The Razor Specialist

The half-elf artist Sager Valiannier once wowed the art world with his avant garde creations, yet he himself chafed at the adoration. By the time mainstream aesthetic discovered a love of his work, Sager had already abandoned it as "immature" and was exploring new concepts that were routinely panned by critics. Nevertheless, in the waning days of Maverot few artists were as influential as Sager Valiannier.
After the Starvation, Sager continued his work with a focus on minimalism and negative space. He became obsessed with cutting away extraneous detail and finding the true form of an object or concept. Isolating himself in a remote area of the southern highlands, Sager slowly became his mask, forgetting his former name and becoming the Razor Specialist. Influenced by the unusual geographic features of the area he resided in, which included slim, knifed edged mineral protrusions, the Specialist took up reductive sculpting using the natural blades as his tool. As his body changed with his perceptions, he too became bladelike.
In a fortuitous turn of events, the Specialist lives on the leading edge of a strange form of cancer that grows and devours anything in its path. Anytime he sees the telltale hint of veins on a surface where they should not be, he slices them away, keeping the cancer at bay. Capable of separating objects along lines too small to physically see, the Specialist regards this as a practice of his ideology of separation and simplicity of form. That it benefits the rest of the world is of only minor value to him.
Though the Razor Specialist has survived many years alone and retains a strong Memory of Light, he rarely makes use of it and even more rarely grants light to any who might stumble into his domain. Capable of wielding a Solarcrat's influence should he desire to, the Specialist seems content to pursue his artwork in solitude. Given his isolated lifestyle, many have never even heard of the Specialist. He has an inimical relationship with The Reconstructive Surgeon, who he feels sullies people's bodies with unneeded additions. The Surgeon, for his part, often demands payment from patients in the form of blades stolen from the Specialist's domain, since they are the sharpest tools in existence. Surprisingly, the Specialist and The Silver Lady share a mutual respect.

Physical Description

Body Features

A compact body sports long, strange limbs. From the knee down his legs are gracefully curving blades, enabling him to easily navigate the dangerously sharp metal growths that occur naturally in the area he inhabits. His arms are twice as long as would be expected and his fingers are long, thin, and flexible; the better to wield his razor sharp tools. He is dressed completely in black clothing tattered by many small cuts. Even his mask seems to be made of Damascus - black and shimmering - and beveled along the forward edge into a knife-like protrusion. His only revealed skin is on his hands: pale, grey, and covered in countless thin, precise scars.

Species

Human

Eyes

Pale blue and narrow

Hair

Straight black hair often kept short. Looks like he sometimes forgets to cut it neatly, though.