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Vanyel Ashkevron | Elegante CR

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Note: After speaking with the mods they allowed that Vanyel would be coming in tandem with Yfandes. I have had the limitations in regards to punishments and other mechanics explained to me and understand them fully!

"Never mind your happiness; do your duty."
-- Peter Drucker

Name: Mica
Age: 25
Journal: mica_silverwind
Contact: @AIM: failmica, @plurk: micabean

1. Character's Name: magics_pawn (and loveboundheart)
2. Fandom: The Heralds of Valdemar (specifically the "The Last Herald-Mage" trilogy.)
3. Time Frame: From the end, just at his death via altruism.
4. Age: It's never specified him, but I play him mid-early thirties.

Vanyel Ashkevron | Elegante CR (continued)

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5. Background: The premise of The Heralds of Valdemar is of an earthlike world wherin everything functions in much the same manner as it does in this one, except Gods and Goddesses interfere with the doings of mortals on a regular basis, magic is real, and psychic powers are totally a thing. Also everything is back in the European Renaissance, technology-wise.
Vanyel's story takes place in The Kingdom of Valdemar, a nation founded by exiles from an enormous empire. It's a Monarchy, and while Valdemar is now a diverse and prosperous nation it was once a poor and nearly untenable little city state. As a result of copious magics and even more copious prayers to every God and/or Goddess imaginable, Valdemar has been blessed by white, magical horse-beings called Companions. Originally all Companions were what you call "Grove-Born," meaning that they manifested fully grown, and were most often sort of avatars or spirits sent directly from the Gods. However, while most Companions in Vanyel's time are born in a more normal, biological

Vanyel Ashkevron | Elegante CR (continued)

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It was at this point that Vanyel did something that would, more or less, define him for the rest of his life; he fell in love with Tylendel. Turns out dad was right after all; Vanyel was a fairy, a little queer, and homosexual to boot

Vanyel Ashkevron | Elegante CR (continued)

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If nothing else, that terrible wrenching feeling of half of Vanyel's soul being ripped away sure woke him out of his magic-drained stupor. But what happened next was just as bad when the Portal spell collapsed upon the death of the mage that had cast it. Normally such a spell would vent all its waste energy into the ground by default, but in this case it had another, easier route open to it; venting right back through Vanyel himself. The traumatic brain injury was like burning open a multitude of magical orifices and cauterizing them there. It's never known if Vanyel would have developed such powerful Gifts on his own as he grew but at that point Vanyel acquired a dozen or more psychic abilities and that all-important mage-gift to go with them. Needless to say it was the most painful thing his body or mind could endure and only the shock the adults felt at the death of Tylendel gave him the opening to run off and try to drown himself

Vanyel Ashkevron | Elegante CR (continued)

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And so, Vanyel became a Herald-Mage and did all the Herald-Mage things. He got a lot of work squirreling out bandits and cleaning out all the worst, biggest, scariest demonic things and generally kicking every kind of ass and taking all the names there were to take. With Yfandes at his side, he gained an enormous reputation for being terrifying and righteous within Valdemar's borders while outside of them he and by extension all Heralds were increasingly seen as demonspawn themselves. After his time among the Tayledras, Vanyel no longer actively tried to kill himself, but with that still-aching hole in his spirit he still couldn't shake a desire to be allowed to stop living. He threw himself into duty for the rest of his life, if not seeking death then making absolutely no effort to hide from it. He took the most difficult, dangerous missions and finished them successfully, then came back for more. More than once he worked himself into literal sickness and had to be rescued by his budding Bard of a cousin, Medren. Despite all efforts

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6. Personality: The quintessential workaholic, Vanyel's first, last, and middle names are Duty. He's dedicated his life to working for and saving others, to the almost complete neglect of his personal life. Rigidly ethical, chronically depressed, he tolerates very few serious incursions into his little bubble of self-sufficiency, especially in the areas of magic. Perhaps due to a lack of practice, he is remarkably conservative when he does get around to his personal life, preferring to play 'hounds and hinds' - a version of chess - or play his music to pass the time alone than anything else. He doesn't tend to drink, doesn't whore around, doesn't like to go to parties. When he has friends, he loves them deeply, and so very few people ever find themselves into his inner circle, while nearly everyone gains a polite regard, and a lucky few a bit more regard

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9. Abilities: Vanyel is a Herald-mage with the unique quality of having every gift available, thanks to the rather painful blasting-open of such channels when he was a teenager. An abridged list of gifts and explanations can be found at the Valdemar Wiki, though this is by no means complete. His most powerful ability is that of Magecraft, or magic, in which he has been extensively tutored and which which he has large amounts of combat(and otherwise) experience. In Valdemar, 'Magic' is split into two opposing and seemingly incompatible regions, that of 'true magic' which is more akin to what you'd think of as magic, and 'mind-magic,' which is more along the lines of psychic powers. As on the Elegante, most of Vanyel's limitations will have to do more with the setting than with he himself. In canon, the main difference between a mage of Vanyel's extreme high power and one who has almost none is a difference in the ability to draw from different outside forces

Vanyel Ashkevron | Elegante CR (continued)

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10. Languages: Tayledras, several regional dialects of Valdemarian (substituted here with English), The King's Rethwellan, and a smattering of Karsite. Cannot actually write in Karsite.

11. Items: His uniform, a makeshift haversack full of the most pathetic foodstuffs you ever saw, and a standard-issue Heraldic Circle dagger (seal on pommel) and one light (one-handed) sword.

12. Weapons: It's a sword! And a dagger! They're sharp and steel and not very special, but he's used to them and that's what makes them better than others. Really, they're nothing special.

13. Writing sample - Third Person: ((Totally just stealing this from an earlier app of mine))
The first thing Vanyel noticed was the cold. He was numb all over, fingers and toes feeling blunted by the lack of sensation. Somehow, he was laying on his stomach, although his last clear memory was of the unbearable pain, the burning magic of Final Strike, and the blank nothingness thereafter.

'Dead,' he managed, thoughts as slow-flowing as cold honey, 'I should be dead. Why aren'

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