Appearance

Physical Description

Buck is in excellent shape due to his extensive time on the farm.

Body Features

Farmer's tan

Facial Features

Big white beard

Apparel & Accessories

Buck firmly believes that overalls are the most practical of clothing and wears them daily.

Mentality

Personal history

Bartholo Barcanous, or as all of the people who knew him after the college know him, Buck, is the most successful farmer in Tribute. This appears to be owing to his knack for knowing weather patterns, soil conditions, crop rotations and perhaps everything needed about farming.
What the people of Tribute do not know is his substantial magical potential. At a young age, Buck was taken away from his family and home in rural Kaldari to be forcibly enrolled into the Collegiate Arcane. At first, they told him that this was the fate of all human arcanists, to be raised and monitored under the close eyes of their Alvain masters. After a number of years it became horrifically apparent that the Alvain were training him and his pupils as weapons of war. Potentially, he thought, as tools to cull the human population down to a more appropriate size. Buck seemed to have caught on decisively before his peers could realize, but, instead of informing them, he chose to flee the Collegiate. It involved what he considered a rather brilliant & explosive accident that supposedly resulted in his untimely demise.
He fled back to his home of Kaldari but not to his home village. Buck went into hiding to make a new life for himself, establishing his farm in Tribute. Having been over 30 years now, most people who were originally suspicious of Buck are dead and the rest are too senile to remember in any case.

Education

Diploma in Basic Arcane Arts
Honours in Application of Elements
Honours in Application of Telekinetics
Degree in War Arcanium (Human Standards subtype) with a Major in Close Range Applications
 
Buck doesn't have the papers, of course, you'd just have to believe him, if he ever told you.

Accomplishments & Achievements

Might be the only human arcanist to escape the Collegiate alive. He doesn't know for sure, but that's definitely a point for Buck in his books.

Failures & Embarrassments

Not warning his peers prior to fleeing the Collegiate. He feels that maybe he could have done more to help, but was too scared to in his youth.

Intellectual Characteristics

Sharp as a tack but sometimes forgets the intellectual lacking of those around him. This has earned him the title of 'know-it-all-Buck' and potentially viewed as a bit eccentric. This all in spite of his absurdly thick rural Kaldari accent which makes him sound like a simpleton.

Morality & Philosophy

Buck is a 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' kind of man. He's also a fan of leaving people to their business, so long as it doesn't hurt those around them. But if certain folks were t start trouble over somebodies beliefs or whatnot, he's not above setting them straight with the broadside of a shovel.

person.sexuality

Buck likes the ladies. He may be 57 years old, but he's certainly not dead.

person.gender_identity

Male

Taboos

Buck has an irrational, hatred for just about anybody who brown-noses to an Alvain. Not to mention the elves themselves. He is borderline completely intolerant of it and the elves.

Personality

Social