Tsildea Anarian
Grand Arcanist Tsildea Anarian
This four-hundred year old elven woman serves as Duke Owain’s chief councilor on all magical related affairs in the Duchy and is a capable enchanter and wizard. She is the head of Whiteport’s College of Arcana and therefore spends little time with the mundane or day to day affairs of Whiteport. She can be somewhat arrogant and distant, although close friends of hers such as Balian Brokenshield and Stilicho Ricimer swear she has a soft side few witness behind the austere and blunt exterior.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Tsildea is short but of standard build for an elven woman. She has a slim figure with thin, delicate limbs.Tsildea looks harsh and stern, and also somewhat dignified and elegant, like a well respected professor. Many say that can guess her profession from her appearance, as she looks like a firm disciplinarian.
Body Features
Tsildea's skin is extremely pale, and she has very little body hair. Although she is old, she appears no older than fifty and has very few wrinkles. Tsildea is slightly cold to the touch.
Facial Features
Tsildea has sharp, thin features. She has a strongly pointed chin and the beginnings of wrinkles in the corners of her eyes and mouth and the creases in her forehead and cheeks.
Identifying Characteristics
Tsildea has a number of piercings on her ears, including large, opal earrings. Her left hand is also badly scarred and burned.
Physical quirks
Tsildea almost never uses her left hand, and generally carries her staff in her left hand and leans on it slightly when she walks..
Apparel & Accessories
Tsildea usually carries a pouch of spell components, a long, slender iron staff tipped with a large opal. At her side hangs a crystal ball which seems to be held in a Griffin's claw, and a thick, ornately decorated spell book hangs in a silk satchel at her side. The spell book is surprisingly light given its thickness, and its cover is made of sturdy leather decorated in lacy, intricate gold and silver filagree, while the pages are filled with arcane sigils, glyphs, runes, and notes written in a neat hand in a metallic ink.
Specialized Equipment
Tsildea wears a gold small iron and silver circlet inlaid with opals which functions as a Helm of Comprehending Languages. She also wears a small silver ring on her left hand which functions as a Ring of Spell Storing.
Mental characteristics
Gender Identity
Female
Sexuality
Asexual
Education
Tsildea is extremely intelligent and very well read. She studied at the Silmarene Repository before traveling throughout Attica educating various mages and working at courts, seeking a patron to support her research. She is fluent in almost all commonly spoken languages in Kethencia, and spends most of her time researching obscure magical lore.
Employment
Tsildea has been employed throughout Attica, serving at a number of courts before finally being employed at the College of Arcana in Whiteport when it gained acclaim as Whiteport developed. She studied under powerful mages in the Silmarene Sovereignty before traveling throughout Attica to find somewhere she could be permanently employed and pursue her studies in peace. She is attempting to map the elemental planes.
Intellectual Characteristics
Tsildea is extremely intelligent, and is almost entirely devoted into her studies of arcana. At a young age she discovered her magical gifts, and has been fascinated with magic since then. She has an excellent memory and is fluent in most of the commonly spoken languages.
Morality & Philosophy
Tsildea is largely uninterested in morality and philosophy but for when it interferes with her studies. She would rather isolate herself from the regular world, but considers herself a good person and aspires to be one. She is not particularly charitable or altruistic, but she supports causes she deems worthy (a much higher standard given her long life).
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Tsildea's main goal is to focus on her studies of the magical arts and to train future wizards and sorcerers, and she wants to be considered among the greatest wizards of all times. She is currently working on her manuscript, a collection of notes about the nature of arcane magic in which she includes a number of new spells she has created.Tsildea is often tasked with studying magical objects or advising and assisting the Court with magical issues. She enjoys examining and identifying these objects, and always relishes the opportunity to gain objects of great power.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Tsildea frequently comes off as severe, cold, or emotionless. However, she is simply apathetic after a long life, and regards most common concerns of humans as rushed or fleeting. Tsildea is a brilliant theorist and one of the finest Wizards in Attica, and has duly earned her position as Grand Arcanist. She is a polyglot and can speak and read almost every commonly spoken language in Kethencia.
Likes & Dislikes
Tsildea enjoys jewelry and fine clothing, and her love of opal jewelry is widely known. She also loves her familiar, an albino raven named Quill.
Virtues & Personality perks
Tsildea is exceedingly patient and intelligent. Although she is generally uninterested in moral debates and prefers to keep to herself, when pressed she usually can be counted on to do the right thing. She is also extremely loyal to those who earn her friendship, trust, or respect. She is typically fair, and has even been rumored to be funny.
Vices & Personality flaws
Tsildea has extremely high expectations of her students and is a harsh disciplinarian. She is also fairly self-absorbed and uninterested in the affairs of other people, preferring to leave them to their own devices and handle their problems on their own.
Personality Quirks
Tsildea's left hand shakes when she is nervous. Occasionally, Quill acts as her voice, cawing short phrases that can express her emotional state.
Hygiene
Tsildea smells weakly like singed hair, but this scent is mostly covered by strong perfumes and soaps. She is generally clean and well groomed, but her study is a cluttered mess of notes, arcane sigils, books, strange lab experiments, random spell components, and odd baubles and trinkets.
Social
Social Aptitude
Tsildea is apathetic and introverted. She posses enough social skills to get by and knows the intricacies of etiquette, and practices them when necessary, but otherwise Tsildea is cold.
Mannerisms
Tsildea has a tendency to over-explain and condescend.
Hobbies & Pets
Tsildea has a pet albino raven, her familiar, Quill. Quill is given free reign to travel as he sees fit, but usually he remains nearby. He occasionally plays with her jewelry or demands her attention, and has a tendency to caw vaguely relevant phrases and words depending on the conversation. Tsildea often speaks to Quill as an equal or as a friend, and Quill brings her gifts, spell components, or the occasional quill.
Speech
Tsildea has a tendency to overexplain and to condescend to others, as she assumes nearly everyone she meets is less intelligent than she is. Moreover, she is usually uninterested in the affairs of others beyond how they impact her own research or threaten her own comfort.
Wealth & Financial state
Tsildea is extremely wealthy, having accumulated a good deal of money from her travels throughout Kethencia and her various magical work. As First Chair of the College of Arcana, Tsildea has access to all of the College's resources (though she is accountable to the Collegium for their use or misuse). While Tsildea does not possess vast supplies of coin (though she has enough to live more than comfortably), most of her wealth is in the form of the College's (and her own) collection of magical items. She lives in the College, and the College pays the costs of her lifestyle.
Alignment
Lawful Neutral
Current Location
Species
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Grand Arcanist of Whiteport and First Chair of the College of Arcana
Year of Birth
1141 AC
404 Years old
Birthplace
Silmarene Sovereignty
Children
Current Residence
College of Arcana
Gender
Female
Eyes
Green
Hair
Long, Red, Curly
Height
5'2"
Weight
100lbs
Quotes & Catchphrases
"I must remember to add this to my notes!"
"Once my manuscript is done... then I can return home."
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