Flodnag the Magnificent

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Descendent of the Sacred Mountain People, he is tall and thin. Even with the longevity of a magic user, age has withered his body to some extent. He has to wear orthopedic shoes, uses a cane for balance and has grey hair and wrinkled saggy skin.

Facial Features

He has a long, white wizardly beard that stretches down past his waist. His hair is similarly long and runs down his back without styling. The shape of his face is hard to discern with his wrinkled, saggy face. His body became charged with living lightning as part of his magical learning, which surges through his body and pours out of his eyes sockets when they're open.

Identifying Characteristics

Crackling lightning eyes

Physical quirks

Stooped when standing, shambles instead of walks (often just floating if traveling)

Apparel & Accessories

Wears the long, flowing robes expected of a wizard. They're expensive, fine and well embroidered owing to his status as a former head master of the Academia Arcana. His beard is tied a two thirds of the way down with a string and two brass balls of a magical source. He also wears a wide brimmed, tall and crooked pointed hat associated with great wizards and wealds a long, knotted and twisting wooden staff with a potent magical gem at the high end. It also has a rubber stopper on the floor end so as to provide extra grip and traction to prevent slips or scuffing the floor.

Specialized Equipment

Almost everything he wears are enchanted. His magical hat is the sort associated with the Big Hats and bears Stars and Moons along its surface, indicating an association with the cosmos. His staff was made for him by treelings and its gem is a crystalized soul gem steeped in strength. His robes keep him dry in the dampness, warm in the cold, and comfortable on any surface. Even the balls that bind his beard grant him temporary flight when jingled.

Mental characteristics

Education

Graduate of and eventually professor in the Academia Arcana. Taught the Flame Discipline before it was merged with Lightning and Distort to make the Destruction School and two professor posts were lost. Rejoined the school and became the professor of Battlemancy when Destruction, Resuscitation and Matter were merged into that school of magic.

Employment

Teacher at the Academia Arcana, adventurer, teacher again, Head Master and now Court Mage

Accomplishments & Achievements

Honour Graduate of his class, accomplished Alchemist, teacher at the Academia Arcana, opened the void between universes, held the sun in the sky for a day, wrote several books that are core to the school curriculum.

Failures & Embarrassments

Once tried to magically deliver a baby during a high risk pregnancy, no one talks about it.

Mental Trauma

Possibly suffering dementia.

Intellectual Characteristics

Scholarly and wise from a long life of study and adventure. He has an analytical approach to life and is cautious. Either because of just how much knowledge he has accumulated, or perhaps age is finally catching up to him, he is coming off as more demented. He dozes off frequently, has lapses in attention, misses key details and has occasional inappropriate responses. When he's alert however, he is sharp as a whip and even when he's having an episode, he is often able to spit out a keen, if odd, solution to the problem.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

Has already accomplished all his goals in life and retired. He continues to accompany his favourite student and guide him as best he can, politely waiting the fate of all men.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Incredibly learned in arcana, mysticism and relics.

Virtues & Personality perks

Patient, big on teaching, likes to help others

Vices & Personality flaws

Tired, scatterbrained

Social

Social Aptitude

Very absent minded and tends to prattle, often needing guiding and prodding to keep him on track.

Speech

He is prone to repetition, lost points, circular speech, and sentences that just kind of...

Wealth & Financial state

Has a personal estate of significant value as it contains many artifacts he found and made, though he lives in the Mage's quarters in the Barron's castle.

Current Location

Wienkauf

Birthplace

Ereldur

Current Residence

Wienkauf

Eyes

Crackling portals constantly outpouring blue lightning in small sparts

Hair

Long waist length white hair that was black in youth

Height

6 foot 6

Weight

172

Character Prototype

Fairly obvious to the point of parody, spoofing the Gandalf and Dumbledor types.