Adaon of Datova
Lord Archmage Adaon of Datova
He is younger than you expected, much younger. Wizards aren't supposed to graduate training until 25, yet this apparent 20 year old has not only done so but attained the rank of Archmage. By all accounts he has the power to level cities, but it is hard to remember that with his pleasant voice, chipper smile, and unassuming body language.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Lean build
Facial Features
Balanced features
Large, wide-set eyes
Cleft chin
Identifying Characteristics
Top hat and smoked goggles in the daytime(outside). Thin line of tiny runes around the base of neck and wrists.
Special abilities
| Size | Str | Ag | Mind | Coml | Con | Body | Will | React | Social |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 9 | 15 | 22 | 13(14) | 16(19) | 25(29) | 39(41) | 37 | 16 |
Apparel & Accessories
Top hat, smoked goggles in the daytime(outside)
Black fur cloak(shadow-wolf pelt), white pirate shirt,
Grey pants, Healing Staff of Necros (twined serpents
with skull cap), Silver gauntlets inscribed with runes.
Specialized Equipment
Magic Knowledge: Magery, Sorcery.
Specializations: Earth, Air, Spirit, Wood, Water, Fire | Mentalism, Mysticism, Illusion
Aimed Spell: 101
Body Potential: 41
Control Potential: 277
Current Control: 256
Used: 87
Mental characteristics
Personal history
His home life was good and comes from a good family, but the rest is a mix. Being small he was picked on, which is why he can fistfight like crazy. He was dominated by a Sorcerous pervert at age ten, which triggered his magical abilities, which he then reflexively used to electrocute his attacker. That was the start of his semi-religious zeal defending free will. After that he was left with the huge advantage/curse of being able to hear everyone's surface thoughts *all the time*. This enabled him to be uncannily diplomatic and resolve most conflicts, but also made him grow up fast. Unfiltered exposure to the suffering around him made him want to help everyone- mostly to make their lives better but also so he wouldn't have to keep feeling it himself.
With his insane Mind Power, he was pretty much done learning everything school had to teach him by about eleven. He kept himself occupied by continuing to help people who needed it, and helping teach others. He excelled at that as he inherently knew whether the student has understood the concept. At thirteen, when his drive fully kicked in, he was still hearing everybody's thoughts, including the girls, so he was extremely active and only isn't a father because he wasn't fertile yet. It was during this time a student of his future master noticed he was scanning people, and brought him forward for apprenticeship. It was very early to begin, but an exception was made for everyone's safety.
His master was an arch-wizard, and kept a group of five students at any given time. He was largely also a hermit, keeping himself and students in a cave complex five days from Datova, half a day's travel from the nearest farming town. Once a month the students were allowed to go to the town for an evening. Adaon was banned from having sex in town, which he ignored. Whenever he would get back, his master would dominate him into beating himself up with a stick- officially for disobedience but actually to train him to resist domination. At sixteen, he encountered Amanda, a 40-ish farm widow and probably the world's greatest lover of her generation. They got together every month after, engaging in insanely intense sex. Adaon fell hard for her, but she rejected his proposals and eventually broke things off, telling him he needed to find someone his own age. Adaon is still hurting from that, even three years later.
4 times a year the master took his students to Datova for a week, volunteering at the temple of Necros and healing anyone who needed it. It was during one of these visits when he was seventeen that there was a sizable fire in the city, and the temple had its hands full even with six magically active volunteers. One of the most severe cases also had amnesia, and had burns over 90% of his body. He was placed to the side to be allowed to die, but Adaon wouldn't give up on him, trying anything he had been taught, and inventing new treatments and spells on the fly. Eventually the patient stabilized, though not actually healed. Hoping to jog the patient's memory, he brought him to the scene of the fire, which led into the side adventure where Adaon and Lord X started out.
With his insane Mind Power, he was pretty much done learning everything school had to teach him by about eleven. He kept himself occupied by continuing to help people who needed it, and helping teach others. He excelled at that as he inherently knew whether the student has understood the concept. At thirteen, when his drive fully kicked in, he was still hearing everybody's thoughts, including the girls, so he was extremely active and only isn't a father because he wasn't fertile yet. It was during this time a student of his future master noticed he was scanning people, and brought him forward for apprenticeship. It was very early to begin, but an exception was made for everyone's safety.
His master was an arch-wizard, and kept a group of five students at any given time. He was largely also a hermit, keeping himself and students in a cave complex five days from Datova, half a day's travel from the nearest farming town. Once a month the students were allowed to go to the town for an evening. Adaon was banned from having sex in town, which he ignored. Whenever he would get back, his master would dominate him into beating himself up with a stick- officially for disobedience but actually to train him to resist domination. At sixteen, he encountered Amanda, a 40-ish farm widow and probably the world's greatest lover of her generation. They got together every month after, engaging in insanely intense sex. Adaon fell hard for her, but she rejected his proposals and eventually broke things off, telling him he needed to find someone his own age. Adaon is still hurting from that, even three years later.
4 times a year the master took his students to Datova for a week, volunteering at the temple of Necros and healing anyone who needed it. It was during one of these visits when he was seventeen that there was a sizable fire in the city, and the temple had its hands full even with six magically active volunteers. One of the most severe cases also had amnesia, and had burns over 90% of his body. He was placed to the side to be allowed to die, but Adaon wouldn't give up on him, trying anything he had been taught, and inventing new treatments and spells on the fly. Eventually the patient stabilized, though not actually healed. Hoping to jog the patient's memory, he brought him to the scene of the fire, which led into the side adventure where Adaon and Lord X started out.
Gender Identity
Male
Sexuality
Fully hetero with very high emotion-based drive
Education
Basic education, in-family training to be a merchant, complete Magery and Sorcery training, partial Witchery training, Priesthood of Necros training. Years of being a healer in temples or traveling.
Employment
Adaon started out volunteering in healer temples, then started traveling. He would generally use physiology or magic to heal anyone in whatever village they happened to be in. Adventuring came naturally with that, and continues on with it regardless of whatever other duties come along. He was also employed as the War Mage to Queen Althea and is a lord in Bear Keep.
Accomplishments & Achievements
Attaining Archmage and Arch-Sorceror, Inventing a new system of Illusion, Joining with the spirit of the country of Valkra and surviving, Time traveling to save a woman & baby, was a part of the death of The Grandmother, and relocated an entire tribe of ape-squatches from one island to another.
Failures & Embarrassments
Adaon notably failed trying to treat a head injury on a Jarai some time back, making the injury worse.
Another time he spent several hours lost on the plains before he remembered the person he was looking for had a wizard mark on him.
Being well-spoken and a good singer, he was unprepared for his flop trying to entertain the court of Lady Telana.
Mental Trauma
Adaon has twice killed the entire crew (or close enough to not matter) of a ship in combat. Both of these events weigh very heavily on his conscience.
Intellectual Characteristics
New spells to heal, create, or transform take him the usual amount of effort and time to create. Spells of mass destruction will just pop into his head over breakfast, much to his displeasure. Because of this, he is always on guard against some internal part of him that enjoys destruction.
Otherwise, Adaon's mind is constantly working on several simultaneous projects.
Taboos
Children, animals, and excrement are all off the table.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Adaon is trying to reduce suffering in the world. On an individual basis as a healer of bodies and minds, and on a general basis by exerting political or economic power.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Adaon is particularly gifted in physiology, noticing small details, and fist-fighting. His Aimed Spell ability is capped beyond what most mortals can achieve.
Likes & Dislikes
Adaon enjoys inventing, traveling, channeling power, and sex. He loves to lift people up. He hates poverty, slavery, and other things that violate free will.
Virtues & Personality perks
Adaon is brave, just, and devout. He thinks outside the box and comes up with solutions. For all his power, rank, and intellect, he does not consider himself above the common person.
Vices & Personality flaws
He tends to over-indulge the things he loves, whether it's good food, wine, magic, or sex. He also tends to judge in absolutes, and can be difficult to sway.
Hygiene
Excellent
Social
Contacts & Relations
He has traveled with an array of other adventurers, some lost along the way and others still present. Queen Althea of Valkra was one, the infamous Lord X another. Fallen ones included Osley the wizard assassin, and a Mizar known as The Monster.
The current pack consists of Lord Ivan, Sir Cyren, and Lady Evelyn. Occasionally they are joined by Lady Talia, Lady Dathania, and Lady Catalina.
Lady Catalina is Adaon's paramour, a powerful witch who is currently pregnant with twins.
Family Ties
Adaon's parents are both alive and well, and remain merchants in Datova. His older brother Fflewdur is an adventuring bard. His older sister was in the guard of Datova but has recently relocated to be the steward of Bear Keep. His younger sister Achren is being groomed to inherit the family business.
Religious Views
Adaon is a healer first and foremost, and is a devout priest of Necros in his healing aspect.
Social Aptitude
He is gregarious and laughs easily, fitting in to almost any group with ease.
Mannerisms
Adaon tends to grab his chin when thinking
Hobbies & Pets
Big Pete is a large war dog that originally belonged to Osley. Adaon took him in after his owner's demise.
Zandra is a good quality riding horse Aaon has adventured on for years
Styphon is a colt that has a telepathic bond with Adaon and is being trained as a warhorse.
Adaon indulges in many forms of art, both mundane and magical. He is currently focused on illusionary effects.
His engineering hobbies are currently taken up with repairs to the keep.
Relationships
Commonalities & Shared Interests
Magic is their largest shared interest. They have been known to talk for days about nothing but magical theories,
Shared Secrets
Adaon knows how Catalina learned demonology and her status in relationship to that.
Shared Acquaintances
- Ivan Thurisaz
- Dathania Cavebear
- Talia Cavebear
- Evelyn
- Hennah
- Kiera Ivansdottir Thurisaz
- Queen Althea Sigrunsdottir var Valkra né Draconis
Legal Status
This relationship has no legal status. They are recognized as lovers and partners by all who know them both.
Wealth & Financial state
Like his companions, Adaon is quite wealthy in coin and magic items.
Adaon is the son of Taran & Eilonwy, a pair of merchants in Datova. He started and finished Wizard training 5 years earlier than usual. He is known for providing free healing (magical or not) at any settlement he stops in.
Current Location
Bear Keep
Alignment
Jovial Just
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Adaon used to introduce himself as the World's Second-Greatest Lover, which segued into his search for the First Greatest Lover. With him being in a stable relationship, he has quietly let that go. His legitimate titles are Valkran Lord, Archmage, Arch-Sorcerer, Advisor to Queen Althea, and Ordained Priest of Necros.
Date of Birth
6870, Aratansi 4th
Birthplace
Datova
Spouses
Catalina of Datova
(partner)
Siblings
Children
Current Residence
Bear Keep
Gender
Male
Eyes
Green
Hair
White (usually dyed faintly blonde)
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Lightly tanned
Height
5'10"
Weight
140 Lb
Quotes & Catchphrases
- "No, because I'm a wizard and I can cheat."
- "This is how we do it when our apprentices aren't looking."
- “Hang on, there’s a smarter way to do this, and it just occurred to me.”
- “I’m just helping you be all you can be. Posthumously.”
- “Use your muscle, move a rock. Use your mind, move a mountain.”
- “Get better at climbing, I’m running out of mana.”
- “This surgery will be easier with you asleep. Oh, and the patient too, I suppose.”
- “I'm sure that would have worked on someone with no brains.”
- “I should have given you one of these for the Emperor. You know, if I'd known you were going to kidnap him.”
| Language | Speak | Read | Write | Runecraft | Hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lainshoan | 74 | 41 | 25 | n/a | |
| Halven | 25 | 21 | 9 | ||
| Valkran | 46 | 40 | |||
| French | 16 | 14 | 104 | ||
| Hallu | 23 | - | - | 120 | |
| Gnar | 33 | - | - | ||
| Jarai | 38 | 25 | 11 | ||
| Apesquatch | 01 | - | - | ||
| Malquiri | 01 |
