Appearance

Identifying Characteristics

Radiant light burns inside him. This light shines from his pupils and the back of his throat, with varying intensity.

Mentality

Personal history

Backstory:
Aasimar born to a fairly humble family, his celestial heritage was apparent from birth. [not sure where it comes from, maybe his parents/ancestors were just particularly devout? Maybe it was a Samuel/Hannah situation, where she pledged her son to the gods?]
 
They were delighted to have a child so obviously chosen for great things by the gods, and diligently raised him to obey the religious customs and instilled in him a moral code, the importance of doing good and serving others and standing up to evil. He was taught to be uncompromising in what is right and what is wrong - eyes would be on him, so he must take care to uphold these ideals as an example.
 
As he grew, his innate power began to manifest itself. By the time he was ten, he was regularly hearing from his Angelic Guardian in his dreams, usually accompanied by searing light blazing from his eyes and mouth, which when he awoke - usually suddenly - he found himself unable to control. Rather than excited or comforted, he came to be frightened of these changes. His Angelic Guardian spoke in absolutes and had unreasonable expectations for a child. He seemed impatient, expecting the boy to already be a driving force against evil, and the manifestations of his power were painful.
 
Around the same time, he developed his powers of healing, which for a time relieved him - he could see that there was something genuinely useful he could offer his village. All too soon however this too became overwhelming, as people expected miracles of him that he was not able to deliver. He could mend cuts and bruises, but food poisoning, fevers, broken bones, and deep wounds were beyond him, and as a few people died under his "care", he realised that if this was to be his destiny, he was woefully unprepared for it.
 
With his parents' blessing, he secluded himself in the local temple for nearly a decade, devoting himself to service of the gods and expecting that in due course he would develop control over his powers. He threw himself into religious practice, into study of history and magic, but nothing seemed to work. No new abilities blossomed within him, he felt no connection to the gods, and the burning divine compulsion within him only scorched hotter as his Angelic Guardian felt he was squandering his gifts. Visiting clerics and paladins came and went, telling their stories and offering their tutelage, but none were able to unlock anything within him.
 
Eventually he became convinced that whatever he was looking for, he wasn't going to find in his home village. He set off on a pilgrimage, travelling from outpost to settlement to town to city, stopping at every temple and library he could to search for answers. To his frustration, he was met with disappointment every step of the way. Those of high class treated him as a child and a simpleton, and expressed no surprise when their practices and secrets yielded no change in him. Those of humbler origins looked up to him in a way he had come to find very uncomfortable, and he found he couldn't impose on their hospitality for too long before the same old expectations of miracles and Greater Purpose drove him back onto the road.
 
A few years into this pilgrimage, he felt lost, frustrated, disillusioned, and generally fed up. Increasingly he felt that the gods must be making a mockery of him. He had no doubt of their existence, he had seen others wield remarkable power, and there was the Angelic Guardian who still visited him - though with less frequency now, as though even he had given up on him. But whatever he did, he could not feel their presence, could not hear their voices, could not manifest their powers. He was marked from birth by the divine for some unknowable purpose, and expected to figure it out himself. He was given a Guardian who reprimanded him for not doing enough, and whose moral absolutism frightened him. He had a power that hurt him, and was too weak to meaningfully help others. All this grew inside him, until he became convinced that if anything was going to help him, it wasn't going to come from the gods.
 
And it was with this attitude that he went on his last-ditch attempt. He had heard a rumour of an ancient servant of the gods, a keeper and guardian of secrets - certainly long dead by now for even a magical creature couldn't survive for centuries untold. But maybe there was still some scrap of knowledge there that could set him on a path to discover what his purpose really was, what he had done to deserve this curse upon him, and what he could do about it. With no genuine expectation of finding answers, he set off in search of the Lair of the Sphinx.

Education

Very well learned about all things magical and divine. He knows pretty much everything there is to know about the Known and Approved religions and magical beliefs. Along the way he's picked up a few bits of "Forbidden Lore" - ravings of madmen, practices of cults, and postulations of very intelligent men with too much time on their hands.

Employment

He can do honest manual labour, but most of his life he has survived of people's eagerness to house a divine servant in their temples and homes.

Failures & Embarrassments

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Mental Trauma

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Intellectual Characteristics

A hunger for knowledge and learning. He wants to find out things that will help him, but he does also simply enjoy learning things for the sake of learning them.
Particularly loves learning languages.

Morality & Philosophy

He feels some conflict with the very Lawful Good moral code he was raised with, and the turmoil he has felt trying to live up to that code. He holds to the principles of helping people where he can, and standing up to obvious evil, but increasingly he believes that personal freedom is at least as important as overcoming evil.

person.sexuality

Hetero; very inexperienced. Has had a few people offer themselves to him, whether from gratitude or just wanting the clout of sleeping with the Gods' Hero, but he's always resisted such advances. Also, he sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night with blazing pain coming out of his mouth and eyes, so that's typically kept him from falling into intimate relationships.

Personality

Motivation

To gain control over his innate Aasimar powers.
To escape from the Angelic Guardian's influence.
To oppose evil where I find it.
To find some kind of retribution upon the gods for how they have treated me; or at least make sure nobody else suffers as I have.

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