Appearance

Physical Description

Dia is an extremely thin individual, he lacks alot of strength and muscle and looks emaciated most of the time. Alot of this is due to the fact that he heavily diets himself after being bullied for his weight in his hometown.
 
Due to this he is a little androgynous in his figure and general appearance.

Body Features

Dia has mismatched eyes which are one of his most notable features, especially when he wears his glasses, that are incredibly magnified.
 
He also has white hair despite his young age and notably has black nails on his left hand as though they were healing from being pulled out... he uses this hand as a focus for necrotic spells.

Facial Features

He generally has an amiable expression on his face and an easy going nature and look about him.
 
From a distance he looks intense, dark and frightening due to his unique features and Lerist robes. But closer up he just comes across as a little 'weird' by comparison.

Physical quirks

Dia limps when he runs long distances as he is aggravating an old injury on his knee.
 
He has a Lerist staff from his father but he never actually uses it to cast spells.

Apparel & Accessories

He wears the purple and black robes of the Lerist family that are curled up at the sleeves as though the robes didn't originally fit him.
 
He also wears the cloak of the dragon turtle. A shimmering green shell like cloak that looks a lot heavier than it is. When he pulls the shell up the cloak almost seems to become solid and rigid.
 
Finally, he has the Lerist staff that is a black wood stave with an onyx jewel set on it's head that he uses as an oversized walking stick.

Specialized Equipment

Dia is a skilled mage and spellcaster but lacks alot of real life experience.

Mentality

Personal history

The Lerist family are a 'strange' family. They are an exceptionally old lineage that has been desperately maintained. The origins of their line were that they were a noble knights house once, during the war between The Anstigars and The Legalaias, the head of the family found an elderly lich known as 'The Nameless' and struck a deal with him. Knowledge and the power to desecrate the dead Legalaian's that his men slaughtered to conjure himself a powerful undead army. The lich struck a deal and the Lerist family were given a natural intellect and skill in the arcane but in return their features became cursed to reflect this.
 
The politics of their cursed look, gaunt faces and mismatched eyes destroyed the former family politically and the first Lerist died a poor man alone on the family's estate.
 
Since that day, Lerist after Lerist has been born with a natural affinity for magic and have marked the world in their own ways. Most recently the family settled down in a small village called Finnick and became the local chapel owners and undertakers for the towns dead.
 
This changed the fortunes of Finnick and soon they were so efficient in dealing with the dead that the Lerist family would cart the dead from Anstigat and other surrounding towns to have them buried.
 
Dia was trained here and soon began working on his own spells. A Lerist tradition, as every strong mage in the family anticipates a visit from 'The Nameless' where they can peruse his library, have a meal with him, and submit some of their own knowledge to the library.
 
He also cared for the church while the rest of his family made trips in their cart to surrounding towns to pick up the dead.
 
Dia wasn't a real target when the Dread King charmed Legalaia, he wanted the powerful mages and strong foes and Dia didn't register as either of those within the Lerist family.
 
He studied necromancy for as long as he could remember. Naturally in secret with his family and prepared to take over the business.
 
When his mother and 3 brothers didn't return from a trip to the capital he tended the town and graveyard as best he could. When loyalists came and his own magic wasn't enough he raised the dead all around him and destroyed them using the village folk... they cast him out after that and since then Dia has resolved to not rest until normality returns and his family are back at his side or resting in peace.

Education

Dia is home schooled by his family and made a habit from a young age of perusing the Lerist collections and library... though this also goes length to explain his lack of real life knowledge and issues with flexibility in his thinking. Though he does possess a prodigious knowledge of the arcane.

Employment

Dia spent his life and career in the Lerist chapel working as a funeral director, undertaker and scholar.

Accomplishments & Achievements

Dia is the last member of his family, to his knowledge... that feels like an accomplishment to him.  He's one of the youngest Lerists to be able to make their own spell (lerist jr.s attentive grasp).

Failures & Embarrassments

Being left alone as the only Lerist not worth turning.

Personality

Social