╔══════════════▣◎▣══════════════╗ ◭ “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button ◭ ╚══════════════▣◎▣══════════════╝ ╔═══━━━─── • ───━━━═══╗ “Don’t sabotage yourself. There are plenty of other people willing to do that for free.” Jenny Lawson ╚═══━━━─── • ───━━━═══╝ ◑ ━━━━━ ▣ ━━━━━ ◐ ◑ ━━━━━ ▣ ━━━━━ ◐ ➧ Full Name: Mateo Iñígo Darío de Silva. ➧ Birth Name: Mateo Iñígo Darío el Mercenario y Plantador de Campos del Norte de Daenshore ahora Regalia de Silva.➧ Age: Thirty-eight years old. Born June 2nd, 270 AC. ➧ Gender: Male. ➧ Race: Daendroque Woaden Ailor. ➧ Minor Bragacoan influence.➧ Sexuality: Questionably Heterosexual. ➧ Weapon of Choice: Cutlasses. Spoiler: Basic Information (Expansion) ➧ Mateo has lived in Regalia on and off for over four years. He currently works as a legal mercenary and runs a few odd jobs in his offtime. For a commoner, he’s fairly well-off, and owns a large home in Regalia's Daenlock district. ➧ Mateo was born to Eva Cabral e Silva and Guillem de Silva in a picturesque plantation outside of the city of Daenshore. Though his family is abnormally large, Mat has three siblings that he’s grown closest to; his sister Olivia Silva, younger brother Tomas Silva, and half-brother Alexander Silva. While many of the Ailor's cousins and bastard siblings lived in the same village he was brought up in, he never got to know many of them well. ╔═══━━━─── • ───━━━═══╗ “If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.” Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator ╚═══━━━─── • ───━━━═══╝ ◑ ━━━━━ ▣ ━━━━━ ◐ ◑ ━━━━━ ▣ ━━━━━ ◐ ➧ Total Proficiency Points: 43 from Age (+10 Hobby Points and +10 Talent Points) Proficiency Points ━━━ ▣ ━━━ Core Group Proficiencies +10 Blades Combat (Points) +10 Light Bow Combat (5 Points + Racial Boost)Talent Group Proficiencies +10 Frontline Command (Talent) ➧ [Mercenary Charter | The Wandering Warband] +10 Stealth Rogue (Points) +10 Perception Training (Points) +5 Statecraft Command (Points)Hobby Group Proficiencies +10 Pathfinding Art (Hobby)Arcanology +3 Artifact Knowledge (Points) Body Shape ━━━ ▣ ━━━ ➧ Total Physical Stat: 10 Blades Combat + 10 Light Bow Combat + 10/2 Pathfinding Art = 25 Physical Stat ➧ Body Shape: Muscular ➧ Body Fat: Extreme Low Body Fat Languages ━━━ ▣ ━━━ ➧ Daendroquin: 10/10 (Native Language) Having lived the majority of his life in Daenshore, Mateo has practically spoken Daendroqin since birth. This is Mat's preferred language, and the Daen is noticeably more comfortable speaking it.➧ Braggan: 6/10 (Mother's Language) As it was his mother's native tongue, Mateo initially learned Braggan through the traditional stories and songs she shared with him, but it later proved useful in his dealings with merchants and sailors. Despite the negligible differences between it and his native language, full fluency still eludes the Daendroque.➧ Common: 9/10 (Fluent) Mateo also adopted Common at a very young age, to communicate with travelers, traders, and foreigners. Though he's fully fluent, Mat lacks full reading comprehension, and occasionally fails in understanding certain idioms and expressions. Special Traits/Spells/Mutations ━━━ ▣ ━━━ ➧ Predator's Vision [Racial Passive] Woaden Ailor have perfected their ability to see in the Dark, allowing them to see clearly and effectively in any natural light condition or in Ability created Darkness. When in dark settings, the pupil and iris of Woaden Ailor gain a a reflective sheen akin to a nocturnal predator's that, should they be in the shadows, allows one to only see two light orbs.➧ Free Spirit [Racial Passive] Woaden Ailor cannot be unwillingly grabbed, grappled, held or restrained by Mundane means utilizing any Mundane implement (excluding metal chains) or body part (Arms, tails, limbs, claws, talons, etc), even if that body part is enhanced or altered by an Ability or for example a ghostly or ethereal animal. This does not apply to purely Ability-Based restraints such as magical chains.➧ Child of the Woods [Racial Spell] Woaden Ailor can effectively climb almost instantly into a Tree of any shape or size, without risk of falling (though cannot leap between trees, and will in most cases be stuck if chased into one). Additionally, they can immediately determine how healthy or old a tree is just by looking at it, and pinpoint anything that may be harming it or causing it to suffer.➧ Cortéz's Ruin [Artifact] ╔═══━━━─── • ───━━━═══╗ “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince ╚═══━━━─── • ───━━━═══╝ ◑ ━━━━━ ▣ ━━━━━ ◐ ◑ ━━━━━ ▣ ━━━━━ ◐➧ Eye Color: Emerald green. ➧ Hair Color: Black. ➧ Hair Style: Straight, shoulder-length, and wind-swept. ➧ Skin Color: Lightly tanned. ➧ Clothing: Anything traditionally Daendroque. Usually, a colorful silken vest over a plain cotton shirt. ➧ Height: Five feet, ten inches. Spoiler: Visual Information (Expansion) Mateo Silva, c. 307 A.C. ➧ Mateo face is rather slender, with a prominent chin and cheekbones. His bright, forest green eyes are average in size, as are his nose and mouth, which is generally upturned in a warm smile or a cocky smirk. His face is lightly freckled and scarred, and a large, claw-shaped scar extends down his neck and chest due to a run-in with the Dread Dragon Rikirra. His jet black hair, where a few grays are beginning to show, is kept long down to his shoulders, and, while generally clean, is windblown and unkempt. Typically, a short, styled beard covers the lower half of his face. ➧ Mateo stands just about average height for an Ailor, at five feet, ten inches, and weighs in at around one hundred and forty-five pounds. Mat's muscle growth falls somewhere between that of a soldier and that of a dancer, with a considerate amount of well distributed, tightly packed muscle. Mat has a general lack of visible body hair, however a light amount of hairs do exist, in a lighter shade than the jet black hair on his head. Mateo’s body is heavily scarred, from years of travel and battle. Most notably, he has a large, diagonal claw-shaped scar over his chest, and two asymmetrical scars from arrow wounds on either shoulder. ➧ Mateo wears a thin, sleeveless waistcoat over a white shirt. The coat is buttoned and neat, but tends to look a little small on him, displaying his musculature. His pants are long and gray and his short boots made of black leather, worn from years of travel. Mat generally sports a small golden stud in each ear, and occasionally a golden bracelet, however they have no meaning to him. He considers jewelry to be flashy, and doesn't particularly care to be seen as a target for thieving. ➧ Mateo's voice is somewhat middling, though it does lean towards being higher, in a tenor range. Although it’s been almost entirely lost in his time in Regalia, Mateo tends to emphasize his Daendroque accent, for the sole purpose of sounding more foreign and exotic. Mateo is fluent and fully literate in Common and Daendroque, but tends to prefer speaking Daendroque, even occasionally switching to it from Common mid-conversation. ╔═══━━━━─── • ───━━━━═══╗ “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters ╚═══━━━━─── • ───━━━━═══╝ ◑ ━━━━━ ▣ ━━━━━ ◐ ◑ ━━━━━ ▣ ━━━━━ ◐ ➧ Character Alignment | Chaotic Good ➧ Due to cultural beliefs, Mateo places personal freedom and his own troubles above most else in life. He believes that goodness and freedom are paramount in life, but his own definition of these terms doesn't always mesh well with laws and society. Despite this, his greed and self-serving nature make him easily persuaded to help any cause when provided with monetary support, regardless of legal obligations. ➧ Personality Type | The Commander [ENTJ] ➧ Strong-willed and charismatic, Mateo is often quick-witted but strategic with his decisions, though struggles with showing and processing emotion. Mateo hates remaining idle for long, and would much rather be employing his half-witted schemes and strategies, despite the fact that they more often than not don't make it very far. He can be overly arrogant and stubborn at times, but overall only wishes to keep himself and those he cares for safe as he strives for his ambitious goals. ➧ Religion | Agnostic | 4/10 ➧ Mateo’s relationship with faith has always tenuous at best. Despite a relatively Unionist upbringing, strong cultural beliefs have led Mateo away from the Imperial Spirit in recent years. While he’ll always publicly claim to be a devoted follower, Mat has adopted a much wider belief system after run-ins with more devout believers and even some assumed gods themselves. As such, the Daendroque has adopted a wider belief system incorporating beliefs from many religions, including the Old Gods, Dragon worship, and a few tenants from the Sihai faith. Spoiler: Personality and Abilities (Expansion) TBA Spoiler: Relationships Also TBA ╔═══━━━─── • ───━━━═══╗ “You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.” Jojo Moyes, Me Before You ╚═══━━━─── • ───━━━═══╝ ◑ ━━━━━ ▣ ━━━━━ ◐ ◑ ━━━━━ ▣ ━━━━━ ◐ 270 AC - 280 AC ══════════════════➧ On June 2nd, 275 AC, Mateo was born to Guillem and Eva de Silva on his family's lavish sugar plantation on the northern border of Daenshore. Guillem was a mercenary and a serious alcoholic who had inherited the plantation after the death of his elder brother, and Eva was a musician of some renown from the Kingdom of Lusits. ➧ Despite all this, his early life was rather quiet apart from the rowdy celebrations that his culture is known for, which typically coincided with the births of his innumerable siblings and cousins. As the eldest he was often left to watch over these family members and the local children, which inspired a reluctant maturity in him. ➧ Mateo was introduced to the criminal side of his people at a very young age. His father Guillem had a heavy hand in the local underworld politics, and made a great deal of the family’s fortune off of smuggling and overseeing contraband which came into the region through the de Silva plantation. ➧ Beginning at Mateo's tenth birthday, Guillem began to teach the young boy to fight, which he excelled at even in his youth. 280 AC - 290 AC ══════════════════ ➧ Although Mateo was often lost in his training, his father took to passing on his other trade, having his young son sit in on meetings with other criminal leaders from Daenshore and further abroad, in hopes of inspiring a more logical mind. ➧ As his father was contracted as a privateer during the Chrysant War, Mateo’s training fell briefly to the wayside. Without a present father figure, the young Daen ran rampant, spending the better part of the next few years simply exploring the city of Daenshore and the wild jungles that surrounded it. ➧ Fearing that the wayward Daendroque would fall victim to one of the many dangers of Daen, Mateo’s mother decided that combat training would be the best course to keep the boy out of trouble. Only a day after celebrations for his fourteenth birthday ended, Mateo was summarily shipped off to Anglia, to study under the School of Regalian Rangers. ➧ Given his age and a lack of any real training, Mat first spent two years under the tutelage of an uncle who had previously learned the style, before joining the order at the Wolf Keep proper. ➧ Seeking a competitive edge over his classmates, Mateo often snuck out of his lodgings at night to steal a few extra hours of training, which helped him to train a perceptive eye and silent footsteps. Within another year or so, Mateo completed his First Trial and graduated as a Regalian Ranger. ➧ Though he considered his studies far from over, Mateo returned home to Daenshore shortly thereafter. In this time, he sold his skills as a rogue-for-hire to nearby interested parties, which included both gangs and governmental bodies alike. He also took an interest in treasure hunting, and spent much of his offtime studying Artifactism. 290 AC - 303 AC ══════════════════➧ Having amassed a small fortune from his work, Mateo spent a few years at home to better his skills. He predominantly studied tactics and archery, the latter of which he naturally excelled at as a Woaden Ailor. ➧ The Daendroque's quiet days of study came to a halt in 295 AC, at the outbreak of the Ranger Crisis. Fearing that the fighting might push into their homeland, Mateo and his father Guillem joined with the Regalian Army, leaving the plantation to Mat’s younger brother, Tómas. ➧ Though the conflict concluded swiftly, Guillem fell victim to an Avanthar ambush just before its end. A period of mourning followed the signing of the peace treaty, and Mateo took on the role of the family’s new patriarch. ➧ Fearing a sedentary lifestyle, Mateo journeyed the countryside with a group of his fellow veterans dubbed the “Wandering Warband.” The group grew exponentially as it took jobs in various ports, but later settled back in Daenshore as a few faulty deals led to depleting funds. ➧ As the Elven War of 302 AC began, Mateo signed himself and his group up with the Regalian army, hoping to ally himself with a greater power. A swift conclusion to the war left the Daendroque jobless, and, after completing his second Ranger trial, he relocated to Regalia. Mateo took up numerous odd-jobs on arrival, most notably serving as head barkeep at the Golden Willow. 303 AC - Present ══════════════════ ➧ Now fully accustomed to city-life, Mateo joined up with the Regalian army, fighting extensively during the Songaskian war and subsequent occupation. Mateo eventually retook mercenary work as a career, and swiftly rose to become the leader of the Regalian Fighter’s Guild. ➧ The Warband fell under intense scrutiny after they were caught in a controversial contract to cause unrest in the Colonies, which led to many civilian deaths. After a short bout of lawlessness, Mateo eventually re-emerged to accept punishment for his crimes. ➧ Despite his largely negative reputation, Mateo has no lack of ambition. Now more than ever, the de Silva seeks to raise his culture and his family name to greater heights in the Empire, and continues to plot ways to bring himself relevance. ╔══════════▣◎▣══════════╗ ◭ “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho ◭ ╚══════════▣◎▣══════════╝ Aesthetics courtesy of @zuwuwa
Add a single weakness and tag myself once completed @MrH_ You have my apologies that it took this long to get to the review
Just some math things. You actually have 19 proficiency points, not 20. Remove a point from Culture and a point from Proficiency or age the character up by a year. Either option is acceptable. Tag myself once completed @MrH_
Rewritten to better match how I've always played the character! In need of a new reviewer. Only took me a few years.
Proficiency points updated to fit the new system, and minor backstory changes to file his time spent in school down to 4 years! @Caelamus
@Caelamus Mateo has been aged up five years! Proficiency points and life story have been updated to fit the changes.
Updated! Aged back down by a few years to better fit the character. Life story and proficiency points updated to match. Personality paragraphs updated to new system. Big aesthetics overhaul, courtesy of @zuwuwa ! @Caelamus
Update as of 10/7/19: Mateo has been aged back up to thirty-six, and proficiency points have been reassigned to better fit his past and current goals! Rewrote backstory to reflect his changes, and also to rework some older writing. Couldn't resist the mercenary aesthetic. @Katiesc
