Eigly Salt

A Dhalmanite with a curious passion

Physical Appearance

Body

Eigly is a male feathery societarian of vulture phenotype with a lanky complexion and average height.
His body is covered in white-tipped black feathers except for his feet, hands and head, which show a greyish-lilac skin tone. He has a short, fluffy collar of white feathers at the base of his neck, yellowish beak with a lilac base, and amber eyes.

Dressing Style

Eigly dresses in comfortable, simple clothes, putting effort in choosing for durable fabrics, extra pockets and light colours, to ensure he is able to hop into a creek or a forest at a second's notice to pick up an interesting carcass.
He doesn't leave his house without a backpack, bag or basket, where he usually holds a trustable knife and some old rags to wrap unsavoury finds in.

Personality

Eigly is an unfocussed individual that tends to go into bursts of excitement whenever he finds the chance to get into nerdy detail about his passions.
He is talktative to the point of exhausting his listeners, whom he more often than not forgets to actually include in his long expositions.

Likes and Dislikes

Eigly likes walking in nature, trying new foods and, of course, collecting oddities. He can spend ages telling anecdotes about each piece of his cabinet to anybody who will listen.
He dislikes wasting food and any other things that he feels may have an use, and will use any objects and tools until they fall apart.

Life

Eigly was born in the City of Endure in the Republic of Dhalmain on the 30th of Harvesting, 2985 E.Alz.
He is married to a shifting folk from the Principality of Red Crest that moved to Endure to live with him.

Bone & Oddities collection

"You get... well, a bone-vision I call it. I see them, their shapes, their texture. Where you may walk past unsuspecting seeing a pebble among others, I may stop dead on my tracks to pick it up and confirm it was a bone."

— Eigly during his interview with Welkinal

A sizeable space of Eigly's small home is occupied by a robust woden cabinet with glass doors filled and surrounded with innumerable pieces of various sizes and origins, some carefully tagged with name, date and providence, others piled on top of each other with origins relegated only to Eigly's memory and some hastily scrawled annotations in his notebook.
He calls this his "Cabinet of the Dearly Departed". The collection within dates back to his teenage years and is made mostly out of the cleaned bones, articulated skeletons, shells, eggs and feathers of common creatures found around the city, but features prominently some more exotic items that he had aquired through the years during vacation trips, weird happenstances and, most importantly, the word-of-mouth getting around about the weird friend that may welcome your unwanted heirloom.

Putting the talents to work

After many years of experimenting and learning, Eigly started sheepishly offering his help and service to friends and family when their pets would pass away.
Though some still opted for burial, others started trusting him and his ability with the bodies of their beloved creatures, which he would work on with patience and dedication to preserve their memories in the shape and form that would soothe their owners the most.
As he gained confidence on other people's interest for his services, he started advertising them in the local Temple of Gleamauros and soon he was able to start making elaborate displays and memorials, working on lyraiks, trelises and even the odd hapist from the city's Hapistier forces.

After talking about his "bone-vision", Eigly stood up and sprinted to a dusty box atop a shelf.
It was filled to the brim with a seemingly random assortment of small bones, some wrapped in paper, some in cloth and some just piled on each other. He picked an solid chunk of dry dirt and pebbles from it and showed it to me with excited eyes "See? This was in the middle of a patch of dirt and pebbles. It looked identical to the rest but something called me to it" He then flipped over the chunk to reveal the distinct (on close inspection) curved edges and off-white of a carpal bone "I will never clean this one. I'm so proud of it"

Phenotype

Ruppell's Griffon Vulture

Current Location

City of Endure

Species

Feathery Societarian

Ethnicity

Dhalmanite

Age

40

Date of Birth

30th of Harvesting, 2985 E.Alz

Birthplace

City of Endure, Dhalmain Island

Pronouns

He/Him

Gender

Man

Eyes

Amber

Belief/Deity

Follower of Regicielo, the Chemistry

Aligned Organization

Temple of Regicielo

Disciple of Regicielo

Regicielo