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Thalurosh- Citizen of the Lower Districts, slightly mad
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At one point I decided to stop playing Ka'tran for a little bit. I'm not sure why, but it may have had something to do with my annoyance with the character at the time. So I switched to Thalurosh, a character whose name Lumen was keep on poking fun at. He's fun to play, so I keep him around as an NPC. I'm not sure how he's related to New Kat.
Description:
Thalurosh is a young man of approximately 60 hahrtee. He is of a light build and medium
height, about five feet, ten inches tall, with long limbs in proportion to his height.
Although pale, he has dark hair and features. His scruffy, shoulder-length dark brown hair
is partially tied back, but the rest is left hiding his hollow, weather-beaten, yet
clean-shaven face. Above Thalurosh's left eyebrow is a large scar shaped like a triangle
left over from a past fight. He posseses a small pair of wire-rimmed spectacles which
hardly conceal his large brown eyes. The man you see is surprisingly quiet and
well-mannered for someone who looks like he lives on the street.
Thalurosh wears a tunic of a
roughly-woven dark grey fabric which hangs down to his mid-calf and is tied around his
waist with a ravelling piece of of dirty rope, probably a stolen remnant from down by the
docks. A cloth binds one of his feet, which both are slipped into backless leather sandals
which have been painted with an intricate beehive pattern which surrounds a scene from a
lonely desert. Around his neck and fingers he bears many silver-coloured necklaces and
rings, set with unpolishedstones for the most part, with the exception of his longest
necklace, upon which is hanging a rhombus-cut clear slab crystal.
History:
Ilyafan, Thalurosh's father, was the son of a well-to-do guildmaster of the Engineers.
He married a young woman, Galenah, and they lived happily for some years, spending most of
their time in a private age of Ilyafan. After a while, they decided to have a child, and
he was born in the age of Duniya. Unfortunately, there were complications during his
birth, and Galenah developed an infection which caused her to be bed-ridden. Although
after a month or so, she could move around the habitation she and her husband had set up
in the age, sensitivity to the elements prevented her from going outside. She became very
depressed because of her confined situation, but Ilyafan spent as much time with her as
possible. However, one day, she was very distraught. When her husband came back from
tending their child, he found her gone. After searching for her, he found her body at the
bottom of one of the island's rocky cliffs.
Ilyafan
spent some time in mourning, but he still had to raise Thalurosh. At this point, he
decided not to return to D'ni for an extended period of time, and so he raised his son to
live off the age. Ilyafan valued nature, andhis way of demonstrating this was through
writing and art. Years passed, and Thalurosh grew not by joining a guild, but by what his
father taught him about poetry and drawing. This secluded life, however, was not meant to
last so long, yet his father refused to return to D'ni to live with his family. Thalurosh
recognised from stories he had read that his father was suffering. He discovered a locked
room in the house that was kept as a shrine to his mother, one that Ilyafan visited daily.
When he was near seventeen years, his father's ability to live started to decline. He
could no longer hold a normal conversation or lesson, but would go off on inexplicable
tangents. Occasionally he would disappear for a few days at a time, and when he would
return, he expected for Galenah to be there to welcome him back. His delusions worsened,
becoming paranoid. Ultimately he met the same fate as his beloved wife, leaving the young
Thalurosh to fend for himself.
The young man
left Duniya for D'ni to find his extended family. He knew that his mother's aunt, Ka'tran,
had been a Grandmaster, and he hoped to be able to live with her, or at least find some
sort of arrangement to find another branch of his family. Ka'tran allowed him to live in
her house, although she was often busy with guild work and therefore absent. He spent the
days by the lake, whcih was reminiscent of his ocean. Normally he wandered by himself, or
talked to fishermen.
Persona:
Thalurosh is a soft-spoken man, yet his quiet manner does not hide his sociability. He
is prone to interrupting and following up on obscure, seemingly meaningless questions or
comments. His behaviour and style of speaking are eccentric, yet posess a poetic quality
about them.
Thalurosh stays mainly
in the lower districts, where he converses with passerbys and fishermen. His favorite
place, however, is the library, where he does not so much enjoy travelling ages, but
reading boks of commentary and books of poetry and prose.