| Music | Art | Basic Information Full Name: Karsten Albert Grauwald | Karsten of Holzburg Age: 30 Gender: Male Race: New Regalian Ailor Main Ambition: Finding a purpose for his increased skills. Special Permission: Silven Perms Basic Information (Optional) Spoiler Karsten has been in Regalia for a few years, since his father walked the streets often. Since that time, he stuck around, not really being around too often, as well as lying low. After a streak of unemployment, Karsten found menial work as a dockhand in the city, moving boxes and crates for various crews. Karsten was born to Maximilian Typhonus and a tavern woman, though his conception was influenced by a passing Arken. He grew up in the Typhonus family home in Calemberg, alongside his siblings: Reynald, Konrad, and Landra. He knows nothing about his mother’s family, or really anything of her for that matter, but has multiple cousins, uncles, aunts, etc. in the Typhonus family. All of these are incredibly disconnected to him, and even saying he "grew up" with them is a vague statement, as he was scarcely allowed to interact or be seen with the Typhonii. Karsten is a rather aimless individual at the moment, which doesn't entirely bother him. He likes having fun. and usually that revolves around causing trouble. Skill Information 30 Points [-10 from School] | 20 to Spend +30 Beorl Axe (+10 from Beorl School, +10 from Points, +10 from Order of Talent) +5 Dwarven Axe (+10 from Beorl School, -5 from Height) +10 Warhammer (+10 from Beorl School) +10 Battle Command (+10 from Points) +5 General Command (+5 from New Regalian Boost) 30 Points +20 Drawing (+20 from Points) +10 Smithing (+10 from Points) Languages Alt-Regalisch (Native) Common (Fluent) Visual Information Eye Color: Gold with a red limbus. Hair Color: Black. Hair Style: Short. Skin Color: Light. Clothing: Tattered, dirty clothing, very poor fabric. Height: 5ft 10in. Body Build: Muscular. Weapon of Choice: Beorl Axe. Visual Information (Optional) Spoiler Describe the Character’s facial features, like the shapes of their eyes, mouth, ears, the size of their forehead, what kind of expression they usually carry, any freckles, scars etc, hair color, hair style and more. This description is purely for the head (and by extension neck) alone. Describe the Character’s body. Go into detail about height, body shape, the color of their skin, the size of their bones and muscles, their amount of fat, any physical disabilities they may have, their amount of body hair if applicable and more. This description is purely for the body. Describe the Character’s fashion appearance and accessories. Talk about what kind of clothes they usually wear, preferred colors, what jewelry they have, weapons they carry on them or any item of note that they may always have on them. Describe the character’s voice. How do they speak? What is their typical tone and speed? Do they have an accent or a tendency to stutter? Any quirks about their voice listed here. Maybe also add a list of the languages they can speak. Personality and Abilities Perceived by others: Karsten is generally seen as a complete nuisance and nearly intolerable to be around. Most things anger him more often than not, and would rather bother someone else than another bother him. To the majority of people, he is seen as abrasive, rude, dismissive, and generally a negative person. Hardly anyone sees good qualities in him, but from time to time the Silven can appear to be helpful. This is an odd thing to mix in, but it really only ever shows depending on the level of care for the person, or how good of a mood he is in. Inner Feelings: For lack of better words, Karsten is a very troubled person. His past weighs on him heavily, and the constant bullying and aggression he gets from others, on account of his Silven eyes, only adds to this. He possesses a heavy jealousy to the nobility and powerful, and constantly works himself up in envy of how much better their situation is than his. His entire life, everyone else has bullied and never cared about him, and therefore he feels he shouldn't allow others happiness from him if he doesn't get it from them either. Friends and Family: Karsten utterly despises and harbors incredible envy towards his family. He sees them only as the people who abandoned him, and focuses this feeling on his brother more than the others. As a friend, things are difficult. Karsten struggles to maintain or create friendships, and the ones he usually gets are ones of common gain, or of just the other person being just as dismissive as he is. On the rare chance he obtains a friendship, the Silven actually lets his walls down more, and can seem more of a fun-loving guy with a dark humor, though like stated, this is very rare. Morality: There is a split here for Karsten. Morals and lawfulness are two different things entirely. On one hand, Karsten does believe vaguely in a "right and wrong", but doesn't care to abide by it. In his eyes, nobody deserves him to try and be a good person. As for lawfulness, Karsten is a supporter of complete anarchy. He despises lawmakers, and those who enforce them, because they always come down hard on people with his "condition", and sees other Silvens who comply with this as lapdogs and sheep. Weaknesses Terribly Abrasive: Karsten is rude, abrasive, harsh, you name it. He generally is just a terrible people person. His ability therefore to lighten, ease, calm, or disarm situations is non-existent, and will likely just propagate hostility. When it comes to working with others, he is equally terrible, and simply his personality is so abysmal that it is a deterrent to him socially. Anarchist: As previously stated, Karsten has immense problems with authority. His problems with order and law leaves him in constant butting heads with the Guard Charters, and more often than not finds himself sitting the night in a prison cell. Personality and Abilities (Optional) Spoiler Describe any number of Character Quirks your character has, strange behavior that they exhibit in certain situations. For example, a character rubbing a beard when nervous is a quirk, or a character biting their lips when doing math is a quirk, or a character shuffling their feet when talking to someone is a quirk. Quirks are not mandatory and may be left out if the writer doesn’t want to include them or can’t think of any. Describe your character’s skills; abilities they’ve developed, but not necessarily put at the forefront of their lives. For example, if your character is a good cook, but not a chef, or if they are a good horse rider but not necessarily a competition racer, you would mention them here. Feel free to mention multiple skills but try to keep your character from becoming over skilled. Likes Describe three different activities, things or items that your character loves to see, do, taste or smell. Generally speaking these are things that make your character happy and in a good mood when they are near them/doing them. Go into detail why they love these things and then also explain how it makes them feel. Dislikes Describe three different activities, things or items that your character hates to see, do, taste or smell. Generally speaking these are things that make your character annoyed or angry and in a general bad mood when they are near them/doing them. Go into detail why they hate these things and explain also how it makes them feel. Relationships (Optional) Spoiler Familial Reynald Typhonus: Reynald is an older brother of Karsten, and was generally his arch-nemesis. The two hated each other since childhood, with a back-and-forth onslaught of sibling infighting, with Karsten usually on the receiving end of bullying. In their adult years, Karsten believes Reynald got him fired from the Typhonus Guard Corps, and once Maximilian died in the Castle Crash, blamed Reynald for Karsten not being able to be there to save his father. Since that moment, there has been a rift of boiling hot hatred between the siblings. Positive Ovid O' Castor: Ovid is a Dwelfing counterpart to Karsten's trouble-making as of late. A chance encounter left the two sharing rent on a cheap loft in the city, and the two constantly are getting into all kinds of misadventures as a result. While not exactly buddies, and definitely not someone Karsten opens up to, he gets enjoyment from time spent with the little man, so it's a win. Dune Uryen: Dune is an old flame of Karsten's, and a person he got along with better than most. Dune was the ideal friend for the Grauwald, as Dune enabled his bad habits and didn't butt heads often with Karsten. Karsten had a brief romantic encounter with him, but it didn't really go far. Neutral Mae and Shiori Draylas: Mae and Shiori occupies a realm of Neutral/Hated zone for Karsten. At some times, he can find both to have perhaps genuine intentions, but does not trust them at all. He really doesn't trust anyone, and like those people, Karsten has difficulties gauging if he doesn't care about them, or if he dislikes the twins. Usually, he will find her and Shiori to be "Lapdog Silvens", in which he sees them as race traitors by serving the Government, who hates them, from time to time. Negative Tristan Kade: Tristan is a pinnacle of what Karsten sees as a "Race Traitor" or "Lapdog Silven". In his eyes, the government hates and constantly abuses Silven, and Tristan is the utmost example of someone who doesn't care and helps them anyways. While he respects the job the Imperial Guard does due to Karsten's shaky loyalty to Unionism, he still finds the Kade's dedication to the Silven-abusing government annoying and traitorous. Life Story (Required) Early Childhood Born on January 13th, 276 A.C., to Maximilian Typhonus and a tavern woman named Anne, the conception taking place near an Arken, close to Holzburg Palace in Calemberg. Was born a bastard of House Typhonus, and thusly given the surname “Grauwald”. His gold eyes immediately caused him to be an outcast, though being a Typhonus bastard, was afforded to live with the family. Grew up in a rather sheltered young life, living out his toddler days locked in a room to tend to himself. Childhood/Teenage Years Karsten was on the bad end of many childhood abuses and bullying fronts. However, he was always rather spirited, and fought back often to his aggressors, this was especially so with Reynald, his trueborn elder brother. Maximilian took pity on his Silven son more than his wife did, and afforded the boy Beorl and Battle Command lessons, hoping he would find some future service in the Typhonus forces or the like. Karsten took to these distractions with enthusiasm, giving him some sort of outlet for his anger and frustrations with his bullies showed him he could still enjoy himself. Quarreled often with Reynald throughout his childhood years, often their fights needing to be separated by house guards before one of the boys got too hurt. This often resulted in harsh punishments for the Silven, as his father and others often threw blame onto him, even if he didn’t start it. The Silven was afforded equal education to his siblings throughout this time, albeit where his siblings were allowed to advance into higher educations at schools abroad, he was denied to on account of his eyes. At the age of thirteen, Reynald (15) and Konrad (15), both moved onto advanced educations, leaving the Silven alone to stew in jealousy to how well they were treated in this regard. Most of his time was spent focusing on his Beorl practice, as well as taking up the hobby of drawing in his free time to alleviate his anger problems. Joined up in the Typhonus Guard Corps at seventeen, and spent now the majority of his time as a guard to his father. Adult Years Continued his work in the Corps, yet constantly came near to being fired due to his constant quarrels and unneeded drama with superiors. Picked up smithing during this time. Was left unsure what to do with himself following his father’s death in the Castle Crash, and summarily suffered from mixed feelings, as his Silven eyes were suddenly purged away. For the first time, Karsten wasn’t dejected all the time, and was shuffled around constantly in the Guard Corps from Typhonus to Typhonus over the next year, though felt a bit purposeless. When his eyes suddenly returned recently, and his father not being alive to keep his superiors from firing him, Karsten was ejected from the Corps. He is convinced this dismissal was the doing of his brother, Reynald, who was rising in power within the city while he only seemed to sink lower. Recent Times Karsten began looking for new employment within the city, very quickly starting to run out of money from his well-funded guard position before. He also turns his attention to his elder brother, who's recent successes have only grown to fuel the Silven's anger and ambition. The Silven quickly came into hardship and challenges, essentially running full sprint right into trouble with the Witch Hunters, Guard, and his elder brother, in only a matter of a few weeks Karsten found work as a dockhand eventually, scraping together money. Was taken to Fort Loyalty due to being a Silven, and caused all sorts of trouble there, making friends with a Dwelfing too. Slept through dragon. Lol. Karsten entertained the idea of learning magic, but eventually rejected the offer in favour of sticking close to Unionism. Karsten enlisted in the army during the War in Rie to get away from the city problems. Returned to the city when the war slowed down. Once Emperor Cedromar announced the Unionist Aspects, Karsten took to them with enthusiasm, wishing to perhaps impress his estranged family with his dedication. Received visions resulting in increased skills with his Beorl Axe, much to his thankfulness. This experience emboldened his loyalty to the Spirit and Empire, feeling like he finally received some kind of reward for his self-perceived "thankless" service to the religion and nation.
As a note for the reviewer: I am conflicted about Karsten being a Tenpenny, as I only chose it because I was unsure about the legitimacy of having a Silven attend a combat school and/or be tutored by a respective school(s) tutor. Any input on this matter for me would be greatly appreciated, though is not required. In summary he will simply be Tenpenny unless altered before review completion. Thanks!
Approved! Well done with your character application, and after consultation, I see sense in the likelihood of your character being tutored in the school of Tenpenny, which is already quite a widespread school that finding a tutor despite his conditions will be possible. Happy Roleplaying! @Suzzie
This needs a re-review. Tagging last reviewer. @Suicidium Changes made: Updated personality to how Karsten ended up being played, rather than how he was designed, so entire personality section was rewritten. Changed weakness "Mood Swings", to two different weaknesses.
Big Update @Suicidium Karsten's Soul Magic has been added to his application. This was taught ICly, over a mostly time skipped course of six months, by Khalid Nazari. His Ellon form was added to his Strengths section. Skill Section updated with all information. Life story updated to accommodate the progression. Note for Reviewer: I've ensured that the Ellon fits the rules and regulations put into place by Soul Magic. I stress, this is not the Two-Clawed Raptor, and even only barely shares similarities. This raptor is about the size of a horse, if not slightly smaller. All of the potential combat uses for the Ellon is mitigated by the fact it holds next-to-no utilitarian purpose, is unstable, and would get him arrested if he even used it in most cases. I've taken great lengths to ensure the Ellon is up to standard, and am definitely willing to fix anything that you should find unreasonable, unfair, or unfit in the features I selected using my creative freedom. I've also revoked my character Syviis Iletharwen's magic, as to not break the rules in having two mages. I, as of now, have this character only who utilizes Magic and/or Silven perms.
Ellon Form updated to fit with new lore. @HydraLana This affected his Talents as well, which have also been updated. Changes in red.
@HydraLana BLAST FROM THE PAST. Reviving this character. All that really changed was updating his proficiency points to the system, and implementing his chosen Unionist Aspect.
