Appearance

Physical Description

Iven isn't some young adventurer in their prime. He moves with precision after years that brought experience albeit a little slower than he did years ago. He isn't necessarily unfit today but looks more like a heavy weight boxer with soft seeming muscles rather than being a bodybuilder.

Facial Features

His face his slightly square shaped. There is a always lingering sadness to his expression, even when he smiles. He wears a fullbeard and has some wrinkles from age.

Identifying Characteristics

Iven's upper body is covered in tattoos and scars. From his throat down to his hips and over his arms and to his finger tips he is covered in them. Additionally, he has a tattoo on his tongue that sometime shows when he is talking.

Apparel & Accessories

Iven wears basic clothing. Pants, a longarmed shirt with rolled up sleeves and on top a loose-fitting shirt. On his left wrist he wears a wristband as the sign of his marriage with Arwin. Even after Arwin's death, he never took it off.

Specialized Equipment

For years, Iven didn't wear his armor anymore. A mail armor in combination with chain mail and leather parts. In his early years and when he worked as a to-hire he wore it often. It is still in usuable shape but some parts are clearly worn and show signs of hits he took in the years long past.

Mentality

Personal history

Iven rarely talks about his past and is actively avoiding it. Only some close friends know of parts of his early years but he doesn't like talking about it.

What he is fine talking about is how he and Arwin came to Beycillis after they took baby-Enfys in and wanted to find a place to settle for them as a family. From there, life for sure wasn't easy but it just kept going and Iven doesn't sound too bitter when he talks about it. Maybe just tired. Which is understandable after all the years Arwin and he had worked a lot - Iven partly also as hireling - to create their own home, the tavern with everything they own by now.

So, life was work, raising a kid for most of the time. And Iven would never complain about it. He might not show it but those were some of the best parts of his life. After the loss of Arwin, nothing of the situation had changed in general but it turned duller and harder for Iven to move on.

Education

Iven never visited a school. He learned his basics at home and in private studies. But soon he was too occupied with other parts of his life, so he stopped. He turned out to be more streetsmart than booksmart.

Employment

After years of working as a to-hire, Iven and Arwin managed to buy a old tavern in Beycillis. They didn't offer rooms and beds but often let people in need rest there anyway. Running the "Tipsy Tit" for multiple years, they made enough to buy the adjacent building and turned it into a bathhouse.

Accomplishments & Achievements

Iven sees it as his biggest accomplishment that he has his own family and that they are doing fine, and that Enfys seems to be on a good path for life.

Owning his own tavern and adjacent bathhouse, making it into a safe haven for them, is far more and bigger than anything Iven had imagined when Arwin and him had come to Beycillis.

Failures & Embarrassments

His biggest failures in life are the times when he hadn't been able to help people as much as he had hoped to. This includes the death of Agome, and also Arwin's.

Mental Trauma

Who would think that a man who had spend time during war would have mental trauma of some sort. :)

person.sexuality

demisexual & homoromantic

person.gender_identity

cismale

Known Languages

Common, Common Sign Language, Halfling, Primordial

Personality

Motivation

The biggest motivation in Iven's life had always been his family or parts of it. To keep going and make it better, had always been part of his goal when he was with Arwin and Enfys.

With Arwin gone, Iven struggles to find the motivation to keep going. But having Enfys left, he knows he will push through.

Likes & Dislikes

Some of the things Iven likes are cats, the sound of violins, and Beycillis' roofs after a heavy rain.

Usually, he doesn't talk about the things he doesn't like and just chooses to get himself out of the situations. So, he likes to avoid churches and temples, not overripe fruit that still tastes a little sour and card games (mostly because he is bad at them - but here an exception can be made and sometimes he plays).

Personality Quirks

Iven is right handed.

And since young childhood, he has trouble falling asleep and sleeping through, which caused him to not get enough sleep during every night. But he managed.

Social

Birthplace

A middle sized town somewhere

Current Residence

Beycillis

Contacts & Relations

Iven knows a lot of people. On a very surface level. And only because they visit the Tipsy Tit.

Aside from that, he hardly has any relationships or friends outside of his employees and family. Partly it is because he likes being to himself but also because he feels that it's not worth putting in the effort.

Wealth & Financial state

If you count real estate as wealth, then Iven counts as wealthy. He owns a tavern, the Tipsy Tit, plus an adjacent bathhouse within the walls of Beycillis.

Family Ties

Iven doesn't talk about his blood related family. For the most parts, he assumes that they are still alive.

His own family were Arwin, his husband, Agome, his niece who had been in his custody, and Enfys, his and Arwins adopted child. At the age of two, Agome died because of illness.
Arwin, first his good friend since childhood and then the love of his life, was at his side for the longest part of his life until they took their own life six years ago. It left Iven devastated and depressed behind and to this day he refuses to work through the sorrow he had experienced.
Arwin's death had been hard on Iven and Enfys relationship. Both had tried to step up for the other. For the most part, they managed to return to their normal relationship of parent and child. Even though, Iven is now even more overbearing than he had been before.

Religious Views

The Gods are always part of one's life and Iven is no exception. In his daily life, he shows leftovers of little rituals dedicated to Aerecura but he doesn't seem to be actively worshipping her.

Hobbies & Pets

Iven owns a horse for years. It is a summoned steed that goes by the name Echo, or Sir-Trot-A-Lot if you believe Enfys.

Speech

There is nothing special to Iven's voice, only that he isn't talking much and not the best person for small talk. He talks little about himself.