Name: Aelfric Eddaerth
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Birthday: 13/07
Sexuality: Straight
Special Characteristics: Nothing particularly outsanding beyond his generally massive size.
Personality: If you had to explain Aelfrics personality in a single word it would be intense. Whenever talking to him, or even being around him in general, there is always a sense he is paying attention to what is going on with an almost laser-like focus. At first his is offputting to some, however, those who get past this soon learn that he is a genuinely nice person who is always willing to help others due to his personal ideals. It is a hero's duty to aid people after all.
During everyday life he splits his time between training, studying and helping people who need it, whether in the form of jobs or personal requests for help. Unfortunately, he can be rather intimidating to approach at first given his size and so many people are hesitant to ask him for help, this always saddens him when he sees people moving away instead of talking to him. Aelfric hopes that as his reputation spreads this will improve as people hear of his willingness to help.
His family follows a pseudo-religious practice of venerating legendary heroic figures, some of which they claim to be their ancestors. He personally believes that he is descending from Heracles and so venerates and does his best to imitate the ancient hero. This flows through to almost all aspects of his personality, his goals, and his fighting style.
During combat, real combat at least not sparring or training, he fights all out from the start; always trying to finish the fight as swiftly as possible. In his opinion, this minimizes the chance of collateral damage. His style of fighting uses his considerable strength to physically attack enemies while mostly saving his magic for improving his abilities or defending from enemy attacks. Due to his families practice of imitating legendary heroes, his training has focused on how Heracles fought. As such he is trained with a club, bow, sword and several styles of grappling. He prefers the club however as it was Heracles' favored weapon during most of his legends.
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Motivations:
Fears:
General Appearance
Height: 6'10''
Weight: 197 pounds
Hair: Short blond hair, spiked upwards in sections.
Eyes: Blue
Skin Tone: Light
Appearance: Aelfric is a tall, heavily muscled man whose rigid, upright stance at first leads an observer to believe he is some kind of soldier. While large, his muscles aren't the lopsided kind that many gym goers obtain, but rather the far more even distribution that comes from training your entire body for combat.
He is most commonly seen clothed in a red jacket and long, black pants which he supplements with a long coat during colder weather. His feet are clad in practical joggers, while he rarely covers his head with a hat except in the worst kinds of weather. When traveling he also carries a large pack on his back, holding his various supplies.
Guild/Council
Guild: Lamia Scale
Tattoo: On his right Bicep in red.
Rank: D Rank
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Birthday: 13/07
Sexuality: Straight
Special Characteristics: Nothing particularly outsanding beyond his generally massive size.
Personality: If you had to explain Aelfrics personality in a single word it would be intense. Whenever talking to him, or even being around him in general, there is always a sense he is paying attention to what is going on with an almost laser-like focus. At first his is offputting to some, however, those who get past this soon learn that he is a genuinely nice person who is always willing to help others due to his personal ideals. It is a hero's duty to aid people after all.
During everyday life he splits his time between training, studying and helping people who need it, whether in the form of jobs or personal requests for help. Unfortunately, he can be rather intimidating to approach at first given his size and so many people are hesitant to ask him for help, this always saddens him when he sees people moving away instead of talking to him. Aelfric hopes that as his reputation spreads this will improve as people hear of his willingness to help.
His family follows a pseudo-religious practice of venerating legendary heroic figures, some of which they claim to be their ancestors. He personally believes that he is descending from Heracles and so venerates and does his best to imitate the ancient hero. This flows through to almost all aspects of his personality, his goals, and his fighting style.
During combat, real combat at least not sparring or training, he fights all out from the start; always trying to finish the fight as swiftly as possible. In his opinion, this minimizes the chance of collateral damage. His style of fighting uses his considerable strength to physically attack enemies while mostly saving his magic for improving his abilities or defending from enemy attacks. Due to his families practice of imitating legendary heroes, his training has focused on how Heracles fought. As such he is trained with a club, bow, sword and several styles of grappling. He prefers the club however as it was Heracles' favored weapon during most of his legends.
Likes:
- Recognition - Aelfric loves to be recognized for his achievements by as many people and in as wide an area as possible. To him, it vindicates his heroic desires, showing that other people realize his goal is possible.
- Training - He loves training, either his magic, his physical skills and combat skills or his mind. He believes that in order to rise to greatness you have to forge all components of yourself into the sharpest weapon possible.
- Feasting - Aealfric loves feasting on good quality food and drink, sometimes he loves it too much in fact. If he isn't careful to keep his normal training regime up he tends to start getting a little wide around the waist.
Dislikes:
- Enemies of the People - Aelfric hates all those who would deliberately endanger the populace for their own gain. it is a hero's duty to protect those who can't protect themselves, and he takes it very seriously.
- Being stuck - He hates being stuck behind some obstacle in his path, whether an actual physical object, a situation he can't figure out a solution to or a technique or spell he has trouble learning, all of them grind against his almost servant need to always be advancing towards his final goal.
- Cowards - Aelfric hates cowards, though he has a specific definition of what he considers a coward to be. To him fleeing when you have no hope of victory is common sense, not cowardness. True cowardness is running away when you have the ability and the chance to succeed, even if it's not 100% those who have a good chance of succeeding should always make the attempt.
Motivations:
- To be a Hero - Whatever his other faults might be, Aelfric's ancestor Hercules is known as one of the worlds greatest heroes and it is this aspect of him that Aelfric is most interested in emulating. As such he will always tend towards whatever action he deems the most heroic, regardless of the potential cost of doing so.
- Self Improvement: Aelfric's day to day goal is to become more then he was the day before, in at least some small way. This could involve improving his physical or magical abilities, gaining knowledge or increasing his reputation.
- To Find Strong Comrades - Very few hero's legends involve only themselves, almost all are supported by others. Finding strong friends willing to back him up, and allow him to back them up, is one of Aelfrics primary goals.
Fears:
- Descending Into Madness - Aelfric's greatest fear is falling into the same madness that was the bane of his ancestor Hercules. This is a large part of what drives him to spend so much time and effort trying to be a good, rational person.
- Failure - His second greatest fear is to fail either in his final goal or even in an important task along the way. This is part of what drives him to train as much as he possibly can.
- Being Crippled - Aelfric doesn't fear death, at least not in pursuit of a worthy cause, however he does fear being left alive and crippled for the rest of his life. The very idea of being incapable of continuing on his path scares him deeply.
General Appearance
Height: 6'10''
Weight: 197 pounds
Hair: Short blond hair, spiked upwards in sections.
Eyes: Blue
Skin Tone: Light
Appearance: Aelfric is a tall, heavily muscled man whose rigid, upright stance at first leads an observer to believe he is some kind of soldier. While large, his muscles aren't the lopsided kind that many gym goers obtain, but rather the far more even distribution that comes from training your entire body for combat.
He is most commonly seen clothed in a red jacket and long, black pants which he supplements with a long coat during colder weather. His feet are clad in practical joggers, while he rarely covers his head with a hat except in the worst kinds of weather. When traveling he also carries a large pack on his back, holding his various supplies.
Guild/Council
Guild: Lamia Scale
Tattoo: On his right Bicep in red.
Rank: D Rank
