Character Guide: The Mage

Name: Like all mages, your true name is secret, and known only to you, your father, and a select few in the Guild. You go by many nicknames, and had a human name that you abandoned in the Colleges. If you stick to a single name for too long, people may gain control over you, as it will replace your true name in functionality, so you find it easy to be nameless. Most people expect that to be true of mages anyway.

Class: Mage

Race: Human

Homeland: The West, in a village outside of Argos Major

Backstory: Born to a teenage farmer on the outskirts of Argos Major, you learned at an early age that she had been forcibly impregnated by your father under a spell he had used over 200 times before. Your father, an ancient Warlock reputedly from the time of King Argon, appeared to you as an elderly naked man, using the power of astral projection to appear from his cave hideaway on a lost continent.

He instructed you on the ways of a mage, and your duty to repopulate, along with your many brothers and sisters, a new generation of mages following you. He also told you the true histories of Argonia and ancient secrets that would tear this society apart.

On your twenty-second birthday, you left home and journeyed to the far west, at the Citadel on High, where your father had constructed a portal to a realm outside of space and time, where the spirits of old and the spirits yet-to-come taught you all the secrets of spellbinding, alongside your many siblings. That was a pretty trippy time. These were the Colleges, and you learned many things in this time. Including, of course, how to get laid.

Since then, you have travelled to the South, crossing the wild Marshlands precariously before reaching the legendary Kingdom of Rivervale, and its legendary hot women. Unfortunately, the Orcs ruined your fun, as do trolls and centaurs and all sorts of crazy monsters. So, after a troublesome stay in the Orcish territory, you begin surrounding yourself with adventurers, acting as the humble mage.

Eyes: Green (naturally brown)

Height: 5'10"

Age: 35, but biologically 25, ten years were lost in studies that transcended time and space

Languages: Common, Ancient, Mages' Tongue, a little Orcish

Religion: The True Religion of King Argon (publicly), the Ancient Way of the Mages (secretly)