Kels Nilsson
Doctor Kel Simmonds Nilsson (a.k.a. Kels)
Claiming to hail from the Midlands area of The City of the Lights, Kels' accent and demeanor seem much more innocuous in the cold northern climes of the great plateau. He certainly never seems to notice if there is a slight chill to the air, and he favors thick, hearty stews over the lighter cuisine normally served in the much warmer midlands. He keeps his hair longer, also, than most people find comfortable in the heat of the midlands.
The tall elf is blonde haired and blue eyed, with a rather stern mien, and a no-nonsense attitude towards life. He is a very skilled swordsman, and an avid bird watcher, when he is not busy with his duties as the defacto leader of the entire City of the Lights.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Kels is in excellent shape, maintaining a high degreee of fitness through daily drills and obsessive sword training.
Body Features
Kels is tall, and athletically built. He has a scar from where his appendix was removed, but he seems to have suffered no lasting injuries otherwise.
Facial Features
Kels has piercing blue eyes, and what many refer to as a 'roman nose".
Apparel & Accessories
Kels dresses conservatively; he is often called "old fashioned".
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Kels is much older than he looks, and the years are wearing on him mightily.
Sexuality
Kels is somewhat asexual, although he has (of course) ebbed and flowed with that part of himself over the centuries of his life.
Education
Kels graduated summa cum laude from MIT. Since, he has helped in the foundings of over a dozen universities and colleges, the most recent of which being Tulara University in the Rhegev Desert of Taisha.
Employment
Kels works for the government of The City of the Lights, ostensibly as its leader, at the moment. He will have to fake his death and move again, sometime within the next couple of centuries, as he would be getting very old even for an elf. He wishes to see the problem in Ravenwood through to a conclusion first, however; the taxes from the region must flow, after all, for the good of the City.
Accomplishments & Achievements
Kels has helped save the world at least twice, and both times he did so non violently.
Failures & Embarrassments
He has been unable to maintain a relationship with a partner for more than ten years. Even though he would go on to outlive all of them, he has a forlorn sense of loneliness that he tries to slake with misbegotten and maladaptive relationships.
Mental Trauma
The only time he managed to fall in real, reciprocated love, and have a family, his wife and two children were killed in a war between two of The City of the Lights regional governors, one of whom is the problematic Count Rodrigo of Ravenwood.
Morality & Philosophy
Do the next right thing, no matter the personal cost...and it has often cost him too much.
Taboos
Wanton violence and forced labor. His problems with Count Rodrigo are many and deep.
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