Meráki The Great, Master Storyteller

The Great Meráki (a.k.a. The Great Mandrill)

"He is said to hold the secrets of the world, but claims he has never met anyone worthy of His knowledge."

Meráki The Great is the sole hermit resident of the Rock of the Great Meráki in New Sparta, Greece.
Real name: Unknown
Real Age: Unknown
Parentage: Unknown
Species: Unknown
For a creature that is said to possess all the knowledge of the universe and can see one's entire life in their eyes, little is known about the creature simply known as 'Meráki The Great' by the townspeople around the Rock of the Great Meráki. He is said to be thousands of years old, perhaps older, no one knows for sure. He is widely known and respected throughout Greece and countless hundreds of Greeks make a pilgrimage to his Rock every few years to hear his stories and tales. But most of all, they all wish to hear their destiny.
There's a sadness to him, but he's inviting as well. He's desperate and overly enthusiastic like a great storyteller. He speaks as if he has lived through all of history. He is ancient, perhaps centuries old, perhaps more, we simply don't know. He speaks in metaphors, with an almost sing song manner that draws one in immediately. He wears ancient, half-moon spectacles and leans on a petrified, coiled and spindly walking stick. His torso and legs are sickly thin as if he hadn't eaten in millennia. His tail is grey-white and so long that it drags behind his slow moving body. The warm, autumn brown skin on his upper body is worn, wrinkled and weathered by countless centuries of life under the sun.

Physical Description

Body Features

He has a hunchbacked, gargoyle-like body structure. His torso and legs are sickly thin as if he hadn't eaten in millennia 
He is said to resemble a mandrill, a rat and, strangely enough, a man without being either of the three. 
He possesses large, sunken, ringed and baggy eyes that struggle to stay open but always appear to be smiling.  The warm, autumn brown skin on his body is worn, wrinkled and weathered by countless centuries of life. Big, empathetic head, old, friendly and like-able face with a long, almost rat-like nose. His face is long, thin and narrow like a mandrill, especially with a solid red tattoo that runs down from his forehead to the tip of his long nose. His ears are long and thin, resting against his thin, frail shoulders, held down by his numerous and heavy metal and wood earrings. His thin, narrow face is framed by a long, white-grey beard  and mane that frames his entire face and head like a mandrill. The hair attached to his chin hangs down over a foot and is wispy thin like cobwebs

Facial Features

He possesses large, sunken, ringed and baggy eyes that struggle to stay open but always appear to be smiling. The warm, autumn brown skin on his body is worn, wrinkled and weathered by countless centuries of life. Big, empathetic head, old, friendly and like-able face with a long, almost rat-like nose. His face is long, thin and narrow like a mandrill, especially with a solid red tattoo that runs down from his forehead to the tip of his long nose. His ears are long and thin, resting against his thin, frail shoulders, held down by his numerous and heavy metal and wood earrings. His thin, narrow face is framed by a long, white-grey beard  and mane that frames his entire face and head like a mandrill. The hair attached to his chin hangs down over a foot and is wispy thin like cobwebs

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Despite Meráki being a famous storyteller who tells the history of the world to anyone who will hear it, little is actually known about his personal life and history

For countless centuries the inhabitants around the Rock of the Great Meráki have recorded his tales and spoken of his vast and endless knowledge. Yet no one seems to know how or when he got there. He is said to have lived under his rock since the creation of the world, though this is merely conjecture and not proven or endorsed by the Greek Military

Education

Unknown

Employment

He offers free stories to anyone and everyone who will hear them outside of his rock everyday from dawn to dusk

Current Location

The Rock of the Great Meráki

Species

Unknown, Unidentified or Other

Circumstances of Birth

Unknown, though he claims that

With my birth was born Knowledge itself

Current Residence

The Rock of the Great Meráki

Gender

Appears Male, but it is Unknown

Eyes

Large, sunken, ringed and baggy eyes that struggle to stay open but always appear to be smiling

Hair

His thin, narrow face is framed by a long, white-grey beard and mane that frames his entire face and head like a mandrill. The hair attached to his chin hangs down over a foot and is wispy thin like cobwebs

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Wrinkled and weathered, autum-brown leathery skin

Height

~121 cm

Weight

Unknown

Known Languages

Greek, Old Greek, Latin, Greek Qingese, Common Norse, Daemon-Tongue and Pawnee are all credited as languages he knows, but he claims that he knows all of the languages of the world, both current and long-lost