The Great Wizard Gad

[Gad]

"I make my own luck." Physical Description Name: (The Great Wizard) Gad Race: Benshiran/Myrian Age: 21 Birthday: 493 AV, Winter 65 Eyes: Green Height: 6'3" Weight: 170lbs Hair: Brown Appearance: Gad takes after his Benshira father in just about every noticeable way, tall and slim and a bit lanky, long arms and legs, with tawny skin and and dark features. He has scruffy features, unkempt hair which has subtle waviness to it, and usually stubble around his mouth and neck. Gad is always clean however, he makes it a point to bathe regularly and wear clean clothes and keep his mouth clean. So he's not dirty (or as dirty as he looks rather), he just looks disheveled sometimes. Character Concept Magical Used Car Salesman, Student of Street Law, Dyscalculic Gambler. Life's a game, who wants to lose? Real nice guy though. Character History Gad grew up with his father, Hazikayah, in Sunberth. His father made money as a charlatan, selling miracle cures and duping people with various trading scams and get rich quick schemes. Hazikayah's image as a phoney was actually a well constructed facade designed to through people off of the truth; he was indeed a powerful wizard. Hazikayah was in Sunberth running from something, exactly what Gad never figured out, but by the time he reached adolescence he knew whatever it was scared the living shyke out of his father, who would do anything to avoid it. Someone was after him, Gad discerned, but who and for what was hard to tell. Hazikayah was prone to flights of fancy, delusions of grandeur, and bouts of rage. It could be said that he was a mean drunk, but Hazikayah never had a problem being a jerk even without alcohol. The man acted as if to pay a compliment would literally cost him money, and he was never above handily and harshly point out flaws (perceived and otherwise) in complete strangers, as long as it didn't affect business. He was domineering and demanding and narcissistic to the point of never being capable of admitting wrong doing. He had a bad gambling habit, didn't know the meaning of "honest living" and didn't really care about anything except Hazikayah. So there was a long list of people who'd want to hurt him. However, there was someone or someones he was so afraid of that, as a master wizard, he'd risk hiding in Sunberth to avoid. Gad's relationship with his father was ambivalent. Sometimes they were incredibly adversarial, to the point that they could clash over the smallest things. Other times they could be each others best friends. Ultimately, though, their relationship was pragmatic. They always stood better odds together than apart and they both understood that. Gad's father taught him what he knew about magic and about people, and how to use both to his advantage. Gad learned to turn a phrase and speak a little honey, but was more interested in the magic. Sunberth was a stifling environment for a young aspiring mage, and Gad's progress has been somewhat stymied because of this. It was around 507 AV when Gad had to strike out on his own. Of course, the fourteen year old was glad to be independent of the old miser, but when Hazikayah disappeared it left Gad without what little support he'd had in a dangerous city. There was no warning or reasoning given, Gad just woke up one day to a a note that read "Leaving. Not coming back to Sunberth. You're ugly. -Father". He struggled and hustled and managed to learn the ropes of living off of the streets of Sunberth. He learned to keep his head low and his mouth closed and his eyes out, but most of all, he learned that if he was going to make something out of himself, no one would do it for him; he'd have to take what he wants. Possessions 1 Set of Clothing - Simple linen tunic, Benshira style - Pants (Breeches), Used (Good), Dyed (blue), Linen: 8 SM - Simple Undergarments - Shawl (Hood), Used (Good), Linen, Dyed (green): 6 CM - Jacket, Used (Good), Dyed (crimson), Leather: 13SM 5CM - Leather Sandals - Cheap Marble Earrings 1 Waterskin 1 Backpack which contains: -Comb (bone) -Brush (bone) -Soap -Razor -Balanced Rations (1 Week’s Worth) -1 bone eating knife -Flint & Steel - Heirloom (A set of Jade Dice from his father) Housing: An apartment in the Sunset Quarter. The buildings are of poor quality but still standing which is quite an accomplishment in Sunberth. Sparsely adorned. Ledger Purchase Cost Total Starting +100 GM 100 GM Blue Linen Pants -8 SM Shawl Linen Green -6 CM Jacket Leather Crimson -13SM 5CM Acid Flask x2 -20 GM Seasonal Expenses Winter 512AV -45 GM Gambling fee -23 SM Zith Slave +550GM Seasonal Expenses Spring 513AV -45GM Seasonal Expenses Summer 513 AV -45GM Seasonal Expenses Winter 513AV -45GM Gambling fee + Poisoner Expenses -14GM Gambling Winnings +20GM Gambling Loses -12SM Seasonal Wages Winter 513AV +276 GM Seasonal Expenses Spring 514AV -135 Gm 589 GM 3SM 5CM Skills, Lores, Magics, Gnosis, Languages Skill EXP Total Proficiency Acting 1XP 1XP 1XP 2XP 2XP 7 Novice Acrobatics 1XP 1 Novice Brawling 13 SP 2XP 15 Novice Blind Fighting 1XP 1 Novice Boxing 1XP 1 Novice Deception 1XP1XP 2 Novice Drawing 1XP 1 Novice Endurance 1XP 2 3 Novice Gambling 1XP 1XP 1XP 3 Novice Glyphing 10 SP 2XP 2XP 14 Novice Haggling 1XP 1 Novice Intelligence 2XP 1XP 3 Novice Hunting 1XP 1 Novice Interrogation 1XP 1XP 2XP 4 Novice Investigation 5 SP 1XP 2XP 8 Novice Larceny 1XP 1XP 2 Novice Negotiation 1XP 1XP 2 Novice Observation 1XP 2XP2XP 1XP 1XP 2XP 4XP 3XP 4XP 3XP 3XP 3 29 Competent Persuasion 7 SP 1XP 1XP 1XP 1XP2XP 13 Novice Philosophy 1XP 1 Novice Planing 2XP 1XP 3 Novice Projection 15 SP 1XP 1XP 3XP 2XP 1XP 4XP 2XP 29 Competent Rhetoric 1XP 1XP 1 Novice Running 1XP 1XP1XP2 5 Novice Socialization 1XP3XP 4 Novice Stealth 1XP 1XP 2 Novice Subterfuge 2XP 2XP 4 Novice Summoning 10 RB 2XP 12 Novice Tactics 2XP 1XP 3 Novice Unarmed Combat 2XP 2XP 4 Novice Weapon: Dagger 1XP 1 Novice Wilderness Survival 1XP 1 Novice Practiced Languages: Common Fluent Language: Common (Primary language spoken by father) Basic Language: Shiber (Taught by father to preserve heritage and for speaking privately) Poor Language: Myrian (Curse words, also taught by father) Lores: Lore of Sunberth: Criminal Organizations Lore of Persuasion: Confidence Tricks Sunberth's Cannibals The Mob's Swift and Merciless Retribution The Cannibals: The Leader is still Out There Projection: The Shape of Your Arms Projection: Enhanced Sense of Feeling Projection: No Perception of Weight Fighting your Projected Self Michaela's Parents Were Brutally Murdered Michaela's Mother and the Daggerhand Sunberth's Slave Market "Mutual" Benefit in Slave Trading Making a Sales Pitch for a Zith Slave Daggerhand: Hand & Heart Tattoos Daggerhand: Death before Betrayal Sunberth's Childen's Morbid Fascinations A Zith in the Crowd First Meeting with a Real Zith Michaela: A Curious Zith Zith: Great Deterrents for Street Trouble Michaela can Handle Herself Remy the Daggerhand was Hanged Recognizing the Smell of Lamp-Oil Trapped in a Burning Building No Such thing as "Dirty" Tactics Owing your Life to a Zith Promising to help Michaela find her Parents' Killers A Good a Place as Any Summoning Something More Risky Projection: Clay Hands are Heavy Fyrden: Light-face, Dark-face Ethereal Avavali, Liquid Sarawanki, and Superior Metalloids: Pascid Those are Slabs, Not a Door Getting Pelted by Ice Wilderness Survival: Making a Fire with Flint and Steel Leaving Fate Up to Dice Ghost Miner: Get Out! Hmm, How to Get Those Pretty Rocks? Betting 10 GM on Boneskull Poison: Game Changer Red: Competent Poisoner Watching Instead of Hoping Boneskull's Victory: A Successful Plan Red: Tried to Poison Me through Ale Tall Johny: Mascot Location: Tall Johnny's Casino & Cage Fights Killed a prize fighter Brawling: Being Almost Beaten to Death Shiress: Kind Strength Slave: Something Gad Could Never Be Tactics: Using Small Details to Understand Your Surroundings Tactics: Hiding Your Pain Tactics: Using Weather to Your Advantage Trust: Sometimes You Know Just By Their Eyes Clancier: Employer, Mentor Clancier: Purveyor Of Odd Goods Pig’s Foot Rear: Dog’s Dinner Projection As A Cat Snaring Sport How To: Shill Slaves: Only Useful If Healthy Past Prisoners: Lefty, Tuck and Tina Djed Tech: Pulse Powering Projection Tech: Eyeball Recon Philosophy – What Is Me? Creating Havoc With Loyalties Driving A Wedge With Cards My Secret: Discovered?! Jeff: Capable Of Anything Jeff: The Unlucky Seventeen Stabs Jeff: The Parting Words Of Wisdom