Ruckus Galdrikson
Powerful Alchemist, Adventurer, and Member of the Travelers
Baron Ruckus Septimus Vitellius Galdrikson (a.k.a. The Overseer)
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Tall, broad-shouldered, and a monster of a man, he generally stands tall and imposingly. He is in excellent physical condition, but thanks to his alchemical mutagens he can and often does enhance his strength with alchemical concoctions, taking his normally average body into the heights of the supernaturally strong and extremely tough, bulking himself up and making him into a fearsome beast. He has regenerative powers of incredible power given to him by High Human genetic augmentation, and can return from fatal wounds easily.
Body Features
Tall, Broad-Shouldered, Muscular.
Facial Features
Has the sharp, regal jawlines of High Humanity tempered by his literally flaming hair.
Identifying Characteristics
His flaming, fiery hair that has been formed into thick locks that cascades down his head like rivers of lava are one of his most defining features, second only to his massive and physically mighty body made even mightier by alchemical mutagens.
Special abilities
His body grows and rapidly bulks up when he consumes his alchemical mutagens, becoming a beastly form full of strength and vigor. In this form, his personality changes as well from a meek and mild-mannered alchemist and scientist to a hot-headed and wrathful warrior-alchemist, giving him a dual-faceted mind with two personalities that come out depending on his alchemical mutagens. This alternative personality is known to refer to himself as "Eli Galdrikson".
Apparel & Accessories
He generally wears a thick labcoat over modern looking High-Human vestments, relics of his time as a High Human scholar and alchemist.
Specialized Equipment
He fights with the long, razor-sharp claws grown from his hands when he consumes his alchemical mutagens as well as his sharp teeth and bite which he uses to tear through bone, sinew, and flesh as easily as he does steel and iron, but rarely will stay in his alchemist form and fight with his bombs and extracts.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Little is known of his personal history, as he is believed to have only awoken in the modern world recently and joined The Travelers shortly thereafter.
Sexuality
Unknown.
Employment
See The Travelers.
Accomplishments & Achievements
See The Travelers.
Mental Trauma
It is currently unknown if he has any, but his dual-faceted mind has been theorized to be perhaps be a result of the trauma he endured during the Fall of High Humanity, perhaps even accompanied by some other trauma such as amnesia or multiple personality disorder, but the truth of this is unknown.
Morality & Philosophy
He is a wild and chaotic man who places great emphasis on personal freedoms and the freedom and unrestraint of other creatures, but in the end ultimately wants to do good despite his chaotic nature.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
He burns with a desire to see his people and their creations restored to working order, and to rebuild the ancient Empire of High Humanity.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Talented Alchemist, Savage and powerful warrior, intelligent scientist and thinker, learned man and historian, driven and always wanting to accomplish something or do an important task
Inept at patience, conventional conversation, negotiation, playing around or horseplay, relaxing
Likes & Dislikes
Likes High Humanity, Technology, Alchemy, Science, Sharing of Information, Innovation, Uncovering new and lost knowledge, Repairing and Recovering the secrets and technology of his people
Dislikes Dragons, High Lamia, Those who destroy High Human ruins or tech, Lollygagging or Horseplay, Ignoring Important Tasks, Those who keep secrets, Destruction or Refusal of Technology
Virtues & Personality perks
Incredibly driven, and always strives towards a goal or task without delay or horseplay. Powerful warrior and intelligent alchemist and scientist who will stop at nothing to see his people restored, and strongly dislikes the ignorant or those who destroy or refuse progress.
Loyal to his friends, and tends to keep others focused with his drive.
Vices & Personality flaws
Self-centered and thinks about his goals and objectives as those of his allies.
Egotistical and arrogant, to a moderate degree.
Somewhat racist against Dragons and Lamia/High Lamia.
Brash, Hot-Headed, and Wrathful.
Hygiene
As a relic of High Humanity and an alchemist to boot, he has higher standards of cleanliness and hygiene than most in the current age, and strives to keep a recognizable and clean appearance.
Social
Contacts & Relations
As a member of the The Travelers, he has become acquainted with a great deal of important and powerful people in the span of the few short months they have been together, such as the likes of Barkhan the Eternal, Holdur Vaylkrond, Titus Goldaxe, and most recently, Olivia Couvillion after they became Heroes of Draconia.
Since he only awakened in the world recently from countless eons spent in stasis in a High Human ruin, he is assumed to have few relations with creatures outside of those of his allies in The Travelers.
Family Ties
He is assumed to have no living family, as they all are assumed to have died before he went into stasis during the Fall of High Humanity.
Religious Views
He is known to be at least a passive to potentially active follower of Leviathan, The Tidefather, but has been spotted in the church of Molt, First of the Dead and Father Time on at least one occasion, unusually for the normal atheistic High Humanity.
Social Aptitude
Possessing a confrontational attitude and a brusque, brutish manner often described as savage, he is not a conventionally social man and is generally a force of nature in conversation, barging through conversation like a rampaging beast to get what he wants or end it as quickly as possible.
With great effort, he has been known to have civil discussions but even then, such discussions have an air of hostility at worst or confrontation at best about them.
Wealth & Financial state
As both an alchemist, adventurer, and former scholar of High Humanity, he has a significant amount of wealth accrued over his time adventuring and wandering during his time awake in recent years, accruing plenty of magical items, gold, and even land in his most recent adventure in The Empire of Draconia, as he was promoted alongside his allies in The Travelers to the status of Barons of The Empire of Draconia. He consumes much of his wealth for magical items to use and wear and wield on his adventures as well as his alchemical work, however.
Species
Ethnicity
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Baron Ruckus, Overseer of Atumnix, The Dual-Mind Alchemist
Year of Birth
146 BF
2188 Years old
Circumstances of Birth
Born during the last days of the Age of High Humanity. Put in stasis for the intervening Millennia and only awakened recently.
Birthplace
Glendan, the Floating City
Children
Current Residence
Needlebar
Gender
Male
Eyes
Dark Blue
Hair
Long Dreadlocks made of actual fire and lava
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Dark Obsidian
Height
6'11(2.1m)
Aligned Organization
Other Affiliations
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