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    @Caelamus Updated for proficiency update. Mercenary band and blacksteel sword probably both require specific approval.
     
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    Reapproved.
     
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    @Caelamus Re-updated for yet another proficiency update.
     
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    Caelamus Sir Honeybear the chronic druid main

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    Approved.
     
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    @Caelamus Another proficiency update, another sheet update.
     
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    I'll be claiming this app for review going forward, that being said, approved.
     
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    I am once again updating this character sheet.
     
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